mcfarland es estados unidos, y por eso le pusimos asÍ.os. yo hago lo que creo que es apropiado. no pienso en tÉrminos de riesgo. creo que es mÁs riesgoso no hablar de la raza de manera honesta, y para mÍ, el hacer "mcfarland" querÍa ser parte de una gran historia que es cierta. no fue un riesgo. creo que los latinos son una parte tan importante de la conformaciÓn de estados unidos. >> ¿quÉ posiciÓn polÍtica tienes sobre inmigraciÓn? ¿apoyas una reforma migratoria? ¿crees que es lo correcto? >> mira, yo soy un actor. para mÍ, meterme en un problema de gente experta que estÁ en esto no es lo que es, pero devolver a gente, de volver a niÑos, separar familias que han vivido en este paÍs me parece inapropiado para estados unidos. creo que es necesario defender la frontera y creo que es un elemento muy importante y cÓmo se hace, porque tiene que haber una manera especÍfica de entrar al paÍs. para mÍ, la frontera es el tema, y creo que la gente tiene que hallar una fÓrmula. para la gente que ha estado aquÍ, absolutamente tiene que haber una form

but mcfarland was willing to give his side of the story.do with the free of charge indigent commissary bag he receives from the jail. >> he told me i am nobody because i don't have a commissary bag. and i told her you are still a man, just like i am. and she said do something about it. and i picked up her bag and moved it toward the door. she pushed me, i pushed her back. i slapped her. punched her. she punched me. she kind of like fell and then she busted it open. and on the floor. and she's kicking me like this. and flailing like a whale trying to get away from me. trying to hit her. police came and stopped it. >> arguetta is ready to put their differences behind him. his release from santa rita is days away. >> if i am not in oakland, i can guarantee i won't be coming to jail. i want to be a waitress. sort of like prostitution. serving tables. interacting with people. you get your tips daily. if i want to refuse service to somebody, i will refuse service to somebody. >> for the time being. danielle benefield need not worry about getting

mcfarland! forced to take a job teaching screen writing at an east coast university in "the rewrite." >> i am hugh grant and you are watching "made in hollywood." and here say scene from "the rewrite." >> and the award for best original screenplay goes to keith mike follows paradise misplaced. >> it's tragic how much i am enjoying this. ♪ ♪ >> do you think you can find me just one job, just any job. >> there is something. teach a screen lighting class at binging tonight university >> i hate teachers they are frustrated losers who haven't done anything in liar life. >> keith >> wherely is it >> tell me who keith michaels is, he's a screen mitre who kind of hit hard times. >> yeah, he's a screen writer who once won an oscar and how now reached a point in these career where no one wants him. >> he's offered a job teaching screen writing in a college he has never heard of. he has no interest? teaching or being there. >> here is area new home way from home. there is about 70 students that want to tak

and with the right attitude you can overcome. >> uno, dos, tres mcfarland! to make a movie about something that can give you goosebumps. it's the simpleness of how one human being talks to another being to somehow build them up. >> reporter: i'm juju chang for "nightline" in hollywood. >> and "mcfarland usa" will be in theaters february 20th coming from our parent company, disney. thank you for watching "nightline" tonight. tune into "gma" first thing in the morning. as always we're online 24/7 at abcnews.com. good night. (vo) after 50 years of designing cars for crash survival, subaru has developed our most revolutionary feature yet. a car that can see trouble... ...and stop itself to avoid it. when the insurance institute for highway safety tested front crash prevention nobody beat subaru models with eyesight. not honda. not ford or any other brand. subaru eyesight. an extra set of eyes, every time you drive.

and with the right attitude you can overcome. >> uno, dos, tres mcfarland! to make a movie about something that can give you goosebumps. it's the simpleness of how one human being talks to another being to somehow build them up. >> reporter: i'm juju chang for "nightline" in hollywood. >> and "mcfarland usa" will be in theaters february 20th coming from our parent company, disney. thank you for watching "nightline" tonight. tune into "gma" first thing in the morning. as always we're online 24/7 at abcnews.com. good night. no, no. at his lodge. what has happened to his lodge? they're so stupid. women aren't even allowed near the place until they want one of us to arrange a triribute or something. tribute? we gotta go? i got dibs on "i'm sick" that night. you do some cop overtime at work monkey on a bus somewhere. yeah. no, no. i wanna go. it's an honor to be son of man of the year. i don't even wanna be brother of guy who wants to be son of man of the year. no. rort has the right attitude. this is big deal for your father. and i want nothin' to do with it. wh

