he opened fire in a health club in a strip mall southwest of pittsburgh. we have the story. >>> the l.a. fitness center was packed with as many as 70 people when the trouble began. >> it sounded like someone was hitting a rack et ball. just echoing really loud in that room. everybody ditched and ran as fast as they could. that's all i heard. bang, bang, bang. >> reporter: witnesses say the gunman casually walked into the gym dressed in exercise clothes, strolled to the back of an aerobics class, took out two guns and opened fire. >> he did not say anything. he walked right to the rooms where the shootings occurred as if he knew exactly where he was going and pulled the guns out and started shooting. >> reporter: there was chaos. those who could, ran. >> everybody was running out of the men's locker room. i seen a girl laying down right outside the locker room. me and a couple of other guys carried her over here. she was laying down. >> reporter: two women died at the scene. another died at the hospital. the gunman apparently took his own life. law enforcem

pittsburgh wins this one 11-6. be colin balester as he looks for his second win in a row tomorrow night. >> colin posesses a great curve ball and a fastball. he looks like he is maturing. he had a couple of games last year, the win against the marlins in particular where he was able to elevate the fastball after he got it down in the strike zone. and i think he's going to be another really good starter. >> hey, maholm is is a guy that has great stuff. 91, 92 miles per hour fastball aslider that just yaks, a changeup that is almost like a screw ball. he is not having as great a year this year, but here is a guy that can shut you down and i believe their best pitcher. >> 11 earned runs in his last two starts, and he faced tim lincecum in the last game which is not easy. >> colin balester, you meaned the curve ball. after that first game he had to be a little nervous coming up from syracuse a guy from california, he is a fighter. he stayed in there and really set the tone in the balk series for the nats. >> he has a g

the lights are shining bright in pittsburgh tonight. and for the nationals fans who came over here, they have seen some offense, but they have seen the pitching staff battered. willie harris plays left. batting fifth, josh willingham out and pitching rob villone. so logan kensing goes 2/3 of an inning and gives up four runs on three hits. his e.r.a. was on its way down. not anymore. and they had to g out and do some additional clean-up in the outfield. probably a few more hats then on the field. as far as i know, there is no hat trick in baseball. that is a hockey term. but some folks, i guess some penquin fans ho had stored up some caps over the summer. >> rob: the stanley cup champs in town here and the super bowl champs in town here. you're talking seven super bowl titles here in town. >> bob: that pitch is up and in to garrett jones who is 1-3. >> rob: sadly, this lineup, three or fourth on most depth charges, one of the reasons they're all traded. >> bob: the pitch that villone can't reach. recently as one half inning ago, the nati

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that took place earlier tonight in pittsburgh.ght, nationals have recalled from syracuse, elijah dukes and pitcher jorge sosa. >> he's been swinging great. i thought this would happen. felt like elijah would eventually get up here. i did believe adam needs to play first base. he needs to work hard over there and become a first baseman because he just gives away too much in the outfield. i'm not sure if they're going to platoon he and willie harris or not, but i'm just glad he's back. then, jorge sosa, he's been around nine years, nine different ball clubs. a guy that's always been able to get people out. he's lights out down here in triple-a as he wasn't giving up anything, johnny. striking out a lot of people not walking anybody. probably be a good addition to the ball club europe going to meng about the guys he pipd for, astros, mets, cardinals, braves, tampa bay, milwaukee, seattle, colorado and now he's up with the big club here with washington. good to see him. >> you know, when a team wants him that batly answered goes to th

same drive, clinton portis, 11 yards to the pittsburgh 11.p doesn't like the preseason but liked this. and he wasn't done. on the very next play, portis again. eight yards down to the three- yard line. and then the day would be done. but back to back, ledell betts runs would get nothing. skins would have to set for a 20-yard field goal. washington up 3-0 after the first quarter. still frustrating upon getting in then zone. second quarter, pittsburgh's charlie batch over the middle, hines ward. makes a great catch. 24yards to the redskins' 13- yard line. two players later, willie parker with the 3-yard line for the touchdown. 7-3, pittsburgh takesthe lead. now right before the half, todd collins trying to hurry up offense -- hurries up and makes a mistake. intended for thomas, picked off by ratliff. returned to the steelers' 35. but the steelers would not make the field goal. the steelers led 10-3 at the half. second half the local kid from montgomery county. marcus mason. 18yards to the steelers' 24. marcus 11 carries for 48 yards. same drive

