and among this year's recipients, trail blazers bob dylan and john glen.avers has more from washington. >> today, we present this amazing group with one more accolade for a life well led. and that's the presidential medal of freedom. >> reporter: outstanding achievement. that's the common denominator among today's medal of freedom recipients. president obama awarded the highest civilian honor to 13 political, cultural and athletic icons. >> what sets them apart is the incredible impact they've had on so many people. not in short, blinding bursts. but steadily over the course of a lifetime. >> reporter: among the honorees, a space pioneer, the first american to orbit the earth. >> john glen became a hero in every sense of the word. >> reporter: the first female secretary of state. >> madeline's courage brought peace to the ball kins. >> reporter: the winningest coach in basketball history, who is bringing her competitive drive to her own fight against alzheimer's. >> when i think about my two daughters, who are tall and gifted. and knowing that people like

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. >> john glen became a hero in every sense of the world. >> reporter: the first secretary of state. >> she helped bring peace to the balkans. >> reporter: the winningest coach in history. >> when i think about my two daughters who are tall and gifted and knowing because of folks like coach summit, they're standing up straight and diving after loose balances. >> reporter: and a rock legend who inspired generations with his songs. >> i remember in college listening to bob dylan and my world opening up. >> reporter: the president said the honorees have made an impact on his life. karen trave travers, abc. >>> hot conditions. we've got cooler air trying to punch in out of the west. the contrast between the two storms flaring up pretty big ones. give you a closer look. taneytown getting downpour tment will eventually move into the manchester area. skies turning darker in this direction. further out you can see a secondary shot south of hagerstown. that is a very healthy even severe thunderstorm crossing i-70 to the west. i want to show you the motion. if you look here, this is not a line

presidential medals of freedom to a group that includes former astronaut and united states senator, john glene winner, toni morrison and yes, an aviator-rocking bob dylan. perhaps because the great 71-year-old sing eer declined t take off his sunglasses during the presentation, president obama could not seem to keep a straight face, look at him trying to hold it together. the harmonica-playing dylan. he said he loved dylan's music in college before bestowing dylan with the country's highest honor, he spoke about dylan's legacy. >> bob dylan started out singing other people's songs. but as he said, there came a point where i had to write what i wanted to say, because what i wantsed to say, nobody else was writing. born in hibbing, minnesota, a town where he says you couldn't be a rebel, it was too cold. today everybody from bruce springsteen to u2 owes bob a debt of gratitude. all these years later he's still chasing that sound, still searching for a little bit of truth. and i have to say that i am a really big fan. >> and still wearing those sunglasses. >>> meanwhile, the first lady was in ne

among the resip cents, madeleine albright, rock legend, bob dillon, astronaut, john glen, john paul stevensmorrison. the medal of freedom is given to individuals who acted in security or national interest of the united states contributed to world peace, culture or public or private acts of duty. congratulations. >> good list of people. just read an interview with john glen and his wife. they have been married 69 years. >> what? >> that's amazing. >> fantastic. >> i wonder what the record is that has to be knock orange the door. >> up there. >> right -- knocking on the door. >> up there. >> right. >> we are knocking on the door of sunshine. temperatures going to be improved from yesterday. highs mid-80s and a little less humidity than yesterday. headed in the right direction i know we are not there yet. lookout your window a lot of cloud cover, once again this cold front, slowly moving east. radar activity south and east and lots of rain southern maryland, lower eastern shore. still dealing with it, i don't thing it will be a great day at the beaches, shower activity will hold tough. for the

medals of freedom the nations highest civilian honor this year there will be 13 honorees including john glenon, and mad line albright. >> thursday help put butts out celebrating world no tobacco day. citizens across the world will ban together, estimated more than 400,000 americans die each year from smoking related diseases. >> saturday is bacon fest, celebration of all things bacon and royal oak michigan. come hungry this event features bacon stations from over 30 local restaurants. that is a look at the week ahead. >>> also in the week ahead memorial service for dc music legend, chuck brown. there will be a public viewing at howard theater, tuesday from 11:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., a public memorial service held thursday noon to 3:00 p.m. at washington convention center, and more details about the services on myfoxdc.com. >>> they are the talk of the town, the washington nationals continue to be the surprise of the new baseball season. coming up in sports t long ball display against the braves. pgh >>> >> if you feel like there is a lot more tourists in the area than usual, you are right. la

who has ever secretary of state, madeline albright, the first person to circle the earth in orbit, john gleny included the founder of the girl scouts john paul stevens, the third longest serving supreme court justice ever in history. john dor the man who went to the university of mississippi and stood in the doorway of the university of mississippi and accompanied the first black student to attend class's classes there. he went down from the justice department, a hero in the civil rights movement. president obama said yesterday he would not be where he is today without the efforts and the leadership and the courage of john door in those days. the people yesterday included pat summit who was the winningest, if i can coin that word, the winningest coach ever in basketball, men's basketball or women's basketball. and peter, do you have that photo up? i took, on our website, bill billpressshow.com or currenttv.com/bill currenttv.com/billpress. the president giving the medal of freedom to those individuals there. of course, the star of the show was bob dylan. and president obama talking about how

