newark, new jersey, has a young mayor named corey booker who is trying to change that city's image anduture. he's turned down a job offer in washington, says he prefers to stay home and do his job. when you meet anybody as single-minded as corey booker, these days you're conditioned to assume they're on the make. they are either out to get rich or famous. but the 40-year-old mayor of newark says he has no need for wealth and while he is getting more famous as a politician on the rise, what he says he really wants is for newark to be great again. >> newark, new jersey, is one of the front lines of the fight for the american dream. >> reporter: corey booker grew up in the new jersey suburbs, played high school football, went to stamford, oxford as a rode scholar and yale law school. while a lot of his class mates with those same degrees went out and made a fortune, corey booker moved into public housing in newark. worked with the poor and pledged himself trying to save the 56th largest city in america. the phrase "too good to be true," is something he is used to hearing. >> there is a de

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our profile of the mayor of newark corey booker, in our attempt to keep up with him today.hat he is trying to do in a city that's been down on its luck for years and lately showing signs of an upturn. that's our broadcast this wednesday night. thank you, as always for being here with us. i'm brian williams. good night. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

we also had corey booker film a psa. but the real heroes in this situation are the volunteers. see them because they do all their hard work behind the scenes but who care about this cause and care about me. >> all right, seun. let's talk about what is the next step in your treatment? >> i will undergo a cord blood transplant while we continue to look for a matching donor. in the best case scenario, i won't relapse. but if i do, i'll be back where i am now, which is desperately searching for a donor. >> all right. speaking of the registry, speaking of trying to get donors, let's drive people to the website again. >> dkms americas.org. >> we're going to have continue to follow your progress on every level. on the medical front. on the personal front. we're going to continue to follow you just because you have such a fantastic smile. thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. all right. i'll get all of that information on my facebook page. >> our prayers will be with that special young man. >>> coming up, a judge finds a former aide to john edwards in contempt,

maybe he has to dunk that one because corey raji is chasing him behind.aybe he left his feet a little too early, mike, and pulled the ball back a little too far. shows you how much i know. >> that was kind of dr. j like. float through the lane with a dunk. >> mike, it was interesting. we said before the game that wake forest wanted to employ a pounding pace. pound the ball inside and get the game going up and down. you saw in our halftime stats they had 32 points inside the lane. they have now got 19 points in transition so wake doing exactly what they have to do in this ballgame. >> southern makes one of two but boston college is 5 for 11 from the free-throw line. a little bit of transition points. 10 more by the d. >> transition baskets are usually easier baskets. hard to play defense in transition much that's what boston college really needs to do here. they need to dig in and get some stops. keep in mind they were down 17 after miami and they came back and won that one. they are capen of coming back but they have to start it on the defensive end. they

eric holder in november corey saban h and his 9/11 co-conspirators would be tried in civilian court in the u.s.. fast forward about a month to the aftermath of the christmas day bombing when the so-called underwear bomber was questioned by agents from a local fbi field office for only 50 minutes. after that, as with the petty criminal the bomber was read his miranda rights and he clammed up. the administration has justify been criticized over its decision to try this terrorist in a criminal court which holder says was his decision greeted with no objection from other departments in the government. wouldn't you know it, when mr. holder and the administration started to feel the heat the white house leaked to the world that all of a sudden the christmas day bomber is once again cooperating with the fbi. how convenient. deputy white house press secretary bill burton was asked about this coincidence earlier today. >> ideally this information would not have necessarily come out. but in order for the american people to know that we are doing everything possible to keep them safe and in order

one of the guys who gave you my best political advice in my life is michael bloomberg and he said corey, you should become a billionaire first and then mayor of a city. [laughter] >> but god bless michael bloomberg, started the service of city campaign. we're not going to have a service officer on my staff that's going to be analyzing this problem. i have a meeting in my office just to talk about service yesterday. we want to create a process online and off-line where somebody can go to a newark website, lovers of newark which are all around the country, and see that i want to volunteer for a day. here's a place you can go and just pick up a paint brush and paint, or you can go to our animal shelter and help do this. i want to volunteer for a week, i have a group in my office. we want to start reading and easy way online to create volunteerism, and have off-line components as well. we are thinking about reading three days of service in our city to celebrate more, 9/11, martin luther king's birthday, as well as maybe a back to school type event. so we're thinking very strong because i've

