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lexington has won the distinction of america's most sedentary city. a survey by "men's health" magazine found lexington, along with indianapolis, and jackson, mississippi, are the most exercise-phobic cities in the nation. in case you're wondering, folks in minneapolis and denver exercise the most. and i think that explains a lot about me since my whole family's from kentucky, and i'm from indiana. that's why i don't like to exercise. >> but you're in new york so you've got to do a lot of walking. >> it's hard to take it out of you. >> it is. all right, ashley, thank you so much. >>> just ahead on the "morning news," moammar gadhafi's reaction to being accused of killing civilians. >>> plus, the supreme court makes a controversial ruling on violent video games, angering many parents. >>> first, though, scott pelley has a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >>> nearly every military family that loses a son or a daughter in the service to the country gets a personal letter from the president of the united states. but we were surprised to find out t

lexington park at 66. we are watching this thunderstorm complex. down to canada, new york, pennsylvania. we may get some increase in clouds and may be mostly cloudy for a brief time frame today. we could pick up a few showers from its in some portions of our viewing area, northwest of the metro area. that'll be later today. a big rich in the jet stream. the core of the heat and humidity is off to the west. it is very hot and humid record- breaking air is to our west. one forecast is 100 degrees this afternoon. 98 in chicago. some thunderstorms possible this afternoon. near 100 the next few days and then isolated storms towards the weekend. >>> it is good on the metrorail. plenty of a volume on the beltway. we are open coming out of oxon hill. it is normal near the naval research lab. let's go to news choppers 7. they are in maryland. this is a normal back of a chevrolet into northwest d.c.. delays after the new carrollton metro. we [ male announcer ] washington, d.c. a landmark of liberty and opportunity. at bank of america, we live and work here w

that includes all stirred laurel, lexington park, arlington, but not limited to those areas. there's a chance of fog outside this morning. let's look at disabilities. down to about 0.8 miles in hagerstown 1.3 in gaithersburg. 8 miles in the district. 3 miles in quantico. visibilities will improve greatly by the minutes as we go through the early morning. clear skies overhead right now. the jets dream is well to the north in the midsection of the country. in the middle part of the countries where the heat and humidity is. we will be well into the 90's -- they will be well into the 90's today. that will reach us by mid-week. mid 80's today for us. close to 90 tomorrow. mr. a robber 90's by wednesday and thursday. -- mid to upper 90's. >>> 95 marilyn southbound, accident between 216 and 198 with delays beginning near rte. 132. after getting by to the right. southbound 95, crashed between 216 and 198, moved on to the shoulder. virginia, everything is open on 95 66, the greenway, the toll road, and quiet at glebe road. now to news. >>> 65 degrees outside 6:20. >> scary moments at

according to history books he road from boston to lexington to warn that british troops were marching to arrest them. >>> one of the world's financial leaders answers to charges of sexually assaulting a maid. what he's expected to tell the judge today. >>> be careful what you wish for. the facebook lynn tok this out of control house party could get a 15-year-old grounded for life. a >>> welcome back, everyone. it is 4:53 right now. the former chief of the international monetary fund is expected to plead not guilty to sexual sexually molesting an employee. police say he assaulted a housekeeping employee in new york on may 14th. strauss-kahn -- marla tellez is in the news room with a preview this morning. >> the budget in san jose is over budget reform. they are facing a $115 million deficit. they are setting up camp across from city hall, literally challenging city leaders to restart negotiations. plus the bay area set a record over the weekend for rainfall in june? are we finally done? christina will have the finale of the wet weather. >> i'm learning, you have to keep the umbrella wi

those are the thin cirrus cloud cover overhead. 85 in the district, 82 in gaithersburg and 85 in lexington park. quantico, 84. but much cooler to the northwest. cumberland almost -- only 70. hagerstown, 75. the added cloud cover closer to the thunderstorm complex falling apart in parts of pennsylvania and moving toward west virginia and western maryland. garrett county getting clipped by some rain. we could use some showers down here. we could use some organized soaking rain. cumberland maryland, just on the edge. here is a time lapse showing that under some complex. notice the west side is strong debris that was severe in parts of chicago. very early this morning, and usual time of day. that is closer to the core of the heat and humidity with the south was followed just juicing up the part of the storm. the east side is falling apart as it moves southward. isolated thundershowers. this indicates the jets screamed. if it the big push northward it pulls the heat and humidity from the south very far to the north. the record-breaking air is in the midwest. talking high temp disk from 95 to 10

