his over all gpa was 3.26. she remembers meeting adam's mother. >> said he was sick and asked where the classroom was. when we walked in she was getting his assignments from the teacher. >> nancy lanza's friends mark and louise told scott on 60 minutes that she told them adam had as burgers syndrome and taking care of him was a full time job. >> i know he was on medication and everything. she home schooled him at home. because he couldn't deal with the school classes sometimes. so she just home schooled adam at home. and that was her life. >> ryan craft who babysat for the lanza's when adam was 10 got a glimpse of how difficult he could b. >> to always supervise adam at all times and never turn my back on him. >> adam's parents divorced in 2009. nancy lanza had final say on adam's upbringing. >>> here in the bay area a 12 and 13-year-old are under arrest caught with a stolen rifle. what's really scary is what they were planning to do with it. >> police say the boys were planning to shoot a cop. they were arrest

i went to high school and i graduated with a 1.7 gpa. we ran the school, literally. i went to kennedy high school in richmond. it is surrounded by three or four different components. constant shootings -- three or four different hoods. we had to have our varsity football games during school hours. we cannot have it at 7:00 because of the potential danger. there was constant substitute teachers, a lot of bucks. -- lack of books. this is what they are teaching us. not saying that it is a total reason for why it and others turn out the way that we turned out, but it plays a part. just like i have to be held accountable for the choices i make, and so does a society. >> i keep hearing the term gang. in the black community in the bay area, it is a community, it is not a gang. you can move up in their ranks as if you are working for apple or ibm. you can move from a regular employee to ceo. in the black community, it is not like this. it is not structured like that. there is no one at sagging or telling you how to operate. there is a term in the black community called a one

his overall gpa with 3.26. >> said he was sick and asked where the classroom was. when we walked in, she was getting his assignments from the teacher. >> reporter: her friends told scott pelley she told them adam has asperger's. >> he was on medication. she home schooled him at home because he couldn't deal with the school classes sometimes so she just home schooled adam at home. that was her life. >> reporter: ryan crab who baby sat for the lanza's when he was about 10 got a glimpse of how difficult he could be. >> i got instructions to never turn my back on him. >> reporter: his parents divorced in 2009. cbs news spoke to the mediator in that divorce. he says lanza's parents seemed to love him and wanted only the best for him. >> thank you. and on the first day of school since the shooting, some parents sent their children to school with new anxieties about their safety, of course. we spoke to school chiefs here in maryland about how they're keeping students safe. >> reporter: school leaders sprang into action launching a thorough review of security at all baltim

distribute plan in addition, we have enjoyed the collaboration with the plapping commission and the p gpa and i'll like to thank bob beck and mary and many other people in the city's family who have been helpful in the process over the last five years. >>> thank you president fong and steve shanks i'm the probability investor for the s k s prom and so if we ebbing we can get a screen out unfortunately jeffery is on at plain back to china and condition make it back tonight. specifically i would like to talk about how this project will help achieve these goals. first goal of the lan is really to create density for both office and residential density close to transit and you can see on this map all of the planned area that can achieve that density this is the 181 free month site that will connect to the terminal and the another ghoul to sis to improve the street space and this is-rendering showing what those might be and perhaps more importantly the plan puts into place mechanisms to play for these improvemnt and is public impact fees and contributions that the project will have and these ar

his letter and gpa certificate were presented to his fam abc7 news. >>> a 56-year-old woman has diedom her injuries after a hit-and-run crash on san francisco's twin peaks last night. rescuers lifted three people off the hill on christmas tree road after they were struck by a car. a fourth pedestrian was also injured diving out of the way. police tracked down and arrested the 23-year-old driver. >>> the california law banning therapy aimed at turning gay minor straight has been blocked. the first of a kind law was passed in the state legislature and signed by governor brown this fall. the court blocked the law from taking affect january 1st until it could hear arguments on whether the law is constitutional. >>> the shopping frenzy is underway and retailers are trying something new to help those last-minute shoppers. 24-hour sales. abc7 news reporter thomas roman is live at macy's in daily city. thomas? >> ama, dan, these stores want to make sure the last-minute shopper has someplace to go. beginning today macy's is having one of the longest one-day sales i have ever seen. they opened

