officials said tonight the threat is considered current and active, and intelligence officials in europentact and that president obama has been fully briefed on the threat. cynthia? >> a most sobering report. our thank, brian. >>> when we come back, we take a sharp turn towards a si s a "si the times" that really packs a punch. a baby generating data in a neo-natal ward. every heart beat, every breath, every anomaly... from over a thousand pieces of unique information per second. helping doctors find new ways to detect life threatening infections up to 24 hours sooner. on a smarter planet... analyze the data and you can predict what will happen faster. so you can do what they're doing in toronto... and build a smarter hospital. let's build a smarter planet. words alone aren't enough. our job is to listen and find ways to help workers who lost their jobs to the spill. i'm iris cross. we'll keep restoring the jobs, tourist beaches, and businesses impacted by the spill. we've paid over $400 million in claims and set up a $20 billion independently-run claims fund. i was born in new orleans.

officials say the threat is considered current and active, that intelligence officials in europe andhe u.s. are in constant contact and that president obama has been fully briefed on the threat. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> and between that news and what they said in the hearings last week in front of congress, just incredibly sobering news for the world. really is scary. >> two hours i think in total for the eiffel tower. that's the world's most visited monument. >> wow. >> at this stage they haven't raised the threat level, but i think the reality we're hearing now, the word credible really makes people more and more on alert. >> we all should be paying attention. >> we certainly should. >>> coming up, a difficult situation for gloria estefan, and how she masterfully overcame >>> dropped my pen. >> it's all right. no one noticed. we're going to start off today, we give you the full "dancing with the stars" update. the latest one to get the boot no other than your favorite singer michael bolton. he's officially out of there. judges were pretty tough on him. they said some hars

officials say the company is paying for the clean up i would take weeks to finish. >> officials say when the investigation is complete, the atop t rc company could face fines or criminal charges. reporting live from petluma tonight. >>> the alameda coroner said a man found dead near a hotel died from a gunshot wound. police say a relative found the body of julius hues in bushes near gateway boulevard on monday. officers had been called to the nearby w hotel on sunday to break up a pool party marking the start of the nfl season. police heard gunshots but never saw a victim. >>> five days of digging at a pittsburgh landfill has failed to turn up clues in the disappearance of a 35-year-old fred sol list. they will turn and complete the search. he disappeared after a fight. police say that he killed his father, strangled his girlfriend and may have killed two others as well. and police shot and killed the suspect after a chase a week ago. >>> fremont police officers on an oakland courtroom in a show of solidarity for a wounded officer. that's where todd young shooter made an appears. >> no c

coast guard officials say the trawler was operating in japanese waters. they also say the fishing boat ignored a warning to stop and collided with the two patrol ships as it fled. the fishing boat eventually stopped outside japanese waters and coast guard officials boarded the trawler to question its crew. the officialsoncluded that the captain intentionally rammed his boat into e of the patrol ships to obstruct the inspection. chinese fishing boats are frequently seen in japan's exclusive economic zone near the islands, and the coast guard repeatedly calls on them to halt operations. the senkaku islands are also claimed by china and taiwan. >>> now responding to the ship collision, the japanese foreign ministry summoned a senior official of the chinese embassy to the foreign ministry on tuesday and launched a protest. calling the chinese trawlers' act vicious and regrettable the rin min stree requested that china step up its instructions on fishing boats operating near japanese waters. later in the evening prime minister naoto kan spoke to reporters. mea

school officials are considering changing school policies. allie rasmus has more. >> reporter: there are 1400 students at novato high school. you can see it's a fairly large open campus with no fence or gates enclosing it. an administrator said it would be difficult to keep all of the students here during the lunch hour. that's why one of the reason all students are allowed to leave campus for lunch. that could change soon because of the fatal crash on friday. students left notes, flowers and baseballs here for 16-year- old isaac. >> he played a lot of sports. everybody liked him. he never have any problems with anybody. it's hard to see him go so fast. >> he was like a brother to me. i met him in the 6th grade. it's crazy. >> reporter: isaac was killed friday afternoon in this car crash on novato boulevard. three other novato school students were injured. the teens had slipped class before lunch. investigators found liquor bottles at the site. some students told grief counselors today that they saw the teen driver drunk in class just hours b

