year in such a short time brandon has gone from his combative and antisocial habits to an interactive outgoing third grader willing to attend mainstream classes. brandon spends majority of his -- the remarkable improvement brandon has med this year has given us so much hope for his future. we strongly believe this improvement has been a direct result of the dedicated efforts of his special education teacher, miss coalman. it saddens me to receive news that such a young, energetic, impressionable teacher will no longer be a part of our school. i am just a parent who is troubled by the loss of such a dedicated teacher. brandon will not only be losing a teacher, but a friend and a mentor. her efforts with brandon this year have changed the way both i and his mother have viewed the public school system in general. we have been very disappointed with the public school system over the years. brandon shows enthusiasm when he talks about going to mainstream classes. i believe these improvements are because miss coalman takes a personal interest in brandon and all her students. she communicate

. >> brandon has cerebral palsy. >> but it's not stopping him from jumping the halfpipe. >>> and a guy teeters on an icy ladder to clear snow off a roof. see why this one -- >> it's not going to endwe >>> when kershaw county sheriffs deputies say don't act crazy during a traffic stop, don't act crazy. let me preface this. a woman was pulled over during a traffic stop, but the passenger in her car, after he's tased, jumps in the driver's seat and takes off. the sheriff's office says the man behind the wheel is clinton harris. where is the woman? >> we'll get to what happened to her in a moment. >> first the police chase reached speeds of 130 miles per hour. during this chase they ended up going through a schoolyard and going the wrong way on the freeway on-ramp. >> that's so dangerous. it's broad daylight. i'm sure this was a busy highway. >> this video, you could see him kick two police cars. they just hit two police cars. >> here's the video from inside the patrol car that got hit. it goes on but not for much longer because police have him cornered in this gas station. >> get him down

schwartz strike zone, he has it on both sides of the plate, at the knees. >> jon: going out there again. up the middle, base hit. valdez will score. going around to third, brandont, has had disagreements with the plate umpire today but also had three hits and two rbis. been on base four straight times. and the possible time is now third base with nobody on. >> mike: they set up outside and put it pretty much where they want to on the outside corner. brandon belt, they went out there once and got the strike and good out there again. look it away. out the middle. two strikes away. >> jon: cole gallespie, possible winning run. nobody out. rosenbaum and breaking ball for the strike. i think it was interesting the way you describe the whole thing because belt was putting it back together. about what pitch you would be likely to throw based on what it had seen and what the umpire was giving and he was absolutely right. one ball one strike. to gallespie. rockies had more activity. now the giant have activity in the bullpen. >> mike: so apparently, if they tie, we will have extra innings. which they haven't had this spring. nine innings has generally been the limit. on

. >> america's first space shuttle has a new home, and brandon has the story. >> it's a lot bigger than >> it's gigantic. >> i think it's massive. >> in fact, the space shuttle enterprise is as tall as a six-story building and almost half the size of a football field. >> i expected it to be more like a regular-size plane, and it's huge. >> the enterprise is housed inside a giant bubble on the flight deck of the intrepid sea, air & space museum. >> so, adding enterprise to our collection extends our ability to tell the story of america's space program. >> this was the world's first reusable spacecraft. that's why it's called a shuttle. >> before the space shuttle, american spacecraft were capsules. they would be launched into space on a rocket and fall back down to earth in the ocean, but they couldn't be used again. >> those capsules would return to earth by parachute and splash down in the ocean. helicopters would then ferry the capsule to a nearby aircraft carrier. the u.s.s. intrepid was often one of those carriers. to be perfectly accurate, while the enterprise flew missions, they w

brandon has the story of two teens who did just that. >> is it all right if i play this piece? [ cheers and applause ] all right. >> jourdan urbach reaches out with music. he brings his talent as a violinist to children in hospitals. [ mid-tempo music plays ] [ crowd cheering ] neha gupta reaches out with books. at 16, she has already spent several years helping orphaned children in india. jourdan and neha are recent winners of the world of children youth award. the prize money they received helps support the great work they're doing. >> the world of children youth award recognizes a young person, under 21, who is doing amazing work for children. >> for neha, the award means she'll be able to help even more children struggling to survive without parents. the pennsylvania teen learned of their desperate needs while visiting her grandparents in india. >> so i went back to the u.s., and i gathered my friends, started fundraising to buy them books and whatever else they may need. and over five years, it's just progressed into founding a nonprofit organization called "empower orphan

