escalante fue la producción para una película que protagonizó el actor olmos, y destacó por la enseñanzay lo seguiremos recordando con cariño. >>> y con las herramientas que le dio el maestro dijo que le enseñó a esmerarse. >>> nos daba la oportunidad de crecer. >>> el actor olmos le envió el pésame a los familiares y amigos. mientras que la familia del maestro hace los preparativos para el servicio funebre aquí en la escuela se crea una beca a nombre de jaime escalante. >>> gracias. y una redada desmanteló una red de trafico de drogas, al menos 15 empleados fueron detenidos. y también descubrieron una red de prostitución, oficiales encubiertos atraparon a tres hombres que ofrecían favores sexuales a través de internet. un macabro hicieron los empleados de una compañía donde se incendia cuerpos. >>> y dos empleados de la morgue en china fueron arrestados por no enterrar como debe ser varios niños. >>> y dos meses después de una sangrienta masacre, sus seres queridos llevaron a cabo una misa por las víctimas que perdieron la vida. >>> después de más de una decada secuestrado, pablo moncay

he became one of the most famous teachers in the country when he was played by edward james olmos in the movie "stand and deliver". jaime escalante was 79 years old. those are some of the day's main stories. i'll be back at the end of the program with a preview of what you'll find tonight on the newshour's web site. but for now, back to jim. >> lehrer: making pledges to haiti. judy woodruff has that story. >> woodruff: by any accounting, the needs of post-earthquake haiti are massive. today, the haitian government sought pledges of nearly $4 billion to get the rebuilding under way. the appeal came at a day-long conference at the united nations. u.n. secretary-general ban ki- moon and secretary of state hillary clinton urged representatives of more than 100 nations to help. >> by the end of this day, i am confident we will truly have helped haiti along the road to a better future. >> woodruff: secretary clinton said the u.s. pledge will amount to $1.1 billion over the next two years. >> this is not only a conference on what financially we pledge to haiti, we also have to pledge our be

edward james olmos, the star of the film, became a friend and actually drove escalante home to nevada to die. but escalante remained determined not to quit. >> i don't come with one idea. you come how many times you get up. >> jaime escalante was 79 years old. >>> well dave price is off this morning, so ira joe fisher is here with our first check of the weather. good morning. >> betty, good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing great. >> the weather is doing greater, and it will get great come the weekend here in the northeastern part of the country. the nor'easter is still with us. we'll talk about that in a moment. you can see that we have flood watches still in effect from new jersey on up to maine. some lingering showers. but the places that got as much as eight inches, nine inches, >>> and on a wednesday morning, that's your latest weather. now back over to maggie and jeff. >> all right, ira joe, thank you very much. still ahead for us, sandra bullock's husband has checked himself into sex rehab. are they splitting up and is she seeking custody of his daughter? >> also a casino batt

>> do you remember that inspirational movie "stand and deliver" starring edward james olmos.ng meeting when we talked about the death of the math teacher that almost played. >> jay mees cal ante died at his california home yesterday after a battle with cancer. he was 79 years old and escalante was surrounded by his family, but just the night before his actor friend had gone public about escalante's cancer and held a fund raise tore help his family pay medical costs. he turned the failed calculous program in east los angeles into one of the top schools in the nation. are back from spring break. campus looks a little bit different than it did when they left. fences over the school's beautiful, tragically beautiful gorges. security guards keeping watch. barriers, deterrents for would-be jumpers. at least six cornell students have killed themselves this year, another body still down in the gorge somewhere. yet students did it, no one can say for sure. cornell had a similar problem ten years ago. the new fences are tangible evidence that the school is trying to do something about

that while he was a candidate in the olmos year of 1912 he was giving a speech and somebody shot him.and he continued to give the speech for another 20 minutes. that bloody shirt, when i was visiting the park you mentioned, i saw it on display. i don't know if you saw it. did you see it? >> yes. >> there is teddy road-- roosevelts bloody shirt. modern politicians don't compare. it is just a scratch. don't worry about this. all that lets burning out. go ahead. >> i live in the area where the fire went through. we on 40 acres near lake pend oreille and the fire went true there. all that is left are cedar, just standing, dead, charred cedar or fallen down now but of course they are well preserved and a lot of them have survived. i guess my question is, in your research and talking with people, there will be another fire like this, because the forest service has always put out the fires and that forest is ripe for another one. has anyone been talking about that, and what action should be taken to stop it because a lot or people are they are then in 1910. >> that is a great question and th