what parents can do to keep their children safe. >> reporter: christopher cummings honor student at old dominion university gunned down while sleeping. >> he was virtually executed. >> reporter: love budgened to rage. all three killed by someone in rage. each year violent crime strikes college students. >> my family had never experienced a death like this. >> reporter: maryland congressman elijah cummings a powerful voice in washington says he can't get over the loss of his nephew. a young boy he loved as his own son. >> they are going on with their lives, happy, the next thing you know they're dead. >> reporter: studying criminal science, hoping to go into public service just like his uncle elijah. he was living in a house in norfolk with two fraternity no r connect 57600 and says [captioning difficulties ] >>> the investigation to the murder of congressman cummings nephew is still under investigation. >>> the day the earth shook literally. the earthquake was felt for hundreds of miles. hear the people who helped >>> the drugs that marylanders abuse is prescription drugs. jessica carta

>>eanne cummings? >> twofer -- rick perry going blank in the debate, the third or fourth debate he was in, was a huge amount from which he has yet to recover.. secondly, the story we e had at bloomberg news, the $1.6 million that newt gingrich received from freddie mac h had a huge influence on the race. >> bonus to jeanne cummings at bloomberg. evevan thomas? >> the fact that both parties started talking about entitlement cuts. now, they did not do or cut anything so o it was pathetic in one sense but thehe fact that a political body is talking a about cutting entitlement programs is a momentous. >> charles krauthammer or? >> obama mckenney his political strength after a bad economy and the sllacking in the last election. the speech he gave in tucson, where he pivoted of the tragedy and made himself a sort of thehe father of the nation for night and the end of the year, where he completely out m maneuvered republicans on the deal with the payroll tax that. he stayed a lot higher than he should be in p

michele bachmann -- is her problem, jeanne cummings, gender? >> no, it is not gender. michele bachmann has slipped in the polls across the country. this is not just an iowa think it basically, michele bachmann got in the race, did a good job in the june and today, her debut. she impressed a lot of people, so they said, ok, i will give her a look. part of the problem with the bachmann campaign is that her message never went further than that she came in, she was going to repeal obamacare, she hit all the right notes, and then just kept hitting the same notes. when a fresh face like rick perry entered the race in august, people figured they had consumed as much bachmann as they could get and took a look at perry. she was never able to solidify his support she got early. -- the support she got early. now we see that her campaign is unraveling. we saw two high-profile members of her iowa campaign machinery, which is all she has left -- she has nothing in new hampshire -- both of them quit, one of them defecting to ron paul. >> ron paul, colby king, is the antithesis of wha

cummings, i'm new here in washington. mr. strickland, thank you very much for being here. >> thank you. nice seeing you again. >> nice seeing you, too. we've had other conversations about other issues. but today i'd like to talk about -- and the ranking member brought it up -- trust, based on integrity or based on confidence. i'm concerned with your role and nhtsa's role. this is the battery, how one handles that and treats that, that really is kind of the essence of what we're talking about for safety. i think we should all take this opportunity. we learn from mistakes. we learn from shortcomings. we look at situations that we debate like the way they worked out, and we figure out what we did wrong and we move on. so i think that's what a hearing like this is about. i guess my question to you is were the automobile safety engineers aware of the dangers posed by the lithium ion battery? >> at what point, madam manager? >> after the crash occurred on the 12th, may 12th, when the car sat after the crash. >> i understand, thank

allison cummings is an art historian for the san francisco art commission. >> you've got works by 25 different significant artists from that time period, working together to create a cohesive depiction of life in california in the early '30s. >> reporter: lillie hitchcock coit-- an eccentric wealthy widow who wanted to beautify her beloved san francisco-- left money that the city decided to use building the tower. it was constructed in 1934, for $125,000. its design was unique: not a clock tower nor a lighthouse, but a simple, fluted shaft. artist diego rivera mentored many of the artists, and his and their politics, often pro-labor, or leftist, is reflected in some, but not all, of the murals. how about the quality of the art? >> it's fantastic. the quality of art is amazing here. it's really indicative of the time period of the early '30s, and sort of public art, public mural movement of that time period. >> reporter: but today at 89, gottstein and others are worried about those frescos and whether they will survive the ravages of weather and neglect. and she also says the city doe

