this is beamer. a 2-year-old yellow lab assistance dog. >> the best part is you take >> he is silly all the time sometimes. >> reporter: teacher beth cane came up with the idea of getting a highly trained dog for classroom of special needs students needs organizations matched this cane with beamer and he's been a member of the class at nathaniel mortan september. >> it's learning experience for class. beamer are -- >> reporter: beamer helps with motor skills and daley responsibilities a priceless learning experience for the kids but there is a price for training and having an assistance dog. amount of money to keep him. >> reporter: this classroom of the special -- 9 special needs student raised 9500 dollars to keep beamer. and the fund-- >> and the fund raising is for the classroom one of the most beneficial parts of having beamer with us. people. >> reporter: and just this raising goal. how does that make you feel? >> that's the best thing that ever happened to me. >> we all feel happy. >> their se

in 1999 coach beamer was named the consensus associated press college football coach of the year. coach beamer's first postseason berth as head coach at virginia tech was a trip to the 1993 independence bowl game which resulted in a victory for the hokies. it was only fitting that coach beamer ended his coaching career with a 55-52 victory over the university of tulsa in the 2015 independence bowl. pping off a school record 23 straight postseason bowl games. raised a short drive from blacksburg in hillsville, virginia, coach beamer graduated from hillsville high school where he earned 11 varsity letters. as a three-sport athlete in football, basketball, and baseball. he went on to attend virginia tech as an undergraduate and started three years as a corner back playing on the hokey's 1966 and 1968 liberty bowl teams. while attending radford university to receive his master's degree in guidance, he began coaching -- he began his coaching career in 1969. as an assistant at southwest virginia's radford high school frfment there he went on to work as graduate assistant at maryland for

frank beamer is enjoying retirement after leaving the program and now it's in the hand of justin fuente. he will have a number of fun games. they open against liberty and then circle your calendar -- september 10, the battle at two straight thursday night games and then at pittsburgh. with virginia. the cavaliers have fallen on hard times. hoping bronco mendenhall can turn things around. richmond much more on the schedule tonight on the fox 43 sportswrap. michael geyer announce his retirement from baseball, wrapping up a successful career on the diamond. so what is next? we caught up with the godfather of local big leaguers to give us an idea. >> before there was david wright and ryan zimmerman and before there was the upton brothers, there was michael. >> i wanted to make sure i was >> drafted by the twins, he recently announced his retirement after a 15 year major league career. >> i don't think most out -- most scouts and college coaches come in like that. a lot of us oh our success to michchl for putting this place on the map. >> i'm proud of the players who have been able to come a

the driver of the beamer tried to pass the semis, but crashed into one of them, causing his car to flip over and the two trucks to smash into each other. the driver of the car suffered minor injuries. he was cited for an unlaf lane change. traffic was redirected off the freeway at feedway boulevard for a while. >>> we all know donald trump skipped the republican debate last night. >> did the move work in his favor or hurt him plus, how did his rival ted cruz perform. >>> and the big game a little we'll show you the work switch to centurylink prism tv, and get the same great channels cable gives you, without having to deal with cable. yes and? and...there's whole home dvr. plus tons of on demand options so you can watch whatever, whenever. yes and? why do you guys keep saying that? it's the first rule of improv. by saying "yes and," we accept the reality created by our comedy partners, paul. yes, right, i know. do you? feel like a hollywood insider

. >>> coming up tonight at 5, backpacks and books and beamer the yellow lab making a difference in one south shore classroom tonight on the wbz news at 5. >>> this weekend snowstorm brought back a familiar face from last year's record breaking winter. >> the boston yeddi came out it was spotted around town on saturday. you can see the monster had a shovel at the ready to help a lending hand. >> we should have the yeddi on wbz. >> i love it. >> he is back. >> this could have been the only time for him to come out. >> you know. >> knock on wood. >> there's friday. >> 40s tomorrow though and we will watch the end of the week thursday night and friday. >> be sure to join us at 5. see you tomorrow morning. >> have a great day. homecoming? it' s awesome. but with the citizens bank education refinance loan, it gets even better. you know those people who pay a little extra and get all the legroom in coach? that could be you, if you refinance your student loans. i can refinance, even with 4 loans from undergrad? yes, you could replace your student loans with one new loan at a lower rate and sav

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the beamer is pretty beat up. the car ended up stuck between the tree and the wall. if police are able to track ddwn face some charges for leaving the scene of an accident. >>> one of the teen girls accused of plotting an attack, brook higgins, is being held on $1 million bond. at a hearing her attorneys are hoping a judge will lower that number and are hoping a judge will move her case back to juvenile court. so far higgins and her accomplice, sienna are bbing charged with conspiracy of attempted murder to shoot people at their high school. >>> the cu grad was found dead in her apartment in vienna and we're still waiting to learn %- more about what led up to her death. officials tell us she was suffocated but that doesn't %- explain the blood found around her and are hoping some toxicology tests reveal more, but won't be expected until next month. forceable fondlings in a week's time. >> safety officials are asking -- adding staff trying to keep students safe. they've increased car and foot patrol, and are telling students to travel in groups when outside. none of t

