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she had to get a ged to begin with. >> she had her ged. that is where they to poetic license. it is not easy. tavis: just to do all that so you can have one client. >> the background she came from, it was tough. and could tell me that relationship. you are the brother and hilary swank is your sister. romanticalmost like a relationship. i like it to soldiers in war who fought for each other and come back home. it is the kind of bond they have. because of all the foster homes and reform schools went to his kids and they were separated and brought together. a lot of hardships. that is why as adults they could not imagine being separated. that is why she would go to this extent to get him out. tavis: you spent time with a sister? >> she is great. she is awesome. she can drink you under a table, that is the first thing. she is very sweet. you might underestimate her when you meet her because she is so nice. she has this steel spine behind all that. and very obviously convicted. >> what do you make of someone -- i am still saddesfaceted by . someone who has dedicated their life to i

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>> i did have a ged. >> larry: so you went to law school and became a lawyer just to get your brother freed? >> yes. >> larry: i what was it like to play her? >> i didn't know of their story before the script was sent to me, i didn't hear about it on the news or anything. but it was a great incredible honor to play this woman who's my real life hero. >> larry: there's no way to underplay this. it's an incredible film. sam, when you got to strip, you got to play this brother, a conflicted character, did you like it right away? >> i thought it was an amazing script and a great part. i was really excited. >> larry: but you had to play someone who was not a nice guy. a guy you pretty much thought did this, as a viewer. >> he's got a temper. >> larry: no kidding? >> but he's basically a good guy. >> larry: inside, way inside. >> that's right. >> larry: how did you get to direct it, tony? >> we have been working on this for nine years. >> larry: nine years? >> nine years ago my wife saw a piece on "60 minutes" right after betty ann succeeded in getting kenny out of prison. she was screaming

i'm going to stop by trying to get my mba after i take the stupid ged test, and if i can get that far, there's no guarantee i'll even get in, i'll apply to law school. but it's going to take a long time, a really long time and i might be 80 years old before i finally become a lawyer and even then i still don't know if i can finance it. but you have to promise me you just have to, that you'll never try to kill yourself again, because if you do -- just don't. >> i cannot understate how good this movie is, it is a great film. betty ann, what was it like to see yourself played by her? >> surreal. >> first of all, i can't even believe that i got to have her play me. but it was really surreal. i felt bad that she had to actually learn to talk like me and do some of the things i do but she did a fabulous job. >> you didn't have even a high school diploma, right? >> i did have a ged. >> larry: you went to law school and became a lawyer just to get your brother freed? >> yes. >> larry: i what was it like to play her? >> i don't know of betty ann's story before the script was sent to me. i didn

. >> monagan eventually passed the ged. >> the first time i took it, i passed.e 90 days free time, you know, just kick back, 90 days, you don't have to do nothing, or you can go to college. college? i never heard of that, not where i'm from. i signed up for college. >> monagan now tutors other inmates. >> if that person you're trying to teach does not want to learn, he's stubborn, he stonewalls, that's when guys like me come into play because i was stubborn and stonewalled. i know what it feels like. i'm willing to endure all those hardships that it takes just to help you get your ged or whatever it is that you're trying to get, if you're trying to bring your grades up, that's what i'm here for. anything less than that, you can keep the change. >>> up next -- >> with my retirement pending, i was in jail for having taken someone's life. >> a preacher convicted of murder finds a new congregation at isp. >> brothers, we need to know today that change is possible. why go one more round ? you don't need a rematch but a rethink. with lunesta. lunesta is thought to int

