herb fisher believes cooperatives are a better deal for the government. "it would cost less to subsidize a cooperative.. than something goverment owned and operated." herb fisher says for a health cooperative to be most efficient - it should be run at state and local levels. cooperatives now exist in many industries, noteable ones include land-o-lakes, ocean spray and ace hardware.. early discounts. retailers hope that will be the phrase that pays this holiday season. even as its at least three months away, already battle lines are being drawn as shoppers are expected to be more stingy. retailers are expected to enter the key holiday selling season with tight inventories, for fear of getting caught with unsold merchandise after christmas. that may help limit discounting for some items but discounting and markdowns are expected to come early and often. among the first times to feature a price cut sony's newest playstation 3 video game console. technically, it's a new product, a slimer more powerful playstation 3 and coming in at $100 dollars cheaper than t

and digital correspondent, kristen fisher has the journey from springfield to outer space. >> this is pat sophomore year. >> in 1973, pat was a second baseman on the junior varsity baseball team at west springfield high school. his coach was ron. 36 years later, coach now retired walks back on the field where he first m met forester. >> he was athletic. >> he was also popular. >> this is pat and he is an escort to the sweetheart court and the sweetheart dance. >> most people remember forester as smart. he was a member of the national honor society, and when he graduated in 1975, he went on to west point. it would be 30 years before the coach learned what became of his old second baseman. >> first of all, he gave me his card and he said he was living in houston. >> today, the 52-year-old is just days away from his third space shuttle flight. >> hi, i'm pat, i will be ms1. it's great to be down here and we are looking forward to a great mission. >> forester logged over 600 hours in space, including four space walks, but this mission forester will stay inside the shuttle. now it's his tu

and jeff fisher said we couldn't give up enough to gethis guy.ial they believe he is. >> joe: penty flags start at the top of this play. the play is incomplete. there was movement along the tennessee defensive line. >> referee: offsides, number 74, defense. five-yard penalty. it's still third down. >> joe: that's jonas seawright. i thought it was interesting that jeff fisher described the hands of jared cook as sticky hands. we saw on example of that. how about the hit by williams into the midsection of patrick ramsey? >> troy: this is such an important time. a lot of fans filing out and everybody's lost interest in this game, but this is the time when you evaluate the young players who are going to make up the bottom third of your roster. >> joe: pass is behind the intended receiver. that's dudley guice. we'll bring up fourth down. fourth and three with 43 seconds left in a game that was, for the most part, dominated by the dallas cowboys on both sides of the ball. a couple of glimpses of sustained offeive pressure put on by the tennessee titans

and jeff fisher said we couldn't give up enough to get this guy.ial they believe he is. >> joe: penalty flags start at the top of this play. the play is incomplete. there was movement along the tennessee defensive line. >> referee: offsides, number 74, defense. five-yard penalty. it's still third down. >> joe: that's jonas seawright. i thought it was interesting that jeff fisher described the hands of jared cook as sticky hands. we saw on example of that. how about the hit by williams into the midsection of patrick ramsey? >> troy: this is such an important time. a lot of fans filing out and everybody's lost interest in this game, but this is the time when you evaluate the young players who are going to make up the bottom third of your roster. >> joe: pass is behind the intended receiver. that's dudley guice. we'll bring up fourth down. fourth and three with 43 seconds left in a game that was, for the most part, dominated by the dallas cowboys on both sides of the ball. a couple of glimpses of sustained offensive pressure put on by the tennessee ti

in gaithersburg, kristin fisher, 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> not all of the scheduling issues within the prince georges county school system have been worked out because as of this morning, more than 400 students still had problems with their schedules. last monday, on the first day of school, 8,000 high school students either had no schedules or were missing classes. school leaders say glitches in a new computer scheduling system is to blame. >>> school districts in our region are taking steps to try to combat the rising trend of truancy and our friends at the washington examiner say the total number of students who are skipping school is difficult to determine but it is estimated to be in the thousands. in fairfax county, school officials have a new policy where they notify parents by phone and by e-mail about each skipped class. prince georges county officials are asking any adults who see a truant to report it to police. montgomery county uses a computer warning list which allows schools to highlight at- risk students before they reach truant status. >>> a university of maryland

right now, it is only in the pilot phase, but as 9 news now digital correspondent kristin fisher reports, this new program is already making a difference in the lives of some local heros. >> reporter: printing a document from a computer sounds simple but try to do it if you are blind. it took irving anderson two months. the vietnam vet lost his sight 28 years ago. >> it was a scary feeling at first. but then i learned to live with it. it was more scary then because i didn't know what i was going to do to make a living. >> reporter: that's when the bridge to work initiative comes in. a new program by columbia lighthouse for the blind training veterans to work, even after they have lost their sight. >> i think they bring a refreshing optimism. >> reporter: willis is in charge of teaching them the four steps to digital data scanning. >> just like in the military, you adapt and overcome. so they bring that to the work place. >> reporter: but the best part of the program is after three months of training, you are guaranteed a job. >> the training is one thing. the independent living skills an