you're a state official, this say college student. what are you doing? >> well, anderson, basically if you've been involved in political campaigns before, you know all sorts of stuff happens and this is just another tactic bringing awareness to what chris really stands for. >> this is not some national figure, this is a guy who's running a student council. >> well, anderson, as a private citizen and as a university of michigan alum, i care because this is my university, and i wasn't the only first person to criticize chris. in fact, long before i started the blog a couple of weeks before that, the alliance defense fund, a well-known legal christian foundation put out an alert about chris. so i'm not the only person that has criticized chris, and i'm not the first person to criticize chris. >> but you are the only person -- you are the only person running this blog which is putting nazi swastikas on this guy. you're a grown adult. does that seem appropriate to you? >> like i said, this is a political campaign. this is nothing personal against chris. i don

she says she was poisoned and she is blaming government officials appeared >> they should be responsible. >> why she said thousands of others are in danger. >>> live and in hd, this is abc 7 news at 11:00. on your side. >>> outrage from prince george's county family in this story you will only see on abc 7. family members say they called police this morning, but when officers are arrived, they were the ones that were treated like criminals into a shot and killed the family dog. this happened in landover. john gonzalez is live with more on the story. >> leon, police had a legitimate reason to go to the house with their guns drawn this morning, but during the arrest process, the family dog charged an officer and they had no choice but to shoot. tonight the dog odor and witnesses tell a different story. this it -- the dog odor and witnesses tell a different story. this is a rottweiler mix. >> shot in the head for no reason. >> the owner's brother pulled into the driveweay. ay. the brother fought them off, came back out firing his gun. >> if someone was going after your family, you would ret

the last we heard officially from the fire officials was this this fire was roughly 50% contained. but this morning, about 20, 30 minutes ago i talked to a fire official with the cal department of emergency services, and they tell us that they believe that number has increased. let me give you a lay of the land. we are on glenn view that cro cross street is san bruno. if you zoom in, will you see a white glow of smoke. that's where the fire is contained. this person i spoke to said they were under the impression that this fire should be close to 100% contained by dawn. right now everything in that area that is going to burn has burned, according to him. in other words, the homes caught in that zone are gone. the foundations is all that remain. what they have is smoldering debris. his concern is that if the winds were to pick up, you could see another flair-up of flames. that's one reason for concern. that's why there are so many firefighters out here. 53 homes destroyed, more than 100 damaged. one person confirmed dead. there's another report that more people have been killed, but

the program people in russia are being asked to wrap their brains and come up with the official mascot for the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics and paralympics in sochi the symbol will be chosen in a national competition that's about to get underway short of us as more. it's certainly an unprecedented event it's the first time in olympic history that such an event has been open to so many and what i mean by that is that the competition is open to any russian citizen living permanently within the country of russia and so anyone can join it's also going to be voted on in chosen by s.m.s. text voting by anyone in the country so it's the first time that the mascot will be designed by someone from just any random person in the country as well as chosen by the general public it's also significant in terms of the fact that this mosque this mascot will be the face of the olympics in two thousand and fourteen down in sochi so the race is on it to find that next person now also in terms of how many people can enter anyone can enter in terms if they are russian citizens and how many time

some officials say unless india acts quickly, the event could be in jeopardy. bbc news, delhi. >> next tuesday, there will be a conference, which is not news in itself, but this one is in north korea an extremely rare. the last time it happened, 30 years ago, kim jong-il succeeded his father. now with doubts about his health, there is speculation he is about to hand over to one of his sons. we have this from the south korean capital, seoul. >> this is the only photo of kim jong-un , taken two decades ago. almost nothing is known about him except that he comes from are ruthless and powerful bloodline. kim il-sung and his son, kim jong il, are the only two leaders of north korea has ever known. kim jong-il had a very long and public grooming for power, seen as the only possible successor for his godlike father. the leadership cold could easily pass at you another generation -- cult could easily pass to another generation. the talk is once again of succession, but this time it needs to be organized in more haste. and with the added problem, many suggest, that none

other officials will be there. we'll bring it to you live.

