this leads us to our keynote speaker jim collins. he is a student and teacher about great companies about how they grow and how they obtained superior performance and how good companies become great companies. having invested and nearly a quarter of a century of research into the topic, jim has author or co-author of six books that have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. they include the classic "built to last." the international best seller," good to great." "how the mighty fall"examines how great companies can self- destruct. his most recent book is "great by choice, on certainty, chaos, and look and why som thrive despite them." based on nine years of research, it answers the question -- why do some companies pride in uncertainty and chaos and others do not. fortunately, we will not only have a presentation from him but he will answer every single question for us and by the end of the day, we will all know what we need to do to go from good to great -- jim collins. [applause] >> thank you, governor. good afternoon. it is

this leads us to our keynote speaker jim collins. student and teacher about great companies about how they grow and how they obtained superior performance and how good companies become great companies. having invested and nearly a quarter of a century of research into the topic, jim has author or co-author of six books that have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. they include the classic "built to last." the international best seller," good to great." "how the mighty fall"examines how great companies can self- destruct. his most recent book is "great by choice, on certainty, chaos, and look and why some thrive despite them." based on nine years of research, it answers the question -- why do some companies pride in uncertainty and chaos and others do not. fortunately, we will not only have a presentation from him but he will answer every single question for us and by the end of the day, we will all know what we need to do to go from good to great -- jim collins. [applause] >> thank you, governor. good afternoon. it is a great

this leads us to our keynote speaker jim collins. he is a student and teacher about great companies about how they grow and how they obtained superior performance and how good companies become great companies. having invested and nearly a quarter of a century of research into the topic, jim has author or co-author of six books that have sold more than 10 million copies worldwide. they include the classic "built to last." the international best seller," good to great." "how the mighty fall"examines how great companies can self- destruct. his most recent book is "great by choice, on certainty, chaos, and look and why some thrive despite them." based on nine years of research, it answers the question -- why do some companies pride in uncertainty and chaos and others do not. fortunately, we will not only have a presentation from him but he will answer every single question for us and by the end of the day, we will all know what we need to do to go from good to great -- jim collins. [applause] >> thank you, governor. good afternoon. it is

adding a charge of torture against a man from orinta accused of killing his girlfriend. 62-year-old jim collins faces murder charges in the case of his girlfriend 56-year-old evangeline. the additional torture charge would make collin eligible for the death penalty. >>> barry bonds is asking for yet another delay in the appeal of his conviction in an obstruction of justice charge. bond wants a two week postponement for a brief that is due a week from today. originally the brief was due in march but both bonds and federal prosecutors have asked for and received postponements. >>> call it a break down in communication. the oakland police union says officers two way radios failed again during the president's visit. as ktvu's mike mibach reports, it's a problem that has bogged the department for some time now and it is not yet fixed. >> reporter: it's a radio system some officers and residents says fails too often. >> there's possibly lives that are at risk. children, innocent people. >> it doesn't work that's the bottom line. >> reporter: oakland police officer association president says the radio

adding a charge of torture against a man from orinta accused of killing his girlfriend. 62-year-old jim collins faces murder charges in the case of his girlfriend 56-year-old evangeline. the additional torture charge would make collin eligible for the death penalty. >>> barry bonds is asking for yet another delay in the appeal of his conviction in an obstruction of justice charge. bond wants a two week postponement for a brief that is due a week from today. originally the brief was due in march but both bonds and federal prosecutors have asked for and received postponements. >>> call it a break down in communication. the oakland police union says officers two way radios failed again during the president's visit. as ktvu's mike mibach reports, it's a problem that has bogged the department for some time now and it is not yet fixed. >> reporter: it's a radio system some officers and residents says fails too often. >> there's possibly lives that are at risk. children, innocent people. >> it doesn't work that's the bottom line. >> reporter: oakland police officer association president says the radio

continue to cover this topic throughout the weekend when we hear from author and management educator jim collins author and professor steven blank. of like to ask a very good friend of mine and someone who has been supportive of our efforts this past year, governor year markell, our vice chair to say a few words. >> good morning, everybody. i want to start by thanking governor heineman for being a tremendous leader and his tremendous focus on state economies. he has, but a number of strategies that i think are helpful to states across the country. we appreciate your leadership. to governor mcdonald, thank you for hosting this. we love virginia, it is a beautiful state. for a state that came relatively late to the union, this is not bad. [laughter] in case you're wondering, delaware is the first state. thank you so much for your hospitality. one of the things that is so great about being a governor is that the people of very clear expectations about us. it is not about the speeches we give or the rhetoric, it is about whether we're improving the economic climate in our states and whether we're im

not humility in a self- deprecating way. >> jim collins speaking to governors in williamsburg talking about leadership. we are asking you qualities that make a great political leader. ruth on our republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call it is a great talk and i enjoy listening to what makes a great political leader. i find that more politicians now seem to promise more than they can deliver. if they cannot keep their promises, that makes them so on popular. within a few months of them taking office, it is employed in that we are honest with ourselves. what are the priorities i wi deal with? who am i going to choose to be in theses to deal with those priorities when i will be facing them once -- to be in the seats to deal with those priorities when i will be facing them once i am in office. ? that is the greatest thing a political leader can have as an asset. i am going back to i think is a great leader. president reagan was not a good actor. i guess he was not meant for acting. host: thanks for calling in. julio is on our independent line. the thoughts on what makes a gre

jim are off tonight. a gunman kidnapped her and held her for 24 hours. news4's pat collinserdeen, maryland with more. pat? >> reporter: pat, neighbors saying mrs. ripken had a habit of going out to mcdonald's for breakfast. maybe the gunman knew that. maybe that's why he was wait fog her at that garage. violet ripken, the 74-year-old mother of orioles star cal ripken. he was kidnapped, tied up, blind gp folded, held for 24 hours before she was released this morning just a couple blocks from her aberdeen

