[applause] let me start with the two mayors because most of the time we think of mayors as the big cities, we think of them in urban areas, we don't think about the impact of the small areas. starting with mayor grant, the director was explaining away to apply for these moneys, you identified a problem that role mayors will have, access to technology. tell us, what is the issue that you see, that we need to think about in terms of small communities, trying to make sure the stimulus is not just through the banks but down to the people

>> uh-oh. >>> new at 6:00 -- living in a big city could improve your love life. find out where baltimore ranks if you're single in the city. oh, what's this? breakfast. it's kind of early, buddy. you've got to need to take some cholesterol off you. honey, have you been reading the cheerios box again? he got that off the box. (announcer) cheerios is made with 100% natural ur cholesterol. that was very thoughtful of you. very early, but very thoughtful. (announcer) cheerios. good for the heart. >>> the owner challenged us. he said if you're a gambler at heart come to this restaurant and put your money where your mouth is. the downtown baltimore bistro had flip the coin dinner last night. customers were asked to flip a coin to see if they would have to pay for dinner. if they won all they had to do was pay tax and tip and bill. we talked to bosio before the contest kicked off. he said it was a baltimore first. it will probably be copied but just remember where your bread was buttered first. we'll find out later today -- this couple won. that's great. well, that's gre

they are in big cities like chicago, new york, philadelphia, places like that. it is not uniform.is in the core market. we have engineers there, taking measurements, working with the station's collaborative lead to develop all sorts of approaches that might work to remedy those difficulties. >> do we sense that they issues thathigh v reception has waned. >> we look at the trend but it is downward but has not disappeared in those few markets. in philadelphia, for example, we have increased power grants for these on an experimental basis to see of that will resolve the problem. we are continuing to do measurements to find out. >> very good, thank you. >> thank you. thank you for the excellent presentations and to all fcc staff who contributed to the effort for a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication. i know that individual from every bureau and office at the commission worked incredibly hard with the goal of making the transition as smooth and seamless as possible for the millions of americans who watch over the air tv. i have heard many stories of people sacrificing time at

wait, wait, you talk about big city.he's from queens, justice ginsberg is from brooklyn and this woman is from the bronx. and then we've got samuel alito from trenton. chris: your thoughts, helene. >> well, i just think that obama, you know, he's sort of wanted judge sotomayer from the start, even before she went into that white house meeting, and she ended up being at the white house for seven hours, met with obama for an hour. he was already at that point predisposed to -- chris: what happened in the room, do you know? >> they really clicked. but he wanted her to click. i think it was hers to lose at that point. chris: how many times have we been through these things, these supreme court fights? always a surprise, jack-in-the-box issue. but it seems like her empathy has been the bell-ringer here. >> if you look at her biography, this is the reason she's getting this appointment, aside from the political considerations, a woman of hispanic heritage. but in her background, it indicates to me as time goes along she may ve

it was big city democrats who largely led the fight to bring it down. those who were in support of the idea saw a little bit of room for them because as you pointed out, 58 votes, majority, but not that 60 they needed. so those close to senator and democrats of south -- i'm sorry, republican of south dakota, that brought this to the floor, his office says he will try again. it has been one of those issues that has always been a political touchstone and it is a flash point and for gun control advocates, this is one of those things they consider an important victory. pat? >> kelly, reporters of the amendment, will they try to bring up the issue again? >> yes. what they will try to do is look for a way to have a vote that would be what we call straight up or down. meaning you would only need to get to 51. that could be difficult because there are democrats like chuck schumer of new york who was a pierce opponent of this who will try to again give them that procedural advantage of needing 60. that could make it tough but those in favor of this kind of conce

but several big cities, including new york, will not be getting any of that money. the billion dollar program is aimed at helping police departments avoid layoffs and hire more officers. but it focused on cities with big budget problems and soaring crime rates. >> it is a compliment we got left out. it is not a compliment that i like the results of, but i like the recognition that we are doing well. >> reporter: houston, seattle and pittsburgh were on the list of cities that will not receive federal dollars. >>> a 19-year-old career officer with the alexandria police department will soon have his career come to an end. the city's police chief, david baker, says he will retire on friday. he was arrested in arlington county on saturday night. he faces drunk driving charges. baker has been alexandria's police chief for the last three years. the city manager says he thinks baker is making the appropriate call. >> we are disappointed in the decisions made by chief baker the other night. but we also can't lose sight of a stellar career as well and that's what we are tryin

