kerry: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. kerry: mr. president, it would be both inconsistent and inappropriate to vote aye on both amendments for a couple of reasons. first of all the amendment that we passed with 66 votes mandates that no longer than 30 days after this has passed. it could happen next week, three weeks. we are mandating a report from the administration with respect to whether he or not there is evidence at this time of north korea actually aiding or abetting or being a terrorist state. the most recent finding of the intelligence community says, no, the president of the united states, george bush, certified to us when he dessert fried them as a -- dessert pied them as a terrorist state, that they were not engaged in aiding and abetting terrorism at that time. and there is no evidence within the intelligence community at this moment in time that says so. the brownback amendment states that there is. so it's wrong. it would be inappropriate for the senate to base a finding of designating north korea as a -- as a terroris

çin the newsroom, kerry cavanaugh, wbal tv 11 news. >> now, tonight's report. that more aig execs will be getting bonuses. they are pressing the federal government to support the company's effort to pay millions to dozens of its top executives. $2.40 million for the executives, at least according to documents from earlier in the year. now, they do not need permission from the government, but they do not want to set off a firestorm of controversy. >> the man seated in senator obama's senate seat says he will not run for a term. he will make a public announcement tomorrow. roland burris has apparently raised only $845 for the 2010 campaign cycle and remains more than $111,000 in debt. roland burris was appointed by disgraced illinois governor rod blagojevich to fill the vacant senate seat. that appointment was criticized from the moment it was announced and prompted roland burris to resign. >> he certainly came here under extraordinary circumstances, and he has been a good friend for many years. >> by not seeking a full term, roland burris increases the chances o

. >> i want to bring in, kelly, kerry eleveld. your thoughts as you hear the sotomayor discussion, kerry? >> kelly, i wanted to ask you a question. it sounds like some of the senators are emphasizing her statements in speeches over her actual judicial record. is that unusual in your experience? >> well, part of what they're talking about is that when she gave meese speeches and, in effect, it was almost a stump speech, if i can use that term where she would appear in front of many different groups and often they would be women's groups or latino groups, groups she had a real strong identification with and she would give the speech and now everyone knows the famous quote about a wise latino woman. one of the concerns they said is she was already a sitting judge when she made those remarks and their concern is that she would apply too much of her life experience into some of these cases and perhaps have that influence the outcome even though many of them acknowledge her judicial record is moderate. so they believe that the temperame

senator john kerry is floating this idea of taxing insurers on high-end plans that they sell. one senator told me we're talking about policies with premiums in excess of $25,000 a year. the aim is to try to raise roughly $100 billion over 10 years, but of course that's just a fraction of the cost estimates we have seen for health care reform. and experts say less than .5% of americans even have these pricey plans, so you have to wonder if taxing them would actually generate the revenue they are looking for. also, this expensive coverage isn't just for wall street executives and big-time bankers. a lot of these plans actually belong to older people or those who are chronically ill, so taxing them could backfire. >> if you set a threshold for taxation at, say, $25,000, you

go from one say to the next and get the benefit of a law that makes this when it comes to conceal kerry but the precondition is you have to have that permit in your own state and go to the rigors of getting that. so anybody who says this makes america less so say what makes no sense to me. whenever gun crimes are being committed out there that are not being committed wasn't overwhelming general rule of the people who have gone to the process of getting a permit to carry a weapon. said to me this makes sense and i want to congratulate my friend from south dakota the two dozen men that i think most americans would agree with. you have allowed the american public to be able to travel and get the benefit of whatever law exists in the state when it comes to carry a weapon, no more no less. and assignments that somehow people are going to start hearing a bunch of weapons across the border makes no sense because whenever federal restrictions by their own up arms trafficking still stands. so at the end of the day this legislation will help people who follow the law and a big gun laws, help them

