cole: franklin. franklin! you just shot wes hornby. what are you thinking? wes hornby is just another person trying to take our land from us. we said no one was gonna get hurt. you're right, this isn't what we wanted, but this is where we are now, and we still have a chance. he's not gonna listen to us now. we gotta give ourselves up, we gotta... we gotta explain we made a mistake. we created a bomb scare, we kidnapped a senator. there's no backing out now. no. franklin: (menacing) cole. cole: i'm out. this wasn't the plan! well, now there's a new plan. what're you doing? your gun - hand it over. now! just let him go and i'll cooperate- oh! (groans in pain) franklin: yeah, i know you will. move! jules: do not transfer the money, adam. adam: there's a deadline. char said before 11:30 or he dies. and once they get the money, the senator becomes expendable. jules: now, we need to stall. i need your phone. (tting beeps) hey, jules, i'm inside the house and something isn't adding up. cole's motive is personal: he's trying to keep his family's land. maybe he's giv

franklin street is usually really crowded for these games. the bars and restaurants were packed this evening. a lot of times after games when there's a victory at hand, they head to the streets and that's why police say they had extra officers on hand to handle things. disappointed fans just obviously upset but proud of how their team played and we've seen those officers, they're out here trying to handle the crowds. things are going pretty smoothly at this point. we've seen some duke fans. they've said past fans have traveled from all over the country to be here for this game. obviously it's a huge game. this is a big rivalry but franklin street, still pretty busy tonight but again, a lot of disappointed carolina fans. we're live in chapel hill, amy wncn news now. >> thanks. >>> right now, coach roy williams is speaking live. >> wonderful rivalry. (coach talking). >> a somber coach williams talking to reporters right now praising duke for their defense that helped them beat carolina by one point. you might remember this from two years ago, t

there we go into northern wake county into franklin county. it looks like there is a potential tornado warning for northern parts of wake county in effect until 5:45. there you see the greens and reds coming together. we will get more information from the weather service. severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado. those are the areas where we live. you need to take cover right away into franklin county. it's moving northeast at 60. those areas of franklin county, tornado warning in effect. warren until 5:45. capable of producing a tornado, seven miles west. hour. the bottom line is, we have mentioned that, northern wake county, tornado warning in effect. potentially. then you go southward into cumberland county. that cell is jumping over the border. >> it is. we have been watching this for the past 20 minutes. if you live in and around the gray's creek area along interstate 95 you need to take it's going to be between the creek which is on it right now. that is a brand-new scam. it looks to be staying south of fayetteville. anchor: te

. >> what a horrible accident. deadly hit-and-run crash on the howard franklin bring. right now two of the northbound lanes are shut down. and news channel 8's ryan hughes is live from the bridge this morning. the tow truck driver is dead, and now troopers are searching for the car that killed him? >> reporter: yeah, the frantic search, gayle, is underway far 2014 volkswagon, either a jetta or eos. it's black in color. radioeducate -- right now they are ending to the body, so we are going to push off on me and go to traffic. the tow truck driver was attending to a disabled vehicle, and he was struck by the volkswagon. he was pronounced dead on the scene. the two people in the car initially, who need the assistance of the tow truck driver were actually in the front cab of the tow truck at the time of the crash. fhp is investigating this, and as asaid, they are look ing for a 2014 volkswagon jetta or eos. could have gotten off on any exit from this point forward. if you have any information, you're asked to contact fhp. leslee, back to you. >> that happened a couple of h

the howard franklin bridge, but a decent drive across it. no reason to take the courtney campbell causeway. and it will be 8 minutes to cross the howard franklin bridge. another huge issue is ulmerton roadblocked at franklin parkway, and you need to take roosevelt to access 275 instead of ulmerton. what a mess this is is a vehicle that hit a pole, and it's hardly recognizable, and you can hardly tell what kind of a vehicle that is. the crash rolled up around the taken the person in the vehicle to the hospital. it's a possible fatal crash here, and the eastbound lanes are blocked, and the cars you can see in the distance, that's eastbound, and roosevelt is your alternate to hop on 275, and this is west of the interstate on ulmerton. tough news for traffic, and weather will hopefully look better. leigh? >> weather looking very nice. please take it easy. we don't want any more of these accidents. we are at 57 degrees, and during the day, clouds will increase, but so will the temperatures. 70 at noon. 75 at 3:00 p.m., and that's warmer than aver

