howard university spent big bucks to update security.s matt ackland has more. >> reporter: it was a fox 5 investigation that looked into security issues on howard university campus. emergency call boxes that were supposed to be used when students needed the police did not work. tonight, not only is that problem fixed, howard university police are implementing a few new programs to protect students. it's time to move in for the fall semester. brand new students from all over the country preparing to make howard university home for the next four years. >> excited and nervous. a mixture of emotions. >> i'm excited and nervous. >> reporter: if the new students are nervous, you know their parents are as well. most giving out a lot of advice when it comes to campus security. >> i-to-the-told them keep your pocketbook close to you, especially when you walk down the street and stay in pairs. >> reporter: howard university police are doing all they can to calm parents' worries. police have been under fire since fox 5 revealed some of the emergenc

but her dad is preparing to give her the speech. >> oh, lord have mercy. >> reporter: howard universityice department has been preparing for this day by upgrading and adding new security features . the police chief says they have a new notification center. >> since virginia tech a lot of universities have gone through change of systems. if we have a big emergency we can notify people. >> reporter: they installed dozens of these emergency call boxes so with one press of a button help is on the way. >> some will be equipped with cameras recording 24/7. >> reporter: students can sign up to a service where police would have access to their cell phones gps. >> last year we had a missing person. it turned out okay. however with the gps capabilities, yes, in a case like that it would have helped us. >> reporter: that is something this girl's dad likes to hear. >> that would make me sleep at night. >> reporter: and before he leaves her he will get a lesson in safety. >> one, two, three, four, five, this is the speech. >> reporter: i'm lindsey mastis at howard university, 9news now and wusa9.com

howard university and american university, parents say good-bye. >> i'm not so concerned about really just leaving her by herself. am just concerned about, you know, some of the things that may go on here in the city. >> i love the city. the best part of the city as f as i know. and we're very excited. i think it is going to be a tremendous opportunity here for her. >> one of the things parents at both campuses are concerned about is safety. this year, howard university starting a new program aimed at keeping all students safe. >> the new system. the guardian service as well as our upgraded alert system. >> cell phone base. the company, wireless, works with campuses. it has panic buttons and timer function that can alert help if the user isn't at a preset location at a preset time. >> we know students all have cell phones. so we feel that this is a way to reach out to the student and for them to reach us. rapidly. >> in addition to existing campus security measures. meanwhile, here on campus of american university they have the same system called au campus connects. same features. for

. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut, howard university television. now, the program hosts, nationally syndicated columnist llewellyn king, and co-host, linda gasparello. >> hello again and thank you for coming along. i promised you some great people, and here they are. we start with julie mason, of the "washington examiner," the white house correspondent of that paper. lovely to have you. brian kelly, the editor of "u.s. news and world report," one of the new multimedia publications both on the web and with a monthly magazine. lovely to have you back on the broadcast. for the first time, we have john -- julie mason -- john mulligan of the president's journal. -- the "providence journal." and linda kenyon, tell us about salem radio. >> we are and national radio network. we have well over 1000 affiliate's across the country, and my main duty is to cover the u.s. senate. i also do 10 to join me somewhat frolicsome our house correspondents from time to time, when i served. >> most of the white house is not very frolicsome these days. we are all a little

. >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut howard university television. >> now the program host, nationally syndicated columnist, llewellyn king, and co-host, linda gasparello. ♪ >> hello again. thank you for coming along. i promise you three of the brightest, sharpest minds in washington journalism, and here they are. linda gasparello, of this program. julie mason of "the washington examiner," and the great broadcaster and the columnist, bob franken. you saw him on the cnn for years. you have seen him on msnbc, and you can read him daily on the bid "politics daily." it is lovely to have all three of you on the board. let's begin with linda. the president -- congress is not here. the president is traveling around in effectively selling the health care plan. what do you think is going on? >> i think the president is, not in effectively, trying very hard to sell his health care plan. there is a lot for us to hear. we have seen across the country. mickey personal experience -- appearances is a great idea. except he is going to up to tell the public what he want

howard university is starting a new program. it's cell-phone based. the phones have features like panic buttons, and it can alert help if a user is not at a preset location at a preset time. >> they all have cell phones. we feel this is a way to reach out to the students and for them to reach us rapidly. >> this is in addition to existing campus security measures. >> meanwhile here on the campus of american university, they have the same system in effect, and it has some of the same features. for parents and students, the same calming reassuring affect. >> it was wonderful, ty send texts to your phone, like snow day, or somebody on campus that should not be, they send it to your phone. >> as long as i am careful and no messing around and getting to know people that know the area, i think i will be fine, and i know not to go out late at night by myself. >> i feel better than i did a few weeks ago. >> keeping kids safe and parents -- >> yeah, peace of mind. >> yeah. the happity. day is when you send your kids off to college. >> yeah, that's when the bil

