the terps pull within three. 4th and 17 for the u-conn team. can they do it? going deep to the end zone. this ball appears to be intercepted. but it is ruled incomplete. and maryland loses for the first time in career, 24-21. they head to west virginia next week. >>> georgia tech playing host to virginia. the yellow jackets creating quite a buzz early on. pun intended. textbook play from scrimmage. the first one, ken washington has plenty of time to pass. finds zac lassski all alone and goes 70 yards for the touchdown. that is the beginning of a very long day for virginia head coach mike london. third quarter we go, georgia tech leading 35-7. this time, washington runs the option, and this is the touchdown. washington runs for three scores. throws for another. and virginia dominated by georgia tech, 56-20. it is the most points virginia has ever given up against georgia tech. >>> frank beamer, 13th ranked virginia tech facing the winless panthers. this punt here at their own six. and breaks it up the sideline. and two defenders converge. look at the block by r

conn's is goods for homes including furniture and bedding, not b-e-t-t-i-n-g.ike dollar general it reported better than expected earnings and boosted the forecast. conn's was up huge, a reminder of the strength of the housing cycle around the country. housing and autos are huge. they are still accelerating, the numbers tell me. not declining. put it together and the down side surprise of federal express isn't much surprise at all. isn't able to counter a strong domestic retail or housing market along with a rise in copper and the euro saying europe could be doing the right thing. there is enough hope out there courtesy of huge bond buying and pro growth policies from the european central bank. many market players must be thinking, huh, fedex, rear-view mirror, not forward. the other items seem to confirm the diagnosis. this is the bottom line of today. i don't like figuring wrong about a piece of corporate news. worse than getting it wrong is not figuring out why i got it wrong. i'm satisfied that i have come up with the answers unless, of course, european cent

fairfield, conn., has fewer than 15,000 residents. the horrifying tragedy has .ffected many >> i knew the boy, lovely little boy. investigators said at thursday,ely 1:00 on he got a frantic phone call from sister who lives next door. intruder appear to be trying break in wearing a ski mask. wielding a knife. when he confronted him, he shot him. repeatedly. another assault had occurred in neighborhood two days prior. i am sure that was his first priority. to keep his sister safe. when troopers arrived, they pulled back the mask. despite the circumstances, this said he was not known as troubled teenager. >> everybody loved him and a good kid.as >> friend said the father is also beloved, a fifth grade middle school. those 1 million type teachers. -- one in a million type teachers. police continued to investigate. >> what a hard break. a florida teacher is in jail tonight charged with trying to kill anotherto teacher. off that theped 55-year-old called someone in georgette and ask that person kill a teacher. that is when the fbi got invol

. >> manuel es otro de estos trabajadores que sufre con las consecuencias, conn su voz agotada dice que cáncer, es una victoria y estamos agradecido . >> & mil pacientes son atendidosx en el scentro de salud ambiental world trade center . >> vamos a hablar de noticias relacionadas con la salud, al pruebas recomendadas para examinar a mujeres para ver si tienen cáncer de ovario hacen más daño, científicos dicen que no hay metodso en buscar cáncer, hay varias mujeres que experimentan varios resultados falsos postivios necesitan cirugías . >> los hombres que fuman marihuana tienen más porba de contraer cáncer testicular, tendríanqa ser de más rápido crecimiento . >> noticias de emily cordero, helerd packard anuncia despidos, la compañía tiene más de 300 mil trabajadores, el primer reocrte de al menos 11500 empleados será antes de termina e el año . >> mire lo que ha ocurrido con kodak, anuncia despido la compañía pionera en la fotografía, dijo que eliminaran 1000 empleos para hacer fernte a una banca rota. >> el fbi arrestó por cargos de corrupcion a tony, investigaciones indican que el al

david conn we remember is going to the zoo as a young boy. >> it is upsetting. assume that somebody would have called on much quicker. >> they agree that the sentence should have been stiffer. >> i am confused with what went wrong. >> they hope that mogensen will not be allowed to be around animals. she was sentenced to 24 days in jail and will have to pay a 1000 other fine. her attorney said that he will appeal the jail time. -- she will spend 24 days in jail and will have to pay a $1,000 fine. >> hurricane isaac damaged 59,000 homes in southwest louisiana. the new assessment comes after fema i conducted a door-to-door inspections. most of the damage came from flooding. >> the good news is, a minimal loss of life. everybody remembered the impact from katrina. >> what is going on? >> a wonderful weekend coming up. this is skyline drive the color, that chestnut oak says you know what, i am still green be patient. the temperatures outside right now, still in the 60's. live doppler, the last of the showers, the eastern shore southern maryland, lusby all the way to