officials say a third member of the family is still officially considered missing. >> some east bay college students experienced extra stress on this first day bk at school after a gas main break. it happened in east bay in hayward when construction crews dug into a gas line. cecilia vega joins us live from the campus with what happened. cecilia? >> not much was affected at all by this gas leak. the rupture happened near these buildings behind me here. authorities just repaired the leak within the las 15 minutes or so so everything is definitely back to normal now. firefighters wer hereon the scene. pg&e crews were also out here working to repair this 2 inch gas line that runs through the southern edge of campus. this was reported before 8:00 this morning. authorities say it was likely ruptured by construction crewsw working on the new recreation and wellness center that's scheduled to open later this fall. now, he ruptured gas line is located near campus apartments. but there was no evacuation of any kind ordered. the wind blew gas it seems in the opposite direction of the dorm buildin mos

officials say there's no indication of any hostile fire. that, despite the taliban claim that they shot the helicopter down. meanwhile, another threat to the stability to the government of hamid karzai in afghanistan. mounting claims of fraud in this past weekend's parliamentary election almost on the scale of last year's tainted presidential election. so growing challenges here, both on the security front and on the political front, brian. >> thank you for all of it, john yang in kabul, afghanistan, for us tonight. >>> it has happened again, just south of the u.s. border in the fierce fight between the drug cartels and the mexican government. another journalist has been killed sending a chilling message about how journalist cover the dangerous and violent war on drugs. nbc's mark potter has been reporting exclusively on the war next door to the u.s. he has more tonight on this latest round and a deadly campaign of intimidation. >> reporter: at a dusty funeral over the weekend in juarez, mexico, local journalist mourn the loss of one of the

the officials say you can put contraband in here. that's another reason that don't want so many bars of soap around. and they even trade apparently when new inmates come in they don't have any soap, they can get, i don't know, other things for this. but again, officials say the hunger strike won't affect their decision to limit inmates to one bar of soap. >> one bar a we have been. thank you, mike sugerman. >>> muni riders, we have learned that some bus drivers and train operators are planning a sickout that could screw things up for a transit system that can be a pain on a good day. phil matier has the evidence in hand. phil. >> reporter: that's right, allen. we are talking about flyers that have begun popping up at muni yards like this one here at fisherman's wharf and they have muni officials downtown worried. >> if it does happen, we'll be ready. >> reporter: that was muni spokesman paul rose reacting to anonymous flyers calling for a four-day sickout of muni drivers begin september 14. >> i heard about it, yeah. it's a lot of un

kalinin was among other high ranking officials indorsing the execution of the poles. the building standing opposite the monument to callen in. the n.k.v.d. regional headquarters this is where the lives of the polish prisoners were cut short. more than fifty years later dimitri took around the local n.k.v.d. was interrogated by investigators from the military prosecutor general's office. afterwards showed me the darker of archive documents proving his guilt realized that it was in vain to deny anything and gave a detailed true testimony. my men didn't shoot more than three hundred people a day only once did they shoot as many that had to be done under the cover of darkness because the nights were now too short. so they brought two hundred fifty people at a time and we shot them during the night. those about to be shot were taken to the basement one by one supposedly to have their papers checked but once there they were stripped of their personal belongings and valuables then did it occur to the prisoners that they were never going to leave that place alive. one questio

officials relaxed talkative dasha a country house was nearby. it's a very place by the riverside and cadets socials spent a lot of time relaxing there the wives and children of minor officials lived here and large ditches only thirty metres. thousands. down to the minute detail but in the. had to do their job as they could the bodies. were tossed into large ditches and covered with earth. used to be the n.k.v.d. in the region was examined in the summer of one thousand nine hundred one the first horrific finds were uncovered a few days later the investigators job was made to the fact that there is compact clay soil in the region which doesn't allow it to filter through. the bodies in that mass graves showed no signs of decomposition there was an easily identifiable polish military uniform. in the uniform of polish police their bodies were almost intact and this is listed fossilized remains. seventy three sixty five bring to downplays. polish forensic scientists joined counterparts in identifying the bodies many of the personal items and papers th

