you know megan i don't really think that blaming george w. bush for the economy is working on anyone but the obama administration said that they inherited the bad economy and that's just fact but reagan didn't lead at all did obama really inherit the bad economy. leslie you know listening to the folks on the right there get a little tired of hearing that you know it's in particular the comment that he can't get us out of the economic pitch because he had heard it a one trillion dollars deficit. i want to clear a few things up for the fox news crowd president obama does own this economy he's actually said it numerous times i don't have to face a voters next year can he convince them that he's done enough to turn the economy around to keep his job who knows but there is no debate about the fact that obama inherited a horrible economy the world was at a financial freefall when he took office thanks in part to george w. bush and his policies and the policies of that it's passed but now the same interview megan actually pointed out that numerous j

news 4's megan mcgrath is live with details for us. megan? >> reporter: pretty frightening situation for a female jogger. she was out for a run yesterday morning, right around 6:30 in the morning. she was in a residential area. the 2000 block of army navy drive. she was jog, police say, on the sidewalk, when a man approached her, actually knocked her to the ground, kicked her several times to immobilize her, and then touched her in an inappropriate sexual way. she was able to get away and to seek help. police are still looking for the man, though, who's responsible. they're warning women to be on alert if at all possible. avoid going jogging alone. it's always best to go with other people if at all possible. they are looking for the suspect still. anyone with information, you're asked to call arlington county police. jim, back to you. >> all right, megan. thank you. >>> a traffic alert now for beltway drivers in fairfax county. the left exit from the inner loop of i-495 to i-66 will close for good as early as today. that's exit number 49c. a

. >> megan hall: there might have been some things that we didn't know about jeff, that we didn't... have liked. >> stahl: megan hall, jeff's sister, says she hated her brother's politics, but had always seen him as a model father. >> megan hall: he was an amazing father and would do anything for his kids. and, you know, my nephew would just look at him like he was his hero. >> stahl: but in the last couple of years, the hero changed, darkened. whether it was the power of being a nazi leader, or the powerlessness of being unemployed, he drank more, she says, and was prone to striking out at his son and his wife, krista. >> megan hall: my brother had shown a different side to him. not all of the time-- it was on random occasions, not predictable. >> stahl: he was beating up both joe and krista, is what we heard. is that what you've been told? >> megan hall: yeah. >> stahl: young joseph told police that he decided to kill his dad to "end the son versus father thing." did he describe what the abuse entailed? >> rowe: he described his father hitting him, kicking him, pushing him. >> socc

good morning, megan. megan. 3 3 3 first on fox...e center of a hit and run investi. investigation.it happened at this royal farms store in highlandtown.there's a police sub-station inside.the pooice report indicates an officer inside at the time witnessed sergeant carlos villa leave the scene... after hitting a delivery truck.the victim declined an on camera interview... but says the officer inside the store identified villa. 12:29:50 i know were not going to tolerate any behavior that undermines the integrity of this agency and if there is an officer convicted or accused of wrongdoing were going to investigate it to our best abil2 ability:02sergeant vila has been placed on desk duty... pending an investigation. a midshipman at the naval academy is found guilty of raping and sexually assaulting a female midshipman. prosecutors say 21-year-old patrick edmond... of mississippi... raped his classmate in her dorm room last october.edmond claims the sex was consensual.officials at the naval academy say he will be expelled. the national pa

megan gilliland is live from city police headquarters with more on the police impersonator. impersonators.good morning patrice,there's been a number of these attacks in recent months... with men posing as police... tying up residents... even shooting them.police have an arrest in one of those attacks. unfortunately, the suspects in the latest case... are on the r. run.it happened at a house on hilldale avenue in northwest baltimore.family members say the victims, including three small children, were upstairs asleep... when three men broke into the home around 3-30 yesterday morning... yelling, police.once inside... the suspects handcuffed the residents and shot a man in the face when he broke free. now, there's concern from neighbors about trusting real police... (ms. miller) "you can't trust no one, because if the police come to my house i'm not going to even open up the door and it could be an emergency or something, you know.." (victim's mom) "i have to see flashing lights and everything else before i open that door..." door..." just a few hours after that attack... there

