before it departed for phoenix. now although we have been told there was a threat, authorities checked out three planes. but, again, southwest is now saying that the threats were not credible. the last flight held at phoenix could not take off because of noise restrictions. the southwest plane was taken to an isolation pad away from theterminal. passengers were taken off the plane and screened individually. the fbi's joint terrorism task force is leading this investigation. they are work local law enforcement. authorities search the plane with bomb sniffing dogs and other tools. we are working on getting new video and new reaction from passengers that just landed on the tulsa flight this morning. and you can log onto our website at abc2news.com for more information. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> today a meet will go held to discuss the future of truck company 10 in baltimore, the company first on the scene rescuing three kids from a burning apartment building during the weekend. you will recall we told you about t

i'm very excited. >> reporter: bringing phoenix one step closer to economic recovery.barry pederson, cbs news, phoenix. >> pelley: there's no higher honor that the united states can give a civilian than the presidential medal of freedom. president obama awarded it today to a very distinguished and diverse group including former astronaut john glenn, former supreme court justice john paul steven, basketball coach pat summit, rock legend bob dylan, author tony morrison and madeleine albright, a czechoslovakian refugee who fled the nazis and the soviets and became america's first female secretary of state. earthquake and tsunami debris from japan is washing up in america. from japan is washing up in america. what's being done about that? next. the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we kno

cities shows that prices are rising in more than half of them including seattle, phoenix, dallas andtampa. overall prices are back where they were in late 2002 but still 35% below the highs they reached in 2006. barry pederson tells us that the housing recovery in phoenix is happening with the help of an industry that was blamed for the meltdown. >> thank you very much, i appreciate it. reporter: julian dewulf arrived at the convention center in downtown phoenix with one thing on her mind: buying her first home. >> i have a son. i want him to have somewhere to grow up. >> reporter: dewulf is a 25- year-old single mother who works in tech support for a local business. she joined over a thousand other low-and moderate-income families hoping for on the spot pre- approval for a mortgage. there was also $15,000 dollars for a down-payment. >> this is my first home. >> reporter: the down-payments are financed by an $8 million donation from wells fargo bank. good public relations for a company that agreed to a $5.3 billion settlement in february for improperly foreclosing on homes in arizona

unfortunate bounce and phoenix ties the game at three. stays that way through regulation and in overtime, jeff carter takes a shot, the rebound bounces to dustin penner, who nets the game winner. the l.a. kings beat the coyotes 4-3 in o.t. win the series to advance to their first stanley cup finals. >>> to miami for a physical game five between the heat and pacers. tyler hanseborough fouls dwyane wade hard. stays down for a moment, but he's fine. hansborrow given a flagrant foul. haslem returns the favor less than a minute later, hanseborough given a flagrant. i'm getting a sense these two teams don't like each other. heat up nine at the half and run away with it in the third. lebron james beautiful pass, streaking wade, miami up 16. then it's flashed with the hail mary to james, miami takes control of the series with a 115-83 win. they can advance to the finals with the win tomorrow. >>> baseball, carlos pena not only hit a home run against the blue jays, he hit it halfway to orlando. 452 feet to be exact. chicks did the long ball, i don

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funny, my dad lives in phoenix and always calls me and rubs it in when the weather is so gorgeous and nice, haven't heard from him lately. >> radio silence. i would imagine that makes sense. send our condolences. thanks. >>> apple regains, facebook falls face first, and the woman who claims she was fired for being too hot. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. bill has that problem all the time. speaking of hot, who finished first on this year's maximmagazine hot 100 list. >>> coming up, the devils get even, the thunder roll in the western conference finals and lightning strikes twice for one lucky fan. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry and here are some of your top headlines. a suicide bombing in yemen killed almost 100 people yesterday, most of them soldiers. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has claimed responsibility. >>> roman catholic schools, clutches and other institutions are suing the obama administration over a health care mandate that most employers provide birth control coverage. the suit cha

what has phoenix jones done that you find so deplorable?e protects seattle. >> he doesn't protect seattle. the police protect seattle. or at least now they're just getting a little lazy, perhaps, don't you think? if they're trusting jones with all of this celebrity and all this tomfoolery when all of his silly other pansy wearing friends just pa rouse about the town as if you haven't noticed on the news quite serious times. >> what is that wep than you'ap you're threatening phoenix jones with? like a can opener? >> i can using in i want. and it doubles as a pen. not many people know that. >> who do you look up to as a villain? who are your villain heroes? >> we have the jocker. we have dr. evil. my personal favorite, martha stewart. >> oh! >> how do we know that you and phoenix jones aren't just homeboys and you're doing this to get yourselves some publicity? >> homeboys? i live in an underground cave. how many home. boys do you think i have? >> what's the worst thing that you've done to the city that now you can't do, because phoenix jones

