new manager buck showalter last week, and all they've done is won three straight and swept the l.a. angels. here we go to baltimore. they got it done in dramatic fashion against the angels. tied at four in the ninth. torres with a walk-off single to center. in came the winning one. they won it, 5-4. look out, yankees. orioles are only 32 1/2 games back. >>> white sox and tigers. hard hit ball to left. juan pierre tracked it down, made the grab, lost it, and then caught it again. sign him up for the circus. good juggling grab by pierre. to the ninth, 4-1, sox. tigers down to their final out. but ryan raburn wasn't having it. a three-run homer tied the game, forced extra innings. white sox took the lead back in the 11th. mark kotsay, a triple into the gap, and that scored two. chicago held on to win it, 6-4. >>> crazy finish in tampa. twins and rays tied it six in the ninth. jason kubel popped one. it hit the catwalk at tropicana field and dropped into fair territory. that allowed the go-ahead run to score, and just like that, the twins drew it up and it worked. to make matters worse, it end

orioles complete the sweep against the l.a. angels. >>> that's your espn news update.eissman. back to you in new york. >>> coming up next on this friday, the stories we'll l l following today. >>> now, a look ahead to the stories we'll be watching on this friday. new supreme court justice, elena kagan, celebrates her senate confirmation at a white house reception. kagan will be formally sworn in as a justice tomorrow. >>> the labor department releases its jobless report for july this morning. a survey of economists predicts it will show a net loss of 65,000 jobs. many of those were census workers whose assignments ended. >>> opponents of same-sex marriage in california have filed a formal appeal as expected. after a federal judge issued a ruling overturning proposition 8. that is the voter-approved law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman. >>> also, bp says "operation static kill" seems to be working. they pumped tons of cement into its blownout well to fortify the mud holding back all that oil. all that's left now is for the cement to dry. >>> and in

. >> reporter: and now it's coming to l.a., after the "los angeles times" used it to assess 6,000 elementary school teachers in math and english. and in an unprecedented move, the "times" will release the names and analysis of each teacher for every parent to see. >> so that teachers in the school district can see the value of this information, something that they've avoid doing for years. >> reporter: the "los angeles times" analysis had some surprising results. that there can be dramatic differences in how well teachers improve test scores even in the same school. that a teacher's level of education is not a measure of how good a teacher is. and that good teachers can succeed just as well in poor neighborhoods as in rich ones. but the l.a. teachers union calls it a too-simple answer to public education woes. >> it's because teachers don't have textbooks, we have 40 children in a classroom, art and music programs have been eliminated. >> reporter: still some l.a. teachers like rudy padilla, working on a system based mainly on seniority, thinks assessing performance is fine. >> you need to m

l.a. after the "los angeles times" used it to assess 6,000 elementary school teachers in math and english.dented move "the times" will release the names and analysis of each teacher for every parent to see. >> so that teachers in the school district can see the value of this information, something they've avoided for years. >> reporter: the "los angeles times" analysis had some surprising results. there can be dramatic differences in how well teachers improve test scores even in the same school. that a teacher's level of education is not a measure of how good a teacher is. and good teachers can succeed just as as well in poor neighborhoods as well as rich ones. but the l.a. teachers' union calls it a too simple answer to public education woes. >> it's because teachers don't have textbooks. we have 40 children in a classroom. art and music programs have been eliminated. >> reporter: still, some l.a. teachers, like rudy, working in a system that lays off based mainly on seniority, thinks assessing performance is fine. >> you need to make sure that the teachers you do keep are the best. >> re

