rotc and has 3.6 gpa. >> i wanted to go to gw being closer to home and since want to go to federal lawnforcement and d.c. is capital where most of the federal law enforc quartered i can get internships and job experience. >> adante's mother said it's been a tough year with death of adante's father with his in the virgin islands in the school year. >> he used it to his benefit and actually boosts his gpa in honor of his light date. >> gw says it awarded 166 full rides to high school seniors in the d.c. public school system. the value now roughly 300,000 per scholarship. in northeast, bob barnard, "fox5 local news". >> you know this story tells me adante's dad that pass away is watching out for him. >> absolutely. absolutely. i think it one of the most incredible stories love when gw does this every single year. what an incredible opportunity. >> it's huge and we sthed on the news at 6 it's literally life changing. >> and they do it every year. >> that's right. >> well done to the students who earned those scholarships. >> and the parents. >> and mother. >> who absolutely will not have t

haley, a former homecoming queen graduated with a near perfect gpa. played volleyball, was on the national. her parents fought regularly. both battled substance abuse. he o.d. d. >> if i had got to the hospital moments later, that would have been it. >> she claims a car crash was a suicide attempt. >> both parents are now sober and in her yearbook, haley credits them as being the most influential because they have "given me all the support to achieve what i have." >> everything ended tomorrow, she's all that i have. >> can't believe how she's grown up. haley says she wants a career in psychology or become an ontd practice neuro. let's head to vegas where frazier is. >> i'm working with some of the biggest stars of the world here for cinemacon. all the stars are promoting their new films. let's check out ryan goslin's new film "blade runner." a big part of his experience was teaming with harrison fords. >> i had your job once. >> he repries the roll 34 years later. >> he's such a great actor. >> things were simpler then. >> to be so influential and ico

former homecoming queen graduating in 2014 with near perfect gpa. in the national honor society, played volley ball, and on student kou student council. her parents both battled substance abuse. he od 'd. >> if i wasn't at the hospital a minute later, that would have been it. >> kim mathers had what she claimed a suicide attempt pz. >> adrank. >> both parent are sober. in the year book haley claims them as being the most influential because they quote gave me all of the support she needed. >> she is all that i have. >> haley said she wants to have a career in psychology or become an entrepreneur. >>> now, lets head it vegas. that's where kevin frazier is working. now another stuff assignment? >> nischelle, i'm here working with some of the biggest stars in the world. we are here for cinemacon. one big jieagiant movie convent. stars are here to promote their new film. now know and tell with ryan gosling who is here promoting the new "blade runner." >> a big part of ryan's experience hunting down evil was teaming with harrison ford. >> i did your job

the brothers have made history at their long island high school but earning the highest gpa's in the class. and his brother matt earned the spot of salutatorian. they say their mom and dad are both doctors, inspired their passion for learning. academy award winning film was such a big hit and turning into a concert and hitting the road. details on the lala land tour coming up and more. >>> "action news" at 12:30 continues with rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. >> hello again, here are the stories we are are following for you at 12:30. three men break into a logan home, assault a woman and baby inside and steal thousands of dollars in cash. also, we have the update on how many peco customers are still without power after yesterday's substation fire and how crews are working to get everyone's power restored and a cruel and unusual crime, a rhino killed by poachers but not in africa, it happened inside of a zoo in france. >>> now to a developing story out of north philadelphia where police are confirming that a mother jumped out of a window and may have be

say high school has been a yearly battle of grades which has resulted in both getting over 100-point gpa's. now they are one and two in their class. they say they've shared everything there whole lives. so why stop now. the twins have several college offers in different states, so they're not sure yet if they will be going to school together. weather - line of showers moving through now (gone by 6am) - warm & windy through tomorrow - cooler friday (light mix possible early) - cold weekend - snow trending farther south sunday (little to no impact here) today: mostly sunny. warm and windy. highs: 64-68 winds: wnw 10-15 g 30 and cool. lows: 39-45 winds: wsw 5 mph thursday: mostly sunny to partly cloudy. still warm and breezy. highs: 66-72 winds: sw 5-15 g 25 helping empower women. coming up - how a shocking new claims from wikileaks about the agency spying tools- that you may have in your home. but first here's whats coming up tonight on abc seven. right now at 5:xx stormwatch7 is tracking a line of oh, how waso good!en house? look. 800 square feet, 1 bedroom, hardwood floors, 15 minute ride

