i'm lynn berry. today we begin with lost at sea. things are looking grim for 11 men still missing after a burning oil rig in the gulf of mexico exploded and then sank. now the coast guard is gearing up to combat a potentially catastrophic oil spill. nbc's jay gray has the latest. >> reporter: while choppers and coast guard cutters continue to search the waters off the louisiana gulf coast, officials now admit, hope is waning that any of the 11 missing oil rig workers survived. >> they may have been onboard the rig and not able to evacu e evacuate. >> reporter: as the rescue effort seems to slowly slip toward recovery, there's a new concern. after burning for more than 35 hours, the platform collapsed and sank below the water's surface. these pictures show the dramatic scene unfolding and now officials are worrying about the potential for an environmental disaster. >> 700,000 gallons of diesel is either still intact below the surface or it's gone up with the explosion. >> reporter: teams are rushing in to start the clean-up, but alre

i'm lynn berry. today we begin with an about-face on oil. president barack obama threw open a stretch of waters for drilling yesterday upsetting his own environmental backers. obama says the move will sustain economic growth and produce jobs but the decision is receiving mixed reviews and looks to some more like mccain/palin than obama/biden. >> reporter: president obama changed his mind about ocean drilling. >> so today we're announcing the expansion of offshore oil and gas expansion exploration. >> reporter: it looks like a flip-flop in the '08 campaign. with the gas prices rising john mccain supported offshore drilling. barack obama said no. >> to drill offshore here in florida and other places around the country would not provide families with any relief. >> reporter: but for the past year, president obama's looked at how to develop wind and solar energy and nuclear power while being sure our economy recovers. >> we are going to need to harness traditional sources of fuel, even as we ramp up production of new sources of renewable home-gr

. >> reporter: with former real life judge lynn toler behind the bench. >> you've come here to say you lost the weight but didn't get the boob job. >> reporter: it's not an actual divorce court. these couples are arguing about property or money. >> tell me you didn't spend your daughter's $1300 disney land money. >> reporter: lynn toler says venting feelings that have gone unacknowledged too long. >> here we give people an opportunity to be heard. not taking money out of your daughter's mouth to give you more beer. >> property is very important in this day and age. it defines you. you've worked hard to get it. it's meaningful to you. when you divorce, a lot of people have a lot of battles over their property. >> you are sorry. >> just as sorry as you. >> no, i am not sorry. i took care of your daughter. >> reporter: they sure weren't talking like that on the show of divorce court in the 60s, which featured actors performing scripted dialogue, while using an in court reporter, also an actor, to give off a when i have whiff of truth. >> divorce is becoming less of a stigma and more of a

i'm lynn berry. here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> after an outcry over spirit airlines decision to charge up to $45 for a carry-on bag, five airlines are promising not to follow spirit's lead. charles schumer has received pledges. >>> defense secretary robert gates is disputing the new york times characterization of a memo he sent over america's long-term strategy for dealing with the growth of iran's nuclear program. in the story, a source calls the memo a, quote, wake-up call to the white house. gates insists that's not the case, saying he simply laid out steps to be taken as various agencies work together in making policy on iran in the months ahead. >>> on sunday's "meet the press" on nbc, timothy geithner said the economy is growing faster than the obama administration expected and is on the way to sustained job creation. geithner also expressed confidence congress would approve a financial reform package that will protect taxpayers from having to pay for future bailouts. >>>

i'm lynn berry. today with begin with back in business. authorities lifted a ban on flights in and out of england's busiest airport last night after volcanic ash from iceland kept planes on the ground there for nearly a week. still as runways across europe return to life, there's no telling how long it will last and how long it might take to get everyone home. nbc's leanne gregg reports. >> reporter: european air space is coming to life again slowly. the process of moving millions of passengers who have been waiting for days is now under way. >> i got a flight out today, was on the phone for about an hour last night, and got a colleague, though, that's still stuck in paris. hopefully he'll get home on thursday. >> reporter: the first passengers flying out of heathrow airport since the volcanic eruption left london with mixed emotions. >> i think we're just a little nervous that we're the first flight flying out and just hope we make it back to the united states, san francisco, oklahoma. >> reporter: there's been heavy pressure on airlines