. >>> a police chase in los angeles and a wild one, even by l.a. standards.t's unclear how it started, but the driver of the blue car caused a lot of damage trying to escape. you see it right there. after smashing into several cars, he drove down a sidewalk at high speeds. an officer chasing him ended up slamming into a tree. but even after yet another collision that left the suspect stuck and surrounded with cops that had their guns drawn, he fought back and eventually had to be carried to a police car. >>> now to this -- a minnesota man sent to prison for a fatal crash involving a toyota has been freed. lee testified in his 2007 trial that he tried to stop but the accelerator on his toyota stuck. millions of toyotas were later recalled because of similar claims. >> i am very happy to see the world again. i am very happy to see my wife, my children. i really happy about that. so, i think the first thing i'm going to do is spend time with my family. >> lee served 2 1/2 years of an eight-year sentence. and was granted a new trial, but the prosecutor declined t

terrorist in 2011, the first is a five-day trip from vancouver to los angeles, and the other three are seven-day, which starts in l.a., go to santa barbara, san francisco, sonata, and then l.a., so we are hoping this is a very popular cruise. we hope it will be of the 10 million cruise passengers around world, i believe 80% are americans. i know that san francisco is still a very desirable destination, so we're looking forward to seeing how that works and hoping it can continue in the following year. i'm sure you'll be seeing more of it as 2011 evolves. next, on august 6, 2010, on pier 14 at 3:00, we will have the ribbon cutting ceremony, which you heard all about at the last commission meeting. it is, as you know, a piece of art owned and managed by the black rock arts foundation, and it will be installed at here 14. the rocket ship itself will be 40 feet high, some very similar to the last black rock arts foundation peace we had, which was called passage. the rocket ship will be there for 14 months. artists are a team of bay area artists, and the rocket ship first landed, so to speak -- very cute, dan. where is da

. >> cooper: the bazaar is the only restaurant in los angeles with a four-star review from the l.a. ," and getting a reservation here is a bit like getting a seat next to jack nicholson at a laker game. while jose andres is proud of his success in sunny los angeles, he is probably prouder of the kitchen he has volunteered at for the last 17 years in this tough washington d.c. neighborhood. >> andres: i came here as a cook, sharing my time peeling potatoes. >> cooper: the d.c. central kitchen was founded by robert egger. >> andres: hey! >> cooper: he says andres wandered in and offered his expertise just weeks after he moved into town. >> robert egger: we couldn't get rid of him, man. i mean, he came down here and he was always down here helping. >> andres: and i always felt like i have to give back to america what america has given to me. >> cooper: he was drawn to their model, a 12-week culinary training course for people with little hope-- former prisoners, drug abusers and the homeless. now they distribute fresh meals daily prepared from one ton of donated surplus food. staffers s

angeles a few at a time. there are far more flights t australia from l.a. than from san francisco. faa trying to figure out why any of that was necessary. live at sfo, terry mcsweey, abc 7 news. >> terry, thas very much. u.s. government officials now say it is unlikely that two men arrested on board a plane in amsterdam were conducting a dry run for a potential terrost attack. authorities arrested the men after finding suspicus items in the checked luggage of one of the men. both drew suspicion after changing their travel plans at the last minute. the items included cellphones taped to a pepto-bismol bottle, a box and three large knives. officials say they were natives of yemen livin in the u.s. legally and were not traveling together. he says his friend isn't smart enough to be involved in such a plot. >> it's not him. he let -- not educated person to do that stuff. >> well, authoritieare holding the men on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terror attack. the white house say the men were not on terror watch lists. >> the condition of a fremont police officer shot while ying to a

angeles a few at a time. there are far more flights to australia from l.a. than from san francisco.he faa trying to figure out why any of that was necessary. live at sfo, terry mcsweeney, abc 7 news. >> terry, thanks very much. u.s. government officials now say it is unlikely that two men arrested on board a plane in amsterdam were conducting a dry run for a potential terrorist attack. authorities arrested the men after finding suspicious items in the checked luggage of one of the men. both drew suspicion after changing their travel plans at the last minute. the items included cellphones taped to a pepto-bismol bottle, a box and three large knives. officials say they were natives of yemen living in the u.s. legally and were not traveling together. he says his friend isn't smart enough to be involved in such a plot. >> it's not him. he let -- not educated person to do that stuff. >> well, authorities are holding the men on suspicion of conspiring to commit a terror attack. the white house says the men were not on terror watch lists. >> the condition of a fremont police officer shot w

