pedro gonzales, barbara washington, nancy paluo, diane gray, clarice russin, jackie cotton, fred franklin, rita jones, a recall, maurice edwards, ricardo tavarez, kamash misori, thomas mark, patricia christiansen, suzanne m. martin, anjelica dinaro. this is more about writing at this point. ivalice boneja, villanueva, donald cisc, joseph bell -- i am sorry. josiah bell. dennis kelly. as you can see, we have quite a few speakers. i would like the students to come up first. please be respectful for the time. come on up, students. come on up, students. state your name first, and press the button to speak. >> my name is thomas marks. i am a graduate of a traditional high school. i am here to speak on behalf of my teacher, ms. emily van dyke. she is our teacher. i just wanted to say that going into my senior year of high school, i did not want to take an art class, mainly because it was not a topic that i liked very much. but as soon as i walked in, ms. van dyke was there to help me. she was not just my teacher. she became a very good friend of mine. not just to me, but to everyone who has her

. >> barbara starr in washington. thank you so much. >>> all right, time to look at other top stories we continue to follow. libya vows death to invaders following reports that muammar gadhafi's son was killed in a nato air strike. western kembassies have been vandalized. there is nothing to confirm gadhafi's relatives died. >>> back here in the u.s. look at this enormous slice cut by tornadoes a few days ago. where the tornadoes touched down, the storms are now blamed for the deaths of 339 people, most of them in alabama. it is the second deadliest tornado outbreak in this nation's history. >>> this alabama family has a terrifying story to tell. the gilberts and their five children ran to the only place they felt safe as a tornado approached. they dove into a nearby creek. >> we got right here on this creek bank. i put my six-month-old son, five-year-old daughter under me and my wife was on top of my two-year-old son, five-year-old son and seven-year-old son. before we hit the ground, trees were already snapping. it

. >> barbara starr in washington, thanks so much. >> sure. >>> so libya was one of the hot topics onday morning talk shows. highlights of those shows, next. my cream is what makes stouffer's fettuccini alfredo so delicious. i think you'll find it's the vegetables. deliciously rich. flavorful! [ female announcer ] together at last. introducing new stouffer's farmers' harvest with sides of lightly sauteed farm-picked vegetables. find more ways to get to the table at letsfixdinner.com. >>> the debt ceiling, libya and president obama's birth certificate all topics of conversation on this morning's sunday talk show. here are some of the highlights. >> do either one of you see any way that congress will refuse to increase the debt ceiling, thereby allowing the u.s. to default? >> well, i certainly hope not. it will be disas trous for the american economy. it will put people back out of work. it will make the last recession look like a cake walk. and so i hope wiser heads will prevail as we move forward. because you cannot risk the full faith and credit of the united states. >> i'm not read

barbara starr, cnn, washington. >>> if you want to check out the runners up, i'll have links on my facebook page. cnn continues with randi kaye who is in los angeles. >> we begin with breaking news from washington. the obama administration has just announced new sanctions from bashar al assad. the move is aimed at increasing pressure on assad to end violence against civilians. since march, anti-government protesters have taken to the streets demanding government reforms. the united nations says the government crackdown has killed as many as 850 people. we will have much more on this in 20 minutes from our senior white house correspondent ed henry. >>> now, i want to show you an x ray like none you have never seen before. take a good look at this. these are people crammed into a tractor-trailer in mexico. they shouldn't have been in the trailer nor in mexico, nor in the united states. where this rig and another like it were allegedly headed. they were stopped yesterday in the southern state of chiapas. 530 migrants who authorities paid $7,000 each to make a journey that is not just illegal b

. >> barbara starr, reporting live from washington. >> we have a more complete list of what was recovered from the compound. one u.s. official said commandos found about five cell phones and audio and video equipment, five guns, including pistols and ak-47 assault rifles and intelligence ex perperts are sig through lots of paper documents. osama bin laden mangled islam into something unrecognizable and he has also helped to change christianity. i will ask him about that and about praying for bin laden. >>> we are also talking to the accidental icon, the retired new york city firefighter at ground zero when president bush popped up beside him and rallied the nation from the rubble. we will find out if he is going to ground zero today for the ceremony. ♪ oh! [ both slurping ] ♪ [ female announcer ] the irresistible taste of cinnamon toast crunch. crave those crazy squares. it's me? alright emma, i know it's not your favorite but it's time for your medicine, okay? you ready? one, two, three. [ both ] ♪ emma, emma bo-bemma ♪ banana-fana-fo-femma ♪ fee-fi-fo-femma ♪ em-ma very good sweety, how

barbara bush or anyone else for that matter. but this afternoon might topic very happily is the woman that was known during her time here in washington as the silver fox and has always been known to her family as barb. that is barbara bush. i started to work on the barbara bush book. it seems eons ago, probably the beginning of the 2000's. the book was finally published in 2008. i was very, very fortunate. mrs. bush was kind enough to see me. she made access to every member of her staff available. so i do feel that what i was able to share in the book is a pretty balanced interpretation. her time both in the public eye and in the white house. our time is limited this afternoon. and what i would like to do is share with you some basic biographical information, just a little bit. if you have questions about that or anything else i'm more than happy to address them during our question and answers session. people have a quick look at her biography. then i would like to share with you some thoughts about her advocacy of literacy, her great success as public communicator, and finally her role and reactions to the campaign of 1992 which can

