was touch and go. >> hammond: it was a bit touch and go. was in a big coma.s horrible for my wife and my parents and my daughters. there was briefly a call for, you know, "'top gear' must end." but that quickly died down, because there was no appetite for it from the public. >> kroft: hammond eventually recovered, and returned to the show four months later to talk about the accident. >> hammond: i think it was very important that we said to the world, "if it can go that wrong even in our silly, glossy television world, then it can go wrong in the real world." >> kroft: but despite the obvious risks to life and limb, they've all elected to carry on. >> clarkson: so, we've had this arrangement so that, while you'd have to announce it the following week-- "this week, unfortunately, james may was killed making that item." and then, you'd have to pause momentarily. but the next word-- and we've all agreed on this-- should be "anyway." so you go, "james may was killed by making that item. anyway, the new ford, which is..." and just move it along. it's basically, he

tim hammonds next to answer your pet questions -- kim hammond next. >> this storm is just getting started. we will talk about it in just a moment. right now, a light rain in town and at the airpod >> in this afternoon's consumer alertthisscam -- in this afternoon's consumer alert, scammers are attacking atms, called skimming. experts say take a close look at the machine. if it has a different look to where you insert your card or has brochure amounts behind you where a camera could be hidden, walk away. make sure you cover the numbers when you enter your pin, and if the machine has unusual instructions, do not follow them. starbucks wants is drink for paris to stop making multiple drinks at the same time and focus on only two drinks at once. the arista's are also expected to steamed milk for individual drinks instead of by the picture. starbucks expects to rollout the changes next month and hopes the move will make stores more efficient. some worry the new measures will slow down service. it is a new approach to television. school pride is a pro at the series a chronicle how communities b

a heavy police presence on both sides of the state line as the manhunt continues here in hammond. friends, neighbors and loved ones mourn the loss of rolando alonzo if you need something he didn't think twice to do it for you. i remember one time i need a ride for my husband and i. he let us use his truck. >> reporter: the 45-year-old alonzo was beloved by neighbors and family alike. victim's brother roberto alonzo not yet able to talk on camera. his family distraught over their loss and the bizarre circumstances of yesterday's shooting making it all the more difficult to understand. police say a man alonzo didn't know, a total stranger. drove up to him and two coworkers outside a beecher, illinois, briefly asking them about construction materials before inexplkably opening fire. alonzo was pronounced dead on the scene and another man critically injured. a third man escaped into a cornfield. the rampage continued. the gunman drove across the state line outside lowell ix indiana. he engaged a farmer in a disjointed conversation about honey bees before pumping three bullets into kei

kim hammond is here to answer your pet questions. you can e-mail then ed petque >> it is not a cut 16th trick is 50 degrees. debt collection -- it is a multi billion dollar industry, and consumers have complained they have become far too aggressive. >> their nightmare began when a landscaper did a lousy job and would not come back to fix it. before long, they heard from a debt collector, claiming they owed almost $15,000, much more than the project was supposed to cost care >> we did not allow the debt collector money care >> data became -- the calls became aggressive, even threatening to follow the couple. >> we will get an idea of who you guys are associated with. >> i was pretty scared to find out how far they would go. >> i felt threatened. >> they fought back, still in the debt collector. the case is pending. the federal trade commission says complaints in the last three years have jumped from 91,000 in 2007, to 120,000 last year. >> more collectors are engaging in more aggressive tactics. in some cases, they get consumers to pa

for alex flanagan and mike mayock, tom hammond saying so long from notre dame stadium. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> more than 22,000 feet stomped across the streets of baltimore this morning part of the 10th anniversary of the baltimore marathon. good evening. it was another very successful year for the marathon with the most runners ever. two new faces took home the titles of winner ran the grand prize. we have a look at the events. >> a big birthday for baltimore on saturday, the marathon turned 10 years old. 22,000 runners showed up for the party. 24-rolled kenyan david rutoh got the best prize, a wind. 2:13:11. >> me, i was running through it. i was sure that i would win. i am strong in the finishing. >> as the kenyans continued dominance, the eastern european women do, too. olena shurkhno took first place for the females. she was worried about last year's winner nipping at her heels. >> it made me a little bit nervous. go, go, go appeared >> the f

a lot of buzz on that and one of two releases i'll be asking pete hammond about.ood to see you, pete. >> hi. >> "hereafter," clint eastwood has a midas touch, does he not, doesn't seem to be a bad movie he's directed and here we go. already a lot of buzz. why? >> clint eastwood is 80 years old and cooking on all the front burners still. i think it's because he's got great taste. "hereafter" is a really interesting look about what might happen after death but it's not a movie that necessarily is interested in giving us those answers. it's just interested in asking the questions and it does it in a very unique way with a unique structure of three distinct stories that don't seem related for most of the film and they are all really fascinating, and they all deal with death or near death experiences here, and i think that clint has touched on something that people are very interested in, and it's a very tasteful, very beautifully crafted film. >> and so what's your grade? >> my grade is an "a" on this. i have to give it to clint. he's really become a master. look, he

for alex flanag and mike mayock, tom hammond saying so long from notre dame stadium. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com into revolutionary performance. one word makes the difference between defining the mission and accomplishing the mission. one word makes the difference in defending r nation and the cause of freedom. how... is the word that makes all the difference. >>> charges have been reduced against five bar employees initially arrested for murder. now there are two very different stories about just what kild ali mohammed. those five men accused in the beating death of mohammed were original charged with murder. now the charges have been changed to aggravated assault. that's because so far the coroner's office has not found evidence to back up the murder charges. the men were arraigned today and derrick ward was there. >> reporter: evan croweller and reginald phillips and darrell carter are the men charged and stood in jail jump suits and supporters were at the courthouse a cheered upon learning that the reduced charges. meanwhile, ali mohammed's father waits for fair justice. >>

. >> reporter: the attorney on the line was larry hammond. there's no doubt in your mind that she did this? >> there's no doubt that she was involved in doing it. >> reporter: it took some time but ron ultimately came to believe this story. >> i said this before and i say it again, i love my mother but i don't like her. she is not a nice person. and i did not make that jump immediately. but i don't have any doubt anymore that my mom did this. that my mom framed my dad for the murders. >> reporter: at the time of the arrest, bill and carol macumber's marriage was falling apart. carol was working at the local sf's office where she had access to the evidence in the murders and recently took classes in lifting fingerprints. >> how do you get across to yourself that your mother is capable of this? that she framed your own father for a murder that he had been in prison for 35 years now, well, 35 years now, for something he didn't do because she was going to lose what she had. >> reporter: did you frame your husband? >> no. absolutely not. absolutel

yeah, that's true, and i think that there were a lot of people-- john hammond, the record producer, amonghat this song represented a bad turn in her career. you know, she was leaving behind these ebullient things that she had sung early on-- the teddy wilson stuff and the benny goodman stuff-- and turning to this darker, bleaker, more somber torch songy sorts of selections. and i think that's true. this song represents a fulcrum in her career. it's really a transitional moment when she starts to sing it. and gloomy sunday was supposedly also banned, but for very different reasons. i mean, gloomy sunday-- the so-called hungarian suicide song-- you know, i think that it was largely hype, but there were stories of people jumping out of windows after they heard it-- you know, distraught lovers whose despair was rekindled by hearing the song. i don't think those stories were true, necessarily. and certainly, it was a very different kind of song. the message was very different than strange fruit. you can imagine, though, the emotional toll of every night performing strange fruit and gloomy sund

hammond at 76. we do have lake cooling and that will continue tomorrow and then a pretty good slug of cool air coming to the middle and end of the week. we will warm up again before the weekend and real chill comes in next week. 82 at hoffman estates and then geneva and 77 at official station at o'hare and note the lack of winds at o'hare. and the light southwest wind at midway airport. rule of thumb, when you a wind under 10 miles per hour the cooler denser air that sits out over the lake will generally start running inland particularly if your air temperature is more than 20 degrees above your water temperature. and the water temperature is in the low 60s now. so we will do that today. 79 at frankfurt. and 79 at joliet and that's the view from sauk village. gorgeous day across the metro area. widen our view and see the warm air covers much of the middle of the country. what an amazing change from as we say a year ago. just stunning. there is cool air taking shape on the north slopes of alaska thro

we received a call in central fresno. 2751, east hammond, regarding an 8-year-old female who had been abducted by a stranger. the information we had was that a male suspect had pulled up in front of this apartment complex. there were a group of children who were outside of the complex, playing. and a suspect, male suspect in his 20s, early 20s, got out of that vehicle, his pickup truck. and approached two females, a 6- year-old girl and 8-year-old girl, and attempted to lure him into his pickup. at one point, the 8-year-old girl started to walk with him. the 6-year-old girl walked away. and it was at that time that there was both a male and a female witness who saw what was happening and yelled at the children to get away from the vehicle and to get away from the man. and it was at that time that the male suspect grabbed hold of the 8-year-old female, pushed her into the driver's side of the pickup truck and sped off with the lights out of that vehicle. it was the mother of the victim, a few seconds later, got into her car with another party and drove through the area, but they were n

i will say that there's a difference between like, you know, someone like darrell hammond is a premierressionist. who can get everything down to the last drop. and then there are times when you just try to do someone, and you want to just -- just get like a funny take on it. not necessarily needs to be like even really sound exactly like them. you just want to create a character of who they are. so i tried to do that with her. she's kind of, you know -- there was nothing really that stuck out voice-wise. >> larry: you don't have to play it funny, right? you have to play her. you're serious about it. >> yeah, she played, hopefully, as real in the moment as you can. but i thought deep down, he wrote a lot of hillary clinton pieces which fluctuated over the many years i played her certainly. the gain that was fun to play is how she had to hold it together when she was becoming so frustrated, or that there was a lot of stuff underneath. and i thought that was a great take. >> larry: do you always try to begin with politics? >> it's a nice place for it. i find that's the best place for it i

at kankakee and 67 at hammond. and some views out west this weather system that is bringing rains and clouds as you can see to las vegas. these are a couple of cameras out there. look at the snow flurries coming down in livingston, montana. sticking snow in the upper mid west out of this storm for the first time this season. and here is the view from colorado springs. at the front range of the rockies being shrouded in clouds which are snowing at higher elevations as we come to you at this hour. we are in a little hole in the clouds and so we had a fair amount of sun. as you stand back and look at this gush of moisture and winds accompanying them that moisture. into the western u.s. and then ultimately the plains. gulf moisture running north and producing these clouds that may grow severe and march eastward on the squall line and see the jet stream. the area that had scatterd clouds -- that's one low pressure. up there with this little curl of winds up there. winds are at 220 miles per hour. that's going race acros

kim hammond is here. questions to wbaltv.com. ♪ [ monkey cheeps ] [ male announcer ] a bath becomes even more pleasurable when you know that your water is being heated in an environmentally- conscious way while saving you hundreds of dollars on your water-heating energy bill. the geospring water heater from ge with advanced hybrid technology. heating the water in your home any other way is just going to seem primitive. [ monkey cheeps ] ♪ >> october is national domestic violence awareness month. coming up later this week, a very important symposium. taylor will be part of that. she is a clinical instructor at the university of maryland school of social work. thanks for coming in. >> thanks for having us. >> why are you having the symposium sf >> i think that what's going on is we are seeing across the state a dramatic increase in the number of children who are involved in what we loosely call domestic violence. violence really involving one partner battering another partner. kids are witnessing it. resear

. >> reporter: shannon hammond knows the despair of battling obesity. >> i've been overweight all oflife as a child, teenager and adult. i eat when i'm happy, when i'm sad. i eat when i don't know if i'm happy or sad. i eat because it's tuesday. >> reporter: in 2000 her weight peaked at 230 pounds. at 33. >> i had completely given up hope. i had been a compulsive eater all of my life and i just accepted that this was my life and didn't think it would get better. >> reporter: now at 43. >> i'm living a life that i never thought possible. >> reporter: shannon said the seeds of change were planted when a co-worker named tim started flirting. shannon developed a crush. >> and then tim blew me over to go out with my thin best friend. >> reporter: that moment was shannon's trigger. >> i wanted a different life. >> reporter: shannon started by walking. >> i was so heavy i would walk across my apartment and my ankles would hurt. >> reporter: within weeks walking got easier and she moved on to other workouts. >> but the real turning point for me didn't happen until i started to write down my

today we are honoring private first class matthew everett wilds of hammond, louisiana.a roadside bomb attack, august 2009. just 18 years old. his mother, mary wilds wrote us about him. matthew a very good kid, she says, never gave us a bit of trouble. mary says she actually had to sign matthew up to join the army and has no regrets. matthew loved being in the army, she writes. he was so very proud, he was an infantry soldier and loved it. his plans were to make a career out of the army. >>> if you have a loved one you would like us to honor, here's all you have to do. go to cnn.com/homeandaway. type in your service member's name in the upper right search field and pull up your profile. send us thoughts and pictures, and we'll keep the memories of your hero alive ♪ ♪ that's how you were i guess only heroes have the strengthening enough ♪ ♪ check the gas in the tank ♪ check the flava from your shirt ♪ ♪ make sure your pits don't stank ♪ ♪ check the new hairdo, check the mic one two ♪ ♪ 'cause i'm about to drop some knowledge right on top of you ♪ ♪ you check a lot of thin

burl hammonds support edwards in the past but not this time. >> done his good stuff, he is moving intohe area. >> how are you doing, rob snrt it is good to see you. thank you. >> reporter: chet edwards defied the political odds, a democrat elected since 1990 in one of the most republican districts in the country, with heavy support from military veterans but in this year's campaign commercials, edwards sounds more like a republican. >> when president obama and nancy pelosi pressured chet edwards, chet stood up to them. >> reporter: two years ago, edward was on the short list to be obama's vice presidential nominee. now had his republican opponent, bill flores, a former oil executive, never shies away from linking edwards to owe bam in and nancy pelosi. >> i think chet edwards and president obama are wrong. >> if i'm one of those disgruntled voters out there, how do you win me over? >> well, i think my message is what it's always been that i have always put our district first and whether it is fighting for our jobs, quality education, fighting for our veterans, champ i don'ting the caus

kim hammond ensco answers to your pet questions. >> and new laws are about to kick in.kitchen for the ultimate tailgate party. >> we have some mild temperatures in the seven-day forecast. forecast. public safety is a governor's most important job. that's why governor martin o'malley has instituted new dna and fingerprinting technology that's reducing violent crime... new, stronger domestic violence and abuse legislation... and o'malley passed new laws to better track and convict sexual predators, with even longer prison sentences. as a father of four, i know there's always more that we must do to protect our children and make maryland an even safer place to raise our families. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live, local, latebreaking -- this is wbal-11 news saturday morning, in hd. >> i am lisa robinson. >> i am debra winger. let's look outside with meteorologist tony pann. >> we had some frost for the first time this season the close to baltimore. in the suburbs, especially, w

jimmy hammond, national president of fphi p beta.fer jones. collectively, we represent over 1.5 million voters, educators, entrepreneurs, men and women, we are the lawyers, the doctors, the preachers, presidents of the universities all across this nation. i stand here today in the nation's capital and am reminded of the words etched in the fabric of the national archives building, we stand on the hallowed grounds where the greatest champions of justice march to bring a too often apathetic nation to remember our nation's creed and stand where people of every nation stood remembering the greatest nation on earth while recognizing disparity and dispensing justice for all people. it is here in the shadows of the washington monument at the site of the memorials abraham lincoln and the statue of thomas jefferson that we remember from whence we came, here, there as african-americans holding the highest office in the land, in the white house, we have once more, believing all of our nation, the world in which we live that alexander was right