it's levi johnston. i'm kathy griffin-johnston. >> best looking one around here. >> he cares for the woman inside the woman that is kathy griffin. he's actually delayed hunting season by a day to share our love. i'm also going to slip him a -- and he'll wake up four hours later, crying. what do you think of britney's comeback, levi? >> i don't really pay attention to other women. you know? >> see, he only has eyes for me. levi, we were even in a twirling fashion shot. i don't do as much modeling as you do. >> well, you look good. >> oh, god, i cannot get enough of you honestly. now, what kind of modeling would you like to do? because i'm seeing underwear campaign. >> that would work, you know? >> i think so, too. >> yeah. yeah. >> tell me what it was like the first time you had to wear makeup. i know you don't care for the hollyweird makeup. >> that was the biggest -- one of the best times right there. i look forward to it every show. >> can you stop looking at my rack and look at my face, please? >> i'm

sherry johnston pleaded guilty to one count of possession of oxycontin with intent to distribute.vi johnston was once engaged to sarah palin's daughter bristol and is the father of bristol's son, tripp. sherry johnston's deal with let her five years in jail with two years suspended. who's the teacher? actor tony danza, that's who. he will be co-teaching tenth grade english class for a raeality tv show called "teach." yesterday the philadelphia school commissioners gave the project the green light. danza will be working at philadelphia's northeast high school. that's the same location where the 1968 documentary "high school" was filmed. philadelphia's mayor says the show will give a much needed spotlight to urban education issue. the program will air on the a&e network next spring. >> magician david copperfield is the target of a lawsuit by a fashion model. and former beauty queen. 22-year-old seattle woman says copperfield sexually assaulted and threatened her while she was a guest on his private island. no criminal charges are on file. coppfield's attorneys dismissed the lawsuit

but the campaign's main object, johnston's army, lived to fight another day. in a second big campaign, sherman marched through georgia to the seat. in so doing, he marched away from the army, now under john bell hood. he was supposed to destroy. thomas was left to protect all of the union armies western games. he was also left with inadequate force with which to do this. sherman had taken almost the whole of sherman's army and left him with a small force of veterans together with convalescence, scattered rejects and recruits. but in of the great battles of history, certainly the most decisive of the war, thomas at nashville, tennessee, annihilated the confederate army of the west between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. on december 16, 1864, hood's army was utterly destroyed. but thomas was not done yet. the cavalry he had carefully assembled, in spite of grant, now had its crowning task. dismounted it bought with tenacity and brilliant, mounted, its bed after the fragments of whose army and relentless pursuit. the rock of chickamauga had become this sledgehammer of nashvill

robert johnston taught at mount hebron high for 35 years. he pleaded guilty in april for abusing the student over a two- year period. johnston has been sentenced to nine years behind bars, with all but 18 months suspended. johnston has also been placed on probation for five years and will be placed on the state's sex offender registry. >>> a bicyclist remains in critical condition at shock trauma after being hit by a van in anne arundel county. shamika fanny baker of annapolis was hit while driving on college parkway in arnold on tuesday night. police say charges are pending against the driver of the van, and police are investigating whether alcohol may have been a factor. >>> now the latest on the investigation of that deadly metro train crash in june. federal investigators have changed their story a bit about when they learned of past problems with the automated safety system used to prevent crashes. it turns out the national transportation safety board knew about a march failure of the safety system the day after the june 22nd crash. prev

trying to grab the spotlight from kathy griffin and levi johnston.rea, even made his way into orbit and landed on the moon. i don't know if you googled it at all but they're calling it squirrel bombing. people are going online and competing who can come up with the most clever way to pop this squirrel up into a picture. >> oh, no. >> you knew they couldn't resist this. >> i'm not coordinated. >> i'll leave that to you. >> man ka, onica, here comes hu bill. >> picking up steam out in the atlantic. we'll get an update from the national hurricane center. chloe is 9 months old. she is the greatest thing ever. woman: one little smile, one little laugh. - honey bunny. - ( coos ) we would do anything for her. my name is kim bryant and my husband and i made a will on legalzoom. man: it was really easy to do. - ( blows raspberries ) - ( laughing ) robert shapiro: we created legalzoom to help you take care of the ones you love. go to legalzoom.com today and complete your will in minutes. >>> i'm amanda drury with your cnbc market wrap. the dow down 186 points.