clifford franklin has moves even clifford franklin ain't seen yet. right. well, you did show us a few of those moves today against phoenix, but it could be a different story against dallas next week. that's the same story, different chapter, girl. the football is a one-man cold to clifford franklin. clifford franklin only one catchin' it, clifford franklin the only one comin' down with it. to victory! ha ha! feels good, doesn't it, jimmy? one game away from the playoffs, in the hunt, that ring so close you can almost feel it on your finger. what are you up to? what? i cat get excited about the future of my team? huh? [chuckles] ok, ok, i got some great news. martel and carr have crossed the picket line. ha! with the deal i made them swallow, i can't afford now t to take them back. we have a deal. no interference with my coaching. as long as the strike is on, shane falco is my quarterback. we have to beat dallas to getnto the playoffs. falco can't do that. you w what happened out there yesterday. oh, jeez. think he's gon have that luck against dallas, too? t

detective franklin was still stuck, so he took a long shot. he asked for something called a tower dump. information dump, that is, from this cell tower on a farm near the crime scene. >> i subpoenaed all calls that generated from the tower that services belton bridge park for the night of the murder from about 7:00 p.m. till about 9:30. >> reporter: till 9:30, because that's when stacey arrived and found richard. why start looking at 7:00 p.m.? >> it was apparent to me that the gunman lay in wait for richard. and so my way of thinking was if he's sitting there waiting in this secluded, dark place at night, is he gonna sit there and twiddle his thumbs? or maybe he'll make a phone call. had no idea. >> reporter: if the killer called anyone, it should show up on the tower's record of four major carriers on that tower. thousands of calls. for? why not play a hunch he'd had all along? >> stacey's involved somehow. you have this third vehicle at the scene. you have overkill with the -- with the way richard died. so based on all those things, a murde

it also includes parts of franklin county. it also includes parts of wake it is moving so quickly, the weather service wanted to get that -- they are overlaying each other, so it is tough to tell, but we will stop the picture here and show you this outline, just to give you a clearer picture of where this new warning is. it is for this area here if wake county, and stretching up into franklin county, into warren county, through this area. this is all under a tornado warning. parts of southeastern vance county, too. if you are in the city of raleigh, if you are in wake forest, if you are in roseville, all these areas of wake county, franklin, up into warren, you need to take cover, as the storm is charging northeastward at 75 miles per hour. it is moving very, very quickly. as indicated by radar, not ground, but we are in the second-biggest city in the state. that has a high population, a lot of folks need to take cover immediately and take the storm seriously. this isn't classic, but -- >> absolutely. considering the history,

for northern parts of franklin and warren counties. all the tornado warnings are right now set to expire in just a couple minutes -- i wouldn't be surprised if they don't today but we have tornado warnings in effect until 6:30. what we are looking for in that rotation, right on the franklin and warren county line. that is the area that potentially has a location, inter alia tornado on the ground. we haven't done the reports from this particular storm. then to the south, it is coming down a bit. cumberland county, no warnings in effect. there are areas south of ther e, and north, that is the location that is pushing into northern and southern parts of cumberland county. if you are in southeastern cumberland county, you need to stay alert in case there is a warning. there is one in northern parts of wayne county in johnson county. they may be expanded or moved or let go. we haven't gotten a lot of reports of damage. we did get numerous trees down through the 600 block of stephen road around 4:10. that is a possible tornado, that could be

since franklin pierce in 1852, a few democrats slipped. cleveland twice, woodrow wilson, buchanan earlier, but not with 50% or more of the vote. almost a landslide. prof. brinkley: i think hoover famously sled -- famously said that fdr was a chameleon. fdr himself called himself the jugular. you never let your left hand know what your right hand is doing. who was franklin roosevelt? you spent so much of your life studying him. do you feel that you understand his personality and what made him tick? prof. leuchtenburg: this was the hardest chapter for me to write because i have written eight looks on roosevelt -- books on roosevelt before sitting down to write this book. you try to figure out how to say something new. to look at him with new eyes. that was the puzzle. the notion that roosevelt was a chameleon on plaid, that he was a man of no firm views, that he said yes to every last person that he talked to, is so common in the literature. and i think it is wrong. in 1990 -- in the 1990's, there was a conference at cambridge university. i

aretha franklin? he discovered aretha franklin! wait a minute. you discoveredaretha franklin? right. you believe him? yes. p.t. barnum was wrong. you belittle everything good that happens to florence. weezy, take a look. what do you see? my reflection. no, no, no.let me help you out. it's a brain soakedwith business savvy. this guy davisain't on the level. give him a chance. he's a crook.mark my words. mark them! is something wrong with your husband? it's just thatmy husband isa little suspicious. he thinksthat you're... well, he thinks thatyou're sort of... well, how doesthe word crook hit you? i think i'd better leave. i didn't mean to cause problems. i hope you pursue your singing career with someone you're comfortable with. freeze! is my voice really good enough to record? i'm just a maid singing in a choir. you're blessed with a gift. you hear that? and you got me ironin' clothes! i'll make some coffee. you've got lotsto discuss. make mine tea with lemon, for the voice! when do we start? first we c then we get the dj's to play it. how does it allget started? don't it cost

