before taking the attorney general job, nichols was the lead attorney. now of course, he works for the city. according to the washington post, nichols resigned from the lawsuit before he became attorney general and he has reportedly called this complaint against him completely frithilous. >> 9news now learned that highly anticipated meeting has been set. bruce johnson has been talking with people in the know. you are here with the story first. fill us in. >> no doubt the very first meeting and most important meeting probably to come within six months. lesley, the meeting between vincent gray and michelle will take place on thursday of this week. the time is set for noon. the location is the wilson building and the office of gray, the dc council chairman and soon to be mayor of the district. sources won't say who else will be in that meeting, but the belief is that it will be just the two of them. they will, of course, be discussing whether michelle wants to remain in the job of chancellor once gray takes over and if gray wants her to stay. he said he doe

attorney general peter nichols said he will resign. he will stick around to make sure that the transition to gray's administration is smooth and that it benefits the city. but then he said he will leave at the end of the year. vincent gray made it clear in recent days that he had planned to replace nichols as d.c.'s attorney general. >>> coming up on 9 news now ... >> chunks of brick is all that is left of this wall after an suv collided into it, killing all three men inside. details coming up. >>> but first, it is a story you don't want to hear. we may be losing more jobs in the area. and topper has your forecast. >>> yes, rain showers, so be careful coming home. we'll take you out with live doppler. nothing heavy or severe. we'll come back and talk about the weekend and all-important redskin forecast. >>> taking a look at some neighborhood news. rockville police arrested a man for stealing credit cards and 48-year-old troy valentine was sentenced yesterday. investigators say he took those cards from a gold's gym on randolph road. for

peter nichols, city attorney general, he is probably out. he said peter nichols is not the attorney general he wants. he's been a personal attorney to the mayor and he should be gone. >>> two members of the d.c. council are urging gray to keep michelle rhee on board for an extended transition. mary chai and tommy wells say that keeping michelle rhee through 2012 would help ensure stability for the school system. wells and chai supported gray, rhee supported fenty. and chancellor rhee has not said whether she will fight for her job, but her press secretary sent out a statement reading the hard choices are not over. the need for political courage remains great and what is important is continuing the progress that has been made for every child that goes to school in the district and we can't turn back. >>> mayor fenty called gray this morning to concede and promised to work with him on the transition but declined to look back on how he lost or offer much insight on what he does next. bruce leshan is in our news room trying to do a bit of both.

in june, we introduced you to courtney nichols and gordon, the owner of smarty-pants. when we last met up with them, they got 3,500 pounds of packaging and 700,000 vitamins delivered to their home office. they were having issues with their shopping cart and had to delay the launch of the site. but they were still optimistic and had plenty of funding. over the past two months, they've been dealing with this. >> this is something that you don't think about when setting up the home office which is -- is your next door neighbor about to start a year-long construction project that involves drills and nail guns and nonstop banging 24/7 which has been going on for two months. >> and here with us on the set laughing about that is courtney nichols. gordon is joining us from california. so great to see both of you. >> thank you. >> it's good to see you're laughing about this. it hasn't driven that you crazy yet? >> i think it's always easy to laugh about it after the fact. i don't know while it was happening. >> also, you're in new york. gordon, you're the one that is still hear

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for more we go to madison, wisconsin, joined by john nichols, the washington correspondent for "the nation" magazine, author of several books. he maintains the blog thebeatatthenation.com. john, tell us what's hapning in wisconsin. actually, now seen as a bellwether, russ feingold really has not been in danger before except when he first ran for senate. >> well, what's going on in wisconsin is what's really going on in most of the upper midwest. that is that while we haven't necessarily hit quite as high unemployment rates as some other parts of the country, the upper midwest has suffered from really severe deindustrializatio we have lost a lot of our best jobs in states like wisconsin, minnesota, illinois, indiana, ohio, michigan. so there's a great deal of discomfort. and that has ricochetted hard against the democrats. there's simply no question that president obama came to milwaukee on monday, labor day, because he thinks that this is really one of the places where the 2010 election cycle will be decided. obama was in milwaukee just two weeks ago. so he's going to make it just a regula