. >> on board will be a nasa astronaut from fairfax county and digital correspondent, kristen fisher has this story of pat fisher. >> this is pat. >> in 1973, not forest second basemana second baseman at west springfield high school. his coach was ron tugwell. 36 years later, the coach is retired, walks back on the field where he first met forester. >> he was pretty popular. >> this is pat and he is an escort to the sweetheart court and the sweetheart dance. >> most people remember forester as smart. he was a memberof the national honor society and when he graduated in 1975, he went on to west point. it would be 30 years before coach tugwell learned what became of his old second baseman. >> he gave me his card and i didn't look at his card initially. then i saw on his card that he was an astronaut. >> he is days away from his third space shuttle flight. >> i'll be ms1. it's great to be down here and we are looking forward to a great mission. >> he logged over 600 hours in space, including four space walks. but this mission forester will stay inside the shuttle. now it's his turn to c

. >>> right now, let's say good morning to kristin fisher. she has the hero central update. >> that's right. the 9 news now hero central team is always hard at work, putting together stories about local heros in our community or stories about people who need a hero. if you would like to nominate someone for an upcoming hero central segment we'd love to hear about it. e-mail s@he9.wuro m.sa in mhentime, you have to the h page, all you have to do is go to wusa9.com and e e hero central icon. and this is where you will find all ho tofse stories tjust to y me the last ree rie thorst about the g that saved lives hein t deadly metro crash. a story about a sno dseaina y ds a hero to tse sndheirtoon send their son to schoolnd helping blinck geho back to work and i want to point you to t wetiofme ifs t ofs meif we have a s he, ro somebody who is in edne segmen to get them the help they need. edwill post an update on these ith w pphath wedish this story here. we were able to fin d funds to hopefully get that teenager to college. so i want to give you a

i'm especially grateful for a couple of subjects in the book, maggie fisher from the boom town of if you can believe this name, flower mound texas and her elder son, j.c., who happens to be in washington looking at colleges. maggie and j.c., do you want to put your hands of? so those are real relos. they look pretty much like the rest of us. [laughter] matt, no, that's the husband, maggie and j.c. are kind of on conventional people residing in a place steeped in convention for exit will at their home one evening i watched d.c. take his donner from the refrigerator, one heaping scope of tollhouse cookie dough and side of raw carrots. i don't have a clue yet to the view of my long depiction in the book, so they can serve as your gardez i discussed the book. i invite you to judge the book by its cover. i did not commission the art. i suspect he or she began with a vision of pete seeger town house all the same and put through car garages and multiple cables and little feet under them. that is how i see them if with less humor. the title of this book, next stop reloille wife inside americ

. >>> kristin fisher is joining us with the story of another hero firefighter. >> i love doing story on all heros but there is really something about the everyday heros the firefighters, the police officers, they are the ones out there putting their lives on the line each and every day. we'd like to honor one this morning. take a look at this picture of prince georges county firefighter rachel ebney. she was awarded the emergency services award for a truly heroic act on february 1st of this year. i don't think we have that picture. i do apologize, but listen to this story. she had been off duty when she responded to calls for help coming from the dock of an edgewater restaurant. when she got there she realized a man had fallen off the dock in the freezing waters of south river in february. according to witnesses, she did not waste a second. didn't think twice. and there she is. you can see a shot of her right now. she jumped in the water, pulled the drowning man to the surface and stayed in the water, holding him above the water until additional help could arrive. well, yesterday, yo

you can find my twitter page at twitter.com/kristin fisher or on facebook.com/kristin fisher. back to you. >> thank you. >>> the nationals face a recently departed teammate out for pay back. >>> and jason campbell finally opens up about what it felt like when the redskins went after other quarterbacks this off season. stay tuned. sports is next. it is 5:21. >>> here's a look at who's celebrating a birthday today. >>> in sports redskins b@ quarterback jason campbell is the subject of a cover story in the sports illustrated that hits newsstands today. after holding his tongue for months campbell is sounding off about his team making plays for other quarterbacks during the season. the redskins flirted with the idea of acquiring two others. >> he said i am fine now but a couple of times in the off season i felt like a piece of  tissue they were flushing down the ilheet had yesterday afternoon off but his teammate defended his quarterback to our sara walsh. >> he's human, you know. you can only take so much before you explode. you have to try to handle it in a professional manner

new this morning, kristin fisher sat down with one expert to talk about nasa's future. tell us more. >> well, when discovery launches early tomorrow morning, if it goes as planned, there will be six more shuttle launches left. the fleet is set to retire in 2010. that's next, the moon, mars, or could it be the beginning of the end for nasa ' human space flight program. >> three, two, one. >> reporter: in 2005, president bush announced nasa's new vision for space exploration. >> return toe this moon. >> the program is called constellation the mission to put men back on the moon and then on to mars. four years and $4 billion later, consolation's future is in crisis. >> its future is an open issue today. >> reporter: the chairman of the u.s. human space flight plans committee was appointed by president obama in may to rethink nasa ' future. and his findings could have dire consequences for constellation. >> the bottom line of our effort was that the current program as it is funded today probably can't be executed. the funding doesn't match the work to be done. >> reporter:

. >>> kristin fisher is here now. you have got the latest on our hero central project. >> that's right. this is a story about the washington-based columbia light house for the blind. now, this nonprofit has been around more than 100 years, but in january the nonprofit launched a new program to help veterans who have lost their vision. right now it is only in the pilot phase but this program is already making a difference in the lives of some local heros. take a look. printing a document from a computer. it sounds simple but try to do it if you are blind. it took irving anderson two months. the vietnam vet lost his sight 28 years eight ago. >> it was a scary feeling at first but then i learned to live with it. it was scarier then because i didn't know what i was going to do to make a living. >> reporter: that's where the bridge to work initiative comes in. a new program by columbia light house for the blind that is training veterans to work, even after they have lost their sight. >> they bring a refreshing optimism. >>

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tiger woods with a one-shot lead over ross fisher. fisher has climbed up the leaderboard. fisher now tied with padraig harrington. fisher was five under through 15 holes for the day, four under for the tournament. he's playing very, very well. you see lucas glover and also brendon jones and vijay singh at minus three. the projected cut is plus three. that means phil mickelson who is at plus four after a 74 would not make the cut. tiger woods thus far, check out his round. bogey right out of the shoot, but then the back-to-back birdies. woods then with the bogey you see there to start his second nine of the day. and woods currently in some rough right now. full highlights and also tiger's reaction to his second-round play. all of that coming up around 8:00 p.m. eastern time here on espnews. straight ahead, sage rosenfels involved in the quarterback competition with the vikings. john jensen of the pioneer press up next to fill us in. and once again, poll for the fan, ports nation. log on to espn.com and vote: was signing michael vick a smart move by the philadelphia eagles,

fisher, let me kick this off with you. it has been quite a day.ooking at traders throughout the stock exchange wearing gap jeans. you've outfitted everybody. is this a first for the exchange? why this campaign? >> well, this is -- i'll let marka talk about the campaign actually, but this is the first time the new york stock exchange has ever dressed in denim, and we're thrilled to be able to do that for you. >> -- started the company in 1969. >> 40 years of -- 40 years of history is an incredible thing. the business was started by my parents today, actually, 40 years ago in san francisco. they had a simple idea, which is to sell jeans to america. and here we are 40 years later with over 3,000 stores, 15 billion in sales, 22 countries for franchise. it's a very exciting day for us. >> it sure is. marka, let me ask you about business today. we all know that it's been a very tough environment for the retail sector in general and certainly for the broad economy. how would you characterize business today? >> well, business is challenging in this econom

i mentioned the fishers. that is one way to find other people. at soccer games and baseball games, i would sit in the stands and shoulder up to somebody and say where are you from? most people like to talk. that is how i came across people and there were probably 100, i started taking notes and had to refine and refine, brought it down to where there was still too many. the other question, blacks, it was interesting as i look at data for all these places, i looked at demographic breakdowns by race, by family income, origins, birthplace and so on. blacks were still in the minority in most of these places. where i met them, there was no difference. they were regular people. there was no distinction that i could see. they had all the same values and accent's and everything else as everybody. what was striking was in all these places, nearly all these places, the population of asians was twice the national average. so you look at these towns and you see asians, -- 5%, 10% in some of these communities. the one thing i did observe is often asians, i do

kristin fisher is live in gaithersburg with more. good morning, kristin. >> good morning evidence jessica. you said it best. it is opening day for the montgomery county public school system and we are two hours away from the opening bell here at quince orchard high school in gaithersburg. this is one of 200 schools opening today in the montgomery county school system which means 142,000 students will be returning to school this morning, along with 11,000 teachers. and one of the big things this morning on the minds of many parents and teachers is of course the swine flu. now, on friday, the superintendent of montgomery county public schools, jerry weiss was on wtop radio talking about how montgomery county public schools will handle the swine flu this year. here's what he had to say. >> we will treat it as the regular flu and encouraging everyone to get the regular flu shots because that's what we have been doing. we have been communicating with our parents. >> of course one of the other things many of the public schools including mo