is recommending next fall, that the district report weighted gpa's for all students except freshmen considering tapping the number of classes tunes can receive to reduce academic stress. and the cool board starts at -- school board starts today at 6:30 at the executive office. >>> an executive order will look at rolling back president obama's climate change policies. the president is expected to sign the sweeping order at the environmental protection agency. it is expected to rescind at least six previous executive orders aimed at curbing climate change and regulating carbon emissions. president trump says lifting emissions restrictions will revitalize the industry. >>> and president trump's son- in-law has agreed to testify in front of the senate intelligence committee. investigating russia's effort to influence the 2016 election. lawmakers want to know about a meeting in december, between jared kushner and the head of a russian state-run bank. the white house says he was there as a trump advisor but the bank describes his role as a private business representative. >>> today, state

optimistic, earned his ged, started classes at bronx community college, pulling a 3.56 gpa.he psychological trauma from jail was haunting. inescapable. seven months after that "nightline" interview, kalief browder hung himself with an air conditioning cord at his home in the bronx. he was 22. >> they destroyed my life, my family's life. >> reporter: the truth of the hellish nightmare he endured inside rikers, crueller than fiction. the harsh reality now being explored in a six-part spike tv documentary. "time: the kalief browder story." produced by the weinstein company and jay-z. >> people see his story and realize, man, this is going on. this is not like one case that happened. this is happening a lot. >> is this one of those tales, because what happened to him at each stage was so history risk, it's so unbelievable though true, that it couldn't happen again? >> part of what makes this story so horrific is that it's happening every day. and that khalif is one of many, many kids who are experiencing a similar issue. >> reporter: in life, khalif offered a cautionary tale abo

you could argue that the ncaa is trying at least to do things with gpa's or make sure we get rid of theillion coaches. but our industry, and that's all i can deal with, our industry remains this sort of almost exclusionary industry that we'll deal with these black guys on the floor, but in terms of the coaches, there are fewer black coaches. that is my -- to me, when joe says something is wrong, now, that's something that's wrong. that's our industry. that's something that we should be having as much passion with eradicating as whether a kid gets a billion dollars after staying for one year. >> there are 65 schools in the power five conferences. nine of them have african-american coaches. 70% of the players are african-american. and with all this hand wringing about graduation rates, which, you know, there's reason to wring your hands -- i'm here at a golf tournament. the golf players don't graduate at any better rate than basketball players do. very few of them that play on the tour are college graduates but nobody worries about it. why? because they're not african-american and everybo

. >> reporter: that from a 3.3 gpa advanced placement student who never had been in trouble before and wants to be a chemical engineer. he feels branded and ruined. >> i think the district should have focused more on everyone's best interest and just not them. >> reporter: in napa, wayne freedman, abc 7 news. >>> a former real estate executive received a sentence of four years in prison in a mortgage fraud scam. the case centered or discovery sales based in concord. the vice president took a plea bargain and agreed to testify against his bosses. ten people were indicted in the scam. a judge sentenced to a sentence longer than prosecutors suggested. the judge said, quote, it's important to me that white collar defendants believe if they act this way, they will suffer serious custodial sentences. >>> a san francisco jury handed a whistleblower a major victory today with a multimillion dollar verdict in a lawsuit against city attorney dennis herrera. a 12-person jury voted anonymously to award $2 million in back pay and damages. the lawyer was fired from her job in the city attorney's off

florida state, you could go if you had a certain gpa.ent on a free tuition scholarship paid for by the florida lottery. >> shout out to the florida lottery. >> shout out to the florida lottery. the state of florida back then, i think it was run a bit differently. the state of florida wanted to drive the film industry in the state so they built a film school. they invited florida kids into the program. it was a beautiful situation. as someone who grew up poor, they provided the equipment, the stocks all these things. i got into film school, didn't know anything about it. over the course of two years, got kind of good at it. i had a brief moment where i recent sure if i could do it -- where i wasn't sure if i could do it. i didn't know light exposed film. i grew up poor, black -- i thought people like me aren't meant to be good at this. of course, over the course of two years, i did the work. i taught myself how to shoot my own film. instead of watching what i thought was the best in world cinema, i trained myself on how to do this. i move

