bruce, back to you. >> thanks a lot. we should point out senator kennedy was more than just a national politician. he lived in washington for nearly four decades. kim, what kind of weather can we expect? >> a little touch and go. let's start with the regional radaeylor . we have a front that is passing through the area and it is starting to kick off a couple scattered shows loand rs des. i have been tracking them. let's zoom in on the ones closest to the beltway. just straddling the fairfax coun l theyreif ngtislowly to the east at 15 miles an ngur it ismoving towards reissten t g righonalthe pike. 'sth re watth he ings'sare goin be ir i'd say ha hour. thesare pretty slow movers. another spot that caught my eye iisthe laer cluster of storms. back to frederickurevg an anen neer and our last opne is going to ke us up to frederick county, maryland. up here we have one more little batch straddling an0 27d this will be keeping anu 0 mpcompr the next 15 or 20 minute on . e urbana side of urbana. the numbers coming in, it till

>> well, first of all i see it with me selling bruce a car, i never want to miss a sale, so bruce, comeout to portland. i think everybody will be happy. this is successful, you're going to jump start the economy. anything that can jump start our economy is good, it gives people hope and vision and we're starting to hear positive things in the media. i think it will keep plants going and, most importantly, it's going to keep jobs. this year alone, 400 general motors dealers closed just because of market conditions between january and march before the bankruptcy and those are lost jobs. so anything that can keep dealerships open, keep plants going, there's a win for our country. >> woodruff: ed tonkin, bruce belzowski, i'm glad at least we put the two of you together when it comes to a car. thank you very much. >> so am i, thank you, judy. thank you, bruce. >> thanks, judy. >> woodruff: finally tonight, a new weapon in the fight against ivory smuggling. our story comes from julian rush, science correspondent for independent television news. >> reporter: selling ivory isn't illegal as long

bruce was an agent of change. when he started talking about using the federal racketeer and influence and corrupt organizations. conventional wisdom was you can't do that. bruce is the one the first button in this case. well, bruce and his wisdom showed a movie called zulu. if any of you have seen that movie, 1964 michael cane made an appearance. in the that year, between 4,000 and 5,000 warriors of the zulu nation dissends on a drift or a river crossing. in this case, the buffalo river. they wanted to wipe out about 100 british soldiers. they just defeated in a field the british army in which they found the soldiers. it's one of the best examples of small infantry attacking against a superior force. they held off 4 or 5,000 war warriors and basically defeated him. he showed that movie once to his team of investigators. we can do this, guys. what does it mean to you? you know what? here's what i think. the call -- call veer reis not coming up over the hill. you my friends are on that line. thank you. for more info

for the bruce show that's the highest price ticket because the entire floor is general admission.o the true fan can get a ga seat if they're early and we've their way up front. they think they will run around 35 to 100 bucks, and i believe they go on sale september the 2 f 26th. november 20th is the show. >> pretty good. >> well done, buddy. >> all right. we will see you tomorrow. >> not only by you but by a hardworking staff. it took 36 years, case closed. >> good deal. >> see you later, man. >> out of sight. >> all right. stay with us, we will be right back. >>> now first weather complete forecast and the first warning of severe weather. >> take a talk about the forecast of the day, it is very still this morn, warm, humid. temperatures in the low 70s. look at the outlook, a high temperature of around 92, partly cloudy, 7 o overnight, tomorrow into the low 90s. >> all right. thank you. still to come on the morning edition. >>> when i -- >> we will have more about the inner harbor with mayor sheila dixon there and talk windshield tourists hoping to keep them safe. >> good morning.

host: bruce vladeck.: well, i think from the 1990's through the middle of the decade wanted to buy it to benefit the insurance industry and to promote the privatization of medicare in and of itself because once you've given it, it's difficult to take them away. i think the administration and democrats in washington would argue that the reason the benefits will be taken away is not because they're reducing the payments . they are single payer government plan. and if they can't, the notion that all medicare beneficiaries should pay higher benefits is sort of hard to justify i think. host: now, we went a little longer in our conversation than normal this morning because we have these two gentlemen here. tom scully and bruce vladeck. kathy, your first question. go ahead with your question. caller: thank you, and i appreciate c-span for having this on. this is crucial to medical companies. last night i caught your show at about 4:30 in the morning as a rerun. and mr. vladeck and there was mary agnes carey from

host: bruce vladeck?uest: a basic problem in american politics, the political scientist talk about this and have for years -- if you're the average taxpayer or member of congress, medicare's overpayment for oxygen which is egregious but it may cost you an extra $5 or $10 per year out of pocket as a taxpayer, for the oxygen suppliers it is their entire livelihood. whenever the issue comes up before congress the people who benefit from government payments are much more involved in vocal than the average citizen who has lots of other things to worry about and for whom it is a relatively small piece of a big puzzle. i used to say that medicare spent so much for oxygen and $1 billion went to provide for this, and someone to lobbying, and so on. host: here is a message from twitter. could you both talk about medicare and whether or not it leads to inefficiencies in the health care system? guest: we have had as a matter of policy and still do, including in president obama's proposals and bills that passed the ho

