i was working in the south bronx for about 25 yea. i met her about 15 years ago in the m or early 1990's when she was a in kindergarten. she isust adorable. very smart very bossy. i remember even in kindergarten wn ias trying to help her with the ithmetic bec teachers always p me to work, they always say ce and visit my class and when i get there they say don't just and there, do something. you are suppod to be a teacher. she looks at mend says come you are standing o the wrong side of me. she wanted me to lean over her left elbow someone move and th pattern continued when she was in fourth grade she thought so bossy with me that she got wried about my social life and started to try to fix m up with her teacher. fifth grade she looked at the suit that i am wearing. it is the same suit i used to wear everyime i visited her and she did not like the fact it was always the same suit to. d black. she saito me, she fingered it with herand like your grandmother might do if you're wearing something that was shabby. she said jonathan come it i

if you live in an area, the bronx, you know, the bronx is huge. a city all its own, it would be i think the fifth largest city in america. did you know that? afd virtually all minority. 90% black, hispanic. how do you do it without transportation? >> host: right. >> guest: there is no way too it without transportation. let's not kid ourselves. but this is going to infuriate more people i think. that guy says i ain't too old to worry. they can't do much harm to. i'm going to keep saying this. i don't care what price i have to pay. i am going to keep fighting this issuuntil my dying day here listen, she uses the word busing, right? when i was in eighth grade, seventh grade, my daddy got me into what was considered the top classical episcopal prep school in boston. there was a 40 minute ride everyday. i'm jewish, by the way. i think i was the third jew that what they. it was a good school also. nobody said portal jonathan, isn't it aool thing for dr. cassel to do, to put portal jonathan, to mak him ride 40 minutes every day to go to the best private

tempers flair and benches clear as the yanks and blue jays rumble in the bronx.wo races for the price of one. rockies chasing the dodgers while trying to hold off the giants in the wild card. and michael vick is serving a two-game suspension. how he was age -- able to rejoin the eagles on tuesday. this is "espnews." ♪

and from a late hit to the bronx, an ejection in flushing. melanie fights nerves as her magical run at the open comes to an end. the cleveland browns have a starting quarterback, no thanks to eric mangini. how brady quinn was notp kept under wraps. and usa soccer with a huge world cup qualifier. # [closed captioning provided by espn, inc.] >> espnews is presented by: >> jeter needs three more hits to tie lou gehrig as the all time hits leader in yankee history. pick it up bottom first. jeter's first at bat in an 0 for 12 slump. longest slump of the year. however, that's how you get out of a slump. a perfect bunt for the infield single. jeter now with two hits, comes off in the bottom of the 7th. a chance to tie the record, and he does. to right field, a patented jeter hit, his parents, what a ride they've been on. the ultimate respect given by the rays bench, and joe girardi as well. jeter acknowledges the crowd, 2721 hits. bottom of the eighth. down one, jorge posada. pinch hitting, and does it well. the three-run home run, his 21st, 4-2 yan

tempers flair and benches cleared in the bronx.ockies chasing the dodgers, and trying to hold off the giants in the wild-card. how michael vick was able to rejoin the eagles on tuesday. this is "espnews." ♪ "espnews" is presented by: >> welcome to "espnews." always available in hd. back alongside robert flores. i'm j. w. stewart. a strange few days in new york, first serena, then roger federer, and then the yankees and blue jays. >> don't forget kanye west. >> back in the old days yankee stadium was the site of some great boxing matches. aaron hill, hits square between the shoulders. ow! second blue jay batter hit. he takes his base. home half of the inning. jesse carlson, throws behind here say posada. and they yankee catch are is like, hey, bro? what's the deal? the benches clear a little bit. trust me. this is just the prelim. later in the inning. o'sad at -- posada at second. here comes posada to score. watch as he crosses home plate. a little chicken win there and makes contact with carlson. he says, too can talk the smack. th