but nato officials aren't yet ready to accept responsibility. pakistan wasted no time respding to the death of these three soldiers, killed at a border post in pakistan's tribal region by apache attack helicopter the choppers were supporting ground forces in afghanistan, who thought they spotted insurgents firing mortars. nato officials say the apaches took small arms fire from inside pakistan. >> operating in self-defense, the aircraft entered into pakistani air space, killing several armed individuals. >> reporter: within hours, pakistan blocked u.s. and coalition supply trucks heading into afghanistan. late today, more than 150 trucks were backed up in the khyber pass. the border crossing is on a vital supply line. it handles about 80% of the military's fuel, food, water, and other non-lethal supplies bound for bases in afghanistan. anti-american sentiment is strong in pakistan. as cross border attacks are at an all-time high. today, the pakistani prime minister pressed the issue with the visiting cia director leon panetta. another official w

still have an opportunity to win olympic gold the chance to design the official mascots for the two thousand and fourteen winter games in sochi is being a thrown open across the country in a contest that's just got underway sean thomas is outside the games media center in moscow. it's the first time in olympic history that this competition has been open to the public really and it's also open to so many in fact any russian living in russia is eligible for this competition and it's also the first time that such a competition will be chosen by the public as well in fact be eligible participants can choose their designs s.m.s. text message and the winner will be announced in february just three years to the date that the olympics in sochi kick off now there have been some one official mascots that have already started to gain some popularity in fact the city of sochi back in march announced a design of a dolphin on skis and that's what that's one fan favorite also a national hero of the much beloved. who is also already the official mascot of with the russian national team is also a possibility

officials relaxed talkative as dasha a country house was nearby. it's a very place by the riverside and president socialist spent a lot of time relaxing here the wives and children of minor officials who live here and large ditches only thirty meters from the houses were filled with thousands of bodies. the technology of covering up traces of mouth executions was worked through down to the minute detail but in the polish case and covered them then had to do their job as fast as they could the bodies of polish prisoners were tossed into large ditches and covered with earth and. the land surrounding what used to be the n.k.v.d. dutch as in the fed region was examined in the summer of one nine hundred ninety one the first horrific finds were uncovered a few days later the investigators job was made easy a jew to the fact that there is compact clay soil in the very which. doesn't allow air to filter through. the bodies in that mass graves showed almost no signs of decomposition there was an easily identifiable polish military uniform on some of them ot

will take a break and come local officials together for that. will take a break and come right back. but what really happened? cnn -- not me -- cnn says his assertion about his tax record was "just plain wrong." jerry brown went out there and took credit for the fact that the people of california voted for proposition 13, which lowered taxes, which he opposed. and now he's going around taking credit for it. he raised taxes as governor of california. he had a surplus when he took office and a deficit when he left. he doesn't tell the people the truth. the guys who drive a heavy duty truck, have some heavy duty demands. like enough horsepower and torque to get out of just about any situation. a payload that beats the other guys flat out. a frame sturdy enough to bear up a max towing capacity that's over 10 tons. and a braking system tough enough to bring it all to a stop. heavy duty demands? gentlemen, your truck is ready. continuing coverage from december know the fire and explosion we're waiting for news conference at the left side of your scree

. >> it is official. today, the national bureau of economic research says the longest recession since world war ii lasted 18 months. the news comes as president obama defense his economic plan in washington right now. the president does in campaign mode drumming up votes for the november election, six weeks away. washington, is in d.c., with more. >> a black-tie dinner. president obama continues to spend -- spread his economic mission. >> we have a plan to rescue our economy and rebuild the on a new foundation. >> the campaigner-in-chief is on the road talking directly to americans today through a televised town hall-style meeting on jobs and the economy. >> at the president needs to go right after the single issue that is up for rust in the minds of the american people which is employment. >> the gop is pushing back open to regain power in capitol hill on november accusing democrats of spending too much. >> their job-killing policies have left wall businesses tied up in the insurgency and our economy bog

officials are saying this is an epidemic. they're hopingf they get all the folks together in one room they can come up with laws and also some other things that can helpo deal with this issue, including better technology for drivers. alexandria, tracee wilkins. back to you all in the studio. >> thanks very much. >>> the charm card debuts today. it may be cheaper for commuters on metro. it can be used on mta, bus, subway and light rail system. but the card will also be accepted on metro and regional bus systems, including ride on and the fairfax connector. in turn smart trip cards will be accepted wherever charm cards are accepted. but the charm card will only cost $2.50, half the price. they can be purchased online or cvs and giant stores for $10, with $7.50 preloaded on the card. >>> this morning the commute is looking easier for riders of the bus in prince george's county. operators of the bus say most are back in service. about 100 drivers went on strike last week looking forbetter health insurance, lunch breaks and better