become so popular that the school started actually bringing students over to the spca to boost their gpa by walking shelter dogs. you can teach a old dog new tricks -- they provided this video where they trade three dogs to drive a car. start the car, break, and steer . the trainers did it to show people just what rescue dogs are capable of. weather11:00 in forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> it is getting chilly at their -- it is going to be called tomorrow. it will not stick around for long. normal december temperatures. you can almost see the cold on the satellite radar composite -- snow showers going from lake ontario and clouds pushing into new england. we are getting chilly here. a little bit of cloud cover and a breeze holding the temperature up, but we are starting to drop off significantly. this is the temperature map for 24 hours ago. it was 50 degrees at the airport, but court was to the north and west. over the last 24 hours, the blue and purple pushes up and east. it is now in maryland and virginia and north carolina. we were down to 40 -- now 39 at the airp

and the key is, this isn't just for those with high gpas, this isn't just for amazing athletes. so i personally applied for three dozen scholarships. i won two dozen of them and the accumulated $90,000 in scholarship money. it got me into harvard and paid for almost everything. and i've seen thousands of other families do it too. the key is, you have to be proactive, and actually right now is the major scholarship season. the fall of each year is a great time to search for scholarships. > > but aren't there all these find-a-scholarship websites and services out there? they're all over the internet. > > there are, and actually people kind of use them incorrectly. there are these internet scholarship databases. what you do is you fill out a questionnaire. it's kind of like, if you've ever been on a dating site, where you fill out the questionnaire and they try to match you with a date. this time they try to match you with a scholarship. there are about 12 to 14 pretty good free ones. but the mistake people make is they search one and then they stop. none of these are national clea

his letter and gpa certificate were presented to his family. abc7 news. >>> a 56-year-old woman has died from her injuries after a hit-and-run crash on san francisco's twin peaks last night. rescuers lifted three people off the hill on christmas tree road after they were struck by a car. a fourth pedestrian was also injured diving out of the way. police tracked down and arrested the 23-year-old driver. >>> the california law banning therapy aimed at turning gay minor straight has been blocked. the first of a kind law was passed in the state legislature and signed by governor brown this fall. the court blocked the law from taking affect january 1st until it could hear arguments on whether the law is constitutional. >>> the shopping frenzy is underway and retailers are trying something new to help those last-minute shoppers. 24-hour sales. abc7 news reporter thomas roman is live at macy's in daily city. thomas? >> ama, dan, these stores want to make sure the last-minute shopper has someplace to go. beginning today macy's is having one of the long

i am speaking tonight for myself and as president of the glen park association along with the other gpa board members and members, i did closely observe the ten-month long recreation park process for the adoptive plan. and i want to add to the comments that there were constant opportunities for the public input on goals and options. the plans evolved as different alternatives that were brought to the meetings for public review and refinement. and the process was documented both at the meetings and on the project website. it appears that the appellant wants the process to start over, rethinking the vaek access the tennis courts locations will push all of the pieces around including the enlarged play grupd or the athletic field and effects on the planted areas. the range of these options was looked at during the planning process, and in my observations at most of the meetings that i attended they were found to be undesirable or in faoesable. i do want to reiterate as we also heard, 78 percent of the voters in the park precincts voted for proposition b, it was very clear knowledge that thi

things that you proposed that could be part of the scope, which are the ones that the fra requires the gpa to do. >> the increasing of the radii at the structure and the lengthening of the platforms. >> yes, and the fta, who in fact, funded this required us to put the vent structures in because of the programs that they have had on other projects. >> and >> yeah. i would very much endorse what the director said. we are not ruling out what might happen separately to the downtown extension. what the discussions that i have had with the city have not been to realign downtown extension, it is what to do with the yard and four and this what for do with the approaching for the south, which was never thought of dtx or any extension. we were extending from the existing station, to downtown. >> right. >> and that really does not take on the responsibility for the south. >> right. >> and we would put them as partners. >> thank you. >> director lloyd wanted to comment as well. >> thank you. >> just a comment that we at cal train are moving forward with the electricitifiation and so we are moving forw

