he was 16. >> george wythe dies in 18 06. we're past the constitution convention and the original congress, who is still alive that he mentored? what's a lot of the people that he mentored were still alive. john marshall was the chief justice of the supreme court. jefferson had been reelected easily as president in 18 04 and had just concluded the lewis and clark expedition monroe would go on to be the fifth president of the united states later. other proteges have become governors, senators, and congressman. clay, at that time, was in his early 20s and thinking of running for congress. >> once george wythe died, what was the reaction from all these people that he mentored. >> shock, absolute shock. they all had letters from his friends that they had been poisoned -- that he had been poisoned and there were very angry about that. in the city of richmond, people were aghast that the poisoning took place. he had lived there for the last 16 years and on and off a few years before that. his funeral was the largest funeral in the

he became violently ill. >> george sweeney? -- george wythe sweeney? >> that was the nephew. 17-years old, he was always in trouble. >> related to george wythe how? >> he was his sister's grandson. >> what did he want to kill him? >> money. the kid had fallen prey to an epidemic of gambling in richmond. richmond had become a colonial sodom and gomorrah. gambling, drinking and prostitution. wythe's house was three blocks up the street where all the casinos were. the kid had gone down every night and run up huge gambling debts and began to steal from wythe. he stole a precious global of the world and valuable books and sold in downtown to pay off his gambling debts. he forged checks under george wythe's to get hundreds of more dollars to pay off debts. he came up with a scheme to murder george wythe to give his estate from his will. under the terms of the will, he was entitled to half. >> why was that? >> when he was a little boy, his dad was the manager of george wythe's plantation. he was very friendly with his dad and the boy. he used to buy him a voi

the russian boys and josh escort george back to his room. >> reporter: could george get there under hiswn power? >> no, no, by that time george was stumbly, dropping his cigarette according to josh it was some -- he was about 50% on his own power on the way back to the room. he wasn't being carried but he was being guided with some assistance of the two larger boys. jennifer is no longer with the guys. for months, there would be speculation about her whereabouts in the next 4 hours. >> reporter: where's jennifer gone? >> that's the big question. >> reporter: continuing josh's version of events, he and the three russians stumbled george to his cabin on deck 9. when they see there's no jennifer, george changes his shirt and they all set out again to find her. it's now about 3:45 a.m., the posse of five heads right to the place that the young people on-board know as the after-hours hook-up spot. >> they go to the jacuzzi in the solarium area. no jennifer. so it's five, ten minutes there are very short amount of time looking 'cause it's obvious there's nobody else there and then five, ten m

it said the murder of george wit. he was one of the unknown founding fathers pitted i did not know he had been murdered -- but i did not know she had been murdered -- i did not know he had been murdered. he propped himself up by his fellows, stared at his doctor and in a whisper said, i am murdered. that is where i got the title from. >> you mean if you had not lost or balance, we would never had this book? >> that is exactly right. >> i thought it was wthel. why did we not hear more about him over the years? he is a fascinating character. >> the reason people do not know a lot about him is that, unlike most people who were among the founding fathers, the only book he wrote was a legal decision. he never kept a diary for a journal. -- or a journal. there is very little information about him. he could have been on the supreme court but turned down an appointment to it. almost all of his life spent -- almost all of his life was spent in virginia. virginians know about him. schools are named after him across the statelin

george mcgovern.u know, abraham lincoln appealed to the better angels of our nature. so does george mcgovern. and i'll tell you, this country and this world would have been a hell of a lot better had he become president in 1972. [applause] >> but having said that, he has been dedicating his life these last several years to ending hunger here in the united states and around the world. and he will end it because this is a man of incredible dedication and commitment and compassion and that is why -- this is an incredible crowd here tonight because we love the man. now, we have a couple of people that i want to introduce who will say a few words. just to show you that george mcgovern is a bipartisan kind of guy we have my colleague from missouri, joann emerson, who i should tell you has been an unbelievable leader to combat hunger and her and i have teamed up and the one-two punch like george mcgovern and bob dole have done in the united states senate but we have tried to improve not only the food and nut

of schools in all of the districts around george mason. i recall many of them wondering. they had never met university president. they wondered what i was doing. i was there to remind them and make the statement that we have to have a strong relationship with k through 12. we do. with our faculty in the college of education and human development that work with those systems as much as possible. >> i am going to throw some numbers out. as of may, microsoft cut about 5000 jobs. as of march, ibm had cut the same number. yahoo laid off about 5% of the workforce in april. it goes on and on. all markets are having a hard time right now. but when they are savvy enough to look around and see stocks plummeting and jobs being cut, why would they want to go into information technology? which you have to remind people that this is cyclical. they're going to be ups and downs in any career area. now is the time for someone to get involved in technology. technology is not going to go away. it is a question of convincing people that it is worth investing

