in my state they make license plates at this facility in decatur. they told me the story about a person who was brought in here who had suffered from serious mental illnesses entire life and was nonfunctional. he just stood there. they brought him in and put him on the line with the license plates and they showed him a simple task. he blossomed. his life opened. he became a different person. he started accepting more and more responsibilities. it got to the point, they said, when there was a blizzard in decatur, illinois, and they closed the sheltered workshop, he wasn't going to miss a day of work. he walked in the snow and staot outside ready to go to work. paoeplt working -- the people working there are only paid a few dollars an hour but for him it is the most important part of his life while he's being paid unemployment benefits or building up to protect him. the day may come when the sheltered workshop can't find a job for him. he would then be eligible for unemployment benefits. senator portman of ohio says no, we should cut off his unemploym

this happened just before 5:00 at a home on decatur road in kensington. we'll have more information as soon as we know. it. >>> the bill for prepping the roads for snow starting to rack up in frederick county, maryland. crews have spent more than $700,000 so far this winter on salt and materials to treat the roads. that amounts to about 11 tons of salt, more than the past two winters combined. >> a lot of nuisance storms, a lot of small ice events. small snowstorms. but the temperature's been so low this year, it's caused us to use a lot of material. >> crews have already had to reorder salt supplies three times this season and say they will put in another order as soon as they get this round cleaned up. very busy for road crews. and road could get even slicker today even though it isn't going to snow. >> it depends on how cold it is. >> as you get below 18, 19 degrees, the chemicals don't work that well at all. >> roads may be slick tonight when any snow that melts from the sun refreezes. now if you use natural gas or electricity to heat your home, you c

mcnair elementary in decatur georgia, august 20th, 2013 is a day she's going to remember for the rest of her life. she saved hundreds of lives with her bravery that day. she has a new book out about her experience. it is called prepared for purpose. and tonight she has a once in a lifetime experience. she's going to be honored at the president's state of the union address. first of all, thank you so much for coming and sharing your story. >> wow. how did the book come about, why did you decide -- so many people know your story because of the national news coverage but you decided to write a book. what was the reason for that. >> i wanted everyone to be able to know it didn't start there. the actual event started years before that. it started when i was a child, when i was abandoned by my dad, and, you know, you -- as a little girl you look for your dad, and so you have issues and you don't know which way to turn, and so it actually started there, and then for me to meet my ex-husband at 13 years old, the love of my life that i've been with for 33 years now walks out of your life, and

around in infrastructure to support this ban just like power station and some rules which is the decatur falling pickney it's it's about two hundred. eleven let's say been in rubles which is roughly depends on the concept of variation. about sound billion and half is provided by a private investor from a private funds and i have to ask mention you're champing at the bit to get the sport started how are you feeling personally you're excited nervous you confident. not overconfident just confident because we're working hard days and night for the seven previous years and we're fully ready. to thank you very much for joining us so there you have it it's almost time for the talking to stop and in ten days time it'll be time for the sport to take center stage a pause called live in some shape or thank you very much indeed for that's how date we appreciate it. and they celebrate three million surrounding some cheese clouded by accusations of corruption about two weeks ago senior international olympic committee member. was quoted as suggesting corruption had taken a stat of the money spent on th

but the wind is forecast to be with her for the decatur calligraphy look upon all the items for cash later on. so first to get the collectible drive they didn't find a buyer there's a second hand market where the underground deal could lead to big money. as i knew the ofcom report says the scenes in the trading market. collectibles store owners was to just ride the bike high pr pieces. then tell officials. they're all fake. after drinking two official shop owner to find officials and by the collector back to twenty percent price cut. this meant that would benefit of drivers government official and secondhand stores. especially for short. they can claim to receive that you take it another way to change the cast of barely legal means. after drivers giveaway collectible government official. the last auction company belonging to either recognition. these are two companies will need to update hired to protect the collectible. without providing invoices for the purchase can be difficult for the government has opened a special commission to investigate and collect evidence. to me and the br

on track to be able to buy a car and have the title transferred on the block team got him home in decatur among some of the person to claim businesses to be the groundwork for the fledgling currency the next step is to make it more user friendly people every dandelion seeds e mail that probably have no idea how it works under the covers but the music as its simple free and easy. last semester said you were in the world for free. leaking to the same thing with the points and money anywhere in the world basically for free so we have to make it that simple and were working on things like after dinner user interface design and education systems tell people i see him happy as it is really a focus for two thousand fourteen. to provide financial services to people who don't have access to the us. jeffrey tucker is using according to hop onto liberty dot me. the emerging markets with our underpants or down that means that all how can they accept that going in and start their own business using this new technology. who turned two so i can go anywhere the concert on the feet of snow. you can sell y

