melinda, what can you tell us at this hour? >>reporter: well, two-year old melody jefferson died late last night. there were severe wounds all over her tiny body from being beaten with a belt and her father confessed to hitting her as discipline because she wouldn't listen. she can barely believe what's happened to her daughter. >> you know how you see stuff on the news and you see situations like this on the news? you would say it would never happen to me. >>reporter: two-year old melody was at her father's house in east baltimore, where he claims he walked in to the bathroom and found her unconscious. >> as we was coming in the house he told her to grab her clothes and one of us to call 911. i called 911. i was at the hospital with her and everything. >>reporter: police sat child's father later admitted to beating her repeatedly with a belt. a crime his sister refuses to believe heed be capable of. >> no. that's his daughter. he raised his brothers. he raised his little sisters and everything. you can ask his mother, his baby

melinda, what can you tell us tonight? >> unless changes are made, the city may find itself owing nearly $65 million to the pension fund before the end of the year. and while council members try to hash out a plan to prevent that, police and firefighters are far from content. >> we saw the bill today. basically, for the first time. >> at the city council meeting union representatives expressed frustration. >> we have been offering for 13 months to sit down and discuss the problems facing the pension system. and no one has bothered to do that yet. >> feeling shutout of the process, they watched as city council members introduced plans for pension reform. >> this has in their measures to look at retirement age, you know what, does it take to retire and be entitled to benefits. >> helen holtton is a co-spore sponsor of the bill that would change eligibility and require police and firefighters to contribute more to their own redespite eliminate some cash payments altogether. >> we have been challenged and struggling with bills

when the terps beat duke last more thousands of students celebrated in the stupid melinda roeder said tonight a new videotaped surface that had has police officers in a lot of trouble. >> some witnesses called it a mob scene. celebrating the win over duke. when fans became physical police were called in to break it up. >> girl were hit from behind with a baton. standard riot push. >> students saw police hitting students. >> five of them. >> someone captured video showing officer os horseback beating one student. john mckenna that attorney claims it was unprovoked. watching the video students are critical of the cop reaction. >> bring in the horses and seeing the attacks. it is food the image of maryland. >> initially the prince george's police chief defended officers. denying claims of excessive force. now, after seeing the video the chief has decided to suspend all the officers involved. >> i was very disappointed to see the conduct of my officers on the tape. and, again, i want to make sure they get a fair and impartial investigation. so i am not going to be justifying or making a c

in numerous locations around the world, the bill and melinda gates foundation and the clinton foundation rival our government as visible representatives of the united states of america. even as these foundations focus on helping individuals they are playing an increasing role in the public sector in lending policy assistance to governments. their actions have influenced public opinion and catalyzed international action. most importantly, they have been vital partners with the united states government in the fight against hiv/aids, malaria, and tuberculosis. the share in successes our country has achieved in these areas. according to the office of the global aids coordinator, the president's emergency plan for aids relief is directly supporting life-saving anti- viral treatment for more than 2.4 million men, women, and children. they represent more than half of the estimated 4 million individuals in low and middle income countries on treatment. before the program began in 2003, only 50,000 people in all of sub-saharan africa were receiving life-saving anti-retro viral drugs. today, 10 tim

in tonight's cover story, melinda roeder introduces us to a man that came up with his own plan to shedalmost 400 pounds in one year. here is the simple recipe for success. >> great day at mr. tire. this is bill. happy to help you today. >> it wasn't that long ago that tire salesman bill nef carried around his own set of tires. >> bill was humongous, people came in and asked for the big guy. i mean, big. he was big. >> and you can say that again. >> he was big. >> last year, his weight was out of control. at a size 66, and nearly 600 pounds. >> about 570. >> doctors warned him about his health simply never forget. i went in there for a regular physical. and to check, all of a sudden the girl did blood pressure and ran back to the doctor. i didn't know what was going on. and next thing she said blood pressure is bad. to get the hospital. >> he was diabetic and depressed. and after spinning the wheels for years, it was time for a new direction. >> i woke up one morning and i am tired of being big. ya stand being big, so i started. >> a strict menu of only steamed meats, fish, vegetables.

