barbara williams -- i am barbara williams, county librarian of riverside county and i spent time at the reference desk helping patrons come in. and not caregivers' but very good friends of people who have issues like this. remembering the music for getting the words portray. i have a colleague read the book whose mother had alzheimer's and she was very moved by it so i highly recommend it. my neck favorite book was raise the appeal:how candidates in both races in u.s. political campaigns. this work is timely and informative not only because of the 2012 presidential election but also because it places recent past elections and their candidates in a new sharper focus. the authors, one a media culture and communication professor and the other a political science professor observed candidates often use any and every tool available to them to persuade voters to elect them. sometimes even appealing to the most before. human attitudes to accomplish their electoral goals. recently coined code words, immigration reform, food stamp president, racial authenticity or black and the like and racial f

because still seeing delays, really, as you make your way past lorten and continuing to prince william parkway. barbara, back over to you. >> thanks. >>> a 4-year-old's girl make a wish dream is blocked by her father. mu kenna may has been battling leukemia for two years and she beat the disease, but qualified for make a wish while she was in the hospital. makenna asked for a trip to disney world. the only problem, both parents need to sign off on that wish and her father is refusing. makenna a's dad says he has a good reason why he doesn't want his daughter to go. >> make a wish is money and it should go towards terminally ill children. children that won't have the opportunity later on in life to experience things like disney world. >> her mother says her daughter is worthy of a trip to disney world. she plans on taking her daughter there as soon as possible. >>> 11:44 is our time now and still ahead on "news 4 midday" how the markets will end the week and why michael phelps is >>> a trio of car recalls to tell you about this morning. honda is recalling more than 300,000 2012 crvs because of a malfunc

barbara. >> thanks, danella. >>> a a northern virginia family is mourning the loss of a 4-year-old boy who shot and killed himself while playing with a gun. prince william county police say the boy found a gun in the pickup truck outside his home on empire street in dale city. police say he died from a gunshot wound to the head. they say his family was inside the home at the time. neighbors heard the shot. >> a lot to work out and i heard a shot and thought it was like a fire cracker or something and probably about ten minutes later prince william ambulance came by, which this street is very quiet, not normal so. we came down here and one neighbor said the police was down here and they said it was a shooting. >> no word on whether charges will be filed. but right now police are calling it a tragic accident. >>> and new today, some scary moments for some commuters looking to get breakfast at burger king. firefighter husband to be called in after a fire started in the duct work in silver spring. crews were able to quickly get it under control, though. no one was hurt. >>> and doctors expect a woman who was hurt trying to save children from a burning apart