the city still remains one of the most violent big cities in the nation. that brings us to the watercooler question of the day. do you think the city's plan to hire 50 new officers will help police curb crime in baltimore? email us your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> members of the chesapeake bay association are assessing a possible lawsuit against steel mill pollution. owners are not agreeing to clean up the site. the association is working with public health officials to make sure the area is safe for residents. president obama head south to talk health care. he will hold a couple of town hall meetings today one in north carolina and the other in virginia. the call killion from washington has the latest. >> -- nikole killion from washington has the latest. >> no major breakthroughs. congress has spent in other late hour of meetings. >> we are not there yet. our biggest concern is making sure that we control costs. >> the conservative blue dots work out their differences on the plan. >> i do not think it is a reasonable option for democrats. >> i f

. >> it's a big city t. needs are much greater than our resources are right now. >> reporter: police have swarmed the neighborhood. their presence includes 37 uniformed foot offices and a s.w.a.t. team. >> i don't want to hear about the snitching and enough. that's crap. this is so important. you have innocent people who were shot and could have been worse. >> reporter: investigators have made no arrests. they say two gunmen carried out the mayhem. >> it was very well planned. there's a lot of work that went into that hit. >> reporter: police are reviewing their operation, specifically the intelligence and what they know about these big drug gangs with rivalry apes east and west sides of baltimore. live in headquarters, mike hellgren. >> thank you very much. despite the violence, non-fatal shootings are down significantly this year. >>> a 14-year-old will remain blind bars until his murder trial. he's charged along with a 16- year-old in the beating death of 14-year-old christopher jones. the younger accuse

democratic is getting better in the big cities, but not in the d.c. area. >> it is hard to imagin summer weather being better than what we have been enjoying. we will look at the forecast coming up. p >>> breaking news from lanham, md., where several children may be trapped in a sewer. there is no word on how the children may have gotten trapped or how many there are. we'll have details and updates as they become available. >>> national police have ruled the death of steve mcnair murder-suicide. they say the steve mcnair was sleeping on a sofa when his 20- year-old girl from shot him four times and then shot herself. friends told detectives she was having financial problems and suspected nuclear was seeing another woman. mcnair was marrd and had four chdren. >>> the memorial for michael jackson may be over, but the investigation continues. the cause of death listed on his death certificate is deferred. sources close to jackson said he was up on powerful painkillers. his longtime friend and dermatologist and says he saw no signs of addiction but was wo

. >> big city mayors and gun victims groups lobbied to defeat the measure because they saw it as a risk to public safety. the nra said not only with the bill have reduced crimes by deterring criminals, it would haverotected the rights of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves. >>> virginia's democratic senator mark warner and jim webb both voted in favor of the amendment despite pleas from virginia tech victims families. maryland senator ben cardin voted no, and maryland senator barbara mikulski did not vote because of recent ankle surgery. >>> how safe are we on the metrorail? metro says and explain why they have more faulty sensors. jennifer donelan has the story. >> metro has confirmed that the locations where two trains collide it is not the only section of track where they are having problems, the same problems with track sensors. they are critical because they communicate train speed and distance on the tracks and keep trains at a safe distance between each other. metro called the problems leonymously -- at' metro cdal thlee obpr aesnooblima. the thebetw betweese and clarendon,

it requires sophisticated laboratories usually only found in big cities and a long way from the villagesre most people live. now the results of africa's largest ever hiv/aids clinical trial shows that these three teen chess have very little benefit for patience -- these routine tests have very little benefit for patients. they found some tests had only a small benefit but others had none at all. doctors say that they will make it more cheap and simple to get treatments in village clinics across africa rather than making people travel to laboratories. >> we are providing good support. we are able to provide treatment for many more people close to where they lived. >> in which case, christine may soon no longer have to make this long walk home. she called her baby "child born after his father's death." the only hope for some people is to get the medicine to their village which would now be much easier. >> helping the people of africa to help themselves was the theme of president obama as recent visit. -- president obama's recent visit. the misuse of african assets is now the focus of a rep