bill and melinda are 100% behind the eradication of it. feeding america? >> feeding america is something i just learned about recently, and i went down this morning. david arquette is involved. i think he's the chairman. it was called second harvest, they renamed it feeding america. in the last few years, it's amazing. you assume that the people that are hungry in our country are people who are homeless and that is not the case. with the recession, there are a lot of people -- i met a family, this guy is an eighth grade math teacher and his wife stays home and takes care of their three kids, all under the age of 5. amazing family. he's a teacher and can't afford to feed his family. so he has a roof over his head, but can't feed them. so he gets food from there. >> larry: is save the children the save the children we all know about? >> yeah, education and literacy. >> larry: send a small amount of money and they -- >> i went down to mississippi because one in five kids in america are poor. it's a great statistic. literacy is a big thing in

. >> i think that what bill and melinda have done is great. i think that in order to build support for this, if we could humanize it, it would make a big difference. if you come to my office in new york, you will see a picture of a little girl whose mother and father are both hiv-positive and they became friends of mine. the child is healthy. you can see the picture of a beautiful girl that was so weak that she could not hold her head up at her school desk. she was the first person to get the aids medicine and we became friends and she has asked me to send her to law school. one of our remote clinics in rwanda, there was a man with a boy and girl living in a mud hut. the older sister was not hiv- positive and the brother was. he miraculously lived until he got our medicine and now he has a third grade education at age 15 and he said that if he finishes high school, could he go to medical school so that he could keep other kids from getting sick. i think that if you can make this come alive through stories, we can get all the support we can han

. >> reporter: melinda roeder. >> tell the whole world.s topotatoes, not tomato. >>> the students at mcdonough are required to do 40 hours of community service to graduate but most go well above and beyond. what a cute story. >>> coming up, cash for appliances, how stores are getting ready for the upcoming program. >>> but next the orioles wrap up their series with this year's seattle mariners, find out if >>> the victim of a complete game, the orioles lose again. the hernandez the 8th complete game of the his career, limiting the o's to one unlearned run but the orioles till lost 9-1. the o's are off today. they start a 3 day series in boston tomorrow. >>> good morning, everybody, here is your first look at sports. the other shoe has dropped on ben roethlisberger after a series of public mishaps. he was disciplined by the commissioner and a substantial penalty, too. he has been suspended for six games without pay. he was also ordered to undergo a comprehensive behavioral analysis and if he progresses, he could shorten the suspension to fo

i think he and melinda and his father and the people at the gates foundation have not only amassed more money for health advances but actually spent the money better and promoted more innovation and saved more lives than anyone could have imagined. i count it a privilege to work with the gates foundation in many areas. i will mention a couple of them today because i think they reflect how you should consider the global health initiative in the administration. i want to thank both of you for your bipartisan support of large increases in health care investments. the malaria initiative, which began under president bush, was literally an order of magnitude beyond anything our country had been able to do before. in my second term, we were contributing 25% of the total the world was spending on hiv and aids, and my last budget was something like $300 million a year. the biggest thing we did was the millennium debt relief initiative because all of those savings have to be spent on health care. when you have done here, i think, is very important. i also want to thank you for repeatedly and expl

this is the reason that melinda and i have decided to make this cause our primary focus for our foundation. we know these are tough times in the budget, as president clinton alluded to. if the budget was not so constrained, i would come here and success -- i would come here and suggest that this budget be increased substantially more than is the current plan, but there are tough tradeoffs and i know that you have to consider those. but if you do that, i hope you will remember the impact and the success of these investments. in terms of the global health initiative proposal, i supported very strongly. i think it is very well done. i think you have some great people involved, not only in formulating the plan but who will also be there to make sure that the money is spent well. it increases funding for global health and this is important despite the incredible constraints. it has new strategies to make the money more effective. it focuses on particular countries. it focuses on the health problems where we have known interventions. a bill on the success -- it focused on the lives of mothers an

it was selected as one of four districts to receive a grant from the bill and melinda gates the invasion of $100 million over seven years. bill gates spoke about the changes needed to the egypt -- educational system at the 2009 ncsl conference in philadelphia. >> you'd think we should identify the top teachers. we should award them. we should retain them. we should make sure other teachers learn from them. >> regarding the grades of the hillsborough county school district, becky phillips the education director said it is all about the importance of teaching. it is the seven-year experiment to get the best teachers possible in the classroom. our ultimate goal is to dramatically increase student achievement, raise graduation rates, and to insure college and career readiness. the way to do this is to ensure our teachers are inspired and have the support they need. local administrators i spoke with feel that better teaching of the teachers is key to success. >> what the first things we do is allow professional development for teachers. the teachers take training sometimes on the weekends, so

