in jack holloway's case, the court rejected the clause requiring that holloway refrain from working in former line of work for 30 years. it also struck down as unreasonable the stipulation that he couldn't work in his chosen field anywhere in the state. it provided instead a limitation of 250 miles from his former business location. this was determined by the court to be a reasonable geographic limitation. as a result, he's been able to quit the white-collar job he never felt comfortable with and get back to doing what he does best. in addition to non-compete clauses there are other agreements that also violate public policy. one reason for this is the illegality of certain exculpatory clauses. these are clauses in a contract used to limit liability in advance of a potenty damaging situation. for example, when a company requires its employees to sign waivers absolving the firm of any responsibility in the event of an accident on the job. other contracts containing bargains that are contrary to public policy include those in which someone promises to discriminate according to color, rac

if he didn't, i did. >> because of that shot, holloway, who isn't a blue-chip recruit, but earned a full ride to george mason is now the most popular guy in fairfax. >> getting texts, everybody wanting to be my friend that night, you know what i'm saying? attention felt really good. i embraced it and enjoyed the moment. those don't happen too often, but at the end of the day, i realized just like that shot went in, it could have went out. >> he and the rest of the panthers deserve the extra attention. >> what's great about it, they earned it. we always talked about that, when i first got here a couple of years ago, my first recruiting class were now seniors and we talked about raising the level of the program to the top 25, had this be a goal, because the tradition hasn't been that, so you have to earn it. i'm proud to see where we come from and where we are now. >> how many more of these will we see when you're in college? >> that's a lot of stress. hopefully not too much of them. hopefully the game doesn't come down to the last play every time. >> number one ranking in the conference,

how about patrick holloway? this guy hits game winners. big bucket. dematha had a chance. james robinson, one of the wi winningest players just off the mark. paul x wins 65-64. it was decided by a combined six point this is season. patrick holloway, the mike is yours. >> people said we couldn't win and couldn't beat them three in times in a row. i proved it to them, and we did. we knew we could do it. people said if we lost this game, the whole season going undefeated didn't mean nothing. we didn't want it to go to waste. we had twoin this game, and we did. >> congratulations to paul x and patrick holloway going to george mason university. they're getting a good one. >>> caps general manager surprised more than a few people at the trade deadline and didn't trade anyone. mcphee said there wasn't a deal to be had so he decided to stand pat. if the capitals make the playoffs they have to do it with the guys in-house right now. there were three veterans who could have been traded including mike nuble. he never requested a trade but he's frustrated with his lack of playing time

but with time running down and paul desix trailing demather, patrick holloway decided to show the worldat a game-winning shot looks like. >> people i talked to after the game, people who saying keeping modest. this is one of the west high school games they've seen in the last two years. to be part of that is a big thing. more so to make the last shot, an even bigger thing for me. >> the way he released it, i've seen it shoot enough times, i already had my hands raised. i had confidence. if he didn't frngs i did. >> reporter: because of that shot, holloway who isn't a blue ship recruit but earned a full rise to george mason is the most popular guy in fairfax. >> tweets and facebook, everybody wanted to be my friend that night. new friends. the attention felt really good. i 'em xwrased it all and enjoyed the moment. those don't happen too often. at the end of the day i realize just like that shot went in, it could have went out. >> he and the rest of the paul six panthers deserve the extra attention. >> that's what is great about it. at paul six, when i first got here, my first recruiting

in 1991 wanda holloway was upset her daughter shanna was always losing to amber heat. when shanna lost to amber she hired her ex-brother-in-law to kill amber's mother. the plan made headlines and her story was turned into two tv movies. >> when you're sitting there and there's 300 people around you and you're listening to people laugh at your mom, it is traumatic. >> wanda holloway only served six months. >>> all new at 5:30, history is being made in baltimore county. the fire department there is celebrating a first and it's good news. abc2 news manny locke explains. >> reporter: first responders are going on a service call. normally ems thompson would be following. but with her new promotion as the first african-american female lieutenant in the baltimore county fire department, she now has more responsibilities and administrative duties that take her away from her first love. >> i'm going to miss actually being on the truck and the patient interact. like you said, it's my heart. >> reporter: lieutenant thompson is trained and feels this will help her with her new adm

