who didn't have maybe heath's self-serving reason for doing so. so i'm still inclined to think that there might be something to the shoe story so there's one place where i feel some division. i think gordon's story abou providing suss stance and water for barlow is probably false. and i do -- i don't have any reluctance to debunks that one. the spring fraternization story is probably also false. there i think that is a story -- are you all familiar with that story? that on the night of july 2 and 3 soldiers of both sides came together to fill their canteens at spanning letter -- spangler's spring and they talked over the battle, put aside their guns and frat yearnized? it's a very romantic story. but there's no contemporary evidence that indicates it's true. and there's plenty of contemporary to the battle itself that indicates that it didn't happen. it's a story that built up in the 1880's and afterwards during the period of reconciliation between the veterans and the blue and gray who wanted to look back on that experience as not a bitter confli

. >> it was a microburst that brought down the building on top of heath mullins. he and his wife had been watching his daughter's cheerleading practice. >> the window popped through and everybody go now. >> they all ran into the only room that is still standing, which is made of concrete and steel. it was part of cheer fusion's emergency plan. a plan everyone knew. >> we had a plan and everybody listened to the plan. nobody argued. >> after getting everyone into the safe room, he was trapped outside. >> i never cried that hard in my life. >> relief came soon when they saw heath beat up, but alive and talking. he is just glad it was him out there and not the girls. >> if those girls hadn't been in there, we could have had deaths yesterday. >> in fredericksburg, peggy fox, 9news now. >> still hard to fathom pictures. tonight, a pardon for pit bulls. the maryland attorney general's office weighs in on the court ruling that the dogs are inherently dangerous. we'll tell you how their opinion might give a reprieve to some pet owners. >> and still to come, a fiery derail

with one of the dads, heath mullens, trying to get all the kids in. he didn't make it to the room. and was thrown to the ground, pummeled by falling blocks and steel beams. >> he was hero to all of us. >> reporter: last night's storms, a dramatic end to our 11-day historic heat wave. in which more than 2500 records were shattered isn't just the past week. asphalt, heated over 100 degrees for several days, melted on the reagan national tarmac. a u.s. air jet just 30 minutes at the gate sinks into the tire ruts. back in fredericksburg, even though the building collapsed, with its roof flying nearly a football field and slamming into john bettis' house, remarkably, no one here died. >> sounds like a wild ride? >> it was. >> the house lifting up, moving two feet? >> moving two feet. >> that is john bettis' house in the background. here at the gym, this is some of the debris from that cinder block that fell on heath mullens, the man being called the hero. the good news, diane, he's in fair condition. >> and the cheerleaders were so young, david. are they confirming what brought down the

. >> reporter: the thread in" the dark knight" heath ledger as the joker, the an arc consist with deepeign of post 9/11 dread. >> i will kill you. >> strange. >> reporter: ledger would die while the film was in post production. posthumously, he would win the academy award for best supporting actor. there was no doubt that "dark knight rises" needed new challenges for batman. anne hathaway. and tom hardy as the brutish face-masked wayne. >> mr. wayne -- >> you could trade blows with him in a way that would actually genuinely have this fear for batman. so we didn't want to do any kind of. diversion of the joker. >> reporter: even before he announced himself in hollywood with the back woods plotted memento, nolan had franchise-size visions. >> i hl always wanted to do what i considered to be kind of the pinnacle that hollywood does which is the big blockbuster which is interesting or thoughtful perhaps. but it just gives you an escape to entertainment. >> reporter: batman says, no, that he and christian bale will be stepping away from the character after this film. i've got one jillian do

i have bruises on my arms from her holding me so tight. >> relief came soon when they saw heath beat up, but alive and talking. he is just glad it was him out there and not the girls. >> if those girls hadn't been in there, we could have had deaths yesterday. any one of these, these are all little girls, they could have been crushed. >> peggy fox, 9news now. >> the building is being torn down and its owners plan to rebuild for the cheer fusion team. however, in the meantime, the group is receiving a substitute. matt. >>> new developments tonight in a storm of another type. the political storm swirling around d.c. mayor, vincent gray, following the revelation that he was elected with the help of a shadow campaign. within the past hour, the press secretary for d.c. independent councilman told 9news now that he is calling for mayor gray to resign. earlier today, the mayor talked about the growing scandal. >> i never expected to see so many people in an alley. >> at a press conference today in northeast washington, mayor gray was eager to talk about the launch of his green alley program.