. >> i remember, also, member todd beamer? his father? there was a group of gold star families and your brother went in there. before he went out and spoke to the crowd of people. i saw him with tears in his eyes talking to those families. >> every event. every event as i went as his campaign chairman he would have a private meeting with families. every event. look. i called every slain soldier that died in the line of battle, their loved ones from florida, 150 calls. and i'm sure my brother did as well. that is what you do in public leadership positions. you show that you care. >> the seriousness of the job. >> yes. let me ask you the issue of immigration. it came up and i was talking to senator rubio before. and says the path to legalization. i think most americans understand that when james comby and james clapper and others say isis will infiltrate and we see what happened with borders now, the issue evolved. >> it has. it has. >> we have to control the border, period, over and out in the proper way and be all in on it. no one disagre

a beamer. my wife and i have gone on dozenseporter: lustig says he relies not on luck but on a method he touts in a book aptly titled "learn how to increase your chances of winning the lottery." so what's your method? >> it's a lot of do. >> reporter: one tip, he says when you pick your numbers, don't just use dates. >> most pick niversaries so all the numbers they play are going to be between 1 and 31. so what you're doing is you're actually of winning. >> reporter: also, if you lose don't throw out your ticket.nd chance drawings that offer big and he says, don't rely on for you. >> reporter: why?to win something if you pick your own. >> reporter: but most lottery experts disagree. we asked aaron abrams, a math and lee university. >> quick picks produce randomly chosen numbers. and those numbers should be no ny other numbers. >> reporter: and what about lustig's advice to avoid using dates? >> if you want to avoid sharing a jackpot, you're better off numbers than 31. but choosing large numbers

let's bring in susan beamer, inside of flint, and a syndicated columnist, covering the crisis in flint. and she's outside of the state it capitol building. so suzanne, let me do a forensic dive here on this speech and the crisis to date. so the decision to switch from the detroit water system, and draw from the flint, michigan, that was a decision made by what body? was that the flint city council? >> reporter: the decision was actually not made by the city council. it was a decision made by several emergency managers, who are appointed by the governor, and they are accountable to him. flint has had economic problems for years, and as part of that, they have an emergency manager. >> gotcha, gotcha. so the governor seems -- susan, can you hear me okay, before i continue? >> no. oh, my goodness. da gone it. we're going to try to get it fixed and come back to you, because this is our lead story on the day, and we'll work on that. let me get you to additional background information on the problem in flint. it seems to boil down to the amount of contaminants in the water supply. and it's no

this man allegedly broke into mike's beamer shop. he ransacked four bmws and a mini cooper. >> this man's specialty is breaking into the vehicles. >> this man is taking his time, methodically very slowly looking into the vehicles and then the other thing is he even looks up the at camera, and throws a gesture at the camera, and then continues to get closer to the camera. help find him call miami-dade crimestoppers at 954-493-tips. >>> this morning the first group of refugees strand in costa rica are now in mexico. they hope the next stop is the u.s. there are 180 of them and nearly 8000 stranded since mid- november in costa rica. immigration authority gave them a temporary visitor document. they will be able to stay for 20 days and after that head to the united states. >>> possibility of thousands of cue bans settling here in south florida is making miami-dade school officials very concerned. they made a plea to the government for financial assistance monday. they say the county needs help. >> immigration is a federal issue, congress

i put it question on the beamer website and i got an answer from new zealand of all places. you're getting technical support from your fellow customers. the other owners of your product, that work has been offloaded onto the customer. the third area that now comes up is the information dragnet. this is something that has to do with our current era, we live live in an information economy for sure. here's a quote that i fountain of course i wrote it in my book. i keep saying it's a sexy job for the next ten years would be statisticians. people think i'm joking but who would've guessed that computer engineers would have been the second job of the 1990s. this gentleman was the chief economist at google and he says this in 2009. i took off on that just a bit on my book, i'll reach you something. here's by the way something a cover for a laptop, is -- this quote has become a famous one. yes those sexy data collectors, vamping up with their stratified samples, crossing off regression coefficients with swagger, who can resist them? not to mention their standard deviations. what's th

a beamer. my wife and i have gone on dozens of cruises, you know. >> reporter: lustig says he relies not on luck but on a method he touts in a book aptly titled "learn how to increase yoyo chances of winning the lottery." >> it's a lot of things that you have to do. >> reporter: one tip, he says when you pick your numbers, don't just use dates. >> most pick birthcase or anniversaries so all the numbers they play are going to be between 1 and 31. so what you're doing is you're actually decreasing your chances of winning. >> reporter: also, if you lose don't throw out your ticke some lotteries have second chance drawings that offer big bucks. and he says, don't rely on computers to draw random numbers for you. >> don't buy quick picks. >> reporter: why? >> you're more likely to win something if you pick your own. >> reporter: but most lottery experts disagree. we asked aaron abrams, a math professosoat washington and lele university. >> quick picks produce randomly chosen numbers. and those numbe

is actually getting easier to use, and i can say it was actually quite a breeze just parking that beamer. >> that is cool. olivia, thank you very much. appreciate it. >> all good until you have to reboot your home. >> don't call them hal, whatever you did. >> just did the creeping line from that movie. >> no, i can't do that, dave. >> just ahead -- >> i thought you had a truce on "pop start." >> the new war that ellen when you're on vacation, it's time to play. so at hilton we say play hooky from your regular monday. and while you're at it, play hooky from the ordinary. the uninspired. the routine. but mostly, just play. at any one of hilton's 12 distinct brands, you always get the lowest price. only when you book direct at hilton.com. erin: dear freshpet, when i first got max, my main goal was to feed him a quality diet. i decided to give freshpet a try. dexter: there's real chunks of vegetables and chicken in it. raul: and, if the food is in the fridge, you know it has to be fresh. patrick: he's a happy guy when he has his freshpet. we stop arthritis pain, because you believe in go. on

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this is beamer. a 2-year-old yellow lab assistance dog. >> the best part is you take >> he is silly all the time sometimes. >> reporter: teacher beth cane came up with the idea of getting a highly trained dog for classroom of special needs students needs organizations matched this cane with beamer and he's been a member of the class at nathaniel mortan september. >> it's learning experience for class.