applause] please, remain standing for our invocation led by roa's national chaplain, major vince cummingsor coming. would you all, please, join with me as we now go to our lord in prayer to open our opening discretion of the national -- session of the national security symposium. shall we pray? almighty god, we are here, and as we gather as a family, a fraternity of citizen warriors, our bodies stand united in serving the beloved nation which you have bestowed upon us, the united states of america. as reservists and citizen warriors, we serve authority three times removed; country k community, family. but most of all we serve you collectively pursuing the highest ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. blessed creator, pour out your holy unction upon this gathering, renew the selfless relationships that continuously bind us together and most importantly, allow us to hear and discern the wisdom from our distinguished keynote speakers here today. we finally ask your intersession in comforting the families of our colleagues who have lost loved ones that have served our great co

. >> let's head south to cumming, georgia, $279,900 brick home and unbelievable landscaping. >> cummings a small community next door to atlanta with great schools and the house is situated on its own cul-de-sac which increases the value on any house. the proper taxes are just $2,813 a year and you get 2,974 square feet, less than a dollar a foot to live in the house. come on, this doesn't look like a cheap house to me. it's beautiful. the family room has two palisades windows flanking the fireplace, it's elegant and comfortable, the pretty formal dining room i got to believe must never be used because there's not a spot on the white carpet. how do people live like that? >> take their shoes off. >> and never eat on the table. >> the eating kitchen has a granite island and glass mosaic back splash. the master bedroom has a vaulted ceiling. flower bed isser itible, everything has to be solid. what were they thinking? look at the big backyard that comes with the house as well. it's beautiful and got to be the envy of that smaller house next door. they must hate their neighbor there i got to

a ceremony celebrating the life of christopher cummings. >>> tensions are rising in the occupy dc movement. the deadline that comes today and protesters are going to fight back hard. [ female announcer ] back to school means back to busy mornings. that's why i got them pillsbury toaster strudel. warm flaky pastry with delicious sweet filling my kids will love. plus i get two boxtops for their school. toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. and these are the ones you'll love on a school night. pillsbury ham and cheese crescents. with just a few ingredients, you have an easy dinner. pillsbury ham and cheese crescents. school night ideas made easy. >>> good morning maryland. >> occupy rally in atlanta, got heated in confrontational friday when protesters targeted a bank foreclosing on a family's home. they said they were taking away the homes of people in financial distress. >>> 400 arrests sparked outrage, those occupy chicago are marching in solidarity for the bread win in oakland california. we are keeping an eye on the occupy dc movement and today is a deadline, and linda so has a prev

maryland congressman elijah cummings is urging those who qualify to use the service. >> we have people who have been certified by the irs to prepare the returns. they have helped 16,000 people over the last 11 years, and we are trying to help another 9000 teixeira. >> for a list of the tax preparation sites, you can visit our website, wbaltv.com. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> january 2012 makes you think there is no winter around. actually, parts of western and northern canada and alaska are suffering through one of the worst winters on record. record-setting snows on the south coast of alaska to the coldest january temperatures in central and northern alaska. fairbanks at about 30 below zero. they are getting too rigid close to the high for the day. -- they are getting close to the high for the day. that tells you they are in for some severe arctic cold across this part of the world. 62 degrees before it is below zero and in one town in alaska. south of the u.s.-canadian border, is a relatively mild nationwide with the exception of far

he is a summa cum laude graduate of bowdoin college and san francisco school of law. please help me welcome san francisco's mayor. [applause] >> thank you. happy new year. [applause] it is my delight to be here. i want to add my thanks to the u.s. postal service. i look forward to this every year to see the postal officials delivered the artistic beauty of these stamps. this is the fifth stamp set the we have enjoy. thank you for being here. i really enjoy the camaraderie of everybody on the stage. he represents a much of what we're proud of in the city reduced represent so much of what we're proud of in the city. -- you represent so much of what we're proud of in the city. it was in the earlier years when we started the tradition of designing the stamps. claudine, thank you very much. [applause] tommy ing, officials are here today as well from the u.s. postal service. thank you very much. to my good friend who will follow me. we were law school roommates at berkeley. he is also a dragon. we have two dragons in the house. he is now the federal judge for the ninth circ

john harwood, jeanne cummings, and fred yang. all right.president, john harwood, take on wall street, take on congress. let me ask you about the wall street portion. how upset will wall street react to some of what the president proposed last night, in particular that criminal justice subbureau if you will he wants to create in the justice department. >> the real problem wall street has with this president is psychological. that is to say, they think the president is condemning them publicly, making them look like villains, making them look like criminals, trying to make them feel gilley for the money they make, and that's caused a big estrangement from a lot of people who supported him in 2008, but in the election environment of 2012 he'll take that estrangement and wear it as a badge of honor with independents. >> jeanne, hitting congress, daring them to do reform bills. i thought it was funny he mentioned this insider trading bill, which is this ability to take congress and wall street and lump them together. >> clearly he's going to run