check out this list, also includes novelist tony morrison, former astronaut and senator john glen and the lady voles pat summit. >>> david letterman opening up and talking about his personal politics. he sits down with regis philbin filling in for piers morgan next week. take a look at a preview. >> over the years talk show hosts have not gotten involved in politics because they fear -- >> it is all different now. >> if one portion of your audience is republican or democrat, they don't like what you are saying, they're going to tune you out. >> that's right. >> does it bother you? >> well, i know what your point is and i have been guilty of appearing to be playing partisan politics. however, i just like to say that for the record i am a registered independent. you go where the material takes you. poor bill clinton, no president that i am aware of got hammered harder than president bill clinton over the monica lewinski situation. we beat up on him. we still use him as a reference, and then we were desperate. we thought, well, this was so easy and then we got george bush, and within a m

astronaut and senator, john glen, nobel prize-winning novelist, toni morrison.r-songwriter, bob dylan and former university of tennessee women's basketball coach, pat summit. >>> it's a big day for mitt romney, expected to formally clinch the republican presidential nomination. 155 delegates are up in grabs in texas, polls open today. romney only has to win 58 to win the 1144 needed to become the nominee. romney will celebrate the milestone with donald trump in las vegas just days after the real estate mogul made controversial comments about president obama. earlier this month trump claimed that president obama was born in kenya and raised in indonesia. that despite president obama releasing his birth certificate proving he was born in hawaii. romney addressed the controversy by saying he doesn't agree with all of his supporters, but appreciates his votes in november. >>> today the military is pausing to remember the life of president john d. kennedy. the army is holding a wreath-laying ceremony at the former president's grave site to honor what would have been

shuttle program and the uncertain future of man space flight we may soon long for the days much john glenn of the heavens. here at the air and space museum we spoke to someone that may filled void. from the towers in lom pur, how do you top that, by sky diving from the edge of space. >> the moment is almost at hand. are you afraid of dying at this? >> dying is always part of my life because as a b.a.s.e. jumper you always face death and therefore it is important do you your homework. >> later this summer austrian daredevil i will felix barack obama barred inner will attempt the longest and highest free fall ever from 120,000 feet above sea level, more than 22 miles. if he pulls it off, he will also break the speed of sound and no one has gone outside a plane or spacecraft to fly at more than 690 miles an hour. >> some of the more tense moments will be when he steps out of that capsule and into the stratosphere and at that point the only thing protecting him from certain death will be this helmet and this high pressure space suit. this is similar to ones worn by u2 spy plane pilots but the

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john glen, the first american to orbit the earth. at 77, the oldest person to go in to space.r coach of lady vols stepping down from the career as the all-time winni winningest ncaa and madeline albright, first female secretary of state and bob dylan, he is being honored in part for the impact that his music had on the civil rights movement. kyra, i mentioned some of these awards being given out posthumously. one to juliet gordon-lowe who passed away in the '20s but the founder of the girl scouts and it is the 100th anniversary of the family of the girl scouts and part of the reason she's being honored here today. >> full disclosure, were you a girl scout? >> reporter: of course. absolutely. yes. >> very good. i only made it to brownies and girl scouts and did as much as i could fill up the patches. shimone perez, also, interesting timing. >> reporter: we knew that he was going to receive this award. we have known for some time but, yeah, the timing is interesting because as the u.s., as president obama urges israel to use restraint as the u.s. and other allieies try to convin

also john glen, former astronaut. mr. roq mr. roker is here with a check of the weather. >>> we're looking at severe weather and a front dipping down into all this warm, moist, unstable air. it's going to set off a lot of thunderstorms. we have a strong list of very large hail, dangerous lightning and tornadoes from wichita falls into oklahoma city and a slight risk of dallas all the way up to omaha. anywhere from two to four inches >> we have some light rain to deal with this morning. some scattered light rain showers around the area. give yourself a few extra minutes. the humidity will . >>> and that's your latest weather. >> thanks. jurors at the criminal trial of john edwards are entering the eighth day of deliberations. there is growing speculation they could end up deadlocked. lisa myers is there once again this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, ann. the first real glimpse into what may be going on in that jury room suggests that jurors are not close to a verdict and may be seriously divided. the judge is ma

astronaut john glen, and madeleine albright, and bob dillon getting medals of honor.r today. did you get invited? i did not. martha: that is an interesting three. bill: the first song i learned on the acoustic guitar. bdg -- or c. martha: you got those three cords down you can play just about anything. bill: i have to go home and rehearsay. i forgot it at the moment. right. to a new side of governor mitt romney, at home with part of his large family in southern california. this weekend i spent some time with the former governor at the home of one of his five sons. how will america get to know him? have a listen. 20 years ago this summer a little-known governor from arkansas was introduced to america when the democrats rolled into new york city in madison square garden the boy of hope was bill clinton. how do you want to be interes introduced to america? >> i haven't thought about that. just a kid who wants to make a dave rents fo difference for america. get people working again. have us have a bright future. there are too many people concerned that jobs will be less p

