before he even won, he arrived in cafornia and realized he wo here's dante. >> it cost me 700 to get here. my clhes cost me a total of $1500. i paid that mh to come a look nice for the michael jackson memorial. >> reporter: dante, one of the cky winners o got a con fir makes, we should mention, just off screen, once you exit here, lapd are out in fullorce undercover cloes they're lookg for scalpers what could be selng these tickets after they win tm. ry intense police pree here. >> miguel, dante, when he's figung out the cost for attending michael jackson's memorial service,i don't think you're supposed count yr othes. >> reporter:e said he had to buy a special outfit and he's talking abou how much he spent on his pants his shirt, h jacket. >> that coun. come on. >> reporr: it's a calculation. >> bless hisheart. miguel, thanks. by t way, we just got some information in from debbie rowe's people. reportedly, she was going to the memorial service. now, h people say no, she had planned to atnd, but she won't be because of the onslaugt of media atntion. it made it clear her atteance woul

the police identified the suspect only by the first name dante. they are hoping to identify him more efficiently. apparently, the car was not stolen. the man is considered armed and dangerous. if you see him, please call the police. richard reeve, abc 7 news. >>> coming up -- a former nfl quarterback is found dead inside an apartment. we will have the latest on the story. more than 1 million people want to attend a memorial service for michael jackson. find out how los angeles is preparing. tonight, more than 100 people celebrate independence day as u.s. citizens for the first time. >>> welcome back. this fourth of july weekend will be one of waiting for michael jackson fans. more than a million people have signed up to receive the over 17,000 tickets being made available for the memorial service tuesday. thousands without tickets are expected to converge on the area. those given tickets will be notified monday. >> more than anything, have to say goodbye to michael. >> we're also learning more about the circumstances surrounding his death. an asso

and you're talking about a guy, with dante stallworth spent about 24 days in prison. vick spent 23 months in a federal penitentiary. and i think that's why you see so many people in an uproar saying enough is enough already. get off this guy's back and let him resume his career. >> we'll get your calls in before the break. pam in new jersey wanting to weigh in. pam, your thoughts here? >> caller: hi, how are you? >> pam, go ahead. >> caller: i'm very concerned that he can walk right into making millions all over again. i do understand that everyone deserves a second chance. but i would like to see more money where his mouth is for the humane society, for the aspca, a little more remorse. he is a role model for our children. >> pam -- steve, real quick on that. we'll hit more after the break. i believe, it looks like michael vick has a relationship with the humane society. wayne purcell of the humane society basically saying michael vick can have the greatest impact in urban communities. i agree somewhat with the caller there. i think michael vick's career should be ti

. >> reporter: towson catholic produced nba stars carmelo anthony and dante green and in june hired formerbaer reggie williams to coach the basketball steam. >> how upsetting. you are thrown out of your home. >> reporter: the baltimore archdiocese sent out e-mails and letters tuesday earlier than planned after outraged school supporters leaked to the media that immaculate conception was shutting down the school. >> i am angry and saddened, not only for the kids, but i have had so many parents call me today. kids sitting the corner crying. what am i going to do. where am i going to go? >> reporter: archdiocese said enrollment is down 81 students from last year, less tuition dollars on top of the $160,000 in unpaid tuition from last year. a total operating deficit of more than a half million dollars. >> not only an en tenable economic situation but a program base on few people and such a bare-bones staff and program matic offerings because of the budget, it just did not make sense to continue. >> reporter: a protest of this decision is planned for 10 a.m. today. parents, students and support

>> reporter: school has notified alumni like carmelo anthony and dante green, the school says the debt is too deep. the school says they know it is the direct result of the economy. it has $160,000 in unpaid tuition and $650,000 in a budget deficit. of the 244 students it had in june it grand waited 59. back to you, don, -- graduated 59. back to you, don. >> thank you, it was founded in 1922. >>> more answers today in what happened to two teenagers just before they were found on the light rail tracks in baltimore county. sally is live in the newsroom with what the mta saying this noon. good afternoon, sally. >> reporter: good afternoon, mary and everybody. transit officials say a video camera on one of the light rail trains show those two teens were walking on the tracks. kyle wankmiller and connor peterson both 17 years old was found laying inside the lutherville tracks on sunday. it is believed they heard the train coming from behind them but didn't move out of the way because they thought it would be on the other track. the train wasn't able to use the other track because a guardrai