brandon crawford has become the depensive glue that held the giants together. 're looking forward to making it run a back to back titles. but brandon crawford told me he has a new outlook. >> coming back as world champions. you know what to expect. so would that make it easier? you go into the season wanting to repeat what did you the last year. so... i mean that is our goal get there to get there. it's the same group of guys. i think we're the team to do it again. >> what are you working to work on? >> you try to just work on everything, getting everything back together. and my defense is head of offense. so it's been that way. soy mean, i'm going work hard to kind guest them back to even. and... hopefully contribute a lot from whenever i'm at this year. >> what was the craziest thing you did as world champion? >> i took november off and had a baby. busy taking care of her. and baby's name is braylen. >> what has that been like for you?. >> it's been fun, she's two months old and change sod much. you hear people say it goes by fast. it has. she puts things into

. >> one inmate in particular at wabash has developed a reputation for his prolific production of homemade weapons. >> brandoniverly has been in possession of multiple weapons multiple different times, which has eventually landed him in administrative segregation. not only does he make the weapons, but he also stores them for organizations or individuals of multiple organizations. at one time he and his cellmate had 22 shanks hidden in their light fixture. >> brandon siverly would craft knives out of nearly any object he found on prison grounds. >> if it was big enough to put in your hand with a little left over, it was big enough to be sharpened into a weapon. usually i would just keep it on me because it's no good if it's hidden somewhere. if somebody comes on to you and [ bleep ], you ain't got it on you, you can't tell him, hold on, let me go get my knife. thankfully, i've never had to use one. usually if somebody sees one, it's enough to keep them at bay. so you don't usually have to use it. i was prepared to use it. >> siverly was 17 years old when he and a group of friends broke into a home and beat an

brandon belt. he has seven this spring. seven all of last year. the a's get the win. the sharks trying to hold on to that eighth spot in the west visiting the wild. the wild on the power play from zach parise. sharks down 1-0. they had no offense. another power play. sturngon past niemi. the final was 2-0. now ninth in the western conference standings. the cal women got in on the madness getting their first win in the tournament. i told you there was a ton going on. >> you're right and you got it all in. >>> still to come, one of the most iconic cathedrals in the world rang new bells for the first time in 160 years. we'll let you listen in. >>> the bells of the famous notre dame cathedral in paris are tolling a different tune tonight. that was the sound of new bells. ten of them making their first official ring today. thousands of preegss turned out for it. the four former bells from the 1850s were being criticized for being loud and lacking harmony. they are expected to chime very nicely for the next 300 years. saturday night live up next. >>> can i get you anything

brandon paul has the ball. gus johnson has the call. >> paul crosses over! 15 footer! ah! with the game winner for illinois. the fighting illini win and take on the top seed indiana in that tournament today. >>> still ahead on "morning joe," the next generation of camelot. "the new york times" mark leibovich sat down with senator ted kennedy's son ted jr. to talk about his future in politics. >> usually the answer is no but we will see if it's different this time. >> we will talk to mark when we come back. ♪ the darkness of insanity i ask myself ♪ revolutionizing an industry can be a tough act to follow, but at xerox we've embraced a new role. working behind the scenes to provide companies with services... like helping hr departments manage benefits and pensions for over 11 million employees. reducing document costs by up to 30%... and processing $421 billion dollars in accounts payables each year. helping thousands of companies simplify how work gets done. how's that for an encore? with xerox, you're ready for real business. let's say you pay your guy around 2% to manage

has got a monster leg. the video from corn blue kicking. the guy in charge, brandon corn corn blue is joining us. pretty incredible. ever seen anything like that before? >> seen it on video. never in person. a field goal hit that far. >> jonathan have rocks in his shoes? what's he do to get it to go that far? >> i would like to say it's training. but leg strength can't be taught as much as consistency. >> he is fighting serious wind when he kicks the 70 yard field goal. looks like nowhere near the uprights. the. >> the wind a little at his back and across left to right. not as windy as it looks. >> since the video posted online, have you heard from colleges, from the nfl? people been reaching out to recruit this guy? >> i haven't heard directly from anybody since the video came out a few days ago. green bay packers contacted our video guy. a writer, not the coach. some other kaks directly to jonathan, but not directly to me yet. >>> an inferno rising from the garage of a family's home in colorado. >> wow. huge. right next to that person's home. >> apparently, the two residents of this home and th