the former team, conn. most players found out about it through text message. he will find out of the reunion has a more pressure. >> it is no different than any other week to me. this is game 3 on the schedule. i haven't got anything different until this point and i will not do anything different from here on in. >> a reminder that we will have all of the area of football scores. i am going out to a host tonight. we will be out there covering [ male announcer ] this is america's manufacturing when president obama took office. this is china's. under obama, we've lost over half a million manufacturing jobs and for the first time china's beating us. seven times obama could've stopped china's cheating. seven times he refused. it's time to stand up to the cheaters and make sure we protect jobs for the american people. [ male announcer ] barack obama: failing to stop cheating. failing american workers. i'm mitt romney and i approve this message. i'm barack obama and i approve this message. some of our chendren's greatest experiences have been in the smaller classroo

u-conn. let's go terps. >> okay. we're rooting for the home team.hat's us. >> okay. >>> there are a lot of reasons to get outside today. a beautiful, late summer weekend, a great time to get out and enjoy the d.c. area. >> this weekend there are several events that won't cost you a dime. we'll go to the news 4 super screen with a look at what's free in the dmv. >> i have this week's free in the dmv. bring on the fun this weekend without spending a dime. today at the national archives there is a film screening of the 1960s movie "inherit the wind." the movie was nominated for four academy awards and starts at noon. also in arlington free meditation class in spanish from 3:00 to 4:00 p.m. at the arlington central library. and who doesn't love chocolate? free chocolate tasting today. it's on u street. sample over 14 different chocolates from around the world from 3:00 to 6:00 p.m. tomorrow on sunday make sure you check out music at the kennedy center's millennium stage. the group specializes in traditional music from southern vera cruz, mexico. the con

his assistant coach will take over at conn. for soccer fans, d.c. united will have to go the rest of the way without their mvp. he has a great three sprained -- a bad knee and out for the season. what sphinx's he was hurt playing for the canadian international team trying to qualify for the world cup. >> grade 3 doesn't sound good. i'm barack obama and i approve this message. some of our children's greatest experiences have been in the smaller classrooms. vo: but mitt romney says class sizes don't matter... and he supports ul ryan's budget which c could cut education by 20%. you can't do this by shoving 30, 35 people into a class and just teaching to some test... these are all issues that really he personally cannot relate to. to be able to afford an education, to want the very best public education system for your children. >> think you are paying too much for gasoline? take a look at this -- gas for nearly $10 a gallon. franchises in new jersey and pennsylvania hiked their prices to protest high wholesale cost. they call it a reasonable practice.

about being in the hospital, you know, comforting nellie after her husband was shot, because john connely was shot also. the reason it's in the book is because at the johnson library, they have the john collection, and there's a record of everyone who visited him in the hospital, and bob was there on the day, the day of the shooting, and so he was extremely close and through john became close to johnson. johnson did give him some advice which was not to be treasurer of the democratic party because he said just dealing with all of that money gets you in trouble. you shouldn't do that. bob did it any way. he called him again on the ranch when he was running for chairman of the party, and he advised him not to run for chairman of the party either. they were friendly, but the relationship was mostly through john. >> and the vietnam war? >> oh, yes. he supported the president first and foremost, and he always thought that partisanship ends at the water's edge. happened his party was in power, johnson, but he supported johnson on vietnam. he later said that he regreeted that, that he wished whe

the plant is owned by fox-conn, one of the world's biggest contract manufacturers, making devices such as apple's iphone. the unrest began at a company employee dormitory, but there are accusations it was sparked by factory guards. this is the latest incident at chinese companies u.s. firms rely on to make their products. tonight's word on the street: exposure. gregg greenberg is a reporter with the street.com. gregg what u.s. companies are exposed to these kinds of chinese manufacturers? >> well, apple may be the biggest and best known but it's certainly not alone. hp, dell, samsung, sony, all of these employ services to make their products. >> tom: losses of electronic manufacturers that you list there we've seen these labor issues flare up, certainly over the past several months, working conditions, working hours, pay. what is the expose through-- exposure that these u.s. companies have there? >> well, it's tremendous,-- bo boxcondoes a lot of business with powerhouse f people want iphone cheap they have to use foxcon. the thing is that apple c.e.o. tim cook said he would like to ha

