and the madman with broom, madman in his night shirt with a broom, he, too, returns. he thinks to roust the crows from the mulberry boughs by jabing and swirling his broom, by crazily twirling his broom in the wet summer air and hurling curses skyward beyond the boughs and the crows toward the fading gods beyond the fading stars. but the realist crows know it is only a man in a nightshirt after dawn; that the broom is a broom and that his cries are nothing more than words and half words the heavy air will swallow. they rise anyway from the tree, as best to quiet him and let morning be morning. soon enough they will return again by twos and threes, settling among the spreading limbs, their laughter the same before and after. catherine case is the next reader. . >> one is called the mountain by hashim hafik and it's translated by sadi samoi. i have washed the mountain, i have washed the stones and the pebbles that clings to the trees. i have washed the mountain. i have lit the paths and the back ways around the mountain. i have lit the caves and the stairs and the hidou

i broke the broom. >> you broke the broom? why? >> i just told you. >> no reason to break the broom. the whole situation started because you broke the broom. >> i needed to clean up. >> okay, but you could have waited until somebody came back tomorrow. you asked to see me this morning. you could have asked to see me yesterday morning in your cell and told me the same thing that you told me. and even if the broom wasn't working properly, if it was the sorry broom, they gave you the sorriest broom of all, still no reason to break the broom. yes or no? >> a few minutes later, the conversation turns to broadhead's disciplinary record at holman. >> i ain't got but 39 disciplinaries. i did all of them. >> but 39 disciplinary. >> all in all, just another monday morning for a warden who's always walking the line between friend and foe. >>> next on "lockup: raw" -- >> me and another guy was frustrated one morning. >> when the bridge between inmate and officer collapses. >> they had me pinned at that time inside this corner. three of them we

in india a broom is a woman's power. by delivering brooms, we are telling them to clean up their mess. chemical melt down spent 20 tons of gas into their city. they are leading the fight to send justice to their people and the worst fate. mothers carry poisons in their breasts. she accepted the 2004 environmental prize. we are not expendable. we are not flowers offered at the profit and power. we are dancing flames commitmented to darkness and the magic and mystery of life. women have long been slain at the environmental health and justice, from rachel to louis and the family of love canal. to the women of india and around the world fighting to clean up dangerously contaminated community. today more women have more power than ever before, especially more economic power and political power, women can shift the balance of power and change the face of the future. we are the once we have been waiting for as the poet june jordan. if we can bring ourselves to great clarity as to cause and effect. the environment is us, it is o

the young man's mother tellsous scott broom her heartwrenching story. tells our scott broom her heartwrenching story. >> reporter: elizabeth ross telling me her son markel walked nearly 2 miles to school every day simply because he wanted to be on type. while so many other kids here find way -- on time. while so many other kids here find ways to catch rides to school including markel's own two younger brothers elizabeth said sometimes those rides meant markel was late. so he preferred to walk every day in dawn's early light. tuesday morning 10 minutes before 7:00 on old central avenue in capitol heights someone shot and killed him and police don't know why. >> yes, i'm afraid for others. >> reporter: ross said if it was a robbery, the gunman got nothing. >> ipod, phone, watch, tennis shoes, everything was still on his body. >> he had a real nice smile that would brighten everybody's day. >> reporter: fellow students say markel was popular with no known grudges or beefs that would lead to this. police have no motive, which is why today there was fear amo

in frederick county, scott broom, 9news now. >> got to love scott broom. isn't he great? the county commission president ended up voting for the chairs. since the cost is covered by state 911 service fees, they decided it was a good idea and turning away the grant actually would have cost the money instead so that's why they decided on the chairs. >> no brainer. dollars and cents. >>> good morning. you're watching 9news now at 5:00 a.m. i'm jessica doyle in for andrea roane. >>> i'm mike hydeck. welcome. we're glad you're here. thursday's here too. monika samtani has traffic momentarily. howard bernstein, take it away. nothing else to say. >> other than a chilly start, its going to be a fantastic day. one of the better days of the year because we have low humidity and sunshine and temperatures in