. >>> we say good morning to kristin fisher in the web center. what are we buzzing about today? >> we are talking about health care again. today marks the official beginning of the recess for congress. last week we saw videos posted often youtube. videos of people who oppose the president's plan to. they increased over the weekend and now after all the sunday political talk shows the issue w.isri no b weonterie now. one of e the biggest webses bel'sfun ing this story is the drue reportinand they have been doing it by posting . zos poto utubyoe iut zoom in here. you can see omthe latest links. the latest one ritysa fesafety kill event and another po edcace lla r edll a town hall hi s.ng inme but the big headline you need to watch is here, e avtoy saabu haeye to say about what is ppening at the town halls. they say iidisev ent that an lyev campaign is underwamiseree health insurance t up disrupt public meetinup gsand enevmb erofs encongress and constituents from conducting a civil lie dye log. i guarantee that story will be picked up on all the blogs this morning. back to you. >>

jennifer fisher. is she here? jennifer fisher left? okay, next question.thing, as someone was just carted out in handcuffs by law enforcement. it has been entertaining if nothing else. >> ok, you want me to read it? ok, to reduce health-care costs, rain in trial lawyers, which we just talked about, please no more government programs. not good stewards of taxpayer money. shepard: that government program helps them, right? i mean, i remember $100 bills falling out of helicopters under george bush, and now, we have this cash for clunkers, and worrying about health care, and claire mccaskill is in there taking a beating. >> is tom here? there is no question on it. yes, tom? do you have a question? stand up, tom. shepard: listen, we are going to try to get our technical stuff straightened out. we will get back to this, but first -- >> for county 911, where is your emergency. shepard: one of the first things a person does in an emergency is call 911. it is a passenger in iowa has just changed the rules. you do not have to call. you just shoot them a text. - ( ro

at wusa9.com. >>> we all say good morning to kristin fisher. >> thank you. morning, andrea. >>> guys, congress is officially in recession but -- recess but don't expect the health care debate to ache take a break anytime soon especially on the web weapon saw on youtube a lot of people who opposed the president's plan disrupting town hall meetings across the country. they increased over the weekend and a new one that is su elfu th ele the date ev en more. here it . ise onreth asitwi llfuel that de teevev more because it is written by the house speaker mad he. re's the headline un-american attacks can't derail health they have to 's atthvesa haey to say about iitw evnot enide ots iw evide that an ugly t ailyremeun , ayt misrepresent the alhe th buurance reform legislation e t to disrupt public meetings and prevent t mbermes ofcongre and constituents from conducting a civil dialogue. this story has rey adivcereed ieeddrudge report, which you can see right here. they haven't post a link to it just yet but i'm guessing eyth will shortly. already this is causing a

now over to kristin fisher. >> thank you so much.he health care debate is heating up on the web and heading away from the hill as congress heads in to august recess. what we have seeing is conservative groups crashing town hall meetings held by democrats on health care reform and they are posting the videos on-line, especially on sites like youtube. w, nothese osvideno are getting an incredibly high numberf vi hits ar we ecia ees bls, especially d ogbp the drudge reports are posting links to cl s. edowyou on edaymondon . monday. rehe ook here lo under the title see them scream, they posted two more clips. e first owckd crs molawmerthplan arkansas. below tor xebor xesays well- dressed protesters at town halls are out to our presenid president. now the democrats are fighting back. has released this video on youtube called enough of the mob. here's an excerpt. >> this mob activities is straight from the play book of high-level republican political operatives. they have no plan for moving our country forward so they have called out the m

kristen fisher, 9news now and wusa9.com. >>> all right, thank you kristen. if you know a hero or need one to help you out, we want to hear about it. log on to wusa9.com and click on hero central. you can find that under the news features tab. >>> concerns over airline safety have resurfaced tonight. three times in a five-day period, engine shut down in mid flight. plus, 16 people honored for their lifetime achievements. we'll take you to the white house. >>> if you think grocery store prices are too expenses, maybe you haven't seen all these yellow tags in this grocery stor you about the latest price slashing gng o n. ) . >>> welcome back. let's reset some of the top stories making news now. hundreds of people turned out for a local town hall meeting on healthcare reform. this one in hagerstown led by senator cardin. plenty of shouting back and forth those for and those against it. police are dealing with a terrible accident that shut down ridge road in clarksburg, maryland. this is a collision between a car and a commercial van. now at least four people in