and with the right attitude you can overcome. >> uno, dos, tres mcfarland!hing that can give you goosebumps. it's the simpleness of how one human being talks to another being to somehow build them up. >> reporter: i'm juju chang for "nightline" in hollywood. >> and "mcfarland usa" will be in theaters february 20th coming from our parent company, disney. thank you for watching "nightline" tonight. tune into "gma" first thing in the morning. as always we're online 24/7 at abcnews.com. good night. [dramatic music] ♪ ♪ >> yeah! hey! huh? [cheers and applause] i'm terry crews, and i can't wait to give somebody that million dollars today here on millionaire. [cheers and applause] our returning contestant just wants to be a dad but needs to win some money today to help make that happen. let's get him some diaper dollars. from oakland, california please welcome jose ruiz! [cheers and applause] >> what's up? >> what's up? >> all right. right on. >> how you doing, man? >> i'm good. i'm good. feeling good. >> so you want the money to start a family? >> yeah, my wife an

la preparatoria mcfarland el pasado mes de diciembre.ser por el entrenador jim white que trabaj en esa preparatoria y que en los aÑos ochenta descubri el potencial de un grupo de jvenes corredores hijos de campesinos, entre ellos tres hermanos de una numerosa familia: "daz daz daz popular name where do you guys come from?" un entrenador que los gui paso por paso: "go!....they are fast yeah! (juanita daz madre de tres corredores del equipo campen) "confi en el que los llevaba a correr y me los traiba, y a veces les daba de comer porque nosotros no tenanos, y muy buenos consejos que les daba a ellos tambin, le agradezco mucho a mr. white" (danny daz corredor del equipo campen en 1987) "nos tom corredores pobres crecimos pobres, no tenamos nada y l nos alentaba nos agarraba, nos motivaba y nos inspiraba" inspiracin que llev a este humilde pero talentoso equipo de corredores de la preparatoria mcfarland, a alcanzar el primer campeonato estatal en el aÑo 1987. (danny diaz) "todos estbamos bien positivos y cuando ganamos pues nos sentimos muy

la preparatoria mcfarland el pasado mes de diciembre. white que trabaj en esa preparatoria y que en los aÑos ochenta descubri el potencial de un grupo de jvenes corredores hijos de campesinos entre ellos tres hermanos de una numerosa familia: "daz daz daz popular name where do you guys come from?" un entrenador que los gui paso por paso: "go!....they are fast , yeah! (juanita daz madre de tres corredores del equipo campen) "confi en el que los llevaba a correr y me los traiba, y a veces les daba de comer, porque nosotros no tenanos, y muy buenos consejos que les daba a ellos tambin le agradezco mucho a mr. white" (danny daz corredor del equipo campen en 1987) "nos tom corredores pobres, crecimos pobres no tenamos nada y l nos alentaba, nos agarraba, nos motivaba y nos inspiraba" inspiracin que llev a este humilde pero talentoso equipo de corredores de la preparatoria mcfarland a alcanzar el primer campeonato estatal en el aÑo 1987. (danny diaz) "todos estbamos bien positivos y cuando ganamos pues nos sentimos muy contentos orgullosos, ex

me fui para allÁ, para mcfarland.il. >> ¿cÓmo se vence el miedo, entonces, al escenario? >> y bueno, el miedo al escenario, yo creo que jamÁs se va a vencer. porque parte, digamos, de esa adrenalina es-- >> es como volar, quizÁs, ¿no? >> es como volar. y que es como ese respeto que tÚ tienes por la audiencia. cuando tÚ haces tu programa, cuando yo hago mis conciertos. siempre tengo un nerviosismo, pero como una manera de respeto a la audiencia, ¿me entiendes? y el dÍa que eso se me quite, pues, serÁ como muy aburrido. pero el amor por la mÚsica es mÁs fuerte que el miedo. y una vez estÁs ahÍ, va para adelante. >> sin la menor duda, nunca te ha dado miedo tocar temas polÍticos complicados. hace cinco aÑos, en el 2009, te atreviste a ir a cuba, cuando ir a cuba era polÍticamente muy peligroso. y mucho te criticaban, decÍan que no era la manera. cinco aÑos despuÉs, el presidente barack obama y un grupo enorme de demÓcrata, con un enorme apoyo en los estados unidos, se atreve a hacerlo. o sea, fuiste el pionero. viste alg

