. >> it also includes actor ashley hamilton, melissa joan hart, and debbie mazar. kelly osborn will give ago this round as well as mark dicasts coast. -- decascos. a couple of models will show off their moves and finally, former house majority leader, tom deleverage is dance moves follow his political persuasion, he is not likely to show up with two left feet. -- tom delay. >> i was shocked by that one. the olympians always do well. we will have to see what happens. we love that show. >> it is fun. >> you love it. don't play it down. there is a lot going on in the tropics. it is high gear but down there -- but >> we will hope -- focus on the hav crao onge air od c code orange today. take a look at our networket and look at bsdetrkhea, it e atlofd and the and we go to partly and mostly sunny skies where it is hot and muggy out there, 85 degrees right now. 90 degrees in martinsburg, right now. it is continuing to be a warm afternoon. we're looking for highs in the mid-90's. there is a pocket of cool air well off to the west, in helena, montana. denver is that 63. one

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reporter: the biggest dancing cast ever includes actors ashley hamilton, melissa joan hart and debbie mazarlly osbourne will give ate whirl this go-around as will mark decascos, who is hoping his slice and dice skills in the kitchen will cut it up on the dance floor. models diana crupa and kathy ireland will show off their moves, and finally former house majority leader tom delay. if his dance moves follow his political persuasion, she he is not likely to show up with two left feet. lindsey davis, abc 2 news. >> tom delay, can't wait. >>> well, a maryland man accused of snooping into the passport files of celebrities. details on abc 2 news at 6, which starts few. >> now abc 2 news at 6. >> a double shooting at the inner harbor over the weekend sent visitors scrambling for safety. and now city leaders are searching for ways to combat the violence. good evening. i'm marybeth marsden. police cracked down after random assaults at baltimore's major tourist center earlier this year. and now as jeff hager reports, the city is once again looking for help from annapolis. >> reporter: vacationing in

it is the city back in uzbekistan said you have to get mazar. with mazar we own the north. if we own the north we can go after cap bull. if we own kabul we can go after the south. everything is resting on this city and they make it. dean tells me, he is actually in a truck at this point. he is not on a horse but watching barbers pull their chairs into the streets, and men lining up for the first time in a long, long time for a haircut and a shave. young kids are suddenly flying kites. it's true much like in the kite run ir. that is a very moving and incredible book. people are walking by with radios on their soldiers, listen. within hours the radio station was back up playing muse. just the day before anyone caught listening or operating a radio station would have been severely punished. so the town is immediately springing back to life and, they seem, it is november 10th, 2001. and, they're now going to enter another phase of their combat, which is the shooting will slowly die down and now it is time for these guys to help rebuild the city. they're very capable of that. th

karzai addressed supporters in kabul, his rival abdullah drew tens of thousands in the northern city of mazar-i- sharif. if no single candidate wins an outright majority next week, the top two vote-getters will go into a run-off. for more on the security situation in afghanistan and on the upcoming election, we turn to renee montagne, the host of national public radio's "morning edition." she's been in afghanistan for the past three weeks. renee, thanks for joining us. i know you've talked to general mccrystal and other officials this week. what's their sense about the ability to provide security for the election? >> well, general mccrystal is pretty optimistic about what they're able to do, and obviously in most of the country there are troops and there isn't much of an insurgency. down in helmand they feel pretty good about being able to get at least around the main voting, main polling centers to manage to protect people who come to vote. there's quite a bit less presene in kandahar. and there are threats from taliban in kandahar as well as helmand saying that while people have been voting i

post-katrina emergency management form that clearly states when the president declares an emergency or mazar to become major declaration the federal coordinating officer has the authority to execute the stafford act. >> who has the authority, the federal coordinating officer? >> yes, ma'am. >> -- federal officer, highly paid official doing on the ground, and how am i to know if i come from out of state who is in charge? >> under the stafford act declaration that will be the federal coordinating officer authorized by the president to support the federal response on behalf of the request of that governor. >> say that again. i'm sorry. >> the federal court needing officer on behalf of the president is authorized under the stafford act to coordinate -- >> how do you make this distinction to state officials, to ordinary citizens on the ground, and why does the -- if in fact the president of the united states has confidence in the federal coordinating officer, why would it be necessary to pay somebody else? to be on the ground the to report to the department of homeland security? >> madam chair, i

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the democrats -- mazar degette, you were going to ask -- >> i have unanimous consent request. >> pleaseate your unanimous consent request. >> through the market we have had time limitations and many members have had statements they've not been able to make on both sides. i would ask unanimous consent any member may enter into the record statements and materials relating to their amendments that they were not able to enter. >> without objection that will be the order. >> we have no objection to that. >> democrats will take a brief caucus and 23, 22 and we plan to be no more than 15 minutes and then return for the markup. [inaudible conversations]çÑç we have 55 to 60. if we try to process all of those amendments tonight, we will be here quite late. so we are going to have the unanimous consent agreement that after we report the bill tonight, assuming we report the bill tonight -- >> if we report the bill tonight. we have to vote. >> after the bill as reported on successfully -- [laughter] then we will come back in september and bring up other bill which will reflect the amendments that we

what w saw was a true picture of wt was happening in much of kabul and and also mazar-i-sharif the two larger cities outside of kandahar where knewhere would be problems. why is that? because the very nature of observation, you're going to go to those places where you feel secure. you will not be visiting those very polling centers which are considered to be dangerous, not only for the voters but for thensurgents. we were not able obviously to place people but we did see people from our team in the purities in kandahar, but unfortunately, they were unable to get near the election centers. they could provide a peripheral security, but it was considered too dangerous and possibly the you negative intervention area if they had been any closer. we did not get to see that. there is a direct relationship betweenhe security of the area in whi the plings ki place and the possibility for fraud. i might also added that en in the viewing of the lloting, we have t apprecite the fact that the most eegiousinds o violations, don't occur while the ballting itself is takg place. yes, you may see what i

saw i think was a true picture of what was happening in much of kabul and perhaps to some extent in mazar-sharif, outside the second largest city, kandahar, where we knew there were going to be problems. why is that? because by the very nature of observation you're going to go to those places where you feel secure. you're not going to be visiting those very polling centers which are considered to be dangerous not only for the voters but for the observers. and so we're not able to obviously place people. we did put people -- we did see people from our team in p.r.t.'s, in helmond, in kandahar. but unfortunately they were unable for the most part to get anywhere near the election centers. they could provide a peripheral security. but it was considered too dangerous and possibly even viewed as interventionary if they had been any closer. so we didn't get to see that. there is a direct relationship is what i'm suggesting between the security of the area in which the polling is taking place and the possibility for fraud. i might also add that even in the viewing of the balloting we have to appreciate

he, as they are rolling into mazar-i-sharif after the 60-mile course right come he says to the tenet colonel bowers, let's hoisted the american flag. bowers thanks for a moment and wisely says@@@cx #@ @ @ j&f now don't raise the american flag-- would send a signal that we are invading the country. it was an afghan victory for afghans, so general dostum agree to that and the other americans certainly saw the wisdom in it stu but the book is filled, and what these guys do and you will see them again in afghanistan and you'll see them in the middle east in 2009, are filled with those kinds of moments and i wrote "horse soldiers" to hopefully dramatized in a human way, just how it is this kind of training can be applied in terms of resolving conflict. i should probably talk about the title in moment, because as they began, i was about to say that they were not told a whole lot. for instance the discovery channel video tapes, the national geographic since the one but one thing they certainly were not told was that they had to ride horses while they did all this. it sounds rather romantic