we're looking at middle brook road. the biggest problem, wires down in the roadway and traffic is getting by at that point being turned around in each direction basically between 355 and the interchange with 270. here actually out on the beltway looking at things and traffic is in pretty good shape around the city. 270 has been very slow this morning. there was an citizen earlier off to the right -- an accident earlier off to the right. >> i think it is a little bit better out there. less intense heat. less intense humidity. not quite refreshing but a little better start. low 70's out there from our suburbs to the east and to the west. 73 in newington and virginia. during the afternoon we're going to get more sunshine than we had yesterday. a little more sunshine and less heat. we'll take a look at the forecast map and i will show you there were some showers yesterday and they were confined to our south and east. in the morning the clouds dissipating. a little patchy fog. a fairly pleasant day today. temperatures a touc

brooke? t.j.? >> kate bolduan, like in gaithersburg, thank you. kate mentioned talking to folks in the market for a car, we will be talking again to kate in the half hour. talking to a car owner trying to take advantage of the cash clunker program. >>> health care. millions of people without it, of course. reform legislation hanging in the balance. maybe not the best time for congress to take a month off, but they have, they are. the house did accomplish something before they got out of there last night. the third and final negotiating committee approved a version of the bill. now it has to be merged with the version passed by other panel there's in the house. the full chamber expected to get the final version sometime in september. the senate probably won't reach a deal before it goes on recess next friday. >>> president obama sees health care reform as key to fixing the economy. yesterday second quarter report from the gross domestic product seems to show the recession easing up a bit. whil

the thing about brooke is she doesn't fit anybody else. >> reporter: brooke should be in 11th grade. is not walk or talk. and has the mental acutie of a 9-month-old. she attends a special needs school in baltimore. >> a blue humming bird for brooke. >> reporter: dr. richard walker has studied brooks cells and dna, searching for a gene mutation, that would explain why she does not age. >> brooke. >> reporter: but to the greenbergs, brooke's not a scientific anomaly. just one of their teenage daughters. >> she looks like a 6-month-old. but she kind of has the penalty of a 16-year-old. i mean, sometimes we joke about how she rebels. >> she makes it known what she likes and what she doesn't like. >> this is very old-looking. >> if somebody knocked on the door right now and said, it's a guaranteed pill. give this to brooke, she will be fixed. i would say thank you, but no thank you. >> we love her just the way she is. we don't want to change her. >> brooke is a gift, by any definition. and special to her family. and also to the medical community. we're joined by dr. richard walker. you sa

keith brooking was 27 at the time. to my surprise, wade phillips said he looks like the same player. he hasn't lost astep, sti moves well. he's very instinctive. i know that they're feeling -- you can tell in hearing him interviewed right there, he brings a lot of leadership. he loves the game of football. but he's a good player, more importantly, and he should help them. >> joe: pro's pro, zach thomas manned that position last year for dallas. now they go to brooking. mcgee gets a chance to do something. he runs it and slides on third down. he is short of first down yardage. that will take us to the two-minute warning. tennessee out of time-outs. terrence newman was behind the camera, and now to eliminate our own pam oliver helping with the lighting. he's doing it all. cowboys doing it all tonight. - ( "super freak" by rick james playing ) - it's pretty amazing how one click of a mouse can make you move... groove, bust it, shake it, get down, - ♪ she's a super freak, super freak ♪ - get funky - ♪ she's super freaky -

give this to brooke, she will be fixed. say thank you, but no thank you. >> we love her just the way she is. we don't want to change her. >> brooke is a gift, by any definition. and special to her family. and also to the medical community. we're joined by dr. richard walker. you saw him in the piece, biomedical scientist. how rare is brooke, from your perspective? and what does she mean to you? >> in my opinion, she is unique in the world. i've never seen anything like her in my whole career. and i think, in fact, because of the nature of her condition, that there is not anyone else like her. she has significance to me because she has a mutation. and i feel in her developmental program, which is a continuum that carries on into aging. the mutation that affects her now and keeps her small is probably the same one that, when it's not -- when the genes are working normally, will carry us through the aging. find the mutation to determine its effects in normal people and see if we can modify it to affect aging. >> you're looking

