students taking courses at barnard, and barnard students taking courses at columbia.in 1889 when barnard was founded, women were not allowed to attend columbia. they weren't allowed to vote, either. nowadays most schools are co-ed -- meaning they accept both male and female students. but even though many doors have opened to women, barnard is here to open more. >> i think that barnard has just a very long history of providing leadership opportunities for women and really pushing women out there in the working world. and that's true i think for a number of the women's colleges. >> reporter: and here's the proof. only 2% of all college grads come from women's colleges. but listen to this -- 20% of the women in congress came from single-sex colleges. graduates from women's colleges are twice as likely to earn ph.d.s. and they are more likely to go to medical school. of the 50 top-ranking women in business, an amazing 30% came from, you guessed it, women's schools. dean fondiller told me that at a college like barnard women get used to being leaders. and that carries them

fox 5's bob barnard is focusing on the upcoming face-off. >> shawn, you'll hear from the leader of that controversial kansas church in a few moments. first we take you to gw where student leaders organizing that counter-protest say west borrow pap test will -- westboro baptist will get a faithful tomorrow. we found most students well aware of the dueling protests. >> i think the church is a prominent organization that affected a lot of people and they're equal opportunity haters. >> reporter: calling all gw students god hating heathens. >> a heathen wouldn't really be the word i don't think to describe me. i think that's a little harsh. >> there are a lot of kids in our school that totally believe in god. >> how are they going to judge us when they don't even know us. >> reporter: they are the tiny gay bashing church group from kansas that's traveled the country protesting military funerals winding up before the u.s. supreme court last month in a battle over the first amendment. >> although they do have the first amendment right to say what they're saying, we, too, have that right and w

fox 5's bob barnard spoke with the late soldier's parents in silver spring tonight. >> i guess there's a point at which you try to stop grieving for what's lost and try to be thankful for thomas as long as we had him. >> when thomas was killed on veterans day, it was kind of stunning and unbelievable, but now we'll never forget. he probably would be glad for that. >> reporter: army specialist thomas derfliger was shot and killed six years ago today. in iraq less than a month thomas was hit by small arms fire on a combat mission in mosul. he was 20 years old. >> so to us people talk about 9/11. to us 11-11 is the real, you know, life changing catastrophe. >> reporter: his mother leanne says thomas told her what to do if he didn't come home from the war. >> i want you to be sad for a little while and then i want you to go on living. so -- sorry. that's what we've tried to do. >> reporter: they keep in touch with thomas' old army buddies, david sanderson was his best friend. >> david and his wife had triplet boys this spring and they named one of them thomas. those are special things. tho

bob barnard has been in northwest surveying the damage. what's the latest, bob. >> reporter: brian, nobody was hurt here this afternoon. furogate north remains closed. we're not sure about tomorrow. we spoke earlier tonight with a metro rider who saw what happened. she asked we not show her face on tv. >> we had just gotten onto the train and as we were stepping onto the platform, we heard this giant roar and we saw the concrete skittering across the platform. >> reporter: yes, that's one of the chunks of concrete that fell crashing through the metro station's ceiling there around 3:15, investigators blaming road crews building a median along connecticut avenue between k and l streets. >> this is very thin here actually, a lot thinner i think than the shelf so we basically started digging below the surface, which struck something, which struck something, and then you have a piece of concrete fall. >> reporter: dave cline, the head of the district's department of transportation wasn't aware of how serious it was. >> this doesn't appear to b

in northwest, bob barnard, fox 5 news. >> bob, thank you very much. >>> as president george w.ush often said he would let history decide. his book released today is called decision point. gurvir is joining us to tell us what the former president is revealing. >> it's being touted a look deep inside what inspired george w. bush to decide and some is likely to turn heads. the president broke down 14 decisions and that includes waterboarding and other things he talked about during an interview with matt lauer last night. >> because a lawyer said it was legal. i'm not a lawyer. but you have to trust the judgment of people around you and i do. >> decision points discussed hurricane katrina in which he was criticized for a slow response. in his interview, former president bush opens up about the moment when rapper kenye said, quote, george bush didn't care about black people. >> i didn't appreciate it then and i don't appreciate it now. it's one thing to say i don't appreciate the he doesn't handle his business, it's another thing to say he's racist. i don't approve of it. >> he cons