the olympics coming up at the last thing he wants to be doing is to be seen helping a non-aquatic decatur was slaughtering his people -- and autocratic dictator who is slaughtering his people. i would like to think that for the international forces of work they can begin to move the syria.on in a place like >> you read about the writing of the u.s. constitution and the , thoses of both sides who didn't want the imperial president, they badly didn't want an imperial president, and those who wanted a federal state. you see that the idea of an imperial president has been a controversial one. i would argue that the most recent imperial president to -- presidential act was our going into iraq. people thought that this was something the younger bush was determined to do -- the father, the son kind of argument. i would ask you whether you innk the imperial presidency the large is a good thing for humanity or not. >> i knew i was going to get beaten up a little bit on this. you did it very gently and i thank you for your kindness. there is no doubt that there are imperial presidents who have abus

decatur's tool lost his cool. dennis rodman lost his cool when asked if he would stick up for a fellow american. the basketball player who played in pyongyang. >> do you understand what ken bae did. >> you tell me. >> no, no, no, you tell me. you tell me. why is he held captive? >> they haven't released any charges. >> then dennis went menace. >> no, i don't give a [ bleep ]. i don't give a rat's ass what the hell you think. i'm standing here. look at this guy. look at him. ain't no show. let me do this, really? really? i'm going to tell you one thing. people are running the world. i'm going to do one thing. you're the guy behind the mic right now. we are the guys here doing one thing. we're going to go back to america and take the abuse. do you have to take the abuse that we going to snake do you, sir, let me know, you don't take abuse, we going to give it. >> well, it's a little unclear what the hell he was saying. not all of us speak rodman. thank goodness we got ahold of a translated version. >> let me do this

it happened around 5:00 this morning on decatur street near connecticut avenue. the man's clothes caught fire. he's in the hospital being treated for serious burns. no one else was injured. the home was also damaged in the blaze. >>> former virginia governor bob mcdonnell and his wife are hoping to delay a court hearing friday on gift this is a received from a wealthy businessman accused of accepting cash and gifts from jonnie williams the ceo of star scientific and wanted help to promote his documents and williams took her dress shopping in new york and persuaded to family to lend him $50,000 and a caterer for his daughter's wedding. mcdonnell calls all the gifts personal favors. >> i never promised and mr. williams and his company never received any government benefit of any kind from me or from my administration. >>> coming up on news 4 at 5, how the former first lady's fixation on fashion played a role in the scandal. >>> the storm is over but you better button up. incredibly cold air and icy danger tracking form flurries for tomorrow. v.j. is up next. >>> pa

a man armed with an ak-47 and almost 500 rounds of ammunition entered mcnair elementary school in decatur870 students. and the front office, he encountered bookkeeper antoinette tuff who managed to convince him to surrender and turn himself over to police, saving those 870 students and their teachers. she managed to stay on the line with 911 while she was talking to the gunman. >> he said he should have just went to the mental hospital instead of doing this. because he's not on his medication. do you want me to try asking for help? you want to talk to them? want me to talk to them? okay, let me talk to them and let's see if we can work it out so you don't have to go away with them for a long time. it does matter. i can let them know that you haven't tried to harm anyone or anything. but that doesn't make any difference. you didn't hit anybody. okay, let me ask you this, ma'am. he didn't shoot anybody, he just shot outside the door. if i walk out with them, they won't shoot him or anything. he wants to get himself up. is that okay. he says he wants to go to the hospital. >> she said hold o

the fire happened just before 5:00 this morning inside a home on decatur avenue in kensington. at last check, he is in the hospital with life threatening injuries. >>> and right now, the snow and wind causing major problems for parts of new england. coming up, how much worse conditions are expected to get today. >>> plus, the supreme court hearing a case right now that would give child abuse victims a new weapon against those viewing and profiting from child pornography. we'll be right back. >>> we want to show you what this winter storm is doing up in new england. a blizzard warning is in effect right now for parts of massachusetts. this was what it looked like earlier this morning. the storm dumped a foot of snow on parts of the state. we'll have much more on the conditions in massachusetts and a report later in this hour. >>> and despite the subzero freezing temperatures, dozens -- thousands of pro-life demonstrators are preparing to take part in a march for life event here in the district. right now, groups from across the country are gathering on the national mall for rall

all children had been returned home and accounted for in winne winneth as well as the decatur schoolecalb faired very well, only about six students sheltered in the police precinct, because of the urgency of the situation for those six children. cherokee county had 415 children that spend overnight in their system. they only have about 50 children remaining as of this morning. we have been in contact with the offices of the school superintendents of each system i have just enumerated. in addition to thanking the teachers and the staff and the national guard and the state troopers who had been working to make those children a priority, i want to simply say, thank you to the citizens of our community here in the atlanta area particularly. it has happened not only here but in other parts of the state where this storm has adversely affected normal transportation. neighbors are helping neighbors and strangers, people they don't know. folks that have become stranded, they are offering help. that is typical of what georgians do to help people that find themselves in difficult situations. no