. >> reporter: accused serial killer lonnie franklin walked into court today nicknamed the grim sleeper because of a 14-year gap in his alleged killing spree. will tell a story, a story of a serial killer who stalked the streets of south los angeles. >> reporter: starting in the summer of 1985, prosecutors say franklin murdered nine women and one teenaged girl. >> almost all of them were hidden under debris, behind bushes in, dumpsters or covered with dirty mattresses left in alleyways or other trash. >> reporter: an 11th victim survived and now expected to testify as a star witness. authorities say an advance in dna technology that seems straight from a crime scene drama broke open the case. >> this case is one of those precedent-setting cases in that they are using what we call familial dna to get to the defendant. >> reporter: police had taken dna from franklin's son in an unrelated case and that reaccpetedbled the dna found at the grim sleeper crime scene so police trailed franklin to get his dna eventually lifting it they say it matched leading to an arrest in 2010. franklin has pl

>> worried about my case. >> reporter:r: case that had become personal for detective franklin. he felt like he knew richard. like he was mourning him, somehow. >> i would sit at the scene, stand at t t scene, reflect, and just kind of sit there and, and try to go over things in my head. and, and try to figure out what direction to take. >> reporter: what could he do? about all franklin had to go on was this picture of tire tracks left in the soft soil of the clearing. could he use thito find his killer? not so easy. he didn't even know the make of >> we looked on the internet. but we're comin' up empty. we went to car dealerships. we went to retail tire establishments. we would pull up next to cars at traffic lights and look what kind of tires they had on 'em. >> and you were seein' them? >> no. and anybody, anybody that we talked to, we looked at their tires, just to just to be sure. >> reporter: then one day, in yet another tire store, a colleague called him to a stock area out back. >> he pointed at this tire. and i looked at it. and immediately i said, "well, that's it." an

northbound on the howard franklin bridge a live look here. the two right lanes are taken away due to a fatal accident here, and i want you to keep this in mind for the howard franklin bridge. moving over now, taking a look at pasco county, folks, and this is southbound u.s. 19 at ridgeroad, and all the southbound lanes are blocked due to an accident involving a semitruck and a motorcyclist. that's also a fatal crash, and a big mess, eastbound ulmerton road. a live view here. what a mess! you can see the pole in the distance and the wreckage around it, that's the vehicle. looks like they are transporting someone root now this is is a possible fatal crash, and it looks absolutely terrible. are blocked at fountain parkway, just west of 275, and a lot of activity is routed around this. that's weather and traffic, and now back to gene and gayle. >>> a busy morning out there, leigh. >>> ahead the way couples in largo marked the holiday in a way they will never forget. the stock market just closed on the other side of the world. what investigators n

franklin had walked behind the truck when it was stopped and franklin was an employee for sgl constructors, the lead contractor on the project. officials released a statement saying they did not immediately know what caused the accident. their focus now is to support individuals and families. >> we need to stop for the moment, take a look at our safety protocols. our primary focus is our people. alex: officials will not be working at all today. tomorrow, inspections will be done at the worksite and they will return to work where everybody is ready. we will bring those straight to michelle: there is little information about a double shooting in orlando. shots were fired on king cole boulevard not far from the first baptist church. both victims were taken to the hospital and are expected to recover. two robbers are in hiding after a white a -- wild chase on i-4. jazmin walker is here with the latest. jazmin: this started when the crux took a man' s while it -- when the crooks took a man' s wallet. drivers saw the car and the cops speeding past before it eventually ended with a crash. one per

why reverend franklin graham says society is unraveling and how he hopes you will help change that. >> good evening. valentine's day is just around the corner. many of you may be scrambling that doesn't mean you >>> franklin graham is challenging christians to take a stand for their faith and pray for the country. >> today he brought the challenge to south carolina's capital.

