wealthy districts around the d.c. area that makes sense but what i'm getting at is you have d.c. government contractors that maybe benefit in the d.c. area from government coffers you have corporations that you could argue have benefited from fed policy of cheap money big banks you know their c.e.o.'s that have benefited from bailouts is the trend that people better make it out well are benefiting from government coffers and programs and policies well some people are in for sure i mean you definitely have you know contractors for example the u.s. is building up to one hundred million dollar base or prison in afghanistan so obviously contractors that build prisons or benefit from that are people and military contracts are going to benefit banks are going to benefit from fed policies from quantitative easing from government fiscal stimulus things like that but there are certain people that are are thrown in that pile where they shouldn't be and i think that's part of the problem we're hearing rhetoric rhetoric around about raising taxes on the rich because i think that's a very bro

[laughter] >> [inaudible] >> autodesk is a company that started in the bay area, reached to the d.c. area. started at the same time as companies like microsoft and adobe, so it is a 30-year-old company. it was originally headquartered in sausalito. about 15 years ago, we moved headquarters, and we have always had a small presence in san francisco. there has alwaysb

d.c. metro area for today. but yes, changes this weekend. so, time to get out the fall clothes and it looks like we'll see probably some changes by saturday and sunday. day planner is looking at lots of sunshine to start off your morning. we've got some clouds moving in this afternoon. partly to mostly cloudy skies. temperatures topping in the mid to upper 70s today. will be breezy once again. doppler radar, we've got basically clear skies this morning. fog not a big concern. we've got a cold front though moving through today in the mid- atlantic which will leave behind some much cooler air tomorrow. currently, 62 in downtown. gaithersburg, good morning to you at 57 degrees. martinsburg, 62. hagerstown cool at 59 degrees. not as humid today. highs for the afternoon, mid- 70s around downtown. 75 in annapolis. tappahannock, you might get to 80 degrees. manassas, you're warming up to 76. here is a look at the next three days. enjoy today's warmth because tomorrow, mostly cloudy. chilly, 60 degrees. a couple of passing showers, sprinkles possibl

s in the d.c. area it's crony capitalism we saw under george w. bush and you know post katrina we saw it in iraq we see it with defense contracting all the time and the stimulus plan was a big boon for this type of cronyism if you will and we know that you know corporations for every one dollar spent in public for for representing the public when it comes to lobbying in washington d.c. three hundred dollars is spent by corporations so again it's no surprise we have this system where corporations have it rigged so that they can get the teat of government if you will and get most of the milk that's how our system is set up so it's not surprising that president obama hasn't been able to shift this despite his rhetoric during the two thousand and eight election that he would shift as caroline held in a professor of politics at occidental college now has developed nation struggle with debt and a eurozone crisis is probably the culmination of that we're seeing the major emerging nations today brazil russia india china and south africa together they're k

[laughter] >> [inaudible] >> autodesk is a company that started in the bay area, reached to the d.c. area. started at the same time as companies like microsoft and adobe, so it is a 30-year-old company. it was originally headquartered in sausalito. about 15 years ago, we moved headquarters, and we have always had a small presence in san francisco. there has always been a fringe element to the company. we had a more urban setting that attracted different kinds of talents. a few years ago, we really increased it up to about 500. we were going to increase a couple hundred more. the interesting thing is that so much of our business is outside of the united states. about 75% of our business is outside of the united states. what we look for is really the place where we can get the best talent. that is generally where we look at ourselves. our big motivations, particularly for research, development, or marketing is where we can find the best people, and we found that in san francisco. >> [inaudible] >> pretty much across the board, but the two main functions we have is software development and l

there's a cold front moving across the area, mainly to the west of the d.c. area at this time. garrett county and allegany county. a few showers around cumberland. the showers will not amount to a lot today. mostly sunny. a beautiful day ahead 73-77. overnight lows in the 40's. tomorrow will be 57-62. we have the taste of the bethesda coming up and st. catherine's greek orthodox church is having their festival today through sunday. a lot to do this weekend. bundle up. in the meantime, traffic with lisa baden. >>> we spoke about maryland and showed you some pictures, so we are rounding out by going toccata virginia area. 95 and 66 look ok. getting inside the beltway, 395 edsall road, not bad. now to a corridonear the pentagon, looks great on 110 washington boulevard. looks pretty good across the potomac river. and across the roosevelt bridge. and no problems on the beltway. we will keep an eye on it. back to you. >> thank you. >>> 4:43, 60 degrees. cracks coming up, a big bank plans to make big bucks on your dime. >> and arch campbell pack as the odds on freight rail delivered c