brooke, t.j.? >> paul steinhauser, thank you. >>> a church pays it forward and inspires an entire community. the $9 icebreaker. walmart announces select eyeglass frames for just $9 -- and they have a 12-month guarantee. back to school costs less at walmart. save money. live better. walmart. >>> in case you're just now joining us. i want to give you a brief recap of our breaking story this morning. essentially 18 years in the making. this man, captain scott speicher missing in action. was he captured or was he alive? the department of defense officially coming out this morning identifying his remains. military in the anbar province of iraq were led to the desert by an iraqi citizen, information from an iraqi citizen and it was the armed forces institute of pathology that was able to match positively identify, thanks to his dental records, his remains now taken back to dover air force base showing the commitment of the u.s. military to bring him home. 18 years finally some closure this morning. the s

the brooks brothers rioters and the professionals orchestrating recess rallies now are connected. here's how. at the time many of the brooks brothers rioters were republican staffers working in the house and senate. some of them still are. others have gone into the private sector. one of them is now an immigration judge. one of them is named tom pyle. he had worked for indicted republican congressman tom delay and then a few months after he and his pals pretended to be ordinary outraged citizens demanding an end to the recount mr. pyle went to work for coke industries as a director of federal affairs. he has since left and is now president of the energy for energy research. this is matt schlap. he went from fake outraged citizen rioter in miami to work at the bush white house for a while and then he got a new gig as the executive director of federal affairs for coke industries. huh. coke industries is the largest privately held oil company in this country. the co-owner of coke industries is david coke, the 19th richest person in the world. he also happens to be the national chairm

brooke and t.j.? >> so let me get this straight. this 32-year-old, this scott mcgann, according to port authority, who appeared intoxicated carrying a bag with wires sticking out. cnn's also confirmed there were batteries in that bag. that's what really sparked this whole thing. i'm sure you've been talking to people coming and going in hoping to get on to flights. what are they telling you? they must be so frustrated? >> reporter: our producer, ross levitt, was on the scene, literally not very long after this all started. he spoke to a number of passenger whose were very upset about what happened. they naturally were trying to find out exactly what was going on. when these types of things occur, officials themselves oftentimes on ground don't know. so that caused a lot of frustration, and also uncertainty about what would happen with their flights. so consequently, everyone had to wait outside and until they got the all clear sign to start going into the terminals not affected by this and eventually now are getting back on track. i

keith brooking was 27 at the time. to my surprise, wade phillips said he looks like the same player. he hasn't lost a step, still moves well. he's very instinctive. i know that they're feeling -- you can tell in hearing him interviewed right there, he brings a lot of leadership. he loves the game of football. but he's a good player, more importantly, and he should help them. >> joe: pro's pro, zach thomas manned that position last year for dallas. now they go to brooking. mcgee gets a chance to do something. he runs it and slides on third down. he is short of first down yardage. that will take us to the two-minute warning. tennessee out of time-outs. terrence newman was behind the camera, and now to eliminate our own pam oliver helping with the lighting. he's doing it all. cowboys doing it all tonight. - ( "super freak" by rick james playing ) - it's pretty amazing how one click of a mouse can make you move... groove, bust it, shake it, get down, - ♪ she's a super freak, super freak ♪ - get funky - ♪ she's super freaky

good to be back. >> mike brooks, i want to talk to you about two things. number one, the car, what it's going to reveal. and number two, do you really think this guy, who seems to be weak, there's really no other way to put it, do you really think that he, on his own, could kill her, dismember her in that fashion -- can you imagine him having the fortitude to remove every tooth out of her head, dismember her hands, and dispose of the body? do you see it? does that mean that there was an accomplice? >> you know, nancy, you can never count out that there was somebody -- that was helping him, that he wasn't acting alone. we've now got the car. that car, nancy, we're talking possible blood, hair, fibers, trace evidence. and the big they think is, it's in west hollywood in that trader joe's parking lot. there are so many surveillance video cameras in that area, nancy, i'm sure they're probably going to be able to get the car coming in, possibly see who was in it and be able to put together a time line on when, exactly, that car was parked there and who was in t