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that increases their sat scores, gpa so i do think there are damaging effects of those rankings . colleges are responding to that foster inequality. and you asked, i forget the second part of the question. >>. [inaudible] >> yeah, i'm not sure what to do. i would say that these universities, and these are exceptional universities and they are so elite and i chose them because i thought this is where students wouldn't have the same anxiety about both, if it were a different system i would have gone in ivy league or oxford or cambridge so i chose them deliberately because of that but in a way, they get a pass on the return in investment because in other research, i've seen well, i've got the harvard degree, i can major in philosophy and art history but it doesn't matter that's very unique to these elite places. i don't know, i feel like higher institutions are changing dramatically and are we going to have like a credentialing system? i don't know what the next thing is going to be. and i don't know that i can that. but i think it's an important aspect. >>. >> talk about, do you ill

one of the top basketball players in the country with a 3.3 gpa to boot. of a kind or one of many kids on our streets and in our foster system, who simply need someone to believe? steve hartman, on the road, in west lafayette, indiana. >> that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center here in new york city, , , ny >>> it's thursday, march 9th, 2017. this is the "cbs morning news." heavy winds whip across several states, toppling trucks, knocking out power, and leaving the michigan basketball team banged up after their plane slid off a runway. >>> breaking overnight, hawaii becomes the first state to sue over the president's new travel ban. >>> tech companies take steps to make sure the cia isn't using your devices to spy on you after wikileaks' latest claim. >>> and women unite.

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thesuperintendent is recommending that starting next fall the district report weighted gpas for all students except freshman and considering capping the number of classes students can receive weight for to reduce academic stress. the schoolboard meeting starts at 6:30 tomorrow at the district office. >>> well, apple is responding to reports of a possible hack plus the markets may be losing their momentum. points. the nasdaq was up 11. good morning, jill. . >> reporter: good morning. futures right now pointing to a little bit of a lower open. onfriday the dow lost 59 points, nasdaq up 11. a joint committeefrom oil producers has agreed to review whether a global packet to limit oil supplies should be extended by 6 months. analystssay if it's not extended it could cause prices to go lower. >> apple says leaks [audio difficulty] cia program aims at hacking apple devices. applessays iphones bought after 2009 and 2013 are not suggestion acceptable. >> we hear that hospital gones are getting a make over. >> yeah the clothing line inga designed fashion conscious clothing for patients. they'redesigne

i should have been making 2.0 gpa as a freshman in high school. i should be failing freshman english as a freshman in high school. but you have to look at cultural dimension and expectations that my community is setting for me. look at the fact i lived in a very traumatic very unstable home and that made it hard to study and made me not want to go home when the school bell rang at the end of the day. i this that i conservatives would do well to actually recognize this isn't purely a failure of individuals making the right choices. this is very often a failure of community to provide the right opportunities to a lot of the people who grow up in these circumstances. that is true in black community and is true and continues to be true in white community too. this raises, i think, an important point. i will cirque you will back to the housing point that kevin started this with. one of the most powerful drivers, we know this and see this in data is enclaves of concentrated property. right? and it is completely intuitive, why? because if you grow up see

put them in music and arts they do better in their gpa, sat scores, they do better in math. want to change the economy? for every dollar in the national endowment grant, nine dollars of private money moves with it. it's a $4.2 billion industry, the fact is it's a bigger segment of our gdp than transportation and agriculture. >> eric: does it need public funding, can the premarket handle it? >> not individual artists, no individual artist should be funded but i do think we need to funded communities, community art programs, access to music for children in poverty if we don't do that were going to lose a third of a kid who were our right brain dominant and that's a tragedy american has got to avoid. >> governor huckabee, thank you very much. that's it for us tonight, thank you for watching, and eric bolling and for bill o'reilly and please remove of the spin stops here because we're looking out for that's it. "special report" is next. >> this is a fox news alert. welcome to a busy washington. i am bret baier. vote counting chaos on capitol hill. high-stakes vote to dismantle o