>> actually i did have a ged. >> larry: the eke vent, right. so you went to law school and became a lawyer just to help get your brother freed? >> yes, yes. >> larry: what it was like to play someone who is someone, hillary? >> an honor. >> larry: you know her. >> i didn't know of betty ann and ken's story before the script was sent to me. i didn't hear about it on the news or anything, but it was a great incredible honor to portray this woman who is my real life hero. >> larry: wealth, it's -- there's no way to underplay this. it's an incredible film. sam, when you got the script and you got to play this brother. >> yeah. >> larry: a conflicted character, did you like it right away? >> yeah. i loved it. i chased after it. i thought it was amazing, amazing script and a great part. i was really excited. >> larry: but you had to play someone that wasn't a nice guy, not a nice guy, a guy you pretty much thought did this as a viewer? >> well, he's got a temper, you know, and maybe misunderstood. >> larry: no kidding. >> but he's basically a good gu

>>> i'm optimistic for tomorr but concerned as we ged towards the monday/tuesday timeframe. a complete check of what may be a cooling trend coming our way is coming up in weather. hakim, sports? >>>. redskins cut tie with the former second-round draft pick. second-round draft pick. tie taxes 60 percentsync: i didy woman 1 syi didn't owatrnor man 3: he worked for ak 10 billn doanother bamillion.apsed.axers7 h big s don't need help. middle class marylanders do. (voice 2) how bad is it? (voice 1) traffic's off the chart... (voice 2) they're pinging more targets... (voice 3) isolate... prevent damage... (voice 2) got 'em. (voice 3) great exercise ys. let's run it again. >>> the impassioned debate over aosque near ground zero took center stage inorthern virginia. the developer of the project spoke at a dinner and that attract aid crowd of protesters tside. darcy spencer just back from arngton joining us in the studio. what you got? >> there were a couple dozen protesters and they say t develop ever of the controversiaproject shouldot be honored by being a speaker at the banquet.

sync: i did as ged my property woman 1 syi didn't owatrnor taxes 60 percent.an 3: he worked for ak 10 billn another bahamillion.sed.axers 17 h big s don't need help. middle class marylanders do. >>> the wor's richest man was in northern virginia dedicating a place named after his mother. it is in alexander re. a jane watrel with their story. >> reporter: bill gates takes in the grounds of the new center dedicated to his late mother. the mary m. gates learning center sits on the banks of the potomac. a $17 million state-of-the-art facility that will train united way staffers from all over the world. >> both she and i came to this building as members of the united way board so she believed in that a lot. and getting the them to share their best practices, even got some worldwideactivities. so this center will facilitate that and i'm sure she would be very happy about it. >> reporter: the gates family has had a long relationship with united way. mary gates was the first woman to chair the united way board in the seattle area. daughter libby gates. >> until then t

sync: i did as ged my property taxes 60 percent.oman 1 syi didn't owatrnor man 3: he worked for ak 10 billn doanother bamillion.apsed.axers7 h big s don't need help. middle class marylanders do. >>> doctors can now begin prescribing botox for chronic migraines. the food and drug administration approved the wrinkle remover today for those who suffer from at least 15 intense headaches each month. botox works by paralyzing muscles. for treaent of migraines, it would be injected in the patient's head or neck every three months. the benefit was first discovered by accident. dermatologists noticed that patients' headaches began going away along with their wrinkles. with the fdaapproval, patients can now have botox treatments covered by insurance. >>> as a tightened for the washington redskins, chris cooley is used to getting hit. but the hardest hit he ever took happened off the field when his mother told him she had breast cancer. peter alexander has our repot. >> reporter: she called me and was crng, and right away i knew something was

we have the capacity to take someone who doesn't speak english as a first language, who may have a ged enter a post-secondary institution and from there, as we like to say, we take you where you are, and wherever you want to go. and community colleges are quite frankly the only institution of higher learning that can do that. >> all right. will things get better? what's your crystal ball? >> of course things will get better. if for no other reasons that community colleges will continue to do amazing work, and we look at perhaps another two or three years of budget woes, but thereafter, we are resilient, learning a lot from this desire set of circumstances, and i'm sure we'll come out the other end better than ever. >> what do we need to do at the junior high school level, the high school level to better prepare them for you? >> create a culture, a college-going culture. start in third grade, start in first grade, start in ginger garden. the notion that college is not a dream, but a factual reality. that's highly critical for children, and as you well know, if we don't have that by thir