i turned to a nearby broom and said, 'cool broom.'" [ laughter ] smooth move, man. >> pretty cool broomhis one's from @kristahollis. she says, "while under the influence of laughing gas at the dentist, i told my mom how much i love marijuana." [ laughter ] this one's from @emailmanwich. she says, "i took a photo of a guy asleep on the subway. my flash went off and woke him up. we rode ten more stops together." [ laughter ] "hey, how is it going? sorry about that. i was just taking a photo of you sleeping." this one from @drjtitus. he said, "i explained to grandma what planking was. guess what happened in the next family photo?" look at this. >> jimmy: here's grandma, right there. [ laughter ] [ imitating grandma ] "i'm planking." >> jimmy: yes. [ imitating grandma ] "i'm planking." >> jimmy: that's pretty funny. this one's from @paultrafka. he says, "after my first kiss, i said, 'that was my first kiss.'" [ laughter ] >> steve: cool broom. [ laughter ] wanna plank? >> jimmy: this one's from @a4dzack13. she says, "i yelled at a waitress for not giving me four tortillas. she then pointed

in beltsville, scott broom, 9news now. >>> neighbors say that the elderly victim is sweet, but she is also tough. and she bit her attacker's hand and blood from that wound. ultimately lead the police to the 56-year-old. >> i'm glad that he has been arrested as she is feeling much better. >> reporter: and she is the neighbor who discovered the 84- year-old alone. crying for help. >> she was down there screaming, like help me, help me. >> the elderly disabled woman had been unable to get up since the attack, at least a day earlier. >> a couple of days she was on the floor as she could not get up. she was just sitting there, all bruised up everywhere. >> reporter: they have taken six months, but police have now arrested him, charging him with assault, robbery, and theft. >> a mix of sun and clouds for most of our areas, but south of the city, the flooding, a combination made for code yellow alert day. we'll check out with topper. >> and also the big thunderstorms across the bay here. in fact, we'll start with that radar as they had another two to five inches of rain today. boom, everythi

we find scott broom on the scene as the investigation goes on and a very sad day in county school. scott. >> reporter: it is indeed. this young man was named marckel ross. he was an honor student. not the kind of person you would expect to be the target of something like this while walking to school. his family and police have not made sense of it. 18-year-old marckel ross, honor roll and r.o.t.c. student, track athlete, and member of a popular fashion modeling club called show time catoure. >> he was a kind person. i want to know why they did it. >> marckel was a good son. he was a good child. >> his family, including mother, said marckel fought bullies after transferring into princegeorges county from anne arundel county in 2009. but that his school life was now stable. >> he's a very bright child. he made honor roll every quarter last year. and we had been talking about him going to college and i told him i also would like to see him go in the reserve. >> multiple calls for 911. >> police say it's early in the investigation. >> at this early stage, we have no motive in this case

our scott broom has been following this story. he joins us now live with more information. scott? >> reporter: hi, jc. we're in the 6100 block of old central avenue where the victim has been identified by police. they say that he was walking to school this morning at about 6:00 here in the 6100 block when he was shot to death. lots of 911 calls came in all at one time. you can see behind me, this is still a very active crime scene. the streets still closed. an entire cadet class of prince george's county budding police officers are out there looking for some kind of evidence because frankly it is a mystery exactly who did this and how it happened. we know a series of 911 calls came in. police came out here and found this young man down on the sidewalk at which point the investigation began. central high school's principal has been out here and told us that this young man who is a well regarded student, a student who was active in a fashion design program at the school, and with great sadness in his heart, the principal of central high school told us he is not a young man who deser