i want to go to howard university in the district of columbia, but the apply to all of the universities in washington dc. disappointed, because i have not heard from howard in time to apply for mic guaranteed student loan, i enrolled at george washington university, known as g the b. not knowing that because of my surname, flight graduation from queen's college, the commission's officers assumed that i was a white student. i won't go into that. might thesis adviser whose specialty was 19th century united states social history. dr. gray was the first professor to teach me that no historian is truly objective because we'll bring our prejudices to the table, so i was grateful for that. i also learned that he had a difficult time accepting me as a black student. although he had, had black historian elsie lewis as a close student, a fellow student with him at the department history at the university of chicago, he still had a difficult time seeing black people as truly historians. elsie lewis with the chair of the history department at howard university at the time. grace still wanted me to

classes start next wednesday. >>> students reporting to howard university for the start of the fall semessertarting something new, tightened security. police have been upgrading security and adding new features including a notification system. >> since virginia tech a lot of universities have gone to a system where if we have a big emergency we can notify people instantly. >> reporter: police have add emergency call boxes which will be equiped with cameras later this year and students can sign up for guardian service giving police access to their cell phone's gps in case they go missing. stay with 9 news now for more back to school stories as we get closer to the start of the year 2009/2010. >>> authorities determine a cause of a wildfire and it may surprise you. that story is coming up. >>> plus, today a closer look taken at this dash cam video where a driver says officers beat him up during a traffic stop. >>> on the outer loop at georgia avenue an accident is blocking the left lane and drivers are backed up to university. more things that can slow you down and look at the monday weather c

we have temperatures around 82 right nowt howard university. frederick, maryland is at 78 degrees, with the dewpoint level of bring around 69. temperature said -- are 82 at reagan national. it looks like it will not rise for the day tomorrow, even though we had a cold front moved through the area earlier today. the wind will allow the temperatures to soar to near 90 degrees. detroit is looking at 76 degrees. all the nasty weather is pushing offshore. the high pressure will allow clearing conditions late tonight and into the morning hours, and the possibility of some patchy fog developing. it looks like many to the west of d.c., the skies were clear rapidly through the morning hours, with temperatures redounding to the 70's and 8's, and near 90. the heat index will be 94-95 degrees. lots of sunshine in the forecast. tonight, gradual clearing, continuing more and humid. a bit cooler off to the west. tomorrow morning, patchy fog will give way to sunshe. tomorrow afternoon, and hot summer day in washington, near 90 degrees. went out of the south at

co- founders of duke ellington school of the performness arts. >> and he was a prow fessor at howard university. >> reporter: and he has made a different in a lot of people's lives. >> he has influenced people that are success in the business. >> reporter: and one of those happen to be here. tanya brown. she did that amazing duet in sister act 2 with lauren hill. sher songs were featured in a tyler perry movie last year. and she has a new song coming out. and you're giving your time to be a part to something like this. >> i was there age when i did street theater, a program funded by marion barry. and i was young and 13-14 years old and i was young and it was fun. so when ms. high tower called me i said i can't not do it. >> reporter: who says no to gloria high tower. >> nobody. >> reporter: exactly. that's the reel brains behind this thing. we'll get with gloria in the next hour. but for people to come and see the shower, what are they going to experience? >> it's theater at its best. it's washington, d.c. theater at its best. we have so much unrecognized talent and so much talent coming out o

. >> next hour, holidayy is live at howard university with more on a program th is helping to nurture big names of tomorrow. stay with us. how does jell-o sugar free pudding fit all that rich, chocolatey taste in 60 calories? ♪ ♪ oh, so delicious who cares? jell-o sugar free pudding. every diet needs a little wiggle room. there's the other stuff. ♪ and then there's kraft macaroni & cheese. ♪ kraft has more cheese than those other guys. no wonder they call it the cheesiest! >>> good morning, everybody. i'm holly morris. i hope you're prepared to be entertained this morning because we're live at howard university where we are getting in an early morning practice for the musical. this year there is tribute to mike malone. and they will join us this morning. this is a wonderful program that takes place in the district and gives them a shot at a career down the line. we'll talk about the program and the difference it's made and about the show they're doing this year and how you can go out and enjoy the performance. i promise you won't be disappointed. back to you. >> i can tell that alread