here's live look in phoenix where a serious accident has happened.ht around 6:30 this morning a. tractor trailer versus a car. police tell us that two people have been pronounced dead. two others taken to area hospitals with life-threatening injuries. again, it happened right around6:30. the roadway is shut down. linda so is live at the scene and bringing us updates as the developments do unfold. so, please keep that in mine as you head out. it's extremely foggy. expect reduced visibility out there on the roadways. if you are traveling on 95, no delays but north of 695 it will be an easy ride making the push through the fort mchenry tunnel or southbound towards 495. here's 695. in towson at dulaney valley road. no delays to talk about. again, just that fog. it's going to be really bad. so reduce the speeds and turn on the low beams and it's a 11 minute ride from 95 towards 83. that's a look at your abc2 time safer traffic. charley, back over to you. >>> before we go, if we could, let's pull the map back up if we can get to it in the booth where this

the phoenix coyotes claw for their lives. the early morning sport head lines are straight ahead. >>> the forecast is looking more and more like summer. the forecast is coming up, you're watching "early today." everyone's hair breaks. ♪ oh oh oh oh you see it in the brush... ♪ oh oh oh oh ooh oh ...and then there's the pillow. ♪ i dare you to dare me so they dared me to try this pantene. [ female announcer ] pantene anti-breakage the keratin protection system makes hair stronger reducing breakage up to 97%. ♪ think only salon brands can do that? i dare to compare... will you? [ female announcer ] anti-breakage from pantene. hair so healthy it shines. >>> good morning, if you're just waking up this is "early today." >>> in sports, they are a record-winning road team so it was appropriate the los angeles kings punched their ticket to the stanley cup final also on the road. here is mario solis with an early look at the sport headlines. >>> hi there, good morning it has been an incredible run for the kings, made the playoffs as an

two planes were held if in phoenix after landing and another in orange county before departing for phoenix. authorities checked out the planes to be safe. the last flight was not able to take off after it was clear because after hour noise restricts in orange county. passengers will be placed on other flights this morning. an fbi spokesperson confirms the southwest plane was taken to an isolation pad away from the terminal where dozens of passengers were removed from the plane one by one to be screened. southwest flight 1184 arrived in phoenix at about 7:30 last night after it left orange county. the plane was headed for tulsa oklahoma. the fbi's joint terrorism task force is leading the investigation. fbi agents and other law enforcement entered the planeplane with bomb sniffing dogs and other tools. for more information head to abc2news.com and click on the home page. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> and here in maryland today, governor o'malley and state law makers will hold a press conference discussing the upcoming special session. that press conference is set for 10:45 at the statehou

university of phoenix opened the door. my name is james craig, i am committed to making a difference, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. >>> all right an unusual rescue caught on tape in arkansas. this 2-year-old wanted to chew some gum balls and instead of going to the machine, use the quarters the machine swallowed him. his father explains what happened. >> i turned my back for one minute and they were trying to get gum out of the gum machine, and his hand was stuck up in there competely, man. >> his cheeks were wet with tears and the fire department came to rescue him. they thought they could use oil to slide the hand out but that didn't work. they had to break the plastic and disassemble the mechanism and when all was over, little terrell was still holding the gum ball and thank goodness they let him keep it. this is not the first time something like this happened we have seen it before. but remember this, this is a young girl who climbed headfirst into a door fo

sunny and very hot in vegas down to phoenix and palm springs. continuing near 100 degree heat tomorrow on your friday in phoenix. the northwest warms up, 74 in portland, 83 in medford. so, it looks like we're heading in the right direction. if you're watching us on kttu tv channel 2 in alaska, explore e water water everywhere at the class museum of history. >> bill. thank you very much. here's an early look at headlines in entertainment. >>> john travolta's legal team may be scoffing at two lawsuits charging unlawful sexual advances but more trouble may be on the way. the lawyer bringing the suits claims many more men have come forward and there could be more accusations soon. stay tuned. >>> hugh hefner offered rihanna more than a million dollars to pose without clothes in "playboy." >>> britney spears as a judge is a done deal on the "x-factor" is done for $15 million. >>> sophia vergara split up with her boyfriend of two years. >>> kim kardashian missed the monday night met gala, basically the oscars of fashion, bill, reportedly because vogue