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at pittsburgh penguins.lso have a really good aaa minor league baseball team called pittsburg pirates. [applause] i also want to let you know, for all you big city folks who are here, if you happen to stumble upon the subway, yes, that is the world's smallest subway system. if you get lost and write it from the beginning to the end, just get off and what back. about eight blocks. i don't know if you realize, but the pittsburgh steelers kickoff their first preseason game 10 minutes ago. right now is the prime time to go still a new refrigerator or t be -- or tv. they are rooting like the end of the world just came. forget bill clinton, the steelers are playing tonight. let me help you out. if you have not figured out yet, i am not from pittsburg. i am from a small stake in the south and -- a small stake in the shot. a big shout out for the texas delegates. let me help you like i wish someone would have helped me when i moved to this city. if you hear someone say yins+2b that is the same thing as ya'll. if som

this is at a gym just outside of pittsburgh. always with him in the back drop is how women rejected him. we have our panel standing by. here's an e-mail coming in from melissa in indiana. i think when he said that 30 million women rejected him, it's because he may have been on a dating sirt where 30 million women are signed up and none, or few, were interested. brian, that's to your point. that we don't know whether or not he was on a dating site. but women have to be careful out there. >> you've got to be so, so careful. look at the narcissism. look at the self-focus and the sense of entitlement to have a woman in his life that you get out of that video. what's fascinating to me, mike, is that he expresses this idol oh tri and this longing for younger women. but look who he killed, mike. he killed people who were -- women who were more his own age. what that says to me is the root of this is some kind of sleight that he had long in the past by his contemporaries. >> failure with women his own age. the book we saw on the coffee

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pittsburgh six of eight.ccutcheon day after hitting three home runs in one game, he goes one for four. >> yankees lead the white sox 7-5 in top of the ninth inning. melky cabrera has tripled his four for five and has hit for the cycle. as jack or j.d. salinger, were on the left a number of intellectuals such as paul goodman, growing up absurd, and people like the lonely crowd, david kriseman's book, were the man in the gray flannel suit. skilling -- ayn rand has been giving extremely well over the past couple of months particularly because of things coming out of d.c. but she is a writer and figure more importantly we should study with care if we want to have a road map why people are feeling the way that they are right now. and then because of summer and i going on vacation in all areas i always try to take a couple of novels to read and i go back almost every year to balzac, the great french novelist whose comedy humane are a series of interrelated novels tell the story of moving into an industrial revoluti

fitness club is located in bridgeville, pennsylvania, outside pittsburgh. people who worked out at the club said they always felt safe and often brought their children. one witness said the gunman was the boyfriend of one of the victims and was trying to kill her. >> she was shot through the leg. she was bleeding a lot. i think it was an ex-boyfriend. she kept saying he's going to kill me. he's going to kill me. >> reporter: strangers did what they could until ambulances and medical personnel were arrived. two guns were removed from the scene. but they have not confirmed a motive. >> the problem of coming up with a motive at this point is, we don't have the people identified. >> reporter: police found the gunman's car here in the parking lot, along with his gym bag. in the bag, there was a note. police declined to reveal its contents. but investigators say it's clear the gunman knew what he was doing, and did not plan to come out alive. aaron katersky, abc news, bridgeville, pennsylvania. >>> in iran, mahmoud ahmadinejad has been sworn in for his second ter

. >> shots ring out in a pittsburgh gym. >> we willell you how district's schools do that. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> good morning, washington. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. we are glad you're joining us on this wednesday morning. let's get started with your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> brian van de graaff is backed from his weekend jaunt. >> it was daddy day care for the last couple of days. it haseenot nhingotli keli vacation. n. bfu erth but then there is a warm up approaching. 71 this morning in arlington. 68 in upper marlboro. some limited sunshine. scattered sorms will develop late. temperatures will be knocked back below a bit. we will check in with adam caskey in the storm chaser later. let's say good morning to lisa baden. >> thank you very much. go inside and get cool. we will hit the roads. things are heating up because of the volume of traffic. this is the wilson bridge. we are moving smoothly. a stop in springfield. 66 and 395 look good. a lot of headlights already. no problems on 2