l.a. compared with twelve point four per one hundred thousand people in west los angeles there are just fewer options what if the government helps to incentivize grocery stores fresh food farmers' markets areas where people don't have access to them yet for education. it's kind of along those lines although i'm not necessarily for government paying for that education again i think what we should look at is a way to do this without bringing in an army of bureaucrats to take care of it so what if we said this ok a lot of those places right now in the inner cities with without the grocery stores they have to kill a flea complicated zoning laws and they have high taxes let's say just give a tax break you know don't incentive don't create a big division i'm just saying well as an incentive yeah but i think it's a better incentive i think it's one of the doesn't distort as much and i think it's one that lets people both the owners of companies and the individuals that live in those communities make more of their own choices and i think that's important because how can we build a country for people

angeles after her release. however, radar online is reporting lohan has been redirected to a treatment facility in west l.a. over security concerns about the orange county recovery center. no official word on what the troubled actress is being treated for, but her attorney is denying reports by tmz that lohan is addicted to methamphetamines. >>> here is a look at other stories making news early today in america. in texas, a second floor balcony gave way early sunday morning sending 30 partygoers to the ground. at least 23 people were injured and five of those remain hospitalized. city officials are investigating whether proper safety procedures when the 400 foot structure was built just one week ago. >>> in chicago in the wee hours of the morning, fitness fans and friends of the american cancer society got their sunday off to a running start. i guess you could call it. some 25,000 participants crowded the windy city streets for the rock and roll half marathon. humidity made for less than perfect racing weather, but nbc's own al roker managed a calm cool finish despite those sticky conditions. congratulation

angeles. can you believe that? and then i came to l.a.gig. >> jimmy: three months? >> three months. >> jimmy: she was right. >> she was. she knew what she was doing. everybody was telling her, are you crazy. you're sending your 17-year-old daughter to l.a. by yourself? >> you could be defending lindsay lohan right now. >> that was my plan. that was my plan. >> jimmy: your mom is a nurse. >> yes she is. >> jimmy: and you play a nurse on hawthorne. does she evaluate and criticize your nursing? >> she did, quite a bit last year. which is why i got a new technical team this year because -- >> jimmy: is it her? >> it was last year. but yes, last year she was really on top of it. and i'm very thankful because there were a lot of things she was making me aware of that i don't think i would have been. >> jimmy: like what sorts of things? >> like how we put the cap back on the needle or how we inject the needle. all that stuff how you resuscitate. it was all -- >> jimmy: it is important. especially to the people who are in that industry might be w

l.a. courtroom. at stake? not children. the beloved los angeles dodgers baseball team. you won't beleave the details in this war of the roses. >>> we're going to look at hurricane earl. our team has fanned out across the storm zone. and we begin with sam champion in the hurricane center in miami. >> good morning. all of the information from hurricanes and hurricane tracks comes from here. we're getting it hot off the press this morning. let's go to the boards and show you one or two things about the storms that everybody should know as we head into the next 36 hours. here's all of the storms lined up. believe it or not. we may have gotten rid of danielle. we have earl. we have fiona. and we have another storm off the african coast that could become gaston, in the coming up hours. look at earl, in the 3d image. you can see through the loop how the eyewall tightens up. the eye itself tightens up. and the beautiful formation of this storm. it is a very powerful, classically formed hurricane. all of the feeding clouds coming in with plenty of moisture. here's what steers ea

reporter: and what a controversy is brewing thanks it a los angeles time investigative report with a look at the effectiveness of teachers in the l.a. unified school district and included an element called value-added to the equation. >> if i was a doctor and i read that i would say oh, my god! but there are a lot of variables, there are a the love things that inner city schools have to deal with. >> reporter: using test scores data that went back 7 years, the times analyzed teachers in the district third through fifth grade and the test showed the effects of the way the teacher teaches in the classroom and there was a huge disparity among some of the teachers. >> it's a rather abrupt way of making this wake-up call. >> reporter: but some teachers welcome the report. >> i don't think that the article meant that this was the end all just because according to data that this means i'm an infectsive teacher but it's a beginning going in the right direction. >> reporter: aj duff fit president of the teachers union was a rate over the times article calling it unfair, biased and says to judge teachers based on test scores is flat-out wron

