president obama is scheduled to celebrate the new bill at the george mason university on monday. >>>nother new jersey mayor is resigning after his recent corruption arrest. he was one of numerous public officials arrested last week by the fbi for allegedly taking bribes in exchange for political favors. he is 32 yrs old and just took office three weeks ago. another major from new jersey also quit his job this week after being arrested. >>> next, elected how many times president obama played golf and traveled abroad. >> we are tracking the storm th. >> live their grids been part, i talk one-on-one with the skins top draft choice. plus, we take back in time. l[ >>> the president's first six months in office have been packed with ups and downs. >> mike allen breaks down the first six months but the numbers and looks ahead what is in store for next week. >> democratic rule turns out to be good for at least one republican. newt gingrich raised $8 million in the first six mons of this year. next week, the president will get some good news. the senate will vote to confirm sonia sotomayor fo

and george mason and george washington are founding members.lk about their militia as a well-regulated militia. the problem is that there isn't any law regulating at all. so clearly the phrase has additional meanings beyond regulated by law. that said, the militia as an institution in the 18th century was the creature of colonial and then state law. people didn't just put together militias. this is one of the misconceptions that folks in the militia movement during the 1990s had. people didn't just throw together militias. the state divided everybody up, told everybody what company they belonged to. the state appointed the officers. what they did in the revolution was take that state-regulated -- that crown, that royally regulated institution and turn it against the state. and when antifederalists and federalists anticipated how an insurrection or a revolution might recur, that's pretty much what they were anticipating. what they were anticipating not individuals coming out of the woodwork. what they anticipated was the people gathering in thei

begin with our maps on george mason drive near arlington hospital. please watch for crews.ough manassas. a clear commute and in maryland 270 southbound. it is smooth from 121 to the split. >>> it is one of washington's most prestigious and notorious addresses. the watergate hotel failed to sell and neighbors fear that it will continue to sit vacant. >> $25 million opening bid. >> reporter: the auction house was jammed, the bidding was not. >> get it? >> $25 million. >> at least ten people anti-ed up $1 million for a chance to buy the watergate hotel but the banks opening $25 million bid scared them all away. >> any more, sell it 25 million. we thank you for your attendance today. >> reporter: some have the watergate burglars sleeping in the hotel just before the scandal that brought down president nixon. whatever the case it long ago lost its luster and has been vacant since 2007. a victim of the financial crisis and well to do neighbors who were particular about what moves in. >> i do hope that the few years left in my life the hotel will open and we will go back to dinner

approve plans by the private islamic saudi academy to enlarge its campus off route 123 south of george mason university. the 25-year-old school is owned by the kingdom of saudi arabia and feared by some in the community. >> our concern which mr. murphy, the planning commission, has called a distraction is that there is an institution operating in our community right now which is raising the next generation of terrorists. >> reporter: it's a startling accusation the principal denies. >> if you have statements like that, wouldn't it be better if you come to the school, verify it for yourself. look at the boo, okay. come. look at the books. look at the teaching. this is the classroom. >> reporter: others who live near the school say they're concerned about more traffic on this narrow two-lane road. >> we went down and counted all the cars and the parents arriving to pick up students at the alexandria campus. and for that to be happening on this road is frightening. >> reporter: the academy has two campuses, this one for up to 200 children, pre-k through the third grade. another on leased proper

callerguest: first, i work for e merc cato institute at george mason and we are nonpartisan.acts about the great depression, i get them from reading academic articles, and in particular, reading the work of christina romer, president obama's own chairman of council of economic advisers, and she has shown very effectively that what got us out of the depression was not spending that monetary policy. there is a lot of literature showing that the spending in the war did not get us out of the depression. even paul krugman, the most recent nobel prize winner, has acknowledged spending in the great depression is not what got us out of the depression. so i had actually read a lot of articles. i think i am pretty well informed. as for recovery.gov, the data that you see is not actually tracking the money. there is a competing website called recovery.org, and they are a private business who tracks the money. they have been doing this for 10 years. they had even offered their help to the obama administration. it seems, like every other administration before, wants to reinvent the way th