brandon belt, what a spring he's having. this is his seventh home run of the spring. he two yesterday. he has all of last season, but the giants lose big, 12-5. >>> coming up tonight at 6:00, some sharks highlights from minnesota, hopefully they can make the playoffs, also stanford's run in the nit tournament for you. >> mindi, thank you very much. >>> when we come back, why a florida deputy took on a large repti reptile. >>> most people wouldn't dare wrestle with an alligator, but one florida school officer tamed the beast with her bare hands and it's all caught on tape. >> i didn't want to risk the gator getting into the residential neighborhood. >> the florida deputy mom spotted the seven-foot long intruder near clairemont middle school and she said not at my school. she made sure it couldn't come into contact with the students. she wrestled the 250-pound reptile back and forth to tire it out so she could tape his jaw shot. the lake county sheriff deputy said she also taped the gators eyes so as not to hurt him. that calmed down the alligator and calmed him down while they waited for help.

center earlier we spoke to former guantanamo bay guard brandon nearly who admits he took part in the abuse of detainees the army veteran says the u.s. has only created more terrorists through its actions. facility is a lot better but speak guards have been there over the last few years all the dream inside as far as the internal reaction force team and the way the crown is treated in a stuff like that not much has changed maybe the outside is changed but the inside hasn't changed too much are people forget that these people have been cleared for release by not only the obama administration but also by the bush administration and they're going to be into definitely healthier who was along they don't know when they're going to see their families again or where they're going to go i think the fact that they don't know what's going to happen it you know is it makes them and this is their only one form of protest they have this to go on richard and the fact is that when whoever open the campaign started open guantanamo knew them would be a hero and that was wrong but it was it was illegal meaning it was a violation of human rights and the fa

attorney brandon johnson. he hasesswoman stephanie persons who lost in the 20 midterm election. republicans have former governor mike rounds, very well liked former governor. this is a race that would be competitive. democrats won north dakota senate seat with heidi heitkamp. republican start it with those two seats. they think have a good shot at taking them appear alaska with mark begich. democrats need to hold a six seat. they can't lose six seats when you look at the whole senate picture. big, big undertaking for republicans but given what these races are being contested, they think it is doable. >> host: what about the house? >> guest: house is much safer republicans. struggle because there is a lack of battleground districts after the 2011, 2012 gerrymandering process. 2011-twist of redistricting process which intent a lot of gerrymandering, there are only about a dozen seats that democrats hold where mitt romney won the popular vote. and only the 16 seats that republicans hold where president obama won the dis

>>steve: we are told brandon is okay today but has not yet returned to class.syn: maybe that's why i'm feeling sniffley on the set. are you wearing axe? >>brian: joe namath and i wear brute. it was a request of yours. let me tell you about sports. nfl owners wrapping up annual meetings in arizona but not before voting on a rule change. the league making it a 15 yard penalty for any player to initiate contact with the crown of his helmet pwer known as a head. the rule says if the player is outside the tackle box or more than three yards down field and outside the tackle box for the jets it is called on the field, they will no longer be allowed to lower their head. while aimed to increase safety it will limit a player's advance to run a ball. it looks like there will soon be another fan cheering for giants quarterback ally manning. manning and his wife -- his wife named abbey, they are expecting their second child. the baby due in june. no word on if it is a boy or girl. if it is a boy they'll probably draft in the first round. no quicker way to upset your signif

a man has been swallowed up by a sinkhole that opened up right under his bedroom. it happened in brandonole from his bed and he is identified as 37-year-old jeff bush and we are told he is now presumed dead. his brother told us that he tried in vain to save him. as you can imagine, he is distraught and devastated about that. just a few minutes ago, jeremy bush, the brother, described what happened to his brother jeff as he tried to save him. >> he was laying down in bed. we just got home from work. i have second job. i went to work, came home at 10:00. >> reporter: what did you hear? >> well, we left and came back and i knocked on his door and told him that we wasn't working today. so he said, okay and everything. i went in my room. i heard a loud crash like a car coming through the house and i heard my brother screaming, so i ran back there and tried going inside his room but my old lady turned the light on and all i seen was this big hole, real big hole and all i seen was his mattress and, basically, that was it. that's all i seen. >> reporter: you tried jumping in after him? >> yes, i

brandon, it's an eye-opener. >> feels wonderful. >> late in the evening, alex and his new best friend, maddox, showed up. >> my child has several issues autism, but one of the sickest children here. >> small victories are most significant -- we saw one, two -- >> all started with capes. that's one cape. and look where we're at now. >> strong enough to face tomorrow. >> how do you feel today? >> good. >> from the ronald mcdonald house at stanford, wayne treatman, abc7 news. >> carolyn: if you would like more information on kiss the towed -- toad creations go to abc7.com and click on "see it on tv". love the laughter of kids. let's check in leigh glaser. >> leigh: right now we're looking at live doppler 7hd. just a few high clouds starting to move across the bay area. that actually will keep temperatures milder overnight. travel plans tomorrow, i tell you, back east, just not looking too swell. st. louis tomorrow, 35. a rain-snow mix expected. 77 degrees w some afternoon thunderstorms for new orleans. dallas looks good. snownver, fee higher elevations, and in california you bring on the sunshine and mild temperatures. l.a. tomorrow, 72.