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worries me because the sergeant-at-arms is a key player when it comes to protecting the washington, d.c. areawe followed up with the sergeant-at-arms and first let me say that he said coordination is 100% better than it used to be. the fbi's local office worked very closely with them but here's what he said happened. first, she was told as were we i might add, that the information was classified and closely held and as he said that's pretty typical and an understanding approach. but then he said that the decision to go public caught them off-guard and they were out of the lubber and essentially it sounds like they learned about it on television. what is your response to this critique and again so that i'm not taking this out of context he did praise the local fbi office and he did say that coordination is 100% better than it used to be but he said the decision to go public took them by surprise to and seems that shouldn't have happened given what a key player the sergeant-at-arms is since he controls the capitol police. matsuzaka to become if you would. >> i will go first on that. it's diffic

surprisingly because this area only well it has always been known as a stronghold and people from d.c. area have since the beginning of this conflict here in libya been fighting against rebels all across the country and have been dying for gadhafi in all the time been supporting gadhafi who has provided them with a very good imitation and the past weaponry so that's clear that it will not be easy for travels to take control of this area while they need it actually daffy variables have been unknown and while the hunt for him not surprisingly remains the country's number one priority is thought to be right now with his sons in this area this is one. one more reason for the rebels to take control of little area as on this course while the rebels are afraid that gadhafi forces could off his loyalists may use people local residents as human shields and they've recently called for all people in the area still held by gadhafi forces to come over to his side from the scene they will not be any revenge for them and security could be guaranteed in that case. well maria what about the people how are t

actually cancelled at around five thirty in the morning and i was here where i live in the washington d.c. area and i spent the next number of days at home it's had a dramatic effect on certainly on my life afterwards i became the deputy chairman of security for the pilots union at american airlines and i proudly served on that and so not just at my retirement but i was kept on as a full time security consultant working on these very issues that you talk about. it was a tragedy that i don't think we thought about at my level at that point in time but certainly to this day it's never left my thought you mentioned before the liquid bombers one of the targeted flights was actually my flight coming out of london heathrow to new york kennedy so it certainly affected me personally but i had a number of friends on our aircraft that were taken down at the. scary thank you for being on the private market says good to see you guys from american airlines pilot member of the spectrum group civil aviation team it was a lot of good insight for us. now we ask the people of new york what kind of impact the tra

stunt now if you're familiar with them the d.c. area couple known as the white house party crashers they're accused of crashing president obama's first state dinner back in two thousand and nine and causing a media circus white house party crashers what was your reaction when you saw the headlines devastated areas there in the street or why why did the sharks devastated we knew. the facts which with time you know our side of the story and everything will be heard now while this law he's we're happy to tell their story to n.b.c.'s the today show after the story broke when they were called the capitol hill to testify before congress they refused to answer questions on the grounds that it might incriminate them but how does all of this a lot he's been using the white house party crashers label to seek fame and fortune . to me and my going. that's right the couple took part in the bravo series real housewives of d c and that series was the fifth installment of the real housewives series but the d.c. season was a total bust bad ratings of co

mobility report says the san francisco/oakland area was the seventh most congested area in the nation last year. the washington, d.c. metro area ranked first, chicago and langs round out the top -- los angeles round out the top three. researchers say congestion is one way to measure how well cities are doing economically. >>> san francisco firefighters were busy at a strip mall fire. the fire broke out around 4:00 this morning. firefighters say flames came from the roof of a business that's undergoing renovations. no one was injured in the fire. but neighboring businesses also suffered damage. it took firefighters about half an hour to put out the fire. >>> the oakland school board will hear tonight from parents about plans to close five schools. >> save our schools! save our schools! >> some students staged a small protest this morning outside lakeview elementary. it's one of five schools on the list of proposed closures in 2012, along with luzier, marshall, maxwell park and santa fe elementary. the district says the move could save it more than $2 million in much-needed money. but opponents say the children are a