his letter and gpa certificate were presented to his family.bc7 news. >>> a 56-year-old woman has died from her injuries after a hit-and-run crash on san francisco's twin peaks last night. rescuers lifted three people off the hill on christmas tree road after they were struck by a car. a fourth pedestrian was also injured diving out of the way. police tracked down and arrested the 23-year-old driver. >>> the california law banning therapy aimed at turning gay minor straight has beenthe firs. the first of a kind law was passed in the state legislature and signed by governor brown this fall. the court blocked the law from taking affect january 1st until it could hear arguments on whether the law is constitutional. >>> the shopping frenzy is underway and retailers are trying something new to help those last-minute shoppers. 24-hour sales. abc7 n abc7 news reporter thomas roman is live at macy's in daily city. thomas? >> ama, dan, these stores want to make sure the last-minute shopper has someplace to go. beginning today macy's is having one of the

. >> he was a blakely overpowers it letterman with a 3.8 gpa. >>> 56-year-old woman was died from her injuries after a hit-and-run on twin peaks. they lifted three people off the hillside after they were hit by a car. a fourth pedestrian was also hurt diving out of the way. police did find and arrest the 23-year-old driver. >> the california law banning therapy turning gay minors straight has been blocked by a federal court of appeals. the first of its kind law was passioned in the state legislature and signed by governor jerry brown. the court blocked the law until it came here on whether the law is constitutional. >> the last weekend before christmas shopping frenzy is under way, retailers are trying something new, we're talking about 24-hour sales. tomas ramon found an example at macy's. >> all the last minute, i got a few to go but i'm close. >> he is last minute shopper who came to the mall. they all have enticement to procrastinateders like humphrey. there is some things that are 50-75% before one is offering shopping and sales is macy's. they are staying open for a full 48 hour

a kid with a 3.6 gpa. >> reporter: makely had a promising future on the football field, and in college. >> i didn't know it would bring us here to the point where we experience the violence and untimely death of a young man that should never, a mother should never be trying to bury her child. >> reporter: blakely as father reportedly lives into the bay view. >> i'm still kind of in shocked. it was three days ago, we were all screwing around at lunch. >> reporter: crisis intervention met with teens today to try to help them cope with the news. the football team met with the counselors first. >> at first, when i learned, it was very shocking. he was very easy to hang out with. >> reporter: now they plan to donate christmas trees to needy family's in montrell's name. >> everybody wanted to be around him all the time. a good person, good friend, good to me. >> reporter: a candlelight vigil will be held at the football field here at concord high school friday night at 7:00. students from all over contra costa county are expected to attend. live in concord, ken wayne, ktvu, channel 2 news. >

a kid with a 3.6 gpa. >> reporter: makely had a promising future on the football field, and in college. >> i didn't know it would bring us here to the point where we experience the violence and untimely death of a young man that should never, a mother should never be trying to bury her child. >> reporter: blakely as father reportedly lives into the bay view. >> i'm still kind of in shocked. it was three days ago, we were all screwing around at lunch. >> reporter: crisis intervention met with teens today to try to help them cope with the news. the football team met with the counselors first. >> at first, when i learned, it was very shocking. he was very easy to hang out with. >> reporter: now they plan to donate christmas trees to needy family's in montrell's name. >> everybody wanted to be around him all the time. a good person, good friend, good to me. >> reporter: a candlelight vigil will be held at the football field here at concord high school friday night at 7:00. students from all over contra costa county are expected to attend. live in concord, ken wayne, ktvu, channel 2 news. >

gpa was not the highest. top 48. i skated right in. >> you won hardship there. >> i won hardship. >> you got married age 24. >> i met my husband at 24 and we married at 29. together a long time. when you look back -- >> you have the cutest relationship. >> thank you. i literally got so lucky. thank godness i met him when i did. he's just the best. we all know marriage, you're just hanging on tight. i cannot believe how quickly the time has gone by, that we have the three kids and now both working. that's my new year's resolution is not about giving up sweets or working out. i want more time with my husband. >> that's a really good one. >> i can't love crowley sullivan more. if he's watching, honey, coming in hot for the new year. >> she is coming in hot. >> police misses her man. >> the girls and i were talking, party at your house tonight. >> we all go to bed at 10:00 pm. it is going to be a blast. it will be huge. we talked enough about kit. >> yes, please move on. thank you very much, by the way. >> our take two,

