>> lesli, it's the federal education rights and privacy act. it's the federal law protecting the privacy of students educational records and disciplinary records are included. when a closed campus hearing, where a student is accused of rape, the school usually keeps quiet, but this letter i'm holding here, that could change that. >> a decoration of t-shirts symbolizing sexual violence on campus. the closed pin line at the university of maryland kicks off sexual assault awareness month, so some see it fitting that student journalists here are working on a big break regarding rapes. >> the final piece of, you know, a lot of hard work. >> the final piece is this letter sent by the state's attorney general to a state delegate. it says that students found who committed a sex assault on campus during a disciplinary hearing should be disclosed by name under the public information act. in the eyes of student journalist here, it's a long fought battle finally won. >> first, i felt like they were trying to protect people. when in doubt, universities alwa

lesli. >> all right lindsey, thank you for that. virginia governor, bob mcdon got a threatening letter. governors at offices across the country are on alert. at least 30 governors received the threat. they were sent by a group called guardians of the free republics. the fbi and virginia state police are investigating. >>> apparently, there is a family connection between the suspects in the mass shootings on south capital street. 9news now has learned the 14- year-old suspected of driving the get away van is the younger brother of suspect, orlando carter. he is now in protective custody. but questions remain about why orlando carter wasn't in custody before the shooting. dc police say they tried to get an arrest warrant back in march, but the u.s. attorney's office would not take it to a judge. >> i would expect that if the police department can present a case with as much information as they did in this one, that the next time this happens, an arrest warrant would be issued. >> in a statement, u.s. attorney, ron said there was not s

lesli. >> no doubt. some very emotional days ahead. audrey, thank you for that. two residents face felony charges connected to cockfighting. they are 36-year-old ellis locklear and tonya williams. investigators conducted a search warrant and confiscated more than 600 foul. all the roosters had to be euthanized. this was the lanchest seizure of its kind in the state of virginia. >>> the supreme court struck down a federal law today aimed at banning videos that show graphic violence. at issue was the conviction of robert stevens. the virginia man was sentenced to three years in prison for videos he made about pit bullfights. the videos are within the bounds of free speech and threw out his conviction. the humane society is firing back, forcing congress to treat them like child pornography, which isn't protected under free speech. >>> taxation without representation will continue in the district. house majority leader announced tuesday that lawmakers will not take up legislation this week giving dc residents a vote in the house of representatives. dc residents who p

lesli. >> they hadn't heard anything from the school. is that the case? did anything go home at all? >> no. the school district did send home this letter informing the parents of a change in leadership that principal is on personal leave for an indefinite amount of time, but again, no -- >> did they explain why? >> no word whether or not if it is a direct result of what happened. the alleged incident. >>> all right alex, thank you for that. >>> well the catholic church sex abuse scandal hits close to home. retired cardinal was scheduled to celebrate the latin mass on saturday at the basilica of the national shrine of the immaculate conception. now he has been replaced. agreed to find a replacement. advocates for victims of sexual abuse objected because he wrote a letter in 2001 congratulating a french bishop for shielding a priest convicted of raping minors. >>> court records reveal there may be romantic relationships linked to basketball players. tyrone hall is accused of shooting to death brandon carol and wounding teammate, ellis heartridge. they were

we'll talk about that now with republican strategist leslie sanchez.ndicated columnist and contributor miguel perez, and mark happ mark halperin. you were in a meeting with hispanic elected officials this afternoon. what was the reaction in the room when it was clear to everybody that the governor was going to sign that? >> we definitely got the cnn breaking news alert. it felt like a collective punch in the stomach to many of these hispanic republicans who were there. these are folks who have been working very hard within the republican party as elected officials to build the base and build the support. and it's not because immigration is the top issue, top of mind issues for latinos as much as it is we fear that the rhetoric around this debate is going to make it look as if it's anti-latino and it's coming from republicans. that's not the case. the case here you have a state of arizona that has been in a state of emergency, that needs action on the federal level and has taken an extreme measure that is a very poor choice. >> mark, leslie may be again