>> no, and i have come to regret that. >> is gwendolyn brooks still alive? >> she has also died, but she became one of several mentors that i had in my life. she invited me to join her writers group, which at that hist time, she had a very active writers group in chicago. i did, and i went to several meetings. i was 17 at the time, or maybe 16 at the time, when we had our encounter. for me, meeting with the group of old people, meaning people in their 20's and 30's, was not quite working. i dropped out of the group, but >> recently i heard you on a radio documentary. talking to you now, it comes to mind that for someone who deals with this highly intense relationship between blacks and whites and different kinds of people, you talk very quietly. do you realize that? >> i think i am calm, for the most part. i think it's probably because i think of myself as an even- tempered, rational person, but the subjects tend to be inherently volatile. i do not think you need to raise your voice and make them even more volatile. >> do you ever raise your voice? >> of cou

many of the brooks brothers rioters went on to good jobs in the bush/cheney administration.hat mob scene they participated in became something republicans put on their resumes. one applying for the right kind of republican party job or right kind of conservative movement job. well, now, the tea bag health care riots that we're seeing, the shout them down, shut them down thuggery being staged right now at houn tall meetings about health care is again a conservative source of pride as corporate lobbying groups brag about their ability to turn out the mobs to shut down the democratic process, because, of course, the single most important piece of the history of the brooks brothers riot is that it worked. joining us is chris hayes, washington editor of "the nation" magazine. chris, thanks very much for coming on the show. >> thanks for having me as always, rach zbll in trying to make sense of the health care town meeting mob scene that's we are seeing organized now and the strategy here, do you think this is the same kind of strategy that was behind the brooks brothers riot in f

looking back admiral brooks says losing one of their own on his watch is the hardest part of his job. >> i strongly empathize with the air group commander who would have written letters and had to have told the family of what happened. very, very difficult thing to do. >> reporter: the navy learned from witnesses that a desert tribe had buried spiker's remains which is part of their culture. bones and skeleton fragments were recovered and send to rockville, maryland. >> thank you. >>> tax increases topping the sunday talk shows. obama officials refuse to rule out raising taxes to fund an overhaul of the health care system. tim geithner says the deficit will have to be reduced for the economy to prosper long-term. national economic council director larry summerrers says health care reform will have to be paid somehow. the president's economic team says the administration will work with congress to extend unemployment benefits for millions of americans who still can't find jobs. >>> meantime the obama administration says it will suspend the cash for clunkers program unless the senate pr

let's bring in mike brooks, hln law enforcement analyst.e, first let's hit on the good side here. the police -- the folks at berkeley, when garrido and the two little kids that he had with jaycee dugard were on the campus there and they wanted to be able to talk openly, they did the background check and that instinct went off, didn't it? and that's why we have jaycee now. >> yeah, apparently that uc berkeley officer, she saw something that just wasn't right, went ahead and ran his name, got his information, and then he came over back over to the parole office -- you know, these two kids, 11 and 15, both girls, mike. so my hat's off to good police work. and then the parole officer, you know, he's under supervised parole, visitations. apparently, the officer would come to the house, but the sheriff said every time he would come to the house he these kids. never saw jaycee, never saw the other two. >> that's what everybody is asking at home. how could this guy -- he spent time in leavenworth for rape. how could his house not be checked, be abl

michael brooks still with us here.hael, 28 felony counts against this man, down to 30 seconds, but if this guy doesn't spend the rest of his life in prison, there's no such thing as justice. >> he'll be going back to leavenworth for the rest of his life and i wish they could bury him under leavenworth. there's just not enough they can do to this

the ramp to westbound middle brook road is closed due to downed wires. police and crews are on the scene trying to clean that up. southbound from frederick to the beltway. no delay. over to actually check local roads right now. 355 and shady grove, no problems or incidents at this time and the trip westbound 50 from annapolis to bowie and over to dc is a clear trip. no problems or incidents to report. back to andrea. >> thank you, kenny. >>> as you head out the door this morning, we want you to think about your goals. best-selling author and motivational speaker willie jolly explains why dreaming big often affects what you get in return. >> today i want to share a simple idea to help you live better and have greater success. it is the power of your vision for your future and what you expect to happen in the future. i love the story about a gentleman who had a very new business and he really was thinking about his dreams and goals and he went out to his garage and he cleaned it out and the family said why are you cleaning it out. that's where my rolls roy

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brooke?emocratic party leaders have dropped their plans to buy four corporate-style executive jets. they are under fire for adding delourz 330 million to the air force budget to buy the jets even though the pentagon did not request them. but they are still buying on four other aircraft for $220 million. >>> divers in new york have recovered the final two bodies from that horrific wreckage of a plane that crashed in the hudson river. the single-engine plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter saturday afternoon, killing a total of nine people. the national transportation safety board is investigating the cause. >>> and general motors saying its new electric car, you've heard of it, the chevrolet volt, could get 230 miles per gallon. the volt is powered by an electric motor and a battery pack. the volt is expected to go on sale in late 2010. >>> and, lou, we'll stay on top of those stories for you tonight. >> well, especially the gm volt, 230 miles to the gallon. >> can you believe it? >> th