. >>> there could be a midwest tradition coming to the big city of baltimore. ty officials along with racing promoters are looking to bring the indy car race to the streets of downtown baltimore. hard to believe? well, abc's roosevelt leftwich tells us that the idea has many revving their engines. >> reporter: sometimes when you're driving around downtown it can feel like you're on a racetrack. the rushing cars along pratt street don't have thing on them. right now the city, state and private development firm are looking at the feasibility of bringing a grand prix-style race that would cut through the heart of the harbor from pratt and light streets to russell street and back. >> the estimates are 150,000 visitors, $100 million in economic impact which is generated from the visitors, from the hotels, meals, etc., and also major national television exposure. >> reporter: a race of this caliber would bring more to the city than say lots of tourists and dollars. we're talking about international exposure. millions of people worldwide love this type of racing. howev

>> as cities everywhere struggle with budget problems, it goes with the job for most big city mayors. around the clock police protection and use of taxpayer vehicles. we haven't cut back, where mayor dixon's benefits are at the top june it's a typical setup as the mayor moves around town, arriving in a city-owned s.u.v. driven by a police officer. her path gets cleared by police officers assigned full time to her security detail. often, there's a retired police officer as a city aide keeping people moving. >> it all adds up to a substantial investment by taxpayers, and puts baltimore in the top tier in protection and perks for the mayor compared to other cities of similar sized population. her protection unit has eight police officers assigned to it. she has three city-owned vehicles, the s.u.v. aba crown victoria, and a jeep cherokee. the cherokee sits in the mayor's driveway just in case she needs to get somewhere in a hurry. in atlanta, mayor shirley franklin has seven officers assigned to her protection unit, she has two city-owned cars, ford tauruses. seattle mayor has fewer offi

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troops left the big cities.ext. %%%%%%%%% we will have withdrawn all our combat quiewptses by august 2010, and we will stick to our commitment to withdraw all of our troops by the end of 2011. those are the commitments we have made. those are the agreements we have signed with the iraqi government and we will implement those agreements as written. bret: defense secretary gates in iraq today, following up, of course, on a recent trip last week of iraqi prime minister maliki to the white house in which he said that things are going well in iraq, and the iraqi forces are working well with u.s. forces. that trip, that visit, did not get a lot of coverage, and the prime minister is happy about that. the "washington post" is saying "the lack of focus on iraq at the public level is a reflection of the fact that iraq was once a very public part of the globe and it has calmed down. this sefd in achieving victory over those forces. this is a success." we're back with the panel what about that, charles? >> well, i

karachi is a big city. it is something that could happen there. baluchistan, also. other areas need to be looked at. the political institution is best prepared to do that. if local governments are not working, you have to improve them, to deliver. if there's a problem between the local government system and the provincial governments, you have to take care of the problem, not live with it. maybe you could live with a lot of things in the past and sort of this they were going to do it later, but now you are in a situation where you cannot put off things. you have to start tackling them. >> i work for the institute of the study of war. you had the earthquake. then there was evidence that militants used the situation to fund raise or build sympathy ii. now you have the current idp situation of over 2 million people. is the army aware of that? what is being done? is there a better mechanism needed to control militant organizations involved in stemming on relief work? >> i know this is a concern. after the earthquake, we now need to go there and see what we did see who h

people want to go to big cities to find a job. >> life has to carry on. people are tough and adaptable. soon, she says, the only way to get about will be on a raft made out of banana trees. there is no doctor on the island, when there is a storm there is no way of getting a boat. her baby's first site will be of water everywhere. >> united nations says that last year's food crisis was made worse by the actions of some governments. senior officials found prices doubling in india and vietnam. going back to the breaking news, telling you where we stand on that story, in china, where 184 people were killed last week, chinese police have shot two more people dead on monday, this is according to chinese state media, two were killed in the regional capital. police were trying to stop them from attacking another uighur when security forces opened fire. you can get all of the details on that story and the rest of the news on our website, bbc.com, including background as to what is going on in that ethnic trouble. >> "bbc world news" is presented by kcet, los angel