it could deprive reform supporters of a critical vote, but bruce leshan is on capitol hill where some people are saying this will perhaps give it increased momentum. bruce. >> it is possible, a vase of white roses marked kennedy's desk here at the senate and there is already a move of foot to rename those health reform bills in his honor. >> i told myself i would get better. >> abby is one of the people ted kennedy always fought for. hired o ut of college at her dream job in new york, she was two months shy of earning health insurance when she was diagnosed with an ovarian tumor. >> okay, fast forward. surgery is done and i'm healthy and i have a bill for $12,000 that i can't afford. my parents had to refinance their home to help me pay off my debt. >> maryland's chris is one of the democratic leaders of the effort to pass health reform. >> i believe that if kennedy were in the senate today and really able to work it and been able to work it for these many weeks, we would have seen more progress in the senate. >> reporter: the controversy over the healthcare overhaul was rockous at a

but bruce leshan is live on capitol hill where a lot of people are saying, bruce, with his passing the senator may have given that effort some new momentum, right? >> you know, there is already a move of foot to rename the healthcare bills in senator kennedy's honor and you could look for growing pressure on any waiverring legislators to pass health reform as a kind of enduring legacy for the third longest serving member of the u.s. senate. a town hall meeting tuesday night in resten -- >> these folks are not from the eighth district. they don't belong here. >> reporter: senator kennedy has been too ill to participate in much of the debate over what he once called the cause of his life. health reform supporters wonder if his talks might have made the difference. >> his son patrick told me, that's all he could talk about was the healthcare bill. >> ted was born to a life of advantage, but he spent his life bettering the lives of the disadvantaged. >> i didn't have health insurance. >> people like abby working her dream job in new york, but two months shy of earning health insurance when

well, first of all i see it with me selling bruce a car, i nevewant to miss aale, so bruce, come outto portlan i think everybody wi be happy. this isuccessful, you're going to jump start e economy. anything that n jump star our economy is good, it gis people hope andision and we're starting to hear positive things in the media i think it willeep plants gog and, most importantly, it's going to keepobs. this yearlone, 400 general motors dealers osedust because of market conditions between january and march before the nkruptcy and those are lost jobs. so anytng that cankeep dealerships open keep plant goin there's a win for our couny. >> woodruff:d tonkin, bruce belzowski,i'm glad at leas we put the two of you together when it comes to a car. thank you very much >>o am i,hank you, judy. thank you, bruce. >> thas, judy. >> odruff: finally tonight, a new weapon in the fit against ivory uggling. our sty comes from julian rush, science correspondenfor independent televion news. >> repoer: selling ivory isn't illegal as long as it mes from an elepht that died before 1947. uil now, that's bee

show will sell out. >> i would put bruce at the top in terms of demand for ticketing. for shows, you know. he's got the most fans. he's been doing it the longest. he's here in the east coast where he's everyone more beloved. >> basically i start out trying to tell a good story. one that will hold interest. >> reporter: the stories promoters are taking a bet on our past baltimore shows featuring icons. >> we came to baltimore and sold out in 15 minutes. fasters sell out in history. and they're going to be treated as royalty. in other venues they come all the time, it is what it is. it's not a big deal. for us, you're talking about the king of rock & roll basically. >> wjz eyewitness news. >>> and the shows are on november 20th. tickets go on sale september 3rd. >>> chick fillet. a doosey of a mistake the manager says he made with a nursing mother. >>> a charge of police brutality where a man claims police officers battered him without cause. >>> an uproar over a federal safety report suggesting an air traffic controller could have prevented a midair collision over the h

bruce?ll us about how the strategy is going. >> well, actually i'm going to bring us back from the arena of militarytrategy to the elections which is why we convened you to hear today. of course, i face the significant difficulty in that we don't have any results. is has to be the most agonizing election in recent history where we have a election and now fully a week later we can't ally tell you what's going on. and i think that the predictions that we're hearing from president karzai and his supporters of overwhelming victory should be put into the same category that any politician after election says, i've won an orwhelming victory. when you see a politicn who says, yes, i got beaten at the polls tt's one you can believe, one who says they've won before the votes are counted shouldn't be taken too seriously. what i would like to do is talk a little bit about the election in general terms, then give you some basis for tnking about the results as you come -- as they come in, based on previou

bruce is right. this is a synchronized global recovery, but it's all stimulus-induc stimulus-induced. a lot of stimulus out of china, europe, monetary policy unprecedented. a lot of it is almost -- almost all of it is stimulus related. so if the stimulus begins to fade early next year, and it will, then we may need to see more. >> that's why the profits numbers are so important, gentlemen. i mean, because profits are really important for stimulus. if you see a carry-over in profits, then i think the risks of a double dip or whatever are really minimal. >> yeah, but the question is, why are profits improving? and so far it's all been cost cutting, so we have to see improved sales. >> creative destruction. free market capitalism. self correction inside the market. these are great principles. we're correcting, we're moving towards recovery. >> okay. mark and bruce, thanks very much for your time today. coming up next, investing in high hj risk stocks and what the run up means moving forward. >> plus, mo

