i tink it tok too lon to get to this point. ere was a question whetr he uld do it or not. the white house cameout this morng and said the first thing erly morning, informal briefing the preside had nothinelse to say on the tter four hours later. gwen: so tere must have een a lot of discussn. >> a lotof discuion inside the white house todaand a lot of disagreement. you know,we don't have a good picte of how much disagreement but the were people inthe white house w wereary of him revisiti the issue d others who felt ike ere was no wayto getaround it unls he did. >> it has ben very dismiss of t idea and the preident said is pretty uncontroversial and heaid himself this was straightfward analysis. >> although they say the president didn't watchit was his press conference b the mbridge police departmt and they were very incesed and talked how the president had bemeaned sergeant crowle and asked for hs apology. intrestingly, an afrian-american officer who had been at the scene ameout for seeant crwley and sto behi his fellow offier 100% anddded to the whole m of things d they re

there is some evidence that this works, right, lon? >> well, absolutely. need only to look atwal mart where everything is, as you said 1 for some reason, it is $6, not $7 if it is $6.99. the gas industry is using exactly the same ploy. >> to me, it might have made sense when it was 85 cents a gallon. but now it doesn't seem like you are really buying into that extra tenth of a penny. >> fooled you, didn't it? >> for a couple of years. now i'm looking at the dollar sign. is it $3 a gallon? >> are gas prices up or down right now. where are we? >> they've been going down, not as fast as they want up for several months but they've been going down gently. historically being our high prices have been around the 4th of july so we think we may have seen the highest gas prices we're going to see this summer and hopefully they will continue to cruise down the rest of the summer. >> that would be great. >> let's hope so. >> all right, lon anderson, our brood friend from aaa, thank you for answering the question for us an hopefully we'll see you sometime soon. >> i dr

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goers in new york found a shark on the shore earlier today. 15 foot basking shark washed up on balboa lon beach. the shark still alive and believed to be near dead according to marine biologist. unlike the cousin, these shark only eat plank ton. >>> orioles send one represent testify to the night all star game in st. louis. center fielder adam jones. hear from him on receiving that honor him on receiving that honor next in t t t t yo make me another meatloaf ♪ - ♪ no - ♪ forget the mac and cheese ♪ - ♪ oh no ♪ i want some fun piled on a bun ♪ ♪ i want a manwich, please... ♪ make tonight a manwich night. - ♪ i want a manwich, please ♪ - ♪ ahh-ahh-ahh. ♪ you don't have to be a witch either, it's true ♪ ♪ you just have to love a fun, tasty dinner ♪ ♪ and wearing some of that dinner on you. ♪ we'll take it. >> welcome back. i'm bruce cunningham. baseball midsummer classic tonight in st. louis. tampa bay joe madden will lead the american league squad against the national league stars managed by manual. jones is the loan center fielder still 23 years old. jones was the center piece in last year

chris cog lon 2-for-6 with a couple of runs in this series.ob will give you the scouting report momentarily on the hard- throwing right hander and that's how hard he can throw. first good heater of the day, 92. >> rob: i said what he said during the interviewrks i'm going to throw a lot of strikes and see what happens. >> bob: would a starter say anything else going into it? >> rob: he is a very confident young man. i love him. he thought he needed to throw a few more balls. that's not what we were talking about earlier in the year, change the eye level and his last start, he was fantastic. he was challenging guys, here is my 95, see if you can hit it at eye level. you can't. and maybe a 95 fastball off the corner. >> rob: exactly. you don't need to waste pitches at all. >> bob: when i -- there is strikeout number 1. >> employee at the month h a fantastic june, with a lower earned run average in the major league. his average goes down. we talked about craig stammen, batting averages second, third time through. batting average goes down, too. >

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it ended up going a lon way. today the all-time stolen base leader officially became one of the greatest of all time. oakland a's outfielder recky henderson was inducted into the hall of fame in front of thousands in cooperstown. joining him, jim rice. the eight-time all-star voted in in his 15th year of eligibility. also joe jordan was inducted. rickey henderson wants you to remember him in one way. >> when you think of me, i would like you to remember that kid from the inner city that played the game with all his heartnd never took the game for granted. thanks everyone here for making my dream come true today. >> rickey henderson. a class act in the hall of fame. >>> at the british open, heartbreak for fred funk. the tacoma park native was on pace to win the first of his career but was eliminated in a playoff. fred funk started the front nine on the right track. here on the sixth from 20 feet away, drains the birdie. funk shot a three under and would finnish a three-way tie for the lead. to the playoff. the fir