tempers flair and benches cleared in the bronx.hasing the dodgers, and trying to hold off the giants in the wild-card. how michael vick was able to rejoin the eagles on tuesday. this is "espnews." ♪ "espnews" is presented by: >> welcome to "espnews." always available in hd. back alongside robert flores. i'm j. w. stewart. a strange few days in new york, first serena, then roger federer, and then the yankees and blue jays. >> don't forget kanye west. >> back in the old days yankee stadium was the site of some great boxing matches. aaron hill, hits square between the shoulders. ow! second blue jay batter hit. he takes his base. home half of the inning. jesse carlson, throws behind here say posada. and they yankee catch are is like, hey, bro? what's the deal? the benches clear a little bit. trust me. this is just the prelim. later in the inning. o'sad at -- posada at second. here comes posada to score. watch as he crosses home plate. a little chicken win there and makes contact with carlson. he says, too can talk the smack. that's whe

a two-run game-tieing home run, and it is four-all in the bronx.his game when it goes final. if you're wondering, one hit batsman in this game. robby cano, no retaliation. >> miles brand once the t president of indiana university, and later, president of the ncaa, passed away today from pae koreaiatic cancer. he was 67. brand leaves behind friendliness and k reform, from an organizatn known in the past for secrecy and academic indifference. ironically he'll best be remembered for doing what no other indiana administrator dared to do. take down the state's most prized institution. here's bob lee. >> seven years of national reform, and one historic decision. miles brand is remembered for raising standards at the ncaa and as president of indiana university, enforcing his standards on hall of fame coach bob knight. >> we have established tough, specific guidelines. this is a zero tolerance policy. >> i think miles brand deserves an enormous credit for finally being the person who said we will have standards of conduct that will be upheld by our employe

as for boston, they have three more at the royals before heading to the bronx for that three-game seriesnd they finish up in boston with the a to get there. >>> the rangers, one win away from their first winning season since 2004. unfortunately they're inching closer to being irrelevant in the playoff discussion. how about kevin millwood who needed to go 4 1/3 or more to reach a $12 million contract incentive for the next season. the double play gets him there which is 180 innings pitched. bottom seven. mark ellis grounds to third. chris davis, diving stop and the throw. next battler, eric patterson. davis says you like apples? how about them apples. seven innings, three hits, one runs and nothing earned for millwood. the angels score more runs in that game with a 10-3 win than the last seven combined. it's the last seven combined is why the rangers are in trouble. they both win monday, the rangers and angels and texas remains 7 1/2 back in the a.l. west and pick up a game in the a.l. wild card with the red sox >>> talking football right now. donovan mcnabb shrugged when a reporter asked

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as for boston, they have three more at the royals before heading to the bronx for that three-game seriesnd they finish up in boston with the a to get there. >>> the rangers, one win away from their first winning season since 2004. unfortunately they're inching closer to being irrelevant in the playoff discussion. how about kevin millwood who needed to go 4 1/3 or more to reach a $12 million contract incentive for the next season. the double play gets him there which is 180 innings pitched. bottom seven. mark ellis grounds to third. chris davis, diving stop and the throw. next battler, eric patterson. davis says you like apples? how about them apples. seven innings, three hits, one runs and nothing earned for millwood. the angels score more runs in that game with a 10-3 win than the last seven combined. it's the last seven combined is why the rangers are in trouble. they both win monday, the rangers and angels and texas remains 7 1/2 back in the a.l. west and pick up a game in the a.l. wild card with the red sox >>> talking football right now. donovan mcnabb shrugged when a reporter asked

. >>> cliff lee does it again and a rumble in the bronx. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. and welcome back to "early today." i'm christina brown. and here are some of your top headlights this morning. vice president joe biden arrived to a visit in iraq. insurgents shot several mortars into the heavily fortified green zone, killing two people. biden was safe in an undisclosed location. >>> admiral mike mullen said the war in afghanistan is procedural going to require additional troops and time. at a hearing on his nomination to serve a second term as top military officer, he said more would be need indeed part because, quote, we very badly underresource afghanistan for the better part of four or five years. >>> a new report shows a nasty feud between the fbi and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives. the dispute is over both agenci agencies's jurisdiction claims and investigations of explosives incident. among the findings in the report obtained by the associated press, the two agencyings have been racing ea