>> nobody has a beef with that. 16 is too early to be trying to sell that. >> jo jodie foster brookelzation of youngsters is part of a bigger audience. >> there's an audience for that. ms. foster who i don't know very well ms. barry more and ms. shields got extremely screwed up with the exception of ms. foster. they got screwed up because of the way they were marketed. miley cyrus is 16 she may think she is cool. she is 16. keep her there. >> bill o'reilly riley thanks. is 16 too early? >> inappropriate. >> i asked my 13-year-old she was shocked. >> little early. >> thank you for watching. have a great week. that's a-- tiny netbook. yeah, it's-- good-looking, lightweight. generally awesome. and you could just-- go online, video-chat with my cousin. this is un-- under $200. are you some kind of-- mind reader, visionary ? no, i have them. huh. the new lightweight hp mini netbook with windows and america's largest and most-reliable 3g network built in. only 199.99 with mobile broadband plans from 39.99 i am-- speechless, envious. wanna be me right now. getting one.

this meeting was to discuss safety precautions, as mike brooks mentioned. this coming after the murder of the pastor daniels there. we know a lot about her. we know she was a very generous person. soft-spoken. a mother of five. no known enemies. we also know, this is a small town, of only about 6,000 people. they only have a couple of homicides a year. so basically everyone knows everybody. they know their neighbors. they're very accustomed to the neighborhood. so what went wrong, we don't know. we do know it was very horrific. we do know she was a precious woman whose life has been taken. >> with me right now, a very special guest, the son of the reverend carol daniels, alvin daniels is joining us from oklahoma city, oklahoma. mr. daniels, thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me on. >> when was the last time you spoke to your mother? >> i spoke to her friday, i believe. >> and she was actually in the church preparing for sunday services when this happened? >> i'm assuming she was. i'm not for sure. but that's what she normally would have be

brooke baldwin reports. >> reporter: australia population 21 million. their health care system is called medicare. same name as in the united states, but much different. in australia everyone is covered. medicare pays for an entire visit to a public hospital and reimburses the trip to the family doctor. most medication is covered under the plan which does require a copay. the system is funded by income taxes, most australians pay 1.5% of their salaries. those with higher incomes pay an additional 1% and there are low-income exceptions. but the public option isn't the only option as victor, who studies health care systems around the world, explains. >> australia has a medi-gap private health insurance sector, similar to the french which allows coverage of supplementary benefits and some copayments. >> reporter: approximately 43% of australians opt to buy private insurance as well. according to ian butler, an australian doctor currently practicing in the u.s., a primary reason for buy it is that people can bypass long lines for electiontive surgery. >> if

. >>> brook? >> lou, we want to show you video that is, quite trang frankly, tough to watch here. this is amateur video of the midair collision of the small plane colliding with a sightseeing helicopter. five italian tourists and the pilot in that chopper were killed. three people in the plane died in the crash. they are hoping that this new video will show how this accident happened. >>> quite a scene in california. massive wildfires burning in northern california this evening. firefighters still battling the fast-moving fire near the santa cruz mountains. the blaze, which started last night, has now charred 2300 acres. it's about 3 1/2 square miles and new questions this evening about a possible conflicts of interest for the pick of the surgeon general. she's dr. regina benjamin. she was paid $10,000 to sit on al panel at the company. a spokesman for the department of health and human services says dr. benjamin will resign from those boards when she's confirmed by the senate. and, lou, some of the stories we have our eyes on for you. >> appreciate it very much, brook baldwin. >>

and finally, to the analysis of shields and brooks.judy woodruff is with them tonight. >> woodruff: that's of course syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. good to see you both. gentlemen, let's start out with health care. davids, we're a week away from congress coming back from the august recess where does this big battle stand and especially now that ted kennedy is gone. >> well, it's still no not good, if you are looking for passage. if you look at the president's approval rating, they were up at 70 a couple months ago. now a steady decline down to about 50, around there. if you look at public view of the health-care plan specifically, it's a slight majority against, but that seems to be pretty hard. so what i would expect the administration to do is to do two things. one, actually come out with their own plan to try to6= relaunch this with their own plan. and second, do something dramatic, maybe have a joint session of congress, something like that, to really relaunch the debate. because the

