. >> john thompson was a low level drug dealer and fence. he grew up in the projects in new orleans, was raised mostly by his grandmother. his father was a career criminal. >> richie perkins confronted mr. thompson after the fact and got mr. thompson to confess that he was the one that killed mr. liuzza. >> perkins said thompson had an accomplice named kevin freeman. police arrested freeman and thompson. >> the story that kevin freeman told police was that he and john thompson had been driving home together and the car had run out of gas. ray liuzza drove past them, parked and began to walk across the street to his apartment. at that point he said i'm going to hit that guy and pulled a gun out of his pocket. >> and then mr. freeman got cold feet, if you will and decided he didn't want any part of it. and as he was running away, freeman said he heard the shots. >> the police charged freeman and thompson with murder. the local prosecutor wanted the death penalty for thompson, but knew it would be an uphill battle because thompson had never bee

. >> reporter: nearly 300 kids attend strong john thompson elementary near 12th and mass northwest. >> somewhere there's a circle. somewhere there's a square. >> reporter: principal carmen shepard is proud of the first graders' exhibit with shapes, doing it with 100% parent participation. >> the girls and the boys. >> reporter: rising enrollment and test scores helped her to become one of the first principals to be guaranteed a new three-year contract rather than working year to year as she has until now. >> oh, i think it makes a tremendous difference, and i think parents then appreciate the fact that the person who's there will continue to know their child as they continue to move through fifth grade. >> reporter: one-fifth of the city's 110 public school principals are getting the new three-year contract for next school season. the union representing principals helped draft the plan but has concerns. this is a very good start union president iona jefferson told nbc 4 but the process is still too subjective. the union will continue to work toward ensuring less subjective but equitab

i feel like john thompson saved my life because he gave me another opportunity when everybody stoppedi want to spend a minute because we were classmates together. talk about -- >> were you all dating? >> that would have been a story. >> my girl now was my girl then. >> good. >> talk about the influence of georgetown. had it not been for coach thompson what would have happened to alleniverson? >> who knows? he gave me an opportunity. all i needed was one chance. god sent him to me. >> what do you want us to know about you? >> that i'm not the person that everybody makes me out to be. >> who are you? >> i'm a father. i'm a friend. i think i got the biggest heart in the world. a lot of times that's not a good thing. >> on the supports level do you know anybody who had more skills than you did at your best? >> no. i mean i'm the biggest michael jordan fan there is. he made me want to play the sport. i always wanted to be like mike. i'm just like everybody else. >> remember that crossover. >> look at -- pound for pound probably the greatest player who ever played. i saw julius irving the o

. >> our thanks to erin thompson from john j. college in new york. once they are gone, natalie, they are gone. >> yes, they are. and as we know, they are selling them to make money. even they they don't believe in it, they are fine make money on. >>> police have arrested the man wanted in connection with the quadruple murder in washington, d.c. daron wint was taken into custody a few hours ago in the capitol. no one was injured during the arrest. winter is charged with first degree felony murder. >> and the bodies of prominent d.c. family and their housekeeper. all found by firefighters inside a burning mansion last week. pamela brown has more on the crime and the link between winter and the victims. >> reporter: a major break in the case came wednesday when atf forensic specialists recovered winter's dna on pizza crust. a nearby domino franchise says they delivered piazza why to the home that night, unaware the family was duct taped inside. >> it is brazen. it shows an element of calm that the person didn't feel rushed. >> phillip had stab wounds an

john nash and his wife this weekend. he was on his way home after receiving yet another international award. nbc's brian thompsonhas the story. >> reporter: the scrape on the turnpike's barrier wall is still visible. john nash and his wife died this weekend after their taxi hit that wall throwing them both from the vehicle. >> welcome to princeton. who among you will be the next einstein? >> nash whose game theory revolutionized the way experts analyze chance in everything from war to soccer was portrayed by russell crowe in the film "a beautiful mind." chronicled his struggle with paranoid schizophrenia. >> the point of mathematicians the game theory work is a fraction of a fraction of what he did. >> the cab driver who lives in this house was not home today. while his driving record is relatively clean, news 4 new york obtained this police report from union township in 2009. police then ticketed him for running a stop sign and causing an accident that injured several people. nash and his wife were on the way home from newark airport after he received the prize for mathematics from the king of norway. nash's ca

