theedistrict of columbia on tuesday.as melisa raney explains... mitt romney may bb the frontrrnner... but hiss challengers are not wavering. wavering. mitt romney showedd confidence and took aim at the president while campaigning in wisconsin sunday.this president can'ttrun on his pecord. and so hh's going to try in every way he can to divert to some otherrkinddof attack nd -- and try to have peopll disqualify our nominee, which will probably be mee and &pwe've been, and where we're going as a nation.newt gingrich scaled back his campaignninfrastructure laat week and tempered his attacks on romney.but he told c-bbs's "face the nation" he's launching a come-from-bbhind strategy, comparing his long-shot bid to saturday's college basketball victory.youu know, kknsas last night see the second record for coming ppints at he half. that is the second-biggest marrin to come back from in thh fiial four series. ss, i'm goiig to go with kansas as a model.rick

melisa raney has more inn today's business brief. brief.d thursday, following someeweak economic reports.the dow fell 68-points to close at 12,964.the nasdaq pnd s&p 500 also finished lower.sprint has bben slapped with a 300-million dollar taa new york.the wireless carrier - is accused of intentionally underpaying state sales taxes ffr the past seven years, in advantage of its rivals.sprint has released a statement saying the case is "withouu ddy doww nearly five percentthe than expected.386-thousand benefits -- thattwas a drop of two-thousand compared to thee was revised higher.jobless claims had been overing near four-year lows, buttrecent innreases are raissng concerns about tte strennth of tte job market.salee of previously-owned homes sppttered in marcc.the national association of realtors reports existtnnghome point-six-percent, compared to the previous month.anaaysts haddbeen expecting annincrease. &psales were up about five-perceet compared to the same time last year.for business brief, i'm melisa raney. coming up... the interview s

jobless claims take aaother dip in the rrght direccion and as mellss raney reeorts...mericans are ooening up their wallets. waalets. p-reporter pkg-aa folloos -- anddpositiie territory thursday as investors weighed an encouraaing jobs report agginst european jitters.the dow slid fourteen points to clooe at 13,060. the nasdaq post less thhn one point. p - wwekly jobless claims took another dip last week. 357-thousand americans lined upp or benefits forrthe first time, a drop of ix-thousand from tte previous week.claims are nnw near four--ear lows, a sigg of continued growth in thee ob market. in many citiis across the u-s, it's now cheaper to buy than tt renn.a real estate listing site reports home prices fell seven-tenths of a percent over seveeveeal metro arras, rental rates rooe by ten-pprccnt oo pore. egistersswere rinning at retailers in marcc..ales were up fouu-point-three reuters.apparel as the n hottest seller, with sales up analysts say clothing retailers can thank the wrmer peather.ffr business brief, i'm melisa raney-----endd---- cnn.script---- he was hungrr.

forecasters are using more graphic terms like " like "catastrophic," melissa raney for kron 4 news. >>> well, here in the bay area the weather is looking pretty nice for tonight and it was a nice day today. we had lots of sunshine, and temperatures that topped out into the 60s. around the bay area, 65, santa rosa, antioch one of the warm spots at 67 and right now outside mostly clear and readings in the low 50s. coolest spots will drop into the low 40s. santa rosa forecasted to reach ho for this evening. live view outside right now, city hall, conditions mainly clear, but there are low clouds that are forecasted to push into the bay tonight. so tomorrow morning look for areas of low clouds to start things out and we'll begin to see more sunshine and by afternoon, high clouds rolling in from a weather system in the pacific. i will talk more about that weather system and what is brings us coming up. >>> it's been one month since a south bay cheerleader vanished. 15-year-old sierra lamar was last seen on her way to school. divers searched reservoirs and volunteers scoured the ground. >>

raney i'm or something. i bomb as a bomb. it's not like somebody is leaving behind radioactive so that the marines walk through i mean radioactive fails then all the marines die if any scientists show a linkage between the lingering health problems relative to a military weapon. then that military weapon should not be you unless there's an extraordinary reason however if there is a lingering problem the first people to be affected would be the soldiers on the battlefield and i know of no soldiers who are complaining about uranium. yet it's not that hard to find american soldiers had tammet by depleted uranium a few kilometers from new york. isn't easy and their children are to all appearances it's epochal american family. apart from one detail in two thousand and three matthew served more than six months in iraq but truck driver we transported what you call like blown up equipment things move around on the truck so we have to tie it down so that's when susceptibility of being exposed to oil sleeping in that environment with t

melissa raney, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> two bay area best buy stores are among the 48 that are set to be closed by the struggling electronics chain. the stores in east palo alto and pittsburg are both closed today, but scheduled to re-open tomorrow and expected to close permanently in mid-may. last month best buy said it was cutting 400 correspondent jobs and trimming $800 million in costs. >>> federal officials are looking to fine google offer an investigation into it's street mapping service. the federal communications commission yesterday proposed a $25,000 fine for the mountain view company:citing its reluctance with federal investigators google says it did cooperate with the investigation and that the fcc concluded it did not violate the law. >>> the un reaches consensus on syria, this has new video surfaces of violence going on in the country. >> and a little bit later, celebrating the life of legend in east oakland. >>> the storm clouds have moved out of our weather picture, coming up the temperature change you can expect for for sunday and the one parts of the bay area that co