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the phoenix coyotes claw for their lives. the early morning sport head lines are straight ahead. >>> the forecast is looking more and more like summer. the forecast is coming up, you're watching "early today." >>> good morning, if you're just waking up this is "early today." >>> in sports, they are a record-winning road team so it was appropriate the los angeles kings punched their ticket to the stanley cup final also on the road. here is mario solis with an early look at the sport headlines. >>> hi there, good morning it has been an incredible run for the kings, made the playoffs as an eighth seed and headed to the stanley cup finals. for phoenix it had everything. down goes frazier, kings up 3-2 in the h second. the coyotes answer. pyatt throws it to the net. a fortunate bounce and phoenix ties the game at three. stays that way through regulation, then in overtime. jeff carter takes a shot, rebound bounces to dustin penner who nets the winner. they beat the coyotes 4-3 win the series to advance to the first stanley cup fina

all of this involves a bomb threat phone call in phoenix and also in the airport near los angeles. sherrie johnson has been on this all morning. what is the latest? >> reporter: well, yes, we have been talking about this. a southwest spokesperson now says that the threat to one of the planes is not credible. two southwest earls flights in phoenix and orange county california were grounded after a phone call but the threat was to the credible. both planes were cleared tuesday night and we learn the southwest airlines plane that was grounded in phoenix has landed this morning in tulsa oklahoma which was the original destination. last night a call came in about a southwest plane in orange county, california, and southwest flight 11-84 arrived in phoenix last night after it left orange county. the plane was headed for tulsa. authorities checked three planes just to be shore they were safe. -- safe. they were take -- to be sure they were safe. the f about. i is working with law enforcement -- fbi is working with law enforcement for the investigation. sherrie johnson, abc2 news. >>> it's

was held at orange county before it departed for phoenix. although there was one threat, authorities checked out the planes to be safe. the last flight held at phoenix was not able to take off after it was cleared because of after hours noise restrictions in orange county. now fbi spokesperson says the southwest plane was taken to an isolation pad away from the terminal. dozens of passengers were removed from the plane to be screened and the fbi joint terrorism task force is leading that investigation. if fbi agents and other law -- fbi agents and other law enforcement entered the planeswith bomb sniffing dog. we are work to get information and interviews from passengers that just lappeted -- landed and you will get more on our website. >> we will have the latest for you at our website like sherrie mentioned, abc2news.com. and you can sign up to get breaking news e-mail alerts at that website. head over if you have a chance. abc2news.com. >>> later today, governor o'malley and house speaker michael bush and senate president mike miller will

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. >>> nothing at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, is designed to bring comfort to the 9,000ates housed there. >> we don't issue them pillows, so they either use extra blankets or toilet paper rolled up in a sheet. >> over the four months we shot "lockup: extended stay" we heard more complaints about the food than anything else. >> this [ bleep ] food. we need pizza, hot wings, greens, chitlins, we need all the good [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. this would make people go crazy because it get to hurting people. >> many of the inmates came up with their own culinary concoctions using snacks purchased from the commissary. micah butterfield serving six months for possession of methamphetamine showed us her recipe for corn nut minuto. >> corn nuts in water, let them soak. then you add hot jalapeno cheese. i feel like i'm on a cooking show. then you take hot and spicy pork rinds and add it all together. once all of it's wet, you eat it. it's hot, spicy. see? that's minuto. it looks nasty, huh? >> while it was a noble effort, >>> nothing at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, is d

ostensibly as a one-day tourist, and then be brought up to phoenix, take the vehicle, drive it south where it would then reconfigured for other human or drug smuggling, sometimes both and driven across the open desert until it broke down. prevalent was this practice i would see cases for auto theft, initially about one every other week or so, and then towards the end of 2009, mid-2010, drop down to once a month or once every other month. a couple of years ago the arizona auto theft task force recovered over 3,000 vehicles in the arizona desert that were used just for that purpose. from my view i work with 26 different law enforcement agencies and another 11 federal and other type of law enforcement agencies just to enforce our laws which can and are enforced in a constitutional manner. mindful of the civil rights of all in respect of our constitution. and when 1070 is upheld, we'll be able to enforce that in a constitutional way that respects the civil rights of everyone within my jurisdiction. and that is mindful of everyone and their participation in our community. and i've been pa

and as i was flying my plane back from yuma to phoenix it occurred to me that, yes, yuma, arizona, they pick 12 million heads of lettuce a day. if you go to your store here buy a head of lettuce, it probably came from yuma. the lettuce is picked by people who come across the boarder from mexico and picked that lettuce for us, because there's -- the population of the united states there won't support that type of industry. i'm a mormon. proud to be a mormon. and russell pearce was in a heavily mormon district in arizona. and i was offended by his bigotry and his approach to hispanic people. beginningoistic approach. i come from a very right wing republican family. i, myself, have right of ging gas khan. i will tell you that when this immigration became an issue in arizona one of my brothers called me up and said, daryl, let's join the group that goes down with their guns, let get our guns and go down the board somewhere force the border policy. and i said -- now, my brother is a businessman, and i being a lawyer thought, well, let me think about this a little while. and so i began to stu