we know george anthony had at one point contemplated suicide. with all that said, how is he going to hold up in there? what are you seeing from george? >> it's going to be a different dynamic. he resented the civil lawsuit brought by that firm, you know, that claimed that their zanny, zenaida fernandez, was defamed. so him and cindy resented the attorneys. they resented the lawsuit. they hated being there. this is a little different different. they understand the prosecutorial function. they have to find out what they know. they know they're going to be witnesses. and so i think it's going to go very differently. the same way cindy and lee's depositions went. i think he'll go the same way, calm, answering questions and normal. >> since you mentioned it, we have a clip cut, this is george anthony during the civil suit, filed by zenaida gonzalez. let's watch george anthony again. we'll say it was tense, at the least. let's give it a watch. >> i've already answered everything about this lady right here. and i've done it in the best possible way i c

our guest is alan martin, president of george mason university. >> host: the president of george mason university of virginia is our guest on the communicators. and jill toro is here to participate in the questioning. gm used consistently described as one of the most wired universities and america. practically, what does that mean? >> guest: it has been involved in information technology. this begins by supporting the information technology community, also making sure we have plenty of technology on campus to support our students, faculty and staff. we take information technology very seriously. it probably doesn't hurt that i, as the president, and a computer scientist. we view these technologies for our students and faculty, like the council of old, you have got to have them, it is fascinating when they work, everyone takes them for granted. when something goes wrong everybody notices because everyone has become so dependent on information technology for research, learning, communicating, doing the business at the university. >> host: what kind of investment does george mason makes i

police say the man has been identified as george sed -- sodini. he was on a mission, hell-bent on shooting people. brought four handguns in a gym bag. left notes inside, talking about his hatred for women. he had blogged about his loneliness, rejection, growing rage. want to hear from you on this story, call in, 1-877-tell-hln is the number. we want to start with jordan solomon. she witnessed the shooting. was in the class when it happened. and thankfully she's okay. jordan, we're so glad that you were able to get out alive. tell us what happened last night. >> well, i went to the classroom, and i just thought i was going to go for my first latin impact class. and i was sitting towards the back, or standing actually towards the back towards the door, and about 15 minutes into the class, a man walked in, looked like he was ready to work out. he had a sweatband on and everything. workout clothes. he brought a large black duffel bag. he set it down in the back of the room. kind of where i was standing. and he shuffled around for a little while. and t

prince george's county got a good soaking in southern maryland. the storms are not done with us yet. >> for the up-to-the minimum details we head straight to bob in the storm center. what are we going to be getting? >> depends where you are. as we saw today, there was some spots but not much rain. boy, if you were underom oefaw those torrential rains, it was like being under a water fall and you can see how thick the air is. we still have a lot of moisture. here is the area that's still under a flood watch. ed into watch until 2:00 in the morning. there are some flood warnings over there in the eastern shore. for some of those heavy rains. there is a batch and it is not only rain but also thunder once again. moving into southern maryland and moving right through charles county and coming up northern st. mary's county. l of these rains do contain some very, very heavy -- storms do not contain very, very heavy rains. they will be movin through prince george's county. we will keep an eye on things. look at how much rain fell in silver spring. that wa

in prince george county, 9news now and wsua-- wusa.com. >>> also in prince george county, the council is considering making it tougher to open check cashing businesses. some council members want to improve the county's image by clamping down on certain types of businesses like strip clubs, liquor stores. >>> school bells will be ringing across the nation soon and the government wants you to know what it's doing to keep the h1n1 virus from spreading like wildfire. there are concerns about more cases once kids are back together in class. officials expect a vaccine to be available by mid-october and they want schools to be the principal site for giving out the flu shots. the decision to close schools will be left to local authorities. >>> we are developing and sharing mitigation measures. huge range of strategies to help limit the spread of the flu, from encouraging people and children to wash their hand frequently, stay home when they are sick, to advising communities on how to respond to outbreaks. >> nearly a thousand schools nationwide shut their doors because of hin last -- h1n1 las

