surveillance camera on a school bus in bellville reporting an attack on a white high school student by two black classmates. a police captain initially called the beating race-related. but, after further investigation, the captain said it was not about race at all it was an argument about where to sit. >> it starts in the home. it's got to be better manners have to be taught to kids. just in general. you don't treat other human beings like that. >> wisconsin. dash cam video of sheriff's deputies arrested a man in a motorized wheelchair. the charge driving drunk. the man's blood alcohol level was almost three times the legal limit. police says he has four prior dui convictions. michigan, a racoon doing a high wire act of sorts. folks in a garden city neighborhood say this racoon was sitting on telephone wires for so long they thought the animal was stuck. firefighters made a public service call in an effort to rescue the critter which was all it took to get the raccoon moving. eventually he came down on his own. firefighters suggest a plate of food at the bottom of the telephone pole wo

one wrote -- # i asked you this morning what you thought about the bellville bus attack and i think itsummed up best by this comment from lewis gilbert dash on hi facebook page he said people are always looking for an outlet to impress their peers an release their frustrations. what is not known is what led them to commit this violence, what events in their lives shaped them to act this way. that's the question we should be making this morning instead of making it so black and white. i couldn't have aid it better myself. >>> here's howard bernstein. went out for the anniversary dinner last night, walked and then had to run and dodge the heavy rain drops last night. >> had some surprise showers poop up to celebrate your 31st. >> congratulations. >> i have a little ways to go to catch up. we will get there some day. >> i will still be ahead of you. >> you will always be ahead of me which is good. the way it should be. >> yeah. >> the next couple of days a little showery and cooler than what we have had. show you the beautiful picture. a few minutes before the sunrise here looking back to

bellville, illinois police say he's told he can't sit there but he does anyway.n taunted by some of his peers and violently beaten, not once, but twice. many of the kids around the fight are cheering it on. one student snaps as cell phone picture. a bellville police captain initially said he thought that, based on the video, race was a factor in the beating. the two suspects are black. the victim is white. today, he backtracked on the comment saying he'll let detectives examine the evidence. it's not the first time video has shown some kids just stand around or even encourage a fight. this video was taken in june by a bystander watching the beating of a south chicago heights illinois girl. her attackers cutting her hair and burning her with a lighter. the victim says she was surrounded by five or six bystanders. the victim's five or six bystanders. >> it's sickening. where's humanity in the world. how could you just stand there and watch somebody go through that. and not do anything. >> reporter: a survey by the cdc shows that in 2007, almost 36% of 9 to 12 grade

>> bellville, illinois, across mississippi from st. aren't familiar with the area. 17-year-old kid the one who is the victim there gets on the bus. supposedly the fight was over a seat. he moved somebody's book bag and sat down anyway. 14 and 15-year-olds start pummelling him not once but twice. it took about a five minute break. but 14 and 15-year-olds have been suspended by the end of the week we are going to learn whether they -- they may face criminal charges in this. and a couple of the kids who were sitting there watching, laughing, egging them on have also been suspended five days. >> no one charged with a crime yet. assay -- bus driver didn't break it up. disturbing. i would have pulled the bus over and called 911. >> interesting. people feel -- there is disagreement on that. the bus driver says he did what protocol calls for. calling dispatch and finding the safest place. he thought the safest place was school, which was a couple of minutes away. bill: you could die in that time. >> so could he. that's what the supporters of t

. >> a vicious beating on a school bus in bellville illinois. a 17-year-old that was described as a quiet kid, was beaten, while other kids watched and laughed. two students that did the beating may be expelled. other kids that did not throw a punch are being suspended for laughing about what was going on. >> why did you laugh? >> every kid laughed in high school. if you see a fight. every kid las. >> the kid was suspended for five days for laughing. his mom said she does not condone what he did but she doesn't think he should be suspended. and plenty of questions about why the bus driver never pulled over, even though etbeatings went on for four minutes. police backed off the theory that the beating was racially motivated. witnesses say it may have started when one student pushed another student's backpack to the ground. >> facebook reaches a milestone. >> judy kurtz reveals the staggering number of people using soot site in tonight's "word on the web". >> facebook versus united states. which has more people? well, the u.s. wins that one, but m