sharod brown, been here many times with us as well as former senator john glen.at, greater than tuesdayiastic response there. then we hopped on the buses back to the air portion and down to richmond village to the commonwealth university. a capacity crowd. the fire marshall had shut down let meing anybody else in that particular crowd and a wildley enthusiastic crowd and first lady introducing the vice president of the united states and we are off and running. what was interesting was that we really heard from the president the scenes we are going to here from now until november. he said as we were speculating on the plane on the way out to columbus, document he will mention mitt romney by name? he did. et mentioned several times by name and just said that romney has learned a long lesson from the jobs that he had before and is now would take this country in the wrong direction. what we heard mainly from the president and the first lady was the word forward. forward. we've got to keep moving forward. there was this big banner at each end of the hall forward signs

also john glen, former astronaut. mr. roq mr. roker is here with a check of the weather. >>> we're looking at severe weather and a front dipping down into all this warm, moist, unstable air. it's going to set off a lot of thunderstorms. we have a strong list of very large hail, dangerous lightning and tornadoes from wichita falls into oklahoma city and a slight risk of dallas all the way up to anywhere from two to four inches of rain possible within this region as well. here's what's going on in your neck of the woods. >>> good morning, tom kierein in storm center 4, at 7:10. in the wake of those heavy downpours last night. we have a few lingering springles, the areas in green across northern virginia and the district. sunshine breaking out in the mountains now. and temperatures are in the 60s to near 70. and later today, with the sun breaking out and the showers ending, lower humidity moves in. highs low 80s. beautiful day tomorrow. . >>> and that's your latest weather. >> thanks. jurors at the criminal trial of john edwards are

also john glen, former astronaut. mr. roq mr. roker is here with a check of the weather. >>> we're looking at severe weather ana front dipping down into all this warm, moist, unstable air. it's going to set off a lot of thunderstorms. we have a strong list of very large hail, dangerous lightning and tornadoes from wichita falls into oklahoma city and a slight risk of dallas all the way up to omaha. anywhere from two to four inches of rain pos >>> a rare sight for this time of year. 7:09, completely clear start over the city of san jose. we have a little bit of coastal fog. it will clear quickly. before 9:00 a.m. 52 in sunnyvale. by noon your temperatures hitting the upper 60s and 7 ons. we will round tout day with the mid 80s. overall about three to five degrees warmer than where we ended up yesterday. becoming windy as we head to the second half of the day. tomorrow even warmer. near record highs. 90 degrees inland. . >>> and that's your latest weather. >> thanks. jurors at the criminal trial of john edwards are entering the eig

john is a couple years older than i am. i believe he's 77. but i had been saying for years that the taxpayers didn't get their money's worth out of glen because he made one flight and immediately went into the congress. and as a taxpayer, i objected to that. i had been telling john this for years and years. i called him up the other day after the announcement and i said, john, i'm glad you're going to give me one more flight for my tax dollars. i think it's good, quite frankly. obviously there are a lot of things about how weightlessness treats individuals and the person's reaction to weightlessness is a function of the amount of exercise or lack thereof, general physical conditioning and the kind of things that one really needs to know. if you're going to be in a long-term mission, the more you find out the better shape you'll be in. so he's a good data point. he thinks he's in pretty good shape and he probably is. but his bones are still more brittle, obviously. and i'm sure that there will be some lessons learned even during that short period of time looking at his general physical conditions before and after. i think it's a good thing. i

block for hours it was left at a willow glen's nail salon the package turned out to be harmless police are trying to find out to left it there jurors in the john edwards corruption trial took off the weekend without reaching a verdict during five hours of deliberations today their requested a list of all the child exhibits as well as some of the supply is suggesting there in this for the long haul edward to accuse using campaign money to have his pregnant mistress during his 2008 bid for the white house. years of the eight richest nations orden helicopters headed for camp david for this weekend's g-7 summits on president obama's agenda getting support for a more forceful response to violence in syria as well as solidifying a plan to deal with iran's nuclear development. harleys and soccer balls are just the beginning the massive amount the feeling headed to the coast where following last year's tsunami earthquake. did we for the past 10 years all new build boards and san francisco have been banned so why is the city planning department making exceptions? all of the story coming up. >>> + hope for those who happen tough on their bodies the diet

glen burnie dentists. one woman pleaded guilty to murdering the doctor to cover up her theft of insurance reimbursement checks. more fallout in the investigation of johnpold. a corporal is now suspended accused of accessing a police data base to collect information about his political opponents. he is accused of misusing his security detail and to run personal errands. >> t to not hide when that threatens the next feet by nik wallenda, but corporate sponsorship. he walked over the inner harbor as the warm-up to the niagara falls walk. people want to wear a safety harness and that is something he and his family has never had to do. >> the event would not happen if it weren't for the sponsors. we're doing our best to ease their fears. i understand that, your name is on this and if you lose your life you'll lose your reputation. we're working to get this problem is resolved. >> the buildup for this is just amazing. this is the seventh generation of the great wallendas also known as the flying wallendas. >> now traffic pulse 11 and insta-weather plus together. >> good morning. sarah caldwell checking on your morning commute. skyteam 11 looking at eight de