an economist at george mason university is here to talk about that and the local economy. how hard is it, doctorrer for someone unemployed in the washington area to land a federal job. >> of course these jobs are fairly high education requirements and skills requirements. so they are not for everybody. most of you are unemployed workers are coming out of retail and construction sectors but there are some who we think of white collar workers, educated and who have been laid off from private sector jobs and they probably qualify but there's not that many jobs and a lot of people that want them. so it is a long process and may take three or four months to work through the bureaucracy. >>> looking at the local job market you just crunched new numbers and we have some new numbers coming out today. >> correct. >> how are things looking? >> we are losing jobs which is unusual for the washington, d.c. area. we have had six months of losses. they are not big, 35,000 fewer job than a year ago. they are predominantly on retail and construction but every sector has lost jobs except fo

that is coming out of the latest data out of george mason university. >> you are coming back in 30 minutes saving us money on how. >> the effective powers of haggling and how it can save you a ton of money. >> that's a tough thing for some of us, i'm included. >>> senators introduce a bill to prevent long waits on airport tarmacs and the shuttle "endeavor" crew will make a sixth takeoff attempt. you are watching 9 news now. >>> welcome back. looking at route 4, route 5 and crane highway. this area is incident and accident free early this wednesday. it is angie with the realtime traffic report coming up. >>> in the news now at 5:10, a bill being considered in the u.s. senate would limit the amount of time airline passengers can be stranded on the tarmac. it would require planes delayed more than three hours to return to the gate to give passengers the opportunity to guess embark. passenger rights advocates hail the idea which is opposed by the airline industry and airports. >>> crews recovered the body of a third and final person missing after a weekend mudslide in utah. the 13-year-old was

let's go ahead and begin with graphic and let you know near arlington hospital and george mason drive and 16th street crews are taking away lanes as needed. glebe road is the best bet. moving to 666 eastbound from gainesville to centreville. lanes are wide open. drivers are moving at speed. here we are tracking the head lights past 234 manassas. on northbound 95, not finding any problems. drivers make their way from fredericksburg to the beltway. andrea, over to you. >>> is metro's train control system failing to do its job? metro says the system is working fine. however, a published report is raising disturbing questions about the safety of metro riders. 9 news now digital correspondent, armando trull is live at the greenbelt station with more. >> reporter: according to the report in the "washington post," which is this in this morning's post, metro discovered a lot of problems including the one here at the again belt station. an investigative story in today's "washington post" suggests that metro's train control system, that is supposed to prevent crashes, is now function -- is malf

he is a george mason university graduate, an avid sports fan and above all a big 9 news now watcher. best wishes to you on your 30th birthday today. thank you for being part of our morning team and joining us every morning. over to andrea. >> go to kristin right now. what's hot on the web? well, we have all probably seen video of california governor arnold schwarzenegger holding a knife or probably much worse during his days as the terminator, but it's not something you would expect to see now that he's a governor, right? that is unless he is talking about slashingthe state etbu e y erfocathrn buorrnposted this his or his twitter page. its readhere's a video i just shot for my twitter followers. let's watch it. >> hey, guys, i just want to say thank you very much for the things you are giving me. we talked about making cuts in the budget, getting rid of some of the state costs and then all of a sudden you come up with the great ideas why not just sign the cause and sell it for more money. that's what we are going to do. the id ea s.ve megimore s.eaid weideas. schwarzenegger saschwa a

being asked to approve plans by the ivate islamic saudi academy to enlarge its campus south of george masonrsity. the 25-year-old school is onlied by the kingdom of saudi arabia and feared by some in the community. >> our concern, which mr. if you are if -- murphy of the planning commission has called a distraction that there is an institution operating in our community which is raising the next generation of terrorists. >> it is a startling accusation the principal denies. >> if you have statements like that, won it be better if you come to the school, verify it for yourself, look at the books. okay. come, look at the books. look at the teaching. visit the classroom. >> reporter: others would live near the school say they're concerned about more traffic on this narrow two-lane road. >> we went down and counted all the cars and the parents arriving to pick up students at the alexandria campus and for that to be happening on this road is frightening. >> reporter: the academy has two campuses, this one for up to 200 children, pre-k through the third grade, another on leased property for the o

