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i'm don scott. >> i'm jessica kartalija. >> the man bho -- who identified himself as the joker will be charged in just a few hours. ron matz is in the news room with the latest on this >> reporter: produce cue tos have -- proos cue to -- prosecutors have scheduled a news conference at 2:00 to talk about the charges against neil prescott. more than two dozen weapons were found inside his apartment along with thousands of rounds after -- of ammo. don, back to you. >> of course we'll have more on this developing story today at 4:00, 5:00 and 6:00. >>> three weeks, that's long before light street will likely reopen. mike hellgren has the status of the repair to several water mains. good afternoon. >> reporter: good afternoon. it's expect ed the take just a little bit longer than originally estimated. everything should be fixed in time for the grand prix. >> work has steadily progressed in the more than 2 weeks since a 123-year-old water main burst flooding the area, causing a traffic nightmare downtown. now publicworks official tell wjz they're almost done replacing that main and two other

. >> i'm don scott. >> here's what people are talking about today. the faa is investigating a near collision involving three employees flying over washington dc. tear a has the latest details from reagan national airport. >> federal officials say three u.s. airways regional jets came within seconds of crashing in the skies over the nation's capital. one plane was approaching reagan national airport for a landing when air traffic control mistakeingly sent it into the path of other planes taking off. air traffic controllers changed the flow of traffic because of the wind shift. no one told the inbound pilot. two of the planes came within 12 seconds of a midair collision before the control tower ordered one of the pilots to swerve away. >> what happened? >> standby >> the three planes involved were carrying a total of 192 passengers and crew. they all reached their destination safely. former chairman mark rose said a communication failure almost caused a tragedy. >> what was the break down in procedure? we have to understand where it was so we can make

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supervisor scott weiner. david chu. don avalos. thank you all for joining. we are working with you. tonight -- tonight we march with you. tomorrow and the weekend, we celebrate with you. and every day forward, we fight with you. to end discrimination. stop barriers, to increase employment and to decrease unemployment in our transgendered community. you have our commitment to do that together with you. so thank you very much for joining all of us tonight and we look forward to this grand march, we not just celebrate diversity. it is our strength. we all know that and we would love your talent in city hall and in our private as well as our public employment opportunities. thank you very much for working with us. keep marching on together. >> please welcome the president of the board of supervisors, david chu. >> who is proud to be a san franciscoan today? thank you so much for being here and thank you for representing every color in the rainbow and every letter of the lgbt community here. i'm so proud to be part of the amazing community that is here. for those of you that are here in

don dwyer admits he was drinking when his boat slammed into another boat, injuring six people, including himself. >> scott broom. >> i'm really in no condition for a press conference. >> reporter: don dwyer hospitalized after surviving the sinking of his 26-foot power boat when it collided with another boat carrying children age 5-12 in the imagine thee magothy river. >> there was some concern alcohol was involved. >> reporter: they drew a blood sample from dwyer after the wreck which happened on an ideal night for boating. andrew wendell was among the river residents who got into their boats to rescue five children and two adults on the other boat involved in the collision. six people, including dwyer, and four of the kids were seriously injured. >> a couple of the people had facial lacerations. there was a neck injury. i think one of the small children had a fractured skull. >> reporter: dwyer and a companion were also rescued by river residents. >> no one should be drinking and operating a motor vehicle or a power boat. i deeply regret my actions and i ask for forgiveness from the public. >> reporter:

that's boat of maryland delegate don dwyer and he now has made a startling admission that he was drinking while piloting that boat. scott broom has more. >> i'm really in no condition to give a press conference right now. >> reporter: maryland state delegate don dwyer of anne arundel county hospitalized after surviving the sinking of his 26-foot power boat. when it clydeed with another boat carrying children. ages 5 to 12 in the magothy river wednesday afternoon. >> it is true that i was drinking while operating my boat yesterday. it's also been reported that my blood alcohol content was .2. >> there was some concern that alcohol was involved. >> reporter: police say they drew a blood sample from dwyer after the wreck which happened in open water on an ideal night for boating. >> probably about 250 yards. >> reporter: andrew was among the river residents who leapt into their boats to rescue five children and two adults on the other boat involved in the collision. six people including dwyer and four of the kids were seriously injured. >> a couple of the people you had facial lacerationings and there was a neck -- lacerat

scott of south carolina. surely, other african-americans plan to vote for mitt romney. how can a poll show mitt romney with a zero percent support among african-american voters? >> don, this poll's been getting a lot of attention because of that big zero right in front of mitt romney, no doubt about it, over the last 48 hours. but let's be honest, in most of the national polling over this last month, romney's been in the single digits among african-american voters in these polls. and this poll, this nbc/"wall street journal" poll, for their breakdown of the african-american vote, they probably have a sampling error, let's say, at maybe 8% or 9% either way. so mitt romney could be as high as 7% or 8% or even 9% in that poll, or maybe he's at negative 9%, that sampling error, we don't know for sure. but here's another poll that's very recent. this is from gallup, their breakdown on the african-american vote. they did it over a three-week period. and you can see mitt romney here at 4% in their poll -- well, if we had their poll, we'd show it. it would be at 4% with the president at about 90%. so it's kind of all -- there it is. see, i knew it would come. so we're kind

scott. jenna: i'm jenna lee. governor mitt romney officially accepting his nomination for president. it is a don making the case that he has a better plan for leading america back to prosperity, contrast his vision of the future with the last four years with president obama. peggy nonnan, republicans join the battle, after a shaky start the republicans hit thraeu republicans hit their stride. let's ask a former speech writer for george w. bush what he thought. >> if you're a speech writer you're very aware of the grim business that the day after your product goes on the air you have all these people from the outside criticizing it and so forth and finding little parts they didn't like. i thought this was remarkably effective. i tend to be a person that thinks that speeches are overrated. i mean it's not just the speech, it's the whole package of what the convention message was, the youth and vigor, in some ways it's very different from the last campaign in that the roles are reversed. you have paul ryan very young and youthful, you have all those governors, young, a new generation, and the last

and former basketball player, the daughter of senator scott brown of massachusetts, to sing our national anthem. >> oh, say can you see lighte don's early what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight over the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say can you see -- say does that star spangled banner yet wave, over the land of the free and the home of the brave. [applause] >> please welcome a leader in central florida's community, who will lead the invitation. -- invocation. >> ladies and gentlemen, good evening. it is an honor for me to be here with you today as a sikh and as an american. [applause] let us pray, almighty god, we call you many names, but you are one. keep your divine hand over all the delegates and candidates as they help steer the future of our great nation. remind us of our purpose to love and serve one another and create a more peaceful world. we ask for blessing and to all leaders to work for the common good with

don e-mails in, did your success with nonfiction translate into success with your earlier fiction? have any of them been rereleased? >> guest: amazingly not. i wrote two books under the pen name holden scott where'd you come up with that? >> guest: that was my ideal dream non-ethnic dream. [laughter] it's really lame. but, you know, i had written two thrillers which i think, actually, were really good books, and i have thought about rereleasing them as pic. i would like to get back into fiction. but i don't know if people could even find my fiction. it was years ago, ever since bringing down the house, i've been known as a nonfiction guy. >> host: and just again to recap, kirsten tweets in, who are some of your favorite authors and what are you reading now? >> guest: well, i am still reading the game of thrones, five books. i'm on book four. he's great. my favorite authors were definitely michael crichton, i thought he was great. i love, god, there's so many now. intas yang younger. be. >> host: you've also listed ray bradbury, hunter s. thompson, ernest hemingway. >> guest: that's a good list right there. >> host: yeah. ben mezrich has been our guest on "in >> john kennedy once that was