kerry, good evening. >> reporter: well, good evening.xiled president manuel zelaya said he's coming back again to the border, maybe even get later tonight. he arrived here with several hundred supporters who are urging him to return to honduras to reclaim his presidency. he was deposed at gunpoint june 28th, fleeing the country in his pajamas. while he did not make it across the border today, he says he's symbolically showing the world he will not give up. but the de facto government in honduras said they will not back down. he was legally removed from office when he tried to extend his term. the u.s. has a military base in honduras and has supported zelaya, as has left-leaning governments like hugh yee chavez. but his past actions at the border these past few days brought criticism. >> secretary of state hillary clinton said you're reckless. >> translator: secretary of state clinton should criticize the people who are disarmed. i'm here with the spirit of peace. >> reporter: zelaya said he will continue to rally more supporters here at

nbc's kerry sanders has more on that. kerry, good morning to you. >> well, good morning. i'm in the loxahatchee national wildlife refuge. quite literally. which is part of the everglades here. and i have some protection off camera and you'll understand why here in a moment. the problem begins in urban florida. at pet stores. people buy what some people figure are cute little pets. they are pythons, burmese pythons. but the problem is they go from here to here, and before you know it they're six, eight feet long. and the owners can't fathom the idea of killing their pet because it's too big. they come the to the everglades, they clear a little area and they'll let it go loose. that snake lays upwards of 100 eggs. and so now the hunt is on, because it's estimated there are more than 150,000 wild burmese pythons on the loose. it may have been a bit of luck, but on the first day hunters hit the everglades, they wrestled an immense snake lurking under a board walk. >> he was on the move. he'd seen us out here. >> reporter: it's not just that the snakes are big. >> seven, eight

we heard john kerry say that they are $2 billion short of that $1 trillion market in getting all of this paid for. tucker, do you find this heartening? >> i cannot believe they got even that close. martha: it is pretty hard to understand. >> even a year ago we did not use the t-word, but now people are throwing it around. by the way, that is just an estimate. the problem seems to me in medicare. no matter what happens, that will be a big part of this health reform. that is extremely expensive. this latest idea that we are going to tax certain medical procedures, private medical insurance -- that is not sustainable over the long term. i do not think anyone is really thinking that we are going to cover the uninsured by taxing the rich. martha: if you like your insurance, you can keep it, but if it is really good, you will be taxed 35% as a benefit. >> i do not think that will fly. they also are coming up with things like attacking plastic surgeons. we may have been underground rising for botox. martha: tucker carlsson would be quite upset about that. >> people use botox all the time. do yo

kerry cavanaugh is live with more. >> he was known as mr. chuck to his players. now police say the 32-year-old volunteer soccer coach is a sexual predator. charles friedel is charged with sexual solicitation of of a minor and distribution and possession of obscene material all linked to overtures which police say he made to a 14-year-old girl by cell phone. all while he was a coach volunteering for the greater baltimore soccer club. charging documents say the girl told her parents that he sent naked pictures of himself and asked her to send hers. under cover officer posing as the child lured him to an essex royal farms store on the pretense of sex where he was arrested. >> this is a person who betrayed that trust of the parents and actually tried to exploit a girl who he wasn't even coaching but of the sister of one that was coaching. >> freed sexual free on $250,000 bond and police want to hear from any parents or children who believe they may have had inappropriate contact with him. back to you. >> the two men convicted of one of baltimore's most notorious witn

certainly, senator kerry's plan did not. on the so-called co-op, i don't think that's going to work either, because senator schumer and other liberals are saying you'll have to have an inside the beltway federal coop on that would be the same as government takeover of health care. i don't think the co-op thing is going to go. it was a nice thought by senator conrad of north dakota, who was trying to come up with something other than the government-run system that most liberal democrats really want to have. and i think senator baucus is doing this has best to try to bring people together. i comment him for what he's trying to do, but, you know, it seems to me that, number one, they want this government-run plan one way or the other, whether it's coopt or not. number two, they seem to want an employer mandate, which is a job-killing approach to health care. number three, they want to bring people, more and more people into medicaid with a full medicaid expansion and the states are up in arms about that, because they know they'

