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jill biden wife of vice president joe biden is in anne arundel county today. jessica cartali reports, she's here to stress the importance of education in the nation's community colleges. >> reporter: security tight at anne arundel community colleges as dr. jill biden, wife of vice president joe biden meets with students and staff. >> president obama says he wants to meet the goal by 2020, for our nation, for america to have the highest college graduation rate. >> reporter: she currently teaches english at northern virginia community college. >> i always say that you are my heros because it's hard. what you're doing is so hard and you're persevering. >> reporter: dr. biden stopped by several classes and stopped to cook with culinary students. >> we think of the faculty, the programs and what we're doing here to try to help the local economy. >> reporter: also today the white house announced dr. biden will serve as chairwoman of the first ever white house summit on community colleges october 5th. all in an effort to further develop america's work force. the summ

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jill biden was singing the praises of the white house and its support for community colleges. firsthand howh to make her socks from -- from the kitchen to the classroom, jill biden made the rounds to help showcase community colleges and the obama administration commitment to support their vision. >> i am still teaching. i am not northern virginia community college and i was there yesterday. i will be there tomorrow. i teach full-time. i teach english. >> the visit took place as the white house was announcing that she will head of a summit for committed colleges next month. >> the president wants to meet the goal by 2020 for our nation to have the highest number of college graduates. you are working on that. we are working on that. >> the school's president says her demonstration is already developing programs to help reach the president's goal. >> we always measured the success of the college in terms of our student success. we know we have a lot to celebrate. >> a song from students. >> do you want to break into song here? ♪ [applause] >> i did want to sing to her. i loved to

community colleges. >> security is tight at anne arundel community colleges arnold campuses as jill bidenwife of joe biden meets with students and faculty promoting the commitment to following the america's community colleges >> president obama wants to meet the goal for america to have the highest number of college graduates. >> reporter: dr. biden taught at community colleges for 17 years and currently teaches english at northern virginia community college. >> say you are my heros because what you're doing is hard and you're persevering. >> reporter: she toured several facilities stopping to make pastries with culinary arts students >> it's exciting. the students know that anne arundel was chosen for the quality, we think the faculty and the programs to help the local economy. >> reporter: also today, the white house announced that dr. biden serves as the first-ever white house summit for community colleges in an effort to further develop america's work force. >> the summit will bring community colleges and state leaders and students together and discuss ways to exup expand at our commu

jill biden is talking to the community college. and president obama wants the u.s. to lead the world in awarding college degrees by 2010. he's counting on community colleges to reach the goal. >>> still to come at noon. coming home, one of the american hikers held in prison for a year is a free woman. >>> emergency crews arrive on the scene of a family pet in distress. >>> and take another live look outside. and stick around, your complete first warning weather forecast is coming up. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> sara shores is a free woman today. the iranny officials say that the rulers mediated a deal for $500,000 in bail for her release. two other americans including her fiance are still in prison. >>> more than a million chuck e cheese rings an eyeglasses are recalled. the consumer product safety commission says that the plastic can break and expose the button type batteries inside. one child swallowed a battery. >>> firefighters push to save a family pet in oregon. a 1500-pound camel named moses was stuck in a muddy sinkhole. after four hours of digging and prodding

jill biden wife of joe biden paid a visit to a aren't county part of ongoing work to showcase how the obama biden administration is committed to supporting america's community colleges and their students. she has taught at community college for the past 17 years. >>> baltimore city community college for their convocation what a beautiful campus. >> you look very nice today. >> i'm trying to look collegiate. >> i agree. it's funny, but people ask about when will this stretch it can't last much longer it's so nice. >> right. >> sunny, 80, no humidity. really it will last well into next week. we could use rain tomorrow night, but it's a nice looking stretch. >> nothing to complaint about. >> maryland one of the best times of year. let's look at the inner harbor. a lot of boaters out and about taking in late summer weather technically still late summer. 77 degrees, humidity 50%. but overall really very, very comfortable. the humidity reading. wind southeast vector at 8 miles per hour. baltimore today a lot of blue sky. i mean, that was the theme all day long, baltimore and all around the

