. >> reporter: sue kowtko lost her home in lehigh acres in 2010. when the bank took it back, squatters moved in. >> somebody was squatting in here. look at them rugs. oh, they took the water softening system, too. >> reporter: the foreclosure rate in lehigh acres is 1-8. that's almost nine times worst than the national average. what's going on here? >> that used to be an air conditioner. that's what's left of it. >> reporter: kowtko and her husband paid $320,000 in 2006. she lost her job as a marketing rep. their annual income plunged from $50,000 to $15,000. they fell behind 14 payments on their mortgage. >> it went from good to ugly like real fast. it was like... like a run away train. and there was just no stopping it. >> reporter: the house is now worth $47,000-- one-sixth what the kowtkos paid for it five years ago. what do you call this street? ocean park. >> reporter: but you have your own name for ocean park. >> foreclosure alley. >> reporter: because so many people have lost their homes? >> we all did. not "so many," we all did. >> we have

au beats lehigh 71-62. american improves to 7-2 in the patriot league. >>> jim larranaga and his miami hurricanes hosting virginia tech. you knew it would be a good night for the canes when this happened. probably not the shot coach l drew up when your 6' 10 284- pound center knocks down a three, but it goes much to the delight of the crowd. miami blows out the hokies 65- 49. quick postgame handshake. >>> when we return, it's rumble time again. peterson and kahn, is it on? the details in a moment. [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum, we can empower more people to innovate, create jobs, and put momentum behind our economy. and a spectrum auction could raise as much as 30 billion dollars to help fund the payroll tax cut. it's simple. more spectrum means more freedom. for everyone. >>> tiger woods made his 2012 pga tour debut today. the at&t national at pebble beach, a tourney h

. >> america hosting lehigh. 18 points, 17 boards, both career highs in his first career double double. good night and outblasts lehigh, 71-62. >> go eagles. >> time to announce the winner of the high school game of the week poll. you all chose a boys match up between the hilton bulldogs and the undefeated garfield indians. we'll have highlights tomorrow night at 11. >> today at public el beach the national pro am onlookers didn't seem to care who was leading. all they wanted to see was tiger woods and his first u.s. tournament this year. spectators were lined up 10 deep at every green to catch a glimpse. here he is going for an eagle on 11 and you can't see it underneath, it sits on the lift. you can't see it underneath the temperature there but it sits on the lip. couldn't get the eagle but otherwise a good day. here he gets a board it. he shot four under 68 and what's considered really the hardest course. he's still five back from the leader though. >> finally this isn't something we've seen because of the lack of snow but a little winter intertubing. do not try this at home. they'r

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. >>> american hosting lehigh. roblicky, a big night, both career-highs and his first career double/double. american outlasting lehigh 71- 62. >>> that will do it for our morning sports, i'm kristen berset, have a great friday. >>> monika here with your timesaver traffic. on the inbound side of i-66, service roadway from nutley street to the main line is blocked with a single vehicle accident. tow truck just arrived on the scene but lanes are blocked until they can tow that away. coming up in my next report, more details on this accident at 5:32. you're watching 9news now. stay with us. >>> good morning and welcome back to 9news now on this friday morning, i'm andrea roane. >> and i'm mike hydeck, a special hello we have in morning. >> yes we do to our friend parable. she says she watches us every morning -- paige. she says she watches us every morning and would like to meet us all too. we'll have to arrange that. >> and i met tracy last night. she loves us as well and we love you for starting your mornings with. >

voters in pennsylvania, particularly those voters that lived in the philadelphia suburbs and up in the lehigh valley. you know, the important voters in our state that usually determine collections. many of these are college-educated women, and santorum continued to thrust toward the social issues, and quite frankly turned voters off. then last week he got trapped in a series of problems that appeared to make him be -- appear to be a hypocrite. he himself had taken up residence in virginia, maintaining what he said was a home in allegheny county in the north hills, but when reporters checked on it, it didn't look like anyone was living there, and then he had a residency problem very similar to the walgren problem which the casey campaign used very effectively. and the second problem was his kids were going to a pennsylvania cyberschool collecting tuition as though they were pennsylvania residents for that, and that also became part of the controversy. so in conclusion, he ran into, you know, about four of these areas that i just articulated that simply were overwhelming, and by his loss by 18