brooke baldwin, cnn, atlanta. >> the atlanta mayor is apparently aware of the drug trafficking in her city but her office is quick to point out the majority of drug-related crime isn't happening downtown but in the city's suburbs at brooke baldwin pointed out. local law enforcement is working closely with the dea. officers agree atlanta is the number one hub on the east coast. >>> i'm larry smith. 1.2 billion dollars and change not a stimulus plan or economic boost for education but the price of the dallas cowboys' new stadium, the massive facility opened earlier this summer but the cowboys played their first exhibition game there last fight. flawless, right? not so fast. in the pregame warmups the tennessee tight tan punter is trying to hit the roof and he does. jerry joans, owner, on the right. maybe that shouldn't be a problem. only if guys are trying to hit it -- oh, this is during the game. uh-oh, some issues there. is the roof too low? problem. the cowboys won the game and got to fix that little issue with the roof. oh, well. three days after unretiring again making his vikings

mike brooks.doubt you're in law enforcement and following this very closely when this all went down in 1998 and the subsequent trials and everything that's happened since. explain to us the rangling here and explain to us what happened aboard that plane and what security people are say about what happened. >> don, matter of fact, i was involved in this case. it was the last case i investigated when i was with the fbi joint terrorism task force and actually was in malta working on this case, preparing for trial with the british authorities in 1999 and, in fact, i came back, as soon as i got home from malta is when gadhafi turned the two libyans, megrahi and his co-defendant over to the scottish authorities. i'll remind everyone, don, that this was the deadliest terrorist attack against america, against americans before 9/11. there were 180 people killed in this flight. you know, during this flight and 47 british nationals and talking this morning with some of my law enforcement cohearts and other p

>> nobody has a beef with that. 16 is too early to be trying to sell that. >> jo jodie foster brooke is part of a bigger audience. >> there's an audience for that. ms. foster who i don't know very well ms. barry more and ms. shields got extremely screwed up with the exception of ms. foster. they got screwed up because of the way they were marketed. miley cyrus is 16 she may think she is cool. she is 16. keep her there. >> bill o'reilly riley thanks. is 16 too early? >> inappropriate. >> i asked my 13-year-old she was shocked. >> little early. >> little early. >> thanknknknknknknknk mr. evans? this is janice from onstar. i have received an automatic signal you've been in a front-end crash. do you need help? yeah. i'll contact emergency services and stay with you. you okay? yeah. onstar. standard for one year on 14 chevy models. president obama: i took a trip to elkhart, indiana, today. elkhart's a place that has lost jobs faster than anywhere else in america. the unemployment rate went from 4.7% to 15.3%. in fact, local tv stations have started running public service announcements tha

a vile containing mustard gas was dug up on glen brook road. they used the area to test chemical weapons during that war. they have been searching for buried munitions in the area for years and the latest discovery poses no danger to the public. >>> the man convicted in one of the best known terror attacks is being released. >>> plus, the time of day you schedule a colonoscopy could influence the accuracy of the test. >>> and some people in california may have a big problem with a new neighbor that is checking out the pool. you are watching 9 news now. we'll be right back. ar >>> we're flying in from the eastern shore through annapolis and over to the beltway on westbound 50. no problems. a smooth trip. traffic details coming up. >>> in the news now at nine after the hour this morning. the bbc is reporting the man convicted of the lockerbie bombing will be released shortly. he has terminal prostate cancer and has been serving a life sentence for the 270 people who died when pan am flight 103 explode over scotland. >>> police in argentina donned

from 355, you cannot head west on middle brook road. we do have police forcing everyone to make a u-turn at the scene. no accidents to report on the freeway. however, traveling from the eastbound freeway into the northbound third street tunnel, we do have word now of a stalled car right at the beginning of that ramp. heads up thraws try to work your way over towards outbound new york avenue. kenilworth avenue moving smoothly. no incidents to report south of 50 headed down towards pennsylvania avenue. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. back to you. >>> jetblue is offering a deal for frequent flyers or if you just want to take a bunch of trips real soon. for$599, you can buy an all you can jet pass. that will allow to you fly as many times to all of jetblue's destinations between september 8th and october 8th so of a got about a month. there are a few catches including cancellation fees so if you book it, you better go. no matter which airline you fly, you will notice a change the next time you book a flight. starting on saturd