. >>> and lexington, kentucky, a town known for its horses, has a new distinction.he nation's most sedentary city, according to a ranking by "men's health." taking the top spot for most active city seattle. now, here's an early look at how wall street kicks off the day. >>> the dow opens at 12,043 after rising 108 points yesterday. the s&p gained 11 points. the nasdaq climbed 35. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei was up 70 points, while in hong kong the hang seng inched up 20. >>> signs of hope in greece's ongoing debt saga drove markets higher monday. french banks agreed to give greece more time to pay back loans, easing default fears. still, greece's fate remains uncertain as parliament debates strict austerity measures, despite fierce opposition from striking public workers. >>> bank stocks also boosted markets, after a global regulators allowed lower reserve levels than some had feared. >>> investors shrugged off news consumer spending fell last month, hoping falling gas prices will drive increased spending down the road. >>> on

a flight of hellcat fighter planes on routine patrol from the aircraft carrier lexington accidentally intercepted a formation of twenty japanese he cried is based from the nearby morphologic. the japanese were on a mission to bomb and strafe the tower landing force. by ten o five that morning the americans had shot down seventeen of the twenty bombers and force the remaining three back to the basics the remains on the base here were safe and potentially devastating casualties. meanwhile supported by reinforcements and artillery fire from nearby islands the marines used all means necessary to systematically take out the japanese defenders they slowly advance toward the narrow eastern tip of the ark. leon paid a visit to mother superior margaret sullivan at our lady of the sacred heart mission she showed in the declaration the japanese government that is at a just hours after they took over the island and now that you have and i am playing on a warning that japan was going to occupy these island all of a sudden they simply showed up as a right to die if that's really what i want to thin

the $18 million project is happening between summit road and lexington reservoir. crews are expected to replace three miles of drains on the freeway that have been around since the 1940s. larger guardrails will be constructed along the highway, and new pavement should help drain water more quickly from the road as well. most of the work will be done overnight. and during that time, caltrans will close one direction of highway 17 and shift the traffic to the other side during the works. it will go from a four-lane divided highway to a two-lane roadway. >>> prom night is usually a big deal in the life of any teenager. but for one young couple in connecticut, their date to the dance ended up making national headlines. nbc's john yang shows us how a romantic move backfired a month ago and led to a national campaign to let the two go to their school's prom. >> let's rock 'n roll! >> reporter: for james tate and sonali rodriguez, this is the prom night that almost wasn't. it all began when tate used foot-high cardboard letters to spell out his invitation on shelton high

minutes later, a player from lexington, knocked an opponent to the ground.rupted into a brawl. eight players face suspensions and types. those guys are yaly tough. only thing that can compare is the pork shop that my wife made for dipper tonight. >> you're going to have a rough l ght tonight. 'ligwebe we'll be right back. go! go! completing an atm deposit in record time... that's a step forward. go! go! with deposit friendly atms, you can make ultra fast, secure deposits with no slips or envelopes. take a step forward and chase what matters. >>> couldn't we all be this lucky? a san diego man cashed a $153,000 check from the state lottery after ten years of playing the same numbers. he got the numb frers a fortune cookie he brought in 2001 and has been using them ever since. he says he will buy a new car and put the rest in the bank. good for him. >> thank you very much for joining us.

about your little pilgrimage that we actually went on together down to a barbeque restaurant in lexington> that's right. &->> snow's barbeque. >> a trailer, ann it was... >> well, i think the snow's people would... >> would they object to that characterization? >> i think they would quarrel with that. i think a shack as they would say. >> shaac is a better word, pardon me, withdrawn. it's a shack. >> right. >> food is really your passion above all passions. >> well, it's sort offa side line, but i enjoy it and it's sort of easy to write about. and this is when texas monthly to everybody's surprise after naming kreuz market and city market... >> the usual susppcts. >> ...and the usual ssspects -or all these years in its best barbeque restauuant that nobody had ever heaad of, includinn the texas monthly people. >> god forbid. >> god forbid, right. >> and, and so i, i went along. >> yep. >> and we're not going to bring up your eating habitss are we? >> no, no, no, no. [laughter] we'll leave, we'll leave that for the book actually. but you, bbt you did find the barbeque to bb acceptable by yo