at that point we know they're coming to the washington, d.c. areadon't know where they're coming to. >> reporter: as the minutes, then seconds, ticked by, garabito braced for impact. >> as the one nearest us got closer, six minutes out, five minutes out, we knew it was sort of over the cia and we thought is that where it's going? but it kept coming. and then at one point we got under a minute and i said it is about 30 second out. >> reporter: in new york, faa control manager mike mccormick was on a teleconference call listening helplessly to a similar countdown. >> the washington controllers came up on the speaker phone and started counting down, ten miles to the white house, nine miles from the white house, eight miles from the white house, all the way down to one mile from the white house. >> seems like more than 30 seconds. and he said i don't know, it's dropped off our radar. >> reporter: american flight 77 did not hit the white house. instead, it crashed into the pentagon. as for the fourth plane, the passengers on board united flight 93 made s

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. >> we knew there were two coming, coming to the washington, d.c. areaing to. >> as the minutes then seconds ticked by. he braced for impact. >> the one nearest us, six minutes out, five minutes out. we knew it was over the c. i a., we thought, is that where it is coming? it it kept coming. at one point, we got under a minute, 30 seconds out. >> in new york, mike mccormick was on a conference call listening helplessly to a similar countdown. >> the washington controllers came up on the speaker phone. counting down, ten miles from the white house, 9 miles from the white house. 8 miles to the white house. all the way down to one mile from the white house. >> seems like more than 30 seconds, what do you got? i don't know, it dropped off the radar. >> american flight 77 didn't hit the white house. instead, it crashed into the pentagon. as for the fourth plane, the passengers on board united flight 93 made sure that the the terrorists wouldn't hit anything but a field in shanksville, pennsylvania. >> those individuals that fought back may have saved my life o

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police out in full force throughout the washington, d.c. area this weekend. officers have a vast camera network and are checking bridges, tunnels, if abandoned cars. here in the by area people may notice an increase in law enforcement. bart will have extra security at train stations and parking lots through monday. although there is no specific threat, the federal transportation security administration has asked for increased patrols around bart as part of operation rail safe, a national security operation including more than 140 agencies from 32 states and several canadian cities. stay with ktvu for coverage tomorrow, on september 11th. our coverage will begin at 5 a.m., and it will continue throughout the day. with our special 9/11, a decade of change at 6 p.m. along with complete coverage on our 10:00 news. >>> good morning to you. waking up with a little bit of sunshine out there. giving you a look at a little bit of haze out there, little bit of fog on the coastline. many of us seeing the sunrise this, who. that low-pressure system that's bringing us the

. >> arthel: molly, julie reported at the beginning of hour about the missing vans in the d.c. areaou have to look at it in view of the terror plot revolving around car and truck bomb. they are taking the stolen vans seriously. police ooze of d.c. say the two white ford econoline vans were stolen at different times from two different u-haul lots today. they have arizona license tags and police say it may just be a case of stolen vans not related to the terror threat but they are being extra cautious. the d.c. police are stopping the u-haul truck and vans in the area. >> arthel: thank you for the update. >> rick: politics now. rick perry raising eyebrows when he called the social security a ponzi scheme. take a listen. >> fib for the status quo with social security today is involved with a monstrous lie to our kids and it's not right. the issue in the book set up as you say that by any measure social security is a failure. you can't say that to tens of thousands of americans living on social security. >> governor perry son record saying states should have the right to opt out of soci