i grew up in a federal housing project in east hartford, conn.ireman at pratt whitney aircraft were conn steelworkers and the best machinists in the world built the arsenal for our nation's democracy. when i asked my dad why he worked so hard every day, he would say got to keep that eagle flying. keeping the eagle flying was more than a metaphor for building the most dependable aircraft engines in the world. it was about pride, the pride of a people who make things here in america. about the dignity of a fair wage for a hard day's work, about being able to send your kids to college, about getting good medical care and a secure retirement. about building a better future, not just for yourself, but for your country. it. fdr'sfdr -- it is what called of the warm courage of community. for more than 40 years, my mother has faced multiple sclerosis. more recently, congestive heart failure. always with courage, a warm heart, and a congenial spirit. that are worried a lot about my mom's help, but he knew his pension from pratt was steadily growing and so

maryland is playing host to u-conn. 75 degrees. it's a 12:30 kick in college park, maryland.at northwesterly breeze will be a bit of a factor and the hokies are on the road in pittsburgh taking on the pit panthers today. 69 degrees. a noon kickoff. nice, north breeze, plenty of sunshine for hokies fans who have made the drive to the town of three rivers. we'll have more of the carolina and missouri forecast in a few. >> all right, chuck. thanks. >>> we're following a developing story out of afghanistan. two u.s. marines are dead and several other troops injured in an attack on the british base where prince harry is stationed. the attack happened overnight at camp bastion which is in the southern part of the country in the helmand province. the base is next to camp leather neck which houses u.s. marines. nato officials say all of the casualties appear to be americans. prince harry was about a mile away from the base when the attack happened. he was not harmed. the taliban recently announced they plan to capture or kill prince harry during his latest deployment to afghanistan.

lumia is not -- >> the key to the market is conns.up. >> you love the alta salon. >> these are domestic plays. that's why i like to talk about them. conns a domestic play. 52-week high. people thought it was another best buy. no. better. >> it is? why? >> because it's furniture. >> what? >> furniture and mattresses. >> they sell everything right? >> they sell everything. it is a housing play. look, i'm trying to -- >> you got to try out your mattress. you can still go buy it off -- >> with the tvs you can simulate -- >> sending it back is a bit of a hassle buying it online. >> doesn't fit in the computer. >> try to come up with some companies that fit that scenario of what we talked about. these are what people are buying. >> true. >> they are buying conns, my friend. this is like yahoo in 1999. >> oh, please don't say that. >> david and i remember a different era where yahoo -- >> we go back to that era a lot. >> pfizer was the key to that market. they had a new drug. >> somebody wrote this morning facebook is now twice the value of

foundation for a more well- balanced economy that will produce millions of new jobs vibrant new businesses connt new hybrid new businesses, and lots of wealth for innovators -- that will produce millions of new jobs and lots of wealth for innovators. are we where we want to be today? is the president satisfied? of course not, but are we better now we were when he took office? [applause] when president barack obama took office, the economy was in free fall. it had just shrunk 9% of gdp. we were losing 750,000 jobs a month. are we doing better than that today? the answer is yes. >> we love obama! >> here is the challenge defaces and the challenge all those who support him face. i have been there. a lot of americans are still angry and frustrated about this economy. if you look of the numbers, you know employment is growing. banks are beginning to lend again. in a lot of places the housing numbers are beginning to pick up, but not too many people do not feel it yet. i have the same thing happened in 1994 and early 1995. we could see the policies were working, that the economy was growing, but most

vijay prashad joining us from trinity college in hartford, conn. his latest book is called, "arab spring, libyan winter." this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. when we come back, kurt eichenwald will join us to talk about secrets and lies in the terror war. his new book, "500 days." ♪ [music break] ♪ [music break] >> this is "democracy now!," democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with nermeen shaikh. >> one day after the 11th anniversary of the september 11 attacks, we begin the show by talking about newly disclosed documents that provide further evidence the bush administration ignored repeated warnings about osama bin laden's plans to attack the united states. writing in "the new york times," journalist and author kurt eichenwald reports the bush administration dismissed a number of warnings of an al qaeda attack in the u.s. beginning in the spring of 2001, instead of focusing on iraq and saddam hussein. eichenwald writes -- >> to talk about the significance of these findings,

that's two-year-old jeremy conn of san francisco. he has a very rare form of leukemia.e needs a bone marrow transplant before undergoing a third round of chemotherapy scheduled for november. folks, november is on the way. there are no matches for jeremy in the current national bone marrow registry. so bone marrow drives like this is trying to find a match. it's most likely going to come from an asian donor but asians make up less than 1% of those on the registry. his aunt is hoping people will set aside all superstitions, come out and see if you can help. today's bone marrow drives begins at 10:00. one is at the international dragon boat festival on treasure island. another at the china town ymca on sacramento street. three more drives will be held tomorrow. >>> a san francisco muni passenger left his briefcase on the bus but he got it back and everything was still inside. now he wants to personally thank the driver who took time to do a really good deed. we have more. >> about four seconds after i got off the bus, and it just started away. there was no catching it. >>