officials are looking at that. my understanding is that right now the evidence really primarily points to europe. but they are very concerned and people i was speaking with as recently as yesterday and this morning say that u.s. counterterrorism officials are still trying to run down any lead that might go into the united states because they're very aware that they have incomplete information about this particular plot at this point. >> suarez: as you heard in the taped report from itn, they identified a german-born suspect who's being held somewhere in the region as a primary source. are there others? are there other sources for existence of these plots? >> there are. ani was actually cautioned that this german detainee isn't necessarily the main source of it all but he's one of many sources and i mean there have been communications, intercepts and all of the other kinds of traditional intelligence that you'd gather when trying to sort through a plot that have gone into the development of their understanding so fa

i know northeast isn't officially on the eastern shore, they're kind of there. tucked in the north corner of the chesapeake. five sweeps of maryland's most powerful doppler radar. we're aiming for increasing clouds in our two-degree guaranteed high in the lower 70s, the official forecast from the storm enter here is 73. i'm going for the lower limit of that at 71 and then showers arriving by mid-afternoon through this evening, spreading from south to north. let's see what's happening on the roads right now, here's kim brown. >> traffic-wise, we're off to a smooth start this morning, we don't have reports of accidents and hardly any delays out there on the roadways this morning, as we look at our drive times. you'll see moderate volume, six minutes from 70 to 95. four-minute ride between white marsh boulevard and the beltway. six minutes from the split towards 295. only one thing working in brooklyn park. utility incident blocks the right lane and shoulder on the southbound side of richie highway. at 4th avenue. traffic is able to get by smoothly to the left. lin

the pentagon's top officials are right in the middle of it all. joint chiefs admiral mike mullen is said to believe his deputy went behind his back on some matters. and defense secretary robert gates reportedly fumed about possible moves among mr. obama's national security staff, which he calls a disaster. the current commander in afghanistan, general david petraeus is quoted as telling an aide he doesn't like talking to the president's senior adviser david axelrod. petraeus, in the book, dismisses axelrod as, quote, a complete spin doctor. and it talks about a cia 3,000-man covert army operating in afghanistan. and it says it has intelligence that afghan president, hamid karzai, suffers from manic depression. it also says that president obama also takes politics into account, as he sets that withdrawal deadline for next july. he says in the book, a deadline is needed because, quote, he can't lose the whole democratic party. this is all based on "new york times" reporting on that advanced copy of the book. all this, just breaking this morning. so

there was no bomb, but french officials have issued a high alert for a group of terrorists said to be targeting a number of countries including the usa. and for it part, the u.s. has ramped up missile strikes over militant training grounds in pakistan. we have two reports on all of this tonight from our senior team, beginning right here with chief investigative correspondent brian ross. brian? >> reporter: diane, what's behind all this is what a senior u.s. and european officials tell us is a credible threat of a major coordinated series of attacks in britain, france and possibly the u.s. the official said no specific time or place was known, but that the plan -- involving commando like attacks against economic targets in europe -- had been detected after the capture this summer of a radicalized german muslim who reportedly had been training with teams of others in pakistan for the attacks. now a worldwide manhunt is underway. among those being sought are a group of other radicalized germans who have been training at terror camps in pakistan, producing videos in german to gain more re

told me they me with 47 elected official to that point.ut abc7news.com learned that the number one pipeline on the list in cordelia, well, the fire chief there was caught by surprise he didn't know it was going to be there. san carlos officials say the pipeline in their city is just one of infrastructure concerns they have. they're also concerned abo earthquake dage, losing communications andther possible disasters. we're live in san carlos. >> san jose police say speed likely contribute to an early morni car accident that killed a teenager and injured another teen it happened just after 3 a.m at almadennish and o'grady drive. the drer had a white ford explorer, hit a light pole an ended up on the side of the road starting a fire which was put out quickly. an 18-year-old male passenger was killed. theriver was taken to the hospital with non-li-threatening injuries. police are oking to see if alcohol was involved. >> twitter says it's once again safe for people to access its website after a massive attack this morning, hackers diverting use