. >> towson produced carmelo anthony and dante green and in june hired reggie williams to coach the basketball alumni are clearly close to their alma matter. >> it it's so upsetting. you're thrown out of your home. >> reporter: there will be a liaison here for you to son catholic students to be linked up with other catholic schools if possible. the diocese is asking those schools to accept the lower tuition here and they will help students connect with public schools if necessary. reporting live from towson, kelly mcpherson, wjz eyewitness news. >> thank you very much kelly. the 20 faculty and staff members will learn more tomorrow at a school meeting. >>> the sudden loss of a maryland high school athlete. tonight, the mysterious death of a football player who collapsed during a teamworkout what. the family is saying. >> new information on the suspected serial killer in south carolina. police say he was in maryland before his murder spree. >> reporter: is the juvenile justice system failing our children some some prosecutors believe it is. i'm mike hellgren in southwest baltimore where a five-

police arrested a man, 22-year-old dante mccrea after surveillance cameras captured him putting a shotgun into a car. he's been charged with murder. police haven't released a possible motive in this case. >>> could the department of defense confirm that the bodies of at least two killed in afghanistan are back home. michael heed jr. of pennsylvania has family here in maryland. he was killed in combat on monday. his body arrived at dover air force base in delaware last night. >>> the latest on michael jackson. it's taken 25 years for us to see this. that u.s. weekly just released never before seen footage of his 1984 pepsi shoot. there's michael's hair. it catches on fire and the clips show take after take up until the pyrotechnics exploded too early and ignited his hair. security rushes in to smother out the fire. there's speculation this incident led to jackson to start taking prescription medications to ease the pain from the second degree and third degree burns he suffered. that issue of "u.s. weekly" hits news stands tomorrow. >>> in iran, they are trying to determine what caused a pl

the cleveland browns wide receiver dante stallworth was released from jail after serving 24 days in jail for dui manslaughter. he struck and killed a pedestrian on march 14th. he will be on house arrest for the next two years followed by eight years of probatioand has been suspended indefinitely by the nfl. but of course the good news in the nfl and those guys are out there doing great work in the community and always great to see that. >> great. thank you. >> that is all for 9 news now at 6:00. the cbs evening news is next and then join derek for the only newscast at seven and the latest on the hostage standoff it is going on in leesburg and don't forget, wusa9.com is always on. i'm anita brikman. have a good night.

they arrested 22-year-old dante mccrea after surveillance cameras caught him putting a shotgun in a car. 48-year-old joseph letowsky died at the hospital. she was find tuesday morning on register street off eastern avenue. police have not released a possible motive on this. >>> it was chaos right on the doorsteps of our nation's capitol yesterday as police had to shoot and kill an armed man. it happened yesterday evening at new hampshire avenue at c street. capitol police say the man took off from a routine traffic stop and went the wrong way down a street hitting two officers and finally crashing into a police car. it's not over yet. the armed driver was eventually surrounded but refused to drop his weapon. the witness describes what he saw. >> when i heard the crash i started running up to the corner. then i heard a bunch of pops. i didn't realize they were really gunshots. i thought they were sounding like firecrackers. >> the officers hit by the car weren't seriously hurt and police aren't sure why the driver was near the capitol. >>> the -- appliances in the future could be run lik

. >> reporter: wanted now, this guy, 18-year-old derek dante phillips. police believe he's one of several people involved in a shooting early sunday morning here on the 600 block of 46th place southeast. five people were hit, including a 10-year-old girl. residents are fed up with the violence. >> it's extremely upsetting. it's hard to sleep at night when you think this kind of thing is happening in your community. >> reporter: the shooting is believed to have been a target add ack. it isn't known what sparked it but residents are concerned. >> it's not always like this. but when it is like this, it's extremely alarming. >> reporter: the shooting comes on the heels of several others over the 4th of july holiday weekend in the district. in all six people were killed. a 20-year-old man died from multiple gunshot wounds here on the 600 block of more ton street northwest and a 23-year- old man was shot to death on the 800 block of 50th place northeast. the police chief is confident all of the shooters will be caught. so f t are behindbars. >> we have demonst