nichols said he plans to resign at the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition for d.c.'eing raised about whether michelle rhee will remain on the job. the d.c. school chancellor fired hundreds of teachers to reform the school system. rhee campaigned for fenty and called the election result devastating for d.c. schoolchildren. >> it pains me to be in a situation where i very shortly could be leaving. if i can somehow, in some small way make a dent in this for some group of kids somewhere, i will do it in a heartbeat. >> he says he won't make my personnel changes until after november's general election. >> as the constitution marks its 223rd birthday, there is some interesting news about its impact this morning. a survey tuned in 86% of respondants recognize the importance of the constitution. but only 1/3 have read the entire document. it also found that 18-year-olds to 24s understand it much less than older people do. >> time now for traffic and weather every 10 minutes. adam caskey is with the latest on what to expect today and into the weekend. >> we have been dominate

and if it is named it could become tropical storm nichole and it will go to virginia and quickly to the north or northeast and the latest hurricane model has it north of virginia up to massachusetts and further east. we will keep watching because that track will determine who gets the heavy rain and who gets the heavy winds. this tract is showing it is over the ocean but with that pressure and jets dipping down, somebody will see sustained winds at 30 miles per hour on thursday and that could cause power lines and trees going down. so tonight, look for partly cloudy skies, maybe some fog if it does rain, 60s, tomorrow clouds building and a chance of rain developing tomorrow night. 76 rain likely probably heavy and thunderstorm activity and very nasty day coming up on thursday with that storm headed up the east coast. >> all right, bob we will watch, thank you. >>> still ahead, doctors tell us about the cause of migraine and it could be in your dna. >> i am susan and i will tell you why teenagers were not charged even though they pulled the trigger. that is coming up next. >>> it is

the storm pounded cuba before gathering strength to become tropical storm nichole.officials in hallandale beach have promised to move water quickly in the case of flash flooding. the question around here is is a system that will bring us the rain? it is part of the system. an area of low pressure just off the coast. take a look at what is going on pá this hour. the clouds are starting to roll in. now we are going to look for temperatures to warm up just a little bit, and the rain alread@ parts of the area. here is going on. we just talked about the heavy 2 inches and north carolina. all of this rain essentially will make its way to our area over the next 24 hours. an inch in the third of prince george. elementary school were so far this month only a half-inch of rain. we're really going to add to that total over the next day or so. storm scan shows the updated tropical storm. wind gusts at 50 miles per hour. notice how it stops right over here. essentially it wileventually ite with another area of low pressure. we have moderate rain across southern maryland. this is

peter nichols said he does not plan to work for a gray administration should the democratic nominee win said he plans to resign at the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition for d.c.'s next mayor. >> the white house is fighting back against republican assertion that the economic stimulus has been a failure. the administration will release a report today highlighting projects that are the white house says are creating jobs and turning around a weak economy. former president jimmy carter is accusing late senator edward kennedy of delaying health reform for a year. he said kennedy killed the bill out of spite. kennedy later challenged and lost to carter the democratic party nomination. >> several inches of rain on the yucatan peninsula flooding streets and knocking down trees and causing power outages there. carl was just upgraded to a category 3 storm. >> it is 4:50. we have 67 degrees. >> still to come a little bit later. we're going to introduce you to a man who just doesn't know the meaning of the word quit. >> first another check of traffic and weather every 10 >> 4:53. happy f

the police descended on the park here near the nichols school. they were unable to pinpoint the location of that explosion. but a person who was in the area was out walking his dog. he says he is not usually up that early in the morning. but the dog woke him and that's with a caused him to get up and take him out at that time. >> my dog woke me up. maybe a little before 4:00 this morning. loud boom. shook the windows and everything. >> reporter: the explosion jarred the sleeping neighborhood around 4:00 in the morning. almost an hour later dale wyatt was walking his dog buddha in the park near nichols school. then the dog began to pull at his leash. >> and i thought he was chasing a rabbit because he was determined and we got about 15 feet away and i could smell but like something. and i got closer and honestly i thought it was a mannequin. i didn't think it was real. i thought someone was playing a sick prank. got closer and that looks real. another woman came walking down the street and skid if she had a cell phone but she came and looked at it