. >>> 61-year-old robert douglas johnston had all but 18 months of his nine-year sentence suspended for a two-year long relation to the head with a female student. he will also serve probation and must register as a sex offender. >>> the grand jury has handed down an indictment in connection with the death of steven bommer. -- steve mcnair. the charge was accused of selling a 9 mm pistol to his mistress in two days before he was shot. he remains in federal custody and if convicted, faces 10 years in prison. >>> michael vick is returning to professional football. he signed a two-year deal with the philadelphia eagles. he is eligible to practice immediately but will have to wait awhile before he can apply. -- before he can play. >> you only that one shot at a second chance. i am conscious of that. >> just weeks after being released from federal prison after serving time on dogfighting charges, the disgraced star signed a two-year deal with philadelphia. >> i made mistakes, it does a terrible things, made a horrible mistake. i want to be part of the solution and not the problem. >> from fa

johnston but really doesn't have anything to do with me or, b, you're attacking my family again?right. sadly a lot of people in the country pled guilty to similar charges today that aren't related to sarah palin and, you know, people have people in their families that do bad things all the time, get caught, and they need family support. i can pretty much guarantee you what we've seen so far. sarah palin's not even going to call her family. >> alaska radio host, contributor of the huffington post shannyn moore down here in the lower 48. thanks. good to see you. that's "countdown" for this the 2,302nd day since the previous president declared mission accomplished in iraq. with this late note out of "the wall street journal" it is reporting the white house and senate democratic leaders are going to consider a strategy shift that would break the legislation of health care reform into two parts and pass the most expensive provisions solely with democratic votes. we'll see that story develop throughout the evening and tomorrow. in the interim i'm keith olbermann. in the meantime and in

. >>> on a much lighter note tonight, the headache that is levi johnston. remember him?lmost son-in-law? he's cracking jokes about his almost mother-in-law. levi and kathy griffin together on "larry king live" last night and it was a train wreck. >> let's just kiss and tell, shall we? i woke up this morning in your arms spooning and just so confused about what love is and i realize i found it in your chocolate beautiful eyes. how are you ever going to get over my, levi? >> i don't know, it's going to be tough. >> my plan is that sarah could make all of the trouble go away if she moves you into the big house, everybody gets along and you actually get to help raise the kid. why is that a problem? >> i don't know. she screwed all that up. i'm not looking forward to being around that family anymore. >> johnston was kathy griffin's date to the teen choice awards this week. >>> as hard as we've tried to, we can no longer ignore what's happening among some of our cable news colleagues. in case you've not heard, they are at war. big swinging anchor number one thinks that big swi

tamron, cougar alert. 48-year-old comedienne kathy griffin stepped out with levi johnston. they walked hand in hand down the red carpet. levi even gave kathy griffin a little smooch. there's reports that johnston is loving the hollywood life and his own reality show is not out of the question. i've always said that levi is the only one that's ben fate ee from the sarah palin chronicles. >> and, boy, has he. i love kathy griffin. never mind. all things bad that i'm thinking. well, he's working it. whatever. good luck to him. that does it for "the big picture." we had to end on this note. come on. >> we have to end on cougar alert. >>> death wish. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris matthews in boston tonight. leading off tonight, killing it loudly. let's face it, the people who said they're opposed to this provision of health care reform or that one aren't looking to improve the bill. they're trying to find any way they can to kill it. they argue against federally funded abortion or make up stories about government sponsored euthanasia for old people, but they

