the wahls had a big, beautiful house that was right next to howard university. and it was a place, o.s.b. wahl had went to law school there, had sent his children to the schools that howard ran, he had been asked by general oliver otis howard, the namesake for howard university, to go to overland and recruit the first graduates for the university. so this was an institution that wahl really took pride in building. and their home was a beautiful house. it was right next door to john mercer langston's humes. >> langston hughes' great-uncle. >> yes. they could look out onto the street and say, that tree was planted by the great abolitionist charles sumner. this tree was a gift from another great abolitionist. so this was an amazing block. and he had -- you know, the people who had come to his home and the spent time with him and with his children were amazing. so there was john mercer langston, who was the first dean of the howard university law school and later was the first african-american elected to congress from virginia. but he was family. frederick douglas w

as for david mercer her is in howard university hospital in intensive care. i'm shomari stone, news4. >>> a family argument turned deadly in charles county. a 33-year-old say she proctor shot his mother and stepfather before turning the gun on himself. proctor died on the scene at 5:00 this morning. his mother and stepfather were both seriously injured. >>> harris teeter is offering a $50,000 reward for tracking down two masked men behind a robbery. police want to know if it is connected to ten similar holdups in north carolina. the robbers took cash from customers and employees at gunpoint. a worker describes the scene. >> i see he has a mask on. and he just has gun pointed to me and is like get down on the floor. >> reporter: anybody who might have information should contact the loudoun county crime stoppers. >>> faa officials are combing for clues after a plane crash last night. the plane went down moments after takeoff. the 79-year-old flight instructor frank schmidt was killed in the crash. another man was critically injured. his name has not been releas

howard university professor willett wilmer leon. when tensions rising by the day in syria much light isn't put on the regime's dealings with the recent release of syria gate the some two point five million e-mails in the new us wiki leaks communication dump the emails are said not to only highlight communications relating to the assad regime but also to expose the popper state of western rhetoric and actions against the region but the infamous leaks from the whistleblower organization may be coming to a halt that's because wiki leaks is nearly out of cash the group says its funds will run out a couple of months unless donations drastically increase the organization has had difficulties raising funds since visa master card and pay pal among others have caved to the u.s. government pressure to pull its avenues to donate through which many have decried as an act of corporate censorship to counteract the financial blockade wiki leaks is now saying it can accept cash donations through a french nonprofit rerouting money through francis fu

others downright refuse to break us all down i was joined earlier by wilmer leon professor at howard university take a listen well i think in this climate in this day and age with individuals now in politics making believable amounts of money it is embarrassing. for many individuals such as mitt romney to be talking about the common man and to be talking to people to be talking about the middle class financial blog brown and root and how much money he made off of the of the the invasion of afghanistan evades in iraq if we had known about former president bush's financial withholdings we would know about his interest in the carlyle group and how much money did george bush make off of the invasion of iraq and afghanistan so these things to me are very very important i don't think that senator levin goes far enough because he talks about presidential candidates but he we also need to understand what a vice presidential candidate is going to be what their financials are what i mean as you mentioned before seventeen out of all of the members of counters right now that now now for for example for the

both on a realistic level and a political one welner leon is a political science professor at howard university professor leon thanks for coming here all right so this legislation as we know it was passed with a majority of people both parties and yet i'm not a betting woman but if i was i would put my money on you know these cuts coming in these are going to be obama's job cuts well that's at least how the cuts are going to be portrayed right and i think it's important for everybody to understand is that it was a bipartisan group it was republicans and democrats that voted on this. process and now we find ourselves at the eleventh hour and the senate is now asking the white house to explain exactly how they plan to spend this money oh how they plan to cut this money but i think really though the key is we don't even have to be at this point and particularly if. both sides can understand that not only do the bush bush era tax cuts need to end but also the payroll tax suspension needs to end in fact congressman bobby scott from hampton virginia just put out this press release that says the presi