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community colleges"; and hillary pennington, who oversees higher education programs for the bill and melinda gates foundation, which is providing funding for the new effort. for the record, the foundation is a newshour underwriter. mary spilde, i'll start with you. first fill in the picture for us a bit. who is today attending community colleges and how do you see your role as having changed within higher education? >> well, many of our students are underrepresented, underprepared students, first- generation students. but we're seeing in this downturn in the economy an increasing number of people with degrees who are coming back for job training to learn a new skill. >> brown: how does that change the role within higher education overall? >> well, community colleges have always been open-access institutions. we intend to continue to focus on access. i think one of the things that we're understanding1i disaggregate the data on how the students are doing is we need to do a better job of completion. graduation is only one measure for our students because many come back to do a couple classes to

major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> ifill: officials don't know whether four missing miners at a west virginia coal mine are still alive, and the effort to find them will take time. the explosion, blamed on methane gas, killed at least 25 other miners. rescuers were forced to call off the recovery operation early this morning as flammable gases began filling the mine. hope remains dim for the missing miners, but crews today drilled holes deep into the earth to release those gases and make it safe for searchers to return. west virginia's governor joe manchin said that may not happen before tomorrow evening. but families of the missing were still hopeful. >> any still hold out for that miracle. four of them

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> lehrer: president obama played host to dozens of his counterparts today at a world summit. they focused on stopping the spread of nuclear weapons. jeffrey brown begins our coverage. >> brown: it's the largest gathering of world leaders ever held in washington. today president obama greeted dignitaries from 47 countries. on hand for a two-day summit centered on preventing nuclear terrorism. which the president has called the most immediate and extreme threat to global security. the gathering here at washington's convention center is intended to focus the world's attention and push country to take concrete steps to secure the materials that go into making weapons. it's als

. >> and by the bill and melinda gates foundation. dedicated to the idea that all people deserve the chance to live a healthy productive life. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> woodruff: the president's message today was part rebuke, part appeal for help, to prevent another financial meltdown. he made it in new york city to leaders of the financial community, as a showdown looms in the u.s. senate. >> woodruff: mr. obama chose cooper union college as his venue-- just a short ride from wall street. the speech was sharply worded, taking the financial sector to task for the meltdown of 2008. >> a free market was never meant to be a free license to take whatever you can get, however you can get it. that's what happened too often in the years leading up to this crisis. some-- and let me be clear, not all, but some on wall street forgot that behind e

move on to another target >> reporter: the study has recently received a boost from the bill and melinda gates foundation to expand it's research. the foundation also funds the newshour's global health coverage. doctors hope these early steps in understanding the molecular mechanics of h.i.v. are early steps in finding a vaccine that has eluded researchers for 30 years. >> woodruff: finally tonight, looking at a dramatic moment in american labor history through poetry. david mason is the author of "ludlow"-- a book-length poem that tells the story of a 1913 colorado strike by miners, most of them immigrants, that ended in violence. >> my name is dave mason. i am a poet who grew up in washington state but i had family roots here in southern colorado. and when i came back to colorado in the late 1990s, i decided it was very important for me to try to write about colorado. when i wrote this first novel "ludlow," one of the things i was trying to do was not only to root myself in this area but also to create a sense of the evasiveness of identity in america. "what does it mean, nation of imm

one that we do at home, nice and simple like me melinda.and up and do the same type of exercise that we do simply on the ground. another one, slink the waistline again. you can take the bow t elbow to opposite knee. starting like mel inda melinda. >> monty you're going to have all of these at the be more healthy expo. folks can and in and do these with you. >> absolutely. >> we let you see what it looks like. be right, it will help you step up helping get started with the path to fitness. the be more healthy expo it's may first at the baltimore convention center. there's going to be experts in nutrition, physical fitness and medical health fair. admission is free. for more information check out our website. go to be more healthy expo.com. >>> well coming up next, trafficking cancer. how doctors are using gps systems to track the disease. >>> i get nervous before, before i play and after but never during, never, ever during. >> how the 9 left on american idol hope to separate themselves from the rest. >>> you are watching fox 45 morning news

it was selected as one of four districts receive a grant from the bill and melinda gates foundation of $100 million over seven years. bill gates spoke about the changes needed in the educational system at the 2009 ncsl conference in philadelphia. >> when we see the power that the test scores have for the teachers we think we should identify those teachers. we should reward them. we should retain them. we should make sure they learned from them. >> regarding the grants in the school district, vicki phyllis, the foundation's education director, said it's all about the importance of teachers. it is the seven year experiment to keep the best teachers possible in the classroom. mary ellen said our ultimate goal is to dramatically increase student achievement, raise or attrition rates and inshore college and career readiness. the way to do this is to ensure that our teachers are adept, in spite of and have the support they need. local administrators i spoke with feel that better teaching of the teachers is the key to success. >> one of the first things we do is a lot of professional developm