. >>> i'm bruce johnson. thanks for joining us this sunday. new staffing plan leaving some prince george's county firehouses empty. one vacant firehouse located in capital heights. just across prince george's county line dave statter is there with the impact of the new plan. dave. >> reporter: bruce, this firehouse behind me is full of fire trucks, two engines and ambulance. they have missed three ambulance calls and an engine company called because there are no firefighters on duty. they will pull out permanently as of today and there are no volunteers available. this is not the only police impacted. the firehouse on riggs road no longer has fire engines and only has a medic unit which will respond in that area. they beefed up a neighbouring firehouse. that's about a mile away. but back in the capitol heights area they have called for more volunteers. they only have 16 volunteers and the chief of the department and mayor here says those volunteer can't handle all the calls. they want more people to volunteer an -- and they are trying to get t

bruce johnson makes a few appearances in the documentary as well. and he caught up with marion barry today. >> i live in the district. dig it? i work in this area district, dig it? >> reporter: marion barry seems determined to rewrite the storys that follow him as a second term mayor. >> there's more to marion barry, a lot more to him than what is often reported in the press. >> reporter: economic development, summer jobs program, a share of the city's contract to women and minorities, barry wants all of that included in the story. it's there in the nine lives of marion barry. they are doing development in the neighborhood. health care. >> reporter: barry admits in the documentary that he snorted cocaine outside the now infamous incident outside the vista hotel. >> he never did crack before that. i didn't know what that was in there. i used drugs before 1990. cocaine. i know other politicians use drugs. >> reporter: he'sed a ma can't that federal prosecutors looking for white-collar crime settled for his recreational drug use. they spent $25 million

let's start with bruce vladeck. guest: there's no payments at all to insurance agents or brokers because the government takes care of all the expenses associated with that. i'm sorry as well to learn that south carolina, unlike most other states, permits medical underwriting for medigap supplemental policies and excessive age manning. i think the underline problem is that, again, $11,000 a year is a lot of money. it only accounts for about half the total health care costs of people 65 and older. so we have this dilemma in the medicare program that's most fundamental that we don't think we can afford its growth at the current levels when in fact the benefits have major, major holes in them. and the real long-term challenge of medicare reform, which is not being addressed at all this year i think in the health reform is that as the population gets older and as older people get less affluent, which is the result of the economic development in the last decade they are going to be, medicare does a very good job of paying

i'm bruce cunningham.seemingly headed toward yet another last place finish in the american league east orioles not in contention so they are sending the biggest bat to a team that has post season aspiration. late this afternoon the birds traded this guy huff to the detroit tigers in exchange they get 22-year-old right hander jacobson with a 1 and 3 record with a 3.7 fore earned run average and 35 games this season s.huff in the final day of 3 year contract he signed prior to 2007 and figure to depart one way or the other after the season. biggest year in 2008 when he hit 30 4 with 32 home runs and 108 rbi. he was named orioles most valuable player after that season. this year he's at 2 53 with 13 home runs and 72 rbi. meanwhile the ravens don't play again until a week from tonight when they host ryan and the jets and rex made sure today that they will be plenty of interest going in. speaking with reporters at training camp, ryan was praising the raven defensive unit that he helped construct and was praisin

sorry bruce. that's slipped out. but that's disappointing.to see a rookie with that jersey. >> baseball seemingly headed to another last place finish in the american league east. o's are not in contention so sending the big bat to the team that has post season aspiration. this season, birds traded huff to the detroit tigers. in exchange they get 22-year-old right hander brett jacob on son with one and three record. huff is in the final days of a three year contract he signed in 2007. and figured to depart one way or the other. after the season. biggest year was 2008 when he hit 304 with 32 home runs, and 108 rbi. he was named most valuable oriole that such season. this year, 253, 13 home runs, 72 rbi. he says he is really going to miss baltimore. >> definitely emotional seeing the young guys come up and i have had a great time with the young guys. and to be able to see them, finish out the year and grow. it is hard. but at the same time for me, it is really exciting to go to a team that is in contention. and for me my whole career i have been

wanda bruce knows about the reason because she is a female boxing promoter. and you have an awesome event coming up this weekend. >> yes. it's an all female amateur show featuring 15 bouts. we are getting ready for the 2012 olympics. hopefully they'll vote yes for women to be able to fight. >> reporter: what did you have to overcome to be legit in the olympics? >> well i think the biggest on stock -- obstacle is men. >> reporter: those men. >> not wanting to put girls on the shows. this is the one reason why we're having these all female shows. hopefully they will say yes. i'm pretty sure they will. a lot of people want it. so what we're doing is just having a place so that the girls can get ring experience, so they will be prepared. >> reporter: so tell me about