professor at howard university appreciate you being on the show and i was going to sort of look at the politics of thang. well last week we went into depth a bit into the history of doping scandals in the olympics and we asked this question should perhaps some performance enhancing drugs simply be allowed so that at least they could be better monitored by doctors after all they might not only be safer but who knows we could see the extent to which the human body could actually go i know this is a very controversial idea but we heard some interesting perspectives and now well we found that we want to show you a lympics inspired a beer it's called never mind the anabolic so this was created by scottish brewery brew dog and a warning a limpid athletes should think twice about drinking this apparently this i.p.a. is supposedly filled to the brim with banned ingredients. but for. yours. there were too excited though apparently only the first batch of beer contains the steroids ones being sold to the public will not contain steroids they do still contain those other substances that athletes

the medical team at howard university took action after the quake and they just got back from another humanitarian mission. the students had an experience of a lifetime. >> january 2010, a major earthquake shattered the island of haiti. teams from around the world came to the aide of a country in crisis. >> it was a really sad event. my family was okay. haiti suffered a lot of losses. my initial reaction was to wait until things calmed down and then assess the situation again to see what i could do. >> joann is part of the team from howard university hospital who just returned from haiti this week. the students and physicians provided much needed medical care in a region that is still rebuilding. >> the patients lined up to see us. some were dressed in the best clothing that they had to come and visit a physician and they were excited about that. >> there are medical resources were drained over time. they need the infrastructure to build their medical resources back. >> as soon as they arrived, they saved a woman after a brutal attack. >> there was some lacerations. there was an attac

inside howard university hospital 29-year-old michael hall, junior, operated on today. they say he has a broken jaw and a fractured cheek bone. mike and gail hall are from colonial beach, virginia, very proud of their son mike, junior, an accomplished yoga instructor. when he moved to washington nine years ago, they worried for his safety. >> every morning get up and turn channel 4 news on see if he was alive or not, who got killed, stabbed. >> you wore worried about him? >> my god, yes. >> my biggest nightmare is the fact that this would happen eventually. >> reporter: sunday morning the halls got that phone call that they always feared. it happened in the ek inning ton section of northeast washington. mike hall and his boyfriend had been to a restaurant. they were on their way home. they had just gotten out of one of those town cars, they were walking down the sidewalk when they were ambushed, ambushed by about five teenagers. >> four or five kids just came out of nowhere without any warning. we didn't think it was a robbery because they didn't immediately ask for any

another couple got them to safety and to howard university hospital where hall under went surgery today fractures in his face. >> the kids came out of nowhere without any warning. we didn't think it was a robbery. because they didn't immediately ask for anything. they just came out swing and hitting. >> police say they yelled out homophobic slurs. >>> there is mixed reaction to crippling sanctions against penn state university from the ncaa. they will have to pay $60 million for covering up the sexual abuse of children by jerry sandusky. the football team will be banned from post-season play for the next four years. and the team will be stripped of 112 wins coached by the late joe paterno going back to 1998. current players will be given the option of transferring and playing at other schools. critics say the wrong people are bearing the brunt of what happened at penn state. >> i was really surprised and almost angry at how harsh the punishment was. it punishes the wrong people. >> they took stereomuch out on the players and the plates who are going to the school. >> in addition, the fo

michelle carter of howard university medical center in d.c. recommends people stay inside air conditioned buildings during heat waves like this one. she says the high humidity prevents sweat from evaporating off the skin, a process which normally helps cool the body. >> so then the body doesn't have a way to get rid of that excessive heat and it a rapid rise internally in terms of heat and that can affect your major organs specifically the brain and heart. >> reporter: in washington d.c. the temperature topped 100 by midday. the punishing heat send tourists like erin gordon and her daughter madeline seeking relief indoors. >> definitely her being out in the heat is har conditioning units. >> it's a godsend and i don't know how to say thank you. >> reporter: some 200,000 people are still without power, many in west virginia after a powerful line of storms hit there last week, and tonight, anthony, many in those same areas are bracing for yet another round of a rear weather expected to bring thunderstorms and strong winds. >> mason: thanks, elai

these howard university seniors think crime push would be a hit there. >> i think it would be something really nice to have especially in d.c. with our campus being open. >> walking in d.c., i'm scared sometimes and i would just love to have that extra security there to know that i would be safe walking at night. >> reporter: bicyclist katherine ferguson says extra eyes and ears helping police are a good thing. >> i think there are times when you are on foot or on a bike that you see things you wouldn't see in a car. >> reporter: but this is an additional tool for emergency respondsers. it is not meant to replace them. so you're not telling people don't call 911? >> no, we make it clear, if it is an emergency, call 911. use this app for crime tips. >> why not? anything to keep us a little bit safer. >>> heritage high school in loudoun county was so impressed with crime push, it wasted no time associating with the company. >>> coming up, the olympic controversy before the games even get under way all over the u.s. uniforms for the opening ceremony. >> i think they should take all of the