angeles spark. thompson scored 23 points to become the team's all-time leading scorer. >> she's passed lisa leslie's all-time score. thompson said she was glad to do it in l.a. in front of her family and friends. and she'd thought about retiring. it's a good thing she didn't. >>> coming up next, the stories we'll be following today, including the manhunt for two scaped muh@ >>> now, a look ahead to the stories we'll be watching on this monday. an intense manhunt is under way in yellowstone national park for two prison escapees and their accomplice. officials describe the men as very dangerous and very zeps pretty. >>> the bodies of six american workers ambushed in afghanistan are now in kabul. >>> the military trials of suspected terrorists at guantanamo bay gets set for a busy week. a canadian is going on trial for killing a u.s. soldier in afghanistan and a former aide for osama bin laden will be sentenced after entering a guilty plea. >>> jurors in the rod blagojevich corruption trial enter their second week of distributions today. the former senator is accused of trying to sell barack obama's seat. >>> and rick perry and fund-raisers in both dallas and

angeles station takes a look. >> reporter: it is called the robert f. kennedy community schools. the crown jewel of l.a.fied massive construction campaign. as described in headlines across the country this morning, when it opens, the 24-acre campus and its combination of six schools will have cost an estimated $578 million, by far the most expensive public school ever built anywhere. >> i look at the classroom, and there's state of the art and it's what children should have. >> built where the famed ambassador hotel once stood there's also a demand by preservation groups to maintain its historic integrity. there's a gymnasium, competitive swimming pool and state of the art athletic fields, also a coffee shop, originally designed by famed architect paul williams to be used as the faculty lounge and cafeteria. the famed coconut grove, a nightclub that once served as host to the 1978 academy awards was recreated complete with lighting fixtures. outside a bank of flat screen televisions with video loops informing the students of the history here. >> and then there's the library, hallowed ground in american

angeles where down is up, up is down, and none of these decisions have anything to do with kids. >> reporter: the district has a $640 million budget shortfall. they've laid off 3,000 teachers. l.a. unified is one of the lowest-performing school districts in america. so why not take the money that's spent there and spend it on education? >> illegal. illegal. >> reporter: district officials say the money for school construction comes from voter-approved bonds, totally separate from what's budgeted for textbooks and teachers. i sense you're a little embarrassed about the price tag of this thing. >> yes, it bothered me. >> reporter: l.a.'s not alone. in new york city, a $235 million school. in new brunswick, new jersey, $185 million for a high school. newton, massachusetts, has a new $198 million high school. >> whether you build a taj mahal or whether you're teaching kids in a broom closet, make sure you have a kids first agenda. >> reporter: the site of l.a.'s new school has historic significance. it's the old ambassador hotel. where robert kennedy was shot. future generations may appreciate the school now built there in his name, but the taxpayers now are finding it tough to jus

l.a. we liked it and we decided to stay there. my wife is british, a doctor, and she is a classical soprano singing professionally in los angeles. >> how old are your children? >> six years old and two years old. >> when was "war of ideas" done? >> 1992, with a much smaller budget. it was a film about arab news channels. frontline ask me if they would be interested in doing that and i was fascinated. trying to figure out how news channels like al jazeera and others operate. i went to all of them over a couple of months. i also try to look at -- it was the bush administration, but it's the same today -- how the u.s. government tries to shape the message that these channels are conveying to the arab world, because they are widely watched. he had an idea and our mind about what their agenda is. part of that is true but there is also the reality, across the middle. >> al hurra is owned by the? >> u.s. government. >> al minar is owned by? >> hezbollah. >> al jazzera is owned by? >> the government of qatar ultimately, an ally of the united states. >> i went to route to seek the arab media revolution in action. the leader of the hezbolla

angeles today he is first heading to milwaukee. to push for renewable energy he'll then had to l.a.to deliver remarks at a congressional finance committee. he spent the weekend on a high- profile vacation in florida. a photograph showing him and his daughter is swimming in the gulf ofoÑ mexico the president wantd to make a point that the gulf beaches are clean, safe and a good destination for vacation. we will be right back with the kron 4 morning news, weather and traffic in just a few moments. we want to go outside to your quick look of the san mateo bridge, traffic is moving well in both directions. in playback, the here is a look at your 7 day around the bay. warm temperatures still on tap for today especially inland, you're still in the '90s. and the date set up a 72 around the bay, the 60s along the coast, cool enough as a head towards the middle of the week from 90 we get that 85 even 80 degrees c,gv)k5z end, then into the '70s by saturday. back into the cooler mud again, middle to end of this week. world headlines, i ñ new arrangement richmond striper market next year the a