. >>> the last time the orioles swept the yankees up in the bronx, mike boddiker led the way. 3, johnny damon at the plate for the yankees. he'll drive one deep left center. jeff makes the leaps grab at the wall. derek jeter tags and goes to third. but how about the hustle and play? up again, facing c.c. sabathia, flies to left. johnny damon forgets there's one out. almost threw the ball into the stands. justin turner coming all the way around from second to score. the o's lead it 3-1. but the yankees score the next 13 runs. the o's lose, 13-3. they're back home to host tampa bay in a four game series starting tomorrow. a pretty good weekend, but more importantly right now, a great opening week win for the ravens. >> i want to see ray rice get his first touchdown. >> he was close, he got within a yard there. >> i want to see him get it. >> he's getting there. >>> let's take a look at harbor cam. a beautiful sight right there, downtown baltimore. doesn't get any better. a complete check on the weather coming up. right now on weather net, that's the temperature from harbor schoo

and then fridanights would get a lot of, uh, brklyn, bronx, italian-aricans, uh, jewish-arican girls boys dancing, and they inrmingled with the latinos and the bcks. and e whole thing was the dancing. dancing put everybo together. >> my mom d dad met at the lladium in the late 50' tito was somody that they listed to and is part of their kind of, le, uh, um, romantic courtship phase in their les. >> my parents couldn'stand that music. i mean, they jt codn't stand it. you know it was, wh happened to the lelolai? what happened t un vals? you know, what e you dancing that for >> palladium n was the home. we couldome from spanish harlem, mostly spanish harle and go see our peoplplay. >> it wathe first venue where the sons of immigrants camto dance. and ofttimes, they were not dancing the music of eir fathers. >> it s hard to get in there, and you had to earn your w in tre. >> to pl at the palladiium, you hato be good. >> machito, tito puee, my father re the 3 top bands during the 50's and 's. and was a tremendous rivalry between the of them. it was a positive kind of rivalry. it wasn't--i

tempers flair and benches cleared in the bronx.ockies chasing the dodgers, and trying to hold off the giants in the wild-card. how michael vick was able to rejoin the eagles on tuesday. this is "espnews." ♪ "espnews" is presented by: >> welcome to "espnews." always available in hd. back alongside robert flores. i'm j. w. stewart. a strange few days in new york, first serena, then roger federer, and then the yankees and blue jays. >> don't forget kanye west. >> back in the old days yankee stadium was the site of some great boxing matches. aaron hill, hits square between the shoulders. ow! second blue jay batter hit. he takes his base. home half of the inning. jesse carlson, throws behind here say posada. and they yankee catch are is like, hey, bro? what's the deal? the benches clear a little bit. trust me. this is just the prelim. later in the inning. o'sad at -- posada at second. here comes posada to score. watch as he crosses home plate. a little chicken win there and makes contact with carlson. he says, too can talk the smack. th

>> dominic, from the bronx. >> jimmy: ah, good man. [ applause ] he's still dominic from the bronx.e a little, now he has a lot. now -- [ laughter ] you're going to be launching processed animal lips through danny tanner's lips. how do you feel about that? >> i feel good. i like my chances. >> jimmy: yeah, okay. good. [ laughter ] sounds like you want to toss some meat. okay, here we go. [ laughter ] how are you, pal? what's your name? >> tracy. >> jimmy: tracy, where you from? >> toronto, canada. >> jimmy: all right. very good. [ cheers and applause ] we love canada. now, you got joey. what's the game plan going in? are you a lobber or an over-hander? >> i'm going to go underhand. i think is the best strategy. >> jimmy: oh -- all right, very good. i like that theory. here we go. underhand is kind of the secretive way to win this thing, too. or you just want to go straight hot dog tossing, too. it's going to be an exciting round of events. [ laughter ] here's how the game works. behind you are some easy-access wiener tubs. you're gonna get 15 seconds to throw as many wieners as you

one of the orioles' rookie pitchers throws a gem in the bronx. back to you. >>> baltimore fans are gearing up for the big game day. you better go get your ravens' jersey quick. this store is stocked with t-shirts, sweatshirts and more. as you can see, customers are flowing in and out. >>> the domestic-abuse case against former of university of maryland football star is dismissed. the san diego district attorney dismissed her accusations she was choked and attacked by her boyfriend last sunday. he said there was insufficient evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he committed a crime. >>> the state audit questions baltimore's oldest pension plans. the report says the city has no money put aside for future benefits under the pension plan near firefighters and police hired before 1947. the mayor said the problem is very small compared to those the city faces with more current pension funds and retirees. >> this week we're going to continue to do the pay-as-you-go. it's a very small group of people who fit that category. >> in june the mayo