to implement environmental education in their nonscience classroom, so let me start by calling up megan mercuio. [applause] . >> and the rest of you can come up now, just that you wait along the wall. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you, megan. congratulations. >> hi. so my name is megan, and before i start, i just wanted to say i share this award with my colleague constance walker who has been working tirelessly on the project i'm about to describe. i work atwoodside learning center and that's the school located inside juvenile hall here in san francisco. so my students are incarcerated 24 hours a day and they don't have access to things like sunlight and fresh nutritious food because the food is very institutionalized. and it's very important. these are very important issues to my students. and so we started to have conversations about these things in my english class. we started to look at curriculum about food justice, environmental justice, sustainability. and from these conversations, the students decided they really need to have a garden at juvenile hall. and so consta

your thoughts megan? >> the gym i go to they have an air yoga class and they cocoon things as work outs. i want to exercises at the gym. >>> stay with us this morning, wild fires are raining ace -- raging as coy texas. >> how much damage it is causing and what crews are doing to keep up. >>> -- raging across texas. >> how much damage it is causing and what crews are doing to keep up. >>> and this picture is from debbie in elkton. she set out a bowl of blue worms and snapped this picture and one wan getting what was left. great picture. thanks for sending it in. if you have a photo you want to show off, pets, anniversaries, birthdays or great photography skills, that's the e-mail address. morning show at wmar.com. we will be right back. ack. ack. ack. ack. >>> now "good morning maryland." >>> firefighters in texas battle wild fires burning in the drought stricken land. the possum kingdom fires burned thousands of acres and destroyed 25 homes. one official says half the county has been burned and dozens of

megan pringle joining us every monday wednesday and friday.have a good weekend. >> you too. >> weatherwise, do you want to toss it to justin for weather. >> we have a great weekend. >> absolutely. justin, even though i don't leave the house, i will tell threw has been more rain than we need. and i miss your sunny disposition. i hope all is well with you. >> meggen thank you very much. i should walk over and talk to her in person. >> shoe. >> i would love it. >> -- you should. >> i would love it. and frick and frac are my suggestions for names. that might be gender biased going toward the guy side. 11/11, you share a birthday with my youngest son. 55 in buffalo and cleveland. 40s western great lakes. it doesn't look that chilly yet but wrapping around the storm that is stuck here for a few days, finally getting to pull-back and in fact the better part of the last week or so and finally getting it to come out and one piece of energy rolled through new england and brought down part of the new york city subway system, they got some issues to deal

way to go, megan. justin, a cool forecast this weekend. >> that is good stuff.pregnant mommies out there, and i think everyone else tired of the mosquitoes and stink bug, we will take care of them. 56 in baltimore and 59 in al toon that. and to the west, we are starting to take things down a few notches. there is a little cold front. a thin ribbon of rain pushes into the mountains and not make it past hagerstown or frederick. and we are searching out warm air ahead of it. mix in some clouds. and a small chance of a thunderstorm midday or afternoon, across the bay and then the colder air filters in, and that will be the weekend. look at the wind forecast. south wind this morning, shifts to the west as we head through this evening and the strong winds out of the north to northwest for us all day tomorrow and a blustery setup into the weekend and a peek into the wakeup window, but so much more to talk about with the weather pattern and the ravens weather forecast coming up in a few minutes. >>> i will start out with good news. 95 northbound at eastern, an earlier a

megan gilliland is live from city police headquarters with more on the search for suspects. suspects.good morning patrice, there's been a number of these attacks in recent months... with men posing as police... tying up residents... even shooting them.police have an arrest in one of those attacks. unfortunately, the suspects in this latest case... are still on the run. run.it happened at a house on hilldale avenue in northwest baltimore.family members say the victims, including three small children, were upstairs asleep... when three men broke into the home around 3-30 yesterday morning... yelling, police.once inside... the suspects handcuffed the residents and shot a man in the face when he broke free. this woman, who wants to remain annoymous, says the violent attack happened at her daughter's house. (victim's mom) "you have one guy in the hospital that got shot in the face. and you have my daughter who's been thrown on the ground, scratched up and her whole body is sore.." sore.." a few hours later... there was another home invasion... around 5 o'clock in the morning at a