howard university is starting a new cell phone based security program. it has a panic button feature and a timer function that can alert people if the user is not at a preset location at a time. american university has a similar program. >>> some artists are doing it big in northeast, real big. 100 of them are painting a massive mural in the edgewood neighborhood. there it is. when they're done, it's going to be larger than a football field. artists of all ages and varying talents were invited to pitch in today. if you'd like to have a look, check it out next time you're at taking the red line. that looks prettyool. >> paint dried pretty quickly. another hot one. >> it was a scorcher today for a lot of the folks. a lot of people don't like it when the temperatures get close to 90 degrees. if you don't like the hot weather, you've got time to book the flight to get out of here. a warming trend coming our way as we head towards tomorrow. a couple more 90 degree days in a row as we get started for the work and school week for a lot of the kids. outside righ

six months after i finished howard university law school, i was escorting charlayne through -- i wasing $35 a week. i was wearing a summer suit in january but i wasn't cold. tavis: powerful story. >> this is from the eulogy of thurgood marshall at the national cathedral in 1993. picture if you will the inescapable power to have beacon light thur god marshall beamed into our crammed and restricted community. a community in which the law ordained that our parents be denied the right to vote. a community in which the law ordained segghation the courtroom and exclusion of our parents from the jury box. it was thurgood's mission to turn these laws against themselves. to cleanse our tattered constitution and our beconspire ched legal system of the fillth of racism and a legal system newly alive to the requirements of justice. by demonstrating that the law could be an instrument of liberation, he recruited a new generation of lawyers who had been brought up to think of the law as an instrument of oppression. those of us who groove grew up turned heel of -- were insprired to set our sights o

howard university and american university, parents say good-bye. >> i'm not so concerned about really just leaving her by herself. i'm just concerned about, you know, some of the things that may go on here in the city. >> i love the city. i thought this is the best part of the city, as far as i know. we're very excited. i think it's going to be a tremendous opportunity here for her. >> reporter: one of the things that parents at both campuses are concerned about is safety. this year, howard university is starting a new programimed at keeping all students safe. >> a new system called the hugs, h-u-guardian service. >> reporter: it's cell-phone based. a company called rave wireless. phones have featus like panic buttons and a timer function that can alert help if the user isn't at a preset location at a preset time. >> we know that the students all have cell phones and so we feel that this is a way to reach out to the students and for them to reach us rapidly. >> reporter: this is in addition to existing campus security measures. meanwhile here on the campus of american university they

. >>> students reporting to howard university for the fall semester are finding something new, heightenedsecurity. over the summer, kansas police upgreated security and added new features, including a notification system. police have added emergency call boxes which will be equiped with cameras later this year and students can sign up for guardian service, giving police access to their cell phones' gps if in case they go missing the new school year is days away for some people in our region but that doesn't translate in to a profitable august for retailers. notebooks, pens and brand new sticks of glues. it is time for back to school supplies and for many impromptu lessons in finance. >> these are 36 cents. >> too much money and we don't have enough for that. >> reporter: the national retail federation estimates the average family will spend 8% less on back to school purchases this year. >> i watch very carefully because, you know, in this tough economy it is -- everything is tight. >> reporter: the economic outlook is actually rosier than in months with him proving corporate earnings and

. >> "whe house chronicle" is curtisn collaboration with whutt, howard university television. now, the program hosts, nationally syndicated columst llewellyn king, ando-host, linda gasparello. >> hello again, and thank you for coming alo. i promid you one of the people i admire in wasngton journalism, d here he is -- bob scranton. you probably remember him fro more than 20 years on cnn. -- herhe is -- bob frken. his real genius, ihink, has been kept from many o you, it as a writer. you can read him now politicsdailcom. you can look iup on thweb. i promise you wl be enrtained and enlightened. welcome to the show. tell me what it is likeo be a television correspondent it is thought of as alamorous thin is it glamors? >> i thinkou could take one look at me and see justow unglamorous it is. is actually quite bit of tedium. i think most people forget telesion the job of journali is the tedium of getting information right, the tedium of waing -- >> awaiting i can attest to. >> not to say at is not exciting. used to telleople that it be grwing up, and i thinke should continu to tell

weather bug network, our first stop will take us to howard university -- current temperature 82 degrees. look at the dew point levels, beginning to creep upward, near 70 degrees. yesterday at this time dew point levels were in the upper 50's. official high at reagan national made it up to 87 after a morning low of 69. the record high for today 102 set back just a couple years ago in 2007. leaves not a problem. grass not a problem. the mold in the moderate category for today. we're looking at temperatures that are much cooler to the north of us. 73 in state college. pittsburgh looking at 76. reagan national 84. look at all the heat and humidity to the south and west of us. this is what's moving in our direction for the daytime hours tomorrow. wind will change direction, out of the west-southwest and we're going to warm things up into the upper 90's with a heat index just around 100 degrees. we can thank high pressure that's going to slowly move offshore. there was shower activity to the north of us that passed the great lakes region earlier today. this, the southern tier of it could give