they didn't know what a gpa was meant. >> reporter: children of parents who graduate are guaranteed admissionthe cal state university system. provided they meet the basic requirements. like wanda martinez. >> i only went to the limited school. >> reporter: she graduated so her daughter, ail halejandra co have a better future. >> we need to be an educated community. >> reporter: something longoria has talked about a lot on the campaign trail and now as a co-chair of president obama's inaugural committee. >> reporter: are you nervous? >> i'm very nervous. >> reporter: what will you wear? >> who knows? i don't know. >> reporter: politics and philanthropy, making a difference in both. >> i'm funding these programs because i believe in them. i think it's important that you yourself as a role model, as a philanthropist, as an activist, that you yourself give out of your back pocket. i would give my shirt off before i would ask you to give yours. ♪ everybody well don't you know it's me now? ♪ ♪ yeah who's it, who's it huh? ♪ ♪ willy's back with a brand new beat now, ♪ ♪ yeah doin' it doin' it up! ♪

he improved his gpa from 2.7 to 3.6 after working with the program's tutors.says the program better known as rich helped him overcome adversity both socially and academically. barbara taylor is a tutor for rich. >> he's a very bright kid who needs some writing work and articulation because he's quiet usually. >> reporter: lieu rich he's a member of a matt enrich month -- math enrich month program where students compete in a math contest. he also true stores sixth -- tutors sixth through eighth grade students. >> i feel i can make it to the next level which is college and hopefully become a successful business person. >> reporter: i'm jc hayward, 9news now. >> resources for inner city children offers in class and after school tutoring inside anacostia high school. they also work inside the cesar chavez charter schools's capitol hill campus. about 90% of the kids go on to college and others find jobs. for more information, you can go to jchayward.com. >>> we begin with breaking news. senator danielle inouye has -- daniel inouye has died of estory illness. he --

he improved his gpa from 2.7 to 3.6 after working with the program's tutors.e says the program better known as rich helped him overcome adversity both socially and academically. barbra taylor is a institute or for -- is a tutor for rich. >> he's a very bright kid who needs some writing work. articulation. because he's quiet usually. >> reporter: through rich lewis is a member of mathletes, a math enrich month program where -- enrich month program where students compete in math contests. he also tutors fifth through eighth grade students. >> since i'm getting help i feel i can make it to the next level which is college and hopefully become a successful business person. >> reporter: i'm jc hayward, 9news now. >> so far resowrses for inner -- resources for inner city children has served over a thousands students. about 90% go on to college while others find jobs. for more information on how to get involved, visit jchayward.com. click on hero central. we'll be right back. >>> still a touch of fog in hagerstown. for others much better. sunshine, clouds pulling away

parents before the program and they didn't know what a transcript looked like, they didn't know what a gpaof parents who graduate are guaranteed admission to one of seven schools in the cal state university system provided they meet the basic requirements. >> i only went to the elementary school. >> reporter: she graduated so her daughter could have a better future. >> very dpogood. make your mother proud. >> we need to be an educated community because this is our future workforce. . >> reporter: something longoria has talked about a lot on the campaign trail and now as a co-chair of president obama's inaugural committee. >> were you nervous? >> i'm very nervous. >> reporter: politics and philanthropy, making a difference in both. >> i'm funding these programs because i believe in them. it's important that you yourself as a role model, as an activist, that you yourself give out of your back pocket. i would give my shirt before i'd ask you to give yours. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smar

he had a 3.0 gpa. he for a child -- a young adult nowadays, to find out a combination to a lot.he was irresponsible and giving him access to. megyn: taking him to the shooting range and some reports of the age of nine years old. the most recent visit had been six months before the massacre. but there is a question about his behavior deteriorated. about whether she should've continued his gun training. >> exactly. i don't think any type of mental health professional with telling her that this is what you should be doing. again, we have no confirmation. but i don't think she was seeking the services of a mental health professional. neither was this individual. megyn: everyone agrees that adam lanza -- it's his fault. it was the sort of introverted life they lead. he spoke for him when they win out. she didn't talk about him with other friends as an outlet. sounds like she was just trying to handle this on her own. >> that is the mistake. sadly, many parents who have children who are in the autistic spectrum or suffer from mental health issues, they want to keep it private. they wa