brooke hart joins us live from capitol hill with details now. brooke? good morning, barbara. that's right. looks like confirmation is ahead today for judge sonia sotomayor. most republicans, all but eight of them, in fact, do plan to vote "no" and that's despite not so subtlehreats from hispanic groups that opponents will pay a price at the polls. supporters of sonia sotomayor came out in force as the senate vote nears. >> this is a vote that will matter and will be long remembered by our latino community. >> reporter: union, civil rights and hispanic groups joined democrats to brush aside gop criticism. >> i am not convinced that judge sotomayor will set aside her personal judgments and views. >> reporter: eight republicans are expected to break ranks and vote yes. that would give judge sotomayor more sate votes than justice alito, fewer than chief justice roberts. >> my vote for her confirmation will be based solely and wholly on relevant qualifications. >> i will support her. i'll be proud for her, the community she represents and the american dream

live on capitol hill, i'm brooke hart. joe and barbara, back to you. >> thanks very much. >> thank you, brooke. >>> the remains of a navy pilot shot down in iraq in 1991 finally return home today. earlier this morning, the military announced that it had located a burial site for captain michaelbottel speicher. heiereech bad cielaif bssd as missing in ontiac. his plane was shot down on the first night of the first gulf war. speicher's remains are being flown to his hometown of .acksonvililleidflora, where he floride hea, h h will be permanently buried. a city is also planng public service at the eterss memorial wall there to honor speicher. >> vice president dick cheney is preparing to write his memoir. according to "the washington post," it will be a tell-all. the post reports that cheney believes that president george w. bush stopped listeningo him during their second term together. cheney has been quoted in the past as saying that the, "statute of limitations has expired on many of his secrets." the book is eected to be

brook hart, -- brooke hart, wbal-tv 11 news. >> a mother to be is hoping someone will shell out big bucks for the naming rights of her unborn child. she has put the naming rights to her unborn son on e-bay. she said the idea is to support herself and her zoo six children. while family members oppose the idea, she said she's optimistic it will all turn out ok. >> i'm excited to see what name will actually be chosen. hopefully not her should i or pepsi. -- hopefully not hersh. ey or pepsi. >> corporate response sponsorship doesn't seem -- corporate sponsorship doesn't seem to be in the bidding yet. that brings us to our "water cooler question of the day." what do you think of a mom auctioning off her child's name? the only problem is someone that might bid the highest bid and give the child a real weird name. 5:37. 75 degrees on tv hill. >> there's a new zero calorie sweetener on the market. >> plus, are you feeling lonely? you are not alone. the number of people feeling the blues is increasing. >> and we're getting a check on your morning commute. one accident of note in columbia. we hear

brooke hart is in washington. >> president obama has west on a health care reform rescue mission. >> fascist pig. >> let the record show that the man left on his own. >> polls show that his efforts are in trouble. 34% of americans tell "usa today" they are more sympathetic to protesters. former gop house speaker newt gingrich wants more town halls. >> within 90 days, 90% of that will disappear and you have a civil dialogue. >> one of the reasons we push back is because of the misconceptions. >> starting today, a coalition of reform allies raises the stakes in a new commercial. >> what does insurance reform really mean? >> paid for by drug makers and the biggest hospital groups in the country, teaming up with a major union to back the president. >> you cannot be denied coverage for pre-existing condition or drop if you get sick. >> it is a counterpunch to critics at town halls getting saturation coverage. one group rallying protesters, freedomworks, calls it a lot of air between big business and big government. in washington, brooke hart, nbc news. >> now your 11 insta-weather- plus f

brooke hart reporting from washington. >> coming up, hundreds of residents have been forced from their homes as a wild fire continues raging out of control in california. a police chase and the fiery crash. it's caught on tape. we are covering the nation next. and a veterinarian here to answer your questions on pets. e-mail your questions to e-mail your questions to i can smile, i can carry on our conversation i do most of the talking yes i wear dentures and they fit wonderful super poligrip acts as a seal between my dentures and my gums super poligrip makes eating more comfortable. even well fitting dentures can feel more comfortable with super poligrip. just a few dabs of super poligrip create a seal between your dentures and gums to make them more comfortable while you eat. i can eat my steak, i just love it. try super poligrip. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] >> in northern california afire is forcing hundreds of people from their homes. this is near santa cruz. the blaze started wednesday. it has spread to a thousand acres. 600 people have evacuated so far