prince george's county. children in charles, anne arundel, frerick, fauquier, culpepper and spotsylvania counties are also heading back to class. >>> time is running out to get cash for your clunker. the incentive program ends at 8:00 tonight. the government says almost 500,000 cars have been sold under the program. >>> and a 7-year-old girl is dead after being swept out to sea in maine. authorities say she was overtaken by a huge wave caused by hurricane bill. the storm is also blamed for killing a swimmer off the coast of florida. >> happening today, please your palate without emptying your wallet. it's restaurant week in the district. this year, 180 restaurants are participating. darcy spencer tells us about many of them are bracing for a busy week. >> reporter: with the economy down, fewer people have been eating out, or at least eating out less often. so restaurant owners in the district are hoping to get people back at the table as restaurant week starts on monday. >> it does bring new people. people t

george sodini was in pittsburgh.o this is something he clearly wanted to spend time and money youtube videos that he made himself, that he made as kind of homework for the seminar. he uploaded them to youtube. one of them is like a self-guided tour around his house. he's saying things like, look at my house, i think it's nice. i think women would like this. that was made as a homework exercise for that seminar. so the woman who looked at it could go online and comment on what they saw. give him some pointers on how to make his house nicer for women. at some point he was really trying to do this. but this was all, you know, a little while ago, a year, year and a half ago, something happened after that. >> okay. so since you mentioned it, abbi, i believe we have that clip. this is, again, george sodini, kind of, as abbi said, giving us a tour of his house. as he's talking, he's hoping it's going to impress a woman someday. let's listen. >> two-inch. my computer. let me pan out a little bit. computer is connected to the

well, now it's george's turn. again, george has been a sympathetic figure. you feel for him it, his granddaughter killed. the body dumped in the woods near his home. his daughter is in jail accused of first-degree murder. we'll take a look at all three of them. take your calls as well 1-877-tell-hln. joining us to talk about it, pam bondi, florida state prosecutor, criminal defense attorney mark eiglarsh and good to have you back, marva. help clarify concerning george. we've had a couple of delays. do you know why the delays and when will he actually answer some questions here? >> i don't know why his giving a deposition has been postponed. we do expect it to take place sometime this week. >> okay, this week. what's your read on the delays? is it because cindy took two days and 13 hours? do you think the schedule is pushed back? >> usually i cancel depositions when i have a conflict. it could be george is just realizing, i've got to go through this again after the civil deposition. he's not looking forward to being grilled again. >> pam, talk about cindy. tw

it should move into southwestern prince george's county, southeastern prince george's county as well,ay get a downpour in the next hour or so. elsewhere, just scattered showers around at this hour, across northern virginia, into west virginia. another batch of some light rain that may move into the net row area here in another couple of hours. temperatures now 72 in washington, near 70 in prince george's county, montgomery and fairfax. off to the blue ridge as well. blue ridge to the west, weather watchers reporting temperatures in the 60s. these are the rainfall totals we've had so far, about .1 in washington, .2 in charles county. where that one downpour is it may have unloaded about 1/2 an inch. weather watchers in calvert county reported over an inch of rain from some downpours that came through overnight. meanwhile, around the neighborhood network in rockville, there it's 69. they've had less than .5 of an inch of rain there since yesterday afternoon. out in the mountains, mid-60s now, eastern shore in the low 70s. rather steamy there. they've had some of the heavier rains there.

i'm joined by george will, e.j.nne, liz cheney, sam donaldson and gwen ifill and i think, george, that gets at the gift of this whole what would kennedy do? what would teddy do debate? he was both a fierce partisan and ideological partisan an very pragmatic legislator at the time. >> conservatives spend our lives saying there is a reason things are as they are. there are vast forces out there and there's a reason why health care is very difficult to do. newt gingrich has a piece in "the washington post" saying since the second world war only ford and clinton had lower poll ratings than barack obama has after seven months. if that is true, it is because the independents are leaving him and more important, the elderly are. in 2008 and everyone in congress knows this number in 2008, 40% of the votes were cast by voters 50 or older. by 2030 when the baby boomers have all retired more americans 65 years old or older than there are 18 and under. had is the politics of gerontocracy. they're most weary of this program. >> g

george bush sr. said it too late in his presidency to rebound from it, but if you are going to raise taxes, and that is where it looks like we are inevitably going, get out of the way now. because that is where we are heading, isn't it? >> yes, we are heading that way, but president obama, as a candidate, said he was not going to raise taxes on anyone raising over it -- anyone earning over $250,000. neil: you say that is statistically impossible. >> exactly, and making our country less competitive and hurting small businesses, but the cap and trade scheme is one clearly that will raise the cost of electricity, food, clothing, and fuel, and even admit that they have to have energy welfare checks to try to mitigate the harm to small or lower income families. the last thing they need to do is make our country is less competitive with more taxes, more regulatory burdens, and this enormous debt. they actually got to learn from the cash for clunkers. if you reduce the price of something, people will go out