"news 4's" derrick ward joins us from howard university with more. derrick, will students notice the changes? >> reporter: they may not notice. as a matter of fact, they may have those changes or a big part of the changes already with them. you know, this is an important day for returning students and the 1700 incoming freshmen. they've got a lot on their mind. the new measures are something to think about but they don't have to worry about. now, campuses all over have e-mail alert systems in place, but suppose you're away from your computer or you tend t put off opening those incoming e-mails. in the event of an emergency or something serious that is correct could be detrimental to your well being. cell phones, everybody has one and a new sigs from a company called rave wireless makes the cell phone an enhanced security tool. >> we're very excited because we even gotten a new system called the h.u.g.s., h.u. guardian system. the guardian system is actually a system you can use your cell phone to contact the police right away. there are a couple of f

nevertheless he allowed me to take out to louis negro history course and howard university. e became an first by professor. but lewis taught at howard and i returned to chee debbie. and grey agreed to be my thesis adviser. but provided little mentoring. unfortunately i had a taste of it in the one course that i had handed with lewis. she encouraged me to work on my term paper so that i could submit it for publication. and dr. louis was the first person who even suggested that my work was worthy of publication. during my m.a. degree denominated job in the profession and, would agree without wrecking recommendations for me to teach at any college in the washington d.c. area. and finally i heard of an opening at morgan state which is in historically black college atc you as a coffin in baltimore. if i applied in began a mine over a three-year college teaching career in the fall of 1969. the year 1978 was a transitional one to me. i had graduated from howard university with my ph.d. degree of with a concentration in afro-american history. my pt was in u.s. history but the concent

couple of the founders attended howard university at one point.s, familys and greeks crowded the ballroom for the always popular step show contest. the mayor hosted a reception at the start of the con clade. provided to 37,000-dollar grant for the event. the attorney general determined it wasn't proper. overall they helped pour a few million dollars in to dc's economy. >> you stepped down from the step part, right? 20, 30, 40s years ago i could step like that. >> i can't speak for derek mcginty. >> haven't you seen him walking in to the studio? good organization, be proud to be a part of it. they do a lot of great things. weathererwise, we are going to ton up the heat. arriving tomorrow in to monday. it's not going to stick around long but the hottest heat wave of the temperatures, temperatures in to the 90s sunday and monday. heat indexes around 100 degrees, that's what it's going to feel like as we head in to the beginning of the workweek, keep that in mind. it's been since last up summer since we talked about heat indexes around 100. drink lots

. >>> and students reporting to howard university for the start of the fall out there had and the semesters they are finding something new. the constitutenned security. over the summer, campus police, they have been upgrading the secuty and adding some new features including a notification feature. >>> since a lot of universities, they have gone through that national certification system where if we have a big emergency, we can notify people instantaneously. >> police, they have added more than call boxes -- emergency -b call boxes later on equipped. they can sign up for what is called guardian service, giving them access to the the cell phones and the g p, s in case they go missing. stay with nine news now for more back-to-school stories as we get closer to the start of the '09, '10 school year. >>> close captioning is now brought to you by geico. >>> cash for clunkers on your mind. the dealers, inviting you to trade in ansetrade up for upthe professional great engineering. >>> well thursday night, tower 12 from the volunteer fire departments in prince william county, heading off out there

new students at american, trinity nd howard universities will beg moving in starting tomorr. number three is a health warning for diabetes patients. the fda says certain blood sugar tests can give inaccurate results in patients taking other medications. officials are urging patients to avoid using certain testing strips in combination with dialysis and other drugs. number two expect some delays on metrorail this weekend. there's going to be track maintenance on the red and orange line. fort to then won't have any service at all. you'll have to get off and take a free shuttle bus to the next stop. on the orange line trains will share one track between the vienna and west falls church stations. add at least 30 minutes to your trip. dog flu fears in virginia. fairfax county's animal shelter is reporting two confirmed cases and dozens of suspected cases that has led to a temporary halt on adoptions at the shelter. officials are concerned about it spreading. if you notice flu-like symptoms in your dog, please give the vet a call. we've posted tonight's top five on our website. go