security expert bruce schneier says no; he says much of it is just "security theater." >> bruce schneier: security theater. it's a phrase i coined for security measures that look good, but don't actually do anything. >> stahl: schneier, who's been an adviser to t.s.a., but also its most persistent thorn-in- the-side, says there are too many silly rules. >> you have a little bag with liquids. >> stahl: take the baggies, which became a rule in 2006 when british authorities uncovered a plot to bring liquid bombs on board airliners headed for the u.s. schneier says the liquid limits may make us feel safe, but do little to stop terrorists. >> schneier: if you try to bring a bottle of liquid onto an airplane, a screener's going to a see it, look at it, say, "oh, look, it's a bottle of liquid." toss it over her shoulder into a trash can. >> stahl: they... they don't test it. >> schneier: of course not. no, and they don't even... they're not even scared of it. they put it in a... a trash can right next to them. that's where it stays all day. all right, let's say i want to smuggle a liquid on an

host: bruce vladeck.to buy it to benefit the insurance industry and to promote the privatization of medicare in and of itself because once you've given it, it's difficult to take them away. i think the administration and democrats in washington would argue that the reason the benefits will be taken away is not because they're reducing the payments . they are single payer government plan. and if they can't, the notion that all medicare beneficiaries should pay higher benefits is sort of hard to justify i think. host: now, we went a little longer in our conversation than normal this morning because we have these two gentlemen here. tom scully and bruce vladeck. kathy, your first question. go ahead with your question. caller: thank you, and i appreciate c-span for having this on. this is crucial to medical companies. last night i caught your show at about 4:30 in the morning as a rerun. and mr. vladeck and there was mary agnes carey from the health news. they are very misinformed about what's going on in the

bruce? >> thank you. >>> there's one day left to take advantage of the back-to- school holiday in virginia. taxpayers are exempt from taxes. this applies to clothing and shoes priced up to $100. virginia sales tax holiday ends tomorrow. maryland and the district cancelled their back-to-school holidays this year because of budget restraints. >>> today, thousands of red skins fan showed up for fan appreciation day out. dave's out there. how did it go? >> reporter: last year the red skins led the league by a wide margin in attendance. even on a regular training day, fans are out here by the thousands. it shouldn't come as much of a surprise that the park was packed. red nations clearly took ahold. >> chris cooley! >> reporter: fans made it clear who they came to see. >> portis and orakpo. >> go, redskins! >> reporter: we found a if you not afraid to support -- a few not afraid to support their members. this is where people are typically during training camp, a few rows back. they are not just h

bruce smith goes down as one of the greatest pass rushers to ever live. smith racked up a record 200 sacks in 19 seasons. >>> in tennis, three time champ andy roddick advanced to today's legg mason finals by defeating john isner in straight sets last night. >>> that's your sports minute. i'm hakem dermish. have a great day. >> next up, "reporter's notebook," an inside look at the stories affting your community. we'll be back in 15 minutesat o stories, but for now here's jim eyhanly'.ha >> good morning and welcome to "reporter's notebook." i'm jim hanley. we have a lot to talk about today. let's start in virginia where we've got a gubernatorial race that is heating up. the president appearing for creigh deeds, the democrat. is this going to help or hurt his candidacy, do you think? >> the interesting thing is obama has helped democrats in virginia. he's a -- he's popular. still remains popular but it's his programs that are causing his ratings to go down. they're affecting the candidates apparently in virginia. the health care costs are bothering a lot of

bruce smith did some things that very few guys can do. he's a big man who can get on the edge, and run on his inside half. you'll see him just cutting off the outside edge and getting the corner. those are things that are just inate. you either have them or don't. he obviously had them for a long time. and piled up the sacks. like i said, he leaves them all. >> he certainly did. he wrecked a lot of on februarysive coordinators plans with that lean in move right there. >> rod woodson wrecked their plans as a safety late in his career. >> you're talking about a guy 17 year career. 71 interceptions. all around athlete. he played corner, he played safety. if you're building a corner, this is the guy that you want to build it on. this guy right here. the way he played. his style, he could cover, return punts, kicks. he was a complete player. >> came back from a knee injury to make it to super bowl 30 that the steelers lost to the cowboys. then he went on to win the super bowl with the ravens a few years later. bullet bob hayes, a guy you idoli

bruce reed currently president of the domestic -- democratic leadership council, famously served al gore as chief speechwriter when gore was in the senate from 1985 to 1989. became a part of the clinton/gore campaign in 1992, serving as deputy campaign manager for policy, and then for eight years of clinton's presidency, serving as domestic policy advisor or close to domestic policy advisor during the first term and particularly associated with the clinton reforms in the area of welfare reform. and then finally and finally republican in this group today, margaret spellings in terms of this conference, part of her service that's of greatest relevance is that she was bruce reed's successor, if you will, in the george w. bush white house a domestic policy advisor during the first time later, of course, went on to be appointed and customed as secretary of education and in both jobs involve very closely in the development and the enactment and the implementation of a no child left behind act. now, at this point, i'm going to turn things over to the gentleman to my immediate right who's going