pittman because this man who is accused of pretending to be quarterback vince young here in the d.c. area is a sex offender from denton county, texas, still serving his probation. he could now face two to 20 years for violating his probation by allegedly defrauding women up here of tens of thousands of dollars in this alleged scheme. one of the victims showed up in court here this afternoon. >> i wanted to jump up and attack him. i did. i think you saw me fudge eting next to you. it was hard to sit still. >> reporter: could you believe that that's the guy that talked you out of $25,000? >> yes, kai. >> reporter: she is really angry, because she says pittman talked her out of that money by posing as nfl quarterback vince young from the eagles and claiming that he was willing to invest with her in buying a health spa. he said he was in the health spa business already in texas in addition to beg an nfl quarterback. she's among the victims who is also worried that if texas doesn't come get pittman that the judge today did set some conditions for his release next week, but we've got to get ove

but we're still getting heavy rain and reports of high-water rescues in and around the d.c. area over yet. we're expecting rain to continue through today and tomorrow, and look at some of these rainfall totals. this is just from lee alone, not irene ten days ago, but lee. over a foot, 15 inches in parts of pennsylvania, close to a foot in new york and maryland, and we are dealing with excessive rainfall across much of this region. still flash flood warnings in effect for parts of upstate new york and pennsylvania, down through the d.c. area. historic flooding. i just want to show you this hydrograph, that's the gauge at binghamton, the susquehanna river. the current level right now, over 25 feet. the forecast is over 26 feet. um, this is historic. they have never seen record flooding like this and, megyn, within the next several minutes, even several hours we're expecting to see the flood overtop the walls, the protective walls and flood the city of binghamton, just devastating, catastrophic really. back to you. megyn: gracious. janice, thank you. and those words may apply in thi

unfortunately, it's not fallen to below $3 a gallon here in the d.c. area.ely due to a sharp decline in crude oil prices. the national average for regular unleaded gasoline is $3.49 per gallon, down from a high of $3.98 in early may. the national average again is the lowest it's been in some time. the d.c. average is right around $3.62 a gallon, down from $3.73, and our area, virginia has the cheapest gas prices now. a gallon costs $3.35. that's down from 9 cents higher than it was a week ago. maryland is down 9 cents from $3.53 to $3.43, and in west virginia right now, they're paying $3.57 for a gallon of regular. there is more good news because some analysts are predicting that in november we may be paying $3.25 for a gallon of regular. i'm tracee wilkins live this morning in capitol heights. back to you all in the studio. >> we'd like to see that. tracee, thank you. >>> mortgage rates are dropping fast as well. cnbc's bertha coombs joins us live with more on that story. good morning. >> good morning, joe. >>> it's this tantalizing thing out there. mortgag

d.c. metro area so wealthy so incredibly rich. we only cal look at look at that thing. as a car coming behind us we've found none that i really think where somebody you know you're a lobbyist when those are the monuments to the corporate takeover of america and elsewhere around the country in the communities crippled by foreclosure and unemployment and the families now living in their cars or in homeless shelters you see the consequences of this very same crony capitalism sarah palin is right we need to end the corruption in our lobbyist infested government that has led us to this for the rich by the rich economy course sarah palin thinks the best way to do that is by electing people who will dismantle government which will totally leave those corporations and wealthy people to step in and fill the void i didn't say she's bright or that i agree with her solution. which really was just a side ways of attacking rick perry but i think it's great that she's willing to identify an attack crony capitalism but the truth is we need people who will dismantle corporate power and

i've spent all of my ministry and life in the new york city area and now down in the washington, d.c. area on the east coast. so i knew that i would be writing a lot about fort worth, texas, and i wanted to make sure i got that right. i wanted to make sure that if somebody grew up around there, knew people, that they'd read the book and say this guy did his homework and his research. so there's a lot about fort worth. in fact, some people have said maybe i put too much detail in it. i don't think i have. but there's a lot about the city, something i grew to appreciate. and that's what drew bob schieffer of cbs news. he wrote the forward to the book, graciously, because he said, you know, he'd heard these things when he grew up in fort worth. in fact, he says in the forward that if he hadn't grown up in fort worth, he would have thought somebody made all this stuff up. but, he said, nobody did. it really happened. and he was gracious and kind. and i thought that was a nice compliment that somebody that loved fort worth that much would take this work seriously enough to do that. okay, again,