jonathan and drew scott, and conn gratz on the new show already airing on hgtv. >> wednesday nights.ome down home southern sweets from a down home southern girl. country music star kimberly schlapman but first these messages. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. and every day since, we've worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy -- and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. we've shared what we've learned with governments and across the industry so we can all produce energy more safely. i want you to know, there's another commitment bp takes just as seriously: our commitment to america. bp supports nearly two-hundred-fifty thousand jobs in communities across the country. we hired three thousand people just last year. bp invests more in america than in any other country. in fact, over the last five years, no other energy company has invested more in the us than bp. we're wor

that's two-year-old jeremy conn of san francisco. he has a very rare form of lou keep ma.e needs a bone marrow transplant before undergoing a third round of chemotherapy scheduled for november. so there's not a lot of time here. right now there are no matches nor jeremy in the current national bone marrow donor registry. bone marrow drives like this one at san jose state have been taking place to find a match and they are still looking. it's most likely going to come from an asian donor but asians mac up less than 1% of those on the registry. his aunt is hoping people will set aside all superstitions, come out and see if you can help. today's bone marrow drives begins at 10:00. one is at the international dragon boast festival on treasure island. another at the china town ymca on sacramento street. three more drives will be held tomorrow. as they say, jeremy needs you. >>> the san mateo bridge will be closed for two week ends in october as crews replace bridge decks and fix a cracked beam. the bridge will be shutting down from 10:00 p.m. friday 5:00 in the morning on the w

>> $850,0850,000 jobs are conne directly or indirectly with autos. the plant that makes the chef chevies in youngs town but it's the machinists that fix cars and the people who drive the trucks that move the car parts or trucks around. it's a zillion car parts manufacturers and the chevy, much of is it made in ohio, from the transmission to the windows to the steel. it's kwleer when we fought for the auto rescue, that was all about jobs in ohio and that's really governor romney and my opponent's problem. they don't though how to back off that. >> the guy up against you, mandela, he was against the auto rescue, right? >> well, he called me unamerican for supporting it so i guess you would come to that conclusion, yeah. >> i think you're going to like this ad, senator. trying to portray romney successfully as a businessman that cares more about the bottom line than the average men or women out there working. let's look at this ad. >> out of the blue one day we were told to build a 30-foot stage, gathered the guys and we built that 30-foot stage not kno

jonathan and drew scott, and conn gratz on the new show already airing on hgtv. >> wednesday nights.ome down home southern sweets from a down home southern girl. country music star kimberly schlapman but first these messages. two years ago, the people of bp made a commitment to the gulf. and every day since, we've worked hard to keep it. bp has paid over twenty-three billion dollars to help people and businesses who were affected, and to cover cleanup costs. today, the beaches and gulf are open for everyone to enjoy -- and many areas are reporting their best tourism seasons in years. we've shared what we've learned with governments and across the industry so we can all produce energy more safely. i want you to know, there's another commitment bp takes just as seriously: our commitment to america. bp supports nearly two-hundred-fifty thousand jobs in communities across the country. we hired three thousand people just last year. bp invests more in america than in any other country. in fact, over the last five years, no other energy company has invested more in the us than bp. we're wor

>> no last five years, five states have ended the death penalty with conn been the most recent.s mr. jealous pointed out, 800,000 people in california signed petitions to put the death penalty on their ballot, and have an opportunity to vote for proposition 34 in november. it would replace the death penalty with life without parole and set up a fund to help solve these unsolved homicides and rapes. the governor of oregon said, while he's in office, he will not allow a single person to be executed because of his discomfort with his very broken system. the number of death sentences and executions are at an all- time low. the week after troy davis was executed, the gallup poll measuring support for the death penalty of the u.s. was at a 40- year low. we are in a different era than 10, 20 is a go with this issue. we're seeing tremendous progress because people are coming to understand the reality of the death penalty, the ugly reality of the death penalty, how does not deter crime, costs far more than incarceration, is a distraction from effective means of dealing with crime. it is