>> i would reinforce some things that lynn said.it is useful to extinguish between the exchange component and the clearing house component. the exchange idea is just the idea that derivatives should be bought and sold like shares of stocks are, like general electric, or microsoft stock is. the idea is if you tradeç them on exchanges, there will are more transparency and nothing will be taking place in the dark. the role of the clearing house is to guarantee those contracts. so that if either party fails to perform, the clearing house will step in. and this will prevent the kinds of huge disasters that we saw in 2008, in particular. so there are two different kinds of reforms, although they're closelyÑi connected. the one wall street is really worried about is the requirement that derivatives be traded on exchanges. and the reason they're worried about it is wall street banks make a huge amount of money from making tailor-made derivatives that would not and do not trade on exchanges. so this threatens to take a weigh any big profit

joining it seems to me jonathan allen and lynn sweet. lynn, you first. that that was a factor? >> he didn't bring it up. he was candid and therefore he didn't want to run away from it. >> yeah. >> he's not going to be replaced right now. >> why not? >> he is not going to be replaced because and would put into the rnc and be too much to have to replace him with a november election. >> jonathan, can he put his numbers on his board against his reputation? winning races in virginia, new jerseys and massachusetts does this count in his favor more than the goofs that go on? >> if the republicans do well in 2010 in november he'll be able to make that for an argument for himself. he's got issues right now internally. let's remember there are a lot of people who want michael steele to fail. not only the democrats in the country, but he got elected on the sixth ballot when he ran for chairman. most of republican delegates who voted on that, committeemen and committeewomen didn't want him in the first place. >> they didn't think he had the fighting weight? >> a lot

lynn has a lot more to say than i do but she is the ultimate anti twitter. able to take a subject we didn't know we were interested in and keep us riveted for i didn't count the pages. tell us about this book in 140 characters. text us. i have a question. you focus on the guidance on the edknown. u.s. ambassador to britain, the most crucial. and joe kennedy. what do you think the world would look like today if that pack of american london managed to convince people back home much earlier that hitler was an batremely bad guy who had to be stopped and u.s. armed forces had joined britain at the outset? queshat is a great what if question. i am not sure. it just wasn't in the cards that that was going to happen. th te book is a behind-the-scenes look at the partnership between the u.s. and great britain during world war ii with these three americans as the main characters. re reason i am writing about them is they were really keep players in the debate in 1940-1941 whether britain should be saved. britain at that time was the last country in europe holding out

lynne quickly joined ap's hot off squad new york and then worked in the moscow bureau during the much miss medieval in place. she worked at the "baltimore sun" which has now been set. [laughter] 1981 she went straight to be a free lancer and unlike most freelancers, she made a great life out of it. and the secret is, among other things, her reporters ear further rightwards. i'm going to read a couple of points from the end that will explain the title of the book. .. >> >> take a subject we did not know we were interested in and keep us riveted. so tell us about this book at 140 characters? [laughter] >> i got a question. you focused on edward murrow. perhaps the most crucial. succeeded joe kennedy. what do you think the world would look like today if that little pack of americans in london had managed to convince people back home much earlier that hitler was an extremely bad dude and have to be stopped? the u.s. forces would join forces at the out set? >> that is a great what if question. i am not sure. it just wasn't in the cards that that was going to happen. the book is really a be

. >> lynn sweet is the "chicago sun times" writer.e know you've been snooping around and following this story for a while because there have been a lot of rumors as i pointed out rahm emanuel would like to run. what else is he saying? >> well, he is waiting as everyone is for what mayor daley is going to do. mayor daley probably will be running. some of this right now is just a matter of his getting a place in line. one other thing people might not be aware of, when he came to the white house b tamron, he kept his political war chest. he has $1 million in it. if and when he chooses to run for political office again, he has a big running start over any other person in chicago. believe me, he might want to be the first in line. but that line's going to be pretty long. >> there are a lot of people in line for that job. what do we make of the fact rahm emanuel even answered the question. he didn't have to be so definitive there. >> and he was not. this came up first in january. and he went out of his way, as did his press secretary, to tr

read that article at our website by lynn washington called the "the mumia exception." opportunity to introduce my colleague, also a coordinator of educators. she's announcing a very important upcoming planning event about getting involved at columbia university that's happening april 3rd. is this appropriate to do now very quickly? >> sure, absolutely. >> joanna from baruch college. >> yes, i'm a historian. and i want to very briefly address a question that you asked initially. which is how do we understand mumia in the context of american history. if we look at the labor struggles of the 19th century we have the haymarket affair, which led to the execution of four anarchists. then we have the anarchists who are executed by the state and they know we have the rosenbe s rosenbergs. and what we see in american history is that every generation has a martyr whom the state makes an example of. and essentially part of what we see is that the state is telling us by executing these men and women what the costs will be for challenging the state fundamentally. we cannot forget t