well, we is have a mother in johnston, rhode island, came to pick up her 6-month-old son in day carecked to discover that the center was completely locked. she started pounding on the windows, heard her son crying inside. so she grabbed a neighbor who helped her break a window to get the child out. during final check, the day care says he as overlooked. the mother says this was a horrible mistake that should never happen. >> these people were like second family fort babies. i don't want this to happen again, you know with somebody else. >> no charges have been filed in connection with the incident. the day care has been now placed on probation by the state. >>> great news for you chocolate lovers. it can save your life. >>> fans react to the news of michael phelps' car crash. i'll have the story coming up. ( sighs ) ( music throughout ) hey bets, can i borrow a quarter? sure, still not dry? i'm trying to shrink them. i lost weight and now some clothes are too big. how did you do it? simple stuff. eating right and i switched to whole grain. whole grain... studies show that people who

levi johnston, a great looking kid, interesting to watch. he needs to zip it.oks like my high-school boyfriend. i have no problem with that. the stop talking about sarah palin. >> my is -- minus the loan. the passengers on their plan strapped for nine hours. this is an abomination. we need a passenger's bill of rights. we needed now. >> we were about people who are kidnapped, essentially, a corporation kidnapping these people. we will let you go now. our show is over. no kidnapping. we'll be will come out next week for more of "white house chronicle." until then, all the best and watch what airplane you're right in. cheers. ♪ >> "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with whut howard university television. from washington, d.c., this has been "white house chronicle" -- a weekly analysis of the news with insight and a sense of humor, featuring llewellyn king, linda gasparello, and guests. this program may be seen on pbs stations and cable access channels. to see the program online, visit us at whitehousechronicle.com. whitehousechronicle.com.

kathy griffin and levi johnston teaming up again.s this event on the palin family -- >> look at the flirting. >> we will come back, cars, click and drive, president versus the protestors. and, yes, levi and kathy. we are back right after this. well, this chevy cobalt xfe has better highway mileage than a comparable honda civic. this chevy traverse has better mileage than honda pilot. the all-new chevy equinox has better mileage than honda cr-v. and chevy malibu has better mileage than accord. however, honda does make something that we just can't compete with. it's self-propelled. there's never been more reasons to look at chevy. long summer days and not enough sleep. what i wouldn't do for a do-over. (announcer) new neutrogena total skin renewal. gentle exfoliating puffs and micro-vibrations speed surface cell turnover. it's clinically tested to help undo the look of a year's worth of skin aging in just one week. that summer of sun? i just made it disappear. (announcer) new total skin renewal. neutrogena recommended most by dermatolo

. >>> we will take a look at today's weather now with veronica johnston, who is standing by. >> hurricane bill is days away. as i mentioned earlier, some of the moisture from claudette will interact with the weather fronts west of the area today up over the ohio valley. 85, the temperature right now. sunday we hit 92. monday we were up to 91 degrees. highs the next couple days, 90 or greater. this will be the longest stretch of consecutive 90-degree days we have had this summer. we are going up to 90 or higher today. look at the satellite and radar loop over the last couple hours. mostly clear skies all the way up into new york. and you can see the train of the moisture up into western west virginia, and the weather front west of that area, parkerburg wet. and we could have showers on thursday, and thundershowers. and west of the area, i think the higher terrain around 81 is where there could be an isolated thundershower today. we will see a high of 93. and then we take on the rockiesa it will be hot and sticky, and maybe sure you have water and your baseball hat on. >> always ready for t

let's get our first forecast from veronica johnston. >> we could see the same thing today. we start off here in college park, maryland, the humidity getting close to 90. already up to 88. lexington park, maryland, down south, steamy, and humid outside. leesburg, virginia, louden county, 83 degrees with 73% humidity throughout the area. fix d 86 degrees again the concern the temperature. a few storms off to the west, but still afternoon and evening storms on tap as we get up to 90 degrees today. we will talk about how many more days of the high heat and storms in the forecast, and of course i willet you updated with the latest track on bill as it moves close to bermuda in the next couple days. joe? >> thank you. >>> let's get a look at the midday traffic, and here is jerry edwards. >> let's take a live look and see how we are doing as midday gets under way here. i-95 northbound, main lanes in the hovs look at that, roadwork and construction. doesn't matter of the interstate you are on, you will have slow traffic. it's time to use route 1 instead. no issues to report either w