and bob barnard is live with more. >> reporter: there has been a lot of talk

baker delivered a prepared statement to the news media and seemed reluctant afterwards to talk to bob barnard about the construction case that is unfolding in the county. >> are you at all embarrassed by this? >> no. >> are you embarrassd for this county? >> sure. >> why not take a moment? why not take a moment. >> mr. baker eventually answered some questions about the county's future. take a lessen. >> and what we're focused on are the needs of the people and what they want to make sure is they're the first rate government in place and that we're addressing job opportunities and our school system. >> mr. baker failed to answer the questions about whether pay- to-play will take over in the county or cleaning up the operation. i urgeed him to join out air here on fox 5. if you have questions for us send it to us. >>> it's been three years since the strictest immigration policy in the nation requiring anyone arrested in the county to have their immigration checked. we look at whether that policy achieved the goals. karen gray houston is live where the report was presented to the board of superv

we will begin with bonn barnard. -- bob barr nard.nd his wife appeared in court a short time ago. >> they have just left the courtroom and have gone down stairs to the marshalls office to

here's bob barnard. >> reporter: brian, clint hill is a 78-year-old retiree who lived in al,andrea for most of his adult life o. this day in 1963, he was the 31-year-old secret service secret service agent who climbed aboard the presidential limousine in dallas, seconds after john f. kennedy was shot. >> i had a very, very sense of guilt that i didn't do enough to do what i should have done. >> reporter: that is clint hill, 47 years ago today pushing the first lady, jackie kennedy, into the limousine secs after the president was assassinated. you will hear more about his place in history later tonight. for now, mr. mill hill tells the story of two john f. kennedys leaving the white house on that faithful trip. >> little john who loves helicopters wanted to fly along and they allowed him to fly from the white house to andrews and with his agent. we got to andrews, he wanted to go on air force one on the trip. he wanted to go with mom and dad and couldn't and he was very fussy and the president turned to the agent and said mr. foster, please take care of him until i get back and that lin

here's fox 5's bob barnard. >> mrs. kennedy and the crowd yells and the president of the united states. >> reporter: his job was to protect the first lady. clint hill had been jackie kennedy's secret service agent since the election three years earlier. on november 22nd, 1963, hill was right there with the president and mrs. kennedy when they arrived in dallas. >> president kennedy went right to the crowd and she would not normally have done that, but because this was kind of a campaign stop she did just exactly what he had done and went to the crowd and shook hands. >> the presidential car moving up. >> reporter: minutes later as the motorcade drove through the crowded streets of dallas agent hill can be seen at the back bumper of the presidential limousine right behind mrs. kennedy. hill says the president didn't want agents too close. >> he wanted it to appear that there was nothing between him and the people, that he wanted to have easy access to the people, but please whenever possible keep the agents off the back

fox 5's bob barnard just back from frederick joins us now live with details. >> depending on how long the body had been there, brian, perhaps tens of thousands of people had driven past it not knowing an party murder victim was just a matter of feet from their passenger side windows. this discovery was made along the westbound lanes of interstate 70 west of frederick right next to mile marker 48 near braddock mountain. that state highway maintenance crew found the body in the box around 9:45 this morning in a wooded roadside embankment. maryland state police are not telling us whether the victim was a man or a woman. >> the box that the working road crew came across was a cardboard box large enough to hold the body of a full grown adult. at this point we are not releasing any information regarding the contents of the box in terms of the gender of the individual, the ethnic background, or identification because we just don't know right now, particularly the identification. that's something that will come out in the results of the autopsy. >> elana russo says state police homicide inves