jamie paul lynn ramirez, joan as jihad jamie is accused of terrorism related conspiracy in colorado and concern over possible domestic terrorism has authorities paying attention, to the kind of odd communications many public officials get, once in a while. and national correspondent steve centanni has the latest example. >> reporter: in state capitals across the country police are investigating letters manned their governors -- demanding their governors leave office within three days or be removed. at least two states beefed up security, even though they say they are not overly worried. the louisiana governor, bobby jindal got the letter, but the police spokesman in baton rouge said not a credible threat to the governor or the people of louisiana and jennifer granholm got the letter five days ago which renders the three day deadline in the letter meaningless and the fbi warned the governors the letters were come and to turn them over to police and and fbi official down played the threat. >> we obviously look at these things and determine whether or not there is actually a threat, contai

lynne, thank you. [inaudible conversations] >> this year's c-span studentcam documentary competition last middle and high school students to create a five to eight minute figure dealing with one of the country's greatest strengths or challenge the country is facing. here is one of the second place winners. >> many people consider the united states to be the leader of the free world. asked leader shouldn't we have the best education system? so we can continue to make the world a better place for all. do we currently have the best education system? according to the psia tested by the oecd we only rank as average. >> oecd come organization for economic cooperation and development for a better world economy. areas such as economics, science and technology, taxes, education, migration and growth all of the concerns of the 21st century education is the key to ensuring people everywhere have a fair chance of finding good jobs with stable futures. oecd studies education system examining what works and what. >>

that's particularly true in the arab, muss lynn world. we need going forward a list with full names. they need to be biometric going forward. that's the direction we are moving forward in. >> the future of the no fly list includes this new intelligence information that's going to be these fragments not just based on name? >> really what we are talking about today has been applied to the secondary list. therein tensive scruntity. that really goes to the list as opposed to the no fly list. if there's reason to believe you should not fly at all, that's a different matter. host: going to the phones again caller: good morning. you keep bringing up the christmas day bomber and 9/11 as an excuse for all of this increased security. what you keep on leaving out -- this is documented. what you leave out is the fact that the state department helped the bomber get on board. the sharp dress $man was actually a u.s. agent. you fail to leave out that there was another man filming the christmas day bomber on the plane. you leave out the second man arrest

out to lynn in kentucky. hi, lynn. >> caller: hi, nancy.nt you to know you've made your place in heaven. also -- >> i'm going to tell my twins that when they turn 16 and they're hating on me. what's your question, love? >> caller: my question is i have a theory. there's always truth in lies. and they said that the child od'ed. i believe that. i believe that she did it at home. my question is did ronald cummings talk to misty prior to when he couldn't find her? because i'm wondering if he is involved in this. >> are you talking about ronald cummings? >> yes. >> what do you mean did he talk to misty -- remember, everyone was trying call the house, and nobody was picking up. >> caller: right. >> straight back to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer. ellie, what can you tell me about that? that evening she went missing. remember, everybody, including ronald cummings, was trying to reach misty croslin, and she refused to answer the phone. >> right. that's right, nancy. and also, ronald has said in the past that after he dropped haleigh off

joining it seems to me jonathan allen and lynn sweet. lynn, you first.e smart to admit that that was a factor? >> he didn't bring it up. he was candid and therefore he didn't want to run away from it. >> yeah. >> he's not going to be replaced right now. >> why not? >> he is not going to be replaced because there's an election and there's turmoil in the rnc and too much to replace him. >>> welcome back to "hardball." today michael steele addressed the recent criticism of his handling at the rnc. so most didn't want him in the first place. >> they didn't think he had the fighting weight or what? >> i think that's true. a lot of people didn't think he had the substance, good on tv but wouldn't bring what they needed to to the job as a manager and fundraiser. >> at this point, it's not a presidential year. a lot of big money would go anyone to the snarl and house committees. other places for the republican money to go. he's the chairman and he's not going to be replaced. >> what about senator kyl coming out against him, people like that. what does that mean?

this year, because of cuts in funding, suzanne lynn from the department of youth and community development says the city can only offer about 18,000 jobs. >> we know that people who worked as teens are more likely to have stable employment as adults and to earn more over their lifetime. >> reporter: and for many teens, getting employment also goes way beyond putting money in their pockets. >> to find a job, for me, would be a very big accomplishment. it would help boost my self esteem a lot. >> reporter: suzanne pratt, "nightly business report," new york. >> susie: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: wall street kicked off the month of april with solid gains. the dow rose 70 points, the nasdaq added four, and the s&p 500 was up eight. those gains came on light volume ahead of tomorrow's market holiday. the nation's factories are starting to hum again. the institute for supply management says its manufacturing index jumped last month, the fastest pace in almost six years. in a separate report, the commerce department said february construction spending hit its lowest level i