. >>> students, they are reporting to howard universities from the fall semester, finding something new. it's heatenned security. with the summer, the campus police, upgrading the security and added new features including a notification system. and police, they have also added the emergency call boxes out there with equippedded with cameras later this year. they can sign up for the guardian services, giving police access to the cell phones, gps, in case they go missing. >> and up next, well, is this police brutality or justified schools? that is the debate. we'll have the full story coming up next. >>> and plus, stay with us for the forecast. right now, here is a preview of tonight's cbs evening news. >>> coming up, an exclusive investigation over the battle of aarp. why are thousands of members leaving? that story and much more tonight only on the cbs the cbs evening it's a revolution in pain relief. (announcer) new icy hot medicated roll. for wherever you hurt. icy to dull pain, hot to relax it away. the new icy hot medicated roll. with the roll, pain's under control. >>> check out th

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atlanta lawyer, rene rockwell, and he's setting off to howard university to study criminal justice. >>> everyone, i'll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 shop, eastern. and until then, good night, friend.

lisa fitzpatrick from howard university joined us to discuss how those getting vaccinated could not spread germs. >> it is a good time not to touch your face and we inadd vertently touch our -- we inadd vertently touch our face, so covering your no or mouth when you cough and sneeze, we need to do all of those very basic things that our mother told us about when we were growing up. >> vaccine trials are going on nationwide. the hope is to have a vaccine ready to go by the fall. >>> now to the tragedy on the a maare back at work looking for the remaining victims. crews hope to pull the wreckage of the small plane out of the river today. >> authorities say the bodies of 7 of the 9 victims have been recovered and two others remain missingch the chopper's wreckage has beenpulled from the river but the piper is a difficult challenge. >> if anyone notices any debris or any other evidence that might wash up on shore that they've seen or that they have, please notify your local law enforcement officials. >> reporter: saturday's mid air collision killed five italian tourists celebrating the 25th we

i'm a graduate of howard university, journalism and african-american studies minor. without any education this will not matter. i'm not going to give up my job at all. >> tell us what is making news in the afro this week besides this story. >> the major story this past evening, former congressman william jefferson was convicted of bribery charges that have been going on seven years now. so waiting to see what the sentence will be but 11 of the 16 counts, he was found guilty of them and we always remember they found $90,000 in his home opened it up. it is a regrettable. he was a good congressman per say but got caught up in the whole deal of doing favors for folks for money and that's what happens when that occurs. not a good situation for sure. >> have a wonderful year and even better year with your students at the may yaening a lou public charter school. >> thank you so much. >> if they want to read more, go to afro.com. >> we will have a link at wusa9.com. >>> let's go to angie now with an update on the rush hour. >> go to the outer loop. taking a look at the scree

the poor and fought in a governing battle he came home and 19292 became a college professor at howard university died in 1933. scott cable and resumed his baseball career batted 310-1919 and drove 1923 then drove a cab and died they do 62. roberts came home the hero and given his own parade the disabled from his injuries and could not find work arrested in 1924 because he was still wearing his uniform beyond the three months lynette and ultimately committed suicide. they traveled west as far as omaha and returned home to play at mechanics hall and that night herbert was one of the drummers to started to act strange and in the dressing room he felt that he was being persecuted singling him out with their days is and when they tried to find out what was wrong at intermission herbert said you don't treat me right still makes mistakes and you don't say nothing to him they tried to quiet him down but now he took out a knife and said i will kill anybody to disadvantage buddy launched himself in the neck he put a towel on that he did not think that it was the serious he told them to finish this show he

jordan is setting off to howard university to study criminal justice. everyone, i'll see you tomorrow night 8:00 sharp eastern, and until therngs good night, friends. >>> hello. i'm lisa bloom in hollywood, and this is a "showbiz tonight" news break. here's some of what we're covering for you on "showbiz tonight" at the top of the hour. kate's confessions. kate gosselin breaks down in tears in her first tv interview since the big "jon & kate plus eight" divorce news. what kate really thinks about jon's 22-year-old girlfriend, the daughter of her plastic surgeon. >>> also, the battle over paula. explosive news that paula abdul may be heading to "dancing with the stars." and your surprising reaction when we asked if you think "american idol" needs paula. >>> and billy mays' cocaine shocker. did cocaine really lead to the death of the tv pitch man? that's your "showbiz tonight" news break. tv's most provocative entertainment news show starts at the top of the hour right at the top of the hour right here on hln. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