. >> i'm trying to picture you with bruce babbitt and a bunch of government officials. >> we go back a long way. he doesn't like the image either. i have known him for a long tiger tees to be the governor. arizona used to be a small state, you know. >> you basically were lobbying the government. >> yes. the government created that monument because they cut a deal in california. so they had to give up some other land as part of the deal. this land is under the wing of where fighter planes come in to train at the barry goldwater range. and so they have to let go. they were terrified of getting developed. somebody put a house down there and just keep falling out of the sky. it's a bad habit. so they wanted no one there. only solution. make it a national monument. until the rest of us showed up. >> when did you discover? >> i lived out there since i was 12. i knew the ground. it's the most beautiful of plan in the united states which means those funny cac as everybody knows the big arms, this has the biggest and in the united states. so we created the monument. i remember standing out th

bruce johnson, 9news now and wusa9.com. >>> the obama administration has been opposed to using federal dollars to pay private and parochial school tuition. the opportunity scholarship program costs $14 million every year. >>> the dc mayoral race is right around the corner, but is mayor fenty a shoe in? we'll talk about that after the break. stay with us. 3f?f?f?f female announcer: from jennifer, while supplies last, this luxurious microfiber sofa and chair for just $399. our most dramatic offer ever: both pieces, just $399. while supplies last. from jennifer: you don't have to spend a lot to have good taste. >>> believe it or not, this time next year washington, d.c. will be deeply involved in the campaign for mayor. especially if anyone takes up the incumbent, mayor adrian fenty. that according to some analysis of a new poll that is rattling around out there. washington examiner reporter, one of those who took a look at this poll. we have to note, this poll looked at three wards. a little weird. looking at the numbers, the new approval rating for 63%. he doesn't look vulnerable with t

i'm bruce johnson. an area search is under way for a hit-and-run driver in montgomery county. two women in the crosswalk were ag gedr 1dtee f by erlvsieeehn i silverpr. s gs happened yesterday at the intersection of lacy and capital view avenues. brittany? >> here is what we know so far. the two women were standing in this crosswalk when a car came this way and dragged them down capital view. the driver took off but not without leaving a valuable piece of evidence. >> it is very dangerous. >> reporter: neighbors know how treacherous walking this road can be. >> there is no pavement when you get off the bus, so cars turn and when you're walking they can't see you at a certain angle. >> reporter: whether that is the scenario that hurt a 22-year-old and a 29-year-old is unknown. because no one knows the driver who hit them. >> i heard a loud bang and i didn't come out right away. by the time i came out the one lady was in the middle of the street and the other lady was up against the 25-mile speed sign. >> reporter: both women were rushed to the hospital and treated in the intens

i'm bruce johnson. let's go to tony pann in the weather center. >> yeah we have a lot of -- to talk about. we made it into the mid-90s but didn't break records. let's look at the official high. 96 degrees. 0.thcordre gh th102 setback in 2319 we are well short of in23 but in a inmmsummer where we n't suhad much heat that is impressive. 59 downtown right now and 93 in ma na says. and the heat index near 100 degrees. tomorrow temperatures 95, 96 and the air quality is in the poor range on heotr g biother b of thrsdes untormdropping out ena. lva sthine is south, southeast at o guut southeast at 50 urand r p up r pesto t and 70 miles d urhor in pennsylvania. if you are tcwa nghius anywhere y you ngbayou have to wa istch this line ofor it. will stay astern itwi ll beit will be track will actrthk this line of storm and there is a chance of a thunderstorm for the next couple hours especial i will east of town. we will check the seven-day forecast when i come back. >>> was there another collision of two metro tr

i'm bruce cunningham. the ravens have apparently lost a major piece of their offensive line.terri second round pick in 2005 who started 7 games last season is probably gone for the season. big offensive tackle underwent knee surgery in the off season and is not participated in camp thus far. expected to compete with first round draft pick with michael other he is slow to heal and harbaugh admits the recovery is not going well. >> looks right now that adam knee he has new issues with the knee. healing from healing perspective. so he has to under do some more procedures to get that thing right. so looks like he's out for the year. >>reporter: meanwhile receiver clayton not practicing this week. he's retweaked the troublesome hamstring that plagued him throughout the career and looks like a little while before we see him again. he said today he would like to be back tomorrow but looks like it will be quota couple of weeks. coming off solid 41 catches for 695 yards and 3 touch downs injured the same hamstring three times in the first 16 months of his nfl career. baseball and anot

let's start with bruce vladeck.uest: there's no payments at all to insurance agents or brokers because the government takes care of all the expenses associated with that. i'm sorry as well to learn that south carolina, unlike most other states, permits medical underwriting for medigap supplemental policies and excessive age manning. i think the underline problem is that, again, $11,000 a year is a lot of money. it only accounts for about half the total health care costs of people 65 and older. so we have this dilemma in the medicare program that's most fundamental that we don't think we can afford its growth at the current levels when in fact the benefits have major, major holes in them. and the real long-term challenge of medicare reform, which is not being addressed at all this year i think in the health reform is that as the population gets older and as older people get less affluent, which is the result of the economic development in the last decade they are going to be, medicare does a very good job of paying f