. >> judy says the trip to washington will provide the closure she is seeking. she feels it will come at the wall. >>> barbaraded in guam. she is doing what she can to walk away from that time in her life seven years ago. >> i like many others came home and tried to forget that i had ever been there. and i changed professions and i have not been a nurse since 1973. so it was easier for me to forget because i wasn't doing things that were related. and i think that it's for me like the young person i was was, sort of frozen in time with the people who didn't make it and i'm not sort of connected to that and it feels to me like it will be a sort of a healing experience. >>> why is it that after 20 or more years, the vietnam experience still so profoundly affects so many people? for judy elbrain it is a lasting, simple but agonizing pain. >> what occurs to me to say is that nobody ever said thank you. isn't that strange. nobody ever said thank you, thank you i'm glad you went. thank you i'm glad you volunteered. thank you i'm glad you were there to take care of my boy. >>> when we came back to a second look. a ba

washington. >> and if i can ask you, barbara, this was not a pentagon briefing. it was an intelligence briefing, just happened to be given at the pentagon building. could we expect any more information to come in the next couple days? >> i don't know if it will be the next couple days. officials are saying they will keep the american public informed to the extent that they can. but you know, one of the underlying themes in all of this is the world has had a very solid look at u.s. military special operations. at the kinds of covert commando operations that the u.s. military would clearly prefer the world not see so much of. these navy s.e.a.l.s and other commando squads are out there all the time in afghanistan and other places around the world. conducting very covert operations. they want to get back in the shadows. probably they would not have been having so much information come out if that one helicopter, that secret stealth helicopter hadn't gone down in the compound. that showed the world that they were there and what they did. look for the u.s. military co

washington facebook page. we'll share some of the results. barbara?t wait to hear about that, the lady waking up with the foreign accent. >> called foreign accent syndrome and this is not all that rare. >> amazing. thank you so much, pat. >>> we have time for a final check of our forecast. here's tom. >> you have a beautiful blue sky over us now and a bit of a blustery wind and cameras bouncing around and live picture there and lots of sunshine and that warm may sun will warm us up. climbing to the 60s and mid-70s by mid-afternoon and winds will diminish over night tonight and mostly clear, down into the mid-40s tomorrow and tomorrow's afternoon highs mid-70s. a small chance of a shower tomorrow afternoon. sun in the morning and a few clouds in the afternoon and highs climbing into the low 70s and could get a few showers on mother's day on sunday, mostly cloudy. highs upper 60s. a look into next week. seasonal temperatures and partly cloudy skies and afternoon highs into the 70s and that is the way it looks. we'll see you tomorrow morning. >> all righ

log on to nbc washington's facebook page and we'll start tonight at 4:00. barbara?> time for a final check of the forecast. tom? >> there are clouds beginning to build but nothing showing on radar now. we're in the mid to upper 70s throughout much of the region. that is rain and a few thundershowers. no storms yet, though, but it is beginning to head off farther to the east. should be coming toward the metro area probably not until late afternoon or early this evening. that's when we do have increased threat for some storms, some of which could produce damaging winds, hail, maybe even an isolated tornado. until then, though, we should make it in the low 80s. then some chilly rain as we have our rain shift ing in the northwest. highs only near 60 tomorrow. upper 60s thursday and friday. small chance of a shower friday. mother's day weekend, might get some showers on mother's day sunday. overall, the weekend looking dry. >> all right, tom. thank you very much. >>> a florida sheriff's deputy faced off with an ornery suspect who bit off more than he could chew. the depu

barbara, thanks. let's go to wolf in washington. >> thanks very much, anderson.rmer lieutenant ed o'connell. he spent 20 years in the military as an intelligence officer with chief targeting for the u.s. military central command and worked for tommy franks. this looks like a very, very risky but sophisticated operation. how much rehearsal goes into something like this? >> oh, extraordinary. probably talking about months now. unlike what we had in bora, this was more of a preplanned situation. where you had target intelligence packages that we call tips, for instance, of showing people what door to turn, what door to go into, what wall to climb so quite a bit of operation. >> torabo are ra was the last time that the u.s. was suspected of closing in on bin laden. ten years later they finally get him. why did torabora fail and this mission succeed. >> i think there we had very difficult terrain. remember, we're at 15,000 feet. so to move the delta on site there to another location to chase bin laden and his overwatch people was very difficult. this was quite differe

barbara boxer slammed. >> i think at it supply and demand and profit and the bottom line is profit. >> david nash was gassing up at 4.47. visiting from washington dc. from d.c. is where president obama in his weekly address called for an to end the $4 billion in tax sub days being given to oil and gas companies. >> they're making huge profits and you're struggling at the pump and we're scouring the budget. the tax give aways aren't smart and we need to end them. >> exxon reported $11 billion in profit for the first four months of the year. senator barbara boxer blamed oil speculators for the cost of gas at the pump. >> speculation adds between 21 and $26 a barrel. that's a fifth of the cost. >> reporter: she rules need to change. >> by tracking down and saying to speculators, you can't just put down $5 on $100. you got to put down 50% in order to make this bet. >> reporter: tom is the vice-president of the california g.o.p. and says blaming speculators is wrong. >> speculators exist in all markets. it is obama's failed policies that is the problem here. not the market. >> reporter: boxerman says she opportunities know anything at all about this