kerry cavanaugh is live at the school. latest for us. >> the towson catholic community is stunned that this school is closing. they are even more upset that in most cases they found out over e-mail. officials tell us that the plan was to inform teachers tomorrow and then tell patients, but somehow the news leaked, and it is response is overwhelming. >> alumni gather to process the niece. >> there has to be more to it. there is too sudden. >> we have had hard times before. >> founded in 1922. it is the oldest co-ed catholic school in the a diocese of baltimore. it draws nearly half its students from baltimore city, with 40% minority. >> i was accepted here. i won awards here for the first time in my life. >> he says the recession undermined the school's bottom line. >> when your sole source of income is tuition, and you have $180,000 worth of tuition that you didn't collect from last year, you have a perfects step. >> i feel so lost and stressed. >> carla would have been president of her senior class. now she is stressed ab

julie kerry has the stories of two local entrepreneurs who are making it work. >> reporter: she calls herself super girl. and her t-shirt says it all. >> i like soup. >> reporter: sarah poland didn't plan on a career in soup. likeso like so many others, she had to get crtive. >> i was working in the travel business. specializing in middle eastern travel. i was afraid i was going to make less than half of what i made the year before. i had to work just as hard. >> reporter: when her friend suggested she put her spirit to work, a new career was born. >> i started thinking, well, i want to start something new. i want to get involved in this local food movement. it's really popular here in d.c. people are not eating out as much. they're eating at home. they want to eat healthy and the wheels started turning. >> reporter: sarah's soups are made fresh from local ingredients. she hires friends to make door to door deliveries. >> they're funky. they're not the kind of soups you'll get anywhere else in the city. i mean this week we have a lent i will apricot soup. most of the customers never h

senator john kerry discusses international efforts to fight climate change. the senate banking committee also committee hearing on corporate governance. >> we are talking about health care tomorrow morning on "washington journal." our guests are david wh lightman, tom harkin, and nathan deal. plus congressman earl pomeroy. he is part of the blue dog coalition, a car but fiscally conservative democrats. "washington journal," live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> george winn it signed a declaration of independence. he was also murdered. bruce l. chadwick on "i am murdered," and at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific hear on c- span. >> after his recent trip to afghanistan and pakistan, richard holbrooke answered reporters' questions about the political situation there. topics include efforts to train afghan security forces, afghanistan's upcoming elections, and pakistan's military offensive against the pack -- the taliban. from the state department, this is 40 minutes. >> we have special envoy in richard holbrooke back from his visit and it was t

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kerri richie reports. >> reporter: the quake moved for kiwis when a 7.2 magnitude quake struck. but then they were dealing with the aftershock that their country moved closer to australia. >> that's a bit too close. you want to go further away. i wouldn't trust those australians. >> reporter: the quake was the largest to hit new zealand in almost 80 years. scientists say the tremors twisted the south island and shove the country's most wistfully fought point 40 centimeters nearer to australia. >> there's a lot of excitement about the fact that we're getting closer to australia. but we have been getting closer to australia for a long time. >> reporter: new zealand usually only moves about 3 1/2 centimeters in a year but in a matter of seconds, this quake has shoved this tiny town 10 centimeters towards australia. the bluff down the south island moved 3 centimeters and down east on the east coast, has been knowledged a september meter. scientists say the tremor affected the alpine fault, which lies 50 kilometers offshore and another big quake could occur at any time. >> at some pa

kerry cavanaugh has the story. >> he was known as mr. chuck to the players but police are calling the 32-year-old volunteer soccer coach a sexual predator. charles triedle is charged with sexual solicitation of a minor and distribution and possession of obscene matter all linked to overtures which police say he made to a 14-year-old girl that you cell phone text messages. charging documents say the girl told her parents friedel sent naked pictures of himself and asked her to send her own. investigators say an undercover officer lured him to a royal farms store on the pretense of sex where he was arrested. the greater baltimore soccer club where friedel volunteered issued this statement about the former volunteer saying chuck coached during this year are's spring league. he is currently free on bail. police want to hear from any parents who believe their children may have been contacted inappropriately by friedel. >> today on opera it is her sandwich showdown. three chefs go head to head. who can cook up the best sandwich? and game goes c

