and then grew up in new orleans. so they came back to new orleans. they both were lawyers. they had a record store in the '50s about ten years before i was born, sort of make money to put themselves through law school. and by the time i came around in '67, they were both practicing law, and my mom and i were -- were supertight. i think she really wanted me to be an artist. you know? she used to like to tell people she wanted to be beethoven's mother. that was her thing. she wanted to be the mother of this person. and my dad, although he was very busy politically, always found the time to support me, to set the right example for me, and i have an older sister, too, who is another hero of mine. and -- >> in your family, just taught to be very respectful. if someone older than you walked in the room, you should stand up. >> yeah, that's a southern thing, though. do they do that in england? >> england used to be a bit like that. i think it's lost its way in the last 25 years. it's nowhere near as polite. when i go down somewhere south here, dallas or houston, i'm always struck

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you were in new orleans where you pulled your shirt up.when in rome, do as the romans do. >> reporter: i was so -- >> oh, no. we lost megan's audio? we'll get back with megan in a second. we have got to talk about this. are you back? >> reporter: can you hear me? >> yes, go back to new orleans. that was a great shot. >> reporter: thank you. what i was saying is that when you're pregnant, and that pregnant and in new orleans in august that is probably not the best idea. i could not help it. i was so hot. >> what about at university of auburn shirt? what are you doing? >> reporter: we were in alabama and that is where my husband went to school. that was the only shirt that could i fit. i'm giant. my feet are like they've exploded. they're so huge. but i feel good. i'm anxious. i'm anxious to meet these girls. it's a waiting game right now. >> so we need the big reveal. do you want to do one now or wait till 6:00. >> reporter: i thought that story might be enough. let's wait till 6:00. >> i have got to have a picture for the facebook page. i

from new orleans. until then, al michaels, cris collinsworth, michele tafoya, the crew saying good night from chicago. [ female announcer ] at verizonfios.com, you can choose your channel package. ♪ you can choose your own internet speeds. ♪ you can even choose to chat with a live person. ♪ and you're always guaranteed the lowest prices online. so don't wait... try, compare and buy at verizonfios.com today. because there's never been a better time to build the perfect fios bundle. >> this is wbal 11:00 news tonight. >> nearly a half dozen people injured after a drive-by shooting in baltimore county. good evening, everyone. police say the gunman opened fire about 4:00 this afternoon after a fight in turner station. we have the latest. >> the case is still under investigation but baltimore county police think it may have started here at the fleming community center. >> this is where a fight broke out around 4:30 in eventually spilled out on to the street. a short time later police say a man drove by and

severe storms from nashville to jackson, mississippi and new orleans.uch cooler than normal in the upper midwest. >> just 47 in the twin cities and fargo. 50s from indianapolis. 7 in atlanta. 64 in seattle. 60 in salt lake city. and 94 in phoenix. >>> parents listen up. coming up, "sesame street" replaced with porn. the hack attack on elmo's youtube channel. >>> and blackberry's huge giveaway. but will the free stuff keep customers happy? >>> and imagine getting this close to an animal bigger than the biggest dinosaur. >>> research in motion is now apologizing to its blackberry customers following last week's major outage around the world. the company is offering $100 worth of new apps for free. the downloads will be available starting tomorrow in blackberry's app world. but it may not be enough to prevent customers from defecting to other devices. >>> there's a troubling report on consumer debt this morning. five of the nation's top six credit card issuers say late payments rose in september. the increases were all under a percentage point. but it is t

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after leaving new orleans and coming here, it was still a fight. comparing the schools, yes, i can see the different -- i can see the difference. those parents are there, and they bring in money for those schools, and they have all kinds of book fairs and arts festivals, computer labs, and at hunters point, it is a whole different story. you do not have a computer labs there. we do not have a parent involvement. it is a total difference. >> your perspective on jamal, awaiting the decision on whether he will be executed or spend his life in prison. >> he should be released. [applause] one of my professors actually is working on his case, so i have been following through her visits and conversations, but i think it is the quintessential example of what is happening with the intellects in our community. he is a brilliant brother. if you have not gone on youtube and seen him offering his insight on any number of social political issues -- i mean geopolitical issues, what is happening in afghanistan and iraq, what is happening with education in this cou