sherry johnston will likely get three years behind bars.ycontin legally until her insurance stopped paying for it. levi and sarah palin's daughter called off hire wedding after their son, tripp, was born. >>> a georgia family's dream has finally come true. all 24 of them moved into their new home but it took a whole lot more people to get them there. >>> polls have closed in afghanistan's presidential election, seen as a crucial test for stability and democracy. taliban threats dampened voter turnout in some areas, especially in the taliban stronghold in the south. despite tight security, afghan officials say 26 people were killed in attacks. incumbent president hamid karzai is running for a second term. the obama administration has distanced itself from karzai, criticizing his ties with former warlords. karzai's best challenger has identified himself as the best chance for change. >>> we got some breaking news out of memphis from the sports world. the ncaa has forced the university of memphis to vacate its records set in 38 victories in th

remember levi johnston, sarah palin -- he was back in the news yesterday.the teen choice awards. she brought levi johnston. he walked the red carpet. he gave her a little kiss on the cheek. apparently he's in town doing a magazine shoot, working on some re reality stuff. levi johnson -- >> don't go to pat. >> willie, lock and load. >> i told you not to go to pat. good lord. >> what's wrong with america? >> secretary of state hillary clinton, as you know, is on an almost two-week tour of the continent of africa and she was dancing. she was doing some dancing. first to wednesday night in kenya. she got herself in a dance circle, getting low, grooving, reaching for the sky. good for her. she's getting involved. then saturday night, this time in cape town. this was saturday afternoon in cape town. >> nice head bop. >> head bop, toe tap. she wants to feel it. she wants to feel it before she commits to it. >> that's neat. >> i give her points for trying. >> what's she supposed to do? she is doing great, having a great time. >> we love hillary clinton. >> just wha

also, the 2009 teen choice awards levy johnston this is a bizarre thing here.e escorted kathy griffin to the awards? what is up with that? >> well, i mean, look. you know the way the white house correspondent dinner works where everybody tries to bring some outrageous celebrity. kathy griffin gets the idea that that is the best way of coming up with press and she made the best choice anyone could make for the teen choice awards. it is ironic that levi johnson pulls upfor the teen choice awards which we are not calling the teen pro choice awards. >> thank you so much. >>> the news is far from over. the news edge at 6:00 starts right now. >>> the news edge, continuing to follow a developing story out of virginia. a 0 young man mauled to death by a dog. the 20-year-old victim found dead in a home in leesburg. stacey cohen has been on the scene the last hour and a half or so. what are the dotals you have learned. >> let me explain first this has been an

robert johnston will have to register as a sex offender. >> the ravens blanked the redskins by 23-0.cco and rice made the most of their first game. >> less than a month after his release from prison controversial quarterback michael vick has a new team to call home. the philadelphia eagles have signed vick to what sources say is a two-year deal worth a potential $6.6 million. vick, under the terms of his condition wall suspension, he could not appear in regular season games. >> this morning we asked what do you think of the eagles signing michael vick. >> "is dog-fighting cruel? yes. vick has paid his debt to society and more so the commissioner of football should not impose restrictions whatsoever on the man. this is overkill to the max." >> this is a joke. thezz pro players think they are above the law. they have a chance of a lifetime and they screw it up. these players should be given one chance at the brass ring. >> jill disagrees. i am a dog lover and believe what michael has done is dispickable. however, he has been punished, he's paid his debt to society. he deserves to be ab

our staff winner, taste of levy johnston's new reality show. that is clever.viewer winner is ken who didn't tell us where he is from. cagey. his caption and with one final strategic move the u.s. congress begins their summer break. >> democrats or republicans? >> that is an excellent question. i think nonpartisan. >> let's say one of each. >> perfect. ken, your beat "360" t-shirt is on the way. we are not done. up next, a planned building implosion gone terribly wrong. it is our "shot of the day." >>> plus the economy is improving but will president obama keep his campaign promise not to raise taxes on the middle class? ahead on "360." welcome to the now network. right now five co-workers are working from the road using a mifi, a mobile hotspot that provides up to five shared wifi connections. two are downloading the final final revised final presentation. - one just got an e-mail. - what?! - huh? - it's being revised again. the co-pilot is on mapquest. - ( rock music playing ) - and tom is streaming meeting psych-up music from meltedmetal.com. that's happenin