heath heather? >> will it be shown again at 11:00?pe not. >> she just said no. >> kind of like the hot dog eating contest. >> i hate that. >> it's

. >> the other adult injured is 40-year-old heath mullins. he is also recovering here at mary washington hospital. he has broken bones and a concussion. like michelle smith, he also did not make it to a safe room, but he did make sure all the children did. in fredericksburg, peggy fox, 9news now. >> that's the best part of the story. thanks, peggy. a settlement could be in the works over a bitter dispute in woodbridge, virginia. under this possible deal, some families would be allowed to go home. prince william county declared the place uninhabitable last fall after a storm dumped rain that flooded it out. ever since then, the county and the owner of holly acres have been fighting over the owner's efforts to rebuild. caught in the middle. the people who call holly acres home. >> another great day outside, at least temperature wise. top, we've seen temperatures and storms start to roll through. >> we talked about a few thunderstorms popping up and we have a few thunderstorms. in fact, we'll show you live doppler. nothing severe at this point,

athletes have been arriving at heath row airport ready for their moment in -- heathrow airport ready for their moment in history. >> we are very happy and i am nervous that we are very happy. >> when we step up and get behind the block, we are doing what we have practiced to do for our hive. >> reporter: the or -- life. >> reporter: the olympic torch is also ready to shine. an stopings stops with the prime minister and duck and duchess of cambridge. torch will arrive during theopening ceremony and academy award winning director danny boyle is in charge of the spectacular which we hear will have dancing and farm animals. [ music ] >> reporter: boyle is probably best known for the mega hit movie "slumdog millioinaire." london is not known for the sunny days, so british airways flew in apache rain dancers from arizona to perform a rainbow dance to ensure nice weather. a british artist want everyone to get into the spirit of the gam by ringing bells all over the country. >> it could be a brilliant sound you know if wherever you are in britain you could hear that. that's my idea as kind o

showers and storms moving to the southeast, we have a lot of activity over the northern plains and more heath in the 7- day forecast, we're going to detail that a coming up in just a little bit. >>> if i took you lie above eastern and fleet and told you to look down, i bet you could see a chew chew train and a fish. brian kuebler can't wait to tell you this story of gp art. and to the little ones it looks like candy and to mom's it gets the stains out. poison control tells us to watch out. and who can't you bear to see at the office tomorrow. when abc2 news comes back in 60 seconds. ajors. but your fence? that's pro. finish like a pro with cabot wood stains. cabot...that's pro. . >>> baltimore is full of some of the greatest art, the we woulders, the baltimore museum of art features some of the greatest features but as brian kuebler you can also find masterpieces where the rubber meets the road. >> reporter: for michael wallace, riding his mountain bike arnold town is as much exercise as it is expression. if his tires are his paint brush, the city streets are his con vas. >> this whole area f

senate race in virginia is heath up. the candidates were recording votes in our area today. republican george allen appeared at a small business roundtable in alexandrea. he talked about the importance of empowering small businesses, saying they will help generate jobs and, in turn, improve the economy. >>> democratic challenger tim kaine was campaigning in the same area touring small businesses in the mt. vernon area. he shared with business leaders his ideas on how to strengthen the economy and help small businesses grow. he wants to bring the commonwealth traditions of fiscal and political balance to washington. >>> meantime, the political, the presidential race is heating up. a new new york times pole finds the vice presidential candidate is very important to voters. 74% of those surveyed a say running mate matters a lot or somewhat. at the same time, 25% said that it doesn't matter at all. and the survey comes as republican mitt romney is said to be close to announcing a running mate. >>> less than an hour ago, the house judiciary committee approved a bill to ban aborti