lesli, back to you. >> all right, fairfax residence, pay attention. if row have been the victim of the robbery, you might be able to get your goods back. more information on that coming up. >>> but first, one-on-one with the first lady and her passion to help our children become healthier. we'll be back. >>> during their conversation, mrs. obama talked about how it will take the media, schools, doctors, and the food manufacturers to tackle the obesity crisis. >> they need to make commitment to the change and reform late their products so that they have less fat, sugar, and salt. and they also have to think about how they better market the good stuff to our kids. >> reporter: tonight at 11, the first lady gives anita an inside look at the obama family life. how they are raising the girls and the things they love most about their new hometown. that's tonight at 11 on 9news now. we'll be right back. hi, you cancelled your cable service? finally -- good riddance. [ door closes ] hi, i'm from xfinity here to tell you about our exciting new xfinity service.

[applause] >> leslie, it is about trust.both sides and hopefully we will end up with no sides there will just be american citizens but if both sides don't believe the other side is serious, that we are not in this for political gain but we are here to solve these really big issues and if the right doesn't believe medicare and social security have to be on the table, that we have to reduce the cost if we are serious about balancing the budget, and if the others don't accept the fact that we are going to have to have new revenues it is just like michael peterson said. this is arithmetic. i'm good at math. and we can't solve this problem by talking about foreign aid or waste, fraud, and abuse. we've got to seriously attack the big problems and we've got to do it now because if we don't they are not great resolvable without the word bankruptcy. >> so in other words, this whole exercise is much less about getting the answer, because the answer is pretty clear, then it is about getting those 18 people not to exercise a veto. >> th

i'm here. >> it's leslie. how are you.do it together at the same time -- there you go. hi, katie. >> nice to see you, leslie. coming up tonight. when you make a photo copy the image is only on the paper, right? well maybe not. a special cbs news investigation tonight reveals how your personal information could easily fall into the hands of indentity thieves. >>> plus his boss said he could be the second rain man. a very special employee at a brooklyn hardware store. he's memorized all of the serial numbers for every piece of hardware in the store. we'll have more on that coming up on the cbs evening news. leslie back to you and sorry for the technical difficulties. >> we'll just start the thing next time is this thing working ? >> can you hear me now? >> okay. see you later. >>> three people were injured in a chain reaction crash involving two horse-drawn carriage in philadelphia's historic district. police say a car pushed one onto the curb and a second overturned near independence hall. no horses were injured. the cause

hi katie. >> hey there, lesli.report from florida as search and rescue workers return from that deadly oil rig explosion. plus, there's powerful science of the worse may be over for the auto industry. and get this, how a marshmellow can predict your child's chances of success. we'll explain and have those answers tonight right after 9news now. lesli, back to you. >> can that marshmellow go between two gram crackers and chocolate in the middle? >> it's all about delayed gratification and focus and self-control and it's an interesting story. i think every parent will want to check this out. >> and learn from, apparently. katie, thank you for that. all right, caught on tape. a suspect being called the geezer bandit. an elderly, gray haired robber is believed to be responsible for eight bank holdups. he struck again yesterday in san diego. a $16,000 reward is being offered for the capture of the bandit. >> district police are searching for the armed robber who held up actor, cal pen. his former publicist says pen was h

bush, leslie sanchez is back.channel, the one and only growing gutfeld who has the nicest hair in the history of television do. i really? i thought you had great hair. >> sean: stop it. people ask is it real? it is real. >> you have a low hairline you are blessed. my hair could be gone in five years i'm going to keep it in a box. >> sean: more than i want to know democratic party have an enron problem? president is going to lecture wall street about the evils and corporate malfeasance and mismanage doesn't begin to compare to government malfeasance and mismanage and corruption, but that's another issue you got all the presidents, daschle, gephardt, reid, obama, rahm rahmbo dead fish ed to goldman sachs who are they to lecture anybody? >> the government for whatever since they committed never took us into a near depression, wall street did that second, big money is all around. the recession was caused by failures, the housing market bubble that exploded on wall street, bad, bad mortgages that became bad securities.