bruce johnson makes several appearances in the documentary. he caught up with barry and says he takes full responsible for not paying his taxes. that's it. >> reporter: the mayor thinks tonight's documentary is a good start -- >> there is more to marion barry than what is often reported in the press. >> reporter: economic development, summer jobs program, contracts to women and minorities. he wants it all included in the story. it's there in the "nine lives of marion barry." >> people do development in the neighborhood, and health care being improved. >> reporter: he admits in the documentary that he snorted cocaine outside of the now infamous caught on tape at the hotel. in an interview today he adds this -- >> i never did crack. i don't know what that was. i used drugs before 1990, cocaine. i know other politicians that use dangerous. the fact is they spent $25 to $40 million setting me up. that's a fact. >> reporter: what would have happened if you had put your hat and coat on and left the vista hotel that day? >> they would have found a wa

>>> i'm bruce johnson, thank you for joining us. 17 local men have been caught this the sting operation, they allegedly cruiseed the internet looking for sex with minors. local firefighter is among those facing charges after montgomery county police officer pretented to be a 16- year-old prostitute. >> reporter: police say the under cover officer posed as a 16-year-old prostitute on craigslist and referred suspects to the social te my s 17 defendants caught the bait including a montgomery county firefighter. he along with the rest of the defendants who range in age of 20 to 56 years old face felony charges of soliciting sex from a minor. >> it's happening right now, it's more common than what people believe. >> reporter: one of the defendants agreed to talk with us as long as we didn't show his face. he explains why he turned to the internet for sex. >> i wasn't getting what i needed out of my relationship. rather than leaving e person i went out to seek validation and attraction from other people. >> have you done this before with a 15-year-old? >> never. >> reporter: he says he is a s

bruce johnson has seen the entire documentary and has more on the good and bad viewers will see wheno marion barry and maybe the city, as well. >> i live in the third ed , stctrii work the third district. >> be ready for rare images from marion barry as a young man, a phd candidate who arrived in washington in the ' 60s and became an activists to be reckoned with by police, white business leaders, members of congress and the blackest cuss quo. >> nobody going to put me out either. >> i wish you would touch me to put me out of here. >> reporter: it has moments. there is a good effort to examine how he got himself elected to every political office he sought. >> thank you. >> i love you. >> how he was elected mayor after serving a prison sentence for a cocaine conviction. >> a lot of people thought he was set up. most moving piece is with -- barry. >> no revealing personal inventory taking by barry. >> >> i was snorting coe and and said i'm not the typical cocaine user, but let me tell you it doesn't work that way. at the time, you don't know what you were doing. at least i didn't know

back to you. >> bruce thank you very much.aryland state fair with philip michael thomas from miami visa. >> request in the studio for a funnel cake. >> yes. looks like i have to bring one back. fabulous out here. a lot of good fabulous food that you can get and a lot of good rides and fun out here a.lot of people out here for a monday afternoon evening but i think it is because the weather is so nice and we will 10 to hold on to nice conditions for the next several days. let's go to the graphic talking about the temperatures. temperatures in the 70's across the area right now. we'll continue to see the temperatures leveling out through the overnight. looks like we will stay dry and will feel pretty good. the future scan kind of show you the model data next several days. we'll 10 to stay dry. showers to the south. we have high pressure building in from the north and that will 10 to keep us on the dry side of things as we head through monday tuesday wednesday thursday even into the friday saturday so i think we'll see a relative

to go this week on today, our guest is bruce chadwick. -- >> this week on q&a, our guest is bruce chadwick. why have we not heard that much of that george with in our lifetime? -- george whip. >> this idea hit me in the head. i was in the library researching another book about the revolution, and i fell against the schultze. as i did, obama have yourself was a hard down copy of a small journal. it fell down and hit me in the head and landed on the floor. it said the murder of george wit. he was one of the unknown founding fathers pitted i did not know he had been murdered -- but i did not know she had been murdered -- i did not know he had been murdered. he propped himself up by his fellows, stared at his doctor and in a whisper said, i am murdered. that is where i got the title from. >> you mean if you had not lost or balance, we would never had this book? >> that is exactly right. >> i thought it was wthel. why did we not hear more about him over the years? he is a fascinating character. >> the reason people do not know a lot about him is that, unlike most people who were among the found

bruce cunningham joining us now with a preview in ports sports. bruce?t's on "sports unlimited". ravens open the preseason schedule tomorrow night against the redskins. kristen berset sets the stage for us. the orioles have not won a series before the all star break but they were trying to reverse the trend this afternoon against the as. we have highlights. and former raven mull toll low joins us in the studio to preview the upcoming season and promote a huge kickoff party that you can attend with members of the superbowl champion team. "sports unlimited" starts right now. . >> after three weeks of pounding on each other, the ravens get to pound on some other people tomorrow night. they host the redskins in the preseason opener at m&t bank stadium. and kristen berset has a

