john sherman is live downtown. he has been talking with the fans tonight, sharing the game with them. first we begin with pete gilbert with a quick recap of the battle of the beltway. >> it turned out to be not much of a battle as the ravens blew the doors off the redskins. it's a preseason game. you can't say they are going to win the super bowl after this, but as far as things you wanted to see, you see a team that didn't turn the balance over, didn't allow any point and put up 23 themselves. it was impressive indeed. here are some highlights. ray lewis didn't have much to do with this game. he played one serious and was done. that was ok with him. but the offense got things going. joe flacco to ray rice. a little bit of a stumble. many plays over 35 yards for the ravens tonight. they also got it done with troy smith to r.j. smith. the smith connection impressive. troy smith threw the ball 30 times. he was the player of the game, completed 14 passes, should have completed many more, several were dropped by harper

john sherman joins us live with the reaction. >> the judge agreed to wipe out the old charges in the old motions he put in place. a new trial date was set. with the mayor away on vacation, her defense team was in court today, the judge threw out the old case in motions and set a new calendar for the case to go to trial. >> it was not unexpected. we certainly were happy to get the early trial date of november 9. >> we are going to deal with the case with the schedule that has been set. >> we are going to get a little bit more discovery under the new charges. we expect we will be filing a new motion with respect to the grand jury. >> the new schedule is as follows. september 8, september 18, and a hearing on all of those motions will fall on september 30. the trial will start on november 9. >> i think the grand jury returned the indictment again. i don't think there is any problem. >> it is certainly possible any case that further delays will be on the way, throwing that new calendar off. >> anne arundel county police have made an arrest in the july 15 murder of a glen burnie man. gord

john sherman joins us with more. >> this is the sixth time this year the o'malley administration has cut the budget. this is clearly among the most severe. >> we're facing the same challenge that every family and every business is facing. >> these are not good times. but from everything to fire -- and from fire and police to environmental enforcement. >> there is nothing easy about this. the services that the state provides are the services to the most vulnerable, and they're the basic infrastructure of the state. the roads, libraries, schools, universities, social services, health services. we did not do a lot of frills. >> you give us fair warning that this round of cuts would be exceptionally painful. having reviewed the proposal in detail, i am inclined to agree. the list of reductions before us today will affect the lives of virtually every marylander. >> $59,000 was saved by delaying uniforms. $61,000 was saved by reducing barbershop inspections. a 75% cut in state cancer research. >> the bottom line is, like the hardworking families, our state government faces the task and imp

john sherman has an explanation for us. >> baltimore county remains in good financial shape compared to the city and surrounding counties, but a major union is arguing the county is withholding promised pay raises. >> i want to thank everyone for coming out. >> the protesters come from the most critical public service sectors, the baltimore county federation of government employees. >> the county is trying to take away a provision in our contract that has been there for 20 years and essentially. what we are seeing is a slow erosion of our contract. >> john is the union president and says the problem really starts and ends right here at the county detention center. >> this provision only affects correctional officers. they are taking away simply because we filed a grievance over this contract. >> he says the issue is how they use of personal leave days on an emergency basis. he argues the race is long overdue. >> last year, we agreed on a contract without raises for any of our employees. this year, the county executive jim smith has asked for a 2% in the budget. that budget was approv

john sherman will have more on why police commissioner is taking it so personally. our crews were called back to the scene of a fire in queens down after it restart. the three alarm blaze yesterday afternoon destroyed the home. the family was not home at the time, but the two dogs were there, and they are now being treated for injuries. the fire caused an estimated $1 million in damage. no word tonight on what caused it. >> today is national health care for the homeless day. one maryland clinic is finding health care a big factor in moving people off the street and into homes and jobs. jennifer has details. >> bottle bozeman is getting his first checkup after having hernia surgery -- donald bozeman. he says for him, it has made all the difference. >> it is health care that i have been meeting for the last few years. rex the clinic is located inside the eastern family resource center. the only homeless clinic in the county opened 1.5 years ago, providing acute care, urgent, and chronic care and everyday health services for the homeless. >> we are seeing a lot of pati