. >> what a mess for metro riders, bob barnard, thank you. >>> high ranking county officials out of after we uncovered what's really happening to your taxpayer dollars. fox 5's tisha thompson is on this one tonight, tisha. >> reporter: brian, we got a tip from a fox 5 viewer to take a look at what's really going on inside prince georges county office of human relations commission. it's a small agency, less than a dozen employees, but what we uncovered prompted the county to take immediate action. it's the middle of the work day, 2:00 on a wednesday, and james greer is trying to sell us a house. >> only thing he did, put new carpet upstairs. >> reporter: we found the listing for this town house online and called greer, the agent selling the property. >> we're trying to keep track of all these. >> yeah yeah yeah. >> reporter: here's the thing, greer does not realize the guy holding the flip camera is a fox 5 photographer, or that we've been investigating him for two months, because this is not his full-time job. greer works for the prince georges county government making $106,000 a year

fox 5's bob barnard is here now with that part of the story. >> we asked for a one on one interview with the newly elected county executive and were told mr. baker would not be available to talk directly with us. so we and other reporters waited for him to leave the building and even then he wouldn't stop to talk to us. >> i'm very pleased to be the incoming county executive of prince george's county. there's tremendous opportunities here. we're looking forward and what you saw in there today were men and women who are going to be part and take over the government on december 6th coming together and saying there are great opportunities here and we're very pleased with this. >> at another time we will. >> reporter: but after the news conference those other elected officials, council members, state delegates and senators from prince george's county balked at answering our questions. where is everybody running from the camera? >> i think they just want to hold true to letting the new county executive handle this issue. >> reporter: we kept asking baker about the scandal. are you at all emba

bob barnard joins us live with the details, bob. >> reporter: a pentagon spokesperson says no one inepartment of defense can explain this. that area off southern california is no stranger to missile launches, but the air force and navy say they didn't fire a thing. the video was shot by a cbs news helicopter in los angeles. the camera pointed west over the pacific ocean around 5:00 monday afternoon. >> it's interesting to see how much of a tizzy everybody's gotten into today. >> reporter: sam magrone covers the nave andy mary time issues for jane's defense weekly. he says norad, the north american space demand calls it an unexplained contrail. >> norad has said that whatever it was wasn't a threat necessarily to the united states or canada or a foreign missile launch. beyond that, they have offered no other explanation. >> reporter: the former commander of the us navy's sixth fleet says he can't believe this was an accidental launch from a navy ship or submarine. >> i just can't conceive of an example where it could be just done by sheer accident, because there's never just a one-man

fox 5's bob barnard has the story. >> reporter: most passengers here at reagan national this afternoon were still being screened the old-fashioned way walking through metal detectors. some are being directed to the full body scanners. it's not an everybody does it kind of thing, but travelers refusing to pass through one of these new machines are subjected to a full body patdown. >> i don't like people touching me. that's just not what i like. >> reporter: we asked travelers about the new body imaging technology now being used at all three major washington area airports. >> i don't object to the scanners. i travel all the time for business and i've been through them before and i know that it's hard for some people to get used to them, but it doesn't bother me. it's just a part of travel. >> i don't like it at all, at all. i think it's a little bit invasive. >> reporter: the republican congressman who is said to be the next house transportation committee chairman is so displeased with the way tsa is handling passenger screening he's suggesting the federal government turn the job back ov

barnard long leads the championship tour in point. and this would be tl her approximately win. hole in 1. 4 67 for long with 3 back of the leader john cook. longer playing partner fred kims. approach shot on the 550 yard par 510 tl hole. eagle. fred 2 under 69. 5 stroke off the pace. first time in more than 5 years tiger woods is not rank no. 1 in the world. lee westwood is and first tournament as the top player of the world he fires 6 under 66. opening round of the hsbc champion in shanghai. tiger 4 68 tied for 6. first round leader with 7 under 65. >> tiger not really able to right the ship. >> no. this is kind of lost year given all the personal pro bs. >> all right. thanks larry very much. >> that is this edition of 7 news at 9:00 here on coffee tv 20. for larry sandy and all here thanks for watching. we appreciate your time and hope to see you again in an hour over on channel 7 for abc news at 11:00 o'clock. stay connected on our web site. have a good night see you late connected on our web site. have a good night see you late la