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. >> reporter: the orioles have the night off, start a three-game series in the bronx tomorrow.an mattis name pitcher of the year. >>> maryland lost a season opener for the first time in six years saturday. the home opener this weekend. they host james madison saturday evening at 6:00 after giving up almost 550 yards of offense against cal. the d needs to be better. alex thinks they will. >> honestly, being like that, to open up out there. it's obviously going to bring challenges. facing a lot of challenges, you definitely are going to see a lot of improvements from week one and week two and a lot of players. >> we shall see. finally, umbc men's soccer at home hosting the kickoff classic against st. francis early on. levi to andrew bolles, the great turn of the left foot, soft more from mcdonogh scores his sixth goal of the young season. they were late in the second half. retrievers trying to get to 4-0, lead 1-0. >>> nfl gets underway tonight. the steelers and titans, first game of the regular season plus clemson and georgia tech and football. >>> i'm rob carlin. the news after

tempers flair and benches clear and there's a rumble in the bronx.-game suspension. he rejoined this eagles on tuesday. this is "espnews." ♪ >> welcome to "espnews." along with robert foreigners, i'm j. w stewart. been a strange few days in new york. serena, federer, and now the blue jays. >> old yankee stadium was the site of some good boxing matches. here we go. blue jays with a sizeable lean. aaron hill, the second blue jay batter plunked. keep that in mind. carlson on the hill for toronto. throws behind posada. and the yankee catcher is like, hey, what's the dole? -- deal? i do not roll that way. both teams were warned, a little later in the inning, the main event. a good piece of hitting. here comes posada. and watch the contact he makes with carlson right there. and then it's carson who says, i, too, can suffer the smack. posada was ejected. and then that's when the benches cleared big-time. derek jeter trying to calm things. we had multiple skirmishes, equipment thrown all over the field. there's another look at the contact. the chicken wing.

carlson have both been find and suspended for three against for wednesday's bench-clearing brawl in the bronx. no fight in this one. just good old-fashioned baseball. eighth inning, down 8-2. one swing of the bat. two-run jet into the jet stream. they complete the come back in the ninth. francisco rips a single to left. garner scores. check out the rookie. i don't know if that's a look of happiness or fright as the entire team runs after him. yankees win 5-4. a see-saw battle. abreu with none bigger than this one. shawn puts them on top. two outs with bases loaded. and brian fuentes walks on a 3-2 count. game tying run crosses the plate and we're even at eight. next batter, newest member of the red sox, adrian gonzalez with a blooper into left. j.d. drew scores. red sox win a wild one, 9-8. what has gotten into the twins. they lose their best player for the season but they continue to win. taking on the indian, michael cuddyer had a homer, walked in three runs. they are 4 1/2 games back of the tigers a.l. central. phillies and nationals. sacks full. jayson werth clears with a swing of the bat

but that was about the only highlight for the bronx bombers after two separate rain delays lasting moren two hours, the birds pick up the 10-4 win. very nice. >>> all right, but it's the the orioles headlining the sports page it's the ravens and we are more than 24 hours from kick off. weija jiang shows us fans are pumped up. >> reporter: good morning the baltimore ravens cheerleaders visited different places including this tavern right here in parkville getting fans pepped u and everyone is more than ready for game day. from day. >> go ravens. >> reporter: to night. ravens fans are rallying. >> baltimore a football town. >> reporter: and just like it goes all season long, they will bring anything to do it. >> we have to support them rain or shine. >> reporter: doesn't hurt when a busful of cheerleaders take on maryland spending hours traveling to several pap rallies. >> we are signing calendars and pictures and photographs. >> and the fans are clapping as we got out of the bus and it's really exciting just because there are children and everybody is excited for the game on sunday. in w