and howard university came in 96th. rankings taking in a account s.a.t.ores, alumni donations. >>> when we come back on "news4 at 4:00" the mother of levi johnson heads to court to enter a plea to a drug charge. >> wardrobe controversy at the white house. should the first lady be out and about wearing shorts? why some are saying no. >>> so are shorts appropriate attire for a first lady? some started asking that question after michelle obama sported a pair while vacationing with her family. nbc's lee could you hen reports. >> reporter: perhaps there is a reason there is no fashion district in nation's capital. washington seems suspect of anything too trendy or too revealing. the first lady is your prays ad lot with her behr arms. you can expect what happened when she stopped off air force one last weekend with bare legs. >> i'm surprised people look at her legs. it is like -- look at how cool she is. >> reporter: rave being how comfortable the first lady seems in her own skin, just how much skin she shows seems to strike some kind of puritanical nerve. >>

." >>> doctors at howard university hospital say there are two types of poinous snakes in the d.c. area. copperheads and water moccasins. they say if you're not familiar with the snakes, don't pick them up. >>> it is no secret that raising a family is expensive, but new res from the fiusda say how expensive it can .be for a child born in. 2008 it's going to cause a quart over a million dollar to raise thatio kid. they'll spend about $221,000 for just one child and tt doesn't ecl llcoe. there's evenhe- t -'sre hehe- cont context. in 1960 parents could raise a kit for just $25,000. >> w were cheap. >> yes, we were. >> back then. >>> let's get an update on the weather now. bob, the huy bob, the humidity seems to have dropped a bit. >> not too bad. not oppressive. wait until next week. we'll be seeing some oppressive stuff. hazy, but sunshine. temperature, spots like leesburg, that's average. dew points to mid 60s in some spots to mid 70s. doppler looking around there might be one out in western maryland but a couple of f things tried to get going but later on tonight the rain i showed

at trinity and howard university. >> governor martin o'malley is taking suggestions from maryland residents on how to handle the state's budget problems. residents can post recommendations on the governor he's website. some of the recommendations including lifting a tuition freeze at state colleges and universities and reducing land acquisitions. officials are looking for 470 million in budget reductions by labor day. >> and turning briefly now to the virginia governor's race, republican candidate bob mcdonough will be at his offices this morning and sunday he will unveil his tourism plans at the luray caverns as part of the site's 131st celebration. looking for weekend fun? the fair is in town. the 61st annual montgomery county fair featuring entertainment and carnival rides. a one-day all you can ride wristband can be purchased at last year he's price of $20 until midnight saturday. tickets are available on-line and in person. the fair runs until august 22. the time is now 6:39. it is 71 on a saturday morning, august 15. coming up, we will check out the baseball rundown coming up in sport

. >> reporter: a typical class getting under way at howard university as the fall semester begins, butn the back of the room is a student who's anything but typical. >> to me it's just normal. i'm just in a different environment. couple of older kids but nothing different. >> reporter: ty is howard's youngest student at just 14 years old, the district teen completed his high school requirements in two years. ty's marining in political science. he plans on completing his undergraduate work in two years before tackling grad school. >> i hope to go into the kind of like, law and medicine because i want to go to medical school and law school. >> reporter: ty's parents say they knew he was gifted early on. he started to speak chinese at age 3 and began first grade at age 4. his father teaches pediatric medicine at howard. >> before he was even had teeth in his mouth he was actually talking. >> i'm extremely proud of ty and i thank god, i think we're really blessed. >> reporter: fellow students at howard are stunned when they find out ty's age but they admire him. >> for him to be entering c

. >>> students reported to howard university for the start of the fall semester are finding something new. tightened security. over the summer campus police upgraded security and added new features i including a notification system. police have added emergency call boxes, which will be equiped with cameras later this year. students can sign up for guardian service, giving police access to their cell phones gps in case they go missing. >>> some of washington's amazing success stories are being celebrated in a new book full of photographs. it is called the best of dc greater washington and we welcome the managing editor. a pleasure to have you with us. >> the pleasure is mine. thank you for slow and go me. >> you talk about this as a unique journal i feelism project. what do you mean? >> we are doing the opposite of what a newspaper magazine done, we are strictly focused on bias journalism and pursuing the success of leadership and sustainability on the priceless pages of timeless history. dc doesn't just mean district of columbia but we are paying tribute through greater washington. >>