you moving to arlington, virginia, at the intersection of columbia pike and george mason drive.s a go. little volume in this area. and finally, the dulles toll road, no incidents, no accidents to report from the greenway to 495. it's 6:39. >>> we're back at 6:43. your living green tip. using a lot of heat with a shower loses energy. a lot of heat is lost from the shower head. you can insulate piping to prevent the heat from escaping and saving energy. the water heater won't have to work that hard. and less energy means less money for you. for more, go to wusa9.com and click on "living green." >> thank you. >>> at 6:43 a video involving president obama has quickly spread on the web. kristin fisher has the clip people are talking about. good morning. >> reporter: hello. good morning. well, you know, any time anything goes even slightly wrong in a presidential press conference, it is a story. but it's especially a story if that something is the teleprompter for president obama. sorry you're looking at the screen right now. that's for a story coming up in just a second. but the stor

four state constitutions quoted george mason's declaration of rights, all men are born equal, free and independent, which jefferson was reading in the philadelphia paper when he was writing the declaration, and which had been -- mason had said two years earlier, so mason is a character by the way, because he's washington's neighbor and political cohort, and also then they fall out during the constitution, washington is a federalist and mason an anti-federalist. jefferson is a character in all of that, but -- and so he comes in and out of the narrative. hamilton is definitely in the narrative and partly because he's john lawrence's best friend and another reason hamilton is in the narrative, because he starts being the one who is actually implementing -- well, he's supporting robert morris' idea for a stronger -- and the farmer's idea, john dickinson's, it was their idea for a stronger central government. hamilton comes on board their program, starts supporting it in 1780, supports is again during the constitutional period and when robert morris is -- turns down the obvious offer to bec

. >> this is part of our political history less and robert dudley and eric shriver to jeff george mason and they are very into politics. and this book is in every close election in american history from thomas jefferson and john adams of the way to bush and gore. in some ways it is almost like redcoats revenge in terms of what might have been if the election had gone differently, is a great way to look at a lecture on history and is fun and accessible and the authors are great can i tell us very quickly about potomac books. >> potomac books is in virginia by the airport and we are in trade publisher, with a military history, we do political history, current events and a lot of great stuff appearance in non. >> elisabeth, senior editor with the town of books. >> join the conversation "what the heck are you up to, mr. president?: jimmy carter, america's "malaise", and the speech that should have changed the country", news editor at the washington post accounts of the political careers of the john robert and ted kennedy, he profiles each kennedy brother and reports on a new generation of k

she's at george mason university law school. and there is -- this reads like a novel. i mean, it is almost fictive in its style. there are no footnotes. it's a compelling story about a 12-year-old boy who's a slave in concord new hampshire -- concord, massachusetts literally on the eve of the british coming through. the might of paul revere's ride. >> and its nonfiction? >> and its nonfiction and it's based on archival research and it follows peter's story. he sleeps on the eve of the revolution. and he joins the continental army, not the british army. most blacks who did these could join the british army because the british were known for abolitionism. and they were antislavery. and so -- and it parallels another slave who escapes around the same time and same geographic area, who joins the british, and that sleeve and is up back as a slave after the war. and peter doesn't. so he fights in the war. he's almost like selig, woody allen's selig. he is some of the main evens the american revolution, the major battles and all of that and it has a happy ending. he does beco

verret is an assistant law professor at george mason law school. prove, talk a little bit more about mechanics. under the bill passed today how would these government appointees work to restrain executive compensation? >> well, the bill has a couple of different provisions. the first provision would provide for say on pay. so-called advisory vote on pay where shareholders was sort of vote on the pay package that's approved by the board of director its and say who they like it. the second major aspect is disclosure about compensation consultants. that work for the board and that help to design compensation packages for the board of direct ares. and the third major part would give the federal reserve and other banking regulators much more authority to specifically prohibit certain types of pay packages and tell banks how they could compensate their employees. >> suarez: to looking at a firm's books, they could say no, sorry, this pay deal is out of line? >> they would absolutely have that authority. for any institution over a billion dollars. so all

to hear about james madison, you hear about george mason as a the architects of the bill of rights. nobody knew who wrote this treatise -- everybody thought it was albert jerry and then a legal scholar, i think it is mercy's great-grandson, charles warren in about 140 years later found her a letter to kathryn mcauley, the radical british historian and mentioned earlier, it is in her handwriting in she says here is a draft of the tree this and that is going to be published to -- she is the unsung architects of the bill of rights. we did not know that and people still don't know that today. anyway, women are finally finally going to be able to put things in their own names around 78 and because they are capping the british tradition, they loved everything british, the close, the fine line, the salons and the party is coming even beginning to think about performing plays so they want to have women a riding like the women in salons in london. so by 79 the mercy is very discouraged, the constitution does pass in the bill of rights doesn't get ratified until 1791. is very discouraged and