>> guest: pineapple is this wonderful little girl whom i met in the south bronx. i've been working with south bronxids for about 25 years. i met herbout 15 years ago in the middle 1990s, early 1990s when she was in kindergarten. and she was just arable. very smart. very bossy. a little plump. and i remember like even in kindergarten when i was trying to help her arithmetic and teachers trick me and say don't just standthere. do sothing. you're supposed to be a teacher. i was trying to help her and she looks at me and she says, you're standing on the wrong side of me. 'cause she wanted me just lean over her left elbow. so i moved, you know, and that pattern continued when s was in fourth grade she got s bossy with me that she got worried about my social life and started trying to fix me up with her teacher. fifth grade she looked at this suit. see this suit i'm wearing. this is the same suit i used to wear every time i visited her and sheid not like the fact that it s always the same suit. and black. she fingered with her hand like your grandmother might do if you'

. >>> look what happened here in the bronx last night. the yankees and blue jays, new york hit a blue jay in the back, the blue jay went behind jorge posada. he came around to score and that led to this pushing and shoving. first bench-clearing brawl in the new yankee stadium. the yankees lost this game last night. there you go. always fun to watch when the yankees are involved. >> really? >> yeah. >>> 6:10. i'm not saying a word. shaquille o'neal might be a hall of famer but can he take on an olympic great? hometown hero michael phelps? >> edging out shaquille o'neal! what a race! .17 seconds! >> the answer is no. shocking, i know. phelps beat shaq by just 2/10 of a second in the final race of a stage three competition. shaq won the first race but was no match for the olympic gold medalist in the final two legs. this was the final episode in the "shaq vs" series that aired this summer on abc2. >> it's great. >> shaq is something. >>> we're always dropping cell phones, worse, in the water. >> happens all the time but next on "good morning

the bronx in new york, places right here in l.a., within a mile or two of the studio, destroyed by angerolence, viciousness. did not tell me this is the worst. back then, people were being killed for their political beliefs. at least we have some sense of civility. i'm afraid that we're going to lose it. please, i do not want 1960 and again. i think that was the worst year of all in american history. -- i do not want 1968 again. tavis: my question specifically was about this kind of push backed at a sitting president. >> it is not obama. tavis: he is the president. >> by the way, i would point out to you, what obama said about the research we do, it leads to it is not about barack obama, it is about washington. barack obama has come to represent washington. jimmy carter has been wrong about a lot of things. he has been a good ex-president, but he does not understand the american people. we're not angry at barack obama. we are angry at congress. we are angry at the institution of the white house. we are angry at washington, d.c. tavis: i am not on the obama payroll, but you cannot sit her

kohler and campbell up in the bronx is gone. so we're the only one left, and it's never going back to the 1880s, when you had to have a piano in your home, and sears roebuck sold them, and all that sort of stuff. that's -- that's gone. so, uh, who knows what the future of the piano business is? [ piano playing ] romano: you could teach somebody how to do job, but only time makes them better at it. the longer they do it, the better they get at it. cabinetmakers are a dying breed. it's very hard to go out in the street and find one today that can do the caliber work that we have out here. but one faces this way, one faces the other -- but they're identical, just right and left. [ machine hissing ] this... see, this hand plane, i bring from brescia in 1969, is immigrant with me. i come over here because over there, they got nothing to do, no living. so i have to go with a stomach for bread -- looking for the bread. but that's i come to united states. so i come into steinway, i work already 32 years for them. man: belly's probably o

court, the university of michigan system did something astounding, examined the case, admitted it was bronxoffered wagner a $400,000 settlement and apologized. >> that validation meant more than a million dollars. >> with the other hospitals, you don't get any of that. you just get the deny, deny, defer, defer, defer. >> it's important to understand that litigation is not a search for the truth. >> reporter: the policy of transparency and apology was initiated at the university of michigan by rick boothman, who spent 30 years defending hospitals in malpractice cases. >> because it's a game, i could have found oncologists to say, "oh, she's had cancer for five or six years. that delay made no difference in her staging." but that wouldn't have been true. >> reporter: the policy started in 2002, and it's proven to be a shrewd business practice for the 40-member hospital system. since then, claims against the system have dropped from 262 in 2001 to 83 in 2007. fewer claims have allowed the system to drop its malpractice insurance reserves from $73 million to $13 million. and the hospital's new