host: let us go to korea on active military line calling from camp to the june -- corey, from camp lejeunne. caller: i'm only 22 and i have been active military for a year- and-a-half -- i think the actual act of military is not involved and we are the ones most affected by the decision, whether for or against. host: would you like to see a poll from military members? caller: i think it would be great to have the military -- i am very open-minded and i did not have a problem with homosexuals at all, however, i do think that many of the military people who have been in for a while and do come from different backgrounds would have a problem adapted to someone openly gay fighting in a pit and sleeping in a pit next to them while in war. a lot of people have opposing views and civilians cannot quite grasp the severity of the personal level when you are in a pit fighting next to you, sleeping next to your -- next to you. working in a war with anyone is a stressful environment. i think the military should be polled on it. host: also active military from fort stewart, georgia. caller: how are you?

mark's mother's boyfriend, corey byrd, was watching the little boy the day he vanished. byrd found mark gone and a door left open. now byrd has been jailed on charges of endangering the welfare of a child and parole violation. so far he's been uncooperate whiff police and refused a polygraph test. but mark's father is still suspicious of byrd. i asked whether he believes byrd's version of events there. >> no, i don't -- that's the thing. i don't buy it. i really don't believe his story. and he's not taking a polygraph test. i know he has something to do with it. but he needs to talk. you know? so i can have closure to this. if you know something, please call the newburghpolice or tell somebody if you're scared. i need to have some closure. if he's alive, i need to have him back so i can move on in my life. but this is really killing me. >> again, if you know anything about this little boy that can help bring him back and give yul bookal some idea of what is going on, call the newburgh police. and can you always learn more about this story at www.missingkids.com. tomorrow

. >> corey bird, the boyfriend in this case, is the focus of the investigation.gh he's only thus far been charged with endangering the welfare of a child and refused to take a polygraph test. mark's parents have each taken a polygraph test. they both passed. but for more details on this case, click on www.missingkids.com. if you think you know anything about mark bookal's disappearance, please, call the newburg, new york, police. thank you so much for doing so. >>> we want to get your views on this next story. we're talking about high school education. specifically we want to know, are schools dumbing down their curriculum? here's why we ask. "usa today" reports last month pennsylvania dropped comprehensive exams thousands of students were failing. the paper says both arkansas and ohio as well as other states set passing grades for some classes below 40%. and it says in some years, new jersey has graduated nearly 15% of students who failed their exit exams. another 24 states don't use end-of-course or graduation exams at all. >> christi, we're getting a really go

court corey opportunity -- corey raji. >> dan: everything is right on top of the basket. c.j.basket but otherwise everything has been within a foot. >> mike: two for boston college here in the first 8 minutes of the game. woods wide open. free-throw line. >> dan: will is no reason for tony woods to shoot that shot. just gave the numbers. 20 points in the lane. why shoot one outside the lane? >> mike: here is reggie jackson. inside corey raji. c.j. harris will pick up his first personal foul. 11:54 to go first half. wake forest has broken out to a 23-14 lead. he last timeu we sc? tra plth ns? heckass ops r grals on great a under armor long-sleeve tech t-shirts for just $24.99. new balance 408 cross trainers for men and women are under $40. and save $20 on new bass pro carbonlite fishing rods. bass pro shops. your adventure starts here. i waenjo verye. i o beere nt, sos whain. o hat th y dayest traio stay ahead f ale yoys, to sem tn't keepth tyear ster. >> wake forest has been pounding inside. they have outrebounded boston college 9-2 and their points have come fairly easy. >> d