the city remains one of the most violent big cities in the nation. today's grant announcement comes as city police redeploy extra efforts on the east side after 18 people were shot on sunday, and community leaders say it will take more than their involvement to turn this violent trend around. it is going to take the help of parents. live in our studio with that. >> the rash of violence has many in the community concerned. they're looking for solutions. a group that met in baltimore feels the solution may lie at home. >> it is very violent. >> harsh words from the archbishop of the baltimore archdiocese, who spearheaded the initiative months ago. he joins many others in shock over the violent weekend. the naacp says they will do what they can to stop the trend, but others think there is a more direct way, by calling on parents. >> if we love our children and are serious about reducing violence, parent involvement must become a priority. parents must do a better job of knowing who their children's friends are. they have to do a better job of monitoring

and karachi is a big city. something could happen there. baluchistan. other areas in which just need to be looked at, and political institution is the best prepared to do that. if the local government system is not working you have to improvement to deliver. if there were problems between the government system and the political perpetual government you have to take care of that problem, not live with that. maybe you could live with a lot of things in the past, sort of been them, do it later and so on. but now you are in a situation where you cannot bend the things that you cannot put off things, and you have got to start tackling them. >> general, i work for the institute for the saudi for. my question relates, sir, you have documented evidence that there are militants, use the situation to either fund raise or build sympathies. and i you have the current situation of 2 million people are is the relief effort or is the army, are they aware of that and what is being done, is there a mechanism in place to control military organizations or even other probl

while it is bad here it is a lot worse in some other big cities. philadelphia has stopped paying its bills until the end of the year. new york city has seen a 34% reduction in its tax revenues. bruce johnson, 9news now and wusa9.com. >>> evans says he will oppose any tax increase to budget that balance. the council votes on the following week for the budget cuts. >> heroic efforts this afternoon at a local pool. the arlington county fire department said a little girl between the ages of seven and nine was playing with her friends at the upton hill pool when suddenly they found her at the bottom of that pool. the friends pulled her up and called the life guard. the life guard startedded cpr and by the time the ambulance got there the little girl regained consciousness. she is now at the hospital for observation. >>> topper is here with the 9forecast first. >> they are far and few between this evening. we ve a ballgame tonight. forecast now. the ts are inwn in town. partly cloudy. isolated thunderstorpo. ss i k inu're going to be fine k thballpark. up

it requires sophisticated laboratories, usually only found in big cities, and a long way from the villages where most people live. now the results of africa's largest ever hiv aids clinical trial shows that these routine tests have very little benefit to patients. scientists in uganda, zimbabwe, and britain followed almost 3.5 -- three and half thousand patients in three years. if regular laboratory tests are not needed, doctors say it will make it cheaper and simpler to give treatment in village clinics across africa rather than making patients travel to laboratories. >> we are providing good supervision and support. we are able to provide treatment to many more patients close to where they live. >> in which case, christine may soon no longer have to make this long walk home. she calls her baby "child born after his father's death." she says others cannot make the journey from her village. their only hope is to get the medicine to their village, which is now much easier. tom gibbs, bbc news, uganda. >> it is a brave move for japanese prime minister to dissolve parliament. opinion polls su

while it's bad here, it's worse in other big cities. philadelphia has stopped paying its bills until the end of the year. new york city has seen a 34% reduction in its tax revenues. bruce johnson, 9news now and wusa.com. >>> councilman evan will oppose tax increases to balance the budget. they have to vote this coming week. >>> one billion federal dollars to get high mileage gas hogs off the road. chrysler will match funds to double the deductions for buyers. that is the plan. the cash for clunkers program as it's come to be known was supposed to begin three weeks ago. andrew stack has more on the delay. >> reporter: forget the fact the cash for clunker program officially started july 1st. >> the last two weeks, i would say 60 to 80% of the guys that i talk to or answer the phone, they are asking for the program. >> reporter: or the fact that guys has row after row of high mileage hybrids lined up. >> you want to help the people out as much as we can. >> any customers asking for cash for clunkers. >> reporter: not a single dealer will be

