i know. >> len berman! len berman! >> standing ovation! come on! >> everybody!cal, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. >> good morning. i am mindy basara. more than a year after her body was found floating in the susquehanna river, baltimore police make an arrest in the murder of phylicia barnes. police say michael johnson, the ex-boyfriend of her older sister, was taken into custody after midnight. back i >> kind of a dismal morning this morning. showers in the forecast. maybe a rumble of thunder. high temperatures struggling to make it into the 60s.

. >> and i actually would be happy to provide for the record a proposal that was developed by len berman who used to run the joint -- the urban institute at brookings joint tax center, and a colleague of his at the urban institute that actually put forward a design for the prefunding of services for that. i think that is-be done, challenging. prefunding at all, which medicare is never designed to be. that's what i was saying earlier. prefunding at all is challenging because we do when we take it in as a federal government, we tend to lend ourselves that money, and if we want to really put it away, that's a challenge for us. but i would be happy to share that proposal. >> i'd love to see it. thank you. sorry for taking so long. >> thank you so much. i know senator udall has to leave. would you like to ask a couple of questions, make a comment? go ahead. go ahead, senator mentz. >> i appreciate it. very kind of you. mr. colman, right there, we all know that medicaid was never intended to be the primary provider of long-term care coverage, yet medicaid is the largest pair of long-term care

joining me, master of all things sports, we had to bring him back, len berman.ll disclosure, christine brennan brought up britney yesterday. it got me looking into this young lady. i knew you'd be able to weigh in on this. she is changing the game. >> yes. tonight's her official coronation of the baylor women will win and they will go 40-0 capping their perfect season against defending champ notre dame. she is something with her block shots and with her rebounds and with her dunks. she is tremendous. and unlike the men who will leave school after their freshman year and go to the pros, she has already vowed she will be back next year to complete her college education at baylor. >> why is that? so many males take off and go pro. >> right. >> my guess is the women probably don't pay as much, right? >> kyra, whenever you ask a question why in sports, the answer is always the same. it's money, yes. >> dollars. >> the men will make millions and she may go on to the wnba where the maximum salary for a rookie is in the thousands, not the millions. she says she vows to

i know. >> len berman! len berman! >> standing ovation! come on! >> everybody!local news. >>> 8:56 is your time on this thursday april 26th, 2012, good morning to you, i'm eun yang. let's check in with storm center 4 meteorologist tom kierein with a look at the forecast. >> good morning, we've had some moderate to heavy showers passing south of washington, fredericksburg, northern neck. now saint mays county, the areas in yellow and orange and farther north, the washington suburbs, getting a few light showers in prince george's county and anne arundel and southern montgomery into southern howard county. heading east. we'll get a brief break, but then maybe more showers moving in around noon. and later this afternoon and evening, maybe some thunder and lightning. sun back tomorrow, m >>> traveling the inner loop of the belt way at van dorn, a crash was blocking the right lane. you're still seeing delays on the inner loop from the wilson bridge. about 9 miles per hour to get to van dorn street. over to the beltway in montgomery county, outer loop, pretty slow righ

i know. >> len berman! len berman! >> standing ovation! come on! >> everybody!cht crash along bodega bay. they say the body could be as a result of the yacht crash. it is a male and it appears the body has been in the water for two weeks. >> we are getting all the weather elements. we are headed toward a cool day, temperatures in the 60s. we warm up to the 80s this weekend. have a great day. never in my lifetime did i think i could walk 60 miles in 3 days. if my mom can fight and beat breast cancer, i can walk 60 miles. (woman) the fund-raising was the easiest part. people were very giving. complete strangers wanting to help. i knew someday i was gonna do this walk. if i can do this, you definitely can do this. we can do this. we can all do this together. (man) register today for the... and receive $25 off your registration fee. because everyone deserves a lifetime. >>> we're back now with >>> we're back now with more "today" on a thursday morning, april 26, 2012. it's a little chilly here in new york, it has been for the last couple of days, we have 49 degrees

i'll be happy to provide for the record of proposal that was developed by len berman, who used to run joint tax center, and a colleague of his at the urban institute that actually put forward the designs for theprefunding of services. i think that can be done. prfunding at all, which medicare was never designed to be, is challenging, because we tend to lend ourselves that money and we want to really put it away. that is the challenging part. but i would be happy to share that. >> i am sorry for taking so long. >> if you want to ask a couple of questions or make comments? go ahead. >> very kind of you. mr. coleman, we all know that medicaid was never intended to be the primary provider of long- term care coverage, yet medicaid is the largest pair of long-term care services. with long-term care accounted for almost half of national long-term care spending, as a former governor, and of giving our states the flexibility and resources they need to innovate is a first and critical step toward controlling spending in the medicaid through -- program and an improving long-term care outcomes. w