. >>> let's go to kristin fisher and say good morning and find out what's on the web. >> good morning, as congress heads to the august recess the health care debate is heating up on-line. this morning the fastest rising search on google has to with that. if u yoanyou clk icanyou click on hot dsentr isthwill pop up. you can seise right here at the top of thph seraphrase cess ecess rally. see it is u can search hotness orctis is d an as volcanis sscere recess y ra are people searching for it? turns out recess rally.com out cess rally.com is down this morning rether g e ceenaito oanmao r people cayon u e, l st you can still find an image from that website on google and here itca is recess rally, we noy sa e.iclso mizciineded ugon aalci mt usedicede. on august ed, 22nde me thigig wing group behind those tax day parties lainin thtogeerjo g inr together for foa sscere rally p for healthcare reform. i'm sure you have heard they have started toal make headline at town hall meetings across the country. it is the stop story on e dan beil daily beast. town hall roars but you better believe the d

joining us today, greg fisher from fisher and associates with more how to trade alongside the fed. great to have you. what's your best case scenario for the fed and how do you trade along with the fed? >> what's important is for investors to remember the linkage between monetary policy and their investments. when we look back over time we've seen plenty of history, '40s, '70s, with recession, inflation. when interest rates are low, make sure you have exposure to small company stocks in your portfolio. this is kousht in counterintuit. everybody thinking about inflation, what can i do with my portfolio. they may want to have exposure to smaller companies instead of just big cap names. >> what is small cap to you? what's a new small cap? >> it's a bit subjective as to who looks at that. we break the market up into ten aisles. look at the bottom four. we would look at the bottom four layers. if you look at the smallest of small caps, that's probably where you get the largest bang for your buck. the russell 2000 is the way to go for most investors. >> if you take the s&p 500 versus the

. >>> here's kristin fisher with the hero central report. good morning. >> good morning. this morning's hero central segment, i want to point you to a story on our partnerseb w si to "urs say. toda" it is " about a t oua massachus -- achusetts as maas the thwheelchair recycler. the 47-year-old was in a car accident and has been lcee ewhhairsi wheelchair ever since. three years after that accide ve he ara testd a company boro, rlmassse which he refurbishes donated wheelcha and s llsethem for a fraction of the normal price and in some cases them lls them away. here's his company's website, right here. the wheelchair rerecycler. in the past years he's helped 500 ndhaicapped pele opop get in wheehanormally wo hnormally wouldn't have access or be able to he custneeds. if you have antir chau needs. f you have a chairu neulyod wo kelito donate keto davis da organization, the wheelchair recycler or need a power chair isth e thisis the website i would point you to. ler. m.eirlcwh rcoha again, i will have a link on m d og at gofish@wusa9.com vidais t isnothe only organization s tho

and when he was that age, digital correspondent, kristin fisher has his story. >> winston duncan was only 10 years old when he took a trip to africa. what he saw changed his life. >> i saw an older woman and young boy and they are walking down the street and they both looked tired. i thought why not give them bikes. everyone has an old bike. bikes can be used everywhere and that's where it started. >> i thought he was pretty silly really. and then he sat down and explained to me, very reasonable that there was no infrastructure -- and i'm not sure where he got the word infrastructure but there was no infrastructure to support cars in africa so he was going to send bikes to africa. >> what we do is we get old and used bikes from people who donate them and disassemble them and put them in a big storage container and ship them to africa. >> that's it. >> four years later the boy with the bike sauce week away from his freshman year in high school and every year his charity has grown with him. >> to put it in perspective. the first year we had 250 bikes and the last collection we collecte

. >>> we say good morning to kristin fisher. he's in -- she's in the web center with what people are buzzing an on-line. >>> if a football fan or video game addict or both this story is for you. the latest edition of madden nfl game is hitting shelves on the at midnight and already one of the top stories on the web th is morning. now, here's the madden nfl official website from ea ports. it is getting a ton of hitsmog inr for the midnight launch. you can read review and find out how to preorder on-line and that's thwawato go unless you wantto wabe one of those peop waiting in line at wal-mart at the wee hours ofe ofthe morning nd there wines lirossac cothnelie s across the couny tyetpr chlimun prett teguetanaritse bausteclaye an a the game sold over 2 million units in august alone. if you take alo ok ghlorit rihe early repothat weth atwe simil despite the recession. here's the story on "usa today." madden nfl 10 completes its ifu yoas. et so, if you liwould like to pre- order thgame before it hits the shelves, they have a list o

. >>> time to say good morning to kristin fisher. in the web center and i can't imagine what you are talking about this morning, kristin. >> i know. i feel it is the same story the past few days but it keeps progressing and what i am talking about is the debate over health care reform which is the top story on the web. what we are seeing right now is the white house is really getting in on this web war and engaging the debate on-line. yesterday the white house launched a new website to fight oppones ofthe presidenres it i look at reit is look at it right now. itis called reality check. according to the white house new media director secu foons focuses on ans for you al ans r you your your family and about debunking common myths along the way. those rd ofe th s rde itwhthe white use hoa w dimedirector. ou aoke lotht site you can see it is set up to aggressively go after opponents of the president's than. and if you scroll se cae see the site features six alleged rumors oufore d rmanforerm and each of those rumors are disputed in a vid