angeles, aaron cohen, founder of ims security, specializing in elite protective services and counterterrorism training. a former israeli special forces operative and author of a brilliant book "brotherhood of warriors." also in l.aendy siegel, the deputy district attorney for l.a. county. she is the -- she is it with d.a. stalking and threat assessment team. she is the team. and she prosecuted the case against shawn johnson's stalker. what legislation do we need, wendy? >> well, i think the new federal statute that is being heard is sufficient. the one that we have in california operates well. it operated really well in the shawn johnson case. so i'm satisfied. >> larry: what does the federal statute say? >> the new federal statute allows for stalkers to be prosecuted when they use the internet. they don't have to cross state lines the way the old statute -- >> larry: for federal? >> yes, for federal. >> larry: what is a stalker, aaron? >> a stalker is an individual who repeatedly harasses another individual against their will with the intent on, i believe, trying to get close to them and almost, in a way, terrorizing them. >> larry: is it a thin line between a stalker and a paparazzi? >> no, i think there's a t

angeles. critics blasted the city manager for his annual salary of almost $800,000 a year. they also pointed to the police chief's salary, which was $457,000, that is double what the police chief in l.a. earns. state comptroller says he will post the salary information on the comptrollers website in november so anyone can see how much city officials are being paid. >> all right. time now is 5:16. let's head right over to sal castaneda who is checking out the 24 in lafayette for us. high, sal. >> that's right, it is doing very well as you can see from our camera mounted high up on that mountain there on that nearby hill. westbound 24 traffic does look good on the way to oakland. also this morning we are looking at interstate 880 here in oakland near the coliseum and the traffic is moving well in both directions. if you are driving in the livermore valley westbound 580 traffic is moving along nicely over to castro valley and then if you are driving on 880 right now is a good time to do it in hayward and fremont. 5:16. here is steve. >> good morning. a cooling trend will start today and continue for most of the week. fog is making a push inland. a tough time to warm up along the coast a

angeles while force continues to grow past the hundred acre mark. let's take a look of live video u.s. forest service said the blaze broke out 3:00 p.m. and is burning in l.acounty about 20 mi. southeast of palmdale. fire officials say scattered ranch homes are being evacuated and there are reports that horses are fleeing their stables. if more than a hundred 50 firefighters and three water dropping helicopters and now battling the blaze. live in the newsroom kron 4 news. >> the in the grand prix is set to begin if any increase way that meets the traffic in the area will be a challenge. kron 4 jonathan blum is your shows the race way and a potential traffic congestion spots around it. >> it is not going to be a good time to drive around sonoma county this is 37 and this is 121 this red meat to be a standstill and various parts of the day. that's going for a closer look and show you where you need to avoid in the morning. just before 8:00 a.m. and most of these three days or sorry today's saturday and sunday traffic going towards an opinion raceway will be problematic that would be traffic on 121 going in this direction this will be the big back up it will

angeles. where up is down, down is up, and none of these decisions have anything to do with kids. >> reporter: the district has a $640 million budget shortfall. they've laid off 3,000 teachers. l.aol has historic significance. it's the site of the old ambassador hotel where robert kennedy was shot. future generations may appreciate the school, now built there in his name. but the taxpayers now are finding it tough to justify. david wright, abc news, los angeles. >> adding to the price tag of this school, the fine art murals, the marble memorial, they have a manicured public park, state of the art swimming pool, and preservation of certain pieces of the original hotel there as well. >> in terms of who it serves the website says it's k-12, 4,200 students. it's latino students and students from low-income fdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfdfd >>> rough rescue. the challenge to free dozens of stuck miners. >> these men survived, and they're going to be able to survive. >> the ambitious and time-consuming plan. >>> then, background check. the man who wants to head the islamic center n