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. >> off camera, some of the other officers told nbc bay area, it's only a small fraction of offi r officers who want moore out. >>> joy and heartache tonight on the mat in london. gabby douglas gets the gold. aly raisman is dealing with a narrow defeat. >> it's just about 8:10 in the morning there, how is it going? >> it's going well. happy friday morning to you. you talk about the joy and the pain, that's what makes the olympics so captivating. in terms of gabby douglas, at 14 years old, just a couple years ago, she left her home, left her family in virginia, and moved to iowa to train at a better gymnastics facility. the commitment these girls have are amazing here. just a couple days ago, we spent time with the entire team usa gymnastics. they're growing up right in front of our faces, really. gabby thrilled with the team gold medal she won. and now gold medal number two. bottom line, she was flawless in her performance. her individual performance and really if you saw it right here on our coverage, there was no debate. her parents, coaches, teammates and everyone around the world lookin

s offense tol offis they only went after him on the gun charge because the office of protective services never referred taser assaults for criminal prosecution. now, the d.a. office has received additional information and they will begin reviewing the taser case. vic lee, abc 7 news. >>> a lot more to get to on this wednesday night. coming up, millions spent and little to show for it. the latest black eye for the oakland police department. >>> also, they came in it guns blazing to rip off this store and then they couldn't get out of there fast enough. what had the robbers running for their lives. >>> i'm spencer christian in the accuweather forecast center. one more hot day inlanded before the weekend arrives. i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up. >>> and hanging by a thread. a california hiker clinging [ female announcer ] safeway presents real big deals of the week. or how to keep from driving all over for the best deals. you don't need to run around. safeway gives you real big club card deals each week. this week get whole seedless watermelons fresh off the farm for only $2.98

on the roads right now, we are offy to aquiet start. no problems to report on this early monday morning as you travel southbound along 270 coming in out of germantown. i'm wearing my school clothes right now. you will find that the the ones, not necessarily watching out for you at the bus stop. speed zones around the school zones if you will and the yellow buses. traveling along 66, no problems to report from 7100 in fair oaks all the way in towards the capital beltway. lanes are open on the beltway traveling between annandale and merrifield. that's a check of your fox 5 on-timetraffic. imetraff . >> thank you. >>> the big story this morning, the first day of class for many students across our region. >> there are some changes in the new school year as sometimes there are with a new school year. melanie alnwick is live as walter johnson high school in bethesda. >> reporter: good morning. we expect to be hearing more about those changes in the montgomery county school system and even into the curriculum a little later this morning when w

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the big stuff, the big show offy stuff, the whole point of the event, the people for whom the reallyd talent is being saved -- it's the zillionaires. it's really the money that is the star of the show, elvira. joining us now is nbc news national investigative correspondent michael isikoff. i know you're not pursuing this line of inquiry because you want to sneak in to see the oakridge b boys, but i have to ask if most of the evejs you're reporting on, whether moist of them amost are open to the press or are going to be closed doors. >> funny you should ask because most of them are closed doors. i learned about many of these by getting the schedules from gop fund-raisers and consultants getting the invitations, but one of the most prominent ones which you mentioned, the salute to david koch, oddly enough, is a public one. and i actually went on the americans for prosperity website today, registered for the event. it appears i can bring a guest, so i know you have some anchoring responsibilities, but if you would like to salute david koch, you're more than welcome to join me. >> well,

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>> i'm not so sure because i think there's an elegance to that sense of privacy, not being so show offyfor people and to have it revealed like this, i will tell you i was moved. at first when those people came on stage, i thought what's going on here. is this going to be -- and then i just stopped and shut up and i listened and i was very moved by their stories. >> and don't forget -- >> what more don't we know. >> those people, i think, are going to show up on television screens from labor day to election day. if you remember 2004, the most effective ad of that campaign, was ashley's story, about a girl who lost a relative in 9/11 and the president comforted her, just think, everything on his mind, that was a very powerful ad. i think those testimonies last night, which had to move everybody. how could you not, whatever your politics. i don't think you've heard the last of them. wasn't necessarily put them out now. >> the other thing i think is you're correct on that, we know from the campaign, that what they were doing was trying to get through the summer when they were getting hammer

acting director of the congressional budget office, as the senior career official at the white house offi of finance and budget. please welcome barry anderson. [applause] >> thank you very much. i have had the opportunity to speak at a variety of different conferences befo. i just wanted to mention my good friend paul. i am looking up to see who will next speak so i can defer all the really tough questions to him or her. i look forward to your questions after this. this is a good time to be talking. i will be talking about the fiscal cliff. i did this speech a while ago, about a month or so ago, and that had a different view. i had a view at that time that we did not want to be in that blue '58 thunderbird. now i think our leaders are trying to get a seat in the car. i will explain that to you in a minute. in the past month, things have changed here. i want to get to that. the way i look at our current budget situation, we seem to be following movie titles quite a bit. we have "the perfect storm." the fiscal cliff. what i fear is that we are going into the year of living dangerously. perh