. >> some of the towson current students are homing former students carmelo anthony and dante green will step in and ease that burden. >>> the orioles take care of business at camden yards. strong pitching kept the birds doing very good yesterday as they wrapped up series with the toronto blue jays. the orioles would never trail and go on to win 4-2. they await the return of the all- star game to st. louis tomorrow. adam jones is the only oriole to make that trip. >> you note american league has won the, what, past 1 is games. the past -- i think it is the past 11 games. and of course on the line is home field advantage in the world series for the league. let's look at the forecast for the day -- you know the all- star game is kind of cool now that they have put a reason to play it. that home field is huge. partly sunny. it is going to be beautiful today. a few high clouds around this morning. 86 the high. we are at 65 degrees right now. home run-hitting contest tonight. always a blast to watch. go to the ronster, ron matz, talking about a sport and a challenge of a different type. how a

. >> you went with general jim jones, the retired common dant of the marine corps, you studied this closely, did you get the sense from your conversations with him, hearing him brief u.s. military personnel, he was coming back to washington more upbeat? >> no, i think they're worried. and they want to make sure the strategy they've got is implemented. now, of course, the strategy is not just military. they want to improve the economy, and they want to improve governance in afghanistan. as i say, it's not a modern state. it's not like iraq, where they have vast oil wealth, so they can spend the money to increase their own military and police force, which everyone agrees. so this is now obama's war, and it's, you know, there is not light at the end of the tunnel in the near future. >> one of the big problems, the u.s. is pouring in a lot more troops, 68,000 troops, the president approved more, that may not be enough, and there's deep concern that the afghans themselves, president karzai, they're not stepping up to the plate. >> yes. and big concern about karzai is the leader -- i went with ge

vernon and dante davis helped coach the fundamentals. could have had all the basics and also tookhe chance to compete with each other. as the brothers prepare to head to their separate nfl training camps, they said, you know what, we really relish some good family time together. >> it means a lot to me to get out here. during the season we don't have time to do anything like this. i won't see him for a long time. so, it's -- it feels good to be able to be out here with him and have some fun. >> we do this all the time. even in the house we're doing this. it's just -- i'm used to it. >> to be out here with the kids and making this difference today? >> yeah, it's fun, good to be home in d.c. this is a family, you know, atmosphere. >> vernon and dante davis both taken in the first round also of separate nfl drafts. >>> that will do it for your sports on this sunday morning. i'm lindsay czarniak. have a great day. >> we are back in two minutes with this morning's top news stories, plus sports and news 4's "viewpoint." stay with us. stlaear..

this is seuss-year-old brown and whi pit bull who lives with another dog, jerry lee and is oed by danteeuss was put on trial for being a dangerous dog. th owner testified that seuss has never therened any person or dog. but when arlington police officers arrived at the home the night of may 29th, searching for a suspect wanted by fairfax county police for auto theft, detective chris dangelis was attack bid seuss. the detective was bittenn i the stomach. tearing his polo shirt and t-shirt. leaving two puncture marks. the defense contended that police surrounded the house and that there was a german shepherd on the porch and that seuss was defending his owner and his home. >> we tried to show that through the testimony of various witnesses that in -- the nine months people observed this dog, he has never been anything more than a very sweet dog, teractinvery nicely with other dogs and with people. >> reporter: it turns out the suspect police were seeking in the auto theft hasn't lived here for some time. and was later april helpeded elsewhere but arlington police press charges and to get

he needs to go to his confident dants on capitol hill and ask, what is it going to take to get 60 votes? what's the minimum i have to give on to get the bill through the senate. >> there's political horse training, but, again, speaking with ed henry, candy, we are looking at a decided shift in public opinion on this and $24 trillion is the latest estimate on the cost of the bailouts. $2 trillion in budget deficit alone for this fiscal year. there is a great anxiety that extends across the aisle on what is happening here to the federal budget. >> reporter: yes, there absolutely is. i think -- i know that these congress men and senators are hearing just that from many of their constituents says, listen, this is just too expensive. s a ed was talking about, what's going to happen to my health insurance when more people have health insurance than don't. they are getting enormous amounts of pushback. the polling has gone down. here are two different vups. the white house says the polling has gone down for approval of the president and the handling of health care because there's so much bad i