we start with history in the bronx.ek jeter looking to become the yankees' all-time hits leader. jeter had two hits on the night. one more would tie lou gehrig. jeter, down the right field line. ties the record. his folks in the stands. they're cheering him, just like all the fans are. as are the rays. and his manager, joe girardi. jeter at this point, tied with gehrig at 2,721 hits. jorge posada to right field. his 21st of the year. and the yankees victorious, 4-2. >>> move over a burrough, to queens. melanie au don taking on caroline wozniacki. oudin going wide. wozniacki would take the first game. on the second set point for wozniacki, oudin, clearly frustrated here by the performance. wozniacki took the first set, 6-2. second set, oudin, off the top of the net. that goes wide. can't get any breaks. wozniacki goes up 4-2. it's match point. oudin's run at the u.s. open is over. she'll head back to georgia. >>> jeremy and vinita, back to you. >> certainly a sad loss for oudin. but the other young lady, wozniacki, she's

a native of the bronx, a life long yankee fan, and apparently a right-hander. sotomayor has been called the judge who saved baseball. you might recall that as a trial judge, it was sotomayor who issued the order that helped end the major league baseball strike of 1994-'95. >>> there is a family photo that's stirring up a bit of controversy tonight. it's a picture taken during this week's meeting at the u.n. of the obamas with the first family of spain. the prime minister, his wife, and daughters. the state department posted it and dozens of others like it on the photo sharing website flicker for all the world to see. but this is how it appeared in a spanish news media with the girl's faces obscured. that's because the prime minister does not allow the spanish press to show photos of his children. the state department has now taken the photo down, but too late. the photo went viral on the internet, and what many people are talking about is what the girls are wearing. many taking particular note of the combat boots. when we come back, a place where it's super tim

. >> you go to bronx and you define a section of the bronx where the italian food there is as good as some people have said to me as good as they have eaten in italy. >> this city is amazing that way am you just have to, you are never more than 10 miles from a fantastic meal. >> but and i've never understood this and people have written about there. we don't have that many great chinese restaurants. >> we are lacking in a couple of things. we're lacking in great middle eastern restaurants. we're lacking in truly great chinese restaurants. >> why is that. >> i'm not sure why that is it would be a great article to be written. >> i have been told because i was always asking about that. is it the great chinese chef never came to new york? they stayed on the west coast or they just never came. they never immigrated. >> sometimes immigration pattern and cultural matters like that, actually factor into what our restaurant scene is lick and what we get to eat. so what kind of food do you like? >> other than fried chicken. >> you know, two cuisines i love in particular are italian and japanese

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it's the bird's 8th straight loss to the bronx bombers and they'll play again downtown tonight. >>> and andy pettitte, perfect game, 7 innings. wow. >> there will be a lot of horns if it went for nine. >> and that would be in baltimore just for the fans down there. yeah, in new york, they would be under marshall law. >> let's talk weather. it's an absolutely beautiful day's start. it's refreshing and cooler. come on back here. let's do that. skies cleared out very, very nicely. you'll notice the clouds from yesterday afternoon. we have a northwest breeze and that's where the air's coming from and they're looking forward to the preseason hockey. it starts in a few weeks. 47 oakland and 52 hagerstown. and we saw some updates. 63 at pax river and at the ocean. 51, westminster and both of the temperatures, they were in the upper 50s yesterday. and annapolis, 63. they were in the upper 60s yesterday and kent island, 62. 60 degrees in the district. did i say 56 at columbia. >> well, you did. well, if i did, it's a two for tuesday. >> that's like the old radio. today, mostly sunny and the norm