so all they could get is a ged in general. they come out with no date money, no clothes.one of them have jobs when they get out. and they come home to what? when they have been locked up 5, 10, 20 years, they go home, and their families do not even want them home. >> what impact does somebody's criminal history have on this transition from the system into the community? >> in seven states, you can never vote again. most states, you cannot vote while you are on paper. because of the criminal background record checks that are now ubiquitous, incredibly, a, you have a hard time ending an apartment, getting a car loan, getting any kind of job. i'm a convicted felon, and it would not hire me and walmart. i could not work the cash register at burger king. most occupations and recessions are close to you because you are a convicted felon -- occupations and jobs. when you see homeless people outside, most of them have felony convictions, mostly bullshit felonies, the little felonies. that is why they cannot get jobs. that is why they are panhandling and sleeping in doorways. thei

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from stanford where he also learned a gerks -- ged. >>> they'll do two live shows, one for the east coast and one for the west. tina fey says it will include different jokes for each version. it's the first time the show will be done in frun of a live studio audience. >>> and live from at&t park, we'll be seeing raj mchigh over and over and over again. >>> we've got giants. also, this story remarkable. that's not champagne they're celebrating with, and why this playoff team is turning so many heads. in sargletyry tinmig singletary some damage control with his own image. we're back in a moment. republican. democrat. independent. your party doesn't matter anymore. it's fixing this mess. boxer's been there twenty-eight years. and, look what we've got. when bickering ends, solutions begin. i'm prepared to oppose my party when it's wrong. we can change washington but first you have to vote, to change the people we send there. i'm carly fiorina and i approve this message. i really didn't see it coming. i didn't realize i was drifting into the other lane. [ kim ] i was literally falling asleep a

sync: i d as ged my property taxes 60 percent. man 1 syi didn't owatrnort.: he worked for ak 10 billn doanother bamillion.apsed.axers7 h big s don't need help. middle class marylanders do. >>> more beautiful weather today, and that is a clear-looking sun. the moon is sparkling. normally when you see a moon like that, like u did earlier, that means clear skies and things are changing. cool conditions out there. that's going to be tomorrow after big changes today. one very warm day as the high temperature reached 83 degrees across the area. but say goodbye to the 80s and say hello to much cooler temperatures. high pressure just to our north and some areas of low pressure. that area of low pressure down to the west. that's the one that's going t come in on thursday. give us some shower activity if not some rain, maybe some heavy rain as well. this is therea of high pressure that's starting to make its way into the region, and as it does, that will bring us much cooler air into the night. you'll really notice a difference when you wake up in the day tomorrow mor

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times i have come out to turn the lights out, and there's a resident up super late studying for their gedr college work or coming back from a job they just started. they are the real heros here in my opinion. they are making it happen every day. >> reporter: derek mcginty. >> every five days a woman moves moves for the shelter to her own house. go to wusa9.com and click on hero central click. >>> a quick look ahead at sports plus coming up. [ music throughout ] [ male announcer ] looking for a complete picture of your money? meet pnc virtual wallet. it comes with a calendar that shows you all your finances at once. it lets you know when your money's going out. and when it's coming in. it even tells you when you're running low. we call that danger days. it's built to help you see your money in a whole new light. experience everything virtual wallet has to offer at pncvirtualwallet.com. pnc. for the achiever in us all. ♪ time for football on verizon fios. the nfl in 100% fiber-optic hd quality. that's a good start. but what's this? i can check my fantasy stats without changing the channel.