. >> did you see the size of the tall lons? >> yeah. there's much more ahead on 11 news today. >> we'll look at your answers to our "watercooler question of the day." >> and a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. good luck. @÷p >> time to get to our "watercooler question of the day." >> what do you think the future holds for former alaska governor sarah palin? >> james writes -- "she will get a time slot between martha stewart and oprah." keep e-mailing those responses to watercooler@wbaltv.com. we'll read more of them in the next hour and post all of them on the front page of our website, wbaltv.com. >> good morning to you, everybody. keith mills with sports. ravens got a couple of spots open. ravens' rookies and quarterback and assorted veterans report today for the start of training camp. first set of two-a-days set for tomorrow. it's been more than a month since the ravens last had a mini camp. john harbaugh says he's not worried at all. his team will be readies to play. >> you don't put the kind of work they pu

ernesto lon don yeah in baghdad for the washington pos" >> caller: inhis particular case the attacks appr to be designed to ang a follow worship, it's movement. this is the political bloc that for manyears controlled the biggest shia militia in the count. so it could bean aack signed to try to get asmuch mitia to retiate against nni. and t start sectarian violence again. >> despite today's attack iraq has been relatively calm in rent months. so much so that elier this eek after meeting wi iraqi ficials, u.s. secretary of defense robert gates, raised e prosct of accerating the americawithdrawal from the country. currently, there e about 130,000 u.s. forces there. >>> it's also thout that today's attacks willot result in an increased presence by american troopson iraqi streets. at the end of st month, amecan troops withdraw from majorrban areaselocating to se camps. >> caer: i don't see any signta the is any desire from the government or from the united states military to have the american return to the city in anyiven way. that could carly change. but so far we have seeno evidence tha

as president obama end a two-day summit russia,e and at country's t leaders seem to have got a lon wayard changing theone oftheir lationship for thbetter. butespite the agement to reduce their nuclear arsenals with a new treaty the president admitted that on issues that divide the countrie tre won't be a meetingof the minds anytime so. one of those issues, the american plan to deploy a missile defense sstem near russia in eastern europe russia' foreign ministerwarned today at such a system could jeopardize progress o arms control. the obama visit our "leadfocus" once again tonigh >> reporter: saking to aduates ofmaster's prestigious w economic sool presidentbama outlined h vison for a new era of ssian/america cooperatn. >> america wants a strong, aceful and prosperous russian is belief is rooted inur respt for the russian people and a shar history betwe our nationshat goes beyon competition. >> reporter: in his speech, predent obama said that the u.s. and russia hav several areas of mutual inerests. such as stopping thepread of nucar weapons and combatting militants in centraasia. we w

whenou go to memph, i was just there not lon ago. ever time i go there, i am still amazeat the number of people in thatity and the mood of e city in certain mmunities. people still embarrassed and humiliad and still disappoied and hurt and angry about the fact ts happened to be the city where dr. king was asssinated. you goo dallas, certain pts of dallas, if you talk to folk o have been around for a while, the city of dallas can demever ve beyond the -- can never move beyon the fact that j.f.k. was sho in dallas. whatind of burden does the city still feel or bar, if any,iven that these murders to place during the civil rights era >> that hist will be fever -- history will be forever etcd in our memory. deepounds you never -- you heal, but you never forget the scars. and i think philalphia is in that mode right now. we never forget the scars. historyon't let us forget it. won't let us forget it. but so we've healed. we are healing. my ection ia signal that healing is- has taken place in theouth, in philadelphia, in t state of mississi

will require insurance companies to cover routine checkups and preventive care, like mammograms, cloe lon colono pis. eye and foot exams for diabetics so we can save lives and money. no longer will insurance companies will allowed to drop or water down coverage for someone who's become seriously ill. that's not right. it's not fair. we will stop insurance companies from placing arbitrary caps on the coverage you can receive in a given year or in a lifetime. so, my point is, whether or not you have health insurance right now, the reforms we seek will bring stability and security that you don't have today. >> now, by the way, we were hoping to get a republican view. we had congressman eric cantor miked up early this afternoon, but he had to run off for a vote. one other quick note. health care reform got a big boost today with key lawmakers saying they've got the cost down by $100 billion over ten years. we know you have a lot of questions for lawmakers working on health care reform. in washington tomorrow, rick is back, of course, and he's going to help you ask those questions. tune in tom

mark phillips, cbs news, lon london. >> couric: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight.i'm katie couric. thank you for watching. see you tomorrow. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs liaptiedy b media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >>> from the first local station with news and high definition. this is 9 news now. >>> good night. in your only local news at sphp, death on base. the navy investigates after a sailor's body is found in the barracks at ft. -- myer. no delay. a judge denies the request to push back a trial of a woman accused of killing her own four daughters and making up the rules. questions about the safety of pedicabs after a woman dies in a ride in san diego. but first, we begin with the latest on that sailor found dead at ft. myer. >>> i am andrew stack in arlington. investigators found the both of a female sailor here at the henderson hall barrack located at fort myer early this morning. just a stone's throw from the pentagon, ncis investigators got to work on the case early this morning. after the female sailor failed to report for duty