mary thompson has more from a lawn and equ >> john deere overcoming the negative effects of the stronger dollar. farm equipment like tractors and combines. the performance earning management a nod from analysts. >> bot line line is the companies managing the downturn extremely well much better than the prior cycle. >> keeping a tight rein on expenses the moline illinois firm more than $2 a share. shares of $7.4 billion missing estimates as lower prices for commodities like corn and soybeans hit sales of farm equipment in key markets like the u.s. and canada. adding to the bang lower growth. what did work for deere in the quarter is construction and forestry business. improvg. economy and strong housing starts behind that division's improved performance and while sales of big farm kwix fell sales of smaller machines like mowers sold in new jersey were steady. that's good news for owner gus oddson. >> i've been thr down years, so flat is always better than a down year. >> as for deere, it sees sales falling 19% this year more than previously expected. but it did raise its profit outlook, e

john chambers is stepping aside as ceo, but he's not going away. he'll remain as chairman of the firm he ran for 20 years. his continued presence may soothe some investors, but as our mary thompson reports, it will also pose challenges for chambers' successor, chuck robbins. >> for two years john chambers served as chief evangelist and architect of a firm whose stock climbed 1400% under his waf. by stepping down as ceo and staying on as chairman he can now provide important cover and counsel to his successor chuck robbins. >> there are all sorts of aspects of the job that he's going to have to learn. and the advantage is having a great teacher around. >> still, chambers' continued presence at the firm could create problems according to professor joe bauer. >> when the stays on, it always makes it harder for the new ceo to make changes, particularly if the new ceo has in mind dramatic changes. >> cisco! >> as executive chairman chambers will likely be in the office every day. and unless he checks his ego at the door experts say he may resist changes robbins needs to make at the company chambers built. his presence might also be seen as a constant threat to robbins. professor cath

thompson led with the points. the warriors win it 98-78. the to atlanta john wall.d to the fourth the wizards are saved with eight seconds to play but unfortunately it wasn't quite over. >> gets it in. six seconds. makes a move. to the rim. it's blocked. flies in. lays it in. 1.9. washington has no time-outs. >> al horford wanted it more than anybody and scored the basket. they did not box out. they hold off washington for an 82-81 and a 3-2 series lead. to the ice now. game tied in overteam ben there is a game winner in the back of the net. the rangers complete the comeback after being down in the series to advance to the eastern conference finals. it makes them the first team to come back from a deficit in consecutive years. the tenth time the capitols have blown a lead. the franchise is cursed. but there it was, a little bit of sun on the horizon. let's go to arizona for the nationals. bases loaded. michael taylor in the lineup after bryce harper, the star of the gnats wasnats was ejected for arguing. >> michael taylor go ahead grand slam. out in center field. th

thompson! >> reporter: making the bay area proud. johnews. >>> the stanford band is in trouble again and is now banned from traveling to sporting events on the road for a year. over the years, band members have gotten into trouble for their on-field antics. now, university administrators say the band has violated several school policies involving alcohol, hazing, and sexual harassment. the band will be allowed to perform at home sporting events and some nonathletic events. >>> we'll show what you it looked like in south lake tahoe this morning. you're about to see a dusting of snow on the mountain there, but the peak is covered by a halo of clouds. also, this is looking towards the northshore from south lake tahoe. someone left footprints in the snow on the pier there. moving farther south, there were still flakes of snow at the bottom of kirkwood this morning. for a the love us, we're thinking it feels like february, but it's the middle of may. let's go to meteorologist mark tamayo. how unusual is this, mark? >> typically every may we ge