. >>> time for the hero central segment with kristin fisher. and you are going to say ahhh at one point. >> this have a story that will make you say ahhh. this is one woman's fight to save a family farm and the animals that helped her to do it it. this is one farms in maryland. the land was bought in 1882. >> the property, the home and outbuildings and everything were built by animy great great grandparent and i wanted to maintain the place and i didn't want it to be sold to developers. >> angel is an only child. when her father became sick in ' 96 she quit her it job to save the family farm. >> my transition was very scary. the main problem i had is i am not a farm girl. i was born and raised on miami beach and i had a lot to learn. >> the key was finding an animal she could raise or a crop to grow on her own so she turned it in to the largest alpaca farm in southern maryland. >> she was born 24 hours ago. >> it is now home to 90 of these animals and she knows every one by name. >> say did, admiral helmsly. it is fantastic animal, as a woman o

howard fisher alternate there. we will keep you posted on these problems this morning. otherwise we are doing quite well on the other roads. now let's get the latest on the buses and the trains. >> we have the 1, 8, 20, 36, 40, 91 diverted due to the manhole cover situation. be prepared for those problems. we do have a 16 line with the westbound version. a water main break is also in effect causing some diversions. the bronson line and some of the other lines are running problem free. now back to standard. >> i hope you are doing well. let's take a look at the age doppler. not a lot is happening. there are showers and storms associated with the front of the great lakes. that is not going to affect debt until tomorrow. -- that is not going to affect us until tomorrow. 76 in ocean city. we will have a high today of 90 degrees. that is in central maryland. it is going to be a blazing hot day today. the winds will be light and out of the west. weights only 1 foot today. mostly sunny skies. the record high was set back in 1948. we were at 85 yesterday. we are nowhere near th

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digital correspondent kristin fisher has the story of pat forester's journey from springfield to spacehis is pat. solve more year. >> reporter: in 1973, pat forester was a sec baseman on the junior varsity baseball team at west springfield high school. his coach was ron tugwell. 36 years later, the coach retired and walks back on the field where he first met forester. >> he was on the small side. i remember him being likable, coachable, athletic. >> reporter: he was also popular. >> this is pat and he's an escort through the sweet heart court and the sweet heart dance. >> reporter: most people remember him as smart. he was a member of the national honor society and when he graduated in ' 75, he went on to west point. it would be 30 years before coach tugwell ever learned what became of his old second baseman in he gave me his card and i didn't look at the card initially and saw he was living in houston and then i saw on his card he was an astronaut. >> great to be down here and we are looking forward to a great mission. >> reporter: forester logged 600 hours in space, including four sp

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kristin fisher has that part of the story. good morning. >> that's right. it is the big story on the web this morning, both on websites here at home and overseas. now, senator kennedy was a senator from massachusetts, but he really was a national political figure and very well known around the world. here's a look at how the international community is reacting to the news of senator ke nnedy's death. t arstin australia. the sydney morning herald. this is their top story, kennedy a great friend australia. that's coming from prime mitoer y sa say has ed adey nnaohas made an extraordinary american ceraman politics, an extraordinary contribution to america's role in the world. ted kennedy will be sadly missed in america and sadly missed e world bue world thcluding in one a. one bbc's websitin the u.k. y. ir headline d teednn atthis ted kennedy. e go onn brow on n owd and he is highlighting senator kennedy's in n heer tthor d anlero the northern s.inand peacesoc he says evenil ngcis lness and death he r venelnstopped fighti for the causes, which were 's feli lif

digital correspondent kristin fisher is live outside of quince orchard high school in gaithersburg with more. >> reporter: that's right. you can see it is still pretty quiet here at quince orchard high school in gaithersburg but you have to keep in mind we have an hour and a half to go until the opening bell. now, in total, 142,000 students in montgomery county will be heading back to school this morning. and one of the big issues at the start of the school year is the h1n1 virus which is a concern at districts across the country. now, superintendent jerry weast was on wtop radio on friday talking about how the montgomery county public school system will handle the h1n1 flu virus. let's hear what he had to say. >> we will treat it as the regular flu and encourage people to get regular flu shots. we have been commute kateing with the parents. then we will treat it -- >> the superintendent will be speaking with us live right here at 6 listen 30 a.m. this morning in just about a half hour. no teachers or students yet but we have the superintendent. we will speak with him shortly. for all o

in four minutes, kristin fisher tells us how you can be a hero this weekend to students in need. >>> and in ten minutes, more airport security. the extra information you'll have to provide when booking your next trip and why it is needed. >>> but first our focus on maryland's weather and traffic. we start with kim martucci. >> andrea, every morning at this time we focus on maryland's weather. let's get started with a satell ate satellite and radar loop. no rain in sight. we're in good form this morning. we will zoom in and show you the mpteurateres across maryland. it is comfortable d at72 in hagerstown. andrews air force base 69 if you are hadding to montgomery county remember the montgomery county fair is starting this afternoon at 3:00. 8 is the goal at mechanicsville. send over to kenny burns with maryland traffic. >>> foggy conditions on i-270 southbound as you travel through germantown. traffic is moving at speed continuing down to the beltway. you will also find foggy conditions here at connecticut avenue and randolph road but no problems to report at this time. good morning,