brown: thank you, senator kerry. i want to thank chairman levin for his leadership and senator bayh for his work. this debate is about competition. it's about how our government spends money. earlier this year the senate passed a comprehensive d.o.d. procurement reform law. now we're debating a defense authorization bill of more tha than $660 billion. we need to continue to reform the procurement process. we need to make sure congress is not just a rubber stamp. we're debating today whether we should hand a near monopoly on engines and long-term maintenance for the joint strike fighter to one company. the department of defense created the alternate engine program in the mid-1990's because d.o.d. knew that a program would foster competition between engine manufacturers. competition fosters cost savings, improved performance and flexibility. now we're debating whether the senate should create a monopoly and buy just one engine for more than 2,400 aircraft. what would happen if we ended the alternative engine program? t

martha: we just heard from john kerry.e says that he thinks they are making progress on a plan that would pay for the $1 trillion plan. he believes they are $2 billion short. what do you think of that? >> by the time they are finished, it might be closer to $2 trillion, maybe more. what they want to do is tax insurers rather than taxing those in the top bracket. that happened before with senator brown day. people got up in arms about it. the people who were the most angry were the union members who had these cadillac plans. martha: the main thing they want to know is what is this going to mean for me, for my family? you have seen how things work in washington for quite a long time. what is your best estimate on how things could change? >> these are two very partisan bills. the house committee is trying to pass a very partisan bill. in the senate, the health committee passed a very liberal bills. senator baucus is trying to bring about a bipartisan bill, but he will get in the middle of those two, and they will crush him in

kerry cavanaugh has details. >> the goal is ambitious, to come up with a better way to serve the autistic growing population. leaders in health, education, and social services are coming together to tackle a common challenge. >> it is somewhat disjointed. >> autism rates are soaring in the state, currently 7500 autistic children in the education system, compared to 1600 in 1999. >> we have this increase in the system when resources are becoming very scarce. >> our goal here is to work on better integration between all of the components of state government and the private sector to be prepared for that demographics wave as it moves forward. >> no one knows why that number continues to build. one in 150 children in the state are somewhere on the autistic spectrum. >> the best available evidence from all sources is that there is no credible evidence that there is a relationship between the vaccines and the increase in autism. >> this group is focused on early intervention to produce the best possible outcome. >> if we have a child that is identified early on, literally birth to three-years o

kerry sanders in florida for us this morning. and still ahead, meredith's big surprise for susan boyle. but up next the owner who wrestled his dog from the jaws of a seven-foot alligator. lost the tips of two fingers in the process, will share his story right after this. >>> we are back at 7:43. it takes a dedicated dog owner to pry his pet from the jaws of a seven-foot alligator. that's exactly what david did and he ended up in worse shape than his dog. we're going to talk with him exclusively in just a moment, but first nbc's michelle kossen ski is in west calm beach florida with the details. michelle, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. the big gator that lives back here never bothered anybody until saturday morning when it grabbed david brown's 45-pound dog around the middle. >> you're okay. yeah. good girl. >> reporter: reunited with her best friend who just got home from the hospital, you have to wonder if mandy the wheaton terrier knows just how loyal her owner is? >> i saw the wake in the water from

, for senator kerry, for president obama, and for me.d i think the fact that three of us are here today and the fourth nominated him to this position shows the respect that we hold for him, a respect that has been forged under very intense pressurized situations over a very long period of time. so, mr. chairman, i truly feel that john's nomination is an inspired nomination. and i am very pleased to be here today to introduce him to the committee. >> thank you very much, senator bradley, for those strong words of endorsement. mr. vice president, we certainly welcome you to the room today and to the contain. -- table. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i had not planned coming to make any remarks but i am strongly john roos' nomination to become our ambassador to japan. i've had a chance to talk to him about these issues. i think he's going to be a very strong ambassador, and i wanted to come personally, as did tom foley, to underscore the importance of this assignment in the firment of u.s. diplomatic relations. it's crucial to u.s. aspirations