president mcfarland, what do you ask for when you draft?> i would say when i was in the white house in the nixon administration, this is when the war powers act was passed, passed not have another vietnam. fast-forward to where we are today, i believe that congress needs to buy. in i believe it for several reasons. one not only is it probably constitutional, a requirement, but also if you fight a war, it's going to be hard, it's going to be long, complicated. it's going to have a lot of ups and downs and probably a lot of disappointment. we, president mcfarland, we want buy-in from the american people, we want congress to be here on the takeoff because you know, maybe they need to be there on the landing as well. we have seen in the post war period as my old boss henry kissinger says, we start the wars with enormous enthusiasm and can't figure out how tend to them. kennedy: that's the problem when you name it the war on terror that is so vague. so vague that 13 years later, this president is using out of date aumf, there are limits on the n

. >> dozens of youngsters had a chance to check out the upcoming disney movie mcfarland usa in manayunk before released look at that guys way given the privilege of speaking to the crowd beforehand. they were all members ever the police athletic league and parents were invited guests to this official disney screening and mcfarland usa is based on inspiring movie of poor latino teenagers that rose from obscurity to become a championship cross country team. disney is the parent company of 6abc. thanks for inviting me. "castle" is next on channel 6. "action news" continues at 6:00 tomorrow morning with nydia han eva pilgrim and chris sauers. for jeff skversky and the entire "action news" team i'm walter perez, good thank you, cable for the slower internet upload speeds. for making me wait longer to share my photo albums. thank you cable, because if we never had you... ...we wouldn't know the incredible difference verizon fios makes. in customer satisfaction studies, fios is rated #1 in internet speed and reliability - 8 years running. plus, fios has the fastest wi-fi available from any pro

you grew up near mcfarland? >> i actually ended up playing them.go in "sports illustrated." i thought this is an amazing story and i thought, hmm, i play these guys and not only to see it turned into a motion picture was just as -- you can't believe it sometimes. i think about my life and how it's turned out. and that circle is a really interesting one. >> seth: you -- baseball, i feel like, is a sport people most identify you with. i will admit that when i was a kid i had a "bull durham" poster in my bedroom and this was at a time when a lot of other guys i knew had hot girls on posters. [ laughter ] >> i think you maybe had the poster but you were probably thinking about sarandon in that bathtub. >> seth: i was probably thinking about sarandon. thank you for giving me an out. thanks for giving me an out. [ applause ] >> you have it. >> seth: was it easier for you having played baseball growing up to play baseball? would it be hard to play an athlete in a sport you don't play? >> it's impossible. and i don't think anybody should make a movie about

. >>> news 4 i-team scott mcfarland has been investigating the safety of the bw parkway in the days since that deadly hit and run. tonight, internal memos obtained reveal one big concern. >> reporter: maryland's highwayed a straders recently notify the governor's office there are not enough cameras for them to monitor the baltimore washington parkway. agency reports from 2014 state highway administrators use this phrase that they're relatively blind to traffic and accidents. and that it's difficult to redirect traffic from their command post when incident os cur. the i-team's review of state records reveal just two cameras along the entire 30-mile span. far fewer than other roads. u.s. park police patrol the parkway from the d.c./maryland line route 175 and they regularly monitor state highway cameras and say a lack of cameras possibly slows their investigations into accidents including hit and runs. state highway administration officials tell us they are trying to post new cameras, at least six along the highway, for state administrators to monitor at several key interchanges. police --

we'll be talking with former pentagon official kt or mcfarland.lso tonight an explosive new report accuses the obama administration of operating a shadow immigration system for years. millions of foreign workers who have been given work permits without lawful authority or a system that has handed out nearly 5.5 million work permits to those who don't qualify legally to work in this country. the author of the report ca vaughn of the center for immigration studies is our guest with exclusively tonight. and finally a super bowl that lived up to its billing and just may have been the best game ever. the patriots' thrilling win over the seahawks breaking all kinds of records including being the most talked-about super bowl on social media and most watched television event in history. we'll have the full report coming up here tonight. >>> we begin in ukraine are where russian-backed rebels reportedly slaughtered more than 30 ukrainian soldiers over the weekend. and with reports today that a coalition of former national security advisers pushing the pres