philadelphia is the latest city to roll it out, putting 500 compactors on the street. big belly senses when the container is near full then uses solar power to squeeze the trash inside to make more room. the city of brotherly love says it can reduce collection trips up to 75%, save almost $1 million a year. other big cities using big belly include boston, chicago, and new york. you pay tax and expect certain services. but if you have a crash on the state road, your taxes may not cover the state's expenses. they could send you a whopping bill. tonight at 11:00, i-team reporter david collins exposes the controversial practice. >> it's called a crash tax. it reaps millions of dollars from drivers each year yet few are aware of it. russell knows all about the tax. the diabetic drove out and -- passed out and drove off route 50 and hit a utility pole. he later got a bill from the state. >> double taxation. i do pay taxes for highway control, but yet they charged me for highway control. >> he and others are feeling the squeeze. insurance companies are refusing to pay and the sta

. >> you're a big city guy. gun control is important in big cities. in other words, you don't like this right to carry thing from out in south dakota that says you can take a right to carry license out of south dakota and walk into new york state with it. >> states rights is, new york should be able to make its choice. >> so you're against this deal. >> california should make their choice. that's a much better solution. >> you're against the thing they tried to do today. >> a hatter of states right. >> let me ask you about sotomayor. she's a thorker. she's of puerto rican descent. >> i like all that. >> would you vote for her? you're a lawyer. you're a former prosecutor. you know as much as anybody could know. >> probably the answer is probably yes. and i'll tell you probably yes is it would have been the aim for ginsburg and. drier briar. >> and for briar on the theory that i believe that the president gets his choice when we elected barack obama barack obama, we didn't think he would get a conservative justice. on that theory, they should have voted

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but violence is not limited to big cities.olice in a small town in rural south carolina are living in fear tonight waiting to hear if there's a break in the case of a serial killer on the loose. five people have been shot to death in little more of a week in the town of gaffney. abc's jeffery kofman was there. >> reporter: there was a time in smalltown america when doors were not looked and strangers welcome. not today in gaffney where a serial kill certify on the loose. in this barber shop, today he's packing more than scissors and a razor. >> do you have a gun with you? >> right over there. >> that's yours? >> right. >> reporter: bill has a pistol in the drawer next to his chair too. >> you don't normally keep that here? >> no. >> reporter: these are not normal times the killing began when a 63-year-old peach farmer was shot in his home and last witness day a retired teacher and her daughter both killed and thursday a local business owner and young daughter gunned down in his store. police believe all of this is the work of

as a big city prosecutor, as a corporate litigator, as a trial judge, and as an appellate judge. my first job after law school was as an assistant district attorney in new york. there i saw children exploited and abused. i felt the pain and suffering of families torn apart by the needless deaths of loved ones. i saw and learned the tough job law enforcement has in protecting the public. in my next legal job, i focused on commercial instead of criminal matters. i litigated issues on behalf of national and international businesses and advised them on matters ranging from contracts to trademarks. my career as an advocate ended and my career as a judge began when i was appointed by president george h.w. bush to the united states district court for the southern district of new york. as a trial judge, i did decide over 450 cases and presided over dozens of trials. with perhaps my most famous case being the major major league baseball strike in 1995. after six extraordinary years on the district court, i was appointed by president clinton to the united states court of appeals for the se

although it may be 60% in the big cities, when you get out near the border, it falls way down to like 12%, and women particularly are not educated. i wonder on the causality -- a wonder if you might comment on that. >> i really unload this idea -- loathe this idea. when you look at the metrics through which it is ordinarily considered, it is changing. people have enriched themselves by taking money from hosting foreigners. the notion that americans like to resort to to explain all this behavior needs to be interrogated. in swat, americans love to talk about [unintelligible] the idea obfuscates more than illuminates. there are enormous provincial differences between literacy rates overall and between male and female. the variation within provinces is much more significant than differences between provinces. if you look at the data, folks in belujistan are less likely to be literate compared to people in the nwfp. i encourage people to not just assume that because the border areas are of less literate and folks elsewhere. if you look at world bank data, you see families are making very