but nichols is saying the jury made a mistake. in a statement nichols said although we appreciate the hard work of the jury in this case and fully support the jury process, the finding that chief lanier retaliated against one of the plaintiffs was not supported by any evidence of the law. we intend to demonstrate to the court that the jury's finding is in error. what hasn't been explained is an e-mail sent to the rank and file after the verdict in which she had said the jury dismissed whistleblower claims. they said the chief was unavailable for comment. paul wagner, fox 5 news. >> a superior court judge will decide whether the chief should be disciplined or fined. we'll let you know what happens. >>> several cows are dead after a big fire at a livestock facility that broke out around 8:00 last night at the fauquier county livestock exchange in marshall. 250 cattle were inside when the fire began. investigators thought as many as 50 cows have died and now they say they have found only five cows dead in the barn. they do expect to

grey has made no secret of the fact he does not like nichols as attorney general. >>> with the bitter campaign behind them, grey and fenty showed up at the church breakfast this morning. it allows rivals a chance to heal the wounds of the campaign while looking towards the future. >> it is really important that we work together as best we can to try to bring the city together. >> it was a real tough campaign and i think the democratic nominee and i, we fought hard. it was all fought in the best spirit but it's good to show publicly all that stuff is left on the campaign. >> grey says he wants to hold a town hall meeting, maybe meetings, all eight wards and a summit after the november general election. >>> they are sobering statistics as well. still ahead on the edge, new data from the census bureau reveals the number of americans living in poverty. >>> plus, tour guides file a federal lawsuit fighting for their right to speak. why they claim their voices are being silenced in the district. >>> deep inside the heart of america, spy satellite network. an exclusive look inside the nation

we are also looking at the co benefits of the nichols troubled. looking at the benefits, criteria pollutants as well. we did look at how trip patterns may change. people were concerned that we would reduce the number of trips in the day. we found that the number of trips are not likely to reduce. the number one effect would be that people would continue to drive with this reduction. that means 80% of the people still see a benefit and would continue to drive. other people may change the time that they drive, what, bike, or create other ways to take advantage of their travel. we did look at a key number of people who are benefiting from faster transit trips, car pooling, are continuing to save a significant portion of time. we also looked at business impacts. this was in response to the economic impacts. we do not expect there to be significant business impact. however, we are looking at employment impacts which could potentially be somewhat minimal, up to 1%, and we could mitigate them by internal capital, streetscape enhancements, other enhanceme

our reporters are tim nichols and tom giles, this week on "prees he "press here." >> good morning. i'm scott mcgrew. you probably had that day at work when you decided you knew what was wrong with your company and how to fix it. turns out many bosses don't want to hear it. giving you a choice, you can drop it or make it your manifesto. >> i entitled it the things we think but do not say. >> as the fictional sports agent, jerry mcguire found out -- >> that's how you become great, man. >> manifestos usually do cause a change at the company. mainly, the manifesto author does not stick around to see that change. >> what are they doing? >> they fired jerry mcguire. >> the peanut manifesto written by garlghouse, comparing it peanut butter spread too thin by too many efforts. it was picked up by the press for its unflinching accurate portrayal of a company in trouble. garlghouse actually stayed for two years following the manif t manifesto leading a mass exodus in 2008. now, he's at a company with even bigger problems, america online. once an internet giant, they suffered through a disast

definitely have some challenging intersection with multiple crossing point with pedestrians, and the nichols, transit, and the business of market street. this is a project that makes sense. i would like to have some discretion to make sure that we are alsohói( having progress on other fronts. >> i know the planning department has also been looking at a lot of this. supervisor dufty: i think there have been a lot of viewpoints. i just wanted to make sure that those were heard. supervisor campos: commissioner carmen chu? [qsupervisor chu: thank you for your presentation. i just want to make sure i am in synch with you on how we are characterizing the project. phase two is still to be determined. i am imagining phase one is the planning, vision, conceptual engineering project. where does stage to begin? is that the environmental study through the construction phase? >> that is through the completion of the environmental review. supervisor chu: and then construction would be -- >> another face. supervisor chu: -- another phase. supervisor chu: this additional funding would take you thru phase t