. >> reporter: security's tight at anne arundel's arnold campus as jill biden meets with students andting the obama's administration commitment to supporting the community colleges. >> president obama said, you know, he wants to meet the goal by 2010 for our nation to have the highest number of college graduates. >> she's taught at community colleges and teaches english at a community college. i always say, you're my heros. it's hard, what you're doing is so hard and you're persevering. >> reporter: she toured several facilities on campus and made pastries with arts students. >> and it's thrilling and so exciting i hope it is for the students who won't actually get to see her, but know that anne arundel was chosen for the faculty and programs and the quality. >> reporter: also, today,the white house announced that dr. biden will serve as chairwoman ever white house summit on community colleges october 59- all -- october 5th. >> it will bring the community colleges and federal aid state leaders and students together and they'll discuss ways to expand the nation's opportunities. >>> it

jill biden speaking along with family members, reading the names of the victims that died here that dayand as well president obama overseeing ceremonies a at the pentagon this morning, participating in a wreath laying ceremony and asking the country not to think that we are at war at islam but that this was a band of bad men who had created this attack nine years ago. kris. >> thank you very much, michelle. and michelle mentioned the memorial for flight 93 in shanksville. one of the people who will attend that ceremony is alex hogland. her son mark was one of the passengers on the flight who stopped the hijackers from hitting that target in washington, d.c. before she left the bay area for her trip she spoke exclusively about the last time she heard from her son. >> he said i want to tell you i love you, i'm on a flight from newark to san francisco and there are three guys on board, they have taken over the plane and they say they have a bomb. >> she says she hopes people will honor the memory of her son and the other 9/11 victims by making today a day of service. >> the status of one o

interesting, his brother is the counselor to, counselor to vice president biden and his wife is jill biden'sof staff. so, you know, a lot of keck connections within the white house and somebody in the white house that they really do like. the other person they talked about was ron claim and currently joe biden's chief of staff. these are some of the names we're watching. we have a whole speculation list that we've reported on in first read earlier with some of the outsiders and mike bloomberg and ed whittaker from gm and a lot of others. but some of those insiders, a lot of people are saying the good money is on them. >> do you think an interim or actually an appointment? >> that's the thing we're not tote a totally certain of. everyone would be surprised if rahm emanuel didn't leave the white house. it would be news if he decided to stay, to be perfectly frank. it would be in between an interim or somebody inside. a really good point that i heard savannah guthrie say on "daily rundown." if they pick an insider like donilin or somebody like that, they might as well do that. no point in putti

president obama asked jill biden to organize this summit because she's taught at community doughs for the -- colleges for the past 29 years. the goal of the summit is to provide a forum to talk about how the u.s. can have the most educated workforce in the world. >>> prince harry is celebrating his 26th birthday today. he's not taking time off. he's working on his birthday. he's in the middle of an eight- month training program to become and apache attack helicopter pilot for the corps. >>> and then there's j-lo. it appears the singer/actress, jennifer lopez, is in as the next "american idol" judge. there are a lot of reports saying she just signed a deal to be a judge on fox's tv show. but "american idol" produces and even j-lo herself has not confirmed it. we're also learning that steven tyler of aerosmith has -- will be a judge but he has yet to confirm it. >> they still have randy jackson? >> yes. >> it looks like there will be four. >> yes. >> yes. >>> and sal, how is traffic moving out there? >> this morning's commute has been pretty busy in the last half hour. the bay bridge is

a morning college degrees by 2020, and is -- awarding college degrees by 2020, and is joined by jill biden. the u.s. is accusing iran of intimidating un inspectors in an effort to influence their findings. the charge follows iran's decision to bar two inspectors after they reported that a runoff was experimenting with pyro-processing, the process used to purify uranium. the chief u.s. delegate to the iaea tells the agency's board, barring inspectors because the report accurately is unprecedented, he said. the u.s. embassy in jordan has issued a warning for those in the city of -- they say they have received information about a credible threat, but did not provide details. >> warren brown writes the weekly car column for the "washington post." >> it is horrible to say we would not have had a black middle-class if we did not have general motors, ford motors, chrysler. >> he supported the auto bailout. he will talk about his life and what is ahead for carmakers. >> the conflict between the first amendment and national security. "necessary secrets" this week on "book tv." >> all this week, fol