now the 17th state has announced its opposition to the death penalty, conn.hat about the death penalty? >> i think the death penalty is barbaric. it is something that no civilized people should ever use. we do not have the right to take another person's life. we did not give it, it should be left to the almighty, not for the state, not for the government. on the federal level, we need to continue to speak up and speak out and put an end to the death penalty. >> finally, at the end of across that bridge, your new book, you write, "just as gandhi made it easier for king and king made it easier for poland and poland [made it easier] for ireland [and] ireland [made it easier] for serbia [and] serbia made it easier for the arab spring, [and] the arab spring made it easier for [the protests in] wisconsin [and] occupy..." talk about these connections. rep. john lewis: i believe there is something in human history-i call it the spirit of history. it's like a spring, a stream, that continue to move. and individuals and forces come along that become symbols of what is

the author of this year's looking ahead essay in the review is a partner at williams and connely focusingreme court and appellate litigation arguing 11 cases before the supreme court, more than any other lawyer in the firm's history other than the legendary founder, andrew bennet williams, in a number of areas like antitrust and criminal law. born and raised in lawrence, kansas, go jay hawks? >> yeah, absolutely. >> he received the ab from harvard, many-lit from oxford, and jd from harvard, executive editor of the harvard law review and clerked for scalia and court of appeals for the fourth circuit and joined williams in 2008 after serving as an assistant to the solicitor general. most importantly, he's my girlfriend's boss. [laughter] tom goldstein, a partner at goldstein and russell, supreme court bo teak, known as goldstein how and russell. he removed his wife from the letter head. [laughter] he argued 25 cases before the supreme court spanning a broad array of issues. he teaches supreme court litigation in stanford and harvard law schools, and in 2003, he founded the blog making my jo

they are still done conn dungting investigation, as fran townsend mentioned.nterviews being done with witnesses and other people. they are not in benghazi, but tripoli and other rates in united states. witnesses to the event from the u.s. side are being interview ened even now. >> tom fuentes thanks so much for sharing this morning. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> today's talk back question, should michelle obama's school lunch program continue? kids say they are starving. we will talk about the growing controversy. [ thunder crashes ] [ male announcer ] if you think all batteries are the same... consider this: when the unexpected happens, there's one brand of battery more emergency workers trust in their maglites: duracell. one reason: duralock power preserve. it locks in power for up to 10 years in storage. guaranteed. so, whether it's 10 years' of life's sunny days... or... the occasional stormy one... trust goes a long way. duracell with duralock. trusted everywhere. ♪ [ male announcer ] how do you engineer a true automotive breakthrough? ♪ you give it

host: canton, conn, bill, democratic caller.ler: the trust fund that the that the government owns is in the form of non-marketable securities. can the congress changed that to being marketable? what do you anticipate it would be the effect on the market if the treasury could release those when it was advantageous? guest: you're right. the majority of those trust funds types of the federal government accounts are in non- marketable. but let me tell you how the process works. basically, what happens is when those funds -- one of the largest that was running for years, historically large surpluses was social security -- when those funds when a surplus, there typically required to address that and to treasury securities. when that happens, that excess cash is used by the federal government to help pay our bills and allows us not to have to borrow as much from the , froml public individuals, from debt held by the public. what happens is when those funds then need to make benefit expenses, and they will redeem some of those treasury s

conn, dependent on the financial industry suffered the largest income drop. connecticut residents still make $10,000 a year on average than people in a fast-growing north dakota. new hampshire. good morning. this is robert on our line for independents. caller: good morning. m:to make a comment. a watched the letterman show. he only spent $150,000 on his whole campaign. and my question is, why in the world can't this country limit campaign contributions? that is my first statement. i found that ironic. host: what you think it would do for the nature of campaigns? caller: i think you would get rid of a lot of back door deals. and the illegal things that go on that no one ever knows about. host: from midland, texas. on our line for republicans. caller: i want to make a comment about how they are trying to get a voter id -- id is so racist. i am living in a neighborhood, i am a black guy, and there's a white guy, we are both required to get a voter id, how is that being a racist? i am tired of the race card. it is an insult to me that we are not capable of going

guest: our first call comes from east canton, conn. -- east hampton, connecticut. i would like to ask these cartoonists if there is some way to get ideas for cartoons to them. you know, like, political cartoons or whatever. i am not a cartoonist. i am a retired electronics technician. i consider myself a joke public -- joe public. i can describe what i see probably pretty much over the phone. host: where do your ideas come from? do you ever take solicitations? do you take suggestions from readers? guest: generally, i do not because my cartoons are my opinion. my ideas -- where do ideas come from? speaking personally, i think that if you do carton's long enough, you develop a way of thinking about the news. you develop and mental rolodex of metaphors, images, ideas that work, ideas that do not. i have callers calling all the time with great ideas for city council. a lot of times, they are cartoons i have already drawn. generally, since it is a signed peace of opinion on my part, i tend to make it -- you know, it has to be my idea. guest: -- host: tellus but with the