a blood bath at a health club outside of pittsburgh.. as many as 15 people injured at the l.a. fitness center in the suburb of collier. witnesses say a gunman came in carrying a duffel bag, walked through the back door of the gym and opened fire. >>> iran confirmed the arrest of three american hikers who crossed from abiraqi kurdish region. they have been charged with illegal entry. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton and swiss diplomats urged iran to provide information on the missing americans. >>> authorities say toxicology report found a deadly wrong way driver had high levels of marijuana in her system when she crashed her minivan and twice the legal limit of alcohol. a bottle of vodka was found in the wreckage. she killed herself, her children and three oers. >>> in the white house press room president obama shared his birthday spotlight with helen thomas who turned 89 today. president obama served the cupcakes up with a plug for his health care reform plan. >> helen wished for world peace, no prejudice, but she and i had a co

a beautiful monday evening in pittsburgh, small crowd on hand. bottom of the 3rd. washington trying to win and break even on this series. ending the road trip. dukes will take it right at the edge of the track for. >> rob: a jam shot. >> bob: mock has retired 3 of the last 4. nats and riggleman would be very happy for him to just pitch off the full wind up for a while. >> bob: he only pitched off the wind up tonight. the batter has the lead off homerun then all the guys on base in the 2nd and 3rd. >> rob: why are you mocking him. >> bob: pining out the facts. oh, mocking. [ laughter ] you can stay out there for 6 innings, that's a quality start. an tonight to win. that's all he has to do. i don't think morton will be around to end the game garrett is looking at 104. >> bob: 4 to 5. if he gets an out. laroche. that's a good fastball. 3-2. fastball away. a base hit. up the middle. that will bring up cedeno. >> rob: trying to hit it up the middle. getting it by guzman. super cedeno is up. >> bob: high strike to cedeno. flared out to gonzales the first time. >> rob: an

let's bring back andrew, from the "pittsburgh tribune review." andrew, i want to look at one of his blog entries. monday and tomorrow to practice my routine, and to make sure it i need to work out every detail. there is only one shot." he practiced this. he was at that gym how many times on the ill-fated day, yesterday? >> that's the frightening thing about this. when you talk to the fbi experts, they say this is basically a guy who came out of nowhere, appeared to come out of nowhere. even on his blog he talks about how, you know, people look at me and think i'm normal. they see me smiling, they think i'm interacting with people, and beneath the surface was this layer, this undercurrent of despair and anger and fear. and sort of carrying through. if you read through all of his writings, you see this was a guy who had a lot of troubling issues. but on the surface appeared to be okay. >> let's bring in our clinical psychologist, dr. jeff gardere. jeff, we want to know motive. but as andrew points out, you read his blog, and number one, seems to be

always got to love that race they have going on up there in pittsburgh. top of the seventh inning, the nationals down 4-1. ryan zimmerman. he was filing it last night. the solo home run to left center field. ryan zimmerman's 20th of the year. and the nationals are able to cut into the lead. thanks to the power of ryan zimmerman. bottom of the seventh now, former national, lastings millage just called up yesterday. he lineses one off of ryan zimmerman's glove into left field. andrew mccutcheon, comes around, he would score, millage goes 2 for 4 with two rbis. the nationals trying to beat up on joel hanrahan and christian guzm lines one to left. millage tries to dive, can't make the grab, the ball gets by him. niger morgan comes in to score for the nationals. he a former pittsburgh pirate. but it wasn't enough, millage and the pirates win 5-4. that's your sports on this saturday morning. i'm lindsay czarniak have a great day. >> out of the two daes, this one will be the greater of the two? >> only because it will be rain-free. tomorrow, for the most part, w

we begin with breaking news in suburban pittsburgh.alth club. >> it appears the gunman targeted at least one of the victims, thought to be an ex-girl friend. a chaotic scene as a shopping center in a quiet pittsburgh suburb turned into a crime scene tuesday night. witnesses say a man burst into an l.a. fitness center and walked into an all-women's aerobics class, shut off the lights and opened fire. >> what happened was they were in a pilates class or something like that and they turned the lights out and all of a sudden the shooting started. >> i could see flashes in the dark. that's when i realized someone was using a firearm inside of. >> the suspect had who two guns. the victims had no warning? >> 15 people were shot, including one would who said the shooter was her exboyfriend. strangers did what they could to help those injured until ambulances and medical personnel arrived on the scene. police discovered the suspect's car in the parking lot and are searching it for clues. >> those officers are still trying to determine a motive