. ;01 ;19 01;24 01;55 pkg mcfarland u.s.a describe una poca econmicamente difcil para la familia daz,r eso muy seguido tenan que cocinar cientos de decenas de tamales para poder recaudar dinero para las competencias fuera de casa. nats "what's going on? team fundraiser. my boys need uniforms, you are a good man so i'm helping you ok go shower! (juanita) "me acuerdo una vez que me dio mucha lstima este david ya eran las nueve y dijo, mami, tengo que ir a practicar, y le dije no, ya son las nueve yo me fui a acostar pero l se fue en la bike a la casa de mr. white y mr. white iba en la bike y el corriendo porque el sbado era la carrera en fresno, y entonces yo le dije, no vas a ir, vamos ir a trabajar. pues mr. white vino ya eran las nueve de la noche y miss diaz please, y miss diaz please, y de tantos pleases que me dijo, dije ok van a ir, y le dije pero yo no les voy a dar 50 centavos pa que coman porque no tengo, dijo, i take care, le dije ok, entonces los dej ir a correr y ganaron" un triunfo que de manera permanente adorna una de las esquinas de la ciudad de mcfarland un monumento q

. >> after working as a model for jm images, diane mcfarland knew how the acting business could be. >ere was confusion, maybe everybody has to do a little something. so it was terrifying and you wouldn't know what to do. >> mcfarland said bowman would eventually confide in her. and what she came to you, what were the conversations like? >> i remember she was traumatized from sexual abuse. i don't remember the details. i just remember the tears and holding her and telling her she'd be okay. >> mcfarland wishes she did more to protect bowman. >> i would have lost my job. and that was scary. but i'm just a different person now, too. i'm not excusing it. >> bowman took classes and prepared until her agent, jo farrell, declared her ready for new york. she was looking to always graduate her talent into the big leagues. so bowman left college for the big apple. >> just getting off the plane was like, oh my gosh. i'm really here. >> bowman said her agent and cosby paid for her apartment and classes at this acting school. >> i felt, you know, that this was an amazing opportunity. >> an opportu

mcfarland good to see you. thanks. president obama vetoed a bill approving construction of the keystone pipeline. the president had vowed to veto the bipartisan legislation and he did. the president's audacity undiminished, claiming he vetoed the bill because it quote cut short thorough consideration of issues that could bear on our national interests, including security safety and environment. mr. obama is indeed a very careful man because his administration has been considering those implications of this pipeline for now, six years. 65% of americans polled by fox news last month say the president should sign the keystone pipeline legislation. >>> as of right now, congressional republicans don't have the two-thirds majority, however, in both chambers to override the president's veto. we're coming back. stay with us. on the president's fiat and dhs funding, senate democrats are winning and senate republicans looking for loopholes. what will the house republicans do now? the future of the market is never clear. but at t

scott mcfarland shows us they walk in for action at the tables but walk out to find drama outside. ♪> reporter: you risk losing every time you walk into a casino. but larry mcmichaels didn't expect to lose outside, too. it's 5:00 inside the garage of maryland live! casino in anne arundel county. watch your screen closely. you're about to see a car thief take mcmichael's 2005 audi. a man seen walking throughout the garage makes his line to the line of cars being handled by the valet. then slowly slides in before quickly peeling out. mcmichael didn't know how easy it happened until i-team obtained the surveillance video. >> i was heartbroken, man, i won't lie to you. i was sick. >> reporter: he wasn't the only person to lose big outside a casino. >> they told me hey, we think we made a mistake and gave your car to the wrong person. >> reporter: mandel way also gave the keys to his acura to the valet attendant. the valet later gave those keys to a woman who drove off with mandel's car instead. he finally recovered his car at this montgomery county lot more than a month after it was stol

i-team's scott mcfarland went undercover to prepare for this report. >> reporter: a morning routine playingn so many neighborhoods this time of year warming up the car while waiting inside from the cold. >> seconds. >> reporter: but watch this. recent surveillance video from a beltsville home. the white car idling in the driveway as another vehicle slowly drives by and within seconds a man hops in the white car and takes off. thieves call them puffers because of the puffs of ignition coming out of the back. they're easy to spot and easy to steal. >> people usually again think their driveways are safe. >> reporter: the i-team spent several cold morning with the w.a.v.e. team. >> we may several arrests throughout the day. >> reporter: we're not showing their face because they work undercover not only looking for cold car thieves but warning potential victims, too. >> there's one right next to it is lit up as well. >> reporter: in an upper marlboro neighborhood we notice that puff of smoke from a bmw, but within minutes we're surrounded by other unattended cars. >> one, two, three, four. >> re