pennsylvania particularly those voters who lived in the philadelphia in the philadelphia suburbs and lehigh valley. many of these are college educated women. santorum continues this thrust toward the social issues that turned voters off. and lastly, he got trapped in a series of problems that appeared to make him be a hypocrite. he had taken up residence in virginia, maintaining a home in alleghany county in the north hills. but when reporters checked on it, it didn't look like anyone was living there. then he had a residency problem similar to the walgren program which the casey campaign used effectively. the second problem was his kids were going to a pennsylvania cyber school collecting tuition as they were pennsylvania residents. that became part of the controversy. in conclusion, he ran into about four of these areas that i just articulated that simply were overwhelming. his lost in 18 percentage points to bob casey, that was the biggest single loss for an incumbent in history of the state since the civil war. >> as you look at what happened in 2006 and what the romney c campaign has b

. >>> it was going on inside this motor lodge in falls church, inside this budget inn on lehigh way. even in cars where clients were found at a 7-11. girls as young as 14 forced to have sex with strangers for money. this is all according to the fbi. tonight a federal jury has convicted this man, rances amaya for committing sex trafficking of a child and sex trafficking three girls. he exploited vulnerable teen girls for sex and profit. >> gangs are opportunistic. they look for opportunities to make money. and in this particular case, they used under age juvenile girls to make money. >> prosecutors say those victims were required to have sex with 8-10 paying customers per day. they say amaya and other gang members would also rape the victims, either punishment or to groom them for the sext -- sex trade. >>> since the beginning of the year, there have been 29 robberies but # suspects have been arrested -- 9 suspects have been arrested for the crime. tonight dc police held a meeting to say be aware of their surroundings and call the pop if you see anything suspicious. >> when a suspicio

james peterson, director of africana studies at lehigh university. we're talking contraception, faith, talking abortion, bob, what is going on, why are they going down this road and what about santorum? >> santorum reminds me of something pope john xxiii said at the opening of the vatican council, denounced prophetz, they burn with zeal but lack common sense. he's wrong on the theology and politics. you can't turn america in a special precinct of heaven. this is a country, not a church. you can't confuse the secular with the sacred. listen to commentators going crazy. there is much or more against santorum as they were against newt gingrich they think he's a loser. the irony is romney, to compete with santorum has taken many of the same positions, just without the white hot rhetoric and what he thinks will redeem him in a general election is people they he's not telling the truth. the fact he lies all the time becomes a defense mechanism. >> dr. peterson, your take on santorum's talk about satan and putting it in current terms. >> doesn't he sound li

right before this towson university playoff game a star player for the other team lehigh used a racial slur in a message he sent out on twitter. >> very easy to mess up on twitter. >> later the ncaa suspended him and that is why rod ambros says he banned towson football players from tweeting. he told our partner, yeah, i took a pretty drastic action but for me it was the cold water on the face to get their attention. the decision has drawn sharp criticism from the community. >> it is your right to use whatever social media you want to use. >> two group of lawmakers trying to make it illegal. >> violations of first amendment. it is like asking them not to use the phone. not to use the mail. >> some students here agree with the coach's decision and say it not only protects the players but also the university's image. >> the only way to kind of contain some of these like disasters that people put out is to say for the time being it is not going to happen. >> other coaches have also enforced a twitter time out. gary williams once asked his players not to use it during the season. >> a ban

>> it is admitted lehigh. but i would say like any other technology, the price will go down.by. this whole thing makes me nervous. what if scientists decide my kind is delicious. >> i don't think anybody will find you delicious. >> give me a shot. >> the way i look at it, test tube meat is to real meat as porn is to real sex. i think people will take it and go, i just don't feel the same. >> we have to buy the real meat dinner? >> to be fair, that $350,000 hamburger includes a couple of sides. >> glad we fit that joke into the end of the segment. we were sitting at home saying, i need another joke from mike baker. >> it is time to take another break. don't think of leaving me now. we have more to come. another joke from mike. >>> welcome back. they are considering making marriage mandatory. last week a utah lawmaker, is there any other kind, introduced a bill that would require would be spouses to wait at least three days after obtaining a license before getting married. it is like a gun. and in more ways than one. wyoming introduced a similar measure in which couples that di

in the lehigh valley newspapers, it's noted that in the decade, in the ten years before republicans took control of the house in pennsylvania, over ten years, there were a total of 19 abortion bills voted on in pennsylvania. 19 over ten years. less than two a year before republicans took over the house. after republicans took over the pennsylvania house, there were 34 anti-abortion votes just in one year. this is what it's like in republican politics right now. this is what it's like in pennsylvania republican politics this, is what it's like in virginia republican politics. this is what republican politics are like across the country. anywhere republicans have power. they moved abortion and even opposition to contraception up to the top of the political agenda. i recognize this is state politics and the national media is generally not that great at covering state level politics. like we can't talk about anything going on until it happens at the federal level, to be honest, this is happening at the federal level, too. >> from the moment they came in to power, republicans in the house of

associate professor of english at lehigh university. go to have you with us. >> thanks for having me. >> why is this happening? why is this ingrained racism still a problem in 2012? it's just like water off a duck's back and yet a lot of people get away with it. how do you feel about it? >> it's disheartening and disappointing. there's a couple reasons why. i think you're right that the president's election causes a backlash that's been ongoing since he was elected. it's sad but there are people that are frustrated and mad and hateful just because we have black president. there's that piece of it. and then as your show and other folk have been talking about for the last six months, sadly republican presidential politics has been embracing sort of racially insensitive discourses as well. when that's going on from the grassroots up from a small group of folk who hate the fact that we have a black president, put that in conjunction with politics and pandering and small minority of folk within the republican party hanging onto racial discou

joining me professor james peterson, director of african studies at lehigh university and a blogger for the "huffington post." it's nice to see you with me today. let's talk about arizona and michigan. these are a done deal in the win column for mitt romney. but it's on to super tuesday. the crucial state of ohio. we saw those polls. he's got some real fighting in front of him right now. how much çmitchmentum does he t out of last night? >> not that if you have. clearly santorum still has the momentum here. ohio demographically is a state he'll play to better. remember, mitt romney does well with older folk and wealthier folk and ohio will have more of those sort of the folk in western michigan, those kind of people will be there to support him, as well. part of the reason why romney is asking for money is because he's going to need more resewerses to put out the nav ads against santorum. >> rick santorum gave a lengthy speech talking about what they would say a dog whistle for the bible belt. take a listen. >> our founders had a fundamentally different understanding of that word. happ

to keep interest rates lehigh -- really high on all the politicians of the weak countries. that will force them to do what germany did not succeed in doing for two years. if you agree that is great and you will get our support, and if you don't, go with god. you are on your own. " our creditors will entries are interest rates to force us to do what we need to do. >> that will be but will happen in the end. >> thank you. >> take a moment. i do not want to miss this chance. i do not want to go through your answers at this point. i want to put on the table, i would like for you to tell us what sweden did. my recollection is that they did something with getting the toxic assets off the books of their banks. i cannot i cannot remember what it was, but i was very intrigued by what sweden did. i do not want this time to slip. >> thank you. i will be brief. mr. johnson, you highlighted the unknown nature of the derivatives exposures. there is been a lot of discussion, every expert i have talked to has said we have no idea how the dominoes are lined up. it is an incredible thing tha

lehigh school in new jersey. the reverend al sharpton and many, many more, we love our "brewing together" shows, willie? >> i was there yesterday. >> is it a great place? >> fantastic. while we're plugging, "rock center." >> you're on? >> 10:00 tonight. in the battle of references today, tom brokaw wins the 50 cents over jon meacham's