. >> reporter: a duke university study released earlier ts year found only a relatively small nuer of us muslims who d pland or cared out terrorist attacks. the study concluded "homegrown terrorism is a serious, but limited, problem." >> one is one too many, and so we have zero tolerance for that kind of seductive narrative and that seductive type of presentation that lures young people into things that will ultimately ruin their lives. >> reporter: one of the first priorities for mainstream u.s. muslim groups has been trying to fight extremist messages online, including many from foreign-based, english-speaking americans. >> i am calling on every honest and vigilant t , unsheathe your sharpened sword and rush to take your rightful place among defiant champions of islam. >> what happens in extremist groups is that there's a cult mentality. there's blind following of a charismatic leader, these pied pipers that are speaking to us now on youtube om ces and junes and war zones that are trying to glamorize violence. that's basically what we're dealing with. >> reporter: hoping to offer a

founder of mothers against illegal aliens in durham we go to jake a big dork he's a professor at duke university in fort worth we cross to one hundred and this he's an international political consultant and author of the recent book.

in a speech at duke university, gates claimed the nation is now too detached from the fighting in both iraq and afghanistan. and with fewer americans seeing service as their duty, more money has the to be spent to keep active-duty soldiers from quitting. >>> aside from the storm drenching the east coast, here's the rest of the morning's weather. no rain. but flooding in the upper midwest, as rivers continue to rise after torrential downpours earlier this week. showers south of los angeles, into san diego. otherwise, dry for most of the country. >> phoenix will heat up to 106. sacramento, 93. 70s from fargo to detroit. as well as boston down to atlanta. 80s from new orleans to dallas. >>> still to come this morning, gay students taunted and driven to suicide. another campus reeling this morning after a promising student ends his life after a secret sex recording of him and another man. >>> plus, the heroic pilot behind the latest miracle landing. 3333alks about that night. >>> federal reserve chairman ben bernanke heads to capitol hill today to testify on the progress of rolling out tha

a duke university psychologist who examined her concluded teresa's functional mental age is in the rage of 12 to 14 years. rallying to her cause are novelist john grisham, justices sonia sotomayor and ruth bader ginsburg, who voted to stay her execution. and, thousands on the way. for the victim's daughter, all the focus on lewis is just one more crime against her family. >> she could have walked away from my father and never looked back. people need to remember her victims and not her. >> reporter: lewis sings for a final miracle. ♪ i need a miracle >> reporter: but with her appeals exhausted, her fight will end here, inside this death chamber. lewis spent her final day with her family and her minister. they've left now, and the victim's families have arrived. and diane, they'll be among the witnesses to her execution. >> jim sciutto in jarratt tonight. >>> and today, a drug implicated in tens of thousands of heart attacks and deaths over eight years, was finally restricted by the fda. and it happened because of one crusading doctor. so, what does this say about the other drugs on our

. >> reporter: but research at duke university medical center is showing the culprit may also be there. the experimental treatment called oral immunotherapy uses peanuts to build up tolerance. starting out with the equivalent of one one thousandth of a peanut, study participants eat it with food on a daily basis. >> they build up to a higher dose, that goes on for about six to eight months and at a certain point their immune system begins to change so that they're no longer having reactions. >> reporter: in one study, nine of 12 children with peanut allergies who ate increasing amounts of peanut protein daily can now eat unlimited amounts of peanuts. in a separate year-long study, 16 children on treatment could tolerate 15 peanuts before developing symptoms. after participating in the duke study, j.p. hainline is no longer deathly allergic to peanuts. for now a handful of peanut m&ms is his daily medicine. so you can eat peanuts as much as you want? >> yup. it's very helpful. >> reporter: while the results are encouraging, there are no guarantees the allergy is gone for good. >> we d

founder of mothers against illegal aliens in durham we go to jake a big dork he's a professor at duke university in fort worth we cross to one hundred and this he's an international political consultant and author of the recent book new american pioneers why are we afraid of mexican immigrants and another member of our crosstalk team you know on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules in effect we have a lot of different differing opinions on this program so i'm first i'm going to go to jake up and in researching this program one of the things i i found interesting and almost amusing and then worrying is that the myths about immigration. and it seems like everybody's got their ten eleven fifteen points the myths about immigration in your opinion and you're an expert on this an academic expert on this what is the single biggest myth to dispel what you would like to dispel about immigration particularly in the united states and all three of you or in the united states i think that the most important thing that everyone needs to recognize is that the debate in the united states is not without p