. >> reporter: that from a high school student with a 3.3 gpa who was taking advance placement honors classes. he wants to be a chemical engineer and now -- >> now we're dealing with reputation, people talking about us, people looking at us differently. >> reporter: in napa, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> a man who ran children's outreach programs for may rinne film institute was a rained on child pornography charges today. police arrested 71-year-old john morrison at his home in san francisco monday after a search found numerous devices with images of minors involved in sex acts. here he is leaving court today. morrison has resigned as education director for the california film institute. >> there is a crime that is happening with alarming frequency, and it's on the increase on bay area free ways. shooting incidents. this year alone there have been 19, and two of them fatal. abc 7 news reporter is live in concord with new information the chp just released. laura? >> reporter: kristen, highway 4 here has been one of the hot spots for these shootings and cameras, they say, would help a

for college when you work in college, then working 20 hours a week actually improves your gpa a little as long as you work an on campus job. >> where do you start? what is ab easy place to start i have young children. what should do i do if its. >> open a bank account. do they have a bank account. >> yes. >> good. once they're paying attention. we live online. everything is done online and swiping and apple pay. kids need to understand that. opening a bank account. using cash for allowance. that's where you do a good job. >> thank you, beth. i appreciate that. >> all right. >> plus one. >> teach your kids that credit card debt is a bad thing. when you use this card, we're borrowing money. that's a high interest rate. start explaining it. throughout the book from age 3 to 23, you can teach your kids to be super smart about money whether it comes to investing. compound interest is another great one. you put $100 away for five years and leave it there, would you have tens of thousands of dollars. >> are you a fab of credit cards for college students. >> no. president obama passed a law th

. >> reporter: that from a high school student with a 3.3 gpa who was taking advance placement honors classes. he wants to be a chemical engineer and now -- >> now we're dealing with reputation, people talking about us, people looking at us differently. >> reporter: in napa, wayne friedman, abc 7 news. >> a man who ran children's outreach programs for may rinne film institute was a rained on child pornography charges today. police arrested 71-year-old john morrison at his home in san francisco monday after a search found numerous devices with images of minors involved in sex acts. here he is leaving court today. morrison has resigned as education director for the california film institute. >> there is a crime that is happening with alarming frequency, and it's on the increase on bay area free ways. shooting incidents. this year alone there have been 19, and two of them fatal. abc 7 news reporter is live in concord with new information the chp just released. laura? >> reporter: kristen, highway 4 here has been one of the hot spots for these shootings and cameras, they say, would help a

put them in music and arts they do better in their gpa, sat scores, they do better in math.t to change the economy? for every dollar in the national endowment grant, nine dollars of private money moves with it. it's a $4.2 billion industry, the fact is it's a bigger segment of our gdp than transportation and agriculture. >> eric: does it need public funding, can the premarket handle it? >> not individual artists, no individual artist should be funded but i do think we need to funded communities, community art programs, access to music for children in poverty if we don't do that were going to lose a third of a kid who were our right brain dominant and that's a tragedy american has got to avoid. >> governor huckabee, thank you very much. that's it for us tonight, thank you for watching, and eric bolling and for bill o'reilly and please remove of the spin stops here because we're looking out for you. ♪ >> tucker: welcome to "tucker carlson tonight," other networks are determined to ignore it, we open tonight with the coverage of the horrific rate in maryland, shucking emails an

one of the top basketball players in the country with a 3.3 gpa to boot. is this kid one of a kind?ster system who simply need someone to believe. >> jay: still come, kellyanne conway, her turn. and meet nacho, bobby flay's delectable cat. >> here gyp is jane pauley. jay: kellyanne conway played a crucial role in donald trump's election to the presidency. now she has a high profile job in his white house. with the occasional day off. norah o'donnell of "cbs this morning" has our sunday profile. >> last sunday, kellyanne conway wasn't defending her boss, president donald j. trump on tv. she was at church, attending mass with her husband, attorney george t. conway, and their four children, along with some friend. breakfast at a diner came next. >> what are you are you having? lumberjack? >> followed by some quality family time at their northern new jersey home. a brief return to what life used to be like. but these days her sunday routine is far from normal. >> i was surprised you have full secret service protection. why? have there been threats? >> yes. i have 24-7 secret service pro

