Ángeles salvador durán nos amplia. >>> el querido jaime escalante perdió su lucha contra el cáncer enizó el actor olmos, y destacó por la enseñanza de matematicas, y aquí en su ex escuela lloraron su muerte. >>> lo más triste es que no lo vamos a ver, y lo seguiremos recordando con cariño. >>> y con las herramientas que le dio el maestro dijo que le enseñó a esmerarse. >>> nos daba la oportunidad de crecer. >>> el actor olmos le envió el pésame a los familiares y amigos. mientras que la familia del maestro hace los preparativos para el servicio funebre aquí en la escuela se crea una beca a nombre de jaime escalante. >>> gracias. y una redada desmanteló una red de trafico de drogas, al menos 15 empleados fueron detenidos. y también descubrieron una red de prostitución, oficiales encubiertos atraparon a tres hombres que ofrecían favores sexuales a través de internet. un macabro hicieron los empleados de una compañía donde se incendia cuerpos. >>> y dos empleados de la morgue en china fueron arrestados por no enterrar como debe ser varios niños. >>> y dos meses después de una sangrienta

jaime escalante was 79 years old. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: making pledges to haiti. judy woodruff has that story. >> woodruff: by any accounting, the needs of post-earthquake haiti are massive. today, the haitian government sought pledges of nearly $4 billion to get the rebuilding under way. the appeal came at a day-long conference at the united nations. u.n. secretary-general ban ki- moon and secretary of state hillary clinton urged representatives of more than 100 nations to help. >> by the end of this day, i am confident we will truly have helped haiti along the road to a better future. >> woodruff: secretary clinton said the u.s. pledge will amount to $1.1 billion over the next two years. >> this is not only a conference on what financially we pledge to haiti, we also have to pledge our best efforts to do better ourselves, to offer our support in a smarter way, a more effective way that produce

. >>> some sad news to tell you about today, jaime escalante. the teacher who inspired a hit movie, has died. his students in a tough east los angeles high school excelled at math and science. in fact, the 1988 movie "stand and deliver" was made about him. edward james olmos, the star of the film, became a friend and actually drove escalante home to nevada to die. but escalante remained determined not to quit. >> i don't come with one idea. you come how many times you get up. >> jaime escalante was 79 years old. >>> well dave price is off this morning, so ira joe fisher is here with our first check of the weather. good morning. >> betty, good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing great. >> the weather is doing greater, and it will get great come the weekend here in the northeastern part of the country. the nor'easter is still with us. we'll talk about that in a moment. you can see that we have flood watches still in effect from new jersey on up to maine. some lingering showers. but the places that got as much as eight inches, nine inches, >>> and o

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