a suburb of pittsburgh. kimberly southers is joining us as we follow developments this morning. >> reporter: good morning, barbara. police say the man entered into the back of an exercise class, turned out the lights, pulled out two guns and started firing bullets. one witness said that a woman was yelling that the man was her boyfriend and wanted to kill her. others said the gun fire w so loud they couldn't hear anything. >> it was surprising. it didn't hit us until right now. when we saw the girl over here collapse, that's when we were -- nobody knew it was gun shots. everybody stood there for a long time. >> surreal. just pandemonium. never in a million years would have thought something like that would happen at 8:00, 9:00 at night at a gym. >> reporter: in the end, the gunman took the lives of at least three people before taking his own life. and at least ten people were injured. the numbers could grow as we learn more information this morning. police have not discussed a possible motive in the shooting

. >> four people are dead after a shooting at a health club near pittsburgh. we have new information. >>> free bill. former president bill clinton said all the right things to get two women out of a north korean jail. >>> and a plaguing knee injury threatens the entire season of a key player at ravens camp. now number 78 is on the ir list. >>> i'm jamie costello. megan pringle is off getting married here. >>> let's start with justin berk with the weather. >> 4:58. a very muggy morning to start. one thing you'll notice, areas of patchy fog north and west, maybe around the bay as well. even around harford county where you had that lone thunderstorm roll up 935 near aberdeen. 95. 72 fallston, reisterstown, even glen burnie. 73 on our storm center weathernet. we're dry on maryland's most powerful doppler radar. while it looks like some cloudiness there it's just the high humidity being measured, essentially the cloud line is to the west but that will fill back in. after we burn off morning fog, returning clouds and thunderstorms this afternoon, a high of 85. it wi

we have the latest from pittsburgh, pennsylvania. >> reporter: gunman george sodini left at least two disturbing videos on youtube. >> it is easy for me to hide from my emotions for one more day. >> reporter: the 48-year-old loner talks about how he needs to work on his emotions to attract women. >> couch and chair, they match. a woman would be impressed. >> reporter: in another video he tours his home and shows off his reading material which includes a book about dating young women. >> come over here. there's reading material we are familiar with. >> reporter: he lived in this suburban neighborhood for ten years. neighbors say he seemed happy and never thought he would be capable of mass murder. >> i felt he was a loner who liked to keep to himself. >> reporter: patricia lives across the street from george sodini with her daughter and fiance. she was distressed to learn from george sodini's chilling web diary he had his eye on her daughter. he writes, wow, i just looked out my front window and saw a beautiful college-age girl leave bob fox's house across the street. police say he ope

nyjer morgan back in pittsburgh, the average, very impressive, ray.uys we have seen a lot of home runs from recently. >> and willingham is as hot as anyone in baseball. zimmerman has gotten hot in the last 10 days. sean burnett, the 0.75 e.r.a. we have a lot of guys playing really well and the defense has gotten better. our starting pitching has been pretty solid. it is just a matter of scoring runs. >> i bet you we'll see a couple of home runs maybe in the plays for july. >> i believe we will. >> let's check it out. >> there it goes. >> he was in there. >> how far is this baby going? upper deck! >> there it goes! happy 4th of july, number 300! >> the first pitch swinging. fair ball and nick does it again. stammen for the second out. >> and a double play. >> larceny by lannan. back hand throws immediately. look at that, right on target. >> and nyjer morgan. there he is. >> there is one from willingham. adam dunn. three in a row for the nationals! >> the runner is trapped. he throws for a double play! how about that? >> outstanding! >> morgan back and

it occurred just outside pittsburgh in allegheny county, pennsylvania. they have confirmed he had four guns. >> there was four handguns he had on this person when the shooting was done. as far as we can determine at this point, he used two of the handguns. excuse me, three of the handguns. he used two 9mm semiautomatics and he use ad .45 caliber revolver. we believe it was the .45 caliber revolver he used to take his own life. >> he walked into a fitness center, turned off the lights, and fired around 50 shots. three women were killed, ten people were hurt. police say sodini killed himself with a 45 caliber weapon. again, three women dead, 12 people shot, and he also had a blog in which he blamed his mother and women in general for his distress. what makes the rampage more chilling is the words that he wrote. it's not sodini's first attempt. entries in the diary he kept showed he planned a rampage like this in january but couldn't go through with it. here's an entry dated january 6th. it is 6:40 p.m. about an hour and a half to go. god have mercy. i wish