here are parents jamie and heath. >> we had a plan. and everybody listened to the plan.dy argued. >> if those girls hadn't have been in there, we could have had deaths yesterday. any one of these -- these are all little girls. they could have been crushed. >> the building's owner planned to rebuild and the cheerleading group is getting offers for substitute practice places in the meantime. >>> if you're like many americans, your boss is asking you to do more with fewer resources. hum. and to get that work done, a new study by aol shows 62% of desk jockeys skip lunch and have a quick bite to eat the cubicle. add up all of that time and you're working up an extra 16 days. when workers finally do take some of those precious vacation days, here is what they do. 30% of those responding to the survey say they read work related e-mails. guilty here. 23% say they get work related phone calls. 18% say they take texts from work. and 13% say they are asked to do work by a boss, client or a colleague. i find it difficult to completely unplug. >> eating at your desk is unhealthy. >>

weapon of the joker who gleefully executes elaborate lethal crimes and was once described by the actor heath ledger as a murdering schizophrenic clown with zero empathy. >> everything becomes chaos. >> reporter: to call the batman movie dark would be an understatement. one of the comics that inspired the movie showed a bad guy shooting up a movie theater. the director of the movie says that grit and moral ambiguity is exactly what resonates with fans. >> they will be unsettled in the way we want them to be. >> batman is not the first movie. columbine shooters reenacted scenes from the matrix. experts say movies aren't the cause of these kills, only the inspirati inspiration. maybe in his mind, maybe he was becoming part of the movie. look, what this person can do, look at the power that they have in their hands. >> reporter: and tonight, we're outside a movie theeter in manhattan, where at times there have been lines, diane, around the block. just moments ago, we got a statement from the director of the movie, who says, quote t movie theater is my home and the idea that somebody would violat

i'm trying to deal with the heath, then my breathing goes, then all my food is gone. >> reporter: a block away, the likely source of the outage, but some help is here, thanks to metro and this cooling bus. >> i was wondering why this bus was sitting here. nobody told me until this morning. so i've been in this bus ever since. it's very cool. >> reporter: some innovation for things like keeping cell phones charged and finally a little humor. >> if i opened up my door, it's like the devil, he says well, come on in, because i'm going back down where i come from, where it's cooler, you know? >> reporter: indeed they're well into the situation here. hopefully once it gets removed, we'll still have to wait for overhead utility crews to get here and restore power to those who don't have it. of course, that wait is going on all over the city. pepco does say indeed the canadian crews are due in town. so hopefully they'll be rolling in the communities shortly after that. live in northwest, derrick ward, news4. >> go canada. >> and devil, too. where do the power outages stand right now? joins us is

reminiscent of heath ledger's famous portrayal. >> he's been shot. >> i've got a child victim. need rescue at the back door of theater nine now. >> he didn't move at all. >> reporter: steefb barton was in the midst of a cross-country bike trip when he made the decision to see a movie. he was shot in the neck and the chest. >> it seemed very method call. he was just unloading into the crowd. >> reporter: so many extraordinary survival stories. federal help will arrive today at the scene of the apartment. at the theater, security's been stepped up at movie theaters all over aurora and across the nation. the jitters significantly higher because of this tragedy. >> david, thank you. we'll come back to you many times in the course of the broadcast. >>> we're learning more about the suspect this morning. james holmes has been described as a loner. he's apparently brilliant. studying for a ph.d. in neuroscience. he drew from one of the characters in the movie, the joker. >> reporter: authorities will try to figure out what to do with the booby trapped apartment of james holmes. his gu

is it something about heath ledger? what's going on here?ditated because the way he went in through the back exit, he appeared down by the stage, right in front of the screen and there he is in riot helmet and a flak jacket and some people thought it was part of the movie because it's a stunt, because it's a special night. >> so premeditated. that is the key. this guy planned it. he thought it out. he should be punished as a premeditated, intentional crime. enough with this hogwash is he sick? should he be redeemed? we've got to worry about the victims and in a free society, unfortunately, this is the kind of thing that happens. and there is very little that we can do except be vigilant. >> thank you. 8:43 is the time. we have continuing coverage of the mass murderer there in aurora, colorado at the "dark knight rises." we'll be right back [ buzz ] off to work! did you know honey nut cheerios is america's favorite cereal? oh, you're good! hey, did you know that honey nut cheerios is... oh you too! ooh, hey america's favorite cereais... honey