senator john kerry says that he has 80% backing for some of the ideas he wants to put forward, including a tax on the so- called private health insurance -- cadillac private health- insurance plans. here is how he described the process of making the sausage, also known as the law. >> people pushed back a little bit. what is important for people to understand is, there is probably a consensus on almost 80% of this. >> there was a bit of interesting conflict today between senator john kerry and his colleague senator rockefeller of new york. he expressed his support for a non-profit co-op plan. senator rockefeller said only one sentence. he said, "i have looked into the history of these co-ops and it is not a nice history." shepard: keep us updated. there is news breaking right now in and around las vegas. the feds are raiding a the home of michael jackson's personal doctor. the search comes after the man pictured here on the left, dr. conrad maurray gave michael jackson powerful sedatives before he died. just how much does punching those keys on your cell phone raise the risk of a crash? i

kerry cavanaugh went to ocean city. >> some of the most serious injuries at ocean city happened right here in shallow water. a wave slammed kelly headfirst. >> i was probably 6 feet in the air, and it broke. >> he went into cardiac arrest and suffered a serious neck injury. how did the beach patrol do it? tonight at 11:00, that demonstration, plus the beach patrol gives advice on how to stay safe in shallow water. >> now, your 11 insta-weather plus forecast with tom tasselmyer. >> across the region today, the temperatures are running below what you would expect for july. most locations peaking in the upper 70's and 80's. it looks like it is going to hold that way as we head into friday. low amounts of tree, grass, adn weed pollen. the 56 degree temperature was the official low this morning, only two degrees of tying the record low. 60's and 70's all across the eastern seaboard. that is unusual for july. 79 degrees downtown baltimore this hour. 77 degrees at the bay bridge. a few high clouds coming off of storms out to the south and west. it looks like the showers will be staying way o

senator kerry, that would tax insurance companies, correct? >> reporter: uh-huh. that's right.that is something that we believe is possibly being discussed in this room behind me. i want you to just kind of -- >> where are you? >> reporter: set the scene. let me show you, you see the crowd of reporters over there. >> right. >> reporter: they are crowded around senator kent conrad, he's one of seven members of this bipartisan negotiating team trying to come up with this plan. i think it's not overstating it to say that kent conrad and other senators meeting behind closed doors, that's senator max bauc baucus' room. they are meeting day and flight. they are going to have marathon is exes all day. our intrepid congressional reporter is meeting with kent conrad to see what they have decided in this morning's meetings. but certainly senator conrad told us yesterday, that this idea, this concept, instead of taxing -- directly taxing people's benefits -- >> right, right. >> reporter: america's benefits, which is not popular with unions and many democrats and it's something that presid

>> kerry sanders, thank you. >>> in china, killed six people and caused major damage. one truck was left teetering on the edge of a bridge. seven cars were swept into the river down below. key to construction going on after the earthquake. >>> with relentless 100-degree days, waterways are drying up, making residents worry about the water supply and how long it might last. 77 counties in texas are now listed in extreme or exceptional drought. the most severe drought category. experts expect the parched conditions to last at least another month. >>> finally, boston's franklin park zoo showed off its newest family member this week. baby giraffe was born friday, already taller than his other zoo mates, weighing in at 164 pounds after just three days, standing at 6'4" tall. the baby giraffe still needs a name. i don't know. what should we call him, hungry, anything he wants to be called. >> yeah. i think that's the female, the mom. she has bragging rights. how big was your kid? 164 pounds. >> 164 pounds. >> yeah. >> there you go. somethinin this morning our temperatures ar

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kerry cavanaugh has more. >> those that knew jennifer said they were close to the 15-year- old boy. the two got into an argument, and the boy snapped, pulled a knife, and ended the life of her and her unborn daughter. 26-years old and halfway through her first pregnancy. >> she was really excited. >> she couldn't wait for the baby. >> it is unclear who fathered the child, but police say there is no question who killed thompson and her unborn baby. >> i really wasn't that shocked because when i was around him, he was very aggressive. >> neighbors say there were close family friends. investigators tell 11 news that they got into an argument early sunday morning. a neighbor discovered her body hours later when running water seeped through a wall. >> she pulled the palo off and said -- the pillow off and saw her neck. she screamed. >> her friend say her death has left an awful lot of void in the neighborhood. >> she would brighten your day. >> he is charged with -- as an adult with assault, rape, and murder. he is jailed without bond. >> baltimore city police are investigating the circu