john sherman is following the story. he is live from the scene with the late breaking details. >> this is the intersection where the accident took place, and off to the left is where the suspect vehicle ended up, almost 50 or 60 yards away from the accident. police said that car had just been involved in a carjacking and was spotted by members of the regional of a task force. the pursuit was called off because the car was behaving to radically. >> officers were not pursuing the car at the time of the crash. they got the alert that there was an armed carjacking, but based on the way the driver reacted when he saw the police, he drove erratically and out of control. they broke it off, but he continued on, and it ended in a fatal collision. >> this is what was left behind when that in affinity that was being pursued by the police smashed into of car being driven by a woman. they estimate it was going 80- 130 miles an hour just before the impact. the woman's car flipped several times. the suspect was originally spotted near

john sherman continues our team coverage in west baltimore. >> just to tell you how real this thing is, state experts tell us they expect in a worst-case scenario about 40% of the children in the greater baltimore area will come down with the h1n1 virus. best care scenario moves the number to about 10%. in annapolis today, a select group of kids was given the h1n1 vaccine in a trial. all maryland children will be advised to do the same this fall. and parents are being told to be vigilant. >> there's two sets of viruses that make circulate in the united states. one is this new h1n1, which no child has immunity to and therefore many can catch it, and then there is the seasonal flu, which are strains that the population of the earth has been exposed to for several seasons. >> kids to get as many as four flu shots per child this year. >> we know that in young children, they need two shots to make a satisfy antibody response in their blood stream and we assume at least that much for the h1n1 strain. >> the state is asking parents to get involved and seek advice on their kids from their doct

john sherman explains. >> at harborplace tonight, we found plenty of people making calls, but nobody looking today robo call parikh >> i'm on the do not call list, but i still get calls constantly. >> rodney kennedy says it they it is self almost. >> i get to the automated calls asking if i want to sell something. i hate it. >> today the rules change. federal trade commission making any one of those calls after september 1 a violation of bilal, with a $16,000 per call penalty -- a violation of the laww. >> it makes sense for the fcc to take action against those calls and trying to sell people against something they don't want and have never had business dealings with those companies before. it cost consumers money and the folks are route. >> it's wonderful. they should do it. >> there are exceptions. banks commentaries, insurance companies, phone companies, and politicians. >> pfc's the appropriately left out any kind of businesses that have to do with free speech. >> that did not play as well at this place. >> politicians call constantly. why are they allowed to call me if no one el

john sherman joins us live with that story. >> right now, a city board is considering that proposal. this wind turbine is extremely tall and also 6 feet wide, facing considerable neighborhood opposition. >> i am here to get the wind turbine approved because the laws that were written in 1971 -- no one has ever heard of this and 1971. >> this is her home near federal help. she has big plans for the roof. this is a similar turbine actually in use. >> we have got to go into renewable energy. i am located with water on either side of me. >> solar panels are far more efficient. she could also purchase wind generated power off of a grid. >> the woman is her next-door neighbor. this is a miniature version of the wind turbine. >> my first reaction was go for anything green. hearing that it will be 6 feet wide and being that immediate neighbor, i was concerned. >> davidson says a four-foot tall version could be used, and she says she supports that. >> no one within 22 feet can then add a similar design, so the rest of us can do anything green of that nature if she puts this kind of thing on h

john sherman takes us to the southern tip of the eastern shore. >> it is only a building, and a small at that. >> i will be celebrating the holidays in a crowd of people, most of whom i don't know. >> for mark scher and howard re bac, events don't die even after people do. >> this was our bench. my dad sat where i'm sitting. >> it is the feeling that starts every year in late summer, ritual and tradition, community and comfort. >> you get that feeling, the jewish holidays are going to be here soon. >> but in pokemolk city today, the signs have changed, left behind too many windows, and the signs of what was fade more each day. >> howard is not just one of the last members of the congregation of israel, he's a sociology professor at the university of maryland eastern shore. >> this was a busy place. it was the railhead. it was the center of business. >> this is one of my favorite, actually. >> one of those places was and is scher's, mark's family department store in the middle of market street. >> that's the grand opening add in march 1933, when my father opened the door, third generat