it's happening there's a new study on wealth disparities that's been conducted by harvard and duke university's to determine how americans view their social and economic status and these findings might surprise you. the study determine that americans dramatically underestimate the wealth disparities in the u.s. when asked the participants thought that the top twenty percent own about sixty percent of the nation's wealth in actuality the top twenty percent over eighty percent of the country's wealth and here's the real shocker when asked what the people thought the ideal distribution should be they responded that those top twenty should only hold thirty percent turns out we're a little delusional now another part of the survey showed participants the well to spirit is in two different countries between the u.s. and sweden and they compare them to a completely equal wealth layout now without knowing which country was which most people preferred sweden's wealth difference compared to that right here in america which if you'll notice is much more equal theirs is than the u.s. but i thought american

on the same day, during a speech at duke university, this secretary of defense, robert gates touched on the troubling statistic. >> there are a number of consequences that stem from the pressure of repeated deployments, when a service member returns home permanently changed by their experience and that includes more anxiety and disruption inflicted on children and, most tragically a growing number of suicides. >> shepard: over the past week at fort hood, texas, four more veterans of iraq and afghanistan apparently killed themselves. jonathan hunt is with us in studio. give us the context. >> reporter: this is a major problem and a calling to the military, it is getting much worse, in fact, suicides within the army alone, doubled from 2005 to 2009, and take a look at these statistics, for 2007, to 2009 and they are suicides within the army and that he marine corps and obviously the branches doing the most ground combat in afghanistan and iraq and 2007, 148 suicides, and 200, 182. and last year, 214. so, this is as admiral mike mullen said the emergency issue, one they feel they have t

a duke university psychologist who examined her for the defense concluded, teresa's functional mental the range of 12 to 14 years. rallying to her cause are novelist john grisham, justices sonia sotomayor and ruth bader ginsburg, who voted to stay her execution. and thousands on the web. for the victim's daughter, all the focus on lewis is just one more crime against her family. >> she could have walked away from my father and never looked back. and i think people need to remember her victims and not her. >> reporter: in an internet video by her supporters, lewis sings for a final miracle. ♪ >> reporter: with her appeals exhausted, her fight ended here in this death chamber. lewis was given a lethal injection and pronounced dead 13 minutes later. witnesses said she refused to take a sedative and her final words addressed to the daughter of the husband she murdered, saying she loves her very much and she's sorry. jim sciutto, abc news, jaret, virginia. >>> four members of a family are dead after a shooting rampage in seattle. police will not release the identities of the victims until

he went back to west point and taughtlyership classes to cadets and then got himself into duke university's pred tij us business school where he graduated with an mba. earlier this year scotty smiley took command of west point's warrior transition unit as the army's first blind active duty officer. now it's smiley's job to lead by example and help other wounded or ailing war veterans fight their own battles to stay on active duty or transition to civilian life. >> he's the old scotty. he just... he doesn't see through his eyes but he sees in a lot of different ways. >> reporter: smiley's readiness to accept a challenge has become a habit. last month he took part in the west point triathlon. most of it latched to his buddy captain jeff. in the years since his injury he summited mount rainier, surfed solo in hawaii, skied veil, and jumped out of a plane. his blindness hasn't stop him or even slowed him down. here's the thing. the reason why i think people look at you, you know, you could say that god spared him once. why push it? >> right. but then like it's still life. you only have one life

university boulevard. no incidents to report headed over towards 270. 395 leaving duke street to seminary road, different sideot so busy with the fog. we do have the brake lights forming duke street headed out towards seminary road. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >> thank you. >>> comedy central's stephen colbert has a meeting with lawmakers this morning. he is testifying before a house commit yes on immigration. let's get more details now from sherry ly live on capitol hill. >> stephen colbert may be a comedy central host and comedian because his appearance testifying on capitol hill today is no joke. while he may not be the person you would think of as an expert on illegal immigration, anyone who has watched his show knows that he recently joined up with the unite farm workers to do the job of a migrant worker for a day on a farm. cole we are's nicely show has featured the uufw's take our jobs campaign which invites u.s. citizen and legal residents to replace undocumented immigrants on farms for the day. on his show last night, he showed his stint as a migrant worker at an upstate new york fa