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talking about why you moved to new orleans. >> well, i moved to new orleans from new york, not from mississippito go a long way to get back down. >> yeah. >> yeah, we all went north toward home to quote the famous book. and if you're southern, most of us -- you kept going on home. then you come up here and you go back. i went down to new orleans to cover a really crazy election. our formally incarcerated governor was running against -- >> we were friends, by the way. go ahead. >> david duke would have been the governor otherwise. and i just got kind of seduced. and then, you know, i kind of commuted back and forth and katrina came as you all know, and you did such a great job of reminding people about it daily. and i kind of stuck around. and now new orleans is actually, you know, you've got to take your silver linings where you find them. there's not a whole lot to do about a hurricane. new orleans is in better shape and has a brighter future than i ever would've thought it would have before katrina. >> a lot of reform. when we went down and did an education showdown there with starbucks, what

while new orleans have the saints, we are gearing with the rave-- ravens. we're gearing up for jacksonville. >>> still ahead at noon, looks like a beautiful friday afternoon. so what's in store for the rest of the weekend? tim will let us know. our full first warning forecast is two and a half minutes away. first, here's a look at today's midday stocks and last night's winning lottery numbers. bge's instant discounts got our homeowner to switch to energy star® cfl bulbs. 3-way cfls really click with my style. learn to speak the language of energy efficiency at bgesmartenergy.com. >>> this is rascal. rascal came in lost. he has a bit of a heart murmur that's not a big problem. he is four years old. he should be checked out. that's full disclose sure. >> he has a big heart. >> we say rascal. he's not rascal flat. he's rascal long. he's kind of sued -- souped up. he can dust your furniture. the maryland spca. all right. a great weekend for anything you want to do with your rascal. it's a nice weekend. it's a nice weekend to do leaves, pumpkins and everything e

you know, i was sent over by former mayor gavin newsom to new orleans a few years ago, and we study what had happened there, and we realized that one of the things that had occurred in new orleans was a breakdown between city government and the neighborhoods, and such that when the hurricane hit and the flooding happened, so many people left the city, and then ey did not come back. because there was no relationship between local government and many of the neighborhoods and many of the residence. that lesson burned in my mind for a very long time. so it is that much more important, general, that when you put this fleet we together, that you made a disaster preparedness a thing -- the inme vision to the celebration of our armed forces. you have not only touch our city government, but you have helped me touch every neighborhood in this city. that is what we need to do in all of our cities. so thank you very much, general, for your leadership on this. thank you. [applause] i also wanted again our honorary chair, former secretary schulz. you have been such a great leader here. i want to thank

on what they believe of the residents that are still there, how to educate them to again live in new orleans, but i will speak at that at the next meeting. president mendoza: thank you. commissioner wynns? commissioner wynns: this past weekend, i was at the unity conference, of the latino school board members association and the coalition of black school board members. a lot of people -- they asked me about that, and i have a lot of interesting material. then i just wanted to say this, because i just got this. san francisco has been named number one in "barron's" magazine as the 10 healthiest cities for families -- in " parents" magazine. the city by the bay rose to the top of our list in part because of its gutsy move to bring healthier foods to schools. san francisco booted soda and high-calorie, empty food five years before the state did and was one of the first places in the country to push for school gardens. california's with whole grain breads debuted in 2007. now, at least have have them. skipping, it says san francisco also goes the extra mile to keep kids active, with playgrounds,

hail and gusty winds from new orleans to jackson, mississippi and nashville. thunderstorms around cincinnati, detroit and chicago. heavy rain from charleston, south carolina, all the way down to tampa and miami. >> upper 70s in atlanta. upper 60s in new york and boston. cooler than normal in the upper midwest. fargo and the twin cities are in the upper 40s. 60s in the pacific northwest and northern rockies. >>> a man in western wisconsin says it was totally worth it because he finally got his bear. >> and his bear was a 7'2" monster that he took down after a long hunt. he took all this video of the bear over the last two months. he says the bear was actually taunting him but during that time he never had the right chance to get a shot at him. >> that all changed on sunday and he did not miss. the bear weighed nearly 650 pounds. it's going to end up either stuffed or mounted, or as a rug. >> hardly the bear was taunting him. the bear was just being a bear. >> i think it got in his head. >> all right, dude, calm down. better than that than doing the horrible stor

