>>> time to say good morning to kristin fisher. what's hot on the internet this morning? >> a disturbing story from missouri making the rounds on the web this morning. a student was badly beaten on a school bus on monday and police believe it might, might have been racially motivated. the incident was captured on the bus ' video camera. you can see one student turned around in his seat and starts to punch another student in the face. both were from bellvue high school. then another assailant joins in while other students stand around and watch. police say the victim had been trying to find a seat on the bus but was told by his attackers he couldn't sit next to them. when he did they started to punch him. the religioned attackers are black teenagers the victim is of course white which is the reason why police are trying to figure out this if this was a dispute over a seat or racially motivated. that's why the story is so big

>>> time to say good morning to kristin fisher. she's telling us what is hot on the web. good morning. >> between all the tax day parties and the health care town halls 2009 has been a big year for protests. the huffington post is holding a contest to find the funniest protest signs of 2009. the way it works is you go to a protest, find a funny sign and hit this button that says participate and add a title and caption and upload your image. it is that easy. the search is on for the winner but i want to show you the top contenders as of this morning. we will start right here. check this out. now, here's one from a health care reform rally in new hampshire. and what makes this one so funny is this guy right here. do you see him he is holding a

kristin fisher is in the web center with what you need to know.s is freaking me out a little can yes. if you are a big social media user. so for a lot of people that use these sites they should maybe not be concerned but should know about it. specifically we are talking about something the white house is doing. one of toe big buzz words of the obama administration has been transparency, especially transparency on-line which is why our web story of the day is so surprising. look at this. the washington times reported the white house is collecting and storing comments and videos on the social networking sites, here's the catch, without ever notifying or asking the consent of the site's viewedder -- users. this is a big deal because it affects a lot of people. right now the white house has more than 350,000 fans on facebook and gets hundreds of thousands of comments every day. on twitter the white house has a million followers, and on youtube they have 87,000 subscribers to the white house youtube channel. so what's happening is the white house has t

kristin fisher is in hyattsville, maryland. who's the big hero there, kristin? >> our high school hero this morning is the head coach for the dematha high school varsity team. he was named high school coach of the year for starting a program here in the washington area to teach high schoolers how to play the game and how to live life after football. it is three days before the third game of the season for the varsity football team. they are 2-0 and ranked number one in the washington area and yet this team doesn't even have their own field. they practice at a public park. >> this is all we know. >> reporter: that hasn't stopped the coach from building the best high school football program in the area. >> make it. that a boy. >> i love the game of football and the game of football i think teaches a young man so much about live. >> reporter: in his 28 years as head coach he has led them to 17 championships and 300 of his players scored football scholarships to college. >> we have seven dematha alumni that made the opening rosters of the nfl teams that's the most t

send it over to kristin fisher. good morning. >> good morning, everybody.en the tax day tea parties and the health care town halls, 2009 has been a big year for political protests. so, the huffington post.com is holding a contest to find the funniest protests signs of 2009. the search is on for the winner, but i want to show you some of the top contenders as of this morning. let's look at the computer. here's one from a health care rally in new hampshire. and i want you to look at the sign in the upper right hand corner of the screen. the man is holding up a sign and there's a bunch of arrows pointing at the other protesters and their signs and the sign reads we have no idea what we are talking about and he has a big smile on his face. certainly making fun of other people he is there with and it is pretty funny because i don't think that anyone else has any idea he is holding that sign. here's another 0 top contender for the winner of this contest. you can see the sign right this. it reads thanks obama, i'm going to let you finish but canada had the best he

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i'm here with kristin fisher. what are you working on for us this morning. >> this is national suicide prevention week. in our next segment we will talk to an arlington man who needed a hero many, many years ago. he was about to commit suicide but he credits an organization called crisis link with saving his life and now he is actually a hero for many others as he rk rk woas s as a suicide prevention activist. we will have that wostory tomorrow. buy t todai want to take you too e crisis link it is right here. website. it is right here. they have a lot going ont for national suicide prevention thon arlington and the primary 4/7 suicide eranedre moan th an edmo than million crisis calls and they have responded to 20,000 potential suicides. huge numbers. so this week theysore hosting several events to raise funds e.cathis us and da y,usthe mexican cafe of l alna0% 1of all sales to crisis link and they have an t even on event on saturday. it ispart of the loudoun summer music fest. if you want to learn more about thes