today, her family spoke publicly for the first time and scott broom was with them. >> we learned today here at the prince georges county courthouse that 92-year-old thelma steel loved and trusted the teenage boy across the street. the boy who eventually admitted to murdering her with his pocket knife. thelma steel still independent, vibrant, and loving at age 92 and william roger fitts, here only 15 years old, under arrest for her murder in july of 2011. fitts went on to admit it using her credit cards to buy mock marijuana online and going in and out of her house for four days before her body was discovered. >> my grandmother trusted him. >> her granddaughter said after an earlier break in, she insisted she wanted to stay. >> she indicated to us that she felt completely safe as long as the fitts let her cross the street. >> it was a fatal misjudgment. >> she had pictures of him on her wall. >> they reacted after the adopted son of a family who sent him to a church run boarding school got 60 years. though steel's family wanted life. >> you need some evidence of premeditation and we jus

scott broom was there. >> reporter: they turned out by the hundreds. the word spread on facebook and twitter starting late yesterday. >> it's very important for our country. >> it's just tragedy what has happened. the thing was he was doing it for us. >> reporter: a spontaneous show of support for a man most had never met. >> it's sad that we have to come to things like this. >> reporter: 28-year-old special warfare officer first class patrick feeks, an elite navy seal, was killed august 16th when the helicopter he was on crashed during a fight in kandahar, afghanistan. his lifetime goal was to become a seal. he was highly decorated and had been on two previous tours in iraq. he leaves behind a wife and parents from his hometown in edgewater. at 9:45 the motorcade escorting his body appeared on the horizon. people crowded close to the curb to see lently watch it pass. it went on like -- to see lently watch it pass. it went on like -- to silently watch it pass. it went on like this for two hours including black trained fire trucks, a patriot guard of bi

scott broom takes a seat at the table for the debate. >> reporter: okay.ping on the job to dramatize this. a work chair with erg nomic everything. wheels to carry 400 pounds. even an air pump to adjust the lumbar. priced at 1 $1,200 each. that's chip jewel, the director of emergency communications in frederick county. and, no, there is no one sleeping on the job here at the 911 call center. but there has been some second-guessing about the chairs. here is frederick county commission president blaine young. >> my butt sits in a used chair from a used furniture company. the average person you stop on the seat and say the county just bought a $1,200 chair for a 911 center. how much did it cost before. >> i sit there 12 hours a day, a stressful environment. >> reporter: they'll be getting 12 chairs. >> a normal office chair in this environment would probably only last a year and we spend $400. so in four years, we have to spend $1,600 for a chair that we can spend $1,200 for. now only will it last four or five years, it will last. >> reporter: do you like it?

. >> reporter: alicia is a leader a new group called jump the broom for marriages aiming at african american community. >> it's a unhealthy lifestyle for our can children, it's just not right. >> reporter: the president announced his support earlier this year. >> it's important for me to go head and affirm that i think same sex coupleless should be able to marry. . >> reporter: weeks later the naacp followed. >> we have always stood against laws that demean, or discriminate against person in this great country. >> reporter: it doesn't sway the jump the broom members. >> we support the president, we support him. we just don't agree with his views on same sex marriage. >> reporter: one of the mailers they are using shows the words my mommy is my daddy, my daddy is my mommy so who is my aunt? >> most are offended. they their morals, core values are the same as who we represent. >> reporter: that group is focusing its message on avenue ken american communities mainly in baltimore city and county. abc 2news. >> thank you. take a live look at baltimore. you have the orioles fans, still milling aro

. >> reporter: i'm scott broom at central high school in prince george's county. coming up a heartwrenching remembrance this afternoon for the 18-year-old honor student who was shot to death while walking to school earlier this week and an update on the case. >>> students at central high school in prince george's county have just finished an emotional tribute this afternoon to marckel ross, the honor role student who was shot to death walking to school tuesday morning and scott broom is at central with an update on the case. >> reporter: this case is so shocking because marckel ross is simply not the kind of kid you would associate with any sort of trouble. this afternoon hundreds of people came out to remember him. >> the balloons represent the whole family. >> reporter: hundreds of central high school students. >> there's a whole lot of people that love him. >> reporter: circle around the large extended family of 18- year-old murder victim marckel ross, a circle of protection and grief and a celebration of his short life. >> one, two, three. >> reporter: what do