but officials have backtracked. it took ten hours for soldiers and relief workers to get to the area because mud and rocks blocked the way. heavy rains have caused flooding in mexico and south america. >>> jimmy carter resumes his big book tour today after something of a health care. the 85-year-old carter was taken to a cleveland hospital yesterday, after suffering upset stomach on a flight from atlanta. he's doing fine now. but he spent the night in the hospital for observation. >>> the death toll from the california pipeline explosion has now climbed to eight. 58-year-old james franco died at a san francisco hospital yesterday. franco was in a home about 200 feet from the site of that deadly explosion. >>> in nashville, it was home, sweet, home for the grand ole opry. music returned to the famed opry house for the first time since it was ravaged by historic flooding in may. and the all-star lineup included brad paisley, keith urban and martina mcbride. it took $20 million of renovations to bring the opry back to

officials from the marine mammal center told me several things. right now it seems to be a dinkie whale. and that it could have been dead before it got stuck on the ship or as the ship struck it. people at the port were sad to see it. >> it's sad, we love the environment. i hate to see it. >> i don't think that's a common experience. >> reporter: you have not seen this before? >> in my occurrence i have not seen this before. >> reporter: the last time this happened in the bay area was in 2008. sometime tonight or tomorrow the whale caucus will be towed out to see where it be become part of the food chain. there are already reports that sharks have started feeding on those remains. john sasaki. >>> california's budget is now 78 days late. tieing the record for the longest budget impact in state history. the only other time the legislature failed to pass a spending plan for this amount of time was two years ago. today legislative leaders are meeting with the governor right now and there are no expectations of any breakthroughs. democrats say they ha

fairchild, 97 and livermore at 99 and san josi with official high of 91 degrees. see the temperatures warming up as we head into your afternoon hours. 70s, 80s and 90s for your monday afternoon and look oat this, talking about triple- digit heats and coming up the neighborhoods that will easily top the century mark. >> a involvement firefighter injured yesterday while battling a grass fire near bodega bay is reportedly improving. fire officials say the firefighter remained hospitalized in san francisco, but is doing much better. was injured when he came in contact with a down powerline. the fire also shut down a portion of highway 1 between estero lane and valley ford freestone road. the chp re-opened that highway just before 7:00 this evening. >>> this are new questions tonight whether the first scheduled execution at san quentin prison in almost five years will be carried out? 56-year-old convicted murderer and rapist albert greenwood brown appeal to the nine circuit court of a pales for a stay. is he set to be executed 12:01 wednesday. maureen naylor at san que

officials say a third member of the family is still officially considered missing. >> some east bay college students experienced extra stress on this first day back at school after a gas main break. it happened in east bay in hayward when construction crews dug into a gas line. cecilia vega joins us live from the with what happened. cecilia? >> not much was affected at all by this gas leak. the rupture happened near these buildings behind me here. authorities just repaired the leak within the last 15 minutes or so so everything is definitely back to normal now. firefighters were here on the scene. pg&e crews were also out here working to repair this 2 inch gas line that runs through the southern edge of campus. this was reported before 8:00 this morning. authorities say it was likely ruptured by construction crews working on the new recreation and wellness center that's scheduled to open later this fall. now, the ruptured gas line is located near campus apartments. but there was no evacuation of any kind ordered. the wind blew gas it seems in the opposite direction of the dorm building. mos

well, tonight officials here at home have backed off of that. they now say it looks like nothing more than a series of odd coincidences. our report from our justice correspondent pete williams. >> reporter: amateur video shows police arresting two men in amsterdam, arriving from chicago. dutch security officials stung by missing the would-be christmas day bomber when he passed through amsterdam were taking no chances this time. >> the men are held on suspicion of a criminal terrorist attack. >> reporter: u.s. officials say it all began sunday at the birmingham, alabama, airport with a legal permanent resident, al soofi on his way to visit relatives in yemen. in the checked bags, screeners found cell phones and watches taped together and a phone taped to a bottle of pepto-bismol. it looked suspicious, but no explosives were found and he was cleared for travel. he booked flights from birmingham to chicago then to washington-dulles and on to amsterdam. but when he got to chicago, investigators say, he missed the dulles flight, so the airline put hi