the problem is getting worse as we see big companies like craft in leslie using deceptive claims on their labels. they cheat people. they should be stopped. the only way to stop them is to give the government more resources. host: next up, tampa florida, our line of independence. caller: thanks for taking my call. referring to the deceptive issue of labels, i agree with you. one thing i am concerned about is the issue that the biotech industry has lobbied the government's regarding labeling food that may have genetic engineering components to it. there is an article. it compares the effective corn varieties on the mental health. it showed that there are significant animal health problems as they lifted human cell types as well and found significant problems. the original human steady -- remember the steady years ago. every animal study that has been done around the world as well as the human steady shows inflammation. the industry along with every administration since reagan has completely supported the prevention of people seeing whether or not they are purchasing something with this ing

. >> hey, lesli. it has been a picture perfect day out here. it's very warm, very, very nice, and that means that people are spending money. when we talk about visitors, they are expecting 1 million visitors down here for the festival and that will bring in $80 million to the district. >> they are pretty. they are really pretty. >> it means more people on the national mall. >> we are hitting all the sites. the first time the kids have been in dc. >> more people visiting museums. >> i got some souvenirs. >> and more people booking hotel rooms. >> we are anticipating that our hotels will completely sell out over this weekend, which is fantastic. >> elliot says even restaurants are capitalizing on the cherry blossoms. >> 70 of our restaurants are doing cherry themed meals during the festival itself. >> ping-pong is offering three cherry inspired creations. the restaurant just opened in december, but the manager says people are already abuzzed about their cherry bubbly. >> the restaurants that participate, they tend to do a little better. >> nearly

so you have as leslie kaufman wrote an extraordinarily good article in the business section, earth day is big business, including the umbrella that enables you to drain and reuse water. >> i remember growing up in denver as a kid we had terrible pollution problems in the 70s that has gotten better now. >> it has gotten better and the environmentalists should celebrate that of course they are too busy dooming and glooming about global warming. every movement starts out i'd deal list tick then becomes a corporation and a racket. -- >> epa brought in by nixon. most of the media approach this secular religion, worship the earth. we did well in my father's generation with conservation. . you had the isaac walter league. even the media say don't throw those things on the ground keep the water supply clean. all of that worked out fine. now we have environmentalism which is a kind of secular religion. you have to love your mother the earth and worship trees. we had scares on appear peps to the crazy global warming cult of al gore! >> come on! >> hug your tree. >> now environmentalists people w

leslie stall, the correspondent that i work with, she in all honestly ate him alive on that and number of other things and for the next week, condoleeza rice was saying publicly there is no record of such a meeting and attempting to attack dick's credibility. i think five weeks later some of our confidential sources decided to come forward and say yep, dick was telling the truth. right after our piece, which was a two-parter, right about 30 minutes, which is unusual in itself but right after our piece, the 9/11 hearings occurred and dick followed up our piece with his testimony and what he did is frame the debate. what he did was establish his credibility. one thing that tv news can often do very well is, you know, let the viewers look you in the eyes. you can get a feel if this person is correct or not. you were defining yourself before those whom you were attacking or criticizing are going to come out and attack you with all sorts of leaks and innuendo and what have you. i know for a fact that dick did not regret for a minute going on "60 minutes" and that was a really smart move. so

that red and all the way up through philip's leslie. the equal rights amendment was narrowly defeated in the 1980's making the point that if it was passed women would be forced into combat. that was too much for the american public to stomach. the era was defeated. here we are now in a conflict where over 220,000 women have served in combat so. clearly this is a watershed moment for our future. i wanted to hear what the women who were on this front line had to say about their experiences. >> to they think their roles should be clearly changed? >> most of them absolutely. there were a few who differentiated themselves from the war fighters who were out on the front lines, but most of them knew that they were in combat and accepted and thought that they should be able to do what they wanted. they consider themselves equal to the man. there was no question. >> you believe the rules to be changed. >> absolutely. adding the will already has changed. we don't know it. while officially at think they should be. >> what are you teaching? >> righ