here's kristin fisher with she hero central segment. we will be highlighting an unusual hero tomorrow morning. i drove to a farm in southern maryland and this is not just any farm. it is called villa del alpacas. this is a special farm because it e onis one of only ur buy i of maryland. which means it is fabeen around over 200 ar mo the time it was a tobacco farm and check out the pictures back in the ictuorici ps rehistalic tuicwi featuring in the story rr. ow . er time land was sold, family mbmes passed away and the farm became too difficult to manage. e th farmons the vethrge of being sold mifa lymewh en a mbm st. pein shmoved to maryland to try to t only problem is she was all by herself. katofwhind crop can you ha in rvest or livestock can you raise if you are just one person? it is a great question. for angel, her solution was right here, can you see this little guy to the right side of ontitionluso onwas alpacas. she says alpacas are her heros because they helped to save her ymily. rmfa ou look at her website alpacas have ma demy

. >>> in seattle, fisher gave the white sox one hit in his first career start for the mariners. reliever davidardma gave up a three-run homer. >>> don baker drove in two runs with this seventh-inning double. in the 11th, dan uggla's bases loaded single gave the mar lines a 9-8 win. >>> a twist in the extortion case involving louisville basketball coach rick pitino. the courier journal of louisville told police he had consensual sex with a woman accuseded of extorting him. he gave her $3,000 for an abortion. >>> and health care under fire. hundreds pack a town hall meeting in san diego. hat i need to control my diabetes, to stay healthy - and get on with my life. it comes from liberty medical. and now, it's not only where i get my diabetes testing supplies - but it's where i get my prescription drugs as well. see if you're on medicare, the cost of your diabetes testing supplies as well as your prescription drugs may be covered. liberty takes care of all the paperwork with medicare and sends the prescription forms directly to your doctor for approval. then, on your schedule, packs

daniel fisher, bbc news, moscow. >> at least 1000 officers in mexico have been removed from their post. this is the latest move from authorities to tackle corruption. the border crossings will not be staffed by new officials. the government in pakistan killed the leader of a band at sectarian group. the leader of the group was blamed for attacks on shiites. the group of supporters fired at police and paramilitary supporters from a mosque. add several hundred people in a chinese province broke into at -- broken to a factory blamed for poisoning children. earlier, authorities said they would speed up the relocation for the southern villages. after a whole year of economic data as bad as anything seen since the second world war, japan announced it is out of recession. the world's second-largest economy grew by 0.9% in the three months before june. the figure was considered a disappointment in financial markets. we have this from tokyo. >> japan's economy is climbing out of the worst recession since the end of the second world war. gross thematic product -- gross domestic product is rising

kristin fisher has the latest on back to school prep. >> reporter: hi, surae. many are all set for the first day of school. one school in the district parents say will not be ready by monday. volunteers at emery elementary school took a break during d.c.'s annual beautification day. thousands of volunteers helped out at over 100 schools in the district putting on the finishing touches for the first day of school. less than three miles away, there is a much bigger project taking place at john burrows elementary. >> reporter: it's brocationen. >> reporter: lacy would like to go to the first day of first grade on monday at burrows elementary. lacy's mother is having second thoughts. she's one of many parents angry at the district for not finishing a summer long renovation project on time. >> the work started late so they are traying to squeeze three months of work into a four-week time period. >> reporter: unfortunately, our cameras were not allowed inside the school. the vice president of the ward five council on education was able to get inside on friday and sho

now, titans coach jeff fisher was upset about this. fisher wants the owner jerry jones to move up the screen. what can you do? call the geeks from best buy? jones says it's fine and he's not moving it. the league is looking into it. how do you move that thing? >> exactly. >> the world's fastest man received an odd gift. usain bolt was given a piece of the berlin wall with his likeness painted on it. pretty good-looking. they said he showed one could tear down walls that was insurmountleable. the problem is it weighs about 3 tons. >>> history came full circle when american dwight films won the long jumps on saturday 73 years off jesse owens did the same thing at the berlin games in the olympic stadium. during a symbolic final he jumped in a second attempt, but he was presented with the gold medal by owens' granddaughter, which is pretty cool. >>> one baseball player is getting rid of stake knives. gonzalez missed sunday's game after he punctured his hand with a steak knife. he joked from now on he's switching to plastic. >>> richard, th