owdn ar.84 .nd howard university was 96th thontou icc ant .eakont accounta s.a.t. scores, reputations, activity, alumni donations. >>> coming up tonight, we will tell what you colleges are doing to prepare for the possibility after swine flu outbreak. >> what have you got, dan? >> the mike rizzo era has officially begun for the nationals. redskins rookie getting lofty praise and it is the final two-a-days, the monotony over here at redskins park. "news4 at 6:00" coinnts. >>> washington nationals are having a fairly good week, promotional effort under way. the team is offering $1 tickets for tomorrow night's game against the milwaukee brewers. the nats are celebrating their newest team member, stephen strasburg with just a few seconds left before the deadline. he signed a record $15 million contract a couple of day ace go. the team will introduce him to fans at a news conference tomorrow afternoon. there's no more $1 seats online but the main box office will have an extra 1,000 tickets beginning tomorrow at noon. >> lining up to get those particular zblets they are

1963 and he wrote a incredibly cheerful report because he had spent the weekend with snic at howard university'swell kennedy is dead come he was devastated by his death but he also said when a country is as murder as a political tool we cannot be that amazed when somebody murders our own press of them. o something that was incredib astringent but pressing he said it is not these to obtain gunst is the ease of obtaining excuses. we all have a finger on that trigger meeting all of us in america who expect the cia t kill our animation not be surprised when it becomes a political to allow home. but from the akamai he then went to this snic convention and spent the weekend with robert moses and john lewis and he came out incredibly energize. he thought these people are going to do it, they're really going to do it. flash forward through 1964 and atlantic city. might understanding of what happened is very much colored by the reports that i read, not at the time because i was seven years old but years later written by a radical journalist from vermont who was writing in the new republic has the new sta

lisa fitspatrick at howard university about what you should prepare for if you plan to roll up your sleeves. >>> if you are in a position to do t now is a good time to get a good deal on a home. we have some tips on how to buy a home in foreclosure. >>> sent to jail at just 16 years old. he refused to become a statistic and is now using what he lived through to turn others around. we will introduce you to the author of a question of freedom. >>> fox 5 on call with why will power alone might not be enough to lose weight, stop smoking or beat other addicts. a new study found that people tend to overestimate their ability to resist strong urges and that most who are most confident about their will power are also most likely to lose it. researcher says the best way to stay in control when temptation arises is to avoid the situation altogether. >>> more truffe ma man's best friend is often smarter than we may give them credit for. a new study finds that dogs on average can learn 165 words, gestures or signals and that is about the eqif lnt of a two- year-old child. dogs can also trump a three or

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in honor of omarosa, we take you out to howard university since she is alum. northeast wind, 77. we're in good shape today, temperatures running a hair below normal. we're in good shape after we started out this morning around -- i'm sorry, we're holding around 70 degrees. it's amazing to see the relatively low numbers with the sun shin out there. we're still dealing with a band of clouds new pivoting their way through partly maybe mostly cloudy for an hour or so. then we should take the clouds, push them off to the east and open up the skies. high pressure builds in. check it out, the forecast map's showing up this high pressure that will dominate across the eastern seaboard. keeping the storm track well to our north and west to the northwest pumping in true heat over the weekend. yesterday high temperature here's 78. 91 memphis. you know what? that's the kind of heat that will head our way. 85 today, turning mostly sunny again. comfortable humidity right now clouds through about midday and then we improve. partly cloudy, here we go. want to go out to the beach this weekend. we

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. >> i ask you earlier how things were going down at howard university hospital and you said the is alwaysf sick people and that is just the state of the world these days but are you preparing for more as we get closeto the fall which is when an outbreak of this might occur? >> well remember the seasonal flu causes more critical sickness than the swine flu vaccine or this new vaccine. so i think when cdc looks to see who was getting sick from this new strain, it was the same groups of people that generally get sick from the seasonal flu. it was young children and it was older people. so even though we may have more people sick from this new strain, we still anticipate the amount of sickness that we've seen in older people and young people. >> right. it will be a busy time. when we talk about the young people. the cdc and some of the government officials are talking about ways to help with the school system because we saw in the spring they would just shut down the entire school if there was one case. i know they're trying to fine tune how that happens but is there anything that can be take