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kerry cavanough, wbal-tv 11 news. >> very upsetting story. that brings us to our "watercooler question of the day." do you think parents should be held responsible for a child's actions in animal cruelty cases? email your response to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> the fight to save towson catholic high school continues. parents, students and alumni held a fundraiser in timonium. they're hoping to raise enough money to keep the school open at least through this upcoming academic school year. the school which is the oldest co-ed in the baltimore archdiocese is at least $650,000 in debt. alumni say they just don't want to see it go. >> it would be a shame to not have the seniors graduate. they shouldn't be looking for a high school. they should be looking for a college to attend. >> sales from the fundraiser will be donated to the alumni association. governor o'malley wants your input on maryland's budget situation. he set up a website that allows the public to comment on the latest round of budget cuts. the governor held this cabinet meeting to dis

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he hired kerry wells added the jesuit seminary. he had left the cemetery, and never written anything for anyone. he had four articles bill was the first one to write him back and that was the beginning of his career. he hired john leonard a harvard dropout then sent him to cuba to do a story on one of castro's early prisons. he was 19 years old. he also grabbed me at the age of 14. a second movement and "right time, right place" is the time and place. 40 years is a long time ago as for the vietnam war to the surge in iraq. we mr. obama election but all that history, 9/11, it is all there. one of the lessons for conservatives at this moment was pretty glum. things are pretty grim. and if they really are. but you have to remember it has been worse. the mid through late '70s were awful. they were just awful. there was watergate, the fall of vietnam, stagflation, energy crisis, gerald ford good but bumbling intentions, jimmy carter cumene is comic cubans were patrolling africa. africa? soviets occupying afghanistan, it was an awful awf

supposedly not going to be the last hotel targeted. >> nbc's kerry sanders reporting. >>> this is noe plumber helped get the gop its groove back. the latest wisdom from rnc chair michael steele. he obviously hasn't talked to megan mccain lately. you're watching "countdown" on msnbc. [ horn honks ] ♪ [ tires screech ] [ female announcer ] sometimes, you can get so much out of so little. the same is true with bath tissue too. introducing new charmin ultra soft. its new ultra soft design is softer than before. and it has so much absorbency, you can use 7 sheets vs. 28 of the leading value brand. so your family can get more mileage out of less. [ horn honks ] new charmin ultra soft. america's softest bath tissue. i had a great time. me too. you know, i just got out of a bad relatio... it's okay. thanks. goodnight. goodnight. (door crashes in, alarm sounds) get out! (phone rings) hello? this is rick with broadview security. is everything all right? no, my ex-boyfriend just kicked in the front door. i'm sending help right now. thank you. (announcer) brink's home security is now broadview s

supposedly not going to be the last hotel targeted. >> nbc's kerry sanders reporting. >>> this is no. joe the plumber helped get the gop its groove back. the latest wisdom from rnc chair michael steele. he obviously hasn't talked to megan mccain lately. you're watching "countdown" on msnbc. >>> you may have heard that megan mccain called joe the plumber a "dumbass," yet michael steele actually praised mr. plumber for getting the republican groove back. so in our number one story in the countdown, let's put it nicely. the republican party is like a box of chocolates. you never know what you're going to get. meanwhile, the president of the united states addresses the flak he's catching over his mom jeans. but first joe the plumber wurzelbacher. it was not too long ago that mr. wurzelbacher did not want, quote, years anywhere around my children. so when megan mccain was asked about that, she said, joe the plumber, you can quote me, is a dumbass. he should stick to plumbing. enter rnc chairman, michael steele, who without any prompting from "hardball's" chris matthews paid mr. wurzelbach