. >> reporter: he's the chairman of the psychiatry department at howard university. he spoke with 9 news now last night. >> this is an excellent opportunity for parents to dialogue and help kids to understand that we try to protect them and take care of them. you definitely need to talk to your kids about it. but he knew very much about what's going on. >> reporter: dominique had a conversation with his 9-year- old son before coming to see the movie in silver springs. >> he just wanted to know why it happened more so than how it happened. he was just like why would someone do this? >> sometimes people do things because they, for want of a better word, are evil. we can also say that sometimes people do it because they have mental problems and sometimes people do things that don't make sense to us. sometimes we are truly innocent victims. >> i knew it was going to be a little harder, you know, it was going to be kind of like the movies are going to bring bad thoughts and stuff. but still i feel like we shouldn't let this really get to our heads that much and we should

the slow- moving downburst -- 2.36 inches of rain at children's hospital in nw. 1.58 inches at howard university. temperatures are in the low to mid 80's. a comfortable afternoon. what is coming next? a few showers west and northwest of the metro area. and then overnight partly cloudy, still mild, 64-71. humidity levels will be moving up and the chance of storms will be moving up over the next few days. we will have a seven-day outlook coming up. >> we will see you then. vincent gray is responding to the most recent scandal involving his campaign. he insists he did nothing wrong and did not know about the campaign violations committed by his supporters. sam ford is live with strong words from the mayor. >> for some time mayor gray has avoided talking about his legal reporters -- legal troubles to reporters. the mayor today apparently felt compelled to say something. >> well, you know, i would like to comment on all of this to be honest with you. >> mayor gray was careful with his words before reporters today after yesterday's's claim by one of his supporters who pleaded guilty in court that she

. >> she always had a dream of attending howard university. without this scholarship to tells us that never would have happened. >> one of their daughters is not a second lieutenant in the marine corps. she is proud to honor marines by educating their children. >> to have helped educate children who are going to help solve a america's problems and help lead this country and solve global issues, the part of the future. >> davis can to the foundation after decades of nonprofit and communications work. there is no public money for these scholarships only corporate and individual donors. you can go to our web site wjla.com. >> see why your next trip might be a lot more expensive than your last vacation. seven on your side is called in for a backyard battle. >> a northeast woman calls on seven on your side to save her backyard. >> she hired a contractor to create a space there. when she gave him thousands of dollars the work did not get done. we will see if kris van cleave can get things started back up. >> i wanted to create a haven for me and the

pleasure as always that was dr welner early on he's a political science press professor for howard university. well a political reporter in hot water for making controversial statements reporter joe williams was talking about mitt romney's coziness with fox news and said this on m s n b c. it's very interesting that he does so many appearances on fox and friends and it's unscripted it's the only time they let off the leash so to speak but it also points out a larger problem that he's got to solve if he wants to be successful this come this fall romney is very very comfortable it seems with people who are like him that's one of the reasons why he seems so stiff and in some town hall settings why he can't relate to people other than that well that statement cost him his job at politico and a firestorm of attacks accusing williams for being racist towards a white people but williams says he's a victim of what he calls the right wing noise machine a machine that controls the message that gets out to the public and punishes those that don't agree with their world view to talk about what this means

my parents met at howard university. that's where i went to school. >> take off the red.lt the parayers truly. they have sustained me and comforted me. coming to work gives me strength. i am facing the bone marrow transplant and will be out for a time, but until then i will enjoy life. >> so much courage. it's it's a great way to sum it up. >> i think robin roberts is the only person i could lead call me "mini me" and take it as a complement. coming up, she shows us what is under the new armbands that she's wearing. she gets a little emotional when little emotionalhertalking >> welcome back on this monday. metro will cost more this morning. fares went up yesterday. the district's mayor now cost $2.10. thus during rush hour. otherwise, the basic fare increase to $1.70. the bus fare is up a dime and using a smartrip card. it will cost an extra dollar per trip if using a paper farecards instead. can we talk back-to-school shopping? already? retailers already getting into high gear. >> less than two months away. wells fargo and fees for some d.c. residents. now to linda bell

