march 20th, 2007, fayetteville, arkansas.lly, officers go out solo, but corporal chris denton is recovering from a back injury, so he's riding shotgun with corporal phillip crosby. >> just really excited to finally get back to work, but i knew there were some limitations that i was going to have. >> several hours into their shift, it's turning out to be an uneventful evening. not a bad first night as corporal denton eases his way back into the job. >> we'd had a few service calls. i think we might have made a traffic stop or two. nothing stressful, nothing really big. >> but at 1:38 a.m. their night goes from zero to 60 in a matter of seconds. they're dispatched to a car accident that happens to be a block away from their location. >> it was one of those situations with as soon as we got on scene, we knew action had to be taken right now. >> the vehicle is on fire. >> my first reaction was to get out of the car and check to make sure nobody's inside of the vehicle. >> the clock is ticking and the officers have to work fast to

we had an incident at the university of fayetteville about ten years ago. we had an incident at u.c.a. two or three years ago. those are both college incidents. in jonesboro many years ago we had an elementary school with many people killed. >> ifill: let me talk to mr. demarco. nationally this assault weapons ban seems to be a dead tter t t in maryland. what's the difference. >> under the leader of the governor, we did ban assault weapons and high capacity gun magazines which have no place in our society. more importantly, gwen, we passed a landmark law requiring the handgun purchasers get a fingerprint-based background check and a license from the police before getting a handgun. experts from the johns hopkins center for gun policy and research let the legislature know that states that have those laws have lower gun deaths because those laws deter people from buying gunsfor criminals. what happens in what is called a straw purchases, someone with a clean background without a criminal background goes into a gun store and buys a gun for a criminal. that's a

>> fayetteville, north carolina. >> florngs, kentucky. >> florngs, y'all.e or two things going on we want to share with you. we'll start out with this shot out of walk washington. those cherry blossoms are in. take a look how beautiful. here's our concern. we'll take those temperatures up to 90 degrees or close to it tomorrow. we feel like those blossoms will be on the trees and pushed out by leaves if probably a day. catch them while they're hot, d.c., 84. suddenly summer on the eastern seaboard. boston, 74. we may have been waiting for a thaw but have the 80s in a lot of east and that line of powerful storms, keep your eye on that and ear to your local abc stations. . >> from north carolina we're going back inside to who? >> lara. >> lara. >> ah, nicely done. we want wait be to outsite. here's what's coming up on our "gma" morning menu. could your kids be voting for who is prettiest online. >>> an emotional night on "dancing with the stars." cole we have some here to weigh in and a.j. mclean. a new look. we'll talk about it and more coming up on "good mor

in fact, our record lows in fayetteville, arkansas, 27. just got word, fourth coldest start ever. dallas is in the 50s. denver another cool day. at least it's not snowing. 48 in ukiah. 50s to southern california and then you find the 60s. they are held dune in check by that system. it's now moving into the four corners which will trigger more severe weather. for us you, windy at times. some areas stuck in the gray. temperatures will hard-pressed to warm up. marin county, to very, very low 70s. martinez 66. we go san jose at 70. 72 morgan hill. that's warmer than yesterday. i think they get more son a little bit. peninsula, san mateo, millbrae, burlingame, not much change. a lot of cloe clouds in pacifica and daly city. it does look warmer for thing weekend, tori. >>> sou secure to you -- how secure do you feel in your job? what a survey is saying. >>> and how the weekly job les claims report is moving the markets this morning. >>> and -- jobless claims report is moving the markets this morning. >>> you kids should count yourselves lucky. we didn't have u-verse back in my day. you

ron calling from fayetteville georgia. hey, ron, what do you say?, i'm not for cutting their hours, just cut their pay. >> bill: who is that the members of congress? >> caller: well them too, but i'm talking about the controllers. >> bill: they cut their hours, meaning they have to take one day of furlough every pay period, but they don't get paid for that, ron. >> caller: well, here is the thing when i worked for an airline and we started going into the red they started taking money out of our paychecks but we still had to work 40 hours a week. >> caller: >> bill: yeah, in this case it is both. they cut their hours they cut their pay, but under this special legislation passed by the senate in one day, i repeat, air traffic controllers will go back to full-time so there won't be any flight delays. you know what it is? it's i the inconvenience of having to wait because there aren't as many air traffic controllers on duty. that's why the senate acted yesterday. people flying are inconvenience. again, it doesn't matter that kids are kicked off of head

the year-long study examined the water quality of 127 shallow wells in the fayetteville shale play. the report concluded there's no indication of systemic regional effects on shallow groundwater. this supports the understanding that natural gas production is safe for our environment and communities. and as the father of two young children, i recognize the importance of ensuring that our air's clean and that our water's clean. we must always seek to ensure the energy development is undertaken responsibly. but this report is an inconvenient truth for many out there who oppose fracking, which has given us so much natural gas and a competitive advantage. mr. speaker, we must support the continuation of environmentally sound natural gas production in the united states, to ensure our energy independence and further decrease our reliance on foreign sources of energy. it is absolutely critical to grow our economy so that families across the country can put food on the table and pursue happiness in this great country. thank you. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. mr