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was filled with al's friends and hisfamily and justeople who have been waitinfor this to happen r so lonw, the trial lasted long than the lindbergh baby kidnapng trial. it went onor something like -- who's counting -- but 246 days since the day of the ection. so the was just a lot of good feeling for him and just lot of joy inhat roo and alws when anew senator comes in, there's a lot of dignity and sixsix civility in senate. so it s good day. >>efore we get to t big piure of him coming into the senate, t me ask you personallynd as an individl get easiesince you have been b handling the burden of allof the senate repsentation from minnesota? >> wl, our staff, as you kw as i have said man times, i'm so proud of them. i tnk they will continue to do double the work for a b beuse we're not giving our casver to him as hisffice is brand new. but gradually, obviously, constituentle less will cl his fice as well as ours. r me, i'm pleased it's over. i nt six mont, rachel, as the only setor without deding to resign in front of a lake or diappear in argenna. so it's a kind of a personal achievement

this i a pattern thatat'sgone on for r a lon time, n not just in this issueue,ut in others. and the r reaso it's importt is not because membmbers of congre want to be in the knknow wewe feel shut out.. it iss because congresess must exert oversig over thesese importanant activitieses for e sasafety a secity of e american people ththat is wh is at iss ere. >> let me show you- >> i in my genereration, t theod shamrock andnd thesether t thin resonate, , becaus it remindsus ofof why ielligence committees were set up in cngress in thehe first place. cause intelligence agegencies were opperatinin an unexamid, and it turns out, dangerous w, infringing on amamericans' liberty. >>>> congresssswoman,et me jus shshow you whahat happen today when the speaeaker was asked abt this. there's a bibigger ise herere. which is, the f feud between th speaker of t the ouse, third i line f for the presiden, and the cidirector. shshe was asked oday, when d she last speak to leon panetta. let me she you what shshe said. >> how often do you sak to leonon panet ando youeceive yoyour regul intelligigen

intelligence, which is w it wa't released and why the administrati tried to keep it as quiet as it did for as lonme of the iormation may be declassified in yearo come, but you're t going to hear about it tomorrow. >> many people have wondere since this developnt if ts is vindication speaker pelosi when she id the cia misleads congress all the time. viously, she was talking about the sue of harsh interrogation, waoarding, d what congress knew about . is thivindication for her? >> well, it certainly points up the strangeance that is done between e administration on the one hand and t congres on the other. there are lots of programs whose information is not released to anybody, incdingthe ngress, expt fthe eight people i was talking about, the headsnd the major members of the intellce committees of bo houses, buthe 1947 law tha governors all this is extremely vague abouthatneeds to be releasednd what doesn'ave to be reased. and as result, a lot of information is notreleased to the congress. for a widevariety of reasons, mostly having to do wi security, so the snfgs is not released to the public and

and i think those were part of the sum and substance of the conversation that that president had in lon do with president medvedev and they have made a difference. and i was surprised, quite frankly, as i read over the statements that were issued today how much more forward leaning they had been than what we had seen over a long period of time in the past. now, this is not in my view necessarily an iron-clad commitment to the future direction with no swiveling or changing, much more has to be done and much more has to be delivered. but it is in my view much more positive than i expected and i read the newspapers over the weekend and much more positive than a number of commentators of note in the newspapers were predicting the situation would be today. >> rose: last word to you. >> i was going to say two things quickly. i do think it's a big mistake to give into this notion that somehow the ways in which russia has gone wrong are america's fault. ultimately, these are russian-made problems. i think there was one really big policy mistake by america and that was supporting, at least impli

phillips' lon health. >>> all right, folks. welcome back to "the closing bell." you can see we're down 35 points on the dow. joined on the floor of the new york stock exchange by the chairman and ceo of will mingtron trust, ted cecala. let me talk to you first and foremost about the tarp repayment. what are your plans in terms of giving the government its money back? >> we're going to watch how the next couple quarters develop, and as the recovery starts to take hold then we're going to start to accelerate our plan to repay the money. so we'll probably end up not at the end of this year but probably first part of next year. >> are you looking forward to that day? everything i hear from other financial ceos is like they're darn happy the day that's behind them to get the government out of there. >> we are. i think the government played a vital role when the financial system started to collapse. and it's beyond that but it would be nice to see the economy starting to really accelerate before we go ahead and make those -- >> we just had ken chenault on from american

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