i'm joined by george will. welcome back from vacation. >> thank you. >> david frum, from newmajority.com. robert reich from ucal berkeley. and paul krugman from princeton. let's talk about where the health care debate stands, george. you heard john mccain say, it's time for a new start. let's start over again. the president should bring republicans and democrats in the oval office and redo the bill. >> one of the republicans, that the administration's counting on to give him a patina bipartisan coloration on this. said the other day, what we've learned in the august tumult, is that a lot of americans are happy with what they've got. a lot majority of americans have health insurance. and a large majority are satisfied with it. however, the president, therefore, is trying to get radical change, without the propellant of underlined, broad-based, and deep-seeded discontent. to combat that action, he has been ubiquitous and somewhat shrill. ubiquitous that he's like elevator music in american life. he's everywhere a

executive for prince georges county. as you know we are term limited. i'm coming off the council in 2010. i have developed and gained a tremendous amount of experience in order to guide the county forward. therefore i decide i can make a contribution to prince georges county. one of the interesting things about my campaign in the last two runs i had my wife as my campaign manager and she will be my campaign manager again. therefore we have a winning team and we expect to prevail in 2010. >> she's with us and we congratulate her on her role as your campaign manager but the two of you are take atlantic a difficult path at a difficult time the governor will be announcing millions of dollars in cuts that will affect the jurisdiction. you just had a federal judge's ruling go against the county in trying to balance the budget by furloughing union workers. your reaction to that, and are you crazy taking this responsibility at this time? >> i believe that you really make decisions to do things when things are difficult. i have n

he spoke to a group of supporters at george mason university today. the senator from bath county outlined differences between the candidates, including southern issues, job creation and education. former republican delegate, jim diller came out and endorsed the democratic candidate for governor. >> i have known him forever and i have nover bob mcdonnell forever and i know their philosophies and my philosophy is to move virginia ahead and that's the philosophy of creigh deeds. he is supportive of education, just as i have been. he is supportive of the environment, just as i have been. >> reporter: a quick correction there. we should have said he has 12 points behind his republican opponent bob mcdonnell and mcdonnell spent his day in southern virginia. he went to events in lynchburg and harrisonburg. it is part of an rv tour he is taking calling for new jobs and opportunities across virginia. >>> maryland delegate jon cardin is broadening his apology for his marriage proposal stunt. perhaps you have heard of it. he used baltimore resources including a

the showers are pushing now and the prince george's county. heavier showers are south of the radar over in bowie. psome heavy downpours, the atmosphere is heavy laden with moisture. couple hours this morning, and then the clouds moved in. temperatures, clopper 80's, below 90's. 97 it feels like in culpeper. the big picture. it is cooler to the west where the showers are more prevalent. it is hazy and hot with scattered storms throughout the day. that lookswi with highs of around 90 degrees or so. it will feel warmer than that. the storms will taper off tonight. patchy fog tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon, we repeat the pattern began. partly sunny skies and late afternoon thunderstorms. friday and saturday, strong to severe storms. on saturday, we start warm, but then cooler air. . . >>> the virginia's governor's race is expected to be the most expensive in state history. the public access project says more than $32 million has been raised through june 30. virginia is one of six states that does not impose limits on donations. >>> car maker

and i said, i think i'm going to vote for george w. bush. >> george h. w.bush. >> thanks for correcting me. and she said if you do i'm going to go back and tell everybody at the university of notre dame where i was a professor there of republicans, i ended up, i won't tell you how i voted because i don't want to get in trouble with my wife. i think there were a number of things that were changing and how i viewed the world. and i think being in poland in 1989 was a major turning point for me being under a socialist system at that point. >> you have written three books. do you have another when you're working on right now? >> yes, you. >> on? >> if a book on when hollywood was right, how the hollywood right change the republican party. stick with and talking with donald critchlow was a professor at saint louis university and the author of three books. this is his most recent, the american conservative movement, 1945 to the present, cowritten with nancy mcclung. >> thank you. >> this summer the tv is asking what are you reading? >> as the author of a new book