. >>> let's say good morning to kristin fisher in the web center. m protected, kristin, take it away. >> i'm impressed andrea, you didn't seem phased at all. >> she's very good. >> all right. well, it is time to talk about what is hot on the web. every morning, millions of washingtonians battle traffic on the way to work but this morning there will be a few thousand fewer drivers on the road, thanks to world car-free day 2009. take a look at this. thousands of people in 40 countries will be ditching their cars today to walk, bike or use public transit to get around. the whole idea is to give people a chance to consider how their city may look and work with a lot less cars on the road. this is the third year that washington, d.c. has celebrated car-free day but only the sec year for the entire washington metropolitan area. last year, about 5,445 residents went car free. so this year, you can see right here the ticker they have 5,451 total have pledged to participate and we'd like the number to go up. >> if you would like to participate, go to car free

. >>> time to say good morning to kristin fisher.'s in the web center and she has beetles on her mind. >> you know it. it is beetle mania on the web. yesterday was a big day for beetles fans. it is the p rmteon rmon google right now. and i want to you y.show you wh this is the wee cnet e and et they called september 9th a lebeecors etm std there's reasons why. first up, yesterday the beetles released their entire locag ta of s sosotanggidilly remastered for githe first time ever on cd it isg inbehailed as a must listen for who whlio likes the beetles. right now if you go to amazon.com the stereo box set is17 nomoset mono gis ngoi 9. going 'sthbiat9. 's atright there. beetles fans have been waiting a long time to hear their favorite tunes in that new technology y.er r enth wish yesterday. then on the same day the etbes rock etband was for lere ed fo to playplay their while g.ile whthey play onal gad an mehunters has a t eagr view if you to aypltoplay the pl game. and speculation that beetles songs could be on itunes. it has been a lon

send it over to kristin fisher. >> thank you so much. good morning, everyone. it is viral video time and i just might, might have found footage of the longest basketball shot in the entire world. it was filmed in texas a few weeks ago, and today it is one of the most popular clips on youtube. are you ready for it? take a look at it. here it is. this guy is on the third deck of the texas a&m football stadium. he throws it and look at where it lands, in the basket on the field. in case you don't believe it they shot it from another angle. there it is. one more time. that is on the ground. there are a lot of doubters on the web is it real or not, we have no official confirmation from the guinness book of world records but doesn't look like it has been spliced together so it looks like it would be the real deal. this is not just about what is hot on the web. the video has a good tie to our hero central segment and here's why. the video you just saw was shot by a group of guys called dude perfect. here's the website. they say they are six college guys making basketb

let's go to kristin fisher in the web center. >> boy it was a tough break for the redskins but i tell what they are not getting any breaks from the bloggers. look at how far the reaction to brutal loss to the lions is shaping up on-line. start by checking out the blog, the dcist. their headline, last night's action, yeah, that happened. they start by quoting campbell who said it was the one that got away from us. and then goes on to say you think? the understatement of the year for some. this loss was a cherry on top of one of the most terrible, horrible, no good very bad years in theoriesry of professional athletics. please don't told back at all. check out the washington examiner. their top line right here, they say the redskins became part of history and not the way they wanted. i have to say that sentiment is echoed on our own sara walsh's blog, skins unsensorred on wusa9.com. she calls her web post debacle in detroit. hers reads the redskins have become exactly who they didn't want to be, that team, the one that ends the lions skid. check out the redskins facebook page. thousands