the nationals at pittsburgh. partly cloudy saturday evening, and at pnc park, the pirates played pretty well this year. they're 27-19 at home. the nats are only 12-38 on the road. they need to get something going in this series, three games left in this set against the battling bucs. and elijah dukes is back. .288 average overall in syracuse. three home runs, 10 rbi's. and when he was sent down a month ago r. ago, right on the first of july hitting .244 for the nats. interesting, though, it moves josh willingham back to left field. we'll tell you more about the defense aspect of this move, and this is vir gill vazquez. he is 27 years of age. he was born in venezuela and has been in this country a long time. he has had five games, three starts with the tigers. back in the big leagues making his seventh start with the pirates. >> rob: the pnc scouting report. he can throw a strike. he is a late bloomer, 27 years old. as bob said, this is his 10th career start. and this might be his last chance to walk the plank, ge

weapons to not one but three mass murderers in the last two years, including a man who shot 13 in pittsburgh this week. we'll talk to the owner, live this morning. >>> no insurance, no problem. amidst more chaos at health care town halls, a solution amidst it. imagine if getting health care was an easy as joining the gym. >>> and the midas touch. the man who makes millionaires is back where he belongs. >> you just one $1 million! >> and our own marysol castro >> you just one $1 million! >> and our own marysol castro can't escape his hot seat. captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good morning, america. >> good morning. it is sunday, august 9th. >> it was so close to where captain sullenberger, the hero of the miracle on the hudson put down that jumbo jet yet on the river. incredible picture there captured the midair collision between the helicopter filled with tourists and a private jet. and a lot of questions about the lack of air traffic control in crowded cities. it's pretty much every pilot for himself. we'll have the very latest coming up. >>> also coming up, some lawmakers getting an earf

in the news this morning, deadly, new details about the man who attacked women at that gym near pittsburgh. he didn't know any of them. and was very lonely. >>> japan remembers a dark day. 64 years after the world's first atomic bomb attack. >>> and junket jets. some in congress want to spend millions for new planes to chauffeur members around. do they remember what they told chauffeur members around. do they remember what they told those corporate ceos? captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good morning. thanks for joining us on this thursday. we now know the gunman who went on that deadly rampage at a suburban pittsburgh gym had no criminal record and no history of mental illness. but his chilling online diary, reveals a tortured, lonely man, fueled by hatred. >> the target of george sodini's rage, women. john berman has the latest from bridgeville, pennsylvania. >> reporter: police say george sodini had no relationship with any of the women he shot here. george sodini said he had no relationship with any women at all. we know that because the 48-year-old law firm systems analyst tried to t

his 20th home run of the year. 4-2, pittsburgh. former nat milledge is now in pittsburgh. winning run comes around. the pirates beat the nationals. red sox nation last night invading camden yards. here's your ball game. top of the seventh. orioles on top 5-4. kevin youkilis with the drive to deep left center field. bye-bye, baseball. there was a man on for the ride. boston goes on to win game one of their series with baltimore, 6-5. our shot of the day comes from the women's british open. the 12 hole. pulls out the 8-iron on this par 3 and guess what. it falls and i will roll right in. she's at five under and tied for the lead. that's it. have a good weekend, everybody. >> the richmond international raceway loses out because of the cession. next year will be the first time in a decade the indy race car series will not race there. the track president cites increased costs. the anticipated loss of major sponsors and declining attendance at the race events, including nascar. it is 6:43. 69 degrees on this first day of august. still ahead, a safety alert for honda owners. deta

fitness center outside pittsburgh city limits. cheryl conner now with the worst. >> reporter: overnight details point to a possible motive of the gunman going after his ex-girlfriend. she was shot but survived. nearly 70 people were in the gym when the gunman fired off at least 50 rounds after 8:00 last night. police say in just a few minutes the gunman was dead along with three victims, all of them female. we're getting more information on a note that was in the man's bag. police will not disclose what it said but say the man had no intentions of leaving the gym alive. listen now to a witness who says he helped out the gunman's ex-glendale. ex-glendale -- ex-girlfriend. >> she got shot in the leg, bleeding a lot. i think it was an ex-boyfriend. she kept saying he's going to kill me. >> i was one of the last ones coming out of the building. i was right there. >> reporter: the victims were in a latin dance class when they saw the lights go out and flash of gunfire. one of the wounded was an aerobics instructor who just announced sh