. >> lincoln, you coached at howard university and accomplished something that was amazing. >> we were very fortunate to win two ncaa championships. the first one is in 1971. the second one in 1974. the one in 1974 we won. that is still a record that has not been tied. we are fortunate about that. >> let's talk about the liverpool team which is like the big european league. >> this team, liverpool, has a great history. they have won more european titles than any premier team. they are an outstanding team with a great history. the game by the way is an afternoon game. the previous games have been in the evening. >> an afternoon game. it's important. the game will be televised in england. that's why it's being played in the afternoon. this is going to be a regular run of the mill friendly. this is a friendly of a different kind. it will be competitive. these are first time two major league english teams playing outside of england. so, it's competitive. they don't want to lose each other at all. >> this is the ravens-steelers of the european league. >> ron? >> yes. >> you know it's like w

these howard university seniors think crime push would be a hit there. >> i think it would be somethingce to have, especially in d.c. with our campus being open. >> walking in d.c. i'm definitely scared sometimes and i would have loved to have that extra security there to know i would be safe walking at night. >> reporter: bicyclist katherine servicen says extra eyes and ears helping police are a good thing. >> i think there are times especially when you're on foot or bike where you see things you wouldn't see in a car or on a bus. >> reporter: but palovani cautions crime push is an additional tool for emergency responders. it's not meant to replace them. you're not telling people don't call 911, are you? >> no. we definitely make it very clear if it's an emergency, call 911. use this app for crime tips. >> reporter: the high school in loudoun county was so impressed they wasted no time partnering up with the company and they got a pushback notification system that allows them to send warning messages to the smartphones of people who use this new app. so it's camping on nationwide, 100,

michael hall suffered extensive facial injuries and is recovering at howard university hospital tonightrtner was also injured but not nearly as bad. family members say they have no doubt, both men would have been killed had it not been for two strangers that intervened that attack happened on the 1900 block of

. >> reporter: inside howard university hospital 29-year-old michael hall, junior, operated on today. they say he has a broken jaw and a fractured cheek bone. mike and gail hall are from colonial beach, virginia, very proud of their son mike junior, an accomplished yoga instructor. but when he moved to washington nine years ago, they worried for his safety. >> every morning, get up and turn channel 4 news on and see if he was alive or not, who got >> worried about him? >> oh, my god, yes. >> my biggest nightmare was the fact that this would happen eventually. >> sunday morning the halls got that phone call that they always feared. it happened at the eckington section of northeast washington. mike hall and his boy friend had been to a restaurant. they were on their way home. they had just gotten out of one of those town cars. they were whackialking down the sidewalk when they were ambushed by five teenagers. >> four or five kids came out of nowhere without any warning. we didn't think it was a robbery because they didn't immediately ask for anything. they came out swinging and hitting.

>> howard university in washington r a year and a half. anred to rd.snld in al ie t e student and now professor? >> oh, good heavens, so many people. i think my family itself would be the biggest nfluence. whenhey came ut of th ou, ruwt d d r a,adynt me to take advantage of them. and more than that, they realized that there was no way that they, either in terms of money or in terms of education, would be able to do that, and so they looked around for people isea nheasawud nei a,they had picked out for me to meet before i ever got off the train. and eddie map was from the west indies. his mother was much more educated than mbersf my family. inh anech wapear be tth wld not have occurred to me until it was too late. and one could transfer to get into a betr school. he was about a year older than me, so i was in effect able to follow in his footsteps. and i led above t. soot ad foundation, largely because of him. he introduced me to my first public libry. i remember standing in this room with these tremendous numbers of book, and aski why are