robert johnston taught at mount hebron school for 35 years before his arrest in december. he pleaded guilty. and sentenced to nine years in jail, with all but 18 months suspended. >>> investigators looking into the fatal metro crash. backed often the statement made about when they learned about a safety problem. a crash like this was avoided in march, when the train operator used an emergency brake to avoid hitting another train. an ntsb spokesperson said they just learned of the march incident last week. when in fath, they talked about the incident one day after the june 22nd crash, which killed nine people. >>> the family and attorneys for the baltimore bicyclists killed last week are renewing their pleas for help from the public the entire incident was caught on camera. derek valcourt is live where that accident happened with more on what the video shows. >> reporter: you can see this bike ride here. a memorial to the victim. also, a reminder for cycling safety. the family and police are still hoping that they can have some help, catching the driver who caused this dead

optical to senator johnston said obama's plan would not help healthcare at all. cnet republicans in congress know that serious health-care reform is a top priority of the american people. we are committed to getting it done. but we need to get the right reform, rather than just rush something through that would leave us in far worse shape in the future. >> julie: senator thune said he proposed plant would burden state governments and probably result in higher taxes. >> are called starting a racial controversy that reached all the way to the white house, but before all of that at first contributed to the arrest of a prominent harvard professor in his own home. while now, he's making her for what she did not say in that phone call. henry louis kitchen you're sending to see up waylon flowers on a personal note that -- not a beer, flowers and all. no word on what the note said that waylon sawyer said gates extended a gesture of gratitude. as you may know, weiland was the passerby who called cambridge police to report what appeared to be a break in the two-minute gets

levi johnston lets loose. but is levi just playing a big joke on all of us? >>> and brad pitt is one-on-one with "showbiz tonight," his fired-up comments about gay marriage and why he won't marry angelina. >>> that's your "showbiz tonight" news break. tv's most provocative entertainment news show starts at the top of the hour right here on hln.

levi johnston. does that name ring a bell? of writing a book -- >> isn't that the father of her grandchild? >> who is the daddy, it's lee ve johnston. one night, at least, with kougar kathy griffin. >> still ahead in the second hour of the "morning meeting," we got bigger fish to fry. do whatever you want. enjoy yourselves. subsidize abortion. another nice nightmare to get people worked up. we will separate fact from fiction in the health care debate and see if we can create a conversation as opposed to a bunch of hooting and hollering. you're watching msnbc. the greataste of splenda no calorie sweetener and added a little fiber? sweet! sweet! sweet! (announcer)splenda no calorie sweetener with fiber. now for the first time, a gram of healthy fiber in every packet. sweet! (announcer) splenda no calorie sweetener, starts with sugar. tastes like sugar. but it's not sugar. no calories and a little fiber. how's that taste? (together) sweet! sweet! (announcer) splenda with fiber. imagine life sweeter. when i really liked to be outs

whether it's the johnston family, whether it's the bloggers in alaska, will whether it's campaign people's never her fault. so, i don't think this is part of a registration of that. i think this is really a cry to her base. >> palin would have you believe that the medicaid system is flawed. but in this particular case, isn't part of the problem, or wasn't at least part of the problem during a considerable period of time here, the incompetence of her administration, not of some sort of systemic problem with medicaid? >> isn't it interesting that people keep running for office, they keep telling us the government's bad and then they get in and they prove it? she's a classic case. she talks about how bad the government is and that bureaucrats are bad. and yet, she's spent a lot of time on the road last year running to be a bureaucrat and being part of government. she got in and she proved it. and i spent a lot of time today talking to this department. i talked to four or five different people there. and my understanding is they actually requested funds, they requested more resources and wer