the pittsburgh pirates. oh, my. morgan slams one into the seats. and evidently he hit a seat and that's okay. christian guzman has a base hit and he's next. right at the 8:00 hour here in our nation's capital. and morgan take as fastball high. it is nationals baseball on masn two tonight. debbi taylor, rob dibble, i'm bob carpenter and our outstanding crew, good to be back home with them. morgan bumps one foul and the count stays 2-2. the rockies now have a 3-0 lead at philadelphia. and morgan strikes out on the pitch away. two k's by johnson on morgan and four in the game. next up, christian guzman. >> rob: josh johnson not messing around with nyjer morgan. 98 miles per hour. we talk about this, when you throw off speed, you help some of these guys and nyjer, couple of and he doesn't normally strike out against anyone. i don't attack the hitters you don't think can hit home runs and then you stay away from the ones that you know can. ozzie smith. that guy drove me crazy. >> bob: guzman, josh johnson, he has retired eight straight. we go to the mid

all were at an aerobics class in a pittsburgh area la fitness when gunned down by george sodini. he ended the rampage committing suicide. >>> new dna tests show a texas man convicted for life in prison for a sexual assault may not have committed the crime. earnest sonjays is free after serving 23 years behind bars. a judge ordered him released in part because tests showed blood stains on the alleged vibts's plants could not have come from him. >> i always told, you know, people that knew me in prison, you know, that i was innocent. when you're in prison, you know, when you tell the same story, the first thing they say, you know, everybody, everybody say that. i used to be mad. but like, you know, to have -- the past is the past. >> he is the sixth convicted man released after results from the

horror at a health club in pittsburgh.n opens fire killing four and wounding at least nine others. >> the man walks in with a duffel bag, apparently a member of the club. goes into an aerobics room where he opens fire with several handguns apparently that were found beneath his body. >> abc news has learned the shooting suspect is 48-year-old george sodini of scott township, pennsylvania. according to disturbing writings, sodini apparently posted on the web, this horrific crime is something he'd been planning. >> i want to take you back eight months ago. he writes, "many of the young girls here look so beautiful as to not be human." december 24th, "no girlfriend since 1984." he's talking about himself, how he doesn't have a girlfriend. it is a constant theme with this guy. who knows why? i'm not ugly or too weird. no sex since july 1990. december 29th, he writes this -- "30 million women reject me." >> we're going to bring in right now amy shar smith covering the case for the pittsburgh post gazette. criminal profiler pat

tonight, trying to start a new winning streak in pittsburgh.hoping to do a better job against the pirates than teddy roosevelt did against the wolf. get up, teddy. come on. adam dunn was up in the fifth with two on. lift this to the former nat -- millage and lastings -- didn't get it. coming around to score, 1-0 nat. here's the good, there's the bad. andrew mccutcheon gone. that off of him -- just getting it. nice attempt there. then mcccheon again and gone. two-run shotthere. 7-2 pittsburgh. mccutcheon again -- gone. have yourself a night, young fellow. the rookie with a monsterous six rbi. three home run evening. the former nat lasting millage very good. 4-5. he drove in five. the pirates blow out the nyet 11-6. i ask you, jim riggleman, how good was mccutcheon? >> reporter: no, he was really good. he's a great athlete. you know, criewf read about him for a year or two now. and he's here. and he's -- he's going to be a force to deal with. >> reporter: ale east now. the match-up between the o's and red sox. crowd on hand but they didn't like w

so life without nick and joe beginning in pittsburgh tonight.ast we still have that guy ryan zimmerman with his 20th jack of the year. fifth in the last week. 67 rbis for zim now. got the nats within two. they would be within one in the 9th. tieing run on second. winning run on first. but they pop up in the ball game. nats fall 5-four. at camden yard o's hosting the red sox. o's led this game 5-four in the 7th. until kevin got that ball into the cheap ease in the left. sox beat the o's 6-five. if tiger woods had played his entire round the way he played his first five holes, he would have shot a 52. just outside detroit, he played his first five homes in six under par. he opened birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle, birdie. went out to shoot nine under 63. he's two back in the lead. finally a rare road trip tonight for the nat's racing president. they had a rely against the pirates racing and it was looking like a victory until potato skull teddy roosevelt taken out. and they win the race. apparently when they came to nationals park last year, teddy we