olney 89 and king george 92.ie has the virginia traffic. >>> start with the mixing bowl between 395 and 95, all lanes are flowing nicely. no problems to report out here. taking it over to the tysons corner area. we come to you live from route 7 and 123 and we have zero incidents or accidents along the way and finally invite you to come fly with me over 267 the dulles toll road, heading ebb past the bell waite. no -- beltway. no issues at this time. speaking of time it is time and we will be right back. óç even during times like these, there is a light beginning to shine again. it comes from a restaurant downtown. a shop on main street. a factory around the corner. entrepreneurs like these are the most powerful force in the economy. the reinvention of business begins with them. and while we're sure we don't know all the answers, we do know one thing for certain: we want to help. come see what the beat openforum.comkeb@fafa back with the living green tip of the day. the average elementary school throws away 18,000-

and it basically says here, apatow has said that george, you have said that george represents what he and sandler would have become if we didn't get sane and get married and have children. >> yes. >> that is true. >> so would you have been, george f you hadn't found a woman. >> there are differences no matter what. but yeah, i could see us leaving a path. i definitely before i met my wife had to make a decision. i'm not liking who mi right now. and i had very good parents. very nice family. and i was, you know, excited about girls and taking advantage of that. this was, you know, years ago. and i definitely made a conscious decision i don't think that's the life i want to live or i'm going to just be unhappy. i wasn't happy. so i changed my path and fell in love, had children and i'm living that life. but -- >> hi a different thing which was nobody would have sntions with me so i thought i should settle down now. >> tell me about the casabatas scene. why is it, and in fact someone said this black and white photo of peter faulk on the set that's important to you because he was one of y

it includes prince georges and montgomery counties, and around baltimore. temperatures now are climbing into the mid-and upper 70s. now, 78 in washington. and eastern shore, they are near 80. out of the mountains in the cool 60s. here is the wider view, showing other showers further to the south. heavier downpours coming out of the north carolina into southern virginia. for the afternoon, cloudy and humid thunderstorms likely. temperatures climbing into the low 80s, and possible flooding later tonight as well. temperatures for the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. joe and kimberly? >> thank you, tom. looks like a bit of a sloppy weekend for us. >>> the wet roads caused problems out there. jerry edwards has the latest on the traffic situation. jerry, what do you know now? >> it was a tough commute early on. things calmed down. now we are watching for the friday getaway. and let's get out and take a live look. i-95, this is the northbound side. we are doing okay. 95 southbound also moving along nicely. but with the weather beginning to move in, i s

the man is george sodini. he left an online diary detailed his fury at attractive women for rejecting him, and his family. he listed his date of death as august 4th. police say he shut out the lights in the class last night, started shooting. a bystander helped a wounded woman escape. >> she made it to the door and couldn't make it any further. i picked her up and took her about 50 yards away from the fitness center. >> brian moore is in bridgeville, pennsylvania right now. what are investigators saying right now about that online diary? >> reporter: it is clear this was a very troubled man. he left behind a 4600-word manifesto talking about how he was a loaner in life and hadn't had a girlfriend since 1984. basically, a lot of excuses and a lot of explanation about his planning. apparently, nine months of planning went into this and he success he chickened out in january, that he came to a health club, armed, ready to go, all his equipment, but at the last minute, did not carry it off. very different last nig

the stations never ever help us mitigate anything in prince george's county. it's the apparatus thehe personnel representing pni u e ri representing p igtyefsirerht uncoty firefighters and y erncongesrspenel says that's notrs entirely true. the vice president released this statement yileng whino surrounding taeovg ff sfoin wr provide staffing for apparatus, prince george's county does not except for an isolated few ations. that is not the standard nor the norm for one of the busiest fire .epartments in the na apparatus isn't and hasn't been properly staffed in prince george's county for years. >> makes me feel real nervous and worried about we need to deal with this problem immediately. >> reporter: the mayor says while he understands budget cut, he does not like hearing that his fire station has no one manning it monday morning. he says the quick turnaround in moving his career firefighters out of the capital heights station left them no time for recruiting additional volunteers to help. but they're trying to now. >> first of all, try to go on a 100 man volun

armando trull has more on the developing story. >> the prince georges county says the choice is simple, accept furloughs for ten days or fireworkers permanently. the county union says there are other ways to balance your broken budget and now a court has weighed in and as you say the outcome could have far reaching implications here in prince georges county and throughout the region. prince georges county furloughed 5900 workers last year including firefighters, police officers and other employees protected by union contracts. the county, facing a huge budget deficit, told unions to choose between ten days of furloughs or permanent layoffs. >> we see it as unnecessary. we see excess funds, surplus funds that are in the county covers as a result of reserve funds. >> reporter: that's why several unions sued the county saying there were other ways to save money without breaking the contractual obligations. on tuesday a federal judge agreed ruling they violated the institution by rendering contracts meaningless. the the county says it will appeal. otherwise to comply with the court's opini