senator john kerry of massachusetts indicated that he would be willing to forge a government-run healthr of the network of nonprofit co-ops. and then we saw senator jay rockefeller, democrat of west virginia, also a heavy hitter, come out and say simply one sentence to the cameras after kerry spoke. he said i have read the history of co-ops and it is not a nice history. shepard: really, on the senate side of this, there are three democrats and three republicans who have been meeting quietly without talking to anybody for many weeks now. to come up with their own plan. what do we know about it, if anything? >> well, they're talking to a lot of folks actually, just not the media. they're called the gang of six. these are three democrats and three republicans on the senate finance committee who are trying to hammer out some kind of compromise, even the democrats on the senate side fear that the leader of this group, max baucus, the committee chairman in the finance committee, might be giving away too much in his negotiations with the republicans. the six for the record are max baucus of mo

let's sit down and see what we can come up with, instead he and senator kerry and others are saying, well, if the cost go on up, too bad, we've got to raise taxes. that's a non-starter up here. >> you talked about the importance of the testimony before senator conrad on thursday. on monday he was at the white house, and we don't know what happened inside, but first of all was that the president, you think, trying to get some ideas from the cbo as to what their concerns were or was it trying to pressure the cbo? is it legitimate to bring the umpire in? >> i won't characterize it one way or the other. i wasn't there any more than you were. i think the president is sincere. i'm not thinking he's trying to undermine capitalism in the country. i think he's mistaken on this one. he's made a mistake and he's being a little more stubborn than perhaps he should be. if he would admit that he started down the wrong track and say, okay, let's all come to the table and go down the right track together, he'd find republicans and moderate democrats more than anxious to go with him. >> what do you w

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kerry cavanaugh has the report from county police headquarters. >> those who know the married fatherre shocked by the allegations. police say charles friedel sent obscene pictures of himself to a 14-year-old girl over a cell phone and tried to get her alone. >> this is a person who betrayed that trust of the parents and actually tried to exploit a girl who he wasn't even coaching but was the sister of one of the girls he was coaching. >> he was known as mr. chuck to the players. now police say the 32-year-old coach is a sexual predator. charles friedel is charged with sexual solicitation of a minor and distribution and possession of obscene material all linked to overtures which police say he made to a 14-year-old girl. >> he thought she was cute and somehow they exchanged numbers or got the numbers and at that point they started exchanging texts. >> charging documents say the girl told her parents when he sent naked pictures of himself and asked her to accepted her own. an undercover officer lured him to a royal farms on the pretense of sex. >> truly shocked. >> his neighbors are st

gather at towson catholic tonight to demand answers as to why their school is closing. 11 news reporter kerry cavanaugh is live outside the school. she has a preview for us. >> the archdiocese says it all boils down to declining enrollment putting the school $50,000 in the red. the meeting tonight is to help students find new high schools. that doesn't sit well with families forced to switch schools with less than two months until class are set to resume. many question why they didn't get more warning and an opportunity to help bail the school out of its financial hole. a new website called save towson catholic is leading a fundraising push. it credits one alumni with raising $15,000. immediately after the news broke, a spokesperson says even if they raised $1 million tonight it wouldn't be enough to keep the school open because it does not address the ongoing challenge of slumping enrollment. the meeting getting started at 7:00 tonight. we'll be inside to bring you all the latest tonight at 11:00. >> a pennsylvania family whose daughter suffers from an immune disease is reaching out to other

kerry cavanaugh went down to see how the beach patrol is saving lives. >> some of the most serious injuries are right here in shallow water when body surfers and boogie borders violently hit bottom. ask kelly ward had went headfirst while body surfing. >> i was probably six feet in the air and it just broke and did a missile nosedive hitting my head on the bottom. >> he went into cardiac arrest and suffered a serious neck injury. just getting him out of the water could have left him pair listed. how did they do it? tonight at 11:00 how kelly ward is doing and the beach patrol gives advice on how to stay safe in shallow water. >> speed cameras appear to be getting the green light in baltimore city. tuesday night the city council approved a proposal to target areas for the cameras that leaders say data captured by speed detectors reveal a major speeding problem. to combat the problem transportation officials have proposed converting red late cameras in speed cameras and want to add minister in problem areas. by law speed cameras must be within a quarter mile of a school zone. officials say th