he is an assistant professor of law at george mason. thank you.ack to your calls on race and gender. a democrat, do you think these issues matter? caller: i feel one of the things being overlooked is the fact that all of the lawyers who are questioning her decision in the new haven case are overlooking the obvious mandate of title 7 which says even based on a certain supreme court case, even if a valid test is used if there's discrimination or what is called adverse impact which means that any group that gets less than 80% of the major group in a pass rate needs to consider alternatives so that there is non-discrimination. host: whoops, we seem to have lost him. we will move on to north carolina. caller: i just wanted to answer the gentleman's question from virginia when he asked about republican sessions' gpa. we have seen a videotape of judge sonia sotomayor and she proudly said she was a benefit seabury digit beneficiary of legislation and it is how she got into law school. i'm getting unnerved about everyone calling in, saying let's look past

he is now at george mason university school of law in arlington, virginia. >> i was primarily tasked with advising the judiciary committee, principally senator specter, who was chairman of the committee, as well as the other republican members of the committee, both in terms of setting up the hearings and briefing the members as they prepare for the hearings. also as staff director of the committee in setting of the staffing, we had considerable staffing hired prior to the hearings. the size of the committee when i was there, there were around the 60 plus lawyers and supports and professional staff. not all those people were working in the hearing. we hired separate people just to work on the supreme court hearings themselves. we had a full legislative agenda we were working on. chairman specter was quite an active chairman. >> what was your relationship with him during the nomination process? >> it was a great relationship. he was a demanding chairman. he really wanted to be prepared for the hearing process, so we went through a great deal of work in terms of preparing him to make s

i think a historian named peter who taught at george mason university and has written extensively on washington nailed down probably the cause and it was i guess a bacterial infection that caused a swelling which essentially led to just a very slow suffocation of washington. he developed a sore throat i think at first he thought it was nothing more than a sore throat that would last for two or three days. went to bed that night woke up about 2:00 in the morning and realized that he was desperately ill and died probably 17-18 hours later. >> jay-z watching in st. petersburg, florida e-mailed this question did you come across any info that could be construed as medical doctors facilitating the advancement of washington's death? >> no. physicians were called in and they engaged in bleeding early that morning. certainly didn't do him any good but i doubt that it caused his death. there was some debate in the afternoon about doing what would essentially 3w a tracheotomy -- be a track yotmy and remember -- tracheotomy and remember they didn't have anesthesia at the time. it was an operatio

process with michael o'neill, chief counsel of the senate judiciary committee who is now at the george mason school of law and arlington, virginia. >> i was primarily past with advising the judiciary committee, specifically senator specter, as well as other republican members of the committee. in terms of getting the hearings rolling and briefing the members as they prepare for the hearings and also the staff director of the hearing, we had a considerable staff and higher prior to this. >> what was the size of this committee? >> there were around 60 plus lawyers and support staff and professional staff. not all of those people were working on the hearing. we hired separate people to work on the supreme court hearings themselves. we had a full legislative agenda that we were a working on. chairman specter was quite an active chairman. >> what was your relationship with him during the process? confirmed, the 17th chief justice in the history of a country. and the john roberts as the 109th justice of the supreme court of the united states. judge roberts, thank you for agreeing to serve. and con

o'neal, former staff director and chief counsel of the senate judiciary committee who is now at george mason university school of law in arlington, virginia. >> well, i was primarily tasked with advising the judiciary committee principally senator specter at that time, who was chairman of the committee, as well as the republican members of the committee both in terms of setting up the hearings and getting the hearings rolling and briefing the members athey prepared for the hearings, and also as staff director of the committee in setting up the staffing because we had a considerable staffing hire prior to the hearings. >> what was the size of the committee? >> the size of the committee when i was there, i think there were around 60 plus lawyers and prostaff. we hired separate people just to work on the supreme court hearings themselves but we obviously had the continual work of the committee. we had other nominations, we had a full legislative agenda. >> what was your relationship during the nomination process? >> it was a great relationship. at least i would like to think it was a great rela

steven barns worth assistant professor at george mason university to break it down and alook ahead.is your take. >> good morning. i think both the republicans and democrats have put forward democrats to make themself as a center candidate. virginia is not going to be overwhelmingly democrat or republican, so the real decision in virginia is always made in the center and both of the candidates have shown they're going to campaign for the center. >> and virginia for the first time in 44 years went to a republican president and one of the things that came out during the debate, there seem to be a lot of focus on federal issues, on national issues. >> i think because there is relatively small difference idealogically, they're trying to run against more polarizing figures. for the republicans, they want to run against president obama and for the democratser they want to run against president bush. and it was striking how much conversation there was in the debate and in the campaign so far about washington politics, trying to get the effort to try to link the republican candidate to an un