sunscreen, light jacket maybe broom definitely.two to six degrees warmer tomorrow into saturday significantly cooler sunday. >>> good morning. live shot from our vollmer camera highway 24 snaking west look at the sky sort of dominating, absolutely gorgeous. bumper-to-bumper through lafayette and orinda on to the caldecott tunnel moving just a bit sluggish. 280 san jose northbound past highway 17 coming out of santa cruz mountains, traffic flowing nicely no delays towards cupertino. >> san mateo bridge a little slow as you head westbound towards the highrise up to foster city eastbound moving at the limit. in calistoga, big grape spill on highway 29 at old lolly toll, chp asking to you avoid the area if possible. mosconey center, big convention howard street closed the rest of week between third and fourth a lot of traffic expect delays. >>> experienced that firsthand yesterday. >>> 6:20. >>> ahead, new magazine publishing topless foe kate middleton. >>> message from robin roberts to gma viewers as she >>> good morning. topless foe

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>> i don't like using the broom that everybody uses.hen i'm bringing their funk in my cell. >> when do you think we're doing spring cleaning? >> it's not going to be today. i'm already cleaning the floor. >> i was just asking. >> i will make time for it this weekend. >> sunday just plan on sunday. >> cell mates for a year these two might have different priorities but they share the stigma of having separately committed unthinkable crimes. >> from day one i've known that the things that i've done even among criminals was way, way off it, you know the end of the deep end. i was younger, i was a very, very bad person. something was broken. and i just -- i didn't think like other kids my age did. >> trowbridge was high on inhalents and his victim was a 69-year-old female neighbor working in the backyard of her trailer home. >> i see that her front door is open and me being the person that i was that clicked. okay. go get some money. and that was my intent when i went up in there. and she came in and she actually scared me when she came in b

. >> i don't like using the same broom that everybody else uses. because then i'm just bringing their funk in my cell. >> two cell mates share deeply disturbing charges. >> i was younger, i was a very, very bad person. something was broken. >> i ended up buying a chain saw and cutting her corpse into about 15 different pieces. >>> one victim's mother still lives the nightmare. >> i go by the dumpster and i wonder if that is one of my daughter's last resting places. ♪ lockup lock up everybody locked up ♪ >>> plucked from death row an inmate tries to make a difference. ♪ amazing grace >> at the end of the day life is about choices. all of this stuff is an illusion. ♪ like me >>> indiana's wabash valley correctional facility houses nearly 2,200 inmates. more than one-third of them are doing time for serious violent crimes. unless isolated in solitary confinement, the vast majority of inmates live in two-man cells. pairings are critical and avoiding a volatile mix of cell mates is a constant challenge. >> we try to not put people that's doing life with

rockies and giants daytime take brooms, sunglasses and sunscreen, 6212:45 down to -- 62 at 12:45.y cooler air from canada temperature drop two to eight degrees sunday moderating temperatures next week. good luck tomorrow morning. >> you gotta listen to this next story. >> turn out that popnator that automatic popcorn device that has taken the internet by storm is a hoax. >> the popnator is a fully automated voice-activated popcorn launching machine that is triggered by the word pop. >> but that is not the case. it is a marketing campaign for a popcorn company. the co-founders deemed up a gadget which fires popcorn by remote control. catching the kernels required repeated takes for the video even this morning still a lot of news reporting it as real. they succeeded in their stunt. >> they did. >> at least we clarified that. >>> what could be the ride of your life. >> batman come to the bay party in a live performance. don sanchez has that and more in what's hot. >>> today we have a very important show for you that i hope you will watch, yardley was a senior at the university of vir

see this broom? okay. whe the center of gravity of the broom? how many can see where the center of gravity is? is it in about here? all right, center of gravity right there? you see that? okay. here's what i'm gonna do, gang. right through the center of gravity. i got a question for you. if i put this in the bathroom scale, which weighs more, this or this? or the same? think about that. if you know the answer to that, you know the difference between torque and weight. think about that. catch you next time. yay. [music] you are bonkers 'cause iron doesn't float. people make boats out of wood. well, here's this clay, and it has the same weight. watch this. oh, yuck. [laughter] yucko. yeah, we got it now, gang. isn't that nice? now it's being held up by what? your fingers. my fingers. you get the idea. ncentration of force is pressure. so let's talk about that, gang. pressure, definition. screwed up. i don't wanna talk about pressure. i wanna talk about density first. you guys, can you come in on wednesday? [laughter] how do wfind the center of gra