>> well, mcconnell came of age under john sherman cooper, a senator from kentucky who was moderate to even liberal. he had opposed goldwater in the republican primaries in 1964. he supported he support , at the same time reagan was being reelected, he saw that conservative ideas could work. the country have moved in a conservative direction. he is an avid reader. as he read columnist and watched phil gramm who he admires and practice -- in practice, and had an effect. host: he ran against another senator, and then a poll cannot join him ahead by nearly 45 - 50 percentage points. late in the campaign came these ads that have often a study by political scientist called hound dogs. >> my job was to find and get him back to work. he was missing big bets on social security, agriculture, and other things. he was making an extra $50,000 and giving speeches. i just missed him. let's go, we have him now. i was close. at this beach in pr. we cannot find him. we need to let him make speeches and switch to match for center. -- to mitch for senator. >> ever since the race has begun he has been mis

these were relationships like lbj had and john sherman cooper, russell long.ose days, say 30 years ago, it was an entirely different world. i don't think we will see it again. it's such a different way we go about electing people today. so much of it depends not on relationships and ideology but simply upon who can raise the money most. >> bob schieffer, doug brinkley, thanks very much. >>> let's go back to maggie. >> reporter: i'm here in hyannisport outside the kennedy compound. i'd like to show you the cover the of the cape cod times, the local paper here. the headline here this morning that everyone dreaded, expected but still dreaded, senator kennedy dies at 77. there is such a deep connection between hyannisport and the entire kennedy family, especially ted kennedy, who came here as a child. this was the place he loved most and always returned to. the place that had been in his family since the '20s. this morning, the place that is remembering him. neighbors were coming by to pay tribute, to share their stories of the kennedys. we have media along here,

john sherman has more. >> one of the major meetings we have throughout the city are abandoned vehiclesa dixon today announced "raven." a new program aimed at abandoned cars on and off baltimore streets. it will depend on people calling in violateors. >> we will rely on the citizens of baltimore to give us information through the 311 process and we are here not to harass people but to encourage everyone to take responsibility for making this the greatest city in the country. >> the mayor says laws have been changed to fast track the process and that the housing authority will help, too. >> a rabid deployment team which will -- if they get a call from one of their inspectors in the field, they will be out there the same day issuing a citation for that car. >> they will be given to a nonprofit to be given for a car that works for short commutes. >> it started in 1999. we awarded over 3,000 cars in maryland and virginia. 665 of those cars to residents of baltimore city. >> so these vehicles on public property, we have lowered the times in less than five days for a vehicle on private proper

in largo, john sherman, wbal-tv 11 news. >> it's a video targeting teens. what happens if you send text messages while driving. first a look at events going on around town this weekend. >> a powerful new video has become an internet sensation. deborah kostroun shows us. -- tom chaos tell owe shows us. >> a haunting video, a dramatization aimed at a specific audience. ♪ >> a driver named cassie survives, but the accident she causes kills four people. texting while driving is a global problem crossing every age group. here in the u.s. 25 died and more than 100 were injured after a los angeles train driver ran a signal seconds after texting. in san antonio this texting bus driver failed to notice traffic had stopped. while the government doesn't track the number of accidents involving texting or -- the risk jumps 23 times while texting. >> i think it was graphic and frightening, but unfortunately we see that with 40,000 fatalities every year. those are people who don't come home. >> mommy, daddy, wake up! >> seven states including d.c. now ban teching while dr

the military coterie of grant, sherman, phillips sheridan and john scofield all closely allied, constituted a dynasty of command that lasted for more than 20 years. during this period of the unprecedented military control as one writer put it, sherman succeeded grant as commander of the army in 1969 and sherman as commander in 1884 and scofield succeeded sheridan in 1888. the trend of civil war history largely shaped by their memoirs but also by the official control of their post-war prominence gave over the public understanding events long enjoyed the standard of tradition as fixed in the popular mind. this has been unfortunate for the national memory and the true story of the war. the official records of the war of the rebellion as they are called, were substantially compiled, collated and published between 1880 in 1900, with supplementary volumes appearing in later years. sherman's memoirs for first published in 1875, grants a decade later in 1885. the voracity of both were challenged from the start and often contradicted by the record that emerged. even so, as early as 89 e3 in a speech