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news 4's megan mcgrath joins us live with what happened of the megan, good morning. >> reporter: good it's a little after 6:30 in the morning. roughly the same time this incident happened yesterday. you can see the conditions we're dealing with here. the sky is starting to brighten, but it's still rather dark here along this area. police say that a female jogger was in the area on the 2000 block of army navy drive. kicked her several times. and he touched her in an inappropriate sexual way. she screamed, and he got away. police are still looking for the suspect responsible. there are a lot of folks who are jogging and walking along this route. it's a very popular route here in the morning for folks who are exercising. we talked to two women who say it's very disturbing. they make a point of walking in pairs. >> we're aware of incidents happening. we live in northern virginia. we're aware. we know other of our neighbors are aware. we tackle it as a team. >> we usually walk in pairs just for safety reasons because we know it is dark and not a lot of people are out at this time of the mo

. >> i'm megan pringle. mother nature sparked amazing footage from earthquakes to irene to lee. >> let's get to justin berk to see how this is going to hang around for today. >> the main word there, answering the question of the day, how do you dress the kids for school? it will be wet and cooler, pants, no shorts and the raincoat. we are definitely going to be sensing a little bit of autumn. frontal boundary pushed through. the rain extends to the deep south. over closer, a break in the action right now, expecting waves of rain to come through and it could be heavy at times. 63 where we start. not much movement on the thermometer throughout the day. we will talk about that and talk about the major hurricane katia. tanya is in studio. >> some people will be happy. i will get to that in a moment. we are accident free in baltimore city and county. light traffic now. let's look at the beltway, bel air, light traffic in both directions. nothing to worry about, just the damp roads. light in conway, it's open, a l

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megan mcgrath is also there now. megan? >> reporter: braarbara, we've h lousy weather. a lot of rain and fog. but today it's absolutely beautiful. team is out there and we can see them on two sides of the monument. they are doing their work, inspecting for cracks and weak spots. there's been a lot of curiosity about these folks and how do they feel about dangling off the monument? meanwhile, not too surprising, they are having a good time. they've become washington's hottest tourists attraction. visitors and locals come to the washington monument to watch the architects and engineers rappel down. it's fun for them, too. >> it's fun to see the overwhelming quantity of people out there to support us and see us. that is great. >> people normally don't line up to watch us. they think we are window he washers and walk on and don't stare at us. >> reporter: this is an exclusive club. they not only have to be experts in architecture and engineering, they must also be expert climbers. able to dangle from ropes hundreds of feet up in the air and getting out there is no easy task

megan is live at the national mall with this discovery. megan? >> reporter: barbara, that is what they were basically expecting after this earthquake they knew they had an issue with cracks, loose mortar, and the like. the big question is, how much damage was done. and that's what this whole operations about. take a look behind me. you can see he that we have the team out here once again today. they are concentrating on that area at the very top. that's where the majority of the damage is. they are taking a second look here at some of the troubled spots and will work their way down to the monument. if the weather cooperate, they will be out there for most of the afternoon. it's an amazing view. the national park service released video of the team in action. the architects and engineers are said to be having a balance. she said that it was awesome is what she said and that the view is fantastic, that she feels really honored to be on the washington monument on what is a national icon. >> reporter: the washington monument has always been a major to

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two of his sisters, megan and kathleen joined the army after losing him. kathleen served in iraq and afghanistan. >> she wanted to do her part to show the bad guys that we weren't going to just roll over and let them walk all over us. >> reporter: the santoro children grew up watching their father save lives as a new york city firefighter. then christopher followed in his father's foot steps. so al and marie weren't surprised when their daughters decided to serve their country. >> when christopher died, part of all of us died. so they felt the need to try and react. >> we knew that they would be protected, and their brother would protect them, and we have our own little shield of protection. and he's our guardian angel. >> reporter: maureen stying struggles with her son's death. >> i still have times when i'm a mess. what i know now that i didn't know 10 years ago is that that will pass. >> reporter: al and maureen devote themselves to keeping their son's memory alive, establishing the christopher santora scholarship fund. >> continuing the memory of someo

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megan mcgrath, news 4. >>> an amazing story of survi l survival.riving on a winding mountain road when his car plunged 200 feet off the side of the mountain. after not hearing from him for several days, his family set out to retrace his steps and found him at the bottom of the cliff, still alive. >> we stopped at every ravine and every hill. we kept screaming and we heard dad say help, help. there he was. >> family members say he survived by eating leaves and drinking water out of a nearby creek. they found a second car that plunged off that same cliff. that driver died in the crash. >>> a new jersey police chief is in hot water after giving his wife a parking ticket. his wife double parked outside their kids' school on tuesday. he wanted to send the community a message. not he nor his wife can get away from the honest deed. >> either mad orem bar raszed at this point about the media coverage for it. that's what i have to deal with. >> the chief, his wife has to pay a $54 fine. he has to send the message that no one is above the law. >> he's the po