>> we were one of four districts in the country to receive a grant from the bill and melinda gates foundation. this money will be spent on improving the classroom. they want to identify the good teachers and use them as mentors for others. >> why did you think increased government spending does not help the state of achievement? >> i think that we just need to focus more on how it is spent. i also think we need to place more emphasis and a value on education. students need to realize that they need to apply themselves more in school. >> thank you for talking to us. congratulations. here is a portion of his documentary. >> many people consider the united states to be the leader of the free world. as the leader, shouldn't we have the best education system, so that we can continue to make the world a better place for all? do we currently have the best education system? according to the pisa test, we only rank as average. >> to watch the rest of the winning videos, go to studentcam.org. host: gene karpinski is our guest, the president of the league of conservation voters, here to talk about energ

>> we are one of four counties to receive a grant from the bill and melinda gates foundation. this money will go to teachers in the classroom. they want to identify good teachers and use them as mentors for other teachers. >> why do you believe increased government spending does not help student achievement? what i don't believe it hurt student achievement. i just believe we need to focus more on how it is spent. i also believe we need to change our culture and place more emphasis and value on education. i think students need to realize that school works for them, and apply themselves more. >> thank you for spending this time talking to us today. congratulations on your win. here is a portion of this documentary. >> many people consider the united states to be the leader of the free world. as the leader, should we not have the best education system? we should continue to make the world a better place opposite. do we currently have the best education system? according to the pisa test, given by theoec oecd, we only rk average. >> to what all of this video or any of the others,

. >> melinda said, i think a lot of people would agree with this.rning. you may, or may not want to drink what he has in the morning. >>> tonya, are going to get copies of old dogs in blu-ray. >> and don't forget to go to face book.com/baltimore to become a fan. >>> coming up on fox 45 morning news, salary surprises. find out ho is raking i who is h you want to get a great looking lawn like this, but trying to grow grass from seed in tough areas like deep shade, along the driveway, and where the kids play can be a little intimidating... until now, with scotts ez seed. it's so revolutionary it's guaranteed to grow grass...anywhere. that's because ez seed is a high performance mix of scotts best grass seed, starter fertilizer and a super absorbent growing material that absorbs water and expands to surround and protect the seeds, so you can grow thick, beautiful grass in even the toughest areas. the scotts ez seed mix even lightens in color to tell you when it's time to water. it's so fool-proof you'll get a thick, green scotts lawn even if you've neve

host: >> it is melinda from a patty johnson, ever -- next up is melendez from arizona. caller: as someone who lost my trucking company while the oil prices doubled, allowing people to buy futures on the oil markets who were not taking the lid rate is really just a scam. and then also, a little different subject. i have a subjection that the fda could set up a very -- suggestion that the fda could set up a program locally, give micro loans, bill -- people who are collecting unemployment all of the money at once or people could use of their own money since it takes so many different people from the board room to the mailroom to run a company, that they could set up a program where they put together -- just an example, 200 people with $5,000 each to buy up existing buildings or so forth and start building solar panels or whenever for the green and a jeep. and then go to the sba for the equipment loans. we could put a lot of people back to work. host: thanks. guest: i agree, i think micro loans are a good idea. they work and other countries. why not try them here? i don't k

it was selected as one of four districts to receive a grant from the bill and melinda gates foundation. bill gates spoke about the changes needed in the educational system at the 2009 conference in philadelphia. >> when we see the power of the top teachers, we should identify them, we should retain them, and we should make sure other teachers learn from them. >> the foundation's education director said, "is all about the importance of teachers. it is a seven year experiment to put the best teachers possible in the classroom." another woman said, "is our ultimate goal to raise graduation rates and ensure college and careers readiness." local administrators i spoke with felt that better teachers ensure better success. >> we have teachers taking, sometimes on the weekends -- teachers taking trainings, sometimes on the weekends, sometimes after school, and sometimes with a substitute making it possible for the teacher to go out and get training. >> there is a cooperative learning strategy they train their teachers to use. >> the problem is the replacement cycle. when students get something