>> in connection with lehman brothers the opportunity to lynn to of lehman brothers was dependent on collateral which was sufficient to justify the loans and they did not as of september 15th have that type of collateral. >> i get the sense that the fed fog that something could be done but since they weren't regulator in charge they stepped back. how do you feel about that? >> i am not qualified to and to that question in terms of what we were trying to do. over that weekend there were efforts being made. there were efforts to salvage some aspect of lehman. i can't comment beyond that. >> in your report you cited many times the risks lehman was taking was far and above, in september of 2008. >> they had in place a risk matrix that limited the amount of risk for individual transactions. they exceeded that 20 times to take on more. they simply raised the level of risk they were qualified to take. that is the way they addressed it. many were assets which became an anchor around them. >> i found a real contrast with some testimony given by mr. crookshank. is there an opportunity to compa

>> reporter: and in what has become a staple of her appearances, tae lynn tried to overcome her own controversial words by claiming the news media deliberately distort them. >> don't retreat, reload. and that is not a call for violence. >> reporter: this conference, which is held six months before the midterm elections, has become something of a dry run for presidential hopefuls. it helped propel then-texas governor george w. bush to party prominence back in 1998. but one-time candidates mitt romney and mike huckabee didn't show, nor did minnesota governor tim pawlenty, so today belonged to palin. on poster board, with impersonators, buttons, bumper stickers and even caribou jerky in her honor. >> she has worked very hard all her life. she's not one of these washington insiders that have been in there for 20 and 30 years. >> reporter: what about sarah palin? >> dynamic, eloquent. >> reporter: a candidate? >> excellent candidate. >> reporter: for? >> for president. >> reporter: but our cbs news poll suggests her appeal is limited. only 36% of conservatives view her favorably. and while the midwest

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host: lynn township, mich., democrats line. caller: this -- any aspect of this new build utilizes insurance companies that are already in existence, correct? guest: class does not. it sets the money up in a trust overseen by a government appointed body. it is not a private insurance plan, no. caller: but the rest of the health bill -- the health bill, other than what you're just talking about, utilizes insurance companies, correct? and that a guest: care and medicaid, guest: and the existing and medicare and medicaid and the existing programs out there, it enhances those. there's plenty of competition in the marketplace, i believe. caller: i've heard that this is basically funneling into insurance companies that are already there. i'm wondering, with this idea of socialism, or reading communism -- the person who called this communism, they need to go look of that word before they can start saying that. there's no way you can say that anything there is communist. host: any last thoughts on that? guest: again, i come back to clas

and i'm pleased to announce that, thanks to a generous gift from the eliz bitsdz carol lynn lux foundation, the museum will be adding a new gallery to the first ladies' exhibition, a gallery called a first ladies' debut. this will open to the public tomorrow. it will feature 11 gouns from mameie eisenhower to michelle obama, and it really offers a 50-year review of first ladies fashion at the smithsonian. not only do we have a world-class collection at the sitsdzsonian, but we have a world-class staff here and i want to thank them all who put together this exhibit and contribute so much to the success of this museum. [applause] for the past two years, we have enjoyed the inspired leadership of wane cluff, the 12th secretary of the institution. he has made the understanding of the american experience a core theme in our new strategic plan. it gives me great pleasure to introduce dr. wayne cluff. [applause] >> thank you. good morning and welcome to this great museum. this very special occasion for us. a special thanks to all the board members of this museum who helped support its role and to

through all of this, and i understand and i have read the report, i read our friends who published lynn downey, who published the report, but the founders were very specific. the 45 words are out there, and it does say, well, there is no barrier to, congress should make no law. and i think implicit there was a desire to keep government out of not only restricting, but directing. and with all due respect, i never thought i would be quoting jerry falwell this often, but with the shackles comes the shackles that and i think the letter, the first aggregators with a clone of newspapers who could mail each other for free. they were aggregators in 1791. but we need to be very cautious about stepping forward on this, because remember, we also do with the big unknown, the skeptical public. who will see any assist, as they have with other industries, as the head of government somehow tilting the objectivity or pushing the objectivity, or lack thereof, that already exist. so i think we need to be very, very cautious. i really don't have one foot in the target that i would like to see innovation. i

lynne says that sex offenders are supposed to be in jail, not winning super bowls. >> it all comes down to allegations. there is no concrete evidence. by accusing someone of wrongdoing -- >> he finds himself not once but twice in on compromising positions with a woman. by not hearing on the same level as was given to michael vick, i think he is getting away with a slap on the wrist and that is unfortunate. we will post more responses on our website, wbaltv.com. >> good morning. we are looking at your morning commute. you need some extra time because of the fog. there are several accidents to watch out for. watch for some debris in the road on northbound 95. we have an accident location wrapping up. there is one near the dam. all southbound lanes are closed. it will be slow. outer loop, about an 11-minute drive. down to 32 of the southwest. moving west on 295 at 32. we switch to the harrisburg expressway. problem free. that is the latest period which second live with sandra shaw. she is talking about birth date. do you do laundry? >> i love be fabric softeners and the tropical-spelling d