sotomayor is a bronx native and credited with saving the baseball season . u.s.istrict judge back in 1995. she forced the player to end the month's long strike . last night, fox's on bret baehr tossing out the first pitch in washington. it was a perfect strike. in case you are wondering, the braves won. >> getting old yer better and going out to work. we'll introduce you to a hard working lady who proved that age ain't nothing but a number. >> you have another 40 years to reach the milestone, but bruce spingstein just turned 60 . gathering people with born in the usa and studying how influential the boss really is next. >> professors around the world coming together for a single cause. 300 professors meeting in springsteen native new jersey. they will explore everything from sighicologist and move yegender and even the criminal justice system. a lot of things can happen. but retiring ain't one of them. she is celebrating her 100 birthday, guess where? at work. for more than 30 years she has helped to keep things run nothing the family business. answering phones a

and supreme court justice sonya sotomayor, a yankees fan from the bronx, announced she is scheduled to throw out the ceremonial first pitch saturday at the stadium. >>> back to greinke. he moves to 15-8 on the season. e.r.a. of 2.08. season total of strikeouts, 229. the -- to further his cy young case, e.r.a. of 1.95 and eight no decisions meaning that it -- he probably should already have 20 wins. the remaining schedule, both of his scheduled starts are against the twins who like boston are still playing for something. so far this year, he's 0-1 in two starts against minnesota and while the royals have been out of the race for some time in their division, greinke still has a say in who wins it. 17 of his starts have been versus the division. he's 7-4 with an e.r.a. of 2.22 against the central division foes. >>> thank goodness we have the a.l. central. closest thing we have to a race. the tigers in cleveland leading the twins. you can see by just two. and edwin jackson going for detroit. trevor crowe with two on and two out. crowe singles to left. matt laporta will try and score. if yo

there were strong hits on the night from luke scott and that helped the orioles jump ahead and the bronx bombers responded and the orioles lose the lead and the yankees win 9-6. they'll meet again later today. >> and i've said it before, it must have been a glorious two nights to watch the baseball and the weather. >> and yeah. you know? it looks like the baseball and feels like football as far as the temperatures and if you're going to the football games, they're comfortable, too. >> sure. >> they're nice. >> compared to the games in december. >>> well, we're looking at another day of 78-degree temperatures and it will be nice with lows around 60 degrees. that's an average. >> and we have a man standing by outside the brand. -- the grand. >> reporter: well, this is the most beautiful building in baltimore insidewise. it was the masonic temple and they had a marble showroom rented out to a marble dealer and what they turned it into is amazing and it's received an award and we'll be more than happy to tell you about when eyewitness news continues. >>> it's 6:15 and tim williams is in the

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. >>> big brawl in the bronx last night. look between the yankees and blue jays. jorge posada bumps into pitcher jesse carlson as he crossed home plate. carlson and posada trash talked, then things escalate into violence. benches clear and pushing and grabbing continues. posada and carlson wrestle each other to the ground and players from both teams try to break it up. no punches were actually thrown or connected, we should say. posada and carlson were ejected from the game. wild night. >> got a little too hot under the collar. >> it's chilly up there. they must have cooled down. >> we cooled down here, too. >> yes, indeed. a lot of clouds. northeasterly wind will do it. that's the way it looks outside right now. our turnt temperature here in washington is much cooler than it was yesterday. 73 degrees. boy, we are cooling on average, too. on average in four weeks our average high temperature is 69 degrees. right now 73 here in washington. look to our north. got friends in maine? they have a freeze warning out for parts of northern maine. caribou is 58 degrees. buf

the south bronx is changing. and this is evidence of it.part of that change is remarkable. >> and decklin walsh is the head of the poultry association. good morning. thanks for being here and bringing your fine-feathered friends. we should mention the association consists of you, your wife and two kids. >> three kids. >> three kids. they've been helping us round up the chickens. the first thing that came to my mind, chickens in brooklyn, it must be against the law. >> absolutely not. new york city is one of the best places to raise chickens. there's no cap on the number of chickens you can have. you can have as many as you can keep clean. >> but you can't have a rooster? >> no, you can't because of the noise. we had a rooster but we had to take care of that. >> where do you start with all this? first of all, you guys were on a farm in pennsylvania and got the idea, right? >> yeah, at a bed and breakfast in the amish country. and my son said dad, is this where we're getting the chickens? i must have lied to him somewhere along the line. we e