and leslie, even if you think back to earlier in 1997 when president clinton asked me to lead the negotiations to balance the budget there was not a person in the press who didn't think it was a joke. there was little support in the congress and i must have spent months locked up in conference rooms with speaker gingrich and you owe me a lot for that i'm telling you. [laughter] but seriously it was great. and i didn't leave those meetings nor did they and we talked about the politics or the discussions we had. we stayed at it and build up trust in each other and got to a solution the did balance the budget. that is what we have got to do again. >> i don't want to put words in your mouth. i assume you are both optimistic about this. but on day one which was yesterday of the first meeting a republican group held a big news conference and said that you had a trojan horse for the tax commission and said we need to raise spending on infrastructure and education something you alluded to. so both sides are shut off of their cannons. and you're going to go inside and have to already deal with somethin

i was and leslie on tv debating this thing on larry king and other shows. and it was not a happy time. things were lost. and i think it is instructive in this that we talk about, then you had poseable. and some people, because of that he needed back into kosovo by saying it is wagging the dog pic is doing this as a diversion. it's always been my view that when the president asked foreign policy against american troops you are with intel the evidence comes in. is overwhelming. the decisions stop. so some people have to be pulled back from the brink on the. but sure, politics, you can take politics out of politics. >> host: theirs is the center of administration because it is so this transition between the two bushes and everything else. is a period of peace, prosperity, huge economic growth. it is a period, as you say, a welfare reform and centrist policies, yet it is also the spirit of the scandal and great partisan outrage. how any and do you think historians are going to assess the clinton administration? a great presidency, we are presently? >> guest: i

. >> both of you were working power leslie to round up the votes, because there weren't any votes to spare. do you have in a store you want to tell us about how you were able to go that? both of you on the phones to. >> well, i wrote a chapter in my book about this. by the way, rosalynn always likes me to announce the book is still for sale. [laughter] >> but it was a tedious and sometimes fruitless appearing task. because the previous fall there have been a referendum, i mean a resolution introduced in 48 senate approved the referendum, not to change the panama could have treated. and we had to get 67 votes out of 100 to pass it. and so it was a very difficult thing to do. so we have to do with every one of the borderline senators. and one i remember vividly was in california, a japanese former president of a small college in california who had gotten famous by putting down student revolts. and he was elected president. elected to the u.s. senate. he was a scholar and a very prickly man in many ways. howard would only benefit i would but one of the things of his academic career was

. >> let me say this here, and leslie i will speak for you here. >> you are getting a sneak peek of the four-day event in new york city. you saw sharpton there, and there is cnn contributor roland martin who is moderating the form. you saw congressman james clyburn as well, and even author eric michael dice, and they are talking about everything from economics to education and the idea is for a year commitment will be made, and some solutions coming out of the conference and for an entire year people will be monitored to see how well they are living up to some of the promises. we will continue to dip in throughout the afternoon. and then in the 2:00 eastern hour, roland martin will join us to talk more concretely about what kind of resolutions are coming from the forum today and over the next four days. >>> so who said tweets are trivial? find out why everything posted publicly on twitter will last forever. allergies? chlor-trimeton. hey, one dose of this, six hour relief. chlor-trimeton relieves itchy, watery eyes and sneezing for 12 full hours with less drowsiness than benadryl. it do

leslie on defense, i am for a strong national defense, but to say we will not take a penny out of --ere are items that have to come out that were built in the cold war. >> thank-you for the question. as a small-business owner i have dealt with budgets needed to be cut. we have done that under the state level. we have been able to balance our budgets and cut spending. there are three things we can start on. i believe we should eliminate ear marks. there is no need for earmarks' to be spent when we are facing trillions of dollars worth of debt. with our children having to pay for frivolous spending going on in the government. we need to look at every department head and they need to deal with their specific department as a business owner. how can i cutbacks we cut almost 20% across the board. we can also look at the department of education which is a huge spender of those dollars. it is better suited for our states. rather than the federal government trying to find more ways of spending dollars. karen k. leonard is a retired teacher from indianapolis karen, welcome, glad to have you ki

leslie stahl said this morning and we used the tapes of that "to the minutes" --" 60 minutes "segmenty time we have done what of these projects, no matter what the process or where in the country, the public really wants to be at the table. they are really willing to give up their personal time and to listen open mind in an open hearted plea to each other. number two, they want to come to solutions. it is one of the most extraordinary pieces of social capitalism in this country. they want to solve problems and they want to do it by discovering common ground. the last piece of conventional wisdom that is at a peak now in the country is that people inside the beltway will listen to people outside the beltway. it is easy to understand why we think that given what is available to us. as has been our experience in every case, when the public is brought together in representative samples, it is the whole public together. lawmakers and decision makers are more than happy to listen. in this case, the president's commission, the bipartisan policy center's debt reduction task force, the senate