. >> >> i am from george mason university. we expect almost for sure inflation.is the plan in preparation for that? >> when i was at the treasury, i went eight years. and i do not think it would be a very good time to start. i think this goes to the issue i addressed in the speech, and i commented on in the last question. getting the economy going again has to be the first priority, but it is necessary to not be stimulative any longer than is necessary. that goes to budget policy, and it goes to the exit strategy for the central bank. i would not try to argue with you about inflation forecasts. i would say that if you look at the experience of industrialized countries, inflation acceleration typically, almost universally, have one or two of your predecessors. either substantial supply shocks, and that is quite comprehensive energy policies are important, or periods of below-normal unemployment and an overheated economy. the prospects have been overheated from this point that do not appear to be most urgent. i would also note that market indicators, such as the sp

. >> [inaudible] george mason university. purpose of nuclear weapons is to deter other states to get nuclear weapons. then they are relying on a theory with a lot of flaw. i think it was george cannon that said deterrence is a scheme for making nuclear war less likely by making it more likely. if our purpose is a theory that's flawed, then what about alternative strategies, alternative routes. it was said that if deterrents work when accompanied by drastic deterrent reduction. we may want a policy of mutual survival. any comments? ñl >> well, i think those are thoughts. i think, as i said before, the united states and russia and leaders, military leaders in countries need to reassess the role in light of changed circumstances. and we can argue whether deterrence worked or flawed. i think gxwit was more flawed t worked in the cold war years. looking ahead, nuclear weapons do not have the value they once were thought to have. and we need to recognize that today nuclear weapons are more of a liability than an asset in most situ

>> i'm from george mason university.urpose of naqoura funds is to deter other states from giving nuclear-weapons and you are relying on a jury thatç haa lot of flaws. deterrence sometimes breaks down. i think it was george kennan who said that deterrent to such a great idea that it has become contagious. and lieutenant robert green said deterrence is making a war less likely by making it more likely. if our purpose is a theory that is what, then -- flawed, then what about alternative strategies? it works best when it is accompanied by drastic attention reduction, so we may want to switch to a policy of mutually shared survival. can you comment? >> well, i think those are useful thought. as i said before, the u.s. and russia and leaders -- military leaders in each of our country's need to reassess the role in light of changed circumstances. we can argue about whether deterrence worked or was flawed. i happen to think that it was more flawed than worked in the cold war years. looking ahead, nuclear weapons do not have the

one historian named peter who taught at george mason university has written extensively on washingtonnail down probably but cause of the a bacterial infection that caused a swelling of the epiglottis which is essentially lead to just a very slow suffocation. he developed a sore throat up first the thought it was nothing more than a sore throat that would last for two or three days then went to bed and woke up at 2:00 in the morning and realized he was desperately ill and died probably about 17 or 18 hours later. >> host: st. petersburg e-mails the question did you come across any, underlined, information to be construed as doctors in advancing his death? >> guest: positions were called and and dazed positions in engaged in bleating fat morning it did not do him any good but i doubt that it caused his death there was some debate in the afternoon about what would be doing essentially a tracheotomy. they did not have modern and disease at the time, it was an operation that the ball or physicians did not routinely perform. they refused to do it. whether they could have done it successfull

i teach corporate law at george mason law school.scholar with a working group and i also run a corporate federalism issue, a network of scholars dedicated to studying the intersection of corporate governance. i will begin by addressing proxy access and executive compensation rules under consideration. neither of these addressed the present financial crisis, and both may result in significant unintended consequences. then i will close with a list of factors that did contribute to the present financial crisis. i am concerned that some of the corporate governance proposals recently advanced impedes shareholder voice in corporate elections. does it because they leave no room for investors to design corporate governance structure is appropriate for their particular circumstances and particular companies. rather than expanding shareholder choice, a proxy reform before this committee actually stand in the way of stair hall -- a shareholder choice. most importantly, they do not permit a majority of shareholders to reject the approach. the di