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my name is naphtali bryant and i am a phoenix.t phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you. enroll now. >>> there is no greater threat to the american dream than the rising cost of health care. it already takes up around one fifth of our economy. by 2050, it could consume almost two-fifths, crowding out vital spending on education, infrastructure and science and technology and not the mention the military and the social security. how on earth did we get here? what can we do about it? >> a big part of the underpinning of the system is all of us are kidding ourselves. someone else is magically paying for this. well, there is no one paying for it, except all of us. >> david goldhill, the ceo of the game show network, is an unlikely agitator in the health care debate. he got involved after his father went to the hospital with pneumonia and died from an infection while he was there. >> i saw a hospital with less impressive information technology than my dry cleaner has, than my auto mechanic has. a couple times, my father was

box 72465, phoenix, arizona.group that is funding ads against democrats across the country, it's a tiny mailbox located in this post office outside the desert in phoenix, arizona. where does a post office box get tens of millions of dollars spend. the "los angeles times" wrote about this post office box. they wrote today that that lonely post office box managed to shell out $55 million for conservative groups across the country in 2010. $55 million, funding ads like that one they aired against bruce braley in iowa. beyond that p.o. box, nothing much is known about the group. they're supposedly run by a phoenix-based republican consultant, who is a key operative in the koch brothers' political activities. but in terms of where they got their $55 million to spend on that election, who knows? according to the center for responsive politics, the donors to this p.o. box in phoenix that's supposedly an organization, quote, are almost entirely unknown. such tax exempt organizations must detail the groups to whom they ga

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the latest accident in phoenix at dulaney valley road. we have some closures in effect along york road in both directions because of fire department activity. you may want to consider the harrisburg expressway this morning. inner loop of the beltway approaching 95 on the northeast corner, you'll find some delays because of an accident. we have some closures in the city. charles street is closed along with medicine and not for it because of flower mart. we start with 95 in the white marsh area. it is a little foggy but no delays to report. 83 north of the beltway checking out just fine. that is the latest on traffic pulse 11. >> china may be opening the door to resolve a diplomatic standoff over a blind activists. he will be allowed to apply to study overseas. he has been under house arrest for six years for exposing chinese human rights violations. he left for a chinese hospital on wednesday and says he fears for his safety if he remains in china. the alleged masterminds are finally being brought to justice. khalid shaikh mohammed will be

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john yang, nbc news, phoenix. >>> and up next here tonight, an early warning about something big and bright coming our way in the night sky. what'll it be? i'll have blueberry pancakes. uh huh. actually, make that glazed pecans... ok. with chocolate... no... caramel sauce. whipped cream? uhhhhhhh, yeah... but on the side. introducing build your own pancakes. only at denny's. >>> so imagine being this lioness at the zoo in portland, oregon, who can't understand why she can't eat this baby zebra. of course, that's no baby zebra. that's a baby named jack in a cute zebra suit completely unbothered by the lion's ess' attempts to turn him into an hors d'oeuvre. she does some good mouth measuring, determines he would fit just fine. the little boy's mom was making light of the fact the kitty wanted to play with her son. >>> also from our natural world, early warning of a big, bright, and harmless object in the sky on saturday night. this weekend, the full moon will be closer to the earth than any other time this year. the astronomers have a name for. supermoon. sounds like a toothpaste comme

their bodies were discovered yesterday in a phoenix area home. police say the shooter was among the dead. the shooting appears to be a case of domestic violence. the victims include a toddler and other young children. slowing down the investigation, the possibility of hazardous materials in the family's backyard. >>> san diego county police are investigating the death of former nfl star junior seau. his death appears to be a suicide. just 43 years old, seau was found shot to death at his home, a gun at his side. but there was no suicide note. >> reporter: she cried in disbelief outside her son's southern california home. >> i pray to god, please, take me, take me, leave my child. >> reporter: inside former nfl star junior seau lay dead from a gunshot wound to the chest. police say his girlfriend found him and called for help. but it was too late. >> this case at this point is being investigated as a suicide. a handgun was found near the body. >> reporter: seau in his number 55 was a standout at usc before going pro. he played for 20 years in the

and phoenix today. some of the heat snuck up to medford but that's a thing of the past. seattle only 58 yesterday, you're 55 this morning, cloudy, there's showers around, and the cold front is about to move throughp this is an unseasonably strong cold front for this time of year. this is going to blow through today, we're going to see windy conditions with it with areas of rain and then not going to deal with flooding concerns but on the coastal areas of oregon to washington, half inch to inch of rainfall and then snow levels will drop enough later tonight that in the high mountain areas above 4,000 feet in the cascades we could get snow this evening. the rain associated with the front will move onshore as we go throughout your morning, even showers well out ahead back by spokane. as far as the forecast goes today, that chance of rain on and off really from about northern california up through the northwest, we're hot in the desert areas and l.a., san francisco, and everyone in between, kind of stuck in the middle with typical onshore flow cool weather. that's a yuma, co

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