. >> i think he's hysterical he reminds me of leslie nielsen.ys stuff, he walks way laughing and there's a trail of destruction and he has no clue. i love him. >> sean: somebody buy him his own teleprompter. he can't help himself. >> he sits with the rest of the magpiees. i luke them all decides joe behar. >> elizabeth was medicated she had to be with biden there. >> sean: she is a gracious person, very nice person. she is not going to go after him. all right, vat tax. volcker plotting it. the president saying interesting idea. then the propaganda minister robert gibbs, geithner everybody else, biden running, no, no, we're not really thinking about a vat tack in light of the trillion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see, i -- this is what liberals do, spend money, increase debt now raise taxes. is that what we can expect? >> i think the biggest problem is the same the conservatives and a lot of mainstream americans have with health care reform. not that reform is bad. it is that barack obama did tell america that he wanted to fundamentally

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some saw leslie i have a lot of things i'd like to do. projects i have been working on and things that will hopefully hit the ceiling soon. we will see what happens. >> i just want to know your opinion and maybe give us your thoughts on why you think president obama was elected in 2008. what were the reasons that you feel he was elected over senator mccain and governor sarah palin. what made him the better candidate in the eyes of the people who elected him. >> well, i don't -- it was really because he was the better candidate, not because he was the better person when it came to his policies. he was certainly a better candidate 100 percent. first and foremost he was advocating for change from the old um, i think it was called out of touch in the name of the ad about john mccain was out of touch, he's just like bush, he has a country club. all country people are bad. so he's a member of a country club, he rides a golf carts, he's a bad man, john mccain is like bush, the old white male. that's what the republican party was seen as an he ha

on extend heartfelt sympathies to the families of leslie, her husband as well as jorge alberto and tothe family. while i can't get into the specifics of the open and ongoing investigations into these cases, i can assure you of one thing. both i.c.e. and cdp acted swiftly and aggressively in response to both sets of killings. we are working with partners in mexico and the united states as we speak to try to solve these murders and to bring the killers to justice. in the case flexible i.c.e. is the lead for allegiance the assisting the county sheriff's office with the investigation. we have assigned special agents full-time to the case. we've devoted the full resources of the office in mexico to it and we have offered a reward to bring the killers to justice. negative it today is simple. i.c.e. shares the concern that many have over the presence of organized crime in mexico and along the border. we are committed to vigilance and to sustained attack on the craughwell networks that seek to smuggle drugs, guns, money and people to have from mexico. this cut that is more than a rhetorical.

leslie on defense, i am for a strong national defense, but to say we will not take a penny out of --e are items that have to come out that were built in the cold war. >> thank-you for the question. as a small-business owner i have dealt with budgets needed to be cut. we have done that under the state level. we have been able to balance our budgets and cut spending. there are three things we can start on. i believe we should eliminate ear marks. there is no need for earmarks' to be spent when we are facing trillions of dollars worth of debt. with our children having to pay for frivolous spending going on in the government. we need to look at every department head and they need to deal with their specific department as a business owner. how can i cutbacks we cut almost 20% across the board. we can also look at the department of education which is a huge spender of those dollars. it is better suited for our states. rather than the federal government trying to find more ways of spending dollars. karen k. leonard is a retired teacher from indianapolis karen, welcome, glad to have you kind

. >> i want to go to leslie. average graduation rate at fisk is 28% of young black men. all this whole issue of black families, what are some of these universities are doing to reach out and get them earlier and earlier to pull them into the process? >> we recognize the challenge. one of the things we are doing is partnering with 100 black men, but also the children's defense fund, a dream academy -- we are starting pre-k and recognizing that we will not have enough children to fill our seats. on our campuses, we are not just academic institutions. we reinforce the social, the cultural, the mores that you should be getting at home. we are also starting rales for strong black families. >> when you talked about reception the other day, you talked about being a single- mother. what do you think organization leaders should be doing when it comes to black families whether it is dealing with black women are black men. >> we challenge media conglomerates to stop allowing ourselves to be denigrated and this respected. that is one major area we have to challenge. we cannot allow