as we know, there has been no official announcement.weren't expecting an official announcement, but peace now is with those countries saying the settlements must stop. >> unfortunately, along the years, especially in the last decades, the number of settlers has doubled. and we see today that there are over 300,000 settlers living around the west bank. >> reporter: settlers here are celebrating what they say as a green light to keep building settlements across the west bank. it's really not certain when it comes to the israeli government whether or not they will have those permits approved. paula hancocks, cnn, in the settlement in the west bank. >>> palestinian leader mahmoud abbas says peace talks will be a, quote, waste of time, unquote, if settlement construction resumes. there was talk of a possible compromise earlier in the week. so joining me now is cnn senior state department producer elise labot in our new york bureau. elise, what are you hearing right now as to what really is happening? >> well, fredericka, there are a lot of i

the current and former officials are set to be arraigned next month. of the biggest names in music took to the stage in illinois for the very first farm aid concert. bob dylan usually gets credit for the idea because of a remark he made on stage earlier on stage that year. willie nelson, neil young and john mellen camp who got the ball rolling. the plan raised money for the millions of farmers in america struggling to make ends meet. some politicians expressed interest. on the day of the concert 80,000 fans showed up at the university of illinois' memorial stadium on the bill everybody from the beach boys to johnny cash to lou read. musicians bet the farm on it 25 years ago today. and now you know the news for this wednesday, september 22nd, 2010. i'm shepard smith. thanks for having us into your place tonight. we're all back tomorrow, noon pacific time, 3:00 eastern time for "studio b." back

health officials will answer questions and concerns about bedbugs.th officials are mapping out a strategy today in the battle against is bedbugs. >>> people in harford county will soon from a new place to shop. the new kohl's opens today in forest hills. you're looking at a live picture in the front of the store. there are dozens of people outside rating to be the first to take advantage of all those good deals when the store officially opens its door. which will happen in about nine minutes. the store is bringing 150 jobs to the area, it's the 21st kohl's store in the state of maryland. the new store is located at 50 osborne parkway. >>> more than 400 inns are letting active and retired members of the military stay for free, on november 10th, the night before veteran's day. you can log onto our website, we have a whole list for you, go to abc2news.com. click on the national news section on our homepage. . >>> much better tampa, instead of 12,000, you got 17,000 last night. saw the rays clinch a playoff spot. rays pitcher david price shutting out the

florida officials take no chances with a toy pony bomb florida officials take no chances with a toy pony bomb scare. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> hello and good morning. welcome to viewers across the nation including the pacific time zone. i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with getting personal. president obama will dig deep during his speech in cleveland today where according to administration officials he'll draw on his own personal background to convince voters that he knows what it's like to struggle through tough times. nbc's tracie potts joins us from washington with more on how the president plans to rescue the economy. tracie, good morning. >> lynn, good morning. today the president will deliver that speech in a state where one of his harshest critics is from, republican leader john boehner, and from a region that's been hit hard by unemployment. the president's expected to urge congress to let the bush tax cuts expire for the wealthy, individuals earning over $200,000 and couples over the $250,000. plus, he wants to spend $50 billion on transportation proje

explosion and fire we've been waiting word on an update to news conference on the state and local officials who been looking into this. we just got word moments ago that the news conference is going to begin at 6:00 now. we have word from whenever reporters on the scene he told us moments ago that they were waiting for some of the officials to ride to that location of the command center. we will bring you that news conference when it does begin at 6:00. right now the chicken with kron 4 christine conley was in the fires on area. >> were rate above plymouth and clement st.. are going to pan over here so you can get a good idea of what looks like in this neighborhood. you can see just cars sitting there on the street, no one walking around on the street to. this is a few blocks away from the fire zone but still this neighborhood has been evacuated and once allowed been carried i do see a police officer walking down the street. acacia they brought a couple residence in for a short second to get medication for going to pan and ensure you from our vantage 0.1 of the homes that was destroyed in t

military officials killed in that crash. looney graduated from the naval academy back in 2004 where he played lacrosse. he also played football and baseball in hyattsville before graduating in 1999. officials have not disclosed the helicopter's mission. the cause of the crash is still unclear as well. >>> even as president obama was sending thousands of troop to afghanistan, he was determin to find a way out. that's just one of the disclosures in the new book out about the white house written by one of the nation's most prominent investigative journalists. stev handelsman has our report. >> reporter: an exit strategy. that was president obama's demands according to bob woodward's new book about afghanistan. it was last year the afghan war going poorly, the president rushed in 20,000 troops. then set out to change strategies. setting off a battle inside his administration. joint chiefs chairman mike mullen and gneral david petraeus wanted 40,000 more forces. vice president biden opposed any increase. the obama compromise was