there have even been places open in big cities where you can pay to take a nap during the day. >> i thinkt makes a real difference, first of all, in my work. i do a better job which means i'll get a better bonus. i'm not going to burn out. >> i would pay for that. according to the study by the harford school of -- harvard school of public health, a 20-minute power nap three times a week can reduce the rate of heart disease in healthy individuals by 37%. the national sleep foundation found that people who report losing sleep over the economy are more likely to also report being unable to work efficiently, exercise or eat healthy. >>> sarah palin officially step down as alaska governor sunday but left her longterm political plans up in the air. she refused to address speculation she would seek a 2012 presidential bid. in a fiery campaign-style speech palin said she's stepping down to take her political battles to a larger stage and avoiding the unproductive typical political as usual lame duck session of her last year in office. >> in alaska there is much good in store further down the road

apparently a lot of other big cities do it. but the mta decided it would raise too many legal issues. >> police handcuff and haul off a second and third grader accused of stealing from a neighbor's backyard. the parents of, at least, two of the children are angry that their boys were put face-to-face with other much older juvenile offenders. police say the two stole a wagon, go-kart, scooter and bike parts from a neighbor in medfield. for both boys, the recent run in with the law has left a lasting impression. >> the handcuffs scared me. >> really, really upset. and i should not have done it. >> i thought i was going to jail forever. >> police say they followed proper procedure. the children will need to take part in a mediation. the victim meanwhile tells us he is still waiting to get some of the bike parts back. >> well this brings us to the question of the day. do you think the police treatment of the kids was justified. huge response to the question tonight. and it is not even close. 94 percent say yes. it was justified. wh

. >> reporter: big city mayors along with gun victims groups lobbied to defeat the measure because they viewed it as a risk to public safety. in a statement, the nra said not only would the bill have reduced crimes by deterring criminals, it would have protected the rights of law abiding citizens to defend themselves. >>> a prominent african american scholar says he understands in a new and personal way how african americans are sometimes treated by police. henry louis gates, junior, a harvard professor is outraged after being arrested in his own home. gates, one of the leading scholars on african american history, was arrested for disorderly conduct on his front porch last thursday. he says he just returned from a documentary shoot in china, and his door was not opening, so he and his driver forced it open. a neighbor called police. according to the cops, when police arrived on the scene, gates was out of control, calling a sergeant a racist, and saying "this is what happens to black men in america." >> i don't walk around calling white people racist. hell, first of all, i'm half white

. >> reporter: from big cities like philadelphia. >> we want our pool! small towns like elyria, ohio, and alexandria, indiana, the ripple effects of our economy have forced tough institutions on an institution of summer, the community pool. alexandria mayor jack w50d said he had no choice when he learned he had to cut $600,000 from his budget. >> we had to look at things that were not essential to keep the city running and the pool was one of them. it evolved a lot of repairs. >> reporter: but when this local women heard this summer's staple for 70 years would close for the season they said -- >> i sid because of the children in this town, we don't have a va lot options here. >> it's been a part of our community for lot of years. you talk to someone who's 8 or someone who's 70, they have memories of the pool. >> save our pool! >> reporter: so the pool ladies as they've been affectionately named went to work raising awareness and enough money to keep kids swimming. >> did you think they could do it? >> no, i did not. >> how much money were we talking abou

now those who have home stat with big cities, came out against this, with a lot of force. they argued there is too much gun violence already and any change would simply be dangerous. democrats who live in places out west or in rural areas, sided with republicans and supported expanding conceal and carry laws. now 48 states already allow this, only wisconsin, illinois, and here in the district of columbia is there no license to carry a concealed weapon. brian. >>> kelly o'donnell with the story from the hill for us tonight. kelly, thanks. >>> tonight we have a dramatic change to report along the u.s. border with mexico. in recent years it has been a wild west of illegal immigration, but now, because of a sustained crackdown and a weak economy, things are actually showing improvement. our own mark potter reports tonight from the u.s./mexico border. >> reporter: on the mexican border at el paso, the daily game of cat-and-mouse is under way. between u.s. border patrol agents and mexicans trying to enter the united states illegally. >> wait to see if a group comes across. they