. >> reporter: tom holloway is a photographer, a vietnam veteran, a father of three. >> he's a supering. >> reporter: neighbor wendy jensen says holloway had been using electronic cigarettes for about two years. monday evening his wife heard a loud noise from the study. >> she said that it sounded like a firecracker and it was just a horrible noise and she heard him scream and she ran in there. >> reporter: holloway's cigarette had exploded. the debris that flew around the room was so hot it melted everything it touched. >> what we believe is in the battery and whenever the battery ignited it was basically like him holding a bottle rocket in his mouth. >> it exploded in his face, and he -- it knocked out his teeth and part of his tongue. and he had blood all over his face. and then it -- it set the study on fire. >> reporter: jensen says holloway has been transferred to a burn center. firefighters say it was impossible to tell the brand of the electronic cigarette. this is the first time they've heard of one exploding. reporting in niceville, florida, laura hussey for abc news. >> an

once charged again, holloway pleaded no contest and served six months of a ten-year sentence.tered a family and stunned a small texas community. for "today," michelle franzen, nbc news, new york. >> nancy jeffrey is a senior editor for "people" magazine. she joins us this morning. good morning, nancy. >> good morning. >> so it's been 20 years since this all happened. and jenna's now a teacher. she's a wife, a mother as well. you spoke with her. why did she choose to tell her story now? >> well, we had been curious about what had happened to her, and people reached out to her. and after many years of suffering in silence, she had begun journaling to deal with her painful feelings and finally was ready to tell her story. >> and i know that obviously we showed there, there was a media firestorm surrounding her, her mother, her family when this all happened. two movies made, the one we saw with holy hunter starring as her mother, wanda. is telling her story a way to respond to that, to tell it from her side? >> it is a way to set the record straight. one thing that would surprise

her name in case you don't remember was natalee holloway. natalee was 18 on her senior class trip from alabama in 2005 when she disappeared. her body was never found. a local named joran van der sloot, the last person seen with natalee, was twice arrested but never charged. >> gary, over here. >> reporter: so what was the evidence investigators in aruba felt warranted the arrest of gary giordano? there was that $1.5 million insurance policy gary had taken out on robyn gardner's life. there was his attempt to leave aruba earlier than scheduled. his troubled past with women. and this. investigators had gone to the trouble of staging an elaborate re-enactment of robyn's last hours, complete with actors, with gary's statements to police as the script. investigators just didn't buy it. mr. giordano's story may be in certain places difficult to believe, but it's not impossible. >> no, it's not impossible. but what we do know is that he lies about a number of things. he lies about the surf. he lies about the current. he lies about the winds. so the

we make it a fun thing. >> we don't hold nothing back. >> reporter: as far as the holloways are concerned a disability. >> i was born like that. >> reporter: like other boys, he can do lots of things. he does flips on the family trampoline. can break dance. even those snaps are a bit of a challenge. he gets dressed by himself. >> only thing he can't do is tie his shoe. >> reporter: nothing stands in the way of baseball for reese. he is a natural talent. his parents believe children like their son should never be held back. >> let them do everything. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste and whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. yoo-hoo. hello. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. >>> a hollywood thriller about navy seals. th

you can see douglas kennedy and his three-day old son walking down holloway.said he was taking the newborn outside for fresh air. two nurses blocked him, arguing he did not have permission to remove the child. he ignored the women and forcefully push past them. >> douglas begins to move back in one of the nurses actually goes to grab the baby. how dare she does that and at that point, douglass raises his need to protect his baby. >> the nurse as attorney makes a different claim. they claim that he kicked her arm and character in the pelvis. kennedy has pleaded not guilty to child endangerment and two cases of harassing nurses. a bad case of bad annunciation caused a scare and southwest airlines flights. passengers panicked after they thought the pilot warned of a bomb on board the plane. it turns out the pilot was wishing a happy birthday to a mom board. flight attendants and the pilot quickly cleared of the mistaken two passengers filed complaints when the plane landed in the york and the faa says it will not bother to investigate. still i had, adam caskey wi

we make it a fun thing. >> we don't hold anything back. >> as far as the holloways are concerned, reese was born like that. >> like other boys his age, he can do lots of things. he does flips on the family trampoline. he can break dance. and even though snaps are a bit of a challenge, he gets dressed by himself. >> the only thing he can't do is tie his shoe. >> nothing stands in the way of baseball for reese. he's a natural talent. and his parents believe children like their son should never be held back. >> let them do everything. >> if they want to try it, let them try it. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. >>> it got so bad in one of america's biggest cities, it's being called killadelphia. >> if you want to be an idiot, if you want to be a low life in this town, we will track you down like the dog that you are. >> murders this year? through the roof. and even the mayor is getting frustrated. we've got an inside look. stay with us. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol. [ man 2 ] yummy. i got th