. >>> family and friends gathered to celebrate the life of chris cummings , the nephew of elijah cammings. he was shot in his off campus apartment. he would have been 21 yesterday. his sister organized the event. >>> comes to your children, make sure they are safe and happy as possible at all times. warning released when it comes to flame retardant found in baby goods. what you need to be aware of. staying healthy, ladies how the signs differ for men when it comes to heart attacks. the doctor is giving you information you need to know. you are watching good morning maryland. a live look at the inner harbor. we continue in a few moments. >>> 33 degrees, five things you need to know, hearings resume on expanded business for custody for hinkley. government was against more freedom. the man who attended to kill reagan in 1981. hunter, the mother of john edwards 2-year-old child will be in court to file invasion of privacy suit. >>> michelle obama and hilda sulas will announce rules to help caregivers of wounded, ill and service members. >>> president barack obama will hop on google plus, goin

. >>> a shooting happened yesterday morning in cummings middle school in brownsville. once officers arrived, police say a 15-year-old had what they pleased was a real gun and would not put it down. officers say they were forced to fire at the student. he was taken to the hospital where he died. police later said the gun was actually a pellet gun. >>> congresswoman gabrielle giffords marks the one-year anniversary of the shooting that nearly took her life honoring those who lost their lives that day. giffords and her husband will attend the vigil in tu san on sunday night. a year ago that day wab gunman opened fire at a meet and greet. 19 people were shot, six people killed, including a 9-year-old girl and a federal judge. >>> a maryland father is facing abuse charges after police say he left his two young children inside his car in the cold while he shopped. he was arrested tuesday afternoon. they say he left his 4-year-old and 5-month-old children in the car for about 20 minutes while he shopped at a walmart in frederick. it was 24 degrees out at the time. the windchi

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my worry is it may be in cummings stock, so i'm going to bet that cummings stock gets hit no matter what it says. and i would do if i were at home what my charitable trust did and take profits ahead of the quarter. then there is dow chemical. this one i'm really curious, making a lot of calls on today. it's a big one. the chemical companies are on fire right now. a lot of takeovers in the group, in part because of a dramatic decline in natural gas, their core feed stock. so i bet dow will deliver a very strong bottom line, although top line, the revenues could be hurt by europe. if the stock gets hit by some extraneous market news ahead of this report, i'm going to come in here on thursday night and tell you, or friday morning on "squawk on the street." friday morning there is american axle. now i've made it clear that the way to play the auto rebound is not with the automakers. witness ford, right? more on that later. but with the parts makers because we care about the automobile. axl is the first of this group to report. if we're going to build more than 14 million cars this year in th

elijah cummings and anthony brown will be in attendance.hat town hall is set for tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 at the rawlings data center in baltimore. baltimore city remembers dr. martin luther king, january 16th at noon. a parade featuring more than 55 organizations will honor him. it begins at the intersection of martin luther king boulevard and eutaw street and ends at baltimore street. in memphis, a proproposal to rename nine blocks to dr. martin luther king avenue. the board will make the decision later and haven't received any comment yet opposing the changing of this name. dr. king was shot by james earl ray in 1968. >>> time for another check of the forecast with justin. >> the rain pulling out. we're 46 in baltimore. we will pick up next couple of hours. it's basically 40s east of the ohio valley, heavy rain still up in new england. look at the cold air behind me. you have to shift focus to the back side of the storm. 34 chicago. they have the biggest snow event of the season. that is really not saying much, is it? 23 st. louis, 15 d