the ground franklin something outdoors though she and a husky so there have been a few snowflakes making their way down towards the ground some of this evaporating before it reaches the ground just check outside here the station we're not seeing any snowflakes just yet but we are looking at the snow to start over spread the region as we had here through the overnight hours and even into that morning commute as we time things out through the day tomorrow starting off at six am calling for temperatures still below freezing twenty six degrees with some scattered areas of snow that will continue to eight am as well so much in the morning commute. we will see snow falling from the sky and with the cold temperatures likely see some accumulations in parts of the area by ten am to some warm air starts to work its way and will start to see the snow transition over to a mix of some freezing rain sleet rain and snow the notice by the midday hours temperatures up into the forties for most part things will start to switch over to write how much snowfall we talking about before the changeover across p

franklin has pled not guilty and his lawyers expected to challenge the reliability of the dna evidence. the sister of victim mary lowe is hoping for justice. >> i want her to see her killer and recognize what he did to her for no reason. >> reporter: police believe there could be other victims because these photos were found in franklin's home. the trial expected to last up to four months. steve patterson, nbc news, los angeles. >>> if you're one of the estimated 40 million americans with student loan debt, listen up. a houston man says he was arrested by a team of u.s. marshals without notice for a nearly 30-year-old student loan. nbc's janet shamlian looks into the story. >> reporter: like millions of americans, paul akers has debt from college loans. last week, u.s. marshals showed up at his houston area home to help collect it. >> i went to my garage, opened the garage door, and walked out with my hands up. >> reporter: ache beers claimed he was handcuffed and shackled for nonpayment of a $1,500 loan from 1987, 29 years ago. >> surreal. i think it's so unrealistic that you can trea

that is the benjamin franklin. the largest cargo ship in the world making its arrival inch by inch into the port of oakland. good morning. thank you for joining us on this thursday morning, i'm sam brock. >> i'm laura garcia-cannon. give you a perspective of how big it is. >> takes up half the bay. >> got a taste of the glorious day ahead of us. let's check that forecast with kari. >> cool start and clear skies and warming temperatures heading into this afternoon. another beauty as we take a live look out there now and a look at all the microclimates. we're right at about 50 degrees. still in the mid-40s in the north bay and expect highs to top out near record highs again today. to 71 degrees in san francisco and 78 degrees in the south bay. i'll detail a cool down for the weekend and even a few showers coming up in a few minutes. let's get a look at the bay bridge now with mike. >> since we have this, we'll provide more and here are the lights. there is the toll plaza and there the metering lights, but look above.

jim: and i' m jim payne. 44-year-old marvin franklin was killed in a construction area near i-4 and the maitland boulevard exit. we learned today that his son found out about his dad' s death on his 15th birthday. meredith: wesh 2' s amanda ober joins us live with new information. michelle: the worker killed was a father of three, anas a result of his death, all construction work on all 21 miles of ultimate i-4 was halted today so they could review safety protocol. there is no activity here at the ivanhoe boulevard construction site, and it is unclear whether it will resume tomorrow or possibly not until next week. all was quiet along the 21 mile stretch of i-4 construction sgl thursday. constructors halted work after one its employees, 34-year-old marvin franklin, was killed wednesday when a dump truck backed over him. it happened in a construction maitland boulevard. >> we want people to feel this

fatal crash on the northbound howard franklin bridge, folks. you can still get by, but the two right lanes are taken away. that's why you're not seeing delays. let's move over and talk about another fatal accident. southbound u.s. 19. traffic is routed around it, right at ridge road, and this involves a vehicle and a semitruck, and over here a disabled vehicle south of i-75, past state road 52, and now this problem in pinellas county, here's the latest. the southbound lanes are blocked here, west of 275, and this involves a vehicle that too. now to gene and gayle. >> thank you, leslee. >>> 8 on your side has been bringing you up to date on hit- and-run tragedies, and today the florida highway patrol is taking actions to put a stop to it. lindsey mastis is live this morning from fhp in bradenton, and they have something planned for there later this morning? >> reporter: that's right in a few hours the florida highway patrol will be here, talking about a new awareness campaign, and they want to make sure the drivers know the consequences for fail

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abraham lincoln, franklin d. roosevelt, and george washington. he used to be lincoln, washington, fdr, but more recently it has been lincoln, fdr washington. , nobody appears, in the judgment of historians, likely to move into that top category. and then there is a group just below that of near a great. theodore roosevelt is always pretty much at the top of that group, or close to it. mr. brinkley: theodore roosevelt won a landslide election in 1908 -- i mean, in 1904, but by he decided not to run. 1908, he left in march with of and reallyto africa turning over the republican party to william howard taft. who was taft, and what were the virtues of his presidency? mr. leuchtenburg: he was a commissioner in the philippines, he had been a member of theodore roosevelt cabinet. when i was a graduate student, we used to say, always trying to do our elders one better, that taft was actually more of progressive than teddy roosevelt. more antitrust suits under taft proportionately then there were under teddy roosevelt. and elders were shaking, saying you