karen williams said she wanted to look at her son's post after she died in a terrible motorcycle accidentught for two years after she was blocked from her son's page. karen joins me from portland, oregon. thank you so much for your time. i saw your story on friday. i wanted to talk with you. obviously, this is one of the situations that comes about. it's all very new. from a mother's standpoint. tell me why you wanted to see your son's account. >> friends of his notified me to tell me of the wonderful postings people were making on his wall. you have to remember, this is back in 2006 before his friends gave me their own personal password so i could go on and my husband and i could see what was written about him and how much they missed him on his wall. i found out right then they were going to -- facebook was going to drop it in 30 days. my main reason was just to try to keep it up for at least a year so that it would be there on the anniversary of his death, which would be very important to his friends and to me. i got ahold of facebook -- yes. >> i imagine that request from you to faceb

greg johnson, gayle meadows, al williams, karen johnson, john williams templeton. you have two minutes each for this part of the comments. >> first, i'd like to say thanks for the opportunity. by the way, my former live i was sciu. my name is greg johnson. i'm co-owner of larkis group which is the oldest bookstore in the nation. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. i saw the statistics that the secretary of the district released regarding the san francisco unified school district. 50% of out of school suspensions and 42% of in-school suspensions while we make up 11.9% of the entire population in the school district. yet only 4.3% of the students taking the s.a.t. are black. we wonder why more teachers in schools do not use our 50 years of experience and expertise and materials. we need to re-examine how the district is using resources to provide the instruction of our black youth today. so having said that, as a co-owner of marcus bookstore, we offer our services. we offer our expertise. by the way, i'm a product of san francisco unified school district. [cheers and

prince william county police say karen murphy left her 2-year-old son in the back of the family minivan for more than seven hours. murphy's been charged with felony murder and child neglect. her attorneys argue this was simply a tragic accident. if convicted she could face up to 40 years in prison. >>> this morning d.c. police are on the lookout for a man and woman seen leaving a restaurant shooting in columbia heights. a witness tells news4 two men were argue being a woman when one pulled a gun and shot the other in the chest. this happened yesterday morning at the ihop on irving street and 14th in northwest washington. the victim was taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. police have not released his identity. the restaurant was briefly closed while police interviewed witnesses. it has since reopened. >>> and the archdiocese of washington suspended the catholic priest who denied communion to a lesbian at her mother's funeral. the archdiocese placed father marcell glanismo on leave for "intimidating behavior toward parish staff and others." he serves at st. john newm

to 40 years in prison for the death of her son walked out of the prince william county courthouse today a free woman. sort of. karen murphy was charged with killing her two-year-old son by leaving him in a hot van. but she was sentenced to probation with community service. >> karen murphy sobbed loudly after leaving the courtroom. her husband ushered her out the back door of the prince william county courthouse. she'll be on probation for six years and must do 400 hours of community service. she will face no jail time in the death of her two-year-old child. >> my daughter is six weeks old and i can't imagine being too busy, you know, you're a mother, that's your responsibility. that's your first priority no matter what else is going on. so i definitely think she should have to serve time for it. >> murphy had been indicted after leaving her toddler in her minivan all day on june 17. she had forgotten to drop him off at daycare and went straight to her job as a vet at the caring hands animal hospital in bristow. at the end of the day, her husband drove that same minivan to the daycare and back home again after not f

canon, kelli williams and karen kelly and all the people that helped me put this together and of course also c-span is here tonight covering the event. and of course i would be remiss if i did not thank my family who unfortunately could not make it tonight for giving me the support to do this and also the support to write a other books and have time to do those things when there didn't seem to be much time to do anything. so they are of course the back on in all of this. now, before i start and i would like to tell each one of my students here that actually this book is a dedicated to you. it's dedicated to my children and to you for the reason being that every semester at sea bbci teach the constitution and as you are all aware when i do that i ask the question how many have ever read the constitution? of course usually one hand goes up, maybe two and sometimes none. every semester i'm confronted with the fact that i go into a blank slate in its unfortunate the coast the constitution of course is the governing document for the united states and we often hear about the constitution what

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prince william police say that karen murphy left her 2-year-old son in the back of the family minivane than seven hours. murphy has been charged with felony murder and child neglect. her attorneys argue that this was simply a tragic accident. if convicted, though, she faces up to 40 years in prison. >>> this morning investigators are trying to figure out what caused a brush fire in montgomery county. about 50 firefighters battled the fire in gaithersburg. it quickly spread to several acres. it was brought under control a short time later. no one was hurt. >>> d.c. mayor gray is coming under fair for how the administration is spending the district's money. the "washington post" reports that gray's administration has spent more than $1 million on public meetings and include more than $14,000 on a teleprompter and $5 on a speechwriter. he's held it 5 major city-sponsored events over the past year. >>> the leaders of virginia and maryland are making their voices heard on the presidential election. governor o'donnell and martin o'malley were guests on "meet the press" yesterday and clashed

karen finney, susan del percio, and jimmy williams.ted in your thoughts on the president's decision to make the point you made was that it was a strategic move for him to put himself a little more risk by holding a press conference. he will create a bigger gap between him and then. >> it's like i wrote in my column. you watch a train wreck? you get out of the way. the president didn't have to do a press conference today. he could have let people go to the polls. instead he rolled the dice and had a press conference. it was a total success. i'm not saying that because he was a democrat, but because he did pretty well. >> or at least he didn't create a sound byte that's going to hurt him. >> so you have four guys hurting each other. >> there's one two years ago he called the cop stupid. in other words, he didn't make any dumb mistakes. >> although on that, i didn't think he was wrong to say that a -- >> i'm saying it was politically stupid because it created a sound byte that distracted from the press krvconference. >> it's not something