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this giants fan expecting a sweep but no brooms allowed. buster posey scores, tied at 2. ryan vogelsong has been struggling. opposing pitcher patrick co-bin rips one down the line with bases loaded. not loaded even. a triple and four rbis of the day. he's the pitcher! 3-1/3 innings, vogelsong walked four, struck out six in the sixth, gentleman upton, just inside the fall pole. d-backs avoid the sweep, 10-2. >> a's and orioles. the spider-man played the drums. a's jump out early. reddick with the two-run shot gave the a's the lead. then in the fourth, weiter jumps on the first pitch. see ya. o's on top. six inning, matusz, strikes out drew. 1227 strikeouts this seen. drew was so mad with the record he came back with a two-run home run. orals prevent a sweep with the 9-5 victory and cut the lead in the wild card to two. >> seems like every week we have a dominant player on the lpga. it was 36-hole day due to inclement weather, ending with this beautiful sunset front. from the beach on 16. makes the standing birdie. then on 18. taps in win her second british open title. the

female announcer ] the 2-in-1 swiffer sweeper uses electrostatic dry cloths to clean better than a broommopping cloths can clean better than a mop in half the time so you don't miss a thing. mom, have you seen my -- hey! hey! he did it. [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. >>> from bland chick ton stale pastries. it's probably fair to say airline food earned its status as comediecomedy's most consist punch line. while inflight fare can be disappointing. some meals so bad, they make you feel twice before lowering that tray table. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: when you're running the modern travel gauntlet, hurried and grobed in the name of national security, the ultimate insult is edible or not. served up hot, if you're lucky, in a foil container in a plastic tray. looking probably tasty, like toxic sludge. >> what is that green stuff? >> that looks disgusting. that looks worse than gatorade. >> today we sat down with cat o'dell, editor of eater l.a., to check out the website airline meals.net. 26,000 photos taken by passengers on 600

the giants fan excepting a sweep but no brooms were found. fourth inning, belt off the glove of goldschmidt. buster posey scores. ryan vogelsong, struggling. a five-run fourth did him in. opposing pitcher patrick co-bin, rips one down the line. a triple and four rbi on the day. in the sixth, justin upton crushes this one off clay hensley. he added three rbi. d-backs avoid the sweep. >>> a's and orioles, this man with his ringo starr impression. thes in the fourth. mike wieters jump on the first pitch. see ya. weiter's second of the game. o's on top in the sixth. drew is struck out. the most strikeouts in the giants season over 2700. orioles prevent a sweep with the 9-5 victory and cut the lead of in in the wild card to two games. >> every two woaks having a new dominant player on the lpga. this month, j.a. shin. the 36-hole day due to inclement weather, ending with the beautiful sunset. j.a. took it up another notch. makes the birdie. then on 18. taps in to win her second british open championship. the only player under par set the british op

female announcer ] the 2-in-1 swiffer sweeper uses electrostatic dry cloths to clean better than a broommopping cloths can clean better than a mop in half the time so you don't miss a thing. mom, have you seen my -- hey! hey! he did it. [ female announcer ] swiffer. better clean in half the time. or your money back. but it isn't always easy to find better cleaone...alf the time. anncr: a good job. it's the key to a good life. a vote for question seven is a vote for maryland jobs. two thousand construction jobs to build a new resort casino. four thousand permanent jobs, paying... on average fifty five thousand a year. six thousand jobs from increased tourism... and table games like blackjack and poker. add it up: it's twelve thousand new maryland jobs. but to build it you have to vote for it. vote for question seven. and get maryland back to work. i've got two tickets to paradise!l set? pack your bags, we'll leave tonight. uhh, it's next month, actually... eddie continues singing: to tickets to... paradiiiiiise! no four. remember? whoooa whooaa whooo! you know ronny, folks who save hundre