coming up tonight. >>> thanks bruce. another really hot day out there when do we get a break. >> vytas joining to us tell us when. vytas? >> looking at steamy conditions. once again in the lower 90's. we are taking a look outside right now. we can see there was some pretty good sunshine but you can see the buildings having a little bit of shade on them. we have a line of thunderstorms north of cockiesville and kind of blocking the sun a little bit as we continue to see the stormy weather push in. 87 winds out of the west at 8. humidity level 57 percent and pressure is dropping at this time as we continue to see a time as we continue to see a frontal boundary pushing in

the dc woman who made the discovery is talking for the first time to 9news now and bruce johnson has our followup report. >> she only wants her first name to be used and she is so shaken at what she found outside her apartment last week when she tossed her trash into the dumpster. >> i noticed that something was moving, but it was not coming out. all i saw was a lot of flies. i looked and there was a dog just breathing, like helpless, looking at me like help me. >> a young female pit bull had been tossed into the dumpster. her face so swollen with most of her battered body stuffed into a tightly wound plastic bag. the law enforcement officer was called to the apartment building on 9 street to pull her out of the dumpster where she had been left to die. >> she had chewed a hole in the bag to get her head free. >> she has a lot of swelling under here. >> the pit bull was given the name, trooper. >> whether or not it was a dog fight or she was attacked by dogs, she has pingture wounds all over her head and neck. >> residents of this private building tell me they are not allowed to have

bruce johnson, 9 news now. >> the opportunity scholarship program costs about $14 million a year. the obama administration has been on record from the beginning as opposed to using the vouchers for private and parochial schools. >>> she was a champion for people with special needs. the founder of the special olympics and a sister of president john f. kennedy. this week, eunice kennedy shriver passed away. president obama called her an extraordinary woman, who taught the world that no physical or an stmental barrier can restrain t power of the human spirit. the special olympics that started in her backyard is now an international movement, with headquarters on 19th street. the reaction there was a personal one. we take a look at the influence of eunice shriver. >> reporter: she was inspired by them, by their hearts. >> i learned guts, i learned courage. i learned commitment. >> reporter: but she wasn't easy on those she called her special friends. ulwotry it harder. e sad woy >> reporter: gary was a kid in kensington when they met. >> special olympics, before that i felt my life wa

bruce leshan has reaction from parents and school leaders in fairfax county. >> mohammad, jocelyn, mike, jack, melanie. >> reporter: fairfax county school officials say from the start they will teach children to stay home if they are sick. if kids come to school sick any way they will have places to isolate them until parents can come and pick them up but they say it is unlikely to be large numbers of sick children that determine if the schools closed. >> i think my level is if you have to have a functioning school where kids can come to learn. >> reporter: some parents need to be sold on the idea that school should stay open even if some of the children have swine flu. >> i think it is a crazy idea to keep the school open with we don't know how many children are sick there. >> reporter: one issue is the timing. most schools will reopen in september and the vaccine is not likely to be ready until mid october. and even then you may have to get two shots for it to really work. hundreds of schools closed in confusion of swine flu last year. experts hope to avoid that this fall but one of t

i'm bruce cunning ham.s preseason game this saturday night against the panthers in charlotte, ravens are dealing with injuries to a pair of key players. kelly greg has a bad shoulder. fill missed this game. maybe the next two. also hurting is tight end lj smith. he pulled a hamstring muscle monday night. this on top of an upper hamstring pull, hip flexor anadrenia surgery, he will probably miss the rest of preseason and john sounds very concerned. if are. >> it is a concern. a hamstring pull. so it will take a little while. i don't know how long, you never know with those things. different spots than the other one. he is down about it, you know. don't get down about. it it as long season and we are going to need him to be a really good player for and we got get him ready for hopefully atlanta. if not atlanta, hopefully kansas city. >> aside from the kicker the most spirited competition has been line backer. there is a big hole and two guys, gentleman mere and damarus are battling it out for the spot but the

i'm bruce cunningham.avens prepare for the pre-season opener, they know the defense is going to be pretty good. probably great, actually. as always, it is the offense that needs some work. sound familiar? so they are putting in the work on the steamy practice field in west minister. probably doesn't help they go up against one of the best defense every day but not making excuses they know they have to get better. defensive coordinator cameron his high hope for the unit especially quarterback. >> personally you want to man the offense which he has great command of the offense. i want to see us in the pre-season. it can be up the field underneath. i want to see him inside the number. up the field. side line to side line. that's what we try to do this pre-season. we need for to us improve our offense we have to throw the football better. >>reporter: major component of the ravens offense is going to be this guy. ray rice back up last season. expected to vault over willis and become the starter running back. he