jim vance. >> and i'm doreen gentzler. >>> this happened early sunday morning along oats street in fairmount heights. pat collins is live with more on this bizarre case. pat? >> reporter: a few hours ago i spoke with george coleman. hes with not only an eyewitness but one of the victims in the strange deadly hold-up. now, what did these gunmen say when they came up to you. >> lie down, give me everything you have, lie down. >> reporter: what did you all do? >> i laid down on the beyond. they took my wallet, i.d., everybody. >> reporter: that's george coleman, he was one of four victims of an armed robbery. one man was run over by a woman who was trying not to get robbed herself. killed, brad mccoy, he was 30 years old. bradford mccoy worked for comcast. police tell the story this way. it was early sunday morn, just after midnight. mccoy was driving his truck down oats street in fairmount heights when he sees an old friend. he stops to get out and talk. there's four guys standing here talking when out of nowhere appear three gunmen, three gunmen with masks. they tell the four men to hit the ground and they rob th

collins, news4. >>> a group of gay rights supporters gathered outside the chik-fil-a foot truck downtoday. they protested recent comments made by the president. it also prompted jims company to pull its muppet toys out of chik-fil-a toys, and the some mayors -- most recently chik-fil-a released a statement, that going forward, they will leave the same-sex marriage debate to the political arena. >>> for the second time in a week, a vehicle and a training tried to occupy the same space and the train won. a freight train slammed into a dump truck in hyattsville. the dump truck driver says his truck stalled on the tracks. he went to the hospital with mimer injuries. the train, of course, suffered no damage at all. earlier this week an suv was hit. the driver of that car was injured. >>> doug is here with more details about our hot, hot day. >> not just hot day, but hot month. we hit 100 again today. that's the seventh day this month we have had hit 100 degrees. with that, that is a new record. we continue to set records all across the area for this heat, and the heat goes on. we'll show you how things are doing. we have a few more clouds coming in across the region,

collins dispiered nearly two weeks ago riding their bikes. >>> a diver getting the shock of his life. >> >> hear all those muffled screams? they are coming from jimabernathy the marine experts filming blue marlins when a much bigger 10-foot long make co shark. fortunately he was able to escape fortunately unharmed by the way. he even managed to snap a photo. >>> and it's time to brew on this. for all of you heading to work this morning listen up, you may want to watch your potty mouth once you get there, heather. it could cost you. a new survey out by career builder bott builder.com say 54 percent of employers think less of an employee who swears repeat he hadly. >> they would be less likely to promote someone who loves to use four letter words around the office. this leads us to our question of the day for you. cursing at work, does it actually stall your career? >> send us your comments you can tweet them to us at fox friends first or shoot us an e-mail friendsfirst@foxnews.com and we will read some of them later in the show. >>> 24 after the hour. the youth of america weighing in on the presidential race. you might be amused or scared some of

collins and her cousin lyric cook before they went missing. according to ford, the works fuel saver package could terally pay for itself. jimhel is this true? yes it's true. how is this possible? proper tire inflation, by using proper grades of oil, your car runs more efficiently, saves gas. you could be doing this right now? yes i could, mike. i'm slowing you down? yes you are. my bad. the works fuel saver package. just $29.95 or less after rebate. only at your ford dealer. so, to sum up, you take care of that, you take care of these, you save a bunch of this. that works. >>> 50 minutes past the hour checking our top stories now a new development this morning in the search for the two missing iowa girls. elizabeth collins and her cousin larah cook. this is grainy surveillance video. it shows the girls on their bicycles on july 13th the day they went missing. investigators believe the girls were indeed abduct ed and are still alive. >>> we'll see later today if investors hit the like button on facebook earnings. it will issue its first earnings report as a publicly traded company. shares have been hovering around $28 well b

collins and 10-year-old lyric cook. the two are cousins and were last seen by their grandmother before they went on a bicycle ride on friday. jimve in evansdale, iowa. jim, what is the latest there? how far have they gotten in draining the lake? >> well, we'll take a look here. you can see how fast this water level has gone down. they started this yesterday. they think by maybe late tomorrow, the lake could be completely drained. in a sense, they admit they are grasping at straws. they have already gone through the lake searching what they can using poles from small row boats, but they just don't have anything else to go on. they had about 1,000 volunteers over the weekend trying to search all sorts of wooded areas around here, and they found nothing. the good news, they also have no indication that there was any kind of abduction. but with no progress being made in the case, it's unbelievably stressful for this family. here's what an aunt told anderson cooper last night. >> it's very baffling to understand how someone got off with a 10-year-old and an 8-year-old at the same time because it's as though they disappeared into thi

collins, wbal-tv 11 news. >> and stay with us. there's still much more ahead on 11 news saturday morning. >> coming up in sports, we'll check in on an historic night for jimrioles, also a laugher of a win for tiger making a charge at st. annes. >> happy saturday to everybody out there. what a relaxing night friday was for the orioles. a very rare treat. not only got the victory, but did so in blowout fashion, first time in a long time they've done that, just the second time all season they won by eight or more runs. didn't look like when will did you to the first inning, and asdrubal cabrera takes gonzalez yard. he got out of the jam, and eventually offered a quality start, third in the row for the orioles. he got plenty of run support, most coming in the third inning. mark reynolds, not a grand slam, but a two-run double off the wall. wasn't sure it was ever going to come down. orioles taking the lead. up comfortably 4-1. how about 7-1? 7-1 orioles, they're comfortable until front. johnny damon, the 38-year-old, without fear of life, limb, or beard, he made the catch and showed the ball. congratulations, johnny. but the real tip of the cap goes to jim th