violent crime is plunging, with big city murders nearing 0-year lows. >> it could reverse the dramatic success we've had in reducing crime in most parts of america. >> reporter: under the new law, gun buyers could obtain permits in states with weak regulations and then carry the weapons unchecked virtually anywhere. but the national rifle association argues the right of self-defense should not stop at the state line, a point that resonates with conservatives and democrats from pro-gun states. opponents are still trying to find a way to kill the gun measure without putting defense funding in jeopardy. but harry reid, the senate's top democrats, says he'll vote to approve it when the roll is called tomorrow. bob orr, cbs news, washington. >> couric: coming up next, she makes a decision to forgo brain surgery, risking her life to save her art. but i'm an on-t-go woman. i've been active all my life. that's why i'm excited about reclast, the osteoporosis treatment my doctor gives me once a year. my doctor says one iv of reclast can help protect me while i'm on-the-go for twelve months. how?

upper 60s for the big cities and the east coast to near 70 in new york. back towards our west. throw in the satellite and radar composite, band of clouds came through during the overnight, and a little sprinkle or two may have passed by your house but you wouldn't even notice it because it's dried up already. not much going on across central pennsylvania. there's an area of low pressure once again that is sliding its way and rotating around central sections of ontario, wrapping in another source of cool air. frontal boundary not very active at all but we'll be watching this. it could spark a shower, maybe a thunderstorm on the north side this afternoon. our forecast model indicated the fact that a lot of moisture will stay towards our north but by lunchtime there will be more showers around central pennsylvania, also a knot around northern new jersey and new york metro area. they will continue to get hit with rain basically from philadelphia northbound throughout the day. we'll be just on the southern edge. we'll see some clouds but the chance of rain wil

of new jersey rounded up, including the mayors of hoboken along with public officials in another big city here, jersey city, all rounded up by the fbi this morning. all accused of taking payoffs and kickbacks and the fbi says they have it all on tape. this latest corruption scandal coming after more than 100 officials in new jersey in the past several years have pleaded guilty to corruption-related counts. now, in addition this investigation with the help of a confidential witness uncovered a massive money laundering scheme involving rabbis across new jersey who are allegedly funneling money back and forth over the israel and switzerland in a corruption scheme, and they say they also uncovered one of the leaders there, community leaders, allegedly for human trafficking of organs, kidney transplants, allegedly finding poor people willing to accept thousands of dollars to give up a kidney in exchange for someone here who needed it. they would then lie in a hospital saying that they were related, all to make money. and this middle man would charge $160,000 for that service. so an incredible

it happens over and over, not just in cambridge, massachusetts, every big city, small city. if you do into a store, an upscale department store and i go in right alongside of you, odds are store security is going to be looking at you with much more of an eye than they would be looking at me. >> an apartment building, my dad in new york, manhattan, they tried to kick my dad out of the apartment building he lived in, we live in. vernon, how do you see this issue and what are your thoughts on the president's role? did he speak out too soon? you said early he didn't. >> you can't speak out too soon about racism and injustice. i believe, as i said earlier, that skip gates is going to be all right. he's a harvard professor, a friend of the president. he is my friend, a good friend. but i'm thinking about all of those black men out there, unknown, unlearned, who are daily confronted with police officers, many of whom i defended when i was a young lawyer in the south, who -- police officers who did not care and who showed great disrespect for the person and their rights. and i can c

ethnics are basically, the big city bosses and very conservative, reactionary and not too fond of it, white supremacist southerners. and roosevelt managed to bring them together into this coalition that elected him once and then again it because of roosevelt overwhelming popularity, the southern conservative went along, grudgingly, with the early measures of the new deal. but they were never very happy about it. when roosevelt was elected a second time and he became to everyone's light of thinking a lame duck they began to oppose him and he couldn't get anything more passed. he couldn't get anything more progressive passed the senate. and so he decided he was going, again this was a term that was used, he was going to purge the conservatives in the senate. etoys with the idea of creating a new party. he wanted to bring together the liberals and the republican party, and the liberals from the democratic party into this new either called liberal party or progressiprogressive party ticket might've been called the democratic party but it was going to be a different party and let all the