parents before the program and they didn't know what a transcript looked like, they didn't know what a gpaorter: children of parents who graduate are guaranteed admission to one of several schools in the cal state university system provided they meet the basic requirements like juana martinez. >> i only went to elementary school. >> reporter: she graduated from pk so her daughter, alejandra, could have a better future. >> make your mother proud. i don't want the latieina community to just be a large community, i want them an educated community. >> something longoria talked about on the campaign trail and now as a co-chair of president obama's inaugural committee. are you nerve us? >> i'm very nervous. >> what will you wear? >> who knows, i don't know. >> reporter: politics and philanthropy, making a difference in both. >> i'm funding these programs because i believe in them. i think it's important that you, yourself as a role model, as a philanthropist, as an activist that you yourself give out of your back pocket. i would give my shirt off before i would ask to you give yours. >> that's r

the ones he did ended up with a gpa of 3.26. we learned the weapons he used in the shooting on friday did belong to his the mother. we have again also learned that the students who attended that school will, at some point later this week be attending another school as this community, megyn mourns all of those who were lost. two funerals today and more funerals each and every day this week. megyn: rick, when we were on the air together on friday as this was unfolding we're told by law enforcement, the shooter was ryan lanza, the actual shooter, adam lanza, 24-year-old brother. the investigators spoke with him. they spoke with the father of these two boys. the parents were divorced. have they been able to offer the police any assistance that is meaningful and have they now been cleared of anything in this investigation? >> reporter: my understanding is they have been cleared. they were also described as very cooperative. they gave investigators insight to the mindset of ad many today lanza. my understanding they were estranged for

right now we're close to 25% of gpa in terms of federal spending. that is because the economy is awake but we have been spending a lot. there is some obvious parallels in the structure of these events that might provide some clues as to what we might look for in any new people. the pivotal events, jefferson's revolution and the crisis of the 1930's extended over section -- several election cycles. the cycles that emerged -- each segment ended with the ouster of the parties that had dominated during the previous year and each change brought in a new set of governing elite. immigrants were an important factor in some of these elections. certainly in the roosevelt coalition, immigrants were an important aspect. abraham lincoln also and the republican party in 1850's made an effort to win the support of newly arrived immigrants, many of them irish, scandinavian, german. he fought back against the known -- the know nothing party which was an to catholic and anti-immigrant -- anti-catholic and anti-immigrant. i need situation, the newly dominant party had

points, equivalent gaps in gpa in the scores between black and white students at most schools. another principle stated in grutter was it was unconstitutional to use racial preferences to the extent that of unduly harming members of any racial group. that's a quote, unduly harming members of any racial group. we argue, and we think the evidence shows, the preferences as they use in texas unduly harm members of every racial group. they unduly harm the asians primarily, first and foremost, who are excluded and the whites who are excluded like abby fisher because of their race who might otherwise have been admitted. we think they do worse harm to black and hispanic students who are misled into thinking they are well qualified to have strong academic of records at the university of texas and who get there and find out that they're not going to have outstanding academic records, they'll be lucky to graduate. if so, they're likely to be at the bottom of their class. i'm not talking about black and hispanic students per se. the top student in the class might be black or hispanic, but

the public at some gpa between the mean scores of black and white students and the selective schools. another principle stated in cruder wizards uncrossed additional to use racial preferences to the extent of the newly harming members of any racial group. that's a quote. we argue and we think the evidence shows preferences icu syntax is unduly harm members of every racial group. the unduly harm the nation's primarily first and foremost are excluded and whites excluded like abby fisher because of their race committee might otherwise have been admitted. we think they duberstein to black and hispanic students who are misled into thinking they are well-qualified to have strong academic records that university of texas and you get there and find out they are not going to have outstanding academic records. dopey like you graduate. so at the bottom of the class. i'm not talking about black and hispanic students per se. the top students in the class may be black or hispanic students of any race, and this is usually black and hispanic reference admitted how much preferences are not likely to d