take a look at the middle brook road incident. wires down. coming toward theottom of the screen is coming west. all those people are being forced to make a u turn at that point and you cannot get off of 270 northbound while the crews continue to work on this situation. now we go to virginia. take a look at i-95 traffic, which is in pretty good shape. we have no accidents to report on any of those routes. julie and alison, back to you. >> loc kids with big hearts helped give back to the community and they set a new world record. the readers of national geographic kids collected 30,000 pairs of jeans for this recycling program. the clothes will be turned into insulation for homes. an official from guiness world records was on hand to certify all of these results. a 9-year-old from ohio was honored for having a drive at his school that collected 1,600 pairs of jeans. good idea. >> that's kind of neat. >> look at that. >> i picture these layers of jeans in the walls of your house. >> and then maybe they could come back. the acid-washed ones could

in real life, brooke shields remained a virgin until age 22.here's britney spears whose more of a cautionary tale. despite provocative videos, playing to the school girl fetishes of dirty old men. ♪ she claimed to be a virgin only to have her boyfriend spill the beans. >> good morals means waiting to have sex until after you're married. did she you and live up to this in your relationship? >> sure. sure. >> justin timberlake opened up that he had sex with britney spears so he was not a virgin. didn't hurt her career though. she did even better. >> i think that these kind of outward signs, i have had sex or i didn't have sex is a little bit like bragging. because first of all, you cannot check if it's true. >> dr. ruth says promise rings with all well and good. >> they want to wear a ring, let them wear a ring. let them have the rings rather than the tattoos, because the rings once they're lovers, they can take off and have good sex. >> their fans will probably be just as curious about that. i'm david wright for "nightline" in washington. >> our

i am joined by a representative from the brookings this edition. also the director of the edward kennedy oral history project. does he book -- deserve to be called an historic figure? >> without question. if you combine the fact that he is a charter member of one of the most famous political families in america, that during his almost 40 years in public life he was the liberal line, the source of public philosophy to liberals -- that combined with the fact that he built perhaps one of the most distinguished careers in the united states senate in the history of america. >> you think there is no parallel here? >> there really is not. we can turn to 19th century figures like henry clay who labored in the senate for decades to keep the union together before the break up of the civil war. we can look at the head of the progressives, and robert wagner who labored hard for unions. no one had the combination of durability, ideological focus, and commitment, but still pragmatism in making the institution produce as much as is humanly possible. >> james stir

-- sdicated columnist mark shields and "new yk times" columnisdavid brooks.how dyou portray the saga of the health care debaten this friday nig? >> well, the pls are still terrle. there's still a majory against it. so 's sort of an oddituation ere you look in washington, you see prett much momentum toward it, sl compromises and you see theemocrats with plenty ovotes, but aree really going to pa the most major domest reform in a generation when themajority of the ameran people are against it? that's sort of an oddity. and th second thing, as 've seen in these highly reasone wn hall meetings i the cotry,it's pret traditionalleft-right fight. you have repubicans and democratand in the age of obama where we're suppos to se above that, obama has got himself into a pretty traditional partisanattle, the health carversion of the thomasearings or som other very h partisanight. lehrer: is president obama making any inroa in getting ba his support? >> i tnk--. >lehrer: getting it i the first ple? >> i think afer a rough patch, i think he-- they had a pretty good week. i

live in washington, i'm brooke hart.arbara, back to you. >> thank you, brooke. >> a travel alert for metro riders. more delays this weekend. major repair work will be done on the blue and yellow lines. as a result, one track will be shared through the pentagon city metrorail station. the delays kick in sunday night. the good news is that it won't affect the morning or evening rush. work will be done every night starting at 10:00 p.m. this will be the case every week leading up to the labor day weekend. metro's trying to replace the entire rail switch at the pentagon city metrorail station on the blue and yellow lines. riders are being encouraged to add another 45 minutes to their trips. >> 5:39 is the time right now. it is 66 degrees here in washington. >>> a popular social networking site crashes. >> plus, the shocking discovery firefighters encountered when they arrived on scene of a fire at a northern virginia home. >> and the controversial doll that's raising the eyebrows of some parents because of what it does. ññó

brooke, what do you have for us?> lisa, i want to start with pop star chris brown who was sentenced today to five years of probation for assaulting his girlfriend singer, rihanna. brown was arrested in february after that incident that took place in a rented lamborghini. brown reportedly punched and choked rihanna. along with probation, he will have to complete domestic violence counseling. >>> michael jackson's doctor today, coming forward sp dismissing claims made about jackson's last few hours of life. in a statement, dr. murray's lawyers said, quote, much of which was in the search warrant affidavit is factual. however, unfortunately, much is police theory. most egregiously, the time line reported by law enforcement was not obtained through interviews with dr. murray, as was implied by the affidavit. now, the time line dr. murray's lawyer is referring to shows different drugs given to jackson in his final hours. and according to the l.a. county coroner's office, jackson's blood contained a lethal level of the sed