but the good news is that the 60 mile purple line will connect montgomery and prince george's countynd some 1,000 cars are off the road -- 19,000 cars are off the road. but building it will destroyer placeable green space enjoyed by thousands. >> trees will have to come down to make way for the purple line that will run 7 to 10 feet from hikers and bikers from the crescent trail. it is also right out there and in their own backyard. >> well, it is on property line. >> the purple line will cut through the golf course at the country club too. the spokesman, they say that they are concerned about noise, safety, the negative impact on their property. but montgomery county delegate, they say that getting thousands of people out of their cars and onto the mass transit, that is worse than compromises. does will they will link up many of the existing metro stations, the marked stations, on the other stations, and i think that they are going to help us achieve our goals of the sustainable transit oriented walkable communities. >> the governor, they say that this $1.5 billion plan will now be

former president george w. bush, in a life filled with trials, ted kennedy never gave in to self-pity or despair. and massachusetts other senator, john kerry, these last months taught us much more about how to live life, sailing into the wind one last time. kennedy's life encompassed so much. tragedy. five of his brothers and sisters died or lived tragically. triumph. no senator in recent times has had such an impact on the country. and troubles. which may have kept him from ever being president. >> i was taught long ago that politics is a noble occupation, that public service is among the most honorable of professions. >> reporter: ted kennedy was intimately involved in public service for 49 years. he was the youngest of the nine kennedy children, the baby brother. teddy was the gregarious entertainer of the family. parents joe and rose had great ambitions for all their children, insisting each one contribute something to the world. ted kennedy was the third longest serving united states senator ever, and one

moving out in parts of prince george's county. as we go through the evening, still lingering showers but after the next couple of hours, i think pretty much we are -- will be away from it. here is how we look. earlier today, you can see those heavy rains coming right up and over us and meanwhile, danny will continue to be off the coast with just rain showers and racing up into new england by later on tomorrow. we will see afternoon sunshine, i think, perhaps tomorrow afternoon. back to you. >> thanks, bob. >>> we have an update on the casket of emmett till. which is being brought to the smithsonian's national museum of african museum and history and culture in washington. emmett till was shyears old when brutallily murdered in mississippi in 1955. allegedly for whistling at a white woman. last month officials investigating the cemetery near chicago where till is buried discovered his original casket. till's remains were exhumed in 2005 and buried in a new casket. today till's family spoke out. >> hopefully this casket with its own

george judd said he feels pretty good. still a little sore but okay. >>> and now to a developing story on the west coast. a california prison is on lockdown tonight after a riot broke out yesterday evening while 250 inmates were injured. 55 were hospitalized. injuries range from stab wounds to head trauma. inmates there in chino started to riot last night. no prison staff members were hurt. the upper rising lasted about four hours. the lockdown is expected to last indefinitely. >>> and people gather to remember two women shot in a health club. police say the shooter, george sodini kept a blog about hating women. loved ones say the two women had an amazing passion for life. >> heide absolutely smiled. every picture that you would see of her is just absolutely her. she is just -- always positive. a go-getter, can-do attitude. just being an amazing woman and completely dedicated to her son. >> the three people were killed, nine others injured in the attack before the gunman turned the gun on himself. >>> and israel putting th

there are changes this year for prince georges county schools. officials have rolled out new technology to keep children safer. a new card-swiping student monitors students to make sure they're on the right bus. eight schools in prince georges also teach k through 8 which keeps 6th graders at the same school for two more years. >>> classes were back in session at the 114 schools in the district. d.c. schools have worked hard to hire hundreds of teachers over the summer. they start the year with 28 teaching vacancies. that's down from about 800 vacancies just last may. >>> there was a manhole fire me.19th st.re19etth street.me.qa it start when o o the rkers in there le iv live wire. it caused all kinds of traffic tie-ups in the area. pat collins now with more on this. pat? >> jim, it took? time but the scene is all clear now at dupont circle. we have a 24-year-old electrical working recovering from critical burns to his face after a flash fire in a manhole here. things came to a stand-still at dupont circle after a flash fire in the manhole. it ha

this constitution was so amazing that jefferson commented on it, george washington commented on it.s paine was so placed with this new constitution that he even considered applying for polish citizenship. however, catherine the great said if the poles freed their serfs my serfs are going to want to be free and she got to get with the prussians and the austrians and attacked poland. and kosciuszko explained to the poles we need to have groups that are ready in different areas so we'll have our regular army but when the war goes to different regions, we should have local people ready. and at the time in poland, 80% of the population were serfs, 10% were nobility and 10% were jews. now, he wrote that we need to have a regular army of force -- if we have a regular army recruited by force mainly by serfs with no rights of protections or property they won't feel ties to our country and won't be interested in our common go good. we have this militia of all classes the nobles should be represented in the same proportion as peasants jews and those with no complete ties to our country. essent