i'm used to traffic jams and and normal things we do in a big city. >> we have the anxiety and we love it. >> we contextst exist without it. >> you may have had a little too much to eat over the 4th of july weekend. this was the 94th annual hot dog eating contest on coneny island. maryland's defending champ joey chestnut, beating six-time champ by downing 68 dogs in 22 minutes. >> that was a new world railroad. >> we always say sonya thomas is only -- doesn't everyone weigh 100 pounds. that's what we always say. >> i heard the guy that won, he went out for dinner afterwards. >> really? go out for anything but hot dogs. >> another local competitor from german town, i think. >> what's the weather looking like? today we're back in the 80s, nice looking forecast. the next couple days, this weather pattern has been unusual. very cool. >> look at that humidity, 52%, wnheard of this time of year. e're getting quiet conditions, high pressure building in through the clouds arnold rain showers south. they have since departed. 76 here in washington. a nice warmup in baltimore, 80 grees and down i

. >> it's a big city. and their needless are much greater -- needs are much greater than ours now. >> reporter: they have beefed up 37 foot patrol officers. >> i don't want to hear from the media about the whole snitching dvd and all of that, because that's crap. this is so important. you have innocent people who were shot and it could have been worse. >> reporter: investigators have made no arrests in the shooting. they say two gunmen carried out the mayhem. >> very well planned. there's a lot of work that went into that hit. >> reporter: right now, police are reviewing their operations, specifically their intelligence and why they may have missed signs that tensions were boiling over between these two rival gangs. mike hellgren, wjz eyewitness news. >>> find out what had police running to the neighborhood today. plus an extensive look at the investigation. >>> the families of virginia tech shooting victims want governor tim kaine to reopen a state investigation of the 2007 mass killings. relatives of the

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in fact, most of the big cities for foreclosures are in california, florida, arizona, and nevada. those same four states account for the bulk of all of the foreclosures we have been seeing. and that trend has been very sticky. it hasn't really improved very much. and when you look at this report, they point out that unemployment-related foreclosures may be spreading. so i showed you those, the california, florida, arizona, nevada, showed you that, that was a lot of speculation, a market that just went wild. but now, you're seeing a spreading of foreclosure activity, related to people losing their jobs, not necessarily because of speculation and because of a bad loan or something like that. >> got it, very interesting. and then the government's effort on this haven't really had much success. >> no, they've been really disappointing. and the community development people who work on these sorts of things say that they are so frustrated. and here, heidi, we hear every day from frustrated homeowners who say i want to modify or refinance and i can't do it through the government program,

they are in big cities like chicago, new york, philadelphia, places like that. it is not uniform. it is in the core market. we have engineers there, taking measurements, working with the station's collaborative lead to develop all sorts of approaches that might work to remedy those difficulties. >> do we sense that they issues thathigh v reception has waned. >> we look at the trend but it is downward but has not disappeared in those few markets. in philadelphia, for example, we have increased power grants for these on an experimental basis to see of that will resolve the problem. we are continuing to do measurements to find out. >> very good, thank you. >> thank you. thank you for the excellent presentations and to all fcc staff who contributed to the effort for a tremendous amount of hard work and dedication. i know that individual from every bureau and office at the commission worked incredibly hard with the goal of making the transition as smooth and seamless as possible for the millions of americans who watch over the air tv. i have heard many stories of people sacrificing tim

you can find them anywhere in the big cities in the united states and the medium and smaller cities. we chose miami, florida. that is my home town and where somebody who i would consider to be one of the wisest latina women of all lives. that's where i found a few more, by the way. my idea was to go down there and find these women, some of whom i have known for many years, in fact. they sat around my mom's kitchen table and, well, here is what they had to say. >>> happy birthday. >> with whom's birthday as a background and surrounded by pictures in the home where i grew up as a confused little kid from cuba, i returned to the place we called el barrio to assemble a panel of four, quote, wise latina women. maybe the wise eth of athem all. >> are you proud? >> proud. [ speaking in spanish ] >> proud because someone like you is there? you are proud because she came from nowhere like you? >> sitting in mom's kitchen table, an accomplished defense attorney, two former federal prosecutors and a television and radio entrepreneur share their personal perspective on why the nomination of soni