they call it mcfarland mex? >> because it happens in usa. it does feature a loft mex-cans, true story about this place called mcfarland california, farming community not a lot of money going on. anyway they give their all to this cross-country team, led by coach jim white who is played by uber sexy kevin costner. >> how come the white dude in the movie has to be named white? we get it, he's white. >> actual teacher's name. >> you know what disney is doing in this movie, it will be done right. i mean, should be pretty inspirational. i think i will ' ticket, if not for any other reason, kevin costner alone. >> right. >> i mean, hinting. >> does that mean -- >> speak it? >> put >>> strangers rush to pull a teen from a fiery crash after his suv slams into a tree. the young driver lost control on lake shore drive in chicago yesterday. good samaritans got him out seconds before the vehicle burst into flames. >> he was un response whiff we pulled him out of the car. the fire, the smoke had gotten to him i mean it, got

tisch thompson and scott mcfarland went through every entry. why, they even took notes.ll they are the iteam. i'm pat collins news4. >> and all of our judges are fair. you can check out all of the entries and they sure are cute. head to the nbc washington app and search "snow stick". >>> right now first at 4, another winter blast on our doorstep. it could cause more problems throughout our region. we'll tell you about the accident that involved the driver of a snowplow. >>> but first, a quick burst of snow is about to make a big impact in our area hitting right in the middle of the evening rush. veronica is back to tell us what sto expect. >> announcer: you're watching news4 at 4. >> now at 4:30, live pictures as we prepare for another winter blast, this one set to arrive during the evening rush. >> and it is going to pack a punch folks. let's get an update on the timing and the impact from storm team 4 meteorologist veronica johnson. >> yeah, guys. some of you still seeing some sunshine right now. if you are, expect rapidly, rapidly changing conditions and, yes, deterio

esta es una medalla de la gente de mcfarland, para que tÚ seas campeona tambiÉn.relief... refresca al instante, y también te mantiene cien por ciento libre de caspa. nuevo head & shoulders instant relief. >> en los prÓximos minutos se espera que el gobierno de mÉxico realice una rueda de prensa para informar como se logrÓ la captura de fernando gÓmez martÍnez el líder de la agrupaciÓn criminal los caballeros templarios y el narcotraficante mÁs buscado de ese paÍs. han -- no han dado a conocer detalles del arresto, sÓlo que ha sido detenido en una casa michoacÁn. jessica se encuentra en ciudad de mÉxico y tienen los Últimos detalles de este golpe al narcotrÁfico. jessica: fernando gÓmez alias la tuta fue detenido en una casa de seguridad en la capital michoacana mientras cenaba un operativo con el que prÁcticamente brindÓ la comunidad de michoacÁn. algunas en el centro y otras en el norte. ya se supo que sÓlo se detuvo a una persona, un hombre que dormÍa con su esposa e hijos, las cuatro viviendas los elementos de seguridad rompieron puertas y ventanas. la tuta se

all right, run a lap. >> wow. >> they're fast. >> they are. >> and mcfarland usa kevin costner place coach jim white discovers untapped talent for cross country in his new community. >> do you know how fast were you going? because you were running a mile in five minutes. >> so? >> not only did kevin costner play a coach in the movie he set the tone onset for the cast. >> young man finding their own way, and it is not always advice you give them, it is how you perform in your own job. but i talk to them as adults, you you know, about life, about you know how i do my job not how they should do theirs. >> you guys are super human. there is nothing you can't do with that kind of strength, with that kind of heart. for entertainment tonight i'm kevin frazier back to you in the studio. >> love a good kevin costner sports movie. n for all of the latest from hollywood, entertainment tonight every night here at 7:00 on cbs-3. coming up in the next half hour of "eyewitness news" some snow is on the way carol has the latest track and timing straight ahead. >> plus, we're liver on the scene after