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one of his favorite quotes was a dante quote that, "the hottest places in hell are reserved for those times of moral crisis, maintain a neutrality." and when i read that, i said, "oh, jeez, i... you know. i'm headed for that hottest place in hell, unless i say something." >> moyers: your own resume says, and i'm quoting: "with the chief medical officer and his staff, potter developed rapid response mechanisms for handling media inquiries pertaining to complaints." direct quote. "this was highly successful in keeping most such inquiries from becoming news stories at a time when managed care horror stories abounded." i mean, you knew there were horror stories out there. >> i did. i did. >> moyers: you put these techniques to work, representing cigna doing the nataline sarkisyan case, right? >> that's right. >> moyers: and that was a public relations nightmare, you called it, right? >> it was. it was just the most difficult. we call them high profile cases, when you have a case like that-- a family or a patient goes to the news media and complains about having some coverage denied that a

selected in the third group of astronauts, and my preference would have been to become a congressman dant at the air force academy instead -- comendant at the air force academy instead of at the test school. so i filled in analysis of the new reuseable rockets. they were two-stage reuseable rockets. the first stage when it's empty would separate when it is empty and come back and land, the upper stage with the crew in it would go on into orbit, and obviously that was going to be developed in houston. the booster, like the saturn five, was going to be developed by the marshall space center. when i got down and saw these proposals, there were six different rockets for the booster, and each and every one had a cockpit with astronauts in it. i said, why? why are you putting a crew? all you have to do is go up and come back and make it land. well we almost launched our orbiter into orbit unmanned. the russians lawned their -- launched their version unmanned. why would you want to put a crew of two? but we did that for several years and spent a lot of money on it. the readers can come to their

now, this story, dante stalworth hit and killed a pedestrian, a night of drinking, sentenced to just 30 days.  >>> you're an important part of this show. we want to know what you think. call us at 1-877-tell-hln. shoot us an e-mail at our website cnn.com/primenews. or text your comment to hlntv. that's 45688. start your message with the word prime. we'll be showing your text messages throughout the day. >>> two politicians caught cheating on their wives. we're just getting new shocking details about their steamy affairs. senator john ensign of nevada admits his mistress received nearly $100,000, but only as a "gift." did his family pay her off? and hundreds of e-mails just released on south carolina governor mark sanford. state records show he cleared his schedule at least one evening on a state-funded trip. neither of these guys are stepping down. is this a new low even for washington? give us a call, 1-877-tell-hln. joining me to talk about all this, alex, a deputy editor at cnn politics.com. he's also author of the novel "lovesick. "also with us, tara fields, a

dante, his 26th home run of the year.nigel morgan added 3 rbis and the nationals have matched the longest winning streak of the season. >>> the first practice is tomorrow. defensive end jeremy jarmin agreed to a four-year deal this year. brett favre will not play for the minnesota vikings. the quarterback finally made up his mind and decided tuesday he won't come out of the retirement to play for the team. >>> the mystics played great ball in indiana, but it was not enough to beat cay ty davis. she scored a high 34 points. that's your sports minute. have a great day. >>> it is time for weather and traffic on the 1s. >> we'll check in with meteorologist chuck bell who is in for tom kierein in symptom center 4. >> good morning, everybody. clouds have moved into the area. there are raindrops on the radar this morning, and there's a lot of raindrops on a lot of places this morning. the rain showers are moving into the upper parts of montgomery county and the move to 270. that will be a fairly wet road with 66 and the showers

. >>> michelle obama, graduate of princeton, harvard university and december sen dant of slaves. >>> also ahead, never before seen video of the accident that some say might have triggered michael jackson's alleged drug addiction. see what happened after his hair caught on fire. the video is stunning if you haven't seen it coming up. >>> we promised a report last night covering the trip of president obama's trip to ghana. technical difficulties prevented it. we fixed the problem tonight, i hope. a report too fascinating not to air. i want to set the stage a little bit first by playing a portion of the interview with the president at the cape coast castle which is a haunting place where countless numbers of enslaved africans were killed and even more held before being sent off on slave trips to america and the rest of the new world. mr. obama talking about his wife's heritage and her reaction to the visit. >> it's something you reference during the campaign in your speech on race about your own life, mrs. obama, you said that she has the blood of slaves and also slave owners. >> right.