we'll send it over to kristin fisher. >>> good morning, everyone.eave it to washington to conduct a full-fledged congressional report on what else, twitter. that's right. which party tweets the most? what are they tweeting about? and who's the most influential tweeterring politician. the title is the social networking and constituent communication member use of twitter during a two-week period in 111th congress. a report on a social networking site that limits responses to 140 characters i would say that is a very long title. what this report did is analyzed tweets of members of congress after two week long periods in july and august. here's what they found. don't let the social skills of the obama white house fool you. 101 republicans use twitter compared to 57 democrats. you can see in this graph right here, this is senate and this is house republicans and these smaller slivers here for house and senate democrats. so republicans dominating twitter. this report found that during that two-week period, congressional republicansed 932 tweets compared

kristin fisher has an emotional and important story. i can't wait to hear about this. >> it is a good one. our hero this morning is a woman from chicago and she's been a hero over 40 years without ever leaving her home. barbara has been writing letters to troops in war zones from world war ii all the way to iraq and afghanistan. digital correspondent frank nappy has the story. >> reporter: barbara's patriotism is always on display outside of her small apartment. inside, several days a week, she proves that loving america is much more than just flags. she writes letters to local soldiers in combat zones. she fills them in on what's going on back home. >> who are you writing to? >> to keith crow. >> and he's from? >> oakland, illinois. >> reporter: and where is he now. >> he's in afghanistan. >> fighting yet another war. >> yes. >> afghanistan, this is barbara's sixth war for writing letters to the troops overseas. she has no idea how many she has written, but does remember when it started 1944. >> i started to write to my uncle who was i

kristin fisher has a video and a sharp reaction to it. kristin? >> that's right.s happened on monday but it started to become a big story on the web about 24 hours ago when sites like the drudge report started to post links to video of the incident which was captured on the bus ' video camera. about to show it to you but i want to warn you it is disturbing and graphic. if you don't want to see it or you don't want your kids to see it, this is your warning, okay. let's look at it. here's the video. you can see a student from bellville west high school turns around in his seat and starts to punch another student repeatedly in the face and another assailant joins in and other students stand and watch. some say they actually cheered. police are trying to figure out if this was a dispute over a seat or if it was racially motivated. the two religioned attackers are both black teenagers both ages 14 and 15. the victim is a white 17 year. the story is a headline on the drudge report. you can see it here, white student beaten on school bus. crowd cheers and one of the top

. >>> and kristin fisher is here with a hero central segment. >> that's right.t is time for the next hero central segment and this morning we are honoring a washington man that devoted his life to helping people with disabilities. this is such a great story. check this out. his name is ed and he is a president, ceo and founder of the national rehabilitation hospital here in washington. now, ed, himself is disabled. he suffered a severe spinal cord injury after a major car crash in college. and there he is playing golf right there. so in 1986 he founded the national rehab hospital and built it in to one of the top rehab hospitals in the nation. now, ed loves golf. so the research engineers at the hospital were able to build him special clubs so he could play the game he loves despite his spinal cord injury. over the years his hospital has helped thousands of disabled men, women and children learn to cope with their disability and play sports with their disabilities. remember the hero central report we did about the super h race? that is his hospital and parent of

kristin fisher, over to you. >> good morning. it has been the year of the bailout. the u.s.ernment has already bailed out wall street, aig, car companies and now congress is considering bailing out newspapers, as well. here's a story on the hills blog the briefing room. obama opened a newspaper bailout bill. in an interview with editors of the pittsburgh post gazette the president said he is happy to look at bills before congress that will give struggling news organizations tax breaks if they restructure as nonprofit businesses. part of the reasoning for saying he is open to the bailouts can be explained in the huffington post headline. here it is right now. he says is becoming all blogosphere and all opinions and no news. he took aims at blogs on face the nation help says this the 24 hour news cycle is feeding anger especially when it comes to the health care debate. >> i think part of what is different today is the 24-hour news cycle and cable television and blogs and all of this, they focus on the most extreme elements on both sides. they can't get enough of conflict. it