. >> as kristen fisher explains in tonight's hero central report, this is already making a difference in the lives of local heroes. >> reporter: printing a document from a computer. it sounds simple. but try doing it if you're blind. it took irving anderson two months. the vietnam vet lost his site to glycoma28 years ago. >> it was the scariest feeling at first. it was a little scarier then because i didn't know what i was going to do to make a living. >> reporter: that's where the bridge to work initiative comes in. it's a new program by columbia lighthouse for the blind that is training veterans how to work, even after they have lost their sight. >> i think that they bring a refreshing sort of optimism. >> reporter: willis is in arge of teaching them the four steps to digital data scanning. >> just like in the military, you know, you adapt and you overcome. so they bring that to the workplace. >> reporter: but the best part of the program is after three months of training, you're guaranteed a job. >> the training is one thing. the independent living skills, and the orientation. but

three fisher men rescued after their boat cap sizes in the gulf of mexico. this is the "cbs morning news" of mexico. this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, august 31st, 2009. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. i'm ross poe lum bow, in for michelle guillen. we begin this morning with those california wildfires. firefighters facing a massive fire north of los angeles and battled throughout the night. two have lost their lives when their truck rolled done a mountain side. that fire, the largest in the state, is the so-called station fire in the an gel list national forest, another major blaze burning north of sacramento has destroyed some 60 buildings. the station fire has destroyed at least 18 structures and threatens 12,000 homes. more than 42,000 acres have burned, more than 6,000 homes have been evacuated in pasadena and other towns north of l.a. patty kaufman has the latest. >> reporter: it's an inferno, trup he will digit temperatures and dry brush that goes up like kindling. >> we would just ask if we tell to you leave, when we say that, we t

i want to say all the proceeds go to the fisher house, a very worthy charity. >> it does, correct. >> most captains don't write books like this. why did you write it? >> at the time it was me and a friend of mine. he was at the time a observer/controller and er/control evaluating units that were about to go to iraq. at the time i was a company commander and third id in fort stewart. we were both talking on a daily basis. he was talking about some units more prepared than others. i had just gotten a group of new lieutenants. i was trying to figure out a way to teach them how to do counterinsurgency. i remember we had read the book "the defense of duffer's drift" as lieutenants. through a series of six dreams, at the end of it he learns how to fight the mission correctly. we figured it was a good backdrop to be able to develop a lesson for counterinsurgency. that is how we kind of came up with the idea and created the new book. >> in hindsight, how well prepared were you before you were deployed to iraq in you suth errgsurger ntin 2005 and surge. rg e.su >> 2007. >> we deployed in 2005,

terry fisher at harvard i think has the most compelling description in a book called promises to keep a copyright regime, where we wouldn't try to control sharing, but we would find a way to measure who's more popular than who and compensate on the basis of that measurement, so that we could compensate the artist and not have a world of criminals. a whole bun of similar proposals have been made, including eff has a voluntary collective license. most surprisingly to me, last week, judge pa tell, the california judge who oversaw the napster case, the first case that declared this activity to be illegal, she just gave an extraordinary speech where she said what the united states government has got to do is adopt a collective license for the peer to peer file sharing and stop calling it criminal, so the point is we just changed the law so the activity is not a criminal activity and copyright owners get paid for sharing their information. what if we had done that a decade something? what if at the very beginning of this, congress had done what of course we professors think they should alwa

. >>> a mire ak kell at sea as three fisher machine missing for a week are found clinging to their capsized boat about. >> we never gave up hope, we knew thep strn and they were fighters. >> we'll speak with two of the men with their stwrug he will to survive. >>> and bobby kennedy's daughter, kathleen, remembers her be you loved uncle, ted. early this monday morning, her be you loved uncle, ted. early this monday morning, august 31st, 2009. captioning funded by cbs >>> good morning. i'm harry smith along with maggie rodriguez about. julie is in los angeles this morning. good morning. >> good morning and welcome back. >> thank you very much. good to be here. >> good to have you back. we will have the latest for you on jaycee lee dugard, the now 29-year-old woman who was found 18 years after she was kidnapped. her cap tore had kept her in tent, fathered two children with her. this morning her step pair is back and has new information. and we will also give him the opportunity to speak with the two officers you you see on the left there whose hunch about the suspect finally led to his arrest.

joining me from johannesburg is johah fisher.before we get to the test, described the scene at johnna spurt airport. >> hundreds of people, probably thousands of people were at the airport. people were singing and dancing. if huge banners were being waved to deliver the message to caster semanya as she arrived and entered at a car park where the athletics team was prepared of the message was fairly clear from the south african public that they were on her side. they believe she is being unfairly singled out, targeted by athletics governing body. and this is really the chance for south africa demonstrate that caster semanya, who after all, only 18-year-old girl. >> judging from some of the banners, it looks like it is moving beyond sports. it is becoming political, is it? >> it is. one only has the look of the lineup at the press conference that followed shortly after arriving. at the top table, she was sat there -- she did not speak throughout the conference. but alongside her was when the mandela, former wife of nelson mandela,