has gone up 118%. >>> an expanding san francisco company today gave us a sneak peek at new global headquarters. at the historic 888 brandoning. the company is an online service that lists rental properties for short-term logic. officials with air b and b tell us the move will help them accommodate more than 1,000 employees. mayor ed lee was also on today's tour. employees are set to move into the new building in late spring. >>> two east bay groups say they are devastated by a burglary at their storage warehouse. thieves broke into the facility and cleaned out just about everything of value. the group christmas for everyone feeds and give gifts to 3,#50 00 people every year. it lost all its presents and even cooking equipment. lost its supplies for annual safe and silver grad night. the two organizations say their combined losses total $60,000. >>> santa clara county leaders today decided on a more expensive but popular option. as robert honda reports the retired leader will be replaced by a vote. >> there was a noticeable face missing today where the port rats of the santa clara county board of soouch visors are usually

brandon, it's an eye-opener. >> feels wonderful. >> late in the evening, alex and his new best friend, maddox, showed up. >> my child has several issues autism, but one of the sickest children here. >> small victories are most significant -- we saw one, two -- >> all started with capes. that's one cape. and look where we're at now. >> strong enough to face tomorrow. >> how do you feel today? >> good. >> from the ronald mcdonald house at stanford, wayne treatman, abc7 news. >> carolyn: if you would like more information on kiss the towed -- toad creations go to abc7.com and click on "see it on tv". love the laughter of the kids. let's check in leigh glaser. >> leigh: right now we're looking at live doppler 7hd. just a few high clouds starting to move across the bay area. that actually will keep temperatures milder overnight. travel plans tomorrow, i tell you, back east, just not looking too swell. st. louis tomorrow, 35. a rain-snow mix expected. 77 degrees with some afternoon thunderstorms for new orleans. dallas looks good. denver, few snow flurries in the higher elevations, and in california you bring on the sunshine and mild temper

has been red-hot this spring. a's rough up 7 giant pitchers in a 12-5 win, brandon belt with his 7th holder for the giant. >>> sani earthquakes off it a good start in the malice aforethought season. chris wondolowski and the quakes hosting seattle, a team they swept three times last year. the wondolowski into the net and san josi hangs on 1-0, the quakes 2-1-1 in the young season. >>> the golf season at arnold palmer's tournament and arnold palmer's course. the guy who got hot is the guy who is trying to win this event for the 8th time, tiger woods with his approach on no. 10. and that will work on the way to a 66. yesterday woods bogeyed his final three hole and today had he this putt for eagle at 16. he then parred 17 and 18. woods two strokes in front of rose. he will return to no. 1 in the world for the first time in two and a half years. you got a look there why golfing in florida is an adventure. >>> it was not a good weekend for northern california high schools against their southern california counter parts in the basketball championships. mitty against mater dei. brown to the hoop for 2. mater dei was ab

brandon. her reps call the accusations over accusations. paul callan is joining me by phone. paul, what kind of consequences can charges like this have? >> florida hasery serious stalking law. as a matter of fact, in most places it's only a misdemeanor, meaning a year or less. florida has a very strict law where you can actually do more than a year. they have a felony provision for particularly bad examples of stalking. so it's a tough place to be arrested on this charge, and we'll have to see how the courts deal with this situation. >> now that said, apparently there's been a request for an arrest warrant but not one issued yet. what does that mean? does that mean she won't be arrested or is this just kind of a step in this process we expect to play out? >> it means at least for now these are just accusations that have been made apparently by her former boyfriend and we have to see whether a judge would look at the evidence in the case and see whether it warrants the actual issuance of an arrest warrant. so it may amount to nothing. i will say that there are lots of press reports, both in florida newspapers and in newspapers around the country, ind