kristin fisher has a great story about veterans coming to washington. this is great. >> it is. i love this story. you know, the world war ii memorial has only been around five years but there's a new organization based right here in dc and their only mission is to make sure as many world war ii vets get to see their memorial in their lifetime. >> thank you for your service and welcome to your memorial. >> reporter: hundreds of world war ii veterans filled the memorial built in their honor in washington. this group is a from wyoming and they have made the trip for free thanks to an organization called honor flights. >> the whole purpose is to bring veterans to see the memorial who might not otherwise get to do it. >> john claimed 68 missions as a world war ii fighter pilot and now on the board of directors for honor flights. >> many of these people may not have been out of their community since world war ii. so to bring them here is a wonderful thing. >> it is marvelous. >> reporter: he is one of the few pearl harbor survivors still alive. >> what bothered me the worst here is w

kristin fisher has the story. >> reporter: it is three days before the third game of the season for theatha varsity football game. they are ranked number one in the washington area and this team doesn't have their own field, they president clinton 'tis at a public park. >> this is really all we know wherever that hasn't stopped the coach from having the best high school football program in the era. >> that a boy. >> i love the game of football and the game of football i think teaches a young man so much about life. >> reporter: in his 28 years as head coach, he's led them to 17 championships and over 300 of his players have scored football scholarships to college. >> we have seven dematha alumni that made the opening rosters of nfl football teams. that's the most in the country. >> reporter: one is edwin williams. >> for me coach has been the kind of person that i want at my wedding. when i get married i want him at the ceremony. i consider him family like everybody i play with. >> reporter: but the coach hasn't just helped the young man at the school. he started a high school developme

now over to kristin fisher with a look at what's on the web. >>> one of the buzz words of othough balm ma administration has been transparency, especially on-line. that's why our web story of the day is so surprising. take a look. they say the white house has started to collect videos on the social networking site without every notifying or asking for the consent of the site's users. we're talking about facebook, twitter and youtube. this is a big deal because it affects a lot of people. right now take a look a the white house's facebook page, they have 350,000 fans on facebook and they get hundreds of thousands of followers a day. so what's happening is the white house has hired a contractor to crawl and archive every comment that you see here. they are archiving every comment, every tag, every picture, every video on all the social networking sites. according to the washington times report, the defenders of the practice say the white house is doing its job as required by the presidential records act and point out the bush white house archived comments on its official website but they

. >>> time to say good morning to kristin fisher in the web center with what people are buzzing about. >> absolutely. good morning, everyone. without a doubt the big story on the web this morning is the president's health care speech before congress last night. but the president's message is really being overshadowed especially on the web by the ermeurst from the republican mb . tothp e meer. the top ormbon cnn.com is south carolina joe wilson shouts you lie at obama and then apologizes. lse the drudge report, whicis a bit more conservative website. scroll over so you sesee it. their e is is u yolie. same thing on the ily beat. lithdaily beat. the headline isu , yoliyolie. we played this clip is this morning but ju stin case you missed it show one re time. and e reaction of biden and pelosi who are sitting behind the president. >> the reforms i'm po posing would not apply to those who are illegals. >> you lie! >> not true. >> as you might imagine, th exchange prompted a to s pos ston twitter. sevehos urags o the democratic national committee responded that exan gengyisa note yito t ag

kristin fisher is checking out the new wave of beatle mania. i love it.ave to tell you this have my era. >> i will have the beatles. yesterday was a big day for beatles fans because you have beatles rock band released an addictally remastered box set all of the songs. that was also released and then i got excited about this. speculation that our favorite beatles songs might be available on io tunes.b@ >> nethat would be great. >> that would be huge. that combined is the reason th the beatles beatles are n tete most searched term according to google trends. anhi ofthe ththe things people are searing for this morning. when i got in was actually at number one. here's what they are looking at. th areey going to sites like amazon.comnd eyth are going ntthe tthe beatles boxesed ant there it is. an entire catalog of their songs remastered for the first time on cd and getting vi ewres. views.re it is a must have for anyone who likes whthe beatles. the stereo set is 179 an mono x boset x toe thbig news right there. fans have been waiting a long time to he just tha