applauding] >> lynn olson is the author of numerous books including "troublesome young men" and "freedom's daughters." she's a former correspondent for the moscow sun and the associated press. the virginia festival of the book is the host of the program. to find out more go to vabook.org. >> in her book "from disgust to humanity," martha nussbaum discusses the sexual orientation in the united states. politics and prose bookstore is the host of this talk. it lasts about an hour. >> on behalf of our owners i would like to welcome dr. martha nussbaum to politics and prose bookstore. [applause] we are always honored -- that's okay. we are always honored to be located at this juncture of world class academics and the general reading public. but, of course, d.c.'s readers are pretty world class themselves and we're pleased in particular to welcome martha nussbaum from her newest work. i'm personally overjoyed that she's coming to us from the university of chicago, which is my own alma mater. dr. nussbaum,, however, is the sort of academic who talks about the ivory tower and brought many conversa

. >> ♪ every now and then i get a little bit lonely ♪ >> lynn sang a duet of a bunny tyler classic withorge lopez show last night. he shot to fame by singing "i will always love you" on a taiwanese reality show. -- bonnie tyler song. >> 6:43 is the time, 50 degrees on this thursday morning. >> we will be rig >> you are watching abc 7's good morning washington. with doug mcelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, and lisa baden with traffic. this is good morning washington, on your side. >> it is 6:46, 4 check the top stories. a fight outside a temple hills nightclub ended in gunfire. two prince george's county sheriff's deputies tried to break up a fight at club elite on brinkley road. a man tried to hit the deputy in the car. then police fired a shot at him. non-life threatening injuries. >> funeral services will be held today for murder d.c. school principal brian betts. hundreds gathered last night to say goodbye to the person they say motivated and inspire them. he was found shot to death in this ogress bring home last week. police are still searching for his kille

. >>> i'm lynn berry. here's what's happening.approved a plan to have benefits for families caring for severely wounded veterans. >>> the coast guard says an oil rig that explode in the gulf of mexico this week was carrying 700,000 pounds of diesel fuel and it could spill 8 million barrels of oil per day. now back to "future earth." >> our hunger for carbon-based energy is causing weather changes and altering the air we breathe. meanwhile, the earth mourns, the polls melt, the ocean dries. but there is a green solution to our energy conundrum that happens to be blue -- water. by combining water and gravity, one gets an inexhaustible source of clean green energy and it's available on every continent, hydroelectric power. >> but the giant dams needed to hold back the water have an environmental cost, producing the flow and damaging the ecosystem downstream. if a dam ever collapses, the death toll could be shocking. in 1975, a 50-foot wave killed 230,000 chinese from the dam. >> a typhoon overwhelmed the dam. you've got to be able to

the last person to see the 5-year-old was misty cross lynn, then the girlfriend of her father.other is speaking out about this. she said she was told haleigh was sexually molested the night she vanished. >> where did that story come from? >> from misty. >> what did she say? >> that she heard haleigh in there crying. >> who was in the room with her? >> i'm going to say joe or tommy, one. >> or both? >> or both. >> and what if anything did misty croslin do to take her of care? >> according to what she told me when all this was going on, she had already been threatened by joe and she grabbed junior and got in the bed and they covered up their heads and completely and when she took the covers off of her head, haleigh was gone. >> hollers is reportedly the person that tipped off police to search the st. johns river. other relatives dispute the allegations saying the contact with the family is too limited for her to have any useful information. >>> some fascinating fbi evidence in the casey anthony case is released including lab reports and testimony. jean casarez reports results lin

cathy lynn seidel. linda g mckinney. my grandpa mckee bmaroney. donald ray leonhard. cynthia l brown. >> of course, tunnel thee mcveigh convicted and executed for the bombing. >> thousands of passengers bound for europe in limbo as the work week begins. most of western europe remains simply too dangerous to flyover. because of iceland's active volcano. people at dull airport are camping out and taking advantage of hotel discounts. most american carriers extended travel waivers for passengers to rebook. several airlines have run flights without passengers in recent days. none reported problems or damage. >> toyota, pulls the plug on the lexis suv. toyota is recalling 2010 lexis gx 460. this recall is affecting about 9400 vehicles. last week consumer reports issued a don't buy warning on the vehicle saying it was susceptible to roll over. >> >> next on the news at 10:00. computer security concerns, why changing your password may not do much good. >> and katie stevens was voted off, you may recall, but made >> how many different online passwords do you have? many of us h