after 20 years of planning and debate a rapid transit line, connecting montgomery county and prince georges county is he tpotomi supofto the supportof man in aap. olnn isr man in annapolis. r diw l nota conow digital correspondent, armando trull , explains. >> reporter: did you get stuck in traffic this morning? >> no, i didn't get stuck in traffic. >> that's because he has a limo and police escort. those that don't have happy that the governor has joined the course of officials clamoring for the purple line. >> number one, it is the most cost effective. number two, it is the most sustainable. number three, it is the more efficient and rider-friendly option available to us. >> link up many of the existing metro rail stations, marc stations, amtrak station. i think it will help to achieve our goal of livable, sustainable, transit oriented walkable, bikable communities. >> reporter: the route is 16 miles long and links prince georges and montgomery counties. >> the purple line is creating a great route for travelers so that more people can get jobs from the west side and bring more jobs to th

well, off and running he in prince george's county.im talk about the new performness arts school. we'll try on get over there a little later and check it out ourselves. back to you guys. >> thank you. >>> in the meantime, time is running out to trade in the old clunker. the government's program ends at 8:00 tonight. even with several hours on the clock, you may have missed out on a good deal. some dolittleers decided not to push through last-minute teals because of slow reimbursement from uncle sam. >>> the manhunt for a reality show contestant has ended in british columbia. police say ryan jenkins killed himself inside a hotel room about 100 miles north of vancouver. he was wanted in california for the murder of his ex-wife jasmine fiore the motel clerk entered the room and found jenkins handing from a clothing rack. >>> coming up income, stuck for hours on play plane going nowhe. passengers rubbing out of food and water and patience. >> now, some big names are stepping up to push a passenger's bill of rights into law. >>> the early r

george bush didn't even include -- >> all right, dennis.lease roll the tape or jack just said five minutes earlier, that barack obama didn't lie on taxes after saying he did lie on taxes. come on, jack, be consistent. >> you understand. >> i don't understand what you're saying. >> you're taking too much flak, joe. >> the truth of the matter is, it's easy to keep looking back at george bush. let's look forward like barack obama has said, let's look forward. the truth of the matter is the only way to pay for this $1.5 trillion health care policy, the $1 trillion stimulus and the 12% increase in the federal spending is raise taxes on the middle class. >> that's not true, joe. >> working folks -- >> how long is he going to do it then, keith. >> there's no other way. >> you can't tax millionaires, there aren't enough of them. >> the president has proposed a plan to pay for health care costs that's not going to require taxing the middle class, not going to require all of these taxes you're talking about. >> where is the money coming from? >> smal

george, your thoughts after washington? >> well, interesting to hear all of the elaborate thank yous. there's so much to go around. they're trying to keep that distance between this mission and the white house. it's hard not to be struck by the notion that pretty much the three, key players in this were al gore, secretary of state hillary clinton and former president clinton. it's little back in the '90s here. >> that's true. what does this mean, now, though, that the obama administration needs to do and will do for the three hikers being held in iran? >> that is a key question right now. something that the white house is quite worried about, even as they approved this mission, by former president clinton. they're worried that the iranians, the message the iranians will take away from this, is we should demand something, as well. we should demand some kind of high-level recognition from the united states, in return for releasing the hikers. the administration is going to try to resist that. we'll see how long they're able t

some say sales are down by nearly 1/3. >>> we have breaking news from prince george's county. chopper 4 is live over a house house fire in fort washington. investigators say there were reports of a wall and ceiling collapsing. all the firefighters have been evacuated from inside the home. they'll have to battle the blaze from the outside. no word on whether anyone was inside that house. >>> the fall academic year begins in just a few weeks in our region. at the university of the district of columbia, the school is trying to shake off its troubled reputation by revamping its academic and physical campus. tom sherwood is here with the story. >> reporter: ud krft hc has str and now things are looking up. there are a few stuptss and few signs of life in these hot august days, but inside the dry building, new life is being planned. >> with the number of students going up, we have a dramatic increase in applications. and i wouldn't be surprised if the total number of students on the campus was approacng doubling. >> reporter: udc president here just a year is about to open the unive