thompson. you probably cannot read it but it states that john hanson was elected president and that went out to all the states, to the ambassadors, general washington and others. we have this question which seems thorny but is simple. who was the first president? we had two governments and each government had its first president. john hanson, the first president of the original government. washington, or famously, the first president of the second government. as washington stated, hanson preceded him and was the actual first president of the united states. this has been recognized i presidents all the way to the 20th century. the second continental congress, as it was getting ready to ratify the articles got chased out of philadelphia, and ended up for a short period in pennsylvania. this is a courthouse where they met in york, and where the articles were actually signed. what was laid on hanson? every president we have had, except hanson was handed a functioning government. hanson was handed a blank slate and had to create a government from whole cloth and he had to do it right and make it sti

john reporting. about 150,000 gallons leaked from that pipe. 20,000 gallons leaked into the ocean. >>> steph curry and clay thompson probably know court at oracle arena than anyone else. i want you to meet two people that know the arena better than anyone else. the bond these two have create after working there for more than a decade. >>> ireland voters make history becoming the first country to approve same-sex marriage. gay rights advocates have their focuses on the other places around the world. more now opinion that developing story that we -- on that developing story about a triple homicide happening today in north oakland: i want to show you the scene less than an hour ago outside the home. police have been there since about 3:00 this afternoon. there were report of gunfire. when they arrived a man was holed up inside the home. he was unresponsive to their demands that he surrender. now police -- police say the 25-year-old suspect eventually came out crawling out of the house by crawling. these are pictures of him being take into an custody. he was arrested without further resistance. then they discover the t

thompson at the live desk. we are just getting details about wizards star john wall being kicked off a flight in las vegas this week. this you're about to see is a picture from wall's twitter just a few days ago, showing him in vegas as they were headed back to d.c. on tuesday. someone from wall's group allegedly threatened another passenger. according to tmz sports. police were called and boarded the plane. the victim told them he didn't want to press charges, but the pilot reportedly asked the officers to remove wall and his fellow travelers from the plane. they were escorted off without any further incident. i'm tisha thompson at the live desk. >>> former reality show star is now officially charged for making threats against our metro system. dreadstone coleman just wrapped up a court appearance in d.c. about an hour ago. police say he made multiple threats against trains and buses in the last silver months, some of which actually prompted delays or evacuations. he faces up to 20 years in prison. we'll have more on the threats coming up at 5. >>> a woman charged with killing a lawyer in a ritzy d.c. hotel p

thompson. he said everyone said, congratulations, you're a winner in. they don't say, you know john you failed thousands of times, thousands. and you won the national championship once. but in order to win that championship you've got to go through all of that failure. i thought i heard that from that young man. >> never quit. quick thoug before we move on? >> the speech wasn't focusing on the self. so many of the speeches plays into the students. they are narcissists. at that age, you think of yourself all the time. so it's nice to hear someone thinking outside of themselves. >> let's move on. we asked our fox news colleague if they could spread their wisdom to america's graduates. first, bret baier and charles krauthammer. >> the best advise i ever heard about life was basically keep it on the road. if you have a dream and don't know how to get to it don't worry about it stay on the road like a car without headlights. keep on driving. >> create something, achieve something outside yourself. when you're old and gray you can contemplate the self that emerged from the you that did so

john lester and nationals beat the cubs three- three-zero. >>> game five between houston and golden state the rockets fighting off elimination. golden up by three. former sixer andre iguodala with the pass to clay thompsoncked down the triple. the warriors up by sick. curry back to his old self. warriors have an 85-72 lead in the fourth. >>> game sick between anaheim and chicago second period brandon dodd got behind the defense. anderson and the blackhawks got on the scoreboard first just two minutes later chicago struck again. it will the lamp right there. blackhawks beat the ducks five-two to force a gave so many saturday night in anaheim. >>> students from philadelphia's string theory charter school got a special behind the scenes look at the lion king today. >> the seventh and eighth graders loved this. they saw the broadway musical puppets and masks up close. the present saying takes was led by the muppet supervisor and the cast member hooplas zazu. they engaged in ooh lively q and a and got to try out the puppets for themselves. lion king is playing at the academy of mew second here in philadelphia through june the 14th. spectacular show. >>> we thank you for watching "eyewitness news" at 11:00 o'