hit the flood plains and the midwest because he's a governor in the media market in the new york/d.c. areaok the shot at governor perry there. i do want to note chris christie is on the record saying he feels immigration reform should include a path to citizenship. but cornell, what is the appeal of chris christie? >> the appeal of chris christie is the other field. when you look at the rest -- sticking to baseball now, this is deja vu all over again. we heard this with romney, they all wanted bachmann, they look at rick perry and now want chris christie. christie took a shot at perry on immigration because where he's been in the past he's caused a lot of the tea party's crazies around the environmental protection as well as around the muslim -- the whole muslim thing, so he's got some work to do with the far right of that party. >> maybe he could be on independent candidate, erin? no? yes? no? >> you bring up immigration. he's a very northeastern republican if you want to use that word. second strictest gun laws in the country in new jersey. he's well aware that those issues on social pol

working our way towards the north panhandle of florida to keep the president out of the washington, d.c. areang could be situated there. >> for one point you called for a fighter jet es skort. what prompted that call? >> the combination of the airliner descending into us. at one point the vice president advised us that angel was next. angel was the classified call sign of air force one. didn't know how they were going to do it. being advised that they were next we had to figure out how they could attack us either from the air, bombs on board. we had to be ready for it. i asked for fighter support. we subsequently got it. >> colonel, here we are almost ten years to the day in a few days, ten years from those attacks, how often do you reflect on that day? >> all the time. every year, every september 11th. terrorists plan attacks for subsequent anniversaries. we're always ready to go. september 11th we had the planes ready. had everything set in the event there was another attack. ten years later i've seen tremendous improvements throughout the country with security not only president bush, but

this is what one ap photographer discovered when he took pictures of michelle obama at a d.c. areaarget. and i think that may be the target that i used to go to down there in columbia heights. whether this was a photo-op to show off the obamas are just like everyone else is up to you to decide. nevertheless what the photos do show is that the first lady apparently waits in line like everybody else. [ woman ] my grocery bill isn't wasteful spending. [ woman ] my heart medication isn't some political game. [ man ] our retirement isn't a simple budget line item. [ man ] i worked hard. i paid into my medicare. [ man ] and i earned my social security. [ woman ] now, instead of cutting waste and loopholes, washington wants to cut our benefits? that wasn't the agreement. [ male announcer ] join the members of aarp and tell washington to stop cuts to our medicare and social security benefits. she's supporting breast cancer programs for her neighbour's tennis instructor's daughter's 1st grade teacher who's also her mom. help fund breast cancer programs in your community. redeem your lids to

d.c. metro area has the worst traffic.tar of the cable series "the l 'l' word." she's calling for people to boycott southwest airlines. the airline insists that hailey was removed for excessive behavior and not other decisions made. >>> now, here's diane sawyer with a preview of tonight's "world news." diane? >> good morning to you, josh. coming up on "world news," is the secret to happiness finding a second act? reinventing yourself. how do you start? we're going to introduce everyone at "gma" to some boomers who taught us big lessons on how to change everything. and you can change, too. tonight on "world news." >>> before we show you the next story, we need to tell you that the girl in this video is okay. she was not injured. okay. here we go. girl's family at a ball game here. her father, way too eager to catch a foul ball. the girl tumbles one row in front of dad. this game being played in taiwan. the fall is not why we're showing it. watch mom. >> oh. >> giving him the business. >> that is the death stare. >> i sure h

>> when it was clear that there was a threat to the d.c. areaenter. >> why did you assume that? >> because washington, d.c. is the heart of the united states. it is the nation's capital, the center of the free world. so as ominous as those two aircraft hitting the world trade center were, it was very clear to us that we needed to get airborne to protect washington, d.c. before, the challenge was how do we get authorization to be able to get airborne. national guard units have two separate chains of command. we have a federal chain of command. but in order for that federal chain of command which thens mobilizes -- then mobilizes us into the active duty air force, and then there are lines that go up through the active air force, to the secretary of defense and then to the president, you have to be major league baseballized to make -- mobilized to make that happen. then there is the standing chain of command up through the government. the d.c. chain of command doesn't go to the mayor of d.c. we had to work our civilian chain of command to activate