minutes later a player on the opposing team, lexington legends, knocked an opponent to the ground. brouhaha lasted for 10 minutes. they are playing nice here now. but eight players were suspended -- maybe not. no, not so nice here. not i know more. >> at first it looked like they were just talking. now they're swinging. >> that's what happens. they start jawing a little bit and they all go to work here. but eight players suspended as a result. and now they face big fines, as well. >> 4:55 now. >>> the weather may make you forget but independence day is actually monday. the 4th of july holiday coming up this weekend. >> and here's just a reminder. there are plenty of displays scheduled throughout the bay area. we have compiled a complete list of bay area fireworks and other 4th of july celebrations. all you have to do is visit cbssf.com/4th. >>> it's a double whammy for california students. how the new budget deal could drive up tuition even more. >>> millions paid out yesterday in the oscar grant bart shooting case and today the potential of millions more. we'll have the latest on

small business owner has been embarrassed by a string of factual errors, like placing the battles of lexington and concord in the wrong state. she missed the mark again in our interview, bringing up an unrelated and incorrect thing about her hometown. >> another famous american who was born in waterloo, iowa was john wayne. >> reporter: iowans say it's widely known here that john wayne was born 150 miles away in winterset. bachmann says she has made mistakes and needs to be more careful. >> i will make mistakes, it will happen, but i'll tell you, i promise to the best of my ability, i'll try and get everything right that's coming out of my mouth. >> reporter: and details matter, when bachmann left the state, her campaign played the tom petty hit song "american girl." turns out petty isn't pleased. his manager says they will ask the bachmann campaign not to use that song. they also asked george w. bush not to use any of his music, but hillary clinton did use "american girl" throughout her campaign in 2008. brian? >> as they say, when people get in the race, welcome to the nfl. kelly o'donnell i

around the nation as well, severe storms with hail and gusty winds around little rock, nashville, lexington and cincinnati. showers from indianapolis to favoring go warming up in the northeast with lingering showers from upstate new york to bangor, maine. >> 90s from dallas to miami. 81 in new york and 74 in boston. mostly 70s from detroit to boise. 60s in the pacific northwest. 92 in sacramento and a steamy 106 in phoenix. >> getting hot. >>> coming up, new numbers released this morning in which american cities, which american cities have people would are living the longest? we'll show you where. >>> then sharing her story for the first time. arnold schwarzenegger's housekeeper, the mother of their child, speaks ow. >>> forget what you thought you knew about sunscreen. what to look for and what doesn't work at all. the government's guidelines. >>> wall street is coming off its biggest gains in nearly two months. the government's retail sales report is out yesterday. it was better than expected. in fact, it showed retail sales only down 0.2% last month. and if you don't count auto sales, re

over the last few days its paul revere page has seen more fighting than lexington and concord. of someone else's ride through boston. >> you know, he who warned the british that they weren't going to be taking away our arms. >> if sarah palin had it to do all over again, my bet is that she would not say that paul revere was out there trying to warn the british. >> reporter: palin's critics quickly raced to wikipedia to wiki-prove that she was wrong. but so did those who thought she was right. almost instantly dozens of revisions sprung up on the page that squared with palin's account. >> nothing is ever set in stone. we can come back and change and revise things and revisit them as needed. >> reporter: but only if it's accurate. >> yeah. >> reporter: steven walling is a wikipedian, one of the thousands of volunteers who act like online sheriffs, making sure what's posted on wikipedia isn't just flat out wrong. >> actually, the metaphor that a lot of wikipedians use is more like janitors. they come and, you know, someone adds something new, they need to decide whether it needs t

i can remember a fire on lexington street way, way back in the '90s. it was one of those rare occasions when vince was forced to drive the fire engine. most of us in this room hate driving a fire engine because you are outside operating the pump handle and you're not having all the fun putting out the fire, and vince was one of those firefighters, but after this particular fire, his crew got into trouble. they had fire in front of them and fire below them, and vince looked for a water suply. he ran an entire city block dragging ladies and gentlemen of the jury line to -- saved the lives of those men in the fire. he laughed about it and shrugged it off, never being one to take credit. but he should have taken credit that night because he saved the lives of all three men who were on his engine company. and that was the kind of guy that vince was. now, tony, he came to the department a different way. tony was a free spirited medic with the department of public health who eventually became a firefighter. he was a pony-tailed hippy who called himself the pe