thompson gets it over to his -- curry had 22 7 assists, the warriors win it 101-86. >>> then you have the atlanta hawks, number one seed in the east, against the wizards, john wall, 13ts, 4, he runs down the stretch in the fourth quarter as the wiz on the road take out the hawks, 104-98. wall 18 points 7 rebounds. wiz have yet to lose in the post 7 season. that's it america. have a good morning, don't waste your day. next "sportscenter" coming your way live 9 a.m. eastern if you watch want to watch that. >> one more highlight. this though a highlight in the stands. >> amazing, left field stands in dodger stadium where a guy recording this video and one of the diamondbacks hit a home run and, boom, look at that. wound up in that guy's mitt. he was filming the whole thing? >> dodgers left vandzers van slyke spying about it. the dodgers won 6-4. >> the catch of a lifetime to get it on video. >> a whole youtube channel. >>> up next in "the pulse," over two world class athletes who have been dating for years calling it quits. >> the force is strong with this one. or is it you? i don't know. what why today is being called "star wars" day. it takes me forever to get dresse

thompson gets it over to his slash brother. curry had 22, 7 assists, the warriors win it, 101-86. >>> then you have the atlanta hawks, number one seed in the east, against the wizards. john 13 assists, 4 -- he runs down the stretch in the fourth quarter as the wiz on the road take out the hawks, 104-98. wall finished with 18 point, 7 board, 13 dimes. go ahead, do the dougie if you want. wiz have yet to lose in the postseason. that's it, america. have a good morning. don't waste your day. next "sportscenter" coming your way live 9 a.m. eastern if you want to watch that. >> do the dougie, he says. >>> one more highlight from this weekend's baseball games. this, though, a highlight in the stands. >> wow, this is amazing. left field stands in dodger stadium where a guy was recording this video and one of the diamondbacks hit a home run and, boom, look at that. wound up in that guy's mitt. he was filming the whole thing. >> so dodgers left field erer van slyke even smiling about it. the dodgers won 6-4. >> the catch of a lifetime to get it on video. and to -- >> a whole youtube channel. >> that's the luckiest thing i've ever seen. amazing. >>> up next in "the pulse," over two

john currence's place on the square. there's the brilliant author tom franklin and his wife, the poet beth ann fennelly. grisham writers in residence, megan abbott, jack pendarvis, a poet chayuma elliott. bryce thompsonwaukee. crime novelist billy boyle from brooklyn. downstairs, currence's restaurant city grocery cranks out many delicious things. the man known as big bad chef, aka johnny snack, is sending some of those goodies upstairs as there's nothing professional writers like more than free food. usually, you put five writers in a room, it's an ugly, hell broth of envy, hatred -- >> we all hate tommy. >> yeah, that goes without saying. >> even me. i hate me worst of all. >> around here anyway the writers are really supportive of each other. for writers to argue would be like arguing over a piece of dirt. i mean, what are we fighting about? >> the stakes are too low. >> the stakes are so low. why would you be a jerk about it? >> if mississippi were a country and there were a national hero, dead or alive, by consensus, statewide, who would the statue be of? >> elvis. >> really? it wouldn't be b.b. king? >> it should be b.b. king. >> yeah. >> but it would be elvis. >> but it would be elvis. >> miss

thompson: mr. speaker, thank you, mr. speaker. this evening i will have the honor and privilege of presenting the national eagle scout association distinguished eagle scout award to mr. john graham, president and c.e.o. of the american society of association executives. the distinguished eagle scout award was established in 1969 to acknowledge eagle scouts who have received extraordinary national level recognition within their field and have a strong record of voluntary service to their community. mr. speaker, the over 100 million scouting alumni over the last century, less than 4% attain the rank of eagle and of these eagles only one in 1,000 will be awarded the distinguished eagle scout honor. renowned distinguished eagle scouts include president of the united states -- the president of the boy scouts of america secretary bob gates, supreme court justice stephen breyer, president gerald ford, astronaut neil armstrong and steven spielburg. i ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating mr. john graham on receiving this prestigious award. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose