i want to thank the congresswoman for the -- my name is mike jones. i'm a partner at one of the largest law firms in the country. i practice here in d.c. and across the country and i've lived in the d.c. now. when i was at georgetown law school, i was a research assistant for congresswoman norton long before she was interested in getting involved in politics. my wife and i, some years ago, set up tutoring programs in connection with the naacp where we paid retired teachers to provide tutoring services in the summer for pour african-american students. we in doubt scholarships -- we endow scholarships in new orleans for underprivileged students. we have done something similar at georgetown for african- american students looking to go to georgetown. i had been very active in the mentoring program here in d.c. connection with a case that we're working on, coppin came into my office and looked out the window at the white house and said, homeboy, this is a long way away from shreveport. i grew up in the same place that johnnie cochran did. he had written a

people who went to middle school, high school, law school with me would probably say, yeah, mike jones, that is that with the smart guy. the first four years of my education that is not how people described to me. the first four years of my education -- in fact, i was just looking at the letter last night. my parents got a letter from the school board informing of 1968 negro go to any school they wanted to go to. as a result of that, i transitioned in the middle of my fourth grade year from a predominantly african-american been a white institution. think a was reading at a level that was considered a year behind. by the time i was in the sixth grade i ran across a teacher who interjected the idea of competition into the clot -- into the classroom. which is to say that, you have to do a certain amount of work and then you take a test and then go on to the next level. i was intrigued by the attention that was being paid to two white boys in the class, david and rusty, who were at the top of the key, so to speak, in terms of reading. competitive. i ran track. in fact, i won the city meet

jones. let's check with mike for the forecast. >> the helicopter answer, right. we're talking about that, because the helicopter's above the fire. here we are around mount diablo where the fire continues this morning. but the good news, the winds continue also to be light northeast about 4 mph. humidity's 22%. but still very hot for the firefighters. it's about 86 degrees. so we'll keep an eye on that. hopefully they get it completely contained. hot once again and this is the reason why. check out these temperatures. still 81 los gatos, 77 fremont. still the low 70s mountain view, san jose, san rafael, antioch. low to mid-60s north bay valley. 50 degree temperatures, near 60 around the monterey bay and inland also. dangerous heat. that's our number one highlight. even though the heat peaked yesterday, it's still going to be hot in most areas again today. cooling breeze returns to the coast this afternoon and spreads all across our neighborhoods tomorrow all the way through saturday. let's start in the east bay valleys where concord could set a record high and all

then comes to camp and mike runs him through a bunch of conditioning tests, which he doesn't pass. joneshe catch. goes down along the sideline, but he's all right. he finally passed the conditioning test. now his knee hurts him again. what do you think? >> cris: you think he really passed it? you and i both know mike shanahan. he was my offensive coordinator at the university of florida. he brought albert out there at 6:00 a.m. to try the conditioning test one more time, just the two of them. maybe he gave them the friendly watch. the big guy like that, you got to get him back on the field at some point. they're asking him maybe he made a settlement. listen, you play nose tackle, we'll figure out a way to get around this conditioning test. >> al: now, i mean, with a situation, that pass caught along the sidelines and that's matt jones making another nice play. but sooner or later, with haynesworth in the 3-4.a. >> al: do you really need to do that? >> cris: he looks disgusted. >> al: wade does a halfhearted like 16-0, i'm kind of trying to -- i'm getting on the point. >> referee: dallas

mike, thank you very much. >>> new this morning, san francisco police are looking for a killer, someone shot and killed a man in the tenderloin around 12:30 at jones and ellis streets. police say a man between 30 and 40 years old died from several gunshot wounds. they found a semi-automatic gun about a block from the shooting scene. now, get this, they found it inside a mailbox. >>> the last u.s. major combat brigade has left iraq seven and a half years after operation iraqi freedom started. the striker patrol rolled into kuwait ahead ofs in iraq will remain. richard engle made the crossing with the four striker brigade and lieutenant steven dewitt. >> to say we were the last combat union in iraq. we were the ones that finished that combat mission and we did it -- we did a really good job. >> dewitt is from san jose. his family watched him on "nbc nightly news." she said her son felt the call of duty the day of the september 11th attacks. >> he, at 16, at september 11th he said i'm going to have to go. and he did. when various family members would say why can't you talk him out of it? why should i? he knows this is what he has to do you want nothi