president obama will join virginia senator jim webb on the campus of george mason to mark the largest expansion of the bill since world war ii. armando trull is live on the fairfax campus with more. >> reporter: good morning. all of the men and women who have gone in to harm's way after september 11th 2001 are eligible for this new g.i. bill and essentially their bachelors degree will be paid for by uncle sam. it is the greatest expansion of veteran benefits since ' 44 when program and the lawmaker who helped to sponsor the bill, virginia senator jim webb will be here to celebrate the occasion. the post 9/11 gism bill is the largest expansion of veteran benefits since world war ii. it gives men and women who serve in the military or are military vets a chance to get a free undergraduate education at an in-state public college or university. as well as allowances for housing and text books. >> that will provide the cost of education for me. it will take care of that and i can focus on my family and make sure their needs are met. >> reporter: virginia senator jim webb sponsored the bill

at george washington university last spring, five students got swine flu. that number could be several hundred this fall. is this a scary fall because of swine flu? >> yeah, i think it is scary on a lot of different levels. because no one knows what this virus is going to act like. >> reporter: delivery of a vaccine will be late, mid-october. so officials are now preaching hygiene and isolation. >> i any that isolating yourself is a good idea. whether or not teachers are going to aloy you skip class is another issue. >> reporter: and now the government has issued specific recommendations for college campuses. universities should keep sick students in their rooms, with class notes and meals delivered. temporary housing should be used to separate sick from healthy roommates. and if sick students must go out, they should wear surgical masks, even when they want to kiss their significant other. >> well, if you're going to kiss someone then you're probably going to get it if it's that contagious. and you can't kiss through a mask. >> reporter: this is shaping up

we're live in prince georges county. back to you in the studio. >> thanks, derek. >>> college campuses in our area and across the nation are preparing for predictions of a widespread outbreak of the swine flu. a lot of schools send out e-mails now with reminders about the preventive measures like washing your hands and vaccinations and other encourage students to prepare swine flu kits that include over-the-counter medication for fever, a thermometer, tissues, hand sanitizer, soup and other items. schools designate empty dorms where sick students can be isolated and students with symptoms are urged to stay away from classrooms and common areas. >>> meanwhile, how's danny? how's your friend danny? >> my friend danny has weakened a little more. >> i love it. jus doesn't know what he's doing out there. getting all discombobulated. outside today it was a hazy day. we have a few showers and thundershowers, more than a few out there in montgomery county. our temperature outside right now after the high temperature of 91 degree

. >> in your view did george w. bush contribute to the decline of the american conservative movement? >> well, there is a strong sentiment that he didn't within conservative. i think, i do think that the war in iraq, while george bush thought it was a principled action, really caused a great consternation among large segments of the rights and i also think the republican-- republicans having gained control of congress in 2004 and being spendthrifts really helped cause a reaction as well. but it is easy to forget that bush won a pretty decisive victory in 2004, so the downside in the fortunes of the republican party were pretty quick and pretty severe, as you look at 2006 in the midterm elections in 2006 and the last election in 2008, presidential election. >> speaking with you here at the organization of american historians annual gathering, as a conservative, argued in the minority as a historian? >> i think in a very decided minority. in fact you can-- even calling it a minority is exaggerating to a number of cons

americans are satisfied, george, with their doctors. but they're not satisfied paying huge amounts in co-payments in deductibles and premiums. so, now is the time to act. >> let me pick up there. you both talk about where the american public is right now. i want to bring in one statistic of what the insured think about the president's health care plan. let's put that up right now. by 40-14, they think their coverage is going to get worse. 41-19, they think the costs will go up. 33-19, they think they will lose some quality of care. let me get your response to that. that seems to be the core problem for the president right now. >> it shows that the fear tactics have been effective. i feel like it's 2004 again, where saying what is undoubtedly true is shrill, as george would put it. this is true. you could say right now, most insured americans are okay with the care they've got. and they have been scared about what could happen. one thing that the president has not been very good at getting across. he's not gotten across the fact that thi

>> george, it's absolutely right. very important for everyone to understand that we will not get this economy back on track, recovery will not be strong and sustained unless we can convince the american people that we're going to have the will to bring the deficits down once recovery is firmly established. remember, we inherited a $1.3 trillion deficit. the cumulative consequences left us with $6 trillion more debt than we would have had, by making a bunch of commitments to cut taxes to add to spending without paying for those. we are not going to be able to afford to pay for that. it is very important that people understand that. our first priority now is to get this country back on track, making sure the financial system is repaired. without that, we're not going to get our deficits under control. and the necessary path to fiscal responsibility, the necessary path of getting this country living within our means again is not just health care reform to bring in this cause but we're going to do a range of other things.