. >> firsthand, viseen how we got volunteers from howard university to help welfare mothers in d.c. get their g.e.d. let's talk about factses here -- >> absolutely. come on -- >> in washington, d.c., we were the murder capital of the world and marion barry was smoking crack, okay? >> that's not all he was doing. he was also sponsoring a summer youth emg ployment program that employed more african-american and white youth -- >> it isn't enough. >> but a lot is not enough! but -- >> sean: the unemployment rate in the hispanic community is 11%. in the african-american community, 14.4% this. president made promises. he said he would cut the deficit in in half and create jobs. we have $5 trillion in debt. he did not fulfill his promise. will the african-american community that voted overwhelmingly for him look at this as the failure that it is? 14.4%. >> you know, i think what they need to do is raise the challenge to governor romney and to president obama. i do not -- >> but he fail audio governor rom he. >> but you know what. i don't think anyone would have succeeded rierks nobody. so

cut he provided a bold plan when he was down with black voters in 2007, at a speech he gave at howard university on criminal justice reward. we haven't heard anything about those since. mostly because black voters have not held his feet to the fire on these issues. like other con constituency. the gay and lesbian community, immigration reform, didn't get the dream act but got deportation. never let up on those issues, and so for black voters and black leaders, there's been the tendency to protect the president, but not pressure him into action on these very important issues. >> host: so, president obama and the voters, black voters in particular, are almost equally responsible for this. >> guest: yes. this is the part -- representative democracy. people organize about issues that are important for them. you can't wait and sit back and wait for any politician to act in your interest. you have to ask them what you want, and if they don't give it to you, you have to pressure them into doing it. >> host: a lot of people will look at the title of your book, particularly the decline of black politics,

but he provided a bold plan when she was done with black voters in 2007 at a speech he gave at howard university on criminal justice reform. >> host: right. >> guest: we have not heard anything about those proposals since. mostly because black voters have not held his feet to the fire on these issues like other constituencies, like the gay and lesbian community, working with the hostile political environment, immigration reform, didn't get the dream act, but stopped deportation. they never let up on the issues. for black voters and leaders, there's a tendency to protect the president, but not pressure him into action on these very important issues. >> host: and so president obama and the voters, black voters in particular, are almost equally responsible for this outcome. >> guest: yeah. i mean, this is a representative democracy. people organize around issues important to them. you can't wait and kick back and wait for, you know, any politician to agent in your interest. you have to ask them what you want, and if they don't give it to you, you have to pressure them to do it. >> host: a lot of pe

william lawson, professor and chairman of the psychiatry department at howard university. thank you for being here. when we picture a movie theater, we go in, we're closed in, it is dark. even that in some cases can be anxiety producing for people. after something like this how do we allay fears we may have the next time? >> we have to remember these kind of events are isolated incidents. this is explained to our young people and others this is pretty much being struck by lightning. bad things happen to us. i think this is an excellent opportunity for parents to help kids to understand that we try to protect them and take care of them, but unfortunately bad things do happen that none of us can control very well at all. >> so they're isolated. that's a good message for kids. how do we explain to them the why, the why would someone do this? as a parent, what do i say to my child? >> that sometimes people do things because they for want of a better word are evil. we can also say people do it because they have mental problems, they have physical problems. there are other facto

back and hear speeches he did, particularly before majority black audiences, specifically at howard university in 2007, the most bold plan for criminal justice reform i have ever heard from any presidential candidate. this guy promised a federal level racial profiling act. he promised loan forgiveness to law students who decide to become public defenders. he said that he would encourage states to do away with the death penalty. we haven't heard about it. the difference is that black constituents have not held his feet to the fire on those very important issues. >> congress won't pass much of that. >> not for two years. the first two years, we had a black attorney general, we had a black chair of the judiciary committee and we had a black president. >> you had four months of a 60 vote majority in the senate. >> you raise a great point. at the same time, most black people on the ground realize that no matter what we say theoretically, the very fact of his existence constitutes such an advantage to future generations of black people that nothing he does now can counteract that. whether you agree