state of the same can be said of the men marat safin is a ready retired one to collide over denko nichol youzhny both approaching thirty seven golden generation the new millennium is coming to an end however and the goal of who's one of cuz it stands brightest stars says bay should have few problems but i think some of these coming for russian bear some young guys i hope for them so. yeah russia has looked into said they would include me and that if maybe it's not twenty two years so but this to. stop them guys and it's not easy to or to play against. of course. the problem with the young guys but i'm sure. we find somewhere time will only tell of goal of its predictions come true but for the moment russia's loss is kazakhstan's game and the future of the sport in this central asian nation is looking very bright indeed richard r.t. . week twenty one of the russian football premier league ended on monday and now it's time to take a look at the standings that zinni to st petersburg are still possible at the summit with a four point question and two games in hand in front of the nearest riv

nichols. she is currently director of the ucla institute of the environment. she was appointed by mayor antonio villarugoso, commissioner of los angeles and serves as its president through september, 2006. we all know mary as a very capable secretary for california's resources -- california resources agency where she was the head of that agency from 1998 to 2003. those of us who remember back far enough recall the days as a senior attorney for the environment now foundation. she was also co-founder of the first environmental justice working group in the state. we are very pleased here in san francisco and i believe all of you should be very pleased to have mary as the moderator of our first panel. mary, it's time for you to take it away. thank you. . >> thank you so much, susan, for that very generous introduction and also to the city and the public utilities commission for hosting this landmark event. it really is wonderful to see water utilities taking a leadership role in discussing this key issue and particularly to see the bredth of the program in terms o

. >>> nichols does not plan to work for the gray administration should the democratic nominee been.s to resign at the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition for d.c. public the next mayor. now that vincent gray has won the primary, questions are raised about what will happen to michelle rhee. the school chancellor fired hundreds of teachers in an effort to reform the district school system. she campaigned against vincent gray. she called the election results devastating for d.c. schoolchildren. vincent gray says he will not make any personnel changes until after the november general election. >>> a backup plan for lawmakers. a closer look at the gop election agenda. >> david joins us with a look at both of these stories. >> good to be with you. good morning. >> this article today is interesting, talking about republicans not doing well as a republican move on to the tea party. >> those who've tried to run for office before and lost have fashioned a themselves again. they might be social conservatives talking more about the gun control. they saw an opening in the tea party and

organizar una copa del mundo de un día para otro 7 delgados de la fifa presidido por harold mayne-nichollsto el crecimiento del fútbol en estados unidos, y univision está orgulloso de hacer su parte para traer este evento mundial. >>> dallas y houston serán las próxima escalas de esta delegación fifa aunque algunos ya se imaginan el resultado. >>> la fifa piensa para el 2022 reportando de desde miami, ahora seguimos con más de primer impacto. >>> gracias a ti iván y estados unidos cabe mencionar que organizó con éxito el mundial de 94 y este seria una gran oportunidad para hacer del fútbol uno de los deportes favoritos del país de acuerdo estará félix no? >>> ojalá así sea. >>> no vienes con buenas noticias para mi como colombiana a ver. >>> y les cuento que ya fue presentado eduardo acevedo como nuevo técnico de tecos, sustituye a miguel herrera que fue despedido luego de la derrota del domingo ante chivas ahora si vamos con el partido que llamen skwoi nab ilia entre méxico y colombia. anoche en monterrey el tri enfrentó a colombia casi al final jugada a balón parado, elías hernández con

hotels on transport links to meet the influx of fans chile football federation president gerald mayne nicholls was speaking after the six strong team concluded their tour of the smallest nation in the running less than one point seven million people live in the gulf nation but is only bidding for the twenty twenty two tournaments while the likes of russia england and the united states submitted bids for both world cups in question fifo will announce its decision on december second in zurich for world cup twenty. they're helping to concert the hockey league season is today to an end both years one team has reigned supreme akbar's the last team standing when the rinks have emptied so what better place for robert for the him to start our weekly featurette on k h l squads in case one. hundred three it's even harder to fold on to the summit. the undisputed host of the kontinental hockey league with a third get under way because inside is still the only club the league's top trophy the degree of. this isn't the snow leopards received yet another boost to their roster after signing one of the league'

the dispute appears to boil down to a difference of opinion about how nichols should be run and who should benefit the company's chief executive ladder misjudge a cough ski describes the problem as he sees it. conflict is due to a difference in interests one side wants a gradual development of the company to improve environmental and social conditions while the other one wants to take everything that isn't a company and even more i'm against taking the money out this may benefit shareholders right now but in the next years the company won't be able to develop. their so is adamant it will not sell up instead that a pascoe says he will try to get minority shareholders to agree to a point independent professionals to the board but the chief executive of no nickel left little doubt as to which shareholder he was favoring as he referred to the twenty nine percent drop in russo prices at the beginning of the year the company led by that of pasco. so your search since the beginning of the nickel has been the only company to increase its share price twenty three percent of us have a negative dynam

to share control of the minor and said he would challenge the vote in court but at a meeting of no nichols board of directors in moscow its chairman claimed everything was done in accordance with the rules. we believe that the annual general meeting that took place in june was in strict compliance with russian law and we recommend that the makeup of the board remains as it is. and that's a quick look at how the acting markets are doing in asia stocks a mix the nikkei turns briefly positive after the dollar spiked high against the yen pulling speculation of intervention in the currency markets by japanese authorities but it's not one percent in the threat western expected u.s. jobless claims data pushed u.s. stocks lower overnight a fall in irish g.d.p. and a weak euro zone purchasing managers index are damaging investor confidence in european economic recovery. and here in moscow the r.t.s. has opened just slightly lower having finished flat on thursday the my sexual stock trading in just a few minutes it closed but you know in the previous session in line with trends on the global markets

. >> brad: he's got nichol, cunningham, martin and fowler as his wide receivers on second down and 18. you'd like to get a chunk back, they will. a flag down in the backfield. got it back across the original line of scrimmage. but here's the penalty. >> referee: holding, offense, 59. ten-yard penalty. replay first down. second down. >> brad: tenth penalty suffered by michigan state. and it's d.j. young, the left tackle. >> todd: another costly penalty. now it puts you in a really difficult position if you're michigan state. if you run the football here, notre dame's got three time-outs. they're going to use time-outs to save as much time to get the ball back. and the penalties now have pushed you back so that the field position situation is swinging towards notre dame significantly right now. >> brad: 60 seconds left in regulation. 28-28. michael floyd, kyle rudolph. >> referee: time-out, notre dame. >> brad: on the notre dame sideline, hoping to get the ball back before this one's over. notre dame takes its first time-out. don't forget, coming up next week in primetime on abc, number

this was once tropical storm nichole. flash flood warnings have been issued. that extends south of baltimore city around to the district of columbia and to southern maryland. we have a flood watch in effect. a tornado watch as well is in effect until 1:00 p.m. this afternoon. we have seen some tornadoes around calvert and st. mary's counties. we will have more on all these other things we need to watch out for an into early tomorrow in a little bit. back over to you, mindy. >> an experimental drug could offer a huge relief for knee pain, if it makes it to the market. the drug was effective in reducing pain and increasing mobility in a study group of more than 400 patients. those who took the drug had 60% less pain while walking. sufferers will have to wait longer as studies were halted because the small percentage of patients saw a disease progressed more quickly. 68 degrees and reigning on tv hill. will he or won't he? keith mills has the latest on ray rice's injury. >> this is a live look 695 and liberty road. up next, we'll update weather >> now traffic pul

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attorney general peter nichols is under investigation from the d.c. bar association.sociation is looking at whether he violated its rules about switching sides in a case. before taking a position in which he has to defend the cityings he was the lead attorney in a long-running lawsuit in the district. he said the complaints are politically motivated. now at 5:58ings we turn to battleground maryland. former republican governor bober lick's bid to get his job back. tv ads in the d.c. area say that martin o'malley's policies have moved maryland backward. >> frederick county is battling a bedbug problem inside a public library. it was temporarily closed after an employee spotted bedbugs in a book there late last week. library officials locked the materials inside a truck and plan to bring the temperature up to 130 degrees for 30 minutes and that will kill the bedbugs. >> time for weather and traffic every 10 minutes. adam is here with a nice day on top. >> tomorrow night the official beginning of fall. that's how we welcome fall in washington. i want to show you some cool

he was near basketball courts and atetic fields on nichol street street when he was shot at 8:00 last night. no word on whether police have a suspect. >>> weekend traffic alert. chain bridge will be closed all weend so crews can perform structural work under the bridge deck. there will be no access from d.c. or arlington. that includes pedestrianing and bicyclis because the sidewalk will also be closed. traffic on canal road will not be affected except or from heavy traffic. use american leej yon, key, osevelt, 14th and memorial bridges. it will open at 5:00 a.m. on monday, e 20th. the next closing will happen in a couple of weeks. >> we're keeping a a close watch on three hurricanes this morning. hurrica carl is strengthening and is now a category 3 storm. hurricane igor could reach bermuda by the weekend. it could bring dangerous rip currents to the delaware coast. >>> and nasa has released more video of storms this morning. you can see how large they appear from outer space. residents and tourists from already started preparing for igor's arrival. they're trying to board up windows

nichols saying he will not work for vincent gray. he says he will keep the transition to the next mayor's administration and step down at the end of the year. >>> federal officials got in the air for hundreds of people in northern virginia. they yelled, they booed, they hissed, as army officials explained the plan for more than 6,000 d.o.d. personnel. they were explaining shuttle bus. last night's crowd asked the pentagon officials to delay the plan. >> how many of you live in this area? i'm sure most of you don't. just try. we'll make a quick run from, say, the road and a few streets down. >> the new facility opening next year as part of a plan by the pentagon face realignment and closure. >>> today, president barack obama will name a well-known critic. the president's good friend. elizabeth warren expected to be named the new consumer protection czar. her goal, towall street to task over an agency that will be enforcing tough financial protection. the senate would normally have to confirm anyone with this kind of power. but since s

nichol was getting together just south of the western tip of cuba but has not dissipated between cuband south florida. all that moisture is continuing to move north, and we will see some rain here for the afternoon tomorrow, heavy at times. ons guy's finally clear out friday. saturday looks nice, but more cool, showery weather coming in for the second half of the weekend. rainfall possibilities, you see a lot of red and yellow here, anywhere from 2.5 to 5 inches of rain. it looks like the lower eastern shore could pick up the most rain. some severe storms thrown in tomorrow, high temperatures in the 70's, winds gusting to 30 knots on the bay. a wet thursday, clearing out, breezy on friday, some sun on saturday, and a few spotty showers and cool on sunday. scattered showers will linger into the middle of next week. >> the irs says it will not male income tax forms and instructions next year because so many people pile electronically. the irs estimates it can save about $10 million a year by eliminating paper forms. more than 96 million filed electronically -- and other 120 million file

. >> jimmy: unfortunately, you are married to the great director, mike nichols, not unfortunately forr him, but is he happy that you -- i mean really is he okay with you running around to all these different terrible places? >> you know, i think -- first of all, he loves to see me doing what i love, as we all do. we love to see somebody really happy and in the middle of their passion all the time. and i think he's enormously relieved i'm not getting up at 3:45 in the morning still. >> jimmy: oh, yeah, to do "good morning america." >> though, his entire contribution for 11 years -- do you realize i did it for 11 years. for 11 years was this, he would rouse when the alarm went off, just rouse barely and lift his head up and say "tell it like it is." that's right. 11 years straight. that was his entire motivational speech for me in the morning. as i'm groping around for my clothes. and everything else. >> jimmy: that's great. it's good advice i guess really. this character, this terry jones, that pastor, who has been threatening to burn the koran -- >> and the story keeps moving. you kno

now today the council took action on a $550,000 settlement orchestrated by attorney general peter nichols to go to bannicker. they voted to hold off on payment. they are baffled that there could be a settlement when there was not a court case filed. >> do we know what the money in the settlement was for and how long the investigation will take? >> reporter: well the money in the settlement is supposed to go to bannicker and his partner for close-out costs. there are about nine other subcontractors who still have to be paid. as far as how long the investigation will go, robert trout is the special investigator and he's doing this pro bono for the city council and expects his report to be filed by the end of the year. >> karen gray houston, thank you very much. >>> a defeat for gay right groups trying to repeal the military's don't ask, don't tell policy which bans gays from serving in the military. today republicans blocked consideration of a defense spending bill that would have lifted the ban. sherry ly is here with how it went down. >> reporter: democrats were counting on suzanne collin

he worked for the nichols group, a lobbying group paid more than $740,000 to lobby for aig and for exxonmobil and for pfizer. the reason that is particularly awkward for this political document is because republicans went out of their way with this thing to make this particular pledge seem like it was just the voice of the people. republican congressman mike pence said it would prove that the democratic majority wasn't listening but that republicans will. house republicans will listen and then we'll have an exxon lobbyist write it down. as part of that we're listening to you spin, the whole basis of the republican campaign pledge was their big america speaking out website, giving the impression to anybody visiting that website, whatever suggestion got the most thumbs up votes on the website would become part of this republican agenda. republicans were merely a vessel for the desires of the american people. but it turns out the desires of the american people as expressed at americaspeakingout.com were for legalizing pot and ending the outsourcing of american jobs to other countries. those are

. >>> classes have resumed at nichols middle school in killed himself with explosives in a nearby park. the decapitated body of colin delboro was found a few hours after residents herd an explosion tuesday morning. police say he was killed by a pipe bomb. a second pipe bomb was found near the body but police say they believe he acted alone. delboro's family said in a statement that he suffered from depression and committed suicide. >>> the company responsible for an oil leak in romeoville could re-open its pipeline this weekend now that repairs are done. a two inch hole in the pipe leaked more than 250,000 gallons last week. federal inspectors are investigating the cause but enbridge energy says a leaking water line half foot below the pipeline may be responsible. the epa says there is no sign that oil reached ground water. enbridge says it plans to pay the nearby valleyview school district at least $15,000 for bus service and other operations that were disrupted during the spill and clean up. >>> illinois' department of human services has approved more than $21 million in benefits to

impressive interview to keep his post and the first firing is probably going to be attorney general peter nichols, pap the most powerful figure in the fenty administration after the mayor himself. >> i think the attorney general took the position he represents the mayor and that's a different view than i have. >> reporter: a lot of people asking the question, why wait around until the general election. he's running unopposed and the democrat ends up being elected. the betting is that the city administrator and there will probably make a change there we're told. >> and this clearly highlighted the racial divide in the city. any word on how gray plans to mend fences. >> reporter: it's one of the first things he talked about today and we'll get into that at 6:00 and hear from people in his campaign who are reaching out to people who did not vote for vincent gray. >> thanks, bruce -- bruce johnson. >>> and that may have cost mayor fenty the election. fenty promised to work with gray on the general election and the transition. he declined to engage in much analysis about his own fall from sweeping eve

. >>> the remnants of tropical storm nichol drop two feet of rain on the carolinas.ade the charge. >> i'll take you out, buddy. >> karl paladino, unscripted and angry. he gets into a heated confrontation and says he's got a good reason. radio talk show host michael smerconish will join me. we'll show you what michael has to say. >>> plus, death ray? the hot vegas hotel that is hot for all the wrong reasons. >>> we start with the tracking of tropical storm nicole. flooding concerns stretched from north carolina to maine. almost two feet of rain fell on the carolinas just this morning. in virginia two people were rescued from a car that was struck in a flooded intersection. more than five inches of rain fallen in participants of virginia and washington, d.c. prompting flash flood watches and warnings. we have meteorologists and reporters all along the east coast. we begin with the weather channel's jeff morrow, who is in washington, d.c. a couple hours ago we couldn't see you. now it looks a

a man walking his dog discovered the headless body of colin delboro in a park near nichols middle school early yesterday morning. police say he was killed by a pipe bomb. cook county bomb squad techs detonated a second pipe bomb found near the body. dale breaux moved from evanston from madison, wisconsin. police and fbi removed computers from his apartment a few blocks from the scene. >>> chicago police are using blue light camera foot toj find the attackers who beat a whitney young student on his way home from school. 16-year-old thomas insley was jumped monday evening near the 1500 block of west june way terrace. thomas takes that way home because of the police camera perched over the neighborhood. his father says despite the camera, a group of teenagers beat and choked thomas until he was unconscious and then they robbed him. thomas suffered a broken nose and some loose teeth and he is now home from the hospital and recovering. >>> a new trier high school student who was almost killed in a hit-and-run accident is back in school and doing well. 16-year-old sarah goon needed two brain s

hans nichols. >> thank you, mr. president. [inaudible] -- i'll ask my real question. it's now been more than two months since the financial reg reform bill has passed. a centerpiece of that was what you talked about as a consumer financial protection bureau. and yet you haven't named a head. is elizabeth warren still a leading candidate? and if not, are you worried about some sort of senate hurdle for her confirmation? thank you. >> this is a great opportunity to talk to the american people about what i do think is going to be hugely helpful to middle- class families in the years and decades to come, and that is an agency that has been set up, an independent agency, whose sole job is to protect families in their financial transactions. so if you are getting a credit card, we are going to have an agency that makes sure that that credit card company can't jack up your rates without any reason -- including on old balances. and that could save american consumers tens of billions of dollars just in the first couple of years. if you are out there looking for a mortgage -- a

nichol woo is our point person on this so i would urge you to get in touch with her or me or anyone on our team if you have questions about social security. let me talk about the first three papers. i want to call your attention to the deaths in a letter which is on the looks of the impact of various proposals to change social security over the long term. it will give you a clear idea of how relevant a change in the national retirement is to the deficit situation. we have many other options. let me shift to talk about the three reports. the first is a report by a david rosnick that addresses the argument that we are living longer there for creating stress on the social security system and we should raise the retirement age. david has done an excellent job in showing that if you look over the last century, there has been a bit above a 20-year increase in life expectancy. that sounds like we are living longer, but it's important to look at the composition -- composition of that increase. more than half of that increase is from people living from age 0-1 0r age 0-5. a huge expectancy in c

caen's nichols. -- hans nichols. >> it has now been more than two months since the national regulatory reform bill was passed an essential piece was the consumer financial protection bureau, and yet you have not named a head. is elizabeth warren still a leading candidate and if not, are you worried about some sort of several for her confirmation? >> this is a great opportunity to talk to the american people about what we do think is going to be hugely helpful to middle- class families in the years and decades to come, and that is an agency that has been set up, an independent agency, whose sole job is to protect families in their financial transactions. so, if you are getting a credit card, we will have an agency that make sure that credit card company cannot jack up your rates without any reason, including on old balances. that could save american consumers tens of billions of dollars. just in the first couple of years. if you are out there looking for a mortgage -- and we all know that part of the problem in the financial crisis was that folks were peddling mortgages that were unstab

but peter nichols is defending lanier and saying they made a mistake and did not violate the whistleblower> the brother of a dog owner tried to stop thieves from stealing his car by spraying it with gunfire. when officers showed up they didn't know who the victim was and they ended up shooting the dog while trying to arrest the brother. >> she shot mercedes. the police officer shot mercedes and had both of my sons in handcuffs and had the neighbors on the ground and hi to ask to go to the bathroom in my own house. it's so sad. >> the department is investigating the shooting. they say the officer who shot the dog is a ten-year veteran and an army reservist. >>> former alaska senator ted stevens will be buried today at arlington. the 86-year-old one of five people killed last month in the plane crash in alaska. he was the longest serving republican in history. >>> coming up next, a closer look at the pay gap between men and women in america and what is being done to close it. >> and then later we are live at a do-it-yourself mechanics shop. you can give your car a tuneout without paying for

katie nicholl of britain's "mail on sunday" and author of "william and harry" first reported that more us why that is such an important year for britain's royal family. good morning. you said this, what, a year ago? >> yeah, you are absolutely right. >> why is 2012 so important? >> a really important year because it will be the queen's diamond jubilee. >> 60 years, of course, of course. >> absolutely. this is a really, really important and momentous occasion and, don't forget, we have the olympics. 2012 will be busy. when i was first tipped off it might be a 2012 wedding the first thing i thought, where is it going to happen? >> exactly. >> it is going to be busy. >> it's too busy. >> possibly. i'm not ruling out 2011, harry. i'm not committing to 2012. i think there's potential in the royal calendar for both. don't forget, royal weddings don't just happen, they're planned. >> therefore, me tick wowsly. maybe they could have the wedding as the opening ceremonies for the olympics. >> actually interesting you say that. the other story i reported the queen wants to keep her diamond jubile