[ crowd cheering ] ♪ i'm lynn berry. here's what's happening.resident obama will travel to a memorial for 29 miners killed in the explosion. >>> florida governor charlie crist is planning to run for the u.s. senate. >>> and toyota is recalling thousands of suvs to update stability software after concerns it could roll over in sharp turns. now back to "mcveigh tapes." >>> it's just 24 hours after the bombing of the murrah building, and timothy mcveigh is sitting quietly in a perry, oklahoma, jail cell. he's not being held in connection with the vicious act that killed 168 people just the day before, but rather for misdemeanor charges. an international manhunt is issued for two affects, john doe number 1, and john doe number 2. several witnesses claim to have seen a second man in the ryder truck prior to the bombing. as this is happens, mcveigh is biding his time, waiting to see how long it will take for authorities to figure out who he really is. >> while mcveigh's in prison in this little relative ocean of solitude, you know, just waiting for so

finally, a look at the new america foundation's barry lynn and his book, cornered the new monopoly andhe economics of destruction. >> we are going to get started. can people hear me okay? thanks for joining us. it is a wonderful thing that so many of you want to spend a beautiful saturday morning in a dark gem talking about cheerful subjects like al qaeda, terrorism, robotic soldiers and warrantless electronic surveillance, but welcome. i have been asked to remind you to turn off cell phones and to emphasize that.i'm going to ask if any cell phones ring that the camera turn on you to be as humiliating as possible. i am going to be brief and introduction so we have as much time to talk about the books in question which are all fascinating. to my left, since two of my colleagues and actually three colleagues, one of whom is honorary, bruce rydell who sits to my immediate left is a senior fellow and foreign-policy studies at the brookings institution and has been, had a 30 year career as a cia analyst. he is the author of the search for al qaeda, leadership ideology in the future. to his

way to interpret the chance of rain we give in a forecast of the she writes does 60% mean 60% of the lynn listening area will receive rain or does it mean there is a 60% chance of rain. apparently christine and her husband completely dries agree -- disagree on the answer. what do you think? >> i think it is a 60% chance that somebody in our viewing area is going to see rain. >> i agree. >> you are pretty much right. as a weather forecaster, someone would has been doing this for many years, there is great misunderstanding. it means one thing in particular. i think the misunderstanding comes from when you -- if you look it up, if you go online and go to different places, there are all kind of answers out there. i went right to the national weather service. here it is. the chance of rain is based on a mathematical equation which itself is based on historical data, what happened previously when these same weather conditions existed. however, that is not what solely determines the chance of rain that you hear me or others talk about. the equation, i'm giving this for steve would like math, the

let's check on the roads with kristi breast lynn. traffic control. >>> hi denise. we're not doing too badly on the roadways. a couple of accidents and minor delays. we do have an accident there, allen wood road at till burn. as far as west side delays, heavy from southwestern boulevard to security boulevard, only about 15 minutes to get through. the north side outer loop stop and go there from dei lynamy valley road. nothing going to hold you up for too long. a couple of baltimore city accidents, east madison, hill and road at 10 wick. as far as over all travel times, on the inner loop, 83 to 95, 41 minutes to get through. white marsh boulevard, we do have some volume there but nothing too significant. this traffic report is wrought to you by value city furniture. you can always purchase high quality furniture at incredibly low prices. back over to you. >>> the latest internet sensation is attracting millions of viewers. maggie rodriguez explains how a pair of barnyard owls has become a hoot on the web. >> this southern california owl box is totally wired. so when

reporter: in the wide open spaces of runaway county, michigan on the land that bears her family name, lynn her husband were living their dream. >> i love farming. farming is our way of life. >> reporter: in the ' 90s her way of life came urn assault. within ten miles of her home a dozen factory farms sprung up. places where tens of thousands of animals are raised barely able to move. >> i refer to them as animal factories because the animals are nothing more than machines. they don't get to see the you door their entire life. >> reporter: thousands of gallons of waste from the factory farms is channeled in to open pits where the toxic brew of feces, urine, antibiotics, pesticides, blood and bacteria is left to ferment before it is stray sprayed out on farm fieldings. henning says the stench is fatherly unbearable. the toxic gases like ammonia, methane, carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfite have injured families living nearby. >> we have people that get irreversible brain damage, anger, memory loss. >> reporter: henning logs 100 miles a week measuring the runoff in to area streams, pressing

northeaster lynn wind, again, through tomorrow morning, and through the afternoon tomorrow. chilly start. you will need maybe not only a jacket but a coat to get things started tomorrow. and then turning sunny, 58 to 64. so you may not be wanting to grab the vitamin d tomorrow. mid 07s, still sunshine, hangs around for thursday. friday, too. we could have isolated showers for the afternoon on friday. and sat dawe, the high of 66. that's what we get behind the system on friday. little bit after cooldown. nothing major. and right now partly sunny skies. highs on sunday in the low to mid 60s. jim, pat, back to you. >> all right. back to normal. thank you, veronica. >> coming up on "news4 at 5:00," we will show you a fiery rush hour commute. >>> i'm liz crenshaw. consumer reports issues a rare warning for drivers. toyota's latest troubles coming >>> charges are being considered today in the case of a tennessee woman who sent her recently adopted russian son back to moscow. torre hanson put the 7-year-old child on a one-way flight back to russia last week. she attached a note say