. >> more rein sew morris, howard university. when you look for an explanation of an -- an external explanation of behavior and the more rigid leanings of the republican party, it was said -- you all said it was the voter at some level, but referring in particular to the fox news profitability, and the inevidentability of money following the more extremist idea thursday the media and elsewhere. so the question to me is, to what extent can that link of the money to the media be linked to the rate of rigidity of the republican party, whether it's in came pan finance or anywhere else. the public insinuation into the process is facilitated by media guided and influenced by ideology include imbalanced money. it that going to have -- has it had a greater reflection in the current condition of the republican and democratic part parties? >> that great and highly relevant question. i think the main takeaway from this is, what will the onion do with the idea of wolf news. >> i'm eliza. acknowledging that there is a conservative wing of the

lisa fitzpatrick of howard university said one of the biggest hurdles to treating the infection is stigma. fear and shame keep too many patients away from the doctor until their disease has progressed. >> i ask them what took you so long to get here? and they say well i didn't want to talk about my aids or i didn't want to hear you telling me i have aids. we have people who will be tested repeatedly in hopes that one of those tests will be negative so that they can say i don't have h.i.v. we have people who think they can pray their h.i.v. away. so there are many, many barriers to getting people to accept that h.i.v. is a reality in the community but also to accept that are things that you can do about it. you can get treated. you can live a long time. you can be healthy and take care of your family. >> suarez: dr. wafaa el sadr has done decades of aids research in the u.s. and the developing world. she said outreach done in africa-- part of the president's emergency plan for aids relief, or pepfar, made progress, slowing the spread of the disease. dr. wafaa el sadr leads the internationa

doctor at howard university hospital.od morning. >> thank you, good morning. >> it's very serious. i don't think people realize how bad it can be it you're not guarding yourself. >> very true. and it's going to get worse. so what we really need to do is be cognizant of the amount of exposure and the amount of fluid you're putting back into your body. when we lose fluid with least and sweat, we have to replace that. sometimes you may think you're drinking enough, but you're not, or not drinking the right fluids. alcohol and caffeine are no nos. drink water, gatorade and electrolyte supplemented fluids. >> we said the certain age of the victims sadly who have succumbed to this heat. that can't be a coincidence. how is age related to heat illnesses? i guess not being able to fend off the heat when it's this hot. >> the very old and very young are most at risk. the young don't have the same auto regulatory system we do as adults and the old are subject to diseases such as heart disease and they become dehydrated much faster.

. >> joining me now, msnbc political analyst, professor michael eric dyson of georgetown university and howard"huffington post" editorial director. michael, these words fascinate me. mitt romney said, "if it were possible to fully communicate what i believe is in the real enduring best interest of african-american families, you would vote for me." he's suggesting there that for some reason, it is not possible to communicate this. why? because that audience wouldn't understand it? why can't he communicate it? >> i mean, one of the few audiences that really would understand it, because they have an old negro spiritual that says, i want to be a christian in my heart. so here's a guy who's speaking heart language to people who understand heart language, and yet you don't articulate, you don't forthcome. and i think the problem here is that it was a speech that was calculated as goldie taylor said and as toure said, for a broader audience. but he missed a golden opportunity to really win over, by a few percentage points, some african-american people who would have seen him as reasonable, who would

pepperdine university. me and howard cosell. that's reality television.and putting all their stars. >> you also did, "i'm a celebrity get me the hell out of here." >> i've been doing this stuff. >> speaking of reality, what's going on with kris? the wheels are falling off, things are horrible. what's going on? >> it's wonderful. isn't that what i'm supposed to say? it's wonderful. no, we've bnl together for been 21 years. i watched it, was it two weeks ago i watched it. i'm like a stickler on everybody being on time. i'm in boston with khloe and kris and they're like being late, you know. punctuality is very important. and they ran that and i look like the bad guy. >> what we read about yesterday you're saying khloe wants to sleep with robert. that was weird. why did you say that? >> i don't know. >> maybe you need to get off the road and whip that family into shape. >> honestly, when the cameras are there all the time, they will find something. >> are my god-daughters off the stripper pole yet? >> actually, they're doing extraordinarily well. >> birthday

allegations against the leaders at penn state university concerning how they dealt with the jerry sandusky sex abuse case. >> a non-profit under investigation here in howardim tooten at morgan state university, where a group of future engineers are getting some hands-on experience for a special experiment. >> live, local, late-breaking. this is wbal-