. >>> representative cummings, a democrat from maryland said i believe that the america that president obama spoke about tonight is possible to regain and we must continue to fight to rebuild manufactureramerican manufacturing and american energy and retrain american workers and renew our american values. republican representative harris said as yet another sign of a steal policies. it was announced today that maryland lost 1200 private sector jobs in the month of december. >>> delegates will hold a press conference today immediately following the legislative session to discuss a new gonzalez poll that has come out on our state's budget. >>> if you ride the metro to go into town, you better dig deeper in your pocket. how much more it will cost you to park the station. >>> your weather and traffic coming up in two and a half minutes. we're "good morning maryland." that is a live look at the white house. >>> sometimes getting snowed in can be a nice experience. but in this washington town, six days may be too. they got four feet of snow which has proved to be a major problem. lines and p

and jeanne cummings is an editor at bloomberg news. we appreciate you both being with us. brody mullins, i'm going start with you on governor romney. the total income he released 2010-2011, $43 million almost. what was that income from? >> mainly from investments. the tax code in the u.s. is set up in a way that when wealthy people invest in various funds and take a capital gain or dividend from that, they pay a very low tax rate, a 15% tax rate. for not lifting a finger or doing any actual sweat equity he was able to get his lower 15% tax rate as opposed to a tax rate as high as 35%. >> woodruff: roughly what kind of investments? >> mainly through his former employer bain capital. which then set up... there is there are dozens of separate firms that bain invested in that he was taking dividends and capital gains from. >> woodruff: the tax rate around 14%. >> 14%. >> woodruff: which is pretty close to normal for this kind of income. is that right? >> right. the normal rate would be 15%. he was at 14% or a little bit lower than that. >> woodruff: and how was he able to do t

allison cummings with the art commission says this is an ongoing problem. >> this is a historical issue with the the building and murals. this is not the damage, it has to be treated every so often. >>charles: the art commission is helping to procure funds to pay for restoration. in addition to their offer of two of the $50,000 and a 1 per cent of ticket sales, they're hoping it will be enough. >> we are continuing to get returns streaming in from iowa. michelle bachman made a poor showing in iowa and is speaking to supporters. it continues to be a two-man race between mitt romney and rick santorum. they continued to edge each other out for the top spot. let's look at the results. with 93 percent of the precincts reported, santorum is less than 100 votes ahead of romney. ron paul is trailing in third place, new gingrich, carry an bachman are trailing far behind. gingrich and bachman have spoken to supporters and at this point neither one has indicated that they plan to drop out of the race despite poor showings. to recap, the two-man battle for i will continues between romney and santor

covering the week, jeanne cummings of bloomberg news, beth reinhard of "national journal," alexis simendinger of real clear politics, and pete williams of nbc news. >> award winning reporting and analysis covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capitol, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill, produced in association with "national journal. " corporate funding for washington week is provided by >> a line is a powerful thing. it connects the global economy to your living room, cleaner air to stronger markets, factory floors to less crowded roads. today's progress to tomorrow's promise. norfolk southern, one line, infinite possibilities. >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by prudential financial. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen:good evening 6789 after new hampshire and before south carolina, the battle lines are now well drawn in the republican primary race. the

road work continues now willow of off of cummings skyway, no major slowing past the scene but hopefully road crews will take care of this pothole. >>> new this morning, san jose police at the scene of overnight violence at a popular night spot. >> several people were injured early this morning at creek sidebar and grill on alma street. >> reporter: good morning, laura and jon. police have been here at the scene since just before 2:00 this morning. looks like they're loading up a car into a tow truck. those are the lights that you see hyped me here. violence erupted just before 2:00 this morning here at the creek sidebar and grill. police say one person was shot and two others stabbed here at creek side. they were taken to a local hospital in a private vehicle. they are being treated for unknown injuries. bystander flagged down a patrol car in the area saying someone had been shot in front of the restaurant. police at this point have not identified a suspect but it is early on in the investigation and investigators still need to talk to the victims and other witnesses. >> officers heard

michael cummings. i worked with him when i was with fritz institute. he has gone to fema. that's an important effort that fema has undertaken. something that the deputy administrator was talking about. i think the state should bring somebody in there as well. [laughter] yeah, right. i have toe say here in the state we are lucky to have the california resiliencey law and peter who has done a lot of incredible work with the private sector. so once again, so many good ideas, so many things have happened here. just remarkable. state of the art. now, the work that you have to do, we have some questions. my colleague prepared some questions. we don't have a lot of time. we have one mike there in the center, and we had way too many questions. we have 15 minutes or so. but i think maybe the best question to ask, jim, is the last one that we had which is like looking back at the last two-plus decades since loma prieta, you know, what concerns us collectively as a group, you know, most about our current response and recovery capacity and what do we think our greatest stride has been