the suspected serial stabber is officially an accused murderer. yesterday there was one new murder charge and four charges of attempted murder against the 33-year-old. he is accused of 14 attacks, five deadly. stretching from michigan to leesburg, virginia. >> new efforts to put the brakes on distracted driving. thousands of deaths each year are blamed on distracted drivers. a supplement gets underway this morning. >> we see it happen all the time. people using their cell phones while driving. many focus on something besides the road and today a number of officials will gather today, as you mentioned, to try and put the brakes on it. new numbers show last year distracted driving killed almost 5500 people and injured nearly half a million people as well. we know a number of people will be here in the district today to try and prevent distracted driving, including a local mother who lost her 23-year-old son to a distracted driver. she will join forces with transportation secretary ray lahood later toot as they hold this later today as they hold this

thank you. >> reporter: official officials urging people to make cash donations to the red cross or to the city in the name of san bruno fire recovery. we spoke to a red cross official here at the rec center who said they have seen tens of thousands of dollars worth of checks for that recovery fund coming in just to this location. reporting live in san bruno. channel 2news. >> school district leaders say all schools scheduled to be open on monday. last night the district closed most of the schools in the park district. the high school was open and did have grief counselors. monday all district schools are set to reopen. >>> humane society workers have been searching for lost animals. they have found 15 to 20 and have them in san mateo. if you lost a pet contact the penninsula humane society in san mateo on airport boulevard and in san bruno on city parkway. >> we want to go back now overhead above the disaster. news chopper two. there is not a lot i can add to them because they speak for themselves. hopefully though -- if someone who may have lost their house or is wondering if their h

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i'm very humbled. >> officials say a $500,000 bail was paid.ome papers were signed and the 32-year-old was officially free from an iranian prison. >> the money was there and the judge issued the release order and ms. shourd was simply set free and can leave iran if she wants to. >> travel companion shane bauer and josh fattal are still in prison. all the families are relieved and overjoyed sarah has been released. we're heartbroken shane and josh have been denied their freedom for no just cause. they were captured in july 2009 after crossing the border in northern iraq and iran. iran accused them of spying and illegally entering the country. fair families insist they were just hiking and crossed the border accident thereby. her mother says shourd has a precancerous condition. no word when she will be back on american soil but soon. >> the white house released a statement. while she has been released the two remain prisoners. we main hopeful iran will demonstrate the new compassion by insuring shane, josh and all other detained americans in iran

officials say the threat is considered current and active, and intelligence officials in europe and theare in constant contact and that president obama has been fully briefed on the threat. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> classes resume today at the university of texas in austin after gunfire erupted on a sprawling campus. police had the school locked down when a student wearing a ski mask opened fire with an assault rifle. the shooter was identified as 19-year-old colten toolly. after opening fire he headed into a library where he turned the gun on himself. no other students were injured. >>> a sky west airlines commuter jet was forced to make an emergency landing at milwaukee's airport after the landing gear got stuck. the incident was captured on a passenger's cell phone. 39 people were on board. luckily, no one was injured. last weekend a commuter jet made by the same company also made an emergency landing here in new york after experiencing a similar problem. >>> the head of california natural gas utility is proposing new restrictions on pipelines. that is after a pipeline expl

officially declared that the soviet government was to blame. he offered his condolences and gave me a folder of documents containing a lists executed polish officers and asked them to the next day i went to cotton. and paid tribute to the memory of those who were killed. now it was necessary to find the secret graves of the prisoners. the trail led investigators to the town of a stash golf where one of the concentration camps used to be. there was still a few surviving witnesses to help the team and it was proved once again that in april nine hundred forty the poles were taken away by railroad. and nobody saw them alive again what is care. is were brought here to this railway junction. there were put into boxcars. and taken away in this direction my trains. much later we found out. that they had been taken to the city one of. the train journey took twenty four hours in one hundred forty the communist official michelle conlin was among other high ranking officials indorsing the execution of the poles . the building standing opposite the monument