at the pittsburgh area fitness club.e're learning more about the three women who lost their lives and about the man who killed them. george sodini posted two videos on youtube. take a look. >> it is easy for me to hide from my emotions for one more day. take a long drive in the car, listen to some music, daydream. >> nbc's brian mooar is live in bridgeville, pennsylvania, where the shootings took place. brian, how are the nine women who were injured doing? >> reporter: well, three of them are actually still in the hospital and they are recovering from their injuries. some of them are getting out. of course, they are the families of the three women who were killed are basically getting ready for funerals and coming together with this very small, very tight-knit community. and really, they're trying to focus on the way these women lived, nothe

pittsburgh police know 70 people were in the l.a. fitness center outside the steel city. they know the gunman walked in with a bag, turned out the lights, started shooting. they don't even know how many shots were fired. cheryl conner with new information. >> reporter: the victims were dancing minutes before that frightening scene unfolded. police say the gunman walked into an aerobics room, started firing. by the time he was finished four people were dead including himself and at least 10 others were injured. you're looking at the scene around 8:00 last night. the state police superintendent in allegheny county held a news conference early this morning saying the gunman used a gym bag to carry in two handguns. he had swiped his membership card before walking into a latin dance class and firing at least 50 rounds. sources are telling local reporters one of the victims was the gunman's ex-girlfriend. she was shot in the thigh. >> he knew exactly where he was going. pulled the guns out and started shooting. >> i helped carry out the one girl. she got shot in the thigh and s

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nats have been in pittsburgh since thursday night. after the day game at milwaukee. and nobody is going to reach that one. this is a good situation guzman coming in. against the right-handed batter. batting from the left side. he will be in doumit's way a bit. you math as well get within you have the lead. 2 outs and best base runner aboard. >> rob: see if he can throw morgan out. this is the time with 2 outs trying to make something happen. you need insurance here. >> bob: they may pitch out on the first one. people don't mind following guzman he seldom walks, even though he has one tonight. not a pitch out a step up. morgan has not stolen a base in the series. 32 on the year. as a nat 14. he is holding. ball 1. >> bob: some guys get on base it causes people to have conversations. since july 23rd, look at that, 40 hits, over .450 best 1-2 punch at the moment. gusman was hot after morgan put up. put back maintain number 2 shot. he did not like number 6. he said as much batting .143. jim riggleman put him back at number 2. it has been good since. short lead. right han

it happened in pittsburgh about an hour and a half ago. witnesses say a man came in the back door of the health club and just started shooting. our sister station is reporting that that gunman wept to the club searching for a girl he thought would be in a class. we are hearing the gunman is among the dead. no word on the fate of that woman. we will have more on the story as it comes into the information center. >>> also tonight we are monitoring the release of two american journalists from a north korea prison. these pictures came into the information center about two hours ago as the women boarded a plane. former president bill clinton met with north korea's leader. clinton went at the request of the ling and lee family. the two were sentenced to 12 years of hard labor. >>> the question tonight, why this personal approach instead of the structured and formal diplomacy that traditionally defines relationships between countries? and another one. is personal diplomacy actually a good idea? gary neurenberg is in the information center with ho

nbc's mike taibbi is in bridgeville, pennsylvania, just outside pittsburgh tonight. mike, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, brian. this may have been a year in the planning, a lonely bitter man brings a duffel bag stuffed with handguns and ammunition to a health club not to attack any one woman but shoot at a random group of women because of what he describes in a bitter, unusual blog, as decades are projection. 48-year-old had a job in a nice house in a quiet pittsburgh neighborhood. but he also had what police described as a building rage that exploded tuesday night. >> he just had a lot of hatred in him. gym members say he walked into an aerobics class at the l.a. fitness center some time around 8:15 tuesday night. one woman who was there told the today show he never said a word before pulling three of his four handguns out of his duffel bag. >> for a minute. and then a minute later, the lights go out. and then second later, you just hear shooting. and he is going, shooting all over the room. >> reporter: in all at least 36 shots were fired by a man who acc