his most famous books are a barbie of joseph johnston, a biography of patrick labor and, a book called decision and see which is about five naval battles the ship american history, but today he is here to talk about what i think is his best book, "lincoln and his admirals". abraham lincoln, the u.s. navy and the civil war, this book won the lincoln prize this year which brings all sorts of prestige as well as a tidy lot of cash. [laughter] so we will start off with a gene and then move to craggy and at that point we will open up to questions from the audience. >> thanks, joe. i'm delighted to be here. i am a native of maryland but it is my first visit to the key school. and what a very impressive institution is. i am also a thrill to be a part as a neighbor of the road in baltimore county of the annapolis boat festival. and i am here to talk about my biography of the mary todd lincoln. who is as many of you know our most controversial first lady. she has been accused and listen to this, of trapping her husband into marriage, being pregnant -- gasp -- at the altar, having a terrible tem

meanwhile levi johnston, the father of bristol palin's infant son says palin's marriage has been in trouble from the start. >> reporter: you think they're having marital problems? >> they have from day one. >> reporter: really? can you explain that? >> not really, no. >> reporter: meaning that's a reason why she stepped down? >> yeah, i do. >> reporter: cheating? >> no, i'm not going to get into that. >> reporter: but marital problems? >> yeah. >> bruce narkins, i have a theory that levi is the only one that's benefited from the attention. >> boy, has he benefited. he's turned into this complete celebrity, because he achieved the magnificent result, i guess, of getting a high school girl pregnant. i mean, only in america could this get you sort of constantly on television. he was just at some tv awards or something. it's ridiculous. >> tamron, go ahead. >> well, ruth, i get what you're saying, but he became famous, because they put him in the limelight at the convention. i don't know, were he not present at the convention, had people not been as fascinated. >> well, they kind of had to at t

her caption, a little taste of levi johnston's new reality show. very clever.y staff favorite, i have to admit. our viewer winner is ken who didn't tell us where he's from. very cagey. his caption, and with one final strategic move, the u.s. congress begins their summer break. >> are those democrats or republicans? >> that is an excellent question. i think it's a nonpartisan. >> let's say one of each. that would be a good way to do it. >> perfect. >> ken, your "beat 360" t-shirt is on the way. >>> up next, a planned building implosion gone terribly wrong. we'll tell you where it happened. it's our shot of the day. you can probably see why. >>> plus will president obama keep his campaign promise not to raise taxes? you know why i sell tools? tools are uncomplicated? nothing complicated about a pair of 10 inch hose clamp pliers. you know what's complicated? shipping. shipping's complicated. not really. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service shipping is easy. if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. that's not complicat

and i showed it to my boss, johnny johnston. he said this is good.ou want to turn it into a novel. so i crossed out the title of the story and wrote chapter one on the material. and doing nothing about writing a novel, i started. well, it turned out to be a novel about the dakota territory in 1870s. and i started out thinking of a parody, and then i got more interested in the idea of making something serious out of a disreputable genre. so there's a structural parity in the book, but it doesn't make fun of anything. and the book was published and it got pretty good reviews. and i thought i really had gotten away with something, because of course i had ever been west ohio which is where kenyon was. i thought ohio was the last. -- the west extractor is a great tradition of these things. >> that was filed in the travel sections of the state. >> the reviews are pretty kind. but then i got a letter from a lady at texas. she was an elderly woman. i could tell by their very fine cursive hand she had of the 19th century penmanship. she said young man, i was

and it's to her benefit to stay out there and to the benefit of levy johnston to ride it as much as hes the interview with the man who wants to be president of afghanistan. >>> also ahead, why some college football stadiums may be banning facebook, twitter, and youtube. does it make any sense? can they really do that? >> no, they can't. they cannot do that. >>> plus, stephen colbert gets a congressman to funnel a beer. >> can they do that? >> some of us did. you're watching the big picture on msnbc. he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old! - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gasping ) - ( chirp ) van gogh? ( chirp ) even steven. - ( chirp ) mansion. - ( chirp ) good to go. ( grunts ) timber! ( chirp ) boss? what do we do with the shih-tzu? - ( crowd gasps ) - ( chirp ) joint custody. - phew! - announcer: get work done now. communicate in less than a second with nextel direct connect. only on the now network. deaf, hard of hearing and people with speech disabilities access www.spri