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scott broom reports on what this means for riders. >> reporter: on manual train controls, riders have grown used to sometimes herky-jerky starts and stops on the metro system. >> it's getting to be a headache. >> reporter: but in a sign of progress, the national transportation safety board has checked off a major item on metro's list as it continues to recover from tragedy. the core electronics that make up metro's train detection system are now fixed according to the n.t.s.b. it was the failure of that system to detect a train ahead at fort totten that caused the rear end collision on the red line that killed nine and shocked ntsb's investigators at how poorly the system was maintained, monitored and run. the metro general manager richard sarles is now in charge. >> it's good news because we have a significant step toward automatic train operation again and it's a significant improvement in the safety of this system. >> it makes me feel safer. >> reporter: some riders consider this good news. others are skeptics. >> as much as they charge us and as many times as they give us a rate i

got bored from neglect or worn out by time, for it's as long as a giraffe and as meaningly as a dust broom and it provides no shade for lovers. a small boy says, i

reporting live with metro riders at greenbelt station, scott broom, 9 news now. >> but when you combine it all, scott, they are halfway toward reaching all those check points that the ntsb rolled out for them. thanks. >>> d.c. police are investigating a deadly shooting that is in northeast. homicide detectives found an unidentified man with a fatal head wound this afternoon. that victim was found in a house in the 5100 block of seventh street northeast about 1/2-mile from the ft. totten metro station, no word yet on a possible suspect or motive. >>> remembering a reluctant american hero, thousands turning out for neil armstrong's memorial service this morning at the national cathedral and kristin fisher was at the ceremony and has more on the first man on the moon's final splashdown. ♪fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars ♪ >> how does one adequately express his feelings about a special friend when that friend is also a world icon, a national hero of unimaginable proportions? >> reporter: the last man on the moon pays tribute to the first man on the moon, neil armstrong. >>

did you hear about the elephants who blamed the guys following them with the brooms? the republicans say, we left you with a real mess. you're just not cleaning it up the right way. they go further. they constantly suggest obama is not quite eligible to be president. that's certainly working. 37% of ohio republicans now voters don't believe the president was born here in the usa usa. and now that's what i call an effective campaign, don't you? and ohio matters. republicans can't win without it. imagine if democrats played this rough. imagine if they blamed the republicans for a failure of national security on 9/11. does anyone doubt that if democrats had the attacks occu

now we'll send it up to scott broom. he has been in frederick all day. technically, you're under a river flood warning until 11:45 tonight. what's going on? >> well, i'm right near the river, but it's not the river. it's the down tree here on route 355. you can see right here, these are communication lines. since i talked to you last, the verison guys have started to take this tree out. we are lookg forward to get it cleaned up and get route 355 back open. after a day that roughed us up in frederick county. >> from flash flooding in the city of frederick to a serious car accident in durwood, the weather roughed up the region all afternoon. hot wires down created a dangerous situation on chapel road in brookville. volunteers stood guard. pepco reports $15,000 without power. heavy downpours in gaithersburg made driving dangerous at times. it was slippery roads that may have contributed to that serious two-car accident that injured at least two people at shady grove. the rain also caused flash flooding incident. this is west patrick street. flood waters tha

scott broom takes a seat at the table of the debate. okay, so i am faking sleeping on the job. a work chair with ergonomic everything. wheels to carry 400 pounds. even an air pump to adjust the lumbar. price tag, $1,200 each. that's chip jewel, the director of emergency communications in frederick county, and no, there is no one sleeping on the job here at the 911 call center. but there has been some second guessing about the chairs. here's frederick county commission president, blaine young. >> my butt sits in a used chair from a used furniture company. the average person, you say hey, can i borrow that $1200 chair? how much did that chair cost twenty years ago? >> a stressful environment. >> jewels department will be getting 24 of the chairs for just under $30,000. >> whatever we buy is used four times more than a home office. a normal office chair in this environment would probably only last a year. now we spent $400. so in four years, we have to spend $1600 for a chair that we could spend $1200 for. not only will it last four to five year, but it's built for the environment