sixtyway, bruce is coming back to charm city for the first time since 1973.'s going to be playing the civic center at the arena now november 20th, tickets go on sale september 25th. it will be the big show in baltimore since that chicago opener way back in 1973. >>> say it ain't so. latoya jackson may be a contestant on the next installment of "dancing with the stars." "us" magazine reports the older sister of michael jackson is in serious talks to join the show. this season's line-up will be announced next monday. we'll have to wait and see. >>> and jennifer hudson has a new role, a new mom. the 27-year-old oscar and grammy winner gave birth to a healthy baby boy monday. last fall she suffered a tragic blow when her mother, brother and nephew were all shot in chicago. she first gained fame as a top contender on "american idol." later won an academy award for best supporting actress in dream girls and earlier this year, won a grammy for her self-titled debut cd. >> how about that? >> she became unforgettable. she's famous. that famous sidekick and nosy neighb

let's go to bruce in california. bruce?> caller: booyah from san francisco state university college of business, where i'm a professor. >> how fabulous. we got the professor calling in. how can i teach the professor? >> caller: jim, following your advice, i have some cash lying around from schnitzling on the way up. >> smart. >> caller: i even cashed out at or near the top of some of my stocks. my question, how much cash should i keep on hand when the market is flying high versus not so great? >> toughest question in the world, because what i hear from people is, jim, you're keeping me out of the mojo. why are you keeping me on the sidelines? and the answer, bruce, is this, we're going to use common sense. bulls make money. bears make money. hogs get slaughtered. i want you to take it so that when you have positions that are up huge, you're playing with the house of money. does it lead to maybe, 20%, 30%, 40% cash? i don't care. common sense. we don't give back gains. we let them run. but we take stuff off as it goes up. if

but bruce leshan is live on capitol hill where a lot of people are saying bruce, that even in his passing, the senator may have given that effort new momentum. >> reporter: that's right, audrey. senator byrd of west virginia said you could look at any era in the history of congress and senator kennedy would have stood out as one of the great senators. part of that was his ability to reach across the aisle to get bills passed. the kennedy family has designated his washington office as one place to leave tributes. jessica ellis wants her three sons to honor the lion of the democratic party. >> he went through more in his lifetime than most of us are asked to endure. >> reporter: one of kennedy's greatest passions was to secure healthcare for people like abby, a young woman. she was two months shy of earning health insurance when she was diagnosed with a tumor. >> fast forward. surgery is done and i'm healthy and i have a bill for $12,000 that i can't afford. my parents had to refinance their home to help me pay off my debt. >> reporter: maryland's chris is one of the democratic leaders of t

bruce will head to charm city on move 20th. tickets for the show go on sale november 25th.his will be the first showing in baltimore since opening for chicago way back in 1973. >>> now the forecast certified baltimore's most accurate by weather rate. and maryland's most powerful doppler radar. >> good evening. i'm meteorologist susan schrack. things are still a little on the muggy side out there for most of us. right now the temperature in downtown baltimore 77 degrees. relative humidity 74%, and wind is light out of the southwest. taking a look at maryland's most powerful radar, you can see we had a couple thunderstorms moving through the region. throughout much of the evening tonight, a lot of it started in pennsylvania, came down across the state line, into the western portion of the state. hagerstown saw a lot of repeat storms. what happened was it sort of dissipated, and we can consider by the time it hit the baltimore and metro and surrounding areas and redeveloped over the bay and on to the eastern shore stay they saw several severe thunderstorms in some of the count

i'm bruce johnson and thanks for joining us this saturday night. >>> first tonight, no serious injuries but lots of damage and a major cleanup after a confirmed tornado struck the town of ijamsville in maryland trees were snapped or toppled by wind. we have more on the story. >> reporter: it's the signature sound of cleanup in the aftermath of tornadoes. >> it sounded like the roof was getting ripped off, which it was. >> reporter: it was no different than the twist ter that carved a path through the town of ijamsville, maryland where folks were shaken. >> there were leaves and glass and rocks coming through the window. >> reporter: he grabbed his dog and hit the floor. >> i was hoping it wasn't going to take me out of the house. >> reporter: he tells a similar story as he ran down to the basement. >> i literally was lookingp u expecting u the house to just be gone. >> reporter: hundreds of trees uprooted and snapped like twigs. >> there sounded like trash cans banging over your head. >> reporter: debora de wit headed for cover. >> i just saw debris flying across the yard and i just dro

. >> this week, our guest is bruce chadwick, author of a new book about founding father george wythe. it is called "i am murdered: george wythe, thomas jefferson and the killing that shocked a new nation." >> bruce chadwick, author of the "i am murdered, "where did you get the title and why have we not heard that much about george wythe? >> the idea of this book fell out of the sky, tumble for the air, and hit me in the head. i was in a library researching another book. >> i lost my balance and fell against a shelf and as i did, from a higher shelf, there was a hardbound copies but it hit me in the head and landed on the floor and cover opened up and the page said the murder of george wythe. knew who was but i did not know he had been murdered. one of the chapter titles was a quote where he told doctors who arrived to see him when he fell ill that he had been murdered. he had been poisoned and he was feeling very badly and he propped himself up by his fellows and stared at his doctor and said, "i am murdered." that is where i got the title from. >> are you saying if you have not lost