guest: mitch mcconnell came of age under john sherman cooper, from kentucky, a moderate even too liberalhe had opposed goldwater in the republican primaries in 1964. he supported president ford over reagan in 1976. he supported bush over reagan in 1980. once he came to washington, at the same time reagan was being reelected, he saw that conservative ideas could work. the country have moved in a conservative direction. he is an avid reader. as he read columnist and watched phil gramm who he admires and practice -- in practice, and had an effect. host: he ran against another senator, and then a poll cannot join him ahead by nearly 45 - 50 percentage points. late in the campaign came these ads that have often a study by political scientist called hound dogs. >> my job was to find and get him back to work. he was missing big bets on social security, agriculture, and other things. he was making an extra $50,000 and giving speeches. i just missed him. let's go, we have him now. i was close. at this beach in pr. we cannot find him. we need to let him make speeches and switch to match for center

guest: mitch mcconnell came of age under john sherman cooper, from kentucky, a moderate even too liberal. he had opposed goldwater in the republican primaries in 1964. he supported president ford over reagan in 1976. he supported bush over reagan in 1980. once he came to washington, at the same time reagan was being reelected, he saw that conservative ideas could work. the country have moved in a conservative direction. he is an avid reader. as he read columnist and watched phil gramm who he admires and practice -- in practice, and had an effect. host: he ran against another senator, and then a poll cannot join him ahead by nearly 45 - 50 percentage points. late in the campaign came these ads that have switch to mitch mcconnell for u.s. senate. host: those were from 1984. kentucky was a democratic state. guest: yes, at that time it was very democratic. the brain behind the production of those went on to found fox news, but who had worked as a campaign consultant. senator mitch mcconnell had asked one of his aides to go with the incumbents voting record in his attendance record. they foun

john short was killed. no criminal charges were filed against baldwin. northwest washington residents spent much of their day without water? >> that's right. an eight-inch water main broke on sherman avenue. water was shut off and wasa says repairs should be finished soon. let's check on traffic for the evening. >> a look at how we're doing in maryland on the northbound side side of 270 getting past father hurleyy boulevard. the pace pretty good through germantown. we have slow traffic as you make the trip into the clarksburg stretch up to the lane drop. that's a fairly normal rush-hour delay northbound side side of twelve heading into frederick county. around the beltway here, at the emergency emergency -- at the american legion bridge, that's the inner loop moving away from us. delays off and on around silver spring. no incidents to report. on the 395 corridor, check out the pace on the southbound side side from seminary road to duke street. this is the slowest pay on 395. all lanes are open south on 395. the traffic coming toward us. in the district, a broken down care bore the chain bridge in the right lane. >> coming up, yasks are less likely to swiceserp types of cancer. "7

sherman and her great granddaughter. the second time on a boat and thought, why not try it? johnr granddaughter, not great granddaughter, actually said they're going to have to invent something for her to die of. she's an inspiration. >> 96 and going strong. that's a lot of fun in a parasail. all right. here we go. the beat 360 winners, the daily challenge to viewers, coming up with a better caption for the picture on the blog every day. tonight's picture, here he is. rahm emanuel reads to students at the department of education. he was joined by education secretary and white house domestic policy counsel. staff winner tonight -- >> so many of the staff and viewer submissions had to do with health care and town halls today. >> i wonder why. bob, your t-shirt is on the way. >>> still ahead, a birthday blow-out that took a terrible turn. pranks are fun until someone gets hurt. candles are fire. the shot is just ahead. >>> president obama, face to face with angry americans today at a health care town hall meeting. what he told them and what happened to the guy outside who showed up

john mashek. then on monday, on the washington journal, patrick hill bride of the u.s. chamber of commerce as well as keith epstein of business week and rep brad sherman, alexandra cousteau will be our guest on monday's edition of washington journal. i want to thank you for watching today, we will see you again tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern time. from the young american foundation news conference, a discussion on college reading material. we will be live starting at 11:00 a.m. eastern. chief justice john roberts will swear in the judge so the mayor -- such a majo sotomayor sotoma . welcome to the national conservative students conference and hosted by the young american foundation. young american foundation is an organization to educate students on the principles of limited government, a strong national defense. we also hosts a campus lecture series for which you can have such speakers as newt gingrich, and ann coulter. dr. lee edwards is a fellow of the conservative thought and heritage foundation, and chairman of the victims of communism memorial foundation. he is the author of 20 books including biographies of ronald reagan, barry goldwater, histor