the only requirement, have to be at least 18 years old with a high school diploma or ged. >> the program isn't just fort anyone. you need to have a thick skin and the right mind-set. >> we work on behaviors of the entrepreneurs. we think their idea is secondary. we think the idea is important but we think if we get the right person and we ingrain in them the right behaviors that if the idea doesn't work, they will get themselves up off the matt and open up another business. >> long hours are the norm. classes are held five days a week and there are assignments at night and on the weekends. projects from past classes have included selling memberships to the detroit zoo and taking part in trust-building rope courses. >> this is very demanding. entrepreneurship is demanding. you are not going to come in and read a book and take a test. we believe you have to experience it to do it. >> reporter: if the idea is approved, bizdom splits ownership of the company with the entrepreneur. some owners get as much as $100,000. >> they take a 33% ownership and bizdom takes a 66% ownership. as that busi

one said, you were still so young. 18-year-old earned his ged and worked at a scrap metal yards. >> a lot of kids are hurt, they're devastated. it is senseless and i hope someone learns from this that this cannot happen. this cannot go on just because you are fighting. what happened to the olden days when you just fight with your fists? >> they are questioning several people including two teenagers. they say no one has been charged in the murder. >> of manassas man was hit and killed while walking to a commuter lot around 6:30 a.m. he was crossing when a pickup truck hit him. he died at the scene. it is not uncommon for people to cross their but because there is no crosswalk, the driver had the right of way and was not at fault. >> get ready for more delays. track work on the orange line between the and west falls church begins tonight. repair problems along the yellow line. along the green line between navy yard and anacostia and on the greenline. >> the weather was definitely worth the wait. >> we will shake you up right now between -- we're shaping up between clouds and sprinkles.

if she decides to get her ged, inco to college, a bill to law school, and defend him. it is amazing. the system starts to beat the man down. you see subtle changes. you are rooting for these characters as you are watching the film. it is amazing that it is based on a true story. at some point, she finds out about dna. this is the 1980's. she realizes this is the way to get her brother out. scott i will give this film -- i will get this film a guarantee that are rarely get. everyone who sees this will like it. three big stars. look for oscar nominations. >> i heard it took nine years to get the green light to make this movie. >> it is crazy. >> into life, but that actually dies. the sister says she could get one person to change her life -- >> they do not mention that she- it is it that he dies six months after he gets out of jail. >> thank you. the baltimore ravens take on the buffalo bills tomorrow at 70 big stadium. we will get a headstart on the tailgate next. women are charged 40% more for the same health insurance as men. domestic violence is treated as a pre-exis

-- and more upbeat and -- >> reporter: weaver said that coates was turning the corner, average the ged, staying -- station out of trouble when killed. with the threat of retaliation on the minds of many, community activists kept an eye on things as l. for how long? it put a -- on hurts. >> and the last three, we laid off 50 people and all the children who were committing the murders, 80 -- over the last -- full months have can have chosen. i am saying it right away and know what is going to happen. >> reporter: d.c. police have charged one person in connection with the murder of jamal coates and they're still looking for one more. it's routine for police to attend the funerals of those murder said, a number of recent post funeral shootings forced police to be more visible, taking a proactive approach, an effort to prevent underneath further violence. >> thank you, paul wagner. >>> president obama awarded the nation's military honor today, to a courageous soldier who went above and beyond. he was awarded the honor posthumously. thousands of his family and friends were there. he died fig

sync: i did as ged my propertyt. woman 1 syi didn't owatrnor man 3: he worked for ak 10 billn doanother bamillion.apsed.axers7 h big s don't need help. middle class marylders do. >>> a murder police originally called a case of vigilante justice outside the d.c. nightclub may not have been a homicide. this happened early this morning. police say five club employees attacked him after he threw a brick through the wiow but sources tell news4 the medical examiner could not determine the victim died from that beating. >>> a pedestrian was killed this morning near a commuter lot in dumfries. 38-year-old miguel of manassas was walk around dumfries road. the driver stayed on the scene and has not been charged. >>> some parents are speaking out after their kids answer someday rather adult questions about sex. it happen earlier this week. seven dollars gra seventh graders were asked questions. some parent said they didn't have time to opt their kids out of the survey. they met with authority to discuss this matter. >>> we have