it turns out that levi johnston's 15 minutes of fame aren't up yet.at were taped last night as comedian kathy griffin's date. hand in hand, they walked out on the red carpet. noah levy is the senior editor of "in touch weekly." noah joins me right now on the phone. what is going on? >> this is the year of the cougar and it looks like kathy griffin is jumping on the bandwagon, she is 49, she is 19, and she brought him to the teen choice awards. >> so are we starting rumors here, or are they just having fun, because kathy's one of my favorite comedian. >> i think this is just a lot of media fun. they both get the joke, they both love the press, and why not? everyone had a great time with the whole thing. >> i'm here with mort zuckerman, who was jealous of levi and says that -- >> this is the gift that keeps on giving. carlos recommended that i go out with a woman that was as young as 49, i don't know what that means. >> no, that's good advice. you know what, why not? get press wherever you can get, and younger is great with older, vice versa, why not? n

the nats get josh johnston tuesday night. washington has not beaten them once this year.rrow, bee you're going home to face a star. one of the best pitchers in league right now. balester goes 2-0. i believe for the first tim today on any hitter. jones was at the plate when milledge was caught stealing. 3-0. p balester's first walk of the day in front of the catcher cleanup man, ryan doumit.  touch pitch, breaking ball fo strike. mccatty is watching his pitcher carefully. >> bob: doumit at gonzalez, guzman turns it, the 4-6-3. gonzalez didn't give guzman a good relay. the nats turn their first d play today. >> rob: plenty of time right here, this ball is hit ve hard. gets guzman way off second . he has to recover here. comes across the bag. just gets going. >> bob: bases empty, two outs, and here is delwyn young. >> bob: popped him up. out behind short. and josh willingham the catch after the call belliard will step back to the plate whene come back. @x@0

kathie grif event showed up with levy johnston. griffin called him the ultimate teen. >> my first question was, did he talk? >> i was going to say. >> every time he's on tv he can't talk. >> kathy griffin with the personality. >> maybe she did it as a contrast. >> that's good. she's funny. >> manchester, doing any traveling across new england, gray side then things will clear up. look at that. nice shot. that's in new hampshire. what about the delays for the day? rain moving through boston, cleveland, detroit, chicago, st. louis, probably going to get thunderstorms that will give you a delay of an hour or more. more thunderstorms developing later this afternoon, talking about atlanta, cincinnati and seattle with showers and storms but new york city metro philadelphia just a morning part of your day with poor visibility. otherwise hot up there. we'll talk about that, robin in 20 minutes. >> a plane made an emergency landing in the middle of a seaside wedding on saturday. the couple rode horses to the connecticut beach and about to b

kathy griffin appeared on the red carpet with levi johnston as her date.arah palin's daughter. >>> do gun exchanges like the one in fresno really work? we'll get your views. bbbbbbbbbbb >>> sad news from broward county, florida. a mother whale and her baby became stranded on the beach today, about midday. the spokeswoman for the marine animal rescue society says the mother has died and the calf is in extremely critical condition, and you see them right there. side by side. a team of vets is examining the baby whale. it will probably have to be euthanized because it can't survive without its mother. the whales were spotted around 1:00 p.m. the mother tried to beach herself. it could be bad health or any number of reasons. swimmers work feverishly to guide her back to open water. every time the whale swam back to shore. now the baby whale is in definite peril. >>> divers have locate d what they think is the wreckage of the small plane. the single engine fixed wing aircraft that collided with a helicopter and crashed saturday. the search was called off becaus