if he was as good actor as heath ledger was he was playing a role of the joker in earlier movies anda which would be a defense, is he an actor? or was he on valium? and was he falling asleep? at times he looked like you or i might look if trying to stay awake. >> as an untrained observer it seemed real to me. and can you look into the face of a killer and know his or her part? his or her mind? >> you can be brilliant and still be insane. and we're going to continue with our legal panna lift. they threaten to explode any second now. and are preparing and ready to use, they say, chemical weapons. coming up next, more of a legal battle and more of election 2012 as "hannity" continues, thank you for being with us. it's hard to see opportunity in today's challenging environment. unless you have the right perspective. bny mellon wealth management has the vision and experience to look beyond the obvious. we'll uncover opportunities, find hidden risk, and make success a reality. bny mellon wealth management to help protect your eye health as you age... would you take it? well, there is. [ ma

as we move into the weekend, i think we see a better chance of stronger storms, and we see the heathurn. 91 on monday. it does look like, so a possible heat wave, so right now it doesn't look anything like what we saw this past week. of course, this thursday, we'll be in somebody's backyard. there's not enough heat this week. >> okay. no bailing this time. >> have to do it. >> mandatory. >> got to do it. >>> thank you, doug. >>> police in the district will have another tool. >>> also three young boys drowned over the weekend. police say it was an accident, the family is not convinced. >>> coming up in sports, the all-star break is upon us, but no break for strasburg, gio matters. pioneers in outsourcing us jobs supports tax breaks overseas. insourcing. industry and favors bring jobs home. it matters. this message. >>> we have new information tonight about a deadly shooting involving police in fairfax county last night. >> please i filled the man. >>> pat collins has more. >> investigators working through the dark hours of the morning, and well into the afternoon, gatheren evidence in

hadley heath is a senior policy analyst at the independent women's forum. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. jon: marjorie, cbs news described his tour of ohio as, no swing county tour. they say it is a lot of need to have, but not nice to have territory for any democrat hoping to win the white house. what do you say to that? >> absolutely. ohio and pennsylvania will be mission critical for this election. the good news for obama right now he is ahead in both states but he will have to work for those votes. other good news for him right now the economy is improving in both ohio and pennsylvania. he is going to be talking a lot about the auto bailout, how that was success. you have a lot of manufacturers in those areas. so that is good thing for him to be speaking on. things will be tough for romney is going to be addressing the recent health care fallout. his dissension from his, from his head campaign advisor and how that is going to play. right now he will really have to get into the details of his own economic plans. he did lay out his 59 point plan wh

enter what hadley heath of independent women's group calls a opening for mitt romney.e could pull it off. >> conservatives have an opportunity 2012 to make inroads with young voters. many voted for president obama in 2008 in their first election, the first opportunity to cast a ballot in a national election. now they've seen he can't fulfill the promises made in 2008, nor can he fulfill the promises he's making now. >> neil: it's not as if they're running and storming to mitt romney. what do you think it will take the republican candidate to do to woo them? >> it's an indication the new generation of young voters have conservative instincts. they don't trust the president because they've seen him fall short but they're distrusting of romney and to distrust government is to realize government can't be the solution and is part of the problem. i believe it's a good indication of where their attitudes are. >> we talk to a lot of young people on the show and at home and they're cynical about politicians in general, both parties in general. about republican stewardship in wa

did is he a good actor as heath ledger in playing the role of the joker in the earlier movement. looking at eye movements that reflective have schizophrenia that would qualify for insanity defense. is he an actor, is it real? is he is the greatest actor in 50 years in terms of criminal defendants? or is he on thorazine or valium. at times he looked like he was falling asleep. >> sean: as an untrained observer, it seemed real to me. i was looking closely. >> can you look into the face of a killer and know his or her mind. >> sean: i want to talk when we come back about the fine line you can be brilliant but still be insane and what represents somebody that is being insane. we're going to continue with our legal panel as we continue. volatile situation is emerging in syria tonight as they threaten to explode any second now and preparing and ready to use, they say, chemical weapons. we check in with liz cheney. more of the legal panel and look at the latest in the elections of 2012 as hannity continues. thanks or being with us. ♪ why not make lunch more than just lunch? with two tim

today is more like an american invasion at heath row airport.ted to arrive in london including the bulk of team usa and their families. some 16,000 athletes are due to arrive over the next couple days. 90% of those will be traveling through heathrow. >> how exciting. a change of heart means a stanford athlete will compete in the olympics but not for team usa but for nigeria. morton will run the 400 meter hurdles for his home country. his mom tells the "mercury news" she is surprised because her son threw away his passport and would never go back. morton says he is proud to represent his mother's homeland. he has an unbeaten season. the first round is scheduled for august 3. >> this one is a major international event and they are beefing up security in advance. the 10,000 security guards il not be enough so more are requested. the kritish defense secretary says with the help of the army, navy and air force, the games will be safe and secure. >> though we're over a week out from the olympic games a group of acrobats is putting on the show. take a

reminiscent of heath ledger's famous portrayal. >> he's been shot. >> i've got a child victim. need rescue at the back door of theater nine now. >> he didn't move at all. he was just shooting in the same motion. >> reporter: steven barton was in the midst of a cross-country bike trip when he made the fateful decision to stop in aurora to catch the "batman" premier. the suspect began shooting into the air, then into the crowd, where barton was shot in the neck and in the chest. >> it was cold and calculated. it seemed very methodical. he didn't move position. he was just unloading into the crowd. >> reporter: so many extraordinary survival stories. federal help will arrive today at the scene of the apartment. as you can see, the theater over my shoulder here. we've been told that security's been stepped up at movie theaters all over aurora and across the nation. the jitters significantly higher because of this tragedy. that unfolded here just within the last 48 hours. >> david, thank you. we'll come back to you many times in the course of the broadcast. >>> we're learning more a

the other injured parent is 40- year-old heath mullins. a father of one of the cheerleaders. he is very beat up with broken bones and a concussion and also recovering here at mary washington hospital. now he also did not make it to that safe room, but he did make sure all the children did and the studio owner called him a hero. reporting live in fredericksburg, peggy fox, 9news now. >> just an incredible story, peggy, thank you. >>> a will the of heroics, powerful, powerful winds. what happened there exactly? such severe damage and localized. >> that was a down burst. about 3 miles south of fredericksburg. on our day, that fateful friday, june 29, we had that sort of damage everywhere across the metro area. that's something more typical for a localized area. let me show you a live look outside. this is pretty dramatic. we're looking at a live look outside. and temperatures upper 70s. that's average. that's okay. dew points low 60s. that's bearable. winds south, southeast at 9. there are clouds out there, but most of us will have a dry commute home. the pressure, 29.98 inches

that wasn't normal, and so i yelled at him, "heath, what's going on?" and he went like that.and i knew he was telling me something, so i came to the door, saw the officer and mr. shauntee struggling. at first, i wasn't sure if it was horseplay or something, but it wasn't. it was real. and so i called for a signal ten. i could see it escalating. >> shauntee, come here! come here, come here! let me take care of the situation right here. calm down. don't do anything to yourself, okay? sit down, calm down. >> alanna shirk is a registered nurse on pendleton's 24-hour medical unit. >> you see things you're not going to see other places, but ç lot of the kids are like him, you know. if you know how to deal with them, a lot of times if you treat them with respect, you'll get it back. not always, but it's just learning them. please. >> shauntee? >> take some breaths. i'll be right back. i'll be right back. >> i have been with him for a long time. i know when he's just playing or getting serious, and he was definitely serious. somebody could have really got hurt. he's strong. >> have a