para hablarnos de su pelÍcula "mcfarland usa", dedicado especialmente a nosotros los hispanos.>> y en nueva york. johnny, muy buenos dÍas! >> muy buenos dÍas. me siento extremadamente contento de encontrarme en la 47 y sexta avenida. vamos a tener la oportunidad de ver a eustaquio y guadalupe vivir un momento increÍble, se casan en times square. las temperaturas estÁn congeladas, esto no estÁ bien! ahora me encantarÍa saber quÉ es lo que estÁ haciendo birmania rÍos. >> johnny, hoy se reconfirma esta historia de amor, la historia de guadalupe y eustaquio, que hoy hacen su renovaciÓndevotos. ¿estÁn nerviosos? >> un poco, pero contentos. >> nervioso. >> hoy vamos a celebrar una gran boda en despierta amÉrica! >> seÑores, tenemos aquÍ en times square. los encontramos en la 46 y sÉptima avenida, lo que todo el mundo conoce como times square. lo se puede perder este momento glorioso para las personas, los inmigrantes que han vivido una aventura maravillosa. ahora me encantarÍa que nos vayamos con las noticias. hace frÍo > >yo sÉ, pero abunda el calor humano. bajo un manto de nieve te

mcfarland in a moment. also, the white house claiming they rejected prime minister netanyahu's address to congress because of an upcoming israeli election. the white house actions don't match up with that claim. former israeli ambassador to the united states daniel ayalon among our guests tonight. >>> while his department of homeland security was warning all of america about islamic state sleeper cells, president obama was blaming the national media for hyping the threat of radical islamist terrorists. we'll take up the often contradictory politics and the mind-set of this president and his sometimes bizarre declarations and policies with former reagan white house political director ed rollins, and here later on the show, psychiatrist keith ablow, here tonight. >>> we begin with the president's shockingly out-of-touch statements on the radical islamist terrorist threat. at one point during his interview with box referring to the random violence against paris jews in a kosher supermarket last month? >> it is

mcfarland u.s.on on a true story from a tremendous dominantly latino high school. >> these kids could run forever. >> you just described half the kids in the central alley. let me ask you something you coached cross country before? >> no. >> track? >> no. competed in high school maybe? >> no, well you sound perfect. the film stars maria bell low and kevin costner. he realizes his students running ability. he forms an unlikely team and enduring legacy along the way. his family has finally found a place to call home. both he and his team achieve their own kind of american dream. mcfarland is from disney the parent of 6abc. >>> next up, the duck. >> i'm tired of being the approachable one, i want to be the dateable one. the film centers around a high school senior whose life is shattered around the name the duff. she enlists the help of a slick but charming jock to reingate herself and change the social orderly revolution. >> finally hot tub time machine ii is a sequel to the 2010 cult hit. >> this is

scott mcfarland news 4 eye-team. a judge has denied bond for daniel rosen. the state department's chief counte official. he has been charged with solici sex from a minor. he'll be >>> the man who killed the so-called amerin sniper will s life in prison. we sent you a push alert when the verdict came in. now that the trial is over are emerging abou. nbc's jay gray has that. >> later. most in the small texas town are not surprised at all by the guilty verdict. he went out, killed two men. that's just wrong. you don't do that. whr youe sick in the head not. >> as things slowly get back to the way they were before the high-pro case here for two families is a new and very differen normal now. >> i miss him. i'm glad that justice was served for him. >> there's no movie about chad littlefi the son, husband, father and friend who died alongse navy s.e.a.l. chris kyle. th basis for the blockbuster movie, american sniper. because chad w not in the movie because the attention was not focused on him, we think it helped the case. >> a case we're learning much more about

test scores but as news 4 i-team scott mcfarland found out those fears seemed to fail the fact check. >> part d -- >> reporter: preparing his classroom for the twists and turns of the a.p. economics test test. >> they get hard around do that on purpose. >> reporter: test day for students may 14th and kids who score at least a 3 out of 5 on the test earn college credit for this full year of study. >> that score is critical. >> absolutely. the only thing that will determine if they get a credit or not. >> reporter: a senior thinks the a.p. test should be easier this year. last year snow and snow days cost about a dozen days in the classroom before the big exams like it did for tense of thousands of high school students throughout or area. >> at any point did it get stressful? >> definitely towards the end because of how many i was taking and how they were falling on the same day. >> reporter: so concerned about scores plummeting last year local schools heavily lobbied the a.p. exam administrateors to give local kids a later test day in 2014 and the college board did, offering a second a