in capital heights, scott broom, 9news now. >> the five men convicted in one of the worst shooting sprees in d.c. history are heading off to prison and for a very long time. today, a judge sentenced all the men to stay behind bars. got life without the possibility of patrol. sanquan carter got 54 years. lemar williams 30 years. the families of the victims, those sentences provided little relief. >>> my heart is still broke, still shattered. i cry every day. >> to know these guys will never be on the street again are satisfactory. >> it doesn't change my daughter, a lot of people are dead and injured and you know, the amount of years is not going to change that. >> those five men were convicted of the crime back in may. the shooting actually happened in march of 2010 and total of five people were killed and eight more were wounded. flags are flying at half staff today. marking the 11th anniversary of the day hijacked planes hit the world trade center, the pentagon, and a field in pennsylvania. that unforgettable date is now associated with unforgettable traditions observing the loss. emily

got bored from neglect or worn out by time, for it's as long as a giraffe and as meaningly as a dust broom and it provides no shade for lovers. a small boy says, i used to draw it without air. its lines were easy to follow. and a girl says the sky today is lacking because the cypress is in pieces. and a young man says, no, the sky today is complete because the cypress is in pieces.

scott broom is live in capitol heights with the latest developments in this case. scott. >> reporter: well, talking to markel's family today it just brought home the stunning enormity of this loss and his mother elizabeth told me this story today. >> had he didn't give my child a -- they didn't give my child a chance to have his own life. >> reporter: elizabeth ross telling me her son an honor role athlete walked 2 miles to school every day simply because he wanted to be on time. while so many other kids here find ways to catch rides to school including markel's own two younger brothers, elizabeth said sometimes those rides meant markel was late, so he preferred to walk every day in dawn's early light. tuesday morning 10 minute before 7:00 on old central avenue and capitol heights someone shot and killed him and police don't know why. >> yes, i'm afraid for others. >> reporter: ross said if it was a robbery, the gunman got nothing. >> a watch, tennis shoes, everything was still on his body. >> he had a real nice smile that would brighten everybody's day. >> reporte

. >> i'm scott broom in virginia which was closed off to swimming today after a rabid beaver attacked an 83-year-old woman who was swimming yesterday. here are photos of the rabid beaver taken by neighbors after it was killed by a pair of fishermen who helped rescue the victim and call for help. an 83-year-old woman swimming here was attacked by the beaver which witnesses said continued biting and clinging to her as she battled to get to shore. >> i think it's very strange. >> residents are shocked. >> it is northern virginia, you wouldn't think you would be attacked. >> i'm surprised they are that aggressive. >> the victim was treated at a hospital for nonlife threatening injuries. at lake barcroft, virginia, 9news now. >> a beaver attack is not what you are expecting. >> you can't go anywhere now. >> a buddy was fishing one day and one came up, he was in the middle of nowhere. they are kind of scary little things. their teeth are like that and raiser sharp. >>> we are looking at a tropical air mass for today and tomorrow. we're going to finish the week with essentially the remnants

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got bored from neglect or worn out by time, for it's as long as a giraffe and as meaningly as a dust broom and it provides no shade for lovers. a small boy says, i used to draw it without air. its lines were easy to follow. and a girl says the sky today is lacking because the cypress is in pieces. and a young man says, no, the sky today is complete because the cypress is in pieces. and i say to myself, it's not obscure or clear. the cypress is in pieces. there is only this. the cypress is in pieces. . >> a poem i wrote shortly after 9-11. the terrorists for rachel cory and all those who were idealists and who actually believed that they could make an effect and social change. the terrorists who lives amongst us is not you, the terrorist who lurks in