michael frontroy, george mason university and the author of republicans and the black vote, he's in theureau this morning. good to at a you can to you. is this going to be a teachable moment or just a photo-op, what do you think? >> you can only leave it to politicians to take a 400-year-old problem and resolve it to a bottle of beer. the situation we're seeing. the fight isn't about broccoli. there's something deeper going on. america is angry about what happened to professor gates. they're angry about what happened to sergeant crowley. but there are deeper latent racial issues in america that need to be addressed. so really, i would say to the president, we need less beer, more brains, more boldness because it will take a lot of energy and effort to fulfill dr. king's dream. >> what do you think? >> there's no question this is a proxy for bigger issues. but from a political standpoint, if it is possible that they could have a discussion and come to an agreement on some things, we could perhaps use it as a jumping-off point to a bigger and better discussion on this issue. as boyd right

i teach corporate law at george mason law school.a senior scholar with a working group and i also run a corporate federalism issue, a network of scholars dedicated to studying the intersection of corporate governance. i will begin by addressing proxy access and executive compensation rules under consideration. neither of these addressed the present financial crisis, and both may result in significant unintended consequences. then i will close with a list of factors that did contribute to the present financial crisis. i am concerned that some of the corporate governance proposals recently advanced impedes shareholder voice in corporate elections. does it because they leave no room for investors to design corporate governance structure is appropriate for their particular circumstances and particular companies. rather than expanding shareholder choice, a proxy reform before this committee actually stand in the way of stair hall -- a shareholder choice. most importantly, they do not permit a majority of shareholders to reject the approac

next, we have ilya somin, assistant professor at george mason university school of law. research focuses on constitutional law, property law and the study of popular political participation and its implications for constitutional democracy. he currently serves as co-editor of the supreme court economic review, one of the country's top rated law and economic journals. after receiving his am a in political science from harvard university and his law degree from yale law school, he clerked for judge jerry e. smith of the u.s. court of appeals for the fifth circuit. i look forward to your testimony. thank you for being here. >> thank you very much. i would like to thank the committee for the opportunity to testify, and more importantly, for your interest in the issue of constitutional property rights that i will be speaking about. the founding fathers, protection of private property was one of the most important reasons for the establishment in the first place and president barack obama has written our constitution places the ownership of private property at the very heart o

virginia and one of the first pregnancy does is rewrite the virginia declaration of rights that george mason is passing through the convention -- pushing through the convention. it was a natural rights statement. mason said that government would tolerate religion, and he saw it not as something as some thought something the government tolerates, but a natural right of conscience. >> three years later, he is elected in 1779 to the consul congress, and there, is one of the experiences that i think as a lot to do with his own ultimate constitutional views eight years later. >> by that time, the continental congress is a functioning, coherent body that seeks to embody the nation. after that, it becomes a [unintelligible] rather than a chorus. it is pretty clear to madison that the states, themselves, are selfishly defending their own interests and did you begin with some sort of the assumption that there is a thing called the people that is a coherent whole, when you confront reality of the, you realize that that is an illusion. there are a series of interest groups that function according to th

>> i'm from george mason university.ose of naqoura funds is to deter other states from giving nuclear-weapons and you are relying on a jury thatç haa lot of flaws. deterrence sometimes breaks down. i think it was george kennan who said that deterrent to such a great idea that it has become contagious. and lieutenant robert green said deterrence is making a war less likely by making it more likely. if our purpose is a theory that is what, then -- flawed, then what about alternative strategies? it works best when it is accompanied by drastic attention reduction, so we may want to switch to a policy of mutually shared survival. can you comment? >> well, i think those are useful thought. as i said before, the u.s. and russia and leaders -- military leaders in each of our country's need to reassess the role in light of changed circumstances. we can argue about whether deterrence worked or was flawed. i happen to think that it was more flawed than worked in the cold war years. looking ahead, nuclear weapons do not have the va