the brothers have made history at their long island high school by earning the top two highest gpas inss. nicholas named to valedictorian his brother salutatorian. the boys credit their parents both doctors with instilling in them a passion for learning. >> study buddy all the time. >> there you. >> oh. >> that helps. >>> let's take a look outside on the boulevard. the boulevard at broad street just a little damp. we're watching periods of rain and light showers kind of move through and right here it's not looking bad but not that far off on fox street it remains blocked because of yesterday's fire. in swedesboro this has been out here for awhile. 322 eastbound still blocked at kings highway. you'll have to stick to tomlin station road because this accident brought down a pole. it's take longer to clear. mass transit is on time dave. >> rain continues to die down on storm tracker6 live double scan karen, most of it pushing off the co-a couple of sprinkles and one slightly heavier shower pushing into western chester county but this is all moving toward the east evaporating on the west s

below because they are trying to get the top students and to increase the rankings it increases your gpa so there are damaging affects the colleges are responding to that fostered the equality. >> these universities are exceptional universities and i chose them because i thought thesthese were the places that students wouldn't have the same anxiety like if it were a different system i would have gotten into harvard or cambrid cambridge. so i chose them delivered to flee because of that. in other research i've got a harvartheharvard degree i can mn but it doesn't matter. i feel like higher education is changing dramatically. well we had a credentialing system, i don't know what the next thing is going to be. i don't know that i can speak to that given this research, but it is an important question. >> you illustrated this incredible tension that the students talked about in terms of the diversity. so first, it has to be something that has a demand for integration. we are diverse but we must interact otherwise at the same time you cannot be too much like the mainstream. if you are too much

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one of the top basketball players in the country with a 3.3 gpa to boot. of a kind or one of many kids on our streets and in our foster system, who simply need someone to believe? steve hartman, on the road, in west lafayette, indiana. >> that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others check back a little later for the morning news and "cbs this morning." from the broadcast center here in new york city, i'm tony dokoupil. >>> the president's wiretap claim -- still no proof but many questions. >> is the president the target of a counterintelligence investigation? >>> also tonight, the battle begins over the republican health care plan. >> this is a conservative wish list. >> this is a bad joke. no wonder you've been hiding this dog in the cave with an armed guard until monday night. >>> tragedy on the tracks. the search for ways to make crossings safer. >>> and a pint-sized toreador makes a stand for women's equality in a male dominated arena. >> we live in a climate that sa women are devalued, and that's a way

it is based off of survey collected in fall of 2016 touching on average gpas and job placements after area college teams are headed off to the ncaa women's basketball tournament. one was certain. the other was on the bubble. [cheering and applause] >> that's right. the cal bears not quite sure about getting invited to the big dance after losing 13 of the final 19 games. the bears are one of seven schools to make the tourney. the strength of the schedule may helped them earn the spot. cal is a ninth seed and will play lsu on saturday night in texas. the fan ford women knew they would be going to the tournament after winning their conference tournament. they did not know where they would be seeded. stanford is the second seed in the lexington bracket. they play new mexico state on saturday in kansas. there they are celebrating. best of luck to both the cal bears and stanford. >> absolutely. >>> we're following a big story. a major storm slams the east coast. we will talk about the impact it is having right here in the bay area. >> reporter: declaring a shelter crisis. what that emergenc

, optimistic, working, he earned his ged, started classes at bronx community college pulling a 3.56 gpaauma from jail was haunting. seven months after that interview, kalief browder hung himself. he was 22. >> they destroyed my life. my family's life. >> reporter: the truth of the hellish nightmare he endured inside rikers the harsh reality now being explored in a spike tv documentary. "time the kalief browder story," produced by the weinstein company and jay-z. >> people will see his story and realize man, this is going on. >> reporter: in life, kalief offered a cautionary tale about the inefficiency of the criminal justice system. in death he became a martyr. >> i deeply wish we haven't lost him. he did not die in vain. >> reporter: new york city ended solitary confinement for 16 and 17-year-olds and last year new york state passed kalief's law to ensure a speedy trial. president obama cited browder's story calling for the end of solitary for juveniles nationwide. his siblings fighting for justice reform calling for the closing of rikers island. >> why do you think it should be shut d