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lynn, i know that you called 911.l me how you got involved and what you are aware of and what buddy did, when buddy came back leading the state trooper, what you thought? >> i was in the house at the time. and i heard ben holler, so i quick ran outside and saw fire outside of the shed. and so i ran back in and got my shoes and the phone and i immediately called 911. and i didn't see any of the dogs at that point. and i figured they had probably just ran off into the trees. and it was -- our neighbor came over and made another call, they called a trooper. we decided we could see more of the fire coming out. we went around to the opposite side of the house and stood there and watched. and then when we saw trooper shanigan come, he told us what buddy had done. it was unbelievable. >> this is an unbelievable story. we see the video. i want to get to the trooper here. what made you want to follow this dog? >> it was body language. for that minute and a half or so, i just happened to think that i was going to make a turn an

revamped by an aggressive -- this is sunoco's being revamped by an aggressive new management team led by lynn elsonhans, who is by the way very welcome on our show. took over as ceo in august 2008. but they've been slashing costs, raising cash, monetizing logistics assets, closing underperforming refiners, doing everything right to look like to me, bring out the value maybe break up the company. here's the bottom line. if casey's general is worth 2 billion then you'd better believe that sunoco as sets which have better scale on the retail side are massively undervalued by this $3 billion company. the parts here worth so much more than the whole that it's really kind of ridiculous. that makes sunoco to me, sun, a buy buy buy. dave in california. dave. >> caller: hey, jim. boo-yah from sunny southern california -- >> boo-yah, partner. boo-yah from ucla, usc, claremont, pomona, and all the rest of them. >> caller: there you go. jim, i have a question today about some really bad press that came out over the weekend about clean energy. "barron's" and it was on the wires, i check every day, made sm

it is and how it works national director of fair tax.org and americans for fair taxation ken hogue lynn. >> mike: it's not hard to get my motor rolling about the fair tax. why is this a better way of getting revenue for the government than what we have now. >> as you know perfectly well the income tax system is very good for people inside washington, d.c. and very bad for our national economy. it bedevils every single taxpayer. the fair tax is simple, tans parent and fair. raises the same amount of revenue now raised under the income tax system but in a manner that doesn't damage your economy. >> mike: it's a sales tax. >> national consumption tax. you pay your tax at the cash register it shifts our federal tax system from taking taxes out of what makes the economy healthy, work, savings, and investment, to what comes out of the economy, consumption. the experts and there have been $22 million of research say oh, well, when you make the united states the only nation that doesn't tax manufacturing and labor, we're going to see somewhere between 10 and $15 trillion now offshore in private

. >> reporter: the defense contractor has office space in the area including offices here in roz lynn. it'sÑi unclear where they'll locate the new headquarters. according to to a source from the associated press, the dulles corridor and crystal city near the pentagon are the top runners. >> northrop grumman provides aerospace, electronics, information systems, shipbuilding and if he ctechnic services. >>> take a look outside. look at that. beautiful day out there. 63 degrees. sure looks better than yesterday at this time. tom? >>. >> there's the scene right behind us there. a beautiful shot of washington. as we approach the noon hour, we've had some clouds returning and the temperatures have climbed into the low 60s. they're not going to climb much more. it's going to be a cooler than average day. right now in washington it is 63. in prince georges county near 60. near 60 in montmontgomery. through central virginia and about 30, 40 miles south of washington it's reached the low to mid-60s. southern maryland around the chesapeake bay, northern neck of virginia, temperatures there aroun

. >>> coming up, lynn never planned to be an environmental activist, but tonight the family farmer'ss of a maneuver have earned him a huge prize. >> and don't forget, we are always on at wusa9.com. stay with us. 9news now at 6:00 is just minutes away. >>> i'm peggy fox, if you can't get your little one to nap, it's super moms to the rescue. who have lots of answers for your napping dilema. get your answers any time on momslikeme.com. [ male announcer ] this year, get the most out of your lawn with the fertilizer that gives you the most for your money. scotts turf builder. it has what other fertilizers don't. scotts patented all in one granule. every key nutrient combined into a single particle so every part of your lawn gets more even feeding. bargain brands have separate nutrients on separate particles, so feeding can be hit or miss. and a lot of what they give you isn't even food, it's filler. some have up to 40% sand, sawdust, even gravel. but scotts turf builder is 100% food. the perfect balance of nutrition lawns need to be beautiful, durable... barefootable. it all adds up to t