karen finney, susan del percio, and jimmy williams. has worked in special forces, and the core issue by them is when it comes to american military strategy in afghanistan, the american government refuses to acknowledge where america is at, what the actual reality is, what the mission is, where we want to go, or how we're going to get there and the reason for that was best summarized by tony schaffer. take a listen. >> what we have is, like you said, a group of egotistical folks committed to a course of action, letting people die for the good of a political decision rather than on a practical one. >> we saw this coming out of context and conflict. the culture of political denial when the actual game doesn't reconcile with the viable strategy that's been agreed to in washington, d.c. >> but there was no real strategy to get out and decide what we were going to do. what needed to be accomplished. >> the only reason i'll disagree with that is we were going to secure the border between afghanistan and pakistan to prevent al qaeda from being

karen murphy accidentally left, she says, her son ryan in her minivan last june were a prince william county judge sentenced murphy to a year in jail suspending all 12 months. he ordered her to serve six engineers probation and perform 400 hours of community service. >>> a marine pilot honored as a hero in his hometown. captain michael quin was killed in a helicopter crash last month. yesterday, a long procession of police, firefighters and supporters escorted him home to purcellville, virginia for the last time. his father is a volunteer firefighter in the town. >> the family is really strong. his father, brad, and his mother, betsy, are just very great people. the fact that this town has come around them has been help for us as well as for the family i'm sure. >> we respect those folks who put their lives on the line every day and regardless if they are in afghanistan or at home training, it is a dangerous world. >> michael quin was killed last no when two helicopters crashed over the arizona desert during a nighttime training mission. >>> a ferry packed with hundreds of people caps

, doug noinchts jail time for a prince william county mother initially charged with murder for leaving her toddler in a hot van last summer where he died. dr. karen murphy accepted the plea deal and pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges. instead of jail time she will complete community service and serve six months probation. prosecutors agreed to the plea deal saying the pain over the loss of her son ryan was punishment enough. >>> the board of trustees at penn state says a failure of leadership led them to fire hall of fame football coach joe paterno. in a report today they say paterno could have done more when he learned about he an alleged case of sexual abuse involving a former assistant coach. a lawyer for the paterno family questioned the times of the report. he died in january, and former coach jerry sandusky is awaiting trial. he's charged with abusing ten boys over a period of 15 years. >>> a new measure to toughen child abuse laws in the district goes to the committee. the council held a public hearing to talk about the bill. it would expand the current city law to require everyone that witnesses sex abuse to report it. violators ha

william county judge. peggy fox was in the courtroom to say it was emotional is really an understatement. >> karen murphy cried continually. her body shaking in court today, lesli. she pleaded guilty to two counts of child neglect and that is bumped down from felony to misdemeanor because that way she will not lose her veterinarian license. stand next to me, lesli. so it bumped down to the misdemeanor, so she won't lose her veterinarian license and then the judge agreed to sentence her to 24 months all suspended and she walked out a free woman. >> karen murphy sobbed loudly after leaving the courtroom. her husband ushered her out the back door of the courthouse. she'll be on probation for three years and must do 400 hours of community service. but she will face no jail time in the death of her two-year- old child. >> you think she should have received jail time? >> absolutely. without question. to me, should have been a no doubter. >> i think it's terrible. i can understand how she would be upset and everything, but that's terrible. >> murphy had been indicted on felony murder and child neglect charges after l

like karen said, the social network gets broader and broader and more infiltrated in our personal and public lives, this is what's going to happen. >> is there nowhere you're going to stop, jimmy williams? >> do you want to come to my house and get into my personal life? you can deal with my shotgun. fine with me. >> where is the line we draw on this? >> when you look at our legal system, they're always catching up to technology. so we don't know what the line is ever going to be in a snapshot moment when they haven't addressed it. >> i think there is a difference between a company saying, we need some assurances from you that you're not going to use social networking to defame this company and that we have a certain code of conduct that we expect and saying, and we don't trust you enough that you're going to be able to abide by that so let us in to see what you're hiding. there is a difference. it's one thing for a company to say, here's a set of standards we expect you to follow, it's another thing to invade into what is still private territory. >> that's a great last word by karen finney on that issue brought to us by sunny washington, which i understand karen decided not to come to

carey in prince william county where the mother of a toddler who died after he was left behind in her hot vehicle pleads guilty to reduced charges. i'll tell you about the plea deal for dr. karen murphy. >>> lap tops on the fritz? if your computer is fried, it could be your fault. the simple steps to keep it running smoothly. >>> plus, outrage from parents tonight when a department store markets shirts for kids with some questionable slogans. >>> we're talking lap tops tonight. if you think your lap top is to use in your lap think again. >> no, no. when it's running slowly, freezing up, it could be all your fault and the fault of your lap. not the computer. liz crenshaw is here to tell you how to avoid messing the thing up. >> hi there. you think lap top you think portable computer, convenience. experts say they're not meant to be moved around or used on your lap. geek support at best buy says half of all lap top troubles are caused by human error. how you handle it and where you use your lap top affects your computer's life span. >> they say on average the lap top should last you about three years. >> reporter: that's only if you care for your lap top properly. >> by not trea