pittsburgh will see showers and thunderstorms.d as a matter of fact, not too far from bradford, pennsylvania. have you a nice little thundershower passing by to the north. and the problem across the northeast will be intense heat. high temperatures near 90 degrees. it will feel like 95 degrees, robin. air you can wear. thick, humid air, and air quality not good either. >> delicious. i'm teasing. >> yum. >> exactly. >>> hurry up. go to the computer while you're watching us here and you have to go to our facebook page and answer me this. which would you choose? sex or sleep? find out if you're in the majority with your answer, and it may not be what you expected. >>> okay. jennifer is off today. we're covering business news. there is plenty of it. the government is extending an emergency loan program. the two-part program set to expire at the end of the year. the part here to boost consumer and business loans will be extended to march. the part to help new commercial real estate lending will run through june. the fed says many banks

now to that shooting rampage near pittsburgh. police say the motive was hatred. the gunman apparently hated women, often complaining they ignored him for much of his life. last night, he opened fire at a health club, killing three women and wounding nine more before taking his own life. susan koeppen reports from bridgeville, pennsylvania. >> reporter: the man who turned a simple aerobics class into a massacre was 48-year-old george sodini. a loaner who had been planning his attack at a health club in pittsburgh for months. >> he had no relationship with anybody in that club that we know of. >> reporter: shortly after 9:00 p.m., sodini walked into the aerobics classroom, he didn't say a word. he placed a duffel bag on the floor, shut off the lights and opened fire. >> there was four handguns he had on his person. >> she was in the front because she was teaching. >> reporter: alex primis's wife, mary, who is ten weeks pregnant, was leading the class when she was shot twice. >> she said that she held her breath so that if he came around again it would look like she

that's right outside pittsburgh. some of the wounded are said to be in serious condition. they've been rushed to at least two area hospitals. a witness says she was in an exercise class when a man came in the backdoor and started shooting. she said she heard as many as 15 shots. we'll have more on the story as new details become available here on the air and online at abc2news.com. >>> and the other still developing story at this hour, two american journalists held by north korea on charges of spying, and then convicted and sentenced to seven years hard labor are on their way home tonight. laura ling and euna lee should be back in california some time tomorrow, and they both owe former president bill clinton a huge thank you. abc's carla wall has more. >> reporter: after nearly five months in a north korean jail, laura ling and euna lee will soon be home. the two american journalists were pardoned by kim jong-il after a surprise visit by former president bill clinton. their families are overjoyed. >> i my god, i can't believe that they're coming home. >> it's been an emoti

at a suburban pittsburgh center. it was an l.a. fitness. you have seen those all over the country. now, we can show him to you. 48-year-old georges sodini. looks like an average guy. on that blog, now removed from the internet, he left diary entries. this gets interesting. what it reveals is what really pushed this man to the edge. let me share some of these with you. listen to this entry here. you ready. sodini wants to kill, he says. he is writing about his exit plan. that's what he calls it. december 28th, 2008, i will shoot, he says. tuesday, january 6th at 8:15. that's when he is planning to do this, to kill these innocent people. i have a list of to-do items to make. that so-called exit plan was delayed several times. in the blogs we have been reading, he chickened out. he was afraid of what death was going to be like. that's what he said, he was afraid of what death would be like. last night, he didn't chicken out. he walks into the l.a. fitness. he goes into a latin dance aerobics class. he turns ott the lights so the room is pitch black and then he starts shooting 31 times

the loggers are meeting in pittsburgh today.we will have live coverage of the right online conference hosted by americans for prosperity foundation. it is a two-day meeting on strategies and techniques for online activism. book tv begins primetime tonight, with an in-depth interview with christopher buckley, the author of 14 books, including "thank you for not smoking." >> british voters are expected to go to the polls in national elections last -- next spring. this sunday, david cameron and how it tory government would change british politics. radio talk-show executive brian jennings on the new fairness doctrine, why is a bad idea, an alternative to censorship. he is interviewed by monica crowley. this fall, entered the home to america's highest court and the grand public places to those only accessible by the nine justices. the supreme court, coming the first sunday in october. >> chuck grassley hosted a town hall meeting this week to discuss post health care legislation. he also takes questions from constituents on other issu