still lie ahead, we talk about -- we talk live to the new nbc show," holloway."hy the warm winter weather means you are more prone to an allergy attacks. >> speaking of the weather, is mild now and dry up and down the east coast but a storm is on the way we will talk about how this change is the weather starting tomorrow. here's a live look out of doors oo >> now your instaweather plus forecast -- >> good afternoon, we are starting off with hd doppler as we have dry conditions along the eastern seaboard including all of maryland. we look to the west and here comes our next storm system with snow showers pushing for wisconsin and upper and lower michigan and a wintry mix and rain showers are in omaha and denver, colorado is on the backside of the storm with snow. this storm will just be a ray nagin when it gets to us. take a look at what is happening -- the storm will be just a rain event when it gets to us. we're expecting the storage system to come in from the west. it will be building with high pressure right now but it will be moving in. the rain showers are a

imagine putting 10,000 people right there at the corner of 19th and holloway. not make things easier unless there is significant transportation improvements as part of the project. we need to do what we can on the capital side. i would also point to work we were able to accomplish last year in bringing efficiencies to the way we negotiate bus driver contracts through the passage of proposition g. the great deal of savings will result from that. those dollars will go to improve operations. >> what about parking and traffic? is it safe for pedestrians? >> i do not think there is a block in the district that i have not heard from one resident who has asked for a speed bump or stop sign. it is all in the eye of the beholder, particularly if you live there it is just not safe. that says a lot about what we need to do in terms of enforcement. we have great loss on the book. but if they're not getting in forced, -- we have great laws on the book, but if they're not getting in forced. we need to improve that area. >> let's talk about crime. how do you think the police

holloway do? she hires a hitman who was an undercover fbi agent to go -- not kill the neighbor's daughter, no, to kill the neighbor lady, the mother of the daughter. it's the resentment against the person who has, who has the daughter on the team. not this sort of functional relationship of wanting something and going out to either buy it or steal it. this is very disruptive. societies know that envy is a universal emotion. they have to tailor themselves to dealing with it. and every society's found it own way. we in america have probably a way at the outer extreme of dealing with it, of suppressing the expression of envy. letting anybody flaunt what they've got. go ahead and do it we consider it an incentive for others to try, and because we have considerable still to this day social mobility and economic mobility compared to other places -- though europe has caught up in economic mobility -- because we have mobility and we're perceived to have it, we're the country where people say that any chil

[applause] >> so, next up, travis holloway is going to read a bit from the chapter that we've got in the book on art in the square. >> so the art and the square begins with a quote. we believe we are at the brink of a new art movement, a new school of thought. hopefully you will join us. that was an e-mail that was sent to me as a poet in late september. i will just read a couple of paragraphs about what we did as poets. another one of the early artist groups was a poetry guild, which emerged in this organic fashion to the first many of poets at occupy wall street happened in late september when over 50 poets gathered for a reading. there was no headliner, no unifying stuff, no interest the, and it's fair to say, no ordinary poetry reading. their initial event a weekly reading that came to be called the poetry center was organize and perform less like a poetry reading and more like a democratic assembly. each voice was presumed to be equal in each of the prerogative to speak before the assembly. if the occupation was horizontal and leaderless movement, poetry would be no different. p

frustrating. >> reporter: when shanna lost the final spot to amber, holloway snapped and tried to hire her former broe eer brother-in-d her in to police. how did it feel when it all exploded? >> you're siting at the movie premier and holly hunter is on the screen. there's 300 people around you. you're listening to people laugh at your mom, it was traumatic. >> having found the defendant guilty, she will serve 15 years. >> i felt like i had a flashing neon sign that said i was my mom's daughter. i would get sick to my stomach. >> so some 20 years after her world turned upside down, shanna is breaking her silence and is here. good to meet you. >> thank you. >> how was that looking and watching and reliving that moment in time? >> well, it's getting easier. now that i'm starting to talk about it. >> that's why you wanted to talk, partly. you've been in therapy. it's something that doesn't go way. how is your relationship with your mom now? >> we have -- a -- not a very close relationship. we don't have a mother daughter relationship. we have more one focused around my boys. she's very inv