warm and muggy in lexington park at 63 degrees. slightly warmer than yesterday. mid 80's for high temperatures. patty clouds. warmer tomorrow in the 90's. even warmer by the middle of the week. >>> mass-transit reporting everything on normal service this morning. a couple pictures to show you so know how to plan your commute. in virginia we ar good across the 14th street bridge. roosevelt bridge as well. in maryland, the volume. 95 is good. nowhere is on route 4, route 5 and 270 at father hurley boulevard, headlights are going southbound. >>> 5:31. the man who says that he was paid to bash adrian fenty will speak out. >> sulaiman brown will testify before a d.c. council committee today. jummy olabanji has a look ahead at that hearing from northwest washington. >> good morning. sulaiman brown gave the washington post copies of checks and money orders this weekend that he says are written out to sulaiman brown for mayor. he said he received the text from people in vincent gray's campaign last year. some residents say the allegations of dirty politics continued to p

especially this afternoon and evening. 59 in martinsburg and cumberland, 69 in the district, 69 in lexingtonartly cloudy this afternoon and hot. there could be isolated mountain thunderstorms later on today. upper 90's on wednesday and thursday. it does not look like organized widespread rain anytime soon. there could be some rain friday through the weekend with a cold front. >>> metro will, marc rail, vre everyone checking in on normal service for now. if we will jump over to the beltway. two accidents in maryland, both on the outer loop. one of them at andrews air force base and one of them after route 1 in college park. anyone out of leesburg, ashburn, a good on the dulles greenway and dulles toll road. beautiful trip to the door to washington parkway north of reagan national. breezy be-- beautiful trip on the george washington parkway. >>> are porter got down and dirty after a pig got loose on the highway. >> and katie couric returning to abc, what to expect from her new talk show. >> and the >>> we begin our top stories with some breaking news. u.s. park police are investigating an offi

caltrans will carry out the work over a 3-mile stretch between lexington reservoir. the $18 million project will repave the road. the goal is to reduce the number of accidents during wet weather by getting rid of water building. >>> it turns out long commutes could shorten marriages. long distance commuters are 40% less likely to separate from their partners. researchers found that people who traveled further had better relationships. more than 2 million people participating in that study. >>> we have been pouring over the testimony of jaycee dugard, what we are learning from those documents coming up. >>> and those tsa agents are raising eyebrows. why one bay area congresswoman is bringing up questions to where the uniforms are made. ♪ [ ukulele strumming ] ♪ [ folksy whistling ] [ man ] quitting is a fight you can't let yourself lose. it can take many tries. but keep trying, you will beat smoking. honey, you okay? yeah, i'm fine. ♪ [ ukulele ] >>> we told you at the beginning of this newscast this was sentencing day for phillip and nancy garrido. the transcript in

it said he rode through lexington on a secret mission to warn adams and hancock that british troops were marching to arrest them. palin told chris wallace on fox news sunday, quote, part of his ride was to warn the british that were already there, that, hey, you're not going to succeed, you're not going to take american arms, you are not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia we have. she went on to say gotcha i answered candidly. i know my american history. >>> 67 years ago today allied beaches stormed normandy, france in world war ii. general dwight eisenhower gave the go ahead for d-day, the largest military amphibious military operation in u.s. the u.s. joined its western allies with a total of 155,000 troops on the beaches in normandy. the operation was a success but hundreds of brave men lost their lives in the battle to free europe. >>> today pepco crews will work to finish repairs on underground cables in northeast d.c. that lost power last week. the cables are on north capital street between l and m and pierce between north capital and 1st street.

even when asked about paul revere's ride to lexington, and in massachusetts, not new hampshire, she gotjournalist of gotcha journalism. we from main stream media can't win and maybe that's the point. we who are not on the pay roefl fox are goofy enough to ask whether she is a serious candidate for the presidency. they are silly enough to wonder if they understands policies an issues she would be forced to confront and crazy enough to question her qualifications for holding the highest elected office in the land. but she only talks to people who are paid by her same employer. to them, well, there's obviously no doubt. >> i thought she was a performance today, the first time i ever saw her and thought this woman is a serious candidate for president and serious possibility to be president. >> goof, joke, i've been called worse. >>> thanks very much for watching. we're following breaking news with congressman anthony weaner who who is about to speak. dylan ratigan is here to pick uup dylan? >> thank you, martin. we vring a conversation. at least i wasn't saying anything too profane. our sho

it says paul revere rode through lexington on a secret mission to warn samuel adams and john hancockthat british troops were marching to arrest them. palin told chris wallace on fox news sunday, quote, part of his ride was to warn the british that we're already there, that, hey, you're not going to succeed, you're not going to take american arms, you're not going to beat our own well-armed persons, individual, private militia that we have. sarah palin went on to say, quote, and in a shout out, gotta type of question that was asked of me i answered candidly, i know my american history. >>> 67 years ago today, allied forces stormed the beaches of normandy france to free nazi occupied europe during world war ii. senator john kerry and veterans are commemorating the d-day landing across the coast of france. eisenhower gave the go ahead for d-day. the u.s. joined western allies with a total of 155,000 forces on the beaches in normandy. the operation, of course, was a success. >>> right now in arizona, the weather is not helping firefighters battle a massive fire there. forecasters are cal