you had heath ledger as at joker and amazing action.ou are introduced to joseph gordon levitt apt character. there is so much going on. mary ann cotillard is in the fill. >> real quick, talk about the individual actors how you thought they did. how did ann hathaway do? >> hathaway was phenomenal. i was worried about her character. she does an amazing job. my favorite character was michael caine. i think he deserves an is on consider nomination. he is only on the screen if i short period of time. you know that anthony hopkins was only on screen for like 16 minutes in silence of the lambs. you think about all this short time on screen but the big presence that he has through crowd the movie. my biggest problem is there is no true centralized character in the movie. i never really followed anybody's path. but these action scenes are brilliant. christopher noel appear knows exactly what he is doing when it comes to that and the imax shots are what you pay to see with this movie. >> let's take a look at that. the difference from what you wil

officials say holmes had his hair dyed red or orange and said he was the joker, the villain played by heathger in "the dark knight." would he have been role playing a scene out of that batman movie? >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. we are tonight's entertainment. >> reporter: we don't know what holmes' motive may have been. but we know one thing, this massacre was well planned. aurora police chief dan oates said holmes came ready for action. >> the suspect was dressed all in black. he was wearing a ballistic helmet. a tactical ballistic vest. ballistic leggings. a throat protecter and a groin protecter and a gas mask. and black tactical gloves. >> reporter: law enforcement sources says he bought a ticket and went into the theater. soon after he propped an exit door open and went outside. he then put on his body armor and went back in firing. but who is this man whose only brush with the law was a speeding ticket? for one thing, he appears to be different than most his age. he's a kind of online ghost. he doesn't appear to have a facebook page, twitter account or any obvious online foo

holmes had his hair dyed red or orange and told them he was the joker, the batman villain played by heathlier warner bros. film "the dark knight." could he have been role playing a scene right out of that batman movie? >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. for tonight's entertainment -- >> reporter: we don't know what holmes' motive might have been, but we know one thing, this massacre was well planned. aurora police chief, dan oates, says holmes came ready for action. >> the suspect was dressed all in black, he was wearing a ballistic helmet, a tactical ballistic vest, ballistic leggings, a throat protector, and a groin protector and a gas mask and black tactical gloves. >> reporter: law enforcement sources tell "dateline" holmes bought a ticket for the movie and went into the theater. soon after, they say, he propped an exit door open and went outside to the parking lot. that's when authorities say holmes went to his car, put on his body armor and went back in firing. but who is this young man whose only brush with the law before today according to police was a speeding ticket? for one

and stuff like that out they're furious if he wants to find someone eats, you can definitely find it heaththere are 60 vendors serving food. in the come down here we're talking $17 for adults and $4 for children. the good thing is parking is free. >> the weather will certainly be warming highs today did remain on the cooler side for most locations. here is a live look from the mt. tam camera. >> here is another live look outside for the golden gate. the fog is not too bad but it is starting to push back and ever so slightly crop will also see warming through the north bay and the south bay. >>pam: and now for the market at stake, it was a week ending a rally on wall street. the dow soared 180 points closing at 13,076. the s&p 526 points finishing up at 1386. dan kerman spoke with some market analysts to find out what was behind the last minute rally. >> today is very significant. the dow has not and above 13,000 since may. on top of that this is the highest close for the s&p since may 3rd. what happened today is about the european economy and u.s. news on the economy is not doing very well

>> i think, for me, when i look at jake and michelle and of course heath ledger i couldn't believe i was acting amongst my piers of that level of actor and i couldn't believe that somebody was giving us money to go off and create, and it forced me to believe that maybe i had a place there, and i doubt it, but someone thought that i did, anne thought i did and who was it to doubt ang lee. >> it was getting to work at a certain level of precision i was so excited by, had so much fun and was never able to play someone where i could do that much reach for. it was just -- and then, orange, you know,, getting to play a character that aged, getting to play a character that wasn't a young, wide-eyed ernest princess allowed people to think of me in a new way which opened up a whole new aspect of my career. >> rose: how do you get better? >> iwo to the theatre. >> rose: you go and watch and observe and soak up whatever you can. >> yes. guy to the theatre and the watch meryl streep movies and i watch other people's work, quite frankly because when you start getting happy with your movie pop in