passed a group of dances at the washington memorial to thomas jefferson holding an illegal flash mob but to demonstrate to say they were doing exactly what the u.s. barbara freedom but a lot of the. plot pictures here thousands hitting the streets of belgrade to protest against the arrest in general rather cold large right now who's accused of ordering the killing of thousands of muslims in the polls and for his detention cause anger among some serbs who say the government's using its people as bargaining chips with fuel. and georgia's independence day for brutal crackdown on thousands of anti-government protesters first days rallies market street demonstrations calling for president saakashvili to step down from twenty to forty six some of the case for the sport. hello and thank you for joining me for the sports news and here's what's coming up another one bites the dust thirty verizon the rover is not sounds like teenager kind of stuff they're probably trying about in all russian backed out of the french open. while marching on it's got held one wants him to return to the bank that leapfrogs elites to go top of the russian pay nearly. been wrong before

barbara. >> some d.c. students will test new metro i.d. cards similar to smart trip cards. "the washingtons reporting about 500 students at the school without walls in northwest will test the d.c.-1 card. unlike the passes students use now the new card comes with a chip that can track usage. metro also has the ability to disable the cards during nonschool hours. if the agency deems it a success it could expand to other schools this fall. >>> we have a warping, if you take route 50 through arlington it's about to undergo a major makeover. route 50 known as arlington boulevard in that area will be r renovated near courthouse road. the two-year, $39 million project will include new ramps and bridges as well as a pedestrian path and a bike path as well. in the meantime, drivers will have to deal with staggered closures of the tenth street and courthouse road bridges. fairfax drive will also be closed between those two bridges. >> what this project is going to do is separate that local traffic from the through traffic. >> vdot insists all three lanes of arlington boulevard will be open in both

washington. >> secuestraron a dos personas mientras velaban los restos de un familiar, nos habla en vivo verÓnica del castillo. pasamos contigo. >> gracias bÁrbaraes imÁgenes. >> 4 hombres fueron asesinados en monterrey por los disparos de seis sicarios, la esposa de uno de ellos cayÓ en una crisis de histeria los familiares pidieron una ambulancia pero fue demasiado tarde, ejÉrcito y policÍa resguardaron el lugar, otro comando armado acribillÓ cinco personas, 3 de ellos se encontraban en esta plaza ingiriendo bebidas. >> dos familias fueron secuestradas, ordenaron a gritos que se tiraron al piso llevÁndose a dos de ellos a golpes. ocho personas fueron ejecutadas en dos hechos sangrientos, 4 hombres y cuatro mujeres perdieron la vida en manos de sicarios. 4 personas que tripulaban esta camioneta fueron emboscadas y fusiladas en el interior habÍa armas largas. ante las crÍticas de algunos sectores hacia estrategia de felipe calderÓn el presidente dijo que es necesaria la unidad para ganar la batalla. la marcha por la paz adquiere mÁs fuerza conforme avanza, segÚn los activistas la estrategia del gobierno contra el crimen organizado ha fracasado.

barbara? >> thank you so much, aaron. >>> we're going to turn our attention now to our weather here in washington. beautiful out there right now. little on the chilly side. but beautiful spring-looking day. tom kierein with us to tell us what we can expect the rest of the day and the weekend. >> quite a chill and down into the upper 30s and low and mid-40s and warmed into the 60s at most locations except right there at reagan national. they have a wind off the chilly waters, 58 there. else where, just to get half a mile away from the water and it's in the 60s. mid-60s now prince george's county and montgomery counties and mid and upper 60s and just about everywhere around the region we're in the 60s. but most of these locations now where you see that yellow zone in the 60s will continue to climb into the mid-60s in many of those locations. over the last 12 hours, high clouds coming in from the west and continue to pass over us and we'll go increasingly cloudy through the afternoon and the little patches of blue, those are light showers. part of an upper level disturbance along a front that will be

barbara saddin, recovering journalist from the atlantic council. i remember meeting you 20 years ago at the post-madrid talks in washington. >> we were a good team. >> very good team. the question is about not violence that could break out, but non-violence. you spoke about the new tactics being used. is there a thought to trying to mobilize palestinians to march in east jerusalem, to march in the old city, and not to throw rocks at israelis, but truly use nonviolence to press their case and when you talk about september, you know the united states will veto in the security council any declaration of independence. so is this going to be just kabuki? the p.l.o. already has representation around the world, so what's the point of pushing it this far? thanks. >> o.k. well, your first question is absolutely right, yes, of course, buying time is over. we have no more time and the conditions on the ground certainly make any solution impossible if israel were allowed to continue, that's it. when you talk about the two-state solution coming to an end, the de facto option is not a one-state solution. that's something we can work on and so on. it's going to b