. >>> and congressman elijah cummings will be honored today. he'll receive the house leadership award. that ceremony is set for 9:00. >>> and governor martin o'malley is now saying okay to doubling, even tripling the flush tax. right now the flush tax runs $2.50 a month for sewer customers and $30 a year for homes with septic tanks. environmental groups want to see that tax raised to $90 by the year 2015. >>> and the trial of van der sloot will begin today almostle seven years after he became the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway. she still has not been found. he will be tried now for the murder of a peruvian woman. >>> you know you've probably taken down those holiday decorations by now, but there's a family in howard county that's saying no way, not yet and they're doing it for a great cause. abc 2 news linda stow is live in colombia right now to tell us why. linda. reporter: well, charley, this homeowner here could really use your vote. i'm just going to step out of the way. look at these lights. this display is just ama

the cum burns from electric shocks and cigarettes heavy bruising and renal failure all this evidence of the continued torture of prisoners say the doctors and now after two inmates died from the beatings the international group has stopped its mission in protest. patients were brought to us in the middle of interrogation for medical care in order to make them fit for further interrogation this is an acceptable our rule is to provide medical care to war casualties and sick detainees not to repeatedly treat the same patients between torture sessions the news comes amidst rising anger with libya's interim government demonstrations in benghazi last week ended with the resignation of a high ranking member of the m.t.c. in the former gadhafi stronghold of bani walid locals pushed out their traditional council forces claiming systematic abuse it started with the very beginning of the rebellion very beginning of the insurrection the second day of the rebellion on eighteenth of february the african migrants were rounded up locked in a detention center and burnt to death and the n.p.c. express

fifteen year old jamie consolidate after he was shot and killed by brown's oh police in the hallway of cummings middle school police were called after people at the school noticed they can solve was carrying some sort of a weapon on him and they said looked like a gun so as you can see here it does look like a gun only turns out that it wasn't but when the street was confronted by police that's where the cops took matters into their own hands both ortiz put the school in lockdown and tried to get the eighth grader to drop the weapon and. instead officers say the teen pointed at them forcing them to make a split second decision. that split second decision by police left them solace with three bullet wounds the last one in the back of the head and it wasn't until after the student was dead the police determine that the weapon was a pellet gun didn't fire any type of bullets and that pellet gun wasn't capable of doing any true physical harm to anybody at the brown so police department stand firmly by their decision to shoot to kill and we commend the actions taken by all those involved fortunately

and killed the boy inside of his school said they had no choice the shooting happened yesterday at cummings middle school in bronzeville texas police responded to a report of a student with a gun officers confronted 15 year-old jimmy gonzales and a hallway they say he pointed a gun at them and when he refused to drop the gun police shot him it turned out the weapon was a pellet gun school officials say they never had any trouble with gonzales in the past but before that shooting he punched another student for no apparent reason >>no charges will be filed against a widowed teenage mother who shot and killed an intruder 18 year-old sarah mckinley blanchard okla. killed justin shane martin who had a knife in his hand as he and another man broke into her mobile home on new year's eve prosecutors say that she clearly acted in self- defense but her alleged accomplice will face murder charges in his death mckinley shop mart moi she was on the phone with a 911 dispatcher asking whether she could shoot those perpetrators >>sarah mckinley's husband died last week on christmas day he was hospitalized

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one of those here was congressman elijah cummings. >> they have people who have been certified by the irs to prepare the returns. they are trying to help another 9000 people this year. >> a service for low to moderate income working families in baltimore, this is the 11th year for the cash campaign. >> families who made it the thousand dollars or below, or individual filers who made $25,000 or below qualify for our service. >> all the tax specialists to do the returns are trained, and they know what they are doing. >> all of them are tax specialists. >> the goal for this year's cash campaign is to repair over 9000 tax returns. for those who qualify, it is a great deal. >> i am a homeowner and i itemize, so normally they would not charge for this, but here they do a really good job and is free. >> a veteran in florida has an interesting problem. >> i am alive. >> he has been declared dead by the department of veterans affairs at least four times. details coming up. >> for college students, the debt can be overwhelming in seem never-ending. ahead, a program that >> live, local, late-bre

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