i'm in the web center and say good morning to kristin fisher. hello. >> reporter: good morning. you know this morning for our hero central segment we want to highlight an effort underway at the prince william county chapter of the american red cross. look at their website right here. this called the heros for the american red cross campaign. clearly here at hero central we like that title. it takes place at various red cross chapters at various times throughout the year, but right now it is the prince william chapter's turn to ask local heros to step up. this campaign is the largest annual fund-raising campaign conducted by this red cross chapter throughout the entire year. all of the funds donated are used to provide services in your community for disaster relief like life-saving training also to services for the armed forces, blood donation and emergency preparedness. it goes to causes that would help you and your neighbors in the time of the need. all you have to do to be a hero is commit to raise $1,000 in support of this chapter and you can do it by going to the prince will

. >>> good morning to kristin fisher. in the web center. >> the debate over climate change is heating up on the hill. senate democrats are expect to unveil a bill which would cut green house gas emissions 20% by 2010. i want to show you two a new tools that have been launched on-line to help legislators and the public grasp this growing climate change debate. start with this one. a new addition to google earth or a new layer as the folks at google like to call it. it is a 3-d mapping tool that predicts the affect of climate change until 201 -- 2100. it lets you zoom in to your hometown and actually see the different scenarios as to climate change could affect your backyard and i think this is a useful tool, especially if you are looking to buy a new home on the water because you can see how far sea levels may rise. and ultimately affect your future property. google has only mapped the temperature and precipitation changes, but the company plans to add several new layers in the coming weeks. >>> one more tool to show you i

. >>> here's kristin fisher. >> reporter: thank you so much, kim. in today's what's hot on the web segment we are talking about the redskins brutal loss to the lions yesterday. it is the big story on the web this morning especially in the washington area. you know, a tough break for the redskins but they are not getting any breaks this morning from the bloggers or from the fans posting comment on these sites and start by checking out the blog, the dcist, their title there last night's action, yeah, that happened. they start off by quoting redskins player jason campbell who said it was the one that got away from us. but the dcist goes on to say, you think? they call it the under statement of the year. for some it is the cherry on top of one of the most terrible, horrible, no good bad years the history of dc professional athletic. they are not holding back any word there. >>> i want you to check out on our website on wusa9.com. sara walsh's blog, skins unsensorred. she posted this last night. she titled it debacle in detroit. she started by writing th

. >>> say good morning to kristin fisher in the web center. good morning. >> you know, there's a few things that would make the secret service team up with the social networking site. when someone posts an on-line poll on a site asking should president obama be killed, that's the exemption. take a look at this. this is what happened. on saturday someone posted this poll right here on facebook. the title, vote in the obama poll. and it asks a question, should obama be killed and any facebook member could answer yes, maybe, if he cuts my health care or no. one day later, on sunday, the blog, the political carnival came across the facebook poll and wrote a scathing blog post about it. as you may imagine in this day and age it didn't take long for word to spread on the web. facebook immediately removed the poll and the third party application that supported it. it is important to note this was a third party application, not just a poll that comes from facebook but the damage had been done. 700 people had already responded to the poll by the time i

i am in the web center with kristin fisher and following howard with green tips, we are checking outources for car- free day which is worldwide today. >> this is a global event. thousands of people in over 40 countries around the world will be ditching their cars today to walk, bike or use public transportation to get around. so far in the greater washington area -- 5,452 people have pledged to participate. and that is up seven people from last year but the day is early so hopefully we can get that ticker up. now, if you want to participate and go car-free today, all you have to do is go to car-free metro.dc.com and sign up. you will find a thorough side guide. they will teach you to be car free, even if only for aday. this is helpful because if you are trying to find the best routes in the dc area they have a link and if you are like me and don't want to swerve in and out of traffic you want a sidewalk or bike path. another thing exciting about a new bike owner is a bike station at union station. it will house 100 bikes in a modern secure building and it is set to open at the beginn