this year, patrick holloway gave the panthers a 55-54 lead.ames robinson gets a shot to win it. it is up but no go. 55-54. >> their undefeated. i'm glad people remember the season. it is special. >> patter call away feeling good, the hero of the game. for the first time the women's basketball team has won the conference championship. they're headed to their n.c.a.a. tournament appearance. think they are not fired up? the win gave the cardinals 822- win season, a school record. they head to the dance with a whole lot of confidence. >> the tops anything i have ever experienced. this is a big deal. it is great to accomplish it. it is great for our program. i'm hoping it turns into a momentum booster for years to come. >> they are looking for the first banner hanging from the rafters. how great would that be? >> great. >> people are split about whether or not a casino should go in a national harbour. >> lottery officials say the new casino would be bad for their business. >> with a casino at the harbor, five minutes from the d.c. line , will the l

experience after electronic cigarette exploded like a firecracker in his mouth. 57 year-old tom hollowayto quit smoking suddenly exploded and his face and knocked out his teeth apart of his town and he had blood all over his face >> firefighters suspect the battery inside the cigarette caused the explosion small fire left behind burns pictures explosion like this never reported researchers say 2.5 million americans use electronic cigarettes last year alone. tom skilling seven day forecast a very scary >> absolutely. we do have a seven day forecast rainfall right now pretty well out there looking at the cameras pretty good returns as evidenced by the yellow and orange their a lot of reflectivity heavy rainfall coming down big storm moving up through the eastern pacific boggles the jet stream north by itself into california pretty nasty weather tonight. look at the way the moisture friday morning friday evening saturday morning look at the march to explode you can see of the lake snow showers taking on the appearance feeding in here later saturday it-saturday night. heavy snow fall 1 ft. o

we make it a fun thing. >> we don't hold nothing back. >> and as far as the holloways are concerned,e a disability. >> i was born like that. >> like other boys his age, he can do lots of things. he does flips on the family trampoline. he can break dance. even those snaps are a bit of a challenge. >> the only thing he can't do is tie his shoe. >> nothing stands in the way of baseball. he's a natural talent and his parents believe children like their son should never be held back. >> they want to try it, let him try it. >> very nice. go, reece. >>> we're hearing a lot of speeches from the republican candidates today, but the speeches aren't the only things they want you to listen to. they want you to get talked out by the music they play at campaign stops. listening to james taylor's smiling face. on president obama's play list. one of my favorite artists, by the way. our talk back question of the day. what song do you think the candidates should put on their play lists? somebody b mentioned zeppelin. go to facebook.com/don lemon. your responses are coming up. >>> all right. just looki

. >> 6-year-old reese holloway wants to play in the big leagues some day. his favorite player, chipper jones of the atlanta braves. when reese was born, his parents were shocked to discover he didn't have a left hand. and baseball was the furthest thing from their minds. >> how is he going to tie his shoes, how is he going do this, how is it going to do anything? >> it was a hard thing. >> they weren't sure if he would learn to crawl without a second hand so they got him a prosthesis but little reese didn't want it. >> he didn't like it at all. he cried and cried and cried. it was not a good thing. >> he did learn to crawl and walk and then something remarkable happened. reese taught himself how to hit a ball when he was just 2 years old. >> he got plastic balls and would hold them under his chin and drop it and swing the bat and hit the ball, no problems. >> reese is a fan of all sports. but baseball is still his favorite. >> he loves playing baseball. that's all he does, 24/7. >> use your other hand too. >> on or off the field, he doesn't get any special

. >> and as far as the holloways are concerned, reese doesn't have a disability. >> i was born like that like other boys his age, he can do lots of things. he does flips on the family trampoline. he can breakdance. and even though snaps are a bit of a challenge, he gets dressed by himself. >> the only thing he can't do is tie a shoe. >> nothing stands in the way of baseball for reese. he's a fraurl talent and his parents believe children like their son should never be held back. >> let them do everying. >> if they want to try it, let them try it. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cn, reporting. dad, why are you getting that? is there a prize in there? oh, there's a prize, all right. [ male announcer ] inside every box of cheerios are those great-tasting little o's made from carefully selected oats that can help lower cholesterol. is it a superhero? kinda. ♪ today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now st