>> well, general walker lynn grocery california -- it's interesting you ask that because did you see the news today about the jihadists falling on the hills of jihad machine and then the young man from new jersey who is a somalian i think who went to the same town in yemen to study arabic as well in fact told his american parents she needed to go to yemen to study the real arabic from their real -- getting it straight from the horse's mouth so to speak. so general walker land is of that ilk but he is far ahead of this kerf, and he ends up in the crosshairs of the afghan war. he's gone to study arabic and in yemen and he ends up because he doesn't -- he actually in seven bin ladens's brigade and ends up in a fortress in the maza sure reef which forms the kind of last part of the "horse soldiers" discovered in the rubble after this battle was over and the shocking world about how did this young american from california and up in this fortress. so he is in there because he represented at the time i was writing the book his story is less unusual i guess is what i'm trying to say today be

. >> why don't you have to consider additional tax hikes when you have the likes of alice rev lynn, republican senator dom niche chi saying something has to give here and tax hikes have to be on the table in this environment. >> you said the important thing which is the president is going to extend the middle class tax cuts, but he is also going to let expire the tax cuts that president bush put in place for the 2% of the most fortunate americans in our country. that will provide more than a trillion dollars, around a trillion dollars in deficit reduction over the next ten years. that's very important. in addition to that, the president proposed a range of other measures to help close tax loopholes, reform international tax -- tax treatment of international companies in the united states, imposed a fee on risk to cover the t.a.r.p., reimposed the basic budget rules, pay go that were in place in the '90s. those are necessary -- >> are any of these serious enough to tackle the trajectory our debt is on? >> absolutely. let me step back. this is something we can manage as a country. think about it

. >> kate gosslin has primary custody of the couple's eight children but now jon goss lynn is suing to get full custody back. >>> comedian coen o'brien has a new home on cable. the former "tonight show" host is on a national tour since is he left nbc earlier this year. his new tv show will air at 11:00 p.m. monday through thursday on tbs. the yet to be named show will start in november. >>>. >> playing america into commercials i'm going to go somewhere where i can finish a song, man. >> yes! >> and that was "tonight show" sidekick and band leader kevin eubanks making it official. he's leaving the late night gig. eubanks has not announced specific plans. the 52-year-old started as guitarist when leno took over tonight" in 199. then he became musical director when brandon marsalis left in '95. his final day on it tonight" is may 28th. 11:26 is our time right now. coming up in the next half hour, will a mother who sent her adoptive son back to russia face charges here in the u.s.? we'll have the latest on this case. plus the 12-year-old accused of bringing a gun to his virginia school. we

>> john walker lynn grows up in california and he@"t sharif that forms one of the last part of horseiscovered in the bible the shocking world about how the young americans were in california and that the this fortress. and so, he's in there because he represented at the time i was writing the book in their story is less unusual i guess it's what i'm trying to say today because we're finding out that more people are soon to be attracted to this or he, driven by these ideals. it's so interesting that he left a very permissive environment in california and ran straight into the arms of probably one of the least permissive environments. and i don't know. we can speculate on all this, but furans tragically, tragically, you know, one of the first people to be killed after 9/11 was an officer named mike spann and he comes face-to-face with lindh and that journey was one of the arcs of the book as well. >> are there any questions from the audience. i'll ask people to start lining up at the microphone here to my way. as they do, let me fast forward a bit. and you end the book with a quote fro

. >> larry: we'll be back with bill carter and lynn etrice and lauren sanchez after this. >> larry: back in january, conan said he wouldn't move "the tonight show" back 30 minutes so jay leno could start at 11:30. here's how george lopez joked about that at the time. >> conan o'brien sent a letter saying he wouldn't move to 12:05 to make room for jay leno at 11:35, which i don't understand, because latinos have no problems to be told to come into work a half hour later! right? >> larry: all right, are you surprised, lynnette rice that george lopez completely agreed with in move to go back a half hour later? >> you know, i'm not surprised. i think having a lead-in like conan is going to be just incredible for him. i mention, he's had -- he's definitely enjoyed some press, because he's start this new late-night talk show on tbs. he was not getting the kind of press that the late-night stars are getting. you know that conan got when he left fox. now with conan coming in there's going to be so much attention, not only on conan but what george is doing afterwards, i mean it's a huge boom for