brooks also gets a true for this one. indeed, the congressional budget office came out with a report last week that said that indeed preventive care is more costly. because if you think about it, to find the people who might be prone to heart disease or diabetes, you have to test a lot of people who may not be prone. and so those costs add up and ultimately the collective cost of doing those tests according to cbo and some other studies we looked at actually outweighs the savings from preventing the, from preventing the heart disease or the diabetes. brooks made the point he thinks it's a good idea to do this preventive testing, but it is still, he's right it's more costly. and this is important in the context of president obama's plan because this has been a big point by obama and the democrats that they're going to save money by doing more preventive care. not true. so brooks is right, he gets a true on the truth-o-meter. and somewhat heartening we had a lot of falses and barely trues when i was on the show last week. s

"new york times" columnist david brooks, anchor of cnn's "street signs" erin burnett, and editor of "newsweek" magazine, jon meacham. but first general james jones, welcome back. >> thank you, sir. >> north korea, the two american journalists back home. this was the scene in los angeles on wednesday. former president bill clinton accompanying the two journalists back home. he has since come back east and you have been able to fully debrief him. what can you say you have now learned about north korea and specifically kim jong-il? >> well, i think that, first of all, i want to emphasize this was a private mission, and we can get into that if you'd like, but this was a private mission where -- in which there were no official or unofficial messages sent by this government or by president obama. so, we celebrate the fact that we've had this great reunion and -- but we can say that -- we can also report that the president did -- former president did spend time with the korean leader, that he appeared to be in control of his government and his -- he sounded very -- very reasoned in terms of

and they're still coming. >> lehrer: and to the analysis of brooks and marcus.w york times" columnist david brooks and "washington post" columnist ruth marcus. mark shields is away. david, speaking of afghanistan, public opinion polls in the united states show support for that war is diminishing. that's going on. >> right, politically here at home this is going to be quite a flashpoint issue. right now the majority of democrats think the war is to the worth fighting. the majority of republicans think the war still is worth fighting. but when you get into a political tussle what is going to happen, will you get the left of the democratic party wanting to pull back. you are going to get the right of the republican party not wanting to support barack obama's war and are you going have a left-right coalition against people like jack reid, senator jack reid from rhode island, john mccain, lindsey graham from south carolina, a center group that will support the president. but this will be very tight. and i think unwith of the big flashpoints from the fall. >> lehrer:

do you agree with the assessments we were reading before from david brooks and others that it was the- not the public speaking where he excelled but it was the behind-the-scenes deal making, the committee work. what was different about him? we're so used to equating your skill in front of a microphone with how good of a politician you are. >> absolutely. at least in the last 20 years his colleagues in the senate had come to know him and in the house as someone who was a legislator's legislator. once he quit running for president or there was this sense that he was going to run for president and it was clear that he was making his life and his reputation in the senate, he was taken seriously, more than he had been in the past. >> as was pointed out in that op-ed column there was evidence of some of those skills early on when people thought -- >> absolutely. >> people thought it was a joke but he wasn't a joke. >> just the fact that in 1971 he was willing to not get any public credit for legislation he was jointly working on with the nixon administration. >> nixon cut a tough deal. >> a

brook hart has more. >> after return from camp david president obama called finding scott speicher's remains a reminder of his selfless service. it was 18 years ago on day one of the first gulf war that speicher's navy jet was shot down. then defense secretary dick cheney declared him the war's first fatality. >> as of 0900 this morning washington time there's been a single american aircraft lost. >> but with no proof of speicher's death, no remains, his family has lived with the mystery of what happened. the military says iraqi civilians just last week led marines to the crash site and his buried remains. what about claims speicher had been seen in captivity or his initials scratched in the wall of an iraqi prison cell? >> all of that evidence turned up not to be accurate. >> senator bill nelson of florida said the pentagon should have ordered a search and rescue mission at the time and would now. >> once captain speicher had been declared dead by the secretary of defense and no search and rescue mission sent, then it just got lost in the beaurocracy. >> in florida a wall was erecte