the shaker heights school soup end ten dant, mark freeman, is here.ere but a couple of my favorite people, congresswoman marsha fudge and share on brown couldn't be here. they have work to do in washington. it is good to be back in the great state of ohio. now, i know there are those who like to report on the back and forth in washington but my only concern is the people who sent us to washington. the families feeling the pain of this recession. the folks i have met across this country who have lost jobs and savings and health insurance but haven't lost hope. the citizens who defied the senate and the sceptics who went to the polls to demand real and lasting change, change was the cause of my campaign. it is the cause of my presidency. when my administration came into office, we were facing the worst economy since the great depression. we were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month. hundreds of thousands of ohioans have felt that pain firsthand. our financial system was on the verge of collapse, meaning families and small businesses couldn't get

she had to use a brick to pry the ro dant off her son.omes as no surprise to the curtis bay neighborhood. people here say the streets are infested. one man says he killed 11 rats in two days. >> when they come out during the day and start biting tharksz bad. >> what if i can't get out of here in time and it got a hold of his throats. a rat abatement program started five years ago here in the city. officials say they have responded to 860 complaints current 'tis bay area. just in the past three months they have been on moreson court where nicholas was bint five times. neighbors say the new garbage reduction plan is fueling this problem. city officials say rats is a problem long before the change. animal experts say rats are a part of city living. we've seen a couple out here today. keeping your yard and house clean helps keep them way. fortunately for nicholas the rat that bit him tested negative for rabies and le recover. fox 45 morning news. if you were floong trade in your old clun cer to get a new car from the government, you may be ou

to see the edge melt and say "i dant believe this."pretty good. >> when this trailer first hit the internet, some friends of mine said this is so cool, we started e-mailing back and forth, is page the best guitarist or is it the edge? other people were weighing in. is there ever a discussion behind the scenes, which one of us is better? this e-mail chain went on for hours literally, but don't tell my boss. >> there are so many great guitarists. but jimmy page is pretty great but the edge is something different, he has all these machines. he's like a mad scientist. jack white, i saw him ot roxy in l.a. with jimmy page playing, he's pretty great too. >> you go to u2 concert and many people's minds, mine included, the concert sort of stops when the edge comes out and does like a three, four-minute riff all by himself at the edge of the stage. is his talent god-given, is it the ability to hit a baseball and some people are just separated from others because of hand-eye coordination? is it just god-given? >> you are asking the essential que

about i find it interesting that in your other graf of levels of influence and authority looks like dante'slos in hayes but an air force level there is a unit in nations. i don't know if that to picks level of which influences or you put it out there, but it does seem that having been in darfur as inslee as two months of having seen what two plan and is there an seen thick spans of the darfur area a lot don't realize how big sudan is. it is huge. they don't seem to have the tactical or infrastructure support to carry out the mission and that i think the u.n. intends to have their. is that to the u.n.'s fault or false of participating un nations in not following through on u.n. plan? >> it's a combination of a lot of issues and i would say in speaking for the u.n. and moldova things they could do better without of the u.n. and without the support to the mission for security and without the participation in food programs and the ngos and the support from others, we wouldn't have been able to do have what we're doing. the u.n. can be looked at as the glass half full, i look at as half full and

i want to thank you for your leadership and for your comments because this issue dant -- can't wait. i think we know that better than most. tonight what i would like to do is talk to the 80% of americans who have health insurance, who basically ask, well, why should i care about health care reform? i have health insurance. and to the 80% of americans who do have health insurance, i have a few things to tell them. right now, for all of us that have health insurance, we are in a position of paying for those that don't have health insurance. it's called cost shifting. so for the premiums that we pay, part of each premium is actually paying for the uninsured. it's called cost shifting and it's estimated that every american family pays $1,100 per year for the uninsured. so, for instance, you go into the e.r. with a broken ankle. you get health care. the uninsured person goes into the e.r. for that same broken ankle, they get health care. because we have a federal law that requires that all people get health care when they return to the emergency room. but we pay $2,000 for that broken ank

. >>> dante stal woronte stallwor jail.he hit and killed someone crossing the street after leaving a miami nightclub. he has been suspended indefinitely by the nfl. >>> who says youth is wasted on the young. 14-year-old alexis thompson is seizing the moment. she's the youngest to qualify for the u.s. open. after two rounds she's 2 over par and just 5 back of the leaders who are old enough to be her mom. >>> san diego padres have been awful this year but management has come up with a new way to get the fans out to the ballpark. sunday breakfast. before each sunday game for the whole season you can have coffee, oj and muffins on the field. oh, and you can also get a bloody marry, mimosa and vodka lemonade. >>> a pennsylvania swim club director is suspending the club from accusations of racism. why he thinks it was okay to cancel swimming privileges to some young campers. >>> i'm robin meade. we salute the troops every morning on salute the troops. our troop is sean fitzgerald stationed in iraq. >> i want to send a salute out