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daniel and elma and his daughter in law and megan m burns and suggested we contact him. we are so happy to have you here and look forward to hearing your address. >> good morning ladies and gentlemen. you know i got to share this with you. i know how to drive a tractor. don't forget what you come from. culture cures. it's like coming back to our mom. i want to first and formost jeff adachi, thank you for the opportunity. patty lee. and sury to all the students. can i see the hands of the high school students? you know what i like about that? mihose means my children. look where you are sitting. in the front. i did a presentation for 2 thousand students and they were 25 hundred chairs. where do you think they sat? it breaks my heart. they sat in the back. i had all the ushers remove the first 5 hundred chairs and we started getting closer. how does it feel to be in the front? if you see yourself at second best, how do you think people are going to treat you? when you sit in the back. who sits with you? your a little brothers, sisters. now growing up in texas. i can't tell

megan mccorckell. a flash flood took over the highway. >> you could row a boat through the area it was so high. >> reporter: carletta stuck in this car as the water rose. >> water started rushing in, she was up to her neck in water. >> reporter: her mother was trapped. >> the car had completely shut down so she couldn't get the window open. >> reporter: carletta frankicly tried to get out of her car but her seat belt was stuck and would not come off. david lopez and his daughters had to jet out of their jeep. >> she said, daddy, i have to save the lady, i have to save the lady. all i was thinking is i have to get her. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> it is 62 degrees and clear in central maryland right now. the complete forewarn weather forecast is coming up. tense moments in florida a child pinned under the passenger side of this car. you can see a group of people lift the vehicle while a man in a dark shirt pulls the man free. the 6-year-old fell in front of the approaching vehicle on his way to school. he was t

and now a day to introduce or chief operating officer, megan brennan. megan oversees all operations of the postal service for the transportation, logistics networks, retail and delivery issues plan a very big role in what we are doing now in saving the postal service in the future. so with that, megan. >> thank you, pat. good morning, everyone. thank you for joining us today. i am going to walk you through some changes to our mail processing network will fundamentally alter our operating model. now, these are significant changes that will lay the foundation for the way the postal service processes mail for decades to come. as pat mentioned, we are responding to a changing marketplace. the reality is the volume has declined more than 43 billion pieces in the past five years and it will continue to decline. as a result of these declines, our mail processing network is much larger than we can afford. and looking ahead, mail volumes addict david make radical changes to our mail processing network. and so this morning from we make two important announcements

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. >> bill: bill o'reilly and the megan fox appearance tonight. she had it out with dr. keith ablow about chaz bono appearing on "dancing with the stars." >> so much hate, there's so much hate out there. there's so much hate for lesbian and transgendered people. >> i would have spoke out against him. >> you know what, the thing is, doc, you seem to be adding to the hate because you know, you went out there and compared chaz bono to somebody who thinks he's a zebra and a farm animal. this person struggled mightily with a disorder that a lot of people have. >> i'd say with chaz bono if he asked me, if i'm a man, no, brother, you're not. >> bill: chaz bono, of course, was a woman and now had the operation as a man. do you really feel ablow who is a really good guy and you like him. >> yeah, i like ablow. >> bill: do you think he's a hater and trying to diminish chaz bono? >> i think what he wrote and posted on line. >> bill:ell the audience what he wrote. >> which is he put out a warning to parents that if they let eir children watchhaz bon on "daing with t stars", i could

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thank you. >> thank you, pat and megan. what we'd like to do is limit the questions to three if possible. there's two microphones, one on each side. as you have a question, wait for the microphone to be brought to you and we ask that you please provide your name and who you represent. starting with this gentleman over here. >> omari stone from news four. what role as the internet played with reduction? >> here's the thing. the internet had a substantial impact on the postal service. today, about 60% of americans pay their bills online, and that's gone -- that's moved from about 5% in the year 2000. that's had a dramatic effect on first class mail, and we're facing the reality going forward that that will continue to change. what we're saying is we need to make the changes in the system now in order to get our finances in order, and also be healthy financially going forward. >> and what do you say to people concerned about their post office closing in their neighborhood? >> well, we're looking at from a retail perspective is

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