he obtained a degree in political science from howard university, and graduated phi beta kappa and then with honors from the university of maryland law school. congressman cummings has dedicated his life to uplifting and empowering the people he has sworn to represent. he served for 16 years and became the first ever african- american in maryland history to be named speaker pro tem. he was first born and as the house of representatives in 1996. congressman cummings is in his eighth term representing maryland's seventh district. he often said that our children are our living message that we send to the future, which we will never see. he is committed to ensuring that our next generation has access to quality health care, education, fresh air and water, and a strong economic -- economy defined by fiscal responsibility. he is a senior member of the house committee on transportation and infrastructure where he serves as chairman of the subcommittee on coastguard and maritime transportation. he is also a senior member of the house committee oversight and government reform. he sits on both th

that the law the national average and take kids from challenging environments and send them to howard university hampton university, harvard university, and so forth. we decided that there are these islands of excellence in newark and the only challenge is if we have the will to expand islands of excellence into hemispheres of hope. we have a number of programs that we promote very -- energetically. i know that our long-term success is dependent upon the third graders or fourth graders that are now in school. they are now the ones that will make america secure in the future. we owe them more than you're giving them now. host: our conversation is with cory booker, the mayor of newark, new jersey caller: hello, mayor booker, how are you? i worked in newark and i went to college there. guest: would you please tell the time magazine guide at newark, new jersey is changing rapidly? caller: i have to admit that the downtown area is nice. the prudential center is good. you have decent public transportation. i think you have improved on what has been done. my question is, will you do what you can to bri

he obtained a degree in political science from howard university, and graduated phi beta kappa and then with honors from the university of maryland law school. congressman cummings has dedicated his life to uplifting and empowering the people he has sworn to represent. he served for 16 years and became the first ever african- american in maryland history to be named speaker pro tem. he was first born and as the house of representatives in 1996. congressman cummings is in his eighth term representing maryland's seventh district. he often said that our children are our living message that we send to the future, which we will never see. he is committed to ensuring that our next generation has access to quality health care, education, fresh air and water, and a strong economic -- economy defined by fiscal responsibility. he is a senior member of the house committee on transportation and infrastructure where he serves as chairman of the subcommittee on coastguard and maritime transportation. he is also a senior member of the house committee oversight and government reform. he sits on both th

he obtained a degree in political science from howard university, and graduated phi beta kappa and thenwith honors from the university of maryland law school. congressman cummings has dedicated his life to uplifting and empowering the people he has sworn to represent. he served for 16 years and became the first ever african- american in maryland history to be named speaker pro tem. he was first born and as the house of representatives in 1996. congressman cummings is in his eighth term representing maryland's seventh district. he often said that our children are our living message that we send to the future, which we will never see. he is committed to ensuring that our next generation has access to quality health care, education, fresh air and water, and a strong economic -- economy defined by fiscal responsibility. he is a senior member of the house committee on transportation and infrastructure where he serves as chairman of the subcommittee on coastguard and maritime transportation. he is also a senior member of the house committee oversight and government reform. he sits on both the

he teaches at the lincoln memorial university. jason howard is the editor of we all live downstream. he has also written for equal justice magazine and the blue will review. for more information you can go to lmu.net.edu. >> this summer book tv is asking what are you reading? >> very different books. but a really powerful and we have enjoyed reading those. two books i want to read, the talk about lincoln's cabinet and also william julius wilson, a sociologist at harvard. those are two books of want to read for myself. two children at home. by the end of the summer. >> to see more summer reading list and of the program information visit our web site at booktv.org. >> what is the black belt? >> the black belt is a region of america, region of the south that extends from virginia, the coast of virginia, all the way. and its historical roots or origins really did back to to te antebellum period. it's the place where african-americans form a majority of the population. but plantation agriculture, primarily continent really serve as the economic eng

university of pennsylvania. uva is 24 and number 23 william and mary. virginia tech is 71. american comes in at 84. howard is at 96 and catholic university ranks 121st. read more about this entire list at wusa9.com. >>> it is after the hour. in six minutes a look at the damage left behind from tornadoes that hit in the midwest. >>> and in four minutes, hero central the story of a 16-year- old girl who did the right thing in a crisis. right now we focus on maryland's weather and traffic. here's kim. >> every morning you can find the focus on maryland weather. start with a look around at the temperatures. it is mild. if not muggy outside this early thursday morning. you can see the temperatures run from 70 in cumberland. 75 inside the beltway. patuxent river 74. annapolis you have 75 a trip up to 88 today. thunderstorms later in the afternoon. cumberland, you have a chance of seeing them later this morning. the temperature also 88 degrees. 90 in rockville. angie, good morning. >>> good morning, maryland. no problems as we take a live shot of nor vac road. university boulevard and piney branch, drivers are s