mcfarland, thank you much. >> thank you. >>> time for my take now.hear those parents of american hostage kayla mueller wonder if their country did enough to try and bring their 26-year-old daughter home. they claim they were in frequent contact with her isis captors and that they believe the terrorist organization may have been willing to release her for a price. none of us can imagine the pain that the mueller family went through from the time they found out kayla was kidnapped to the time they found out she was in fact dead. but all parents can relate to their statement that they would have done anything, anything to get their child back. and now the mueller family will have to wonder for the rest of their lives why our country seems to have a different policy for some americans with regard to ransom and prisoner swaps than for others. why did the u.s. back bowe bergdahl's release but didn't negotiate a similar deal for kayla mueller? what about peter casskassig james foley and steven sotloff? maybe they didn't want to have to admit that they were

. >> reporter: he said her name was rachel mcfarland, but seth immediately downplayed her importance.but i wasn't seeing her, it wasn't anything. it was just, "hey, how was your day type of thing." >> would it be considered sexting? >> no, no. none of that. >> what are you wearing? >> no, there wasn't any of that. lisa found out. everything was kosher. i stopped talking, you know, we got over it. >> we have to be honest about her, okay? is there anything that you haven't told us yet? >> no, everything is going to add up the way i just told you. >> rachel's dna won't be maybe on your clothes or? >> i never had sexual -- sex with her. no, nothing oral, nothing like that. um, i gave her hugs, and i've kissed her. >> reporter: by now, seth's father and attorney had arrived and were trying desperately to end the interview. but it was after-hours, and the outside door was locked. >> bang, bang, bang on the door, doug. is that you? >> that's me. that's me. >> they wouldn't stop. >> they -- >> they didn't come out. >> didn't stop. >> reporter: they didn't have to. remember, seth was advised b

great insight, kt mcfarland, as always.esident reagan. >> her boss. 20 minutes past the hour. jordan launching a blistering campain against isis and we are live there and why jordan says this is the middle of world war iii. plus this: >> that is a hollywood block buster american sniper telling the story of chris kyle and now kyle's accused killer is about to stand trial. we will look at the prosecution's evidence and why the defense thinks a change of venue could help their case. at ally bank no branches equals great rates. it's a fact. kind of like mute buttons equal danger. ...that sound good? not being on this phone call sounds good. it's not muted. was that you jason? it was geoffrey! it was jason. it could've been brenda. >>> a car chase in california comes to a dramatic end. more than a dozen police were in chase of the felon who was believed to be armed and dangerous. the officers deployed spike sticks but the suspect kept going despite the tires being punctured and driving on the steal rims even. they finally forced

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representative from paul mcfarland's 13th distribute and a senior fellow at the roosevelt institute. how does this happen, you were an advisor for the speaker. you spoke with him in public, are these gamed out in advance before leadership embarks on a legislative tactic. >> he had not talked to o'con 'em. the leaders want plausible deny ability. the differences between the house and the cannesate were skinned by the founders to be hard to overcome. sometimes they are, when it should be a no-brainer, which is keeping the dhs open. everyone agrees closing the dhs is a stupid idea when lots of things are going on in the world. some republicans may want to get to the edge and ultimately will keep the department open. >> has a member, you were in the house during sequestration. when the leadership would set in place certain deadlines by which things had to happen, didn't we go through that enough times to work. >> it has kind of worked so far. the question to john, how did it happen, pretty much the same way as last time, and the time before that and the time before that. there's a commit

our i-team reporter scott mcfarland found out the machines would be placed in the casino-style room just beyond security checkpoints so that only the ticketed passengers would be allowed to play. that way it really wouldn't compete with other state casinos. voters would have to have that plan approved first. >>> well some of maryland's students will get a chance to sleep just a little later next school year. the montgomery county school board approved later start times this week. now, middle and high school bell times will be pushed back by some 20 minutes. elementary schools will start ten minutes later. the school board was considering a couple of other different options, but this one that is approved costs virtually nothing. >> you know it does have significant implications. other districts have changed and other districts have long had later start times for high school students. >> the new bell times will take effect this fall and those are some pretty happy students those high schoolers. >>> from a house of worship to a literal house, we check out one local chumprch that could soon