islamic inspired by the protest in wisconsin in the d.c. areain the past nine days the bank of america branches have been shut down by direct action. i will keep this very brief. my question is, and i haven't read your book i just picked up we speak about the leaders of war and i would just like to ask what the role of our enemies are in creating the of the civil war mike and exacerbating those. >> very good question. i think clearly the greatest obstacles the unions face to the growth and the revival of the external forces are the power of the corporate class, the campaign of extermination has been waged in the private sector that is now spreading in the public sector, the aiding and abetting of this by some of our purported friends and the democratic party. you know, it is a very complicated dance, and i think that we have seen that plea of in distressing ways and kaiser in california. this was a company that has long been lauded as a model the labor management partnering for the respect for the workers' rights, the rights of work dated the el

on tim's plight given that this is a multi jurisdictional area, chances are you probably want to communicate with alexandria or washington, d.c. or fairfax. were you able to do that as well? >> absolutely. we have a phone system called the washington area alert system so we can communicate with each other and it's a secure system where you basically take up a telephone and you can speak over the net to all the capital jurisdictions including the federal government infected sexually hosted by the federal government so we do that. we have automated systems and a web based program that we use to enter data and the resource request for the practitioners out there so we do have other methods other than the typical telephones. we also have the radio operators and the base stations at every fire house as well as the office of emergency management so if everything goes down i have these great radio folks that, and they do stuff and the drill and exercise all the time and they love doing what they do and we just love having them. >> given the different systems what is the d block dedicated to the public safety? >> i think that is the

. >> inspired by the protest in wisconsin come in d.c. arean the past '90s, three bank of america branches have been shut down by direct action. i'll keep this really brief. my question is, i haven't read your book, i just picked it up, you speak about labor civil wars and are just like to ask what the role of our enemies are in creating those civil wars and exacerbating that? >> very good question. no, i think clearly the greatest obstacles unions face, the growth, the revival, the external forces, the power of the corporate class, the campaign that has been waged in the private sector that is now moving to the public sector, the aiding and abetting this by some of our reported friends in the democratic party, you know, it's a very complicated dance. and i think we've seen it play out in very distressing ways at kaiser, in california. this was the company that has long been lauded as a model for labor-management partnering, respect for workers rights, american rights at work gave it the -- eleanor roosevelt human rights awarded several years

on tim's point, given that this is a multijurisdictional area, chances are you probably wanted to communicate with alexandria or washington, d.c. or fairfax. were you able to do that as well? >> guest: absolutely, absolutely. we have a phone system called the washington area warning alert system. so we can communicate with each other, and it's a secure system where you, basically, pick up telephone, and you can speak over the net to all the national capital region jurisdictions including the federal government. in fact, it's actually hosted by the federal government. so we do that. we have automated systems. we have a web-based program that we use to enter data and to make resource requests, it's called web eoc for the practitioners out there. so we do have other methods other than the typical telephones. we also have ham radio operators. we have base stations in the every arlington firehouse as well as my office at the office of emergency management, so if everything goes down, i've got these great amateur radio folks that come in, they staff, they drill, they exercise all the time, and they love doing what they do, and we ju

and there could be flooding in the d.c. area the way from northern virginia into parts of northern, maryland, from the rain that came down in the overnight hours last night. and i have talked to friends in vermont which is close to killington, and they cannot get out of their house. there is no road in front of their home. they were there when it happened in irene, and they still can't get out. they are waiting for a plow, something to make a road for them. and these rivers are not done yet, t. j. >> chad meyers, thank you for the perspective. we appreciate you. >>> 23 minutes past the hour. we will check in with rudy giuliani coming up next. we talked to him today along with secretary of state, hillary clinton, and they made a stop at the new york stock exchange. ( singing along ) ( singing high note ) that should do it. enjoy your new shower. ( door opens, closes ) setting that goal to become a principal. but, i have to support my family, so how do i go back to school? university of phoenix made it doable. a lot of my instruct

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