has no-trade clause. buster in orange and black for life. bay bridge series, barry zito facing a.j. griffin. nice diving stop, a's led 1-0 in the sixth after a brandonwford double. thee he throws it over the head of coco crisp. the game is tied at 1. next batter, nick brings him home with an r.b.i. single. giants take game two 3-1 your final. >> all right. time for the cinderella story, florida gulf coast trying to continue their magical run. florida gulf coast fans with pumped up. and here a throw down and eagles went up 11. gators closed the half. here is the first lead of the game. second half, kenny with the layup and foul. he banks it off the back of a florida gulf coast player. clock has struck midnight and florida wins 62-50. >> michigan south region top seed, kansas jayhawks. kansas led most of the game. jayhawks led by 10 with three minutes to go. michigan erases the deficit. trey got it. ties the game at 76 and we go to overtime. michigan kept it going. here is two of his 25. wolverines up by 3. elijah kicks it out for the win -- not going to happen. michigan comes from behind to upset kansas 787-85 that final. >> oregon shocked a lot of p

brandon? >> well, i don't want it make any predecks, but we know every time in our country's history that there's been an expansion of civil rights, that has been a good thing for the population as a whole, and those have been moments that we look back upon with tremendous national pride. so i guess i would say i'm cautiously opt moistic that this is going to to be another one of those moments. >> you mentioned national pride. you are an american citizen. you love this country. as i read, nearly seven years ago you decided you could no longer live here based on love, if you will. tell me a little bit about what happened and how you made this decision to leave your home and go to london. >> well, what happened for me was that in the fall of 2011, i had been with my same sex british partner for just about seven years then. we've been together another year now. and he was living in the states with me pursuant to an employer sponsored visa. but those visas have expiration date. the way you stay in the country is with a green card. he wasn't going to to get a green ward from his employer. doma made it so he wouldn't have a green card through me

brandon it's an eye opene opener. >> i feel in wonderful. >>reporter: late in the evening alex and his new best friend maddox showed up. >> my child is socially awkward so he has he connected with alex one of the secretary children here. >>reporter: small victory more significant when they follow major set become. on this ght we saw one. 2. dozens actually. >> recall started with cape. one cape and look where we are at now. >>reporter: strong enough to face tomorrow. how do you feel today. >> good. >>reporter: from the ronald mcdonald house at stanfordxd, ac 7 news. >> remarkable. if you would lake more information on barbara and kiss the toad creation go to our web site 7 news.com and click on see it on tv. right now one last check of the forecast. meteorologist sandhya here with that. it's dry for the weekend. if you have any out door plans looking good. not tracking any moisture root now we have a few patches of fog out there but tomorrow going to be sunny and breezy. temperatures will get up that the mid 70's warmest inland cell lick antioch fai fairfeld. 60's writ around the bay. oakland 68 degrees. 67 san mateo exploratorium 65 and in santa rosa 74 degre

brandon gano reporting. about a hundred kids participated in the annual easter egg hunt. of course, we have a beeping easter egg hunt in the bay area, as well. >>> the rain has in and so has the lightning and thunder. this is video from near mt. hamilton east of san jose last night. you slow the video down and you can see how far the lightning traveled. rob, you took the video, and you saw it coming, but was it far or not? >> we don't have too many thunderstorm days throughout the year and when you have the lightning that takes place, you need a rare set of circumstances to do that. you need vertical moisture and the area in the northwest we had those things come together last night and with the low still moving our way, we will still have scattered showers and a chance for getting more afternoon thounder showers in the forecast. we're in the 50s across the board in the bay area. partly cloudy skies and not much wind, but a bit of an onshore breeze. much different view than 12 hours ago. you can see just a few scattered showers moving away from st. mary's heading away from marindo. and into the north bay, you can see the showers lifting off to the north. bac

brandon expressed a desire to start moving out of the killing business and resume collecting and analyzing intelligence. >> the cia should not be doing traditional military activities and operations. >> reporter: the program has also divided republicans. hawks such as senator john mccain of arizona are all for it but the drone strikes kept more libertarian senator rand paul of kentucky talking all night on the senate floor earlier this month railing against possible targeted killings on u.s. soil. no final decision has been made on whether the military will take over the drone program. if the change is made we're told it would happen gradually. the latest developments in the u.s. drone policy brings us to a larger question, are we safer here at home because of the strikes overseas and is it right? joining me now to discuss this, jeremy scay hill national security correspondent for "the nation" and here in washington christine phair senior fellow for combatting terrorism at west point and assistant professor at georgetown university. with the military taking over drone strikes assuming this does go through would that alleviate any of your concerns when it comes to transparency or accountability? >> well, first