overnight, and all children had been returned home and accounted for in gwinnett system, as well as the decature same situation. dekalb county faired really well, they only had about six students that were being sheltered in a police precinct, and that was because of the urgency of the situation for those six children. cherokee county had about 415 children that spent overnight in their system. they only had about 15 -- excuse me, about 50 children remaining as of this morning. we have been in contact with the officers of the school superintendents of each of these school systems that i have just enumerated. now, we, in addition to thanking the teachers and the staff and the national guard and the state troopers, who have been working to make those children a priority, i want to simply say thank you to the citizens of our community here in the atlanta area, particularly, and it's happened not only here, but it's happened in other parts of the state where this storm has adversely affected normal transportation, and that is that neighbors are helping neighbors and neighbors are also helping stran

overnight and all children had been returned home and accounted for in gwinett system as well as the decatur school city system was in the same situation. the dekalb county fared very well. they had only six students being sheltered in a police precinct and that was because of the urgency of the situation for those six children. cherokee county had about 415 children that spent overnight in their system. they only have about 15, excuse meme about 50 children remaining as of this morning. have been ie offices of the school superintendents of each of these school systems that i have just enumerated. now, we in addition to thanking the teachers and the staff and the national guard and the state troopers who have been working to make those children a priority, i want to simply say, thank you to the citizens of our community here in the atlanta area particularly. and it has happened not only here but happened in other parts of the state where this storm has adversely affected normal transportation. that is that neighbors are helping neighbors. and neighbors are also helping strangers, people they

of these countries is run by a single party, or as in the case of cambodia, by hun sen, a 20-near decatur, so you are back to where you started. you are back to a dictatorship- type of situation that has brought about some sort of economic chain. it is a most the chinese model. >> it is very close to the chinese model. is it moving in the right direction? we hope that development in china will produce a more pluralistic society. we had an interesting conversation -- our winter issue deals with china versus india, the competition and the concordance and so on between what -- it should be out next week, in fact. our conversation is with the noted beijing university economics professor who was fired from his job because he was preaching democracy. this is a very interesting fellow. what he says is that democracy will come to china and many people will have to be hurt. he himself is one of the victims. but he does believe very strongly that the chinese people want a form of democracy that works for china. when i asked him about democracy in india, he was contemptuous of it. he says it may a d

host: james, decatur, west virginia. james, are you there? are you with us?in saltve onto randy, lake city. independent. randy, are you there? caller: i am here. host: good morning. caller: good morning. my question is, based on two things i have seen in the news recently, a congressman busted for buying cocaine, another one was -- a teenager with his friends ripped off a bunch of people at a party, killing four and injuring several others. none of these, or either of these people were present or had anything done to them. my question is why. normally he would be facing life in prison for either of these offenses. what is the difference? thank you. this is a question that anyone in the criminal justice system deals with on a daily basis, the perception that rings can be very unfair. the depending on your station in life, where you are, or the hack and -- the happenstance of who brought the case, or other circumstances, that the result would be did -- would be very different than it would be for another person. i am not familiar with the case involving the dea

us fromhn is joining decatur, illinois. republican line. caller: good morning.dennis rodman is a single individual. nixon did the same thing by going to china. dennis rodman is going to north korea to get paid. look into his bank account. i bet he got paid good money. nothing about diplomacy. it is about dennis rodman getting paid. thank you. host: a couple of stories about health care. the washington post is leading off with a contractor for the healthcare.gov website. they have been dropped. the administration has decided to jettison the i.t. contractor, cgi, which is responsible for building the online health insurance marketplace. they are immersed in the work of preparing. there is a story in the internal paper about a house full looking at federal websites. here is the headline. the house will to secure health care websites attracts 67 democrats. democrats joined to approve a measure that would require notification of a potential breach within two business days. a follow-up to that story in the that says that cms said there had been no successful attack on

. >> reporter: decatur, georgia, in august can be best described as one word. hot.d waiting and looking at the street and waiting for this buses to come around. >> reporter: august 20th, 2013 would be anything but normal and patience and much more would be needed not just to make it through the day, but to save lives. >> a man walked into mcnair discovery learning academy armed and wanted to speak to. >> reporter: police say 20-year-old michael brandon hill shot at them as they approached. >> a white male caring and assault rifle. >> reporter: the kids in the school didn't need the s.w.a.t. team. they needed the school's bookkeeper. >> it's going to be all right. i want you to know i love you and i'm proud of you. don't worry about it. we all go through something in life. >> reporter: on a day tuff wasn't scheduled to be working she found herself face-to-face with the gunman and the next 24 minutes she found the patience and compassion to talk him down. >> i thought the same thing. i tried to commit suicide last year after my husband left me. look at me now. still w