i can remember a fire on lexington street way way back in the 90's.f those rare occasions when vince was forced to drive the fire engine. most of us in the room hate driving the fire engine because you are outside operating the pump handle not having all the fun of putting out the fire and vince was one of the firefighters. but at this particular fire his crew got into trouble. they had fire in front and below them. and vince was without a water supply. he ran an entire city block to get his own supply and probably saved the lives of those men in the fire. now tony he came to the department in a different way. tony was a free spirited medic with the department of public health who eventually became a firefighters. he was a pony tail hippie who called himself the people paramedic. he had a big heart. and he loved to help sick disabled down trodden and even the unwashed. he was like mother teresa with a sire siren. one of the can lines to elderly women when he was helping them up he would say hug me lake i'm your husband then after he put them down he w

the british, in particular sam adams and john hancock, that the british troops were marching to lexington them. and revere was trying to mobilize the countryside. i think she got mixed up that later he was arrested and told the british, you know, that the americans had guns and that they were going to defend themselves after revere got arrested. so i think in her guided tours, and this was all done very quickly in boston, she kind of took little bits and put them into her own sarah palin version of history. and it's not good history. it's convoluted. >> i mean, again, we didn't cover this initially because you know, we just thought look, she misspoke. but then to double down and insist she is getting it right, this is why we're now even talking about it. part of her explanation yesterday was that she meant revere was trying to make a statement about the individual private militia that the british were facing and about american arms. could she have a point there? >> no, it's just all a -- it's like just taking up things and putting them into a blender and then saying, well, this line -- oh

i think you are living in lexington, massachusetts at the time?and jim organized his own soundtrack with an amplifier and speaker and he spoke through a microphone loudspeaker. we want roosevelt and other roosevelt slogans. the problem was that there was a thunderstorm and it lieu out the speaker and amplifier shorted out, so at least as jim has said, that was the end of his campaign for front and roosevelt in 1936, but it worked. every state but maine and vermont. >> i elected him. >> he elected roosevelt and by a great landslide history so i think we should thank jim for that. [applause] amazing because of jim's role and roosevelt scholarship. he actually only got to see the man once, which was if you had to choose a moment to see fdr if you had known this would probably be one of the seven moments i would have liked to have seen him if i had the choice. he was there at a the boston garden in 1940. i think it was the night before halloween as i remember. roosevelt was speaking and the famous thing he said was, i will say this and i will say it a

lexington, kentucky, indianapolis, indian ajackson, mississippi, charleston, west virginia and at the bottom of the list, oklahoma city, oklahoma. and while, you know, there's been some joking about this today, it's a pretty serious situation because there are concerns that when people are sitting around too much, not getting their exercise, you know, maybe eating and watching too much tv, it has a big effect on your health. >> certainly does. tracie, thank you. >>> the family of missing nursing student michelle le says it wants facts about the case to come from the police and only the police. a san diego television station quotes a third party who says a number of out of state calls were made from le's cell phone after she disappeared. calls to reno and arizona. that person also says hayward police travelled to arizona to talk to someone who may be considered a person of interest. hayward police deny the claims. le's family sent us this statement saying, quote, we want to emphasize that the facts in this article have not been acknowledged by the family and were not given out by the h

. >> you're the state where the shot was heard round the world at lexington and concorde. >> woodruff: in fact it was massachusetts. bachmann later acknowledged her mistake. but with her candidacy comes increased scrutiny. she's already been parodyed on nbc's saturday night live. >> believe it or not my make-up was done by a child. >> woodruff: she also faced this question from host chris wallace on fox news sunday yesterday. >> are you a flake? >> well i think that would be insulting to say something like that because i'm a serious person. >> reporter: wallace later issued an apology for asking the question which bachmann declined to accept. in fact bachmann gained serious new attention this month when her performance as a first major g.o.p. debate was praised as show stealing. >> president obama is a one-term president. >> woodruff: and according to a new poll of iowa republicans published in the des moines register, she enters the contest at the head of the g.o.p. field. in a virtual tie with frontrunner mitt romney. bachmann kicks off her campaign with visits this week to the key