mason. something is going on over here. you all say this is the radio. you have to come meet me with the money. >> new tonight, taunting the five dispatchers in prince george's county. >> a man admits he's using a stolen radio. >> firefighters and paramedics rely on those radios to locate those in trouble. but for ten hours today, the radios were tied up with taunts from a man who demanded a reward for the return of the missing radio. andrew stack with more on the story reported first on wusa9.com. >> reporter: this is what fire dispatchers are contending with. >>. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: music , singing and abusive taunts clogging their vital air waves. >> we at your ma ma's house. >> reporter: a man repeatedly tortures dispatchersusblioiv ausehe fact that itio could le.ife their >>e. ma knows where i live. my papa knows where i live. nt.efrho gs wame whe i l t.>> reporter: fally after several hours, he seems tology cooperate with dispatchers -- wiing to cooperate with ditch patchers. >> i apologize when he gets up th he's so sorry. i'm terribly sorry. >> 8:46. what's your location. >> 202 largo road. >> okay. 8961now tow cente.cilerc >> reporter: firefi

george "today" show sack face invitational. okay? thank you. quickly we'll do the names. when i say go, you go. nick and emily, colby and meredith. shelby and ann. masonour mark, get set -- go! >> yay! >> yay! i'm the last one! >> the champion of the first-ever "today" show sacrifice lake george invitational, nick and emily. congratulations. >> they're going to have that for the rest of their lives. >> i want to eat those marshmallows. we'll be back after your local news and weather. >> live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. police are looking for whoever shot and killed a pair of teenagers in the highlands neighborhood. the shots were fired actually after the o'clock and north conkling street. one of the victims, an 18-year- old was shot in the body and died en route to johns hopkins hospital. >>> let's get a final check of the morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> busy ride out there, not as far as delays go, but incident- wise. fayette closed at lucerne, an accident there for some time. we're dealing with other problems related to the storm. downed tree, and park heights at green

mason for the tennis tournament and we could have some thunderstorms. >>> let's get a traffic update with more. >>> we want to take a live look at the george washington parkway. the ramp to the inner loop is closed due to an overturned vehicle. as you can see in the center 0 the screen. emergency crews are on the scene and delay begins at is turkey run. to 395, no problems from the beltway to the 14th street bridge. keep in mind once you are in town 14th is closed between constitution and pennsylvania avenues until 6:00. over to the graphics right now. the beltway is clear between prince georges and montgomery counties. in other problems or incidents to report at this time and a live look at chevy chase. they are having a police investigation at bradley boulevard and arlington road. the alternates are fairfax and wisconsin avenue. back to you. >>> on-line retailers want to make their services as consumer friendly as possible. that includes catering to people who want to know e erwh their order is every step ofer the way. the headline in "usa today" product tracking is on everyone's radar. lauren ashburn is here and you say pizza delivery companies ar

george "today" show sack face invitational. okay? thank you. quickly we'll do the names. when i say go you go. nick and emily, colby and meredith. shelby and ann. masony! i'm the last one! >> the champion of the first-ever "today" show sacrifice lake george invitational, nick and emily. congratulations. >> they're going to have that for the rest of their lives. >> i want to eat thosely >>> 8:25 is our time. actually 8:26. 72 degrees under thick clouds above the nation's capital. we'll get the forecast. i'm joe krebs on this monday, the 27th of july. in the news today, montgomery county police discovered a body in a burning minivan. officers were called to bradley boulevard in bethesda. police say what appears to be the body of an adult was found in the driver's seat. it's unknown if foul play is to blame. no other accident was found at the scene. we're going to come back and look at weather and traffic. >>> welcome back. i'm chuck bell. it's a cloudy start in the washington area. a couple of sprinkles crossing out of the annapolis area over the chesapeake bay bridge on the eastern shore. temperatures around town in the low to mid 70s now. our forecas

mason: mark strassmann will tell us what's next for the manned space program walter cronkite loved so much. we'll be hearing from many of his colleagues and contemporaries, from moral an safer to actor georgelooney toed to cop he will who explains how cronkite came to be america's town cryer. president obama among others will share his thoughts about the end of a broadcasting era. and more. first here are the headlines for sunday morning, the 19th of july, 2009. two light rail trains collided yesterday afternoon in san francisco. at least 47 people were taken to hospitals. four with serious injuries. the crash is the third major transit accident in the united states since may. the taliban has released pictures of an american soldier the group captured last month in afghanistan. the pentagon has not yet released the name of the missing servicemen who reportedly walked away from his base on june 30. on the tape he talks about how much he misses his family in america and says he's scared he'll never see them again. the u.s. military confirmed the man to be the missing soldier and condemned the video as propaganda. as you've just heard tomorrow is the 40th anniversary of mankind's great step.