started around 9 last night at home on kerry street and house was supposed to be vacant but people were inside. one person pulled from the home was rushed to the hospital where he died. 4 other people were also hurt. >>> hot water heaters being blamed for carbon monoxide leak that sent 9 people to the hospital. it happened yesterday at northeast baltimore apartment in the 6900 block of mclane boulevard. 7 kids and 2 adults living in the home were also sent to the hospital to be checked out. they are all expected to be okay. >>> more criticism tonight surrounding maryland department of juvenile services. did the system fail the teen now accused of shooting a five year old girl? or did the department do everything within its power to help. joy live downtown tonight with the latest. joy? >>reporter: well jennifer a lot of people within the department of juvenile services will tell you that the system and all of them signed off on his release. at one point or another. so that begs the question. is the state system in need of help itself? i talked with congressman cummings and senator cart e

and on south kerry street a firefighter is injured, battling flames and smoke. firefighters rescued two men inside a three-story brick row house that caught fire. >> they found two victims inside. one male victim who was unconscious, nonresponsive, in respiratory arrest. they handed him over to the care of paramedics who treated him on the scene and rushed him to university hospital. a second victim was fund on the third floor location as well in the front room, unconscious, nonresponsive, in cardiac arrest. >> the injured firefighters was taken to johns hopkins. the vic tim from the building was taken to bayview hospital. investigators are trying to determine a cause. >>> two baltimore city police officers are recovering right now, and the commissioner says they were ambushed and shot by a man with a semiautomatic handgun. tonight wjz uncovers new information about that shooter, accused it shooter. eyewitness news is live at shock trauma where mike hellgren stays on the investigation and updates the officer's condition. >> reporter: kai, we'll start with that.

today's memorial including individual clips from the speeches and performances, and for more on john kerry life go to our website, wjz.com. >>> major developments in the investigation into the deaths of two teenagers near a light rail station in baltimore county. mta police now say there is video showing a train hitting the teens. eyewitness news is live in lutherville. tonight kai jackson explains what investigators think went wrong. kai. >> reporter: well, vic, the video solves the mystery of how the young men were killed, but the question of why they were on the tracks remains unclear. the afternoon of july 5th changed two baltimore county families forever. the bodies of kyle wankmiller and connor peter son, both 17, were found near the lutherville light rail station. >> it's a tragic, tragic thing. >> we've discovered a videotape equipped on the front end of our train. >> now questions about how the friends died have been answered. surveillance video from a train shows the teens walking north on southbound tracks when they were hit from behind by a train. >> we found out that, in fact,

nbc's kerry sanders is in fort lauderdale to explain. morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, matt. in some parts of the country, it's common to have a swimming pool in the backyard. but increasingly, behind homes that are in foreclosure, this is what they look like. they're dark, they're dirty, and sadly, for some children, intriguing, as they follow their curiosity into the deep end. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> my child fell in a pool. >> reporter: her grand parents thought cheyenne jenkins was playing out back. >> she fell in the pool. >> okay you have a child who is not breathing. >> reporter: instead the 5-year-old had wandered into the backyard of a foreclosed home. >> please hurry. she's turning blue. >> reporter: despite efforts to revive her, cheyenne died. >> i'm angry. i'm angry that nothing was done. i'm angry that my daughter was taken away. because nothing was done. >> reporter: cheyenne's tragedy is a worst-case example of unintended consequences of foreclosure. an estimated 4 million americans today live next do

kerry, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, meredith. it was a grandmother's frantic 911 call one year ago today that set off one of the fiercest death penalty battles in memory. casey anthony is charged with killing her daughter caylee. she main hins her innocence. a trial date is still a year away and the investigation so far has cost more than a million dollars. it was the missing child case that's become a legal dog fight. the outcome far from clear. but from the moment caylee's disappearance was known, there was suspicion she might be dead. caylee's mother casey's car was found in a parking lot by her mother cindy. and when cindy dialed 911, one year ago today, she talked about the stench of death. >> i found my daughter's car today, and it smells like there's been a dead body in the damn car. >> reporter: yet in interview after interview, including here on "today," cindy and george anthony denied casey had anything to do with it, and they clung to the belief that their granddaughter caylee was alive. possibly being held by someone.