new orleans was the last place to go. >> jimmy: does any work really get done in new orleans?hell yes. we're a very indoes tree use city. depends whoon you're working on, pal. >> jimmy: i guess so. they build floats. >> they do. they build fun. >> jimmy: shooting a movie in new orleans -- it must be hard to just keep everyone together. >> no, no, no. everybody's professional. there's one time, i was doing a movie called "the big easy" in 1985 and -- [ applause ] >> jimmy: that's what happens on a talk show. >> i was working for hitler in 19 -- [ laughter ] >> jimmy: one lunatic in the back. >> anyway -- [ laughter ] and i -- i went out, worked, i said, i'm going to hit the quarter. i hit the street. 6:30 in the morning, i roll up at my hotel, i'm feeling swell. eat breakfast, go to bed. and the crew is leaving to go to work and i'm latching at them, ah, suckers, have a good day at work. i get up, i order breakfast, laying around, watching "the today show" or something. get a phone call. where are you? well, i'm watching "the today show," waiting for my breakfast, thank you. we

it's interesting, the irish history connected with new orleans. so the o'reilly family has been in louisiana for centuries. in cuba, nobody remembers him but it was the street of calle oreilly, famous until the 50's for its banks and bookstores. it was one of the favorite streets of (inaudible) secretary of the spanish count of fernandino, my grandfather, another irish man feeling at home in havana. there, at the busy corner of calle street and oreilly was a cafe bakery owned by a catelan. it was described by many foreigners, in particular british and irish who lived in havana at the time, as one of the best order and most elegant cafes in the world. its large door led to a main floor with a fantastic stone floor. i saw it in the 50's, i was very little but i still was there in the 50's, and have a fountain that all that water really produce a refreshing sound that drown the patrons' loud conversations. but what made dominica famous, according to some foreigners and historians, was its ice cream of countless flavors and its famous fruit ices: guav

make it simpler starting today. >>> finally this half-hour, the joys of my former hometown, new orleanst on bourbon street and across the crescent city. >> sounds look you miss it, rob. >> always. >> while that is wonderful. the big easy is purring right now. >> oh, tanya. >> thanks to a few furry friends. >> chris knight of wgno does the introductions. ♪ >> reporter: they jump through hoops. fly through the air with the greatest of ease. and their musical skills rival any pop group. >> they're like the partridge family of cats. >> reporter: meet the acro-cats. >> she's the bandleader and cow bell player. newy on keyboard, synthesizer. and fiji on drums. we have a backup drummer named dakota. >> reporter: and samantha martin is their trainer. >> it's my gift. everybody is born with a gift. i've been training animals since i was 10. i knew since i was 7 years old that i wanted to be a trainer. i use a clicker, a type of training method involving positive reinforcement only. >> reporter: what makes the cats even more amazing is that all of the acro-cats including this one were either resc

thunderstorms drench i-10 from new orleans to mobile.m jackson, mississippi, to atlanta, and i-85. and parts of 75 in florida. slick on i-94, to madison and milwaukee and chicago. and rain dampens i-5, in the pacific northwest. >> and if you're flying today, airport delays are possible in charlotte, miami, and in atlanta. get back safely to atlanta. >> thank you so much. >>> the final defense witness returns to the stand today in the conrad murray trial. a doctor dubbed the father of propofol. >> what followed was a heated exchange between the prosecution and another doctor, who said michael jackson was hooked on the painkiller demerol. more from diana alvear. >> reporter: this trial may be winding down. but it's still highly entertaining. yesterday, it wasn't because the testimony. it was because the prosecutor kept clashing with the witness. >> is there a reason why it's so difficult for you to answer my questions and it was so easy to answer mr. chernoff's? >> reporter: the prosecutor could not hide his annoyance with thursday's witne

county. >> jimmy: does any work really get done in new orleans? >> yes.re a very industous city. they build fun. >> jimmy: but shooting hoops a movie in new orleans, it must be hard to just keep everyone together? >> no, no. everybody is professional. there's one time when i was doing a movie called "the big easy" in 1985 -- and i was working for hitler in -- >> jimmy: one lunatic in the back. >> and when i work i said, i'm hitting the quarter. so i hit the street and about 6:30 in the morning i'm rolling up to my hotel feeling swell, eat some breakfast and go to bed and the crew was leaving to go to work and i'm laughing at them, suckers have a good day at work. and i get up and order a big breakfast and laying around and watching the today show and -- and i get a call. i'm waiting for the today show and waiting for my breakfast and they're like, you're supposed to be here at work. and i'm like -- i get a nice -- >> jimmy: are you able to pull it together in a situation like that and can y0u watch the movie -- >> fortunately, we were shooting hoops -- sh