robert douglas johnston at all but 18 months of his nine-year sentence suspended for the two- year-long also serve five years' probation and must register as a sex offender. >>> let's get a final check on the morning commute with sarah caldwell. >> dealing with substantial delays on the out of the southwest side, all due to construction. 14 miles per hour in the area of i-95. extending back to the body from 295. two left lanes remain blocked. a new accident on eastbound 100 and snowden river parkway. another one at moravia and i-95. 27 minutes on the outer loop west side. these delays extend down towards 295. let's look at those delays. the pace of things through that area. switch you over to a live view of traffic. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> nice temperature range out there. today we will go up into the mid 80's. partly cloudy skies. 84 to 86. the sun is setting tonight at 8:30. plenty of time to enjoy friday. little league world series taking place in aberdeen, beautiful conditions. thus the sunny to partly cloudy. another chance of a pop-up thunderstorm in the afterno

our executive producer and ryan johnston, they are working on that. >> julie: i'll see you guys laterie. >> come out and help us. >> julie: thank you phil goldberg and joey, we appreciate you coming on. >> gregg: new numbers from the irs shows that the top taxpayers are paying higher than ever before. here is how they crunched the numbers. take a look at this. the top 1% of taxpayers paid 40% top 1% of all the income taxes collected by the federal government. 1.4 million taxpayers are shelling out more to the irs than another 134 million taxpayers combined. what does that mean for the rest of us? joining us to talk about is joseph, chairman and ceo of a company and former managing director of global and chief investment officer for morgan stanley investment management. >> thank you. >> gregg: this is pretty astonishing. it's not just the top 1% but talk to us about the top 5% and 10%? >> when you drill down into it. sometimes people aren't that sympathetic about the top 1%, they are paying so much in texas but when you look at the top 5% or the top 10%, the numbers become even more co

>> we want to play our "morning joe" moment where it's pat buchanan and levi johnston, and a lot to doouldn't you say? >> she is not my favorite mother-in-law. >> i wish we had not shown that either. >> yeah, me either. >> pat, what do you say about levi in the stream? >> please, tell us once again. >> take him down to the creek and hold his head under water until the thrashing stops. >> i am uncomfortable every time he says that. >> every time levi gets his little 15 minutes -- >> who would have guessed he worked for the nixon administration. i never would have seen that coming. what time is it, willie? >> it's time for our man, dylan ratigan. >> yes, i am dylan ratigan, and welcome to the "morning meeting." we have seen the right get angry, and now the left is angry. democrats revolting this morning over the public option. he says the president will lose 100 democratic votes in the house if he keeps that public option. >>> and then a man accused of stealing 100 debit card and credit card numbers. what did he do with those numbers? >>> engineering a crime scene, and dna evidence is su

sharon johnston, levi's mom, pleaded guilty to drug charges and likely get three years behind bars. the prosecutors agreed to a shortened sentence since she was using oxycontin legally until her insurance stopped paying for it. levi and sarah palin's daughter called off their wedding after their son was born. >>> hurricane bill, it's not exactly a concern for you today. it is a concern as we look at how huge it is. it's still very strong. >> it's a major storm, still a category 3 storm down from category 4 from yesterday. 125 miles an hour sustained winds. you get a glimpse how far away it is from the mainland, moving at 18 to 16 miles an hour. it is in northern puerto rico and bahamas, goes all the way up the eastern seaboard for the weekend. you will see effects of it and a rip current and basically to nantucket all the way to florida for the weekend. look at this, rain thunderstorms and big complex out of parts of missouri to oklahoma. and showers in oklahoma itself a nice line south of eden, moving over to the east the next six hours or show, posted watches out there. getting ne

last year and a half where, for example, all the armies start moving the same day against lee and johnston and others. then we see van mull ca using something like this as well. we get into distributed maneuver of large masses of men across various fronts and so on until we get to world war i where the real problem is converting tactical gains into strategic objectives and getting past -- which the failure to do so leads to the stalemate on the western front. on the eastern front, it's a very different kind of war, but there again strategic objectives are not really achieved until the russian army breaks down in 1918, and then the germans still lost the war despite overrunning western russia. the concept of operational art is developed in the '20s and '30s, the most outstanding examples, there's a glorious play of perhaps the best military thinkers in this country writing on the summit, and i would recommend the two-volume study in english by the israeli general who himself is an outstanding military thinker and in many ways foreign head of many american military thinkers. i had the privil