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. >> i want to go to leslie. average graduation rate at fisk is 28% of young black men. all this whole issue of black families, what are some of these universities are doing to reach out and get them earlier and earlier to pull them into the process? >> we recognize the challenge. one of the things we are doing is partnering with 100 black men, but also the children's defense fund, a dream academy -- we are starting pre-k and recognizing that we will not have enough children to fill our seats. on our campuses, we are not just academic institutions. we reinforce the social, the cultural, the mores that you should be getting at home. we are also starting rales for strong black families. >> when you talked about reception the other day, you talked about being a single- mother. what do you think organization leaders should be doing when it comes to black families whether it is dealing with black women are black men. >> we challenge media conglomerates to stop allowing ourselves to be denigrated and this respected. that is one major area we have to challenge. we cannot allow

i think we are chairman leslie and abated and i think there are plenty of journalists who will watch out for whatever government policies and practices there are in the public with the web web has a marvelous opportunity to be that same sort of watchdog that again history teaches us things about these early discussions. >> i am going to ask another question now but if you have a question yourself, we are ready to take those in there are two microphones here and i will be happy to call on you as soon as i asked this question, which is to steve, and that is i wanted to ask you what the relationship is between the study that you are doing and other things that are going on at the fcc, the localism investigation and media ownership investigation. for example when localism, there is a discussion of possibly local news councils and that kind of thing, so how do you see all of these pieces fitting together? >> a lot of them basically will get rolled up into the future of media report and will make recommendations on what should be the status of the previous localism proceeding that happened

an e-mail from leslie in oakland park, where this is happening. he says, i think any time you can stop people begging, selling in intersections containing at many as 16 lanes is a good thing. traffic in oakland park is always full of aggressive, impatient driver, not a place to set up shop, beg or sell to make a living. keep it at the -- instead we should give them an award for actually giving -- in a tough economy. all right. one of the "your views" topics. do you think is unfair to be fined for giving to panhandler, out there in traffic trying to get food. trying to get a buck. trying to sell you something? maybe you see this as a legitimate traffic safety concern, that it's dangerous for drivers, dangerous for the panhandlers as well. call us. 1-877-tell-hln. cnn.com/hln. text hlntv, and text 45688. >> love it. thanks so much, richelle. >>> another story we've been talking about today. how tough should you be when it comes to tough love? there's a new study out on spanking. is it a good way to discipline your kids? we'll tell what you this rese

leslie on defense, i am for a strong national defense, but to say we will not take a penny out of --are items that have to come out that were built in the cold war. >> thank-you for the question. as a small-business owner i have dealt with budgets needed to be cut. we have done that under the state level. we have been able to balance our budgets and cut spending. there are three things we can start on. i believe we should eliminate ear marks. there is no need for earmarks' to be spent when we are facing trillions of dollars worth of debt. with our children having to pay for frivolous spending going on in the government. we need to look at every department head and they need to deal with their specific department as a business owner. how can i cutbacks we cut almost 20% across the board. we can also look at the department of education which is a huge spender of those dollars. it is better suited for our states. rather than the federal government trying to find more ways of spending dollars. karen k. leonard is a retired teacher from indianapolis karen, welcome, glad to have you kind o

i mean in addition to your books main characters, dave clash and leslie white and some of the amazing peripheral characters, the city of los angeles itself is a character if not the main character in your book. and you write that this period of the late 1920s and early 1930s is when the cities personality was fixed. i love that you kind of applied development psychology to the city of los angeles. but it's such an intriguing thought. i wondered if you talked to the audience about why you feel that fixing happened and what it says about the personality of los angeles then but also, you know, now that theoretically to continue to use the developmental analog that now that we are more grown up, what is our -- what does that say and that shaping say about the personality of los angeles now? >> just to -- how i got into writing about this stuff is that i was invited by various magazines to do reporting on current issues and that started with writing for the l.a. riots which led to doing a lot of stuff for the "new york times" about police scandals and ramp heart, and riding around in the b