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since 2009.h--'s u-s shipments of p-cc grewwby nearly 7 percent over last business brief, i'm melisa raney---eed----- love... can be found an! chain chick fil a...helped a maryland couple find a love connection. ww are threatened by a nasty cancer epidemic. it is a political correctness and miitake. these are a disease. a ccncer. consider these recent examples.san antonio pchool officials were horrified that alamo heights high school students chanted "usa, usa" after their school defeeted saa antonio eddson in a bassetball game. let e phhckk yys, san antonio is still in the usa.. you rralize that if studenns had chanted the name of anyyooherrcountry that school officials woold have praised it as cultural pride.lisa curtin,,principal of the soule road school in wilbraham, massachhsetts reeamed st. patrick's day "o'green day" onny weeks after she renamed valentine's daa "caring and kindness day.. lexington, kentucky's human rights commission is investigaaing "hands on ooiginals" t-shirt compaay because its owners declined on religious grounds a reeuust too print t-shirts for the city'' gay a

who knows what will happen on the first vote at the conventioo.i'm melisa raney reporting.e latest c-n-n estimate... romney haa 571 deleeates in his column... compared tt santorum's 264, 71.after tomorrow's on paul's - contests... there will be a 3-week gap before the next set stay with fox45 for continuing coverage of vote 2012. see all of our stories on the race for the white house.they're on our website foxbaltimore dot com... and as always all of ouu content is free. coming up... he áthhughtá he was preparing to speak outt.. to a crowd oo supporters.but wrong!"governor mitt romnee, the next president of the whht mitt romney wws confronted with... whhn he turned the cornerrand the for the prank. ((megan live the suuviving tuskegee airmen. how they are being honored in baltimore county.on fox 45 news at 3 3 3 3 3 map 95 at 695 map 3 3for theesecond time in less than a week... homicide detectives are called to a typically quiet neighborhood innanne arundel county.and this morning... police are the latest happened early ssnday morning... on bolivar avenue n pumphrey. police

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international community you've spoken for harsher sanctions on iran but what sanctions just making raney of nationalists close rank and support a government more fervently no and this is a challenge that we have to address and we have been addressing it because we have nothing against the great iranian people the persian people in fact when you talk about the israeli. jewish persian relations actually extending over thousands four thousand years to reach cultures with histories and relations what we see here today with the slightest reason operation and certainly they can be stopped but for that we need everybody on board and if we do this if we have anybody everybody on board they will yield because there's drain. as fanatic there's the ayatollah as a regime in tehran is they are not totally irrational when it comes to be your own political survival if you're not successful in getting everyone on board will israel go to war and. again it's very important to emphasize you're running the threat to all of us in the international community we're part of it i would heed very much and pay att

melissa raney reports on the implicationn it could have. have.r skills and heir coordination. experts recommend at least sixty mmnutes dailyyoff phhsical &pacciviiy for children ges three to five---time to un around aadddo things theyy can't dooindoors.but a new ppddatrics and addlescent medicine says nearly half of taken outsidd eveeyday by their parents. ressarchhrs studded nineethousand preschool age children. they outside more often than girls. and parenns who exercised more ttke their children out. while work was often a barrier or parents, some parents who wrk froo home also failed to take their kids out to play. the outdooo ime is important for all kids' physical well- being---for their heart health, muscle growth, exposure to vitamin d from the sun and ffr weight control. but they say it's also important for a child's mental health-- for their imagination parents prioritize their time with thhir preschoolers. for kids in child care, they suggeet parents make sure the centtr is ppoviding outdoor minute, i'm melisa raney. top 8... on "amerr

it to the independent commission created here by the government it did bring back several notable raney human rights defenders who are next so everyone speeds out of town much of the media in the world it is likely to follow in the rain it goes. on all of our news and so much more can always be caught on our website artsy thought column let's have a quick look and see what's waiting for them right now for example shielding a friend to look at israel's planned defense system known as the iron dome while the u.s. is reportedly preparing to pump funds. for some online how a real life project has been backed by explore other multiple academy award winning director james cameron those details also on our website. and blue gold scientists discover that africa is apparently sitting on a giant reservoir of water could it be a blessing or indeed a curse more of that on the website. but it was the t.v. talk show that caught everybody talking. when you interview program want to see did what many expected it provoked a mixed and sometimes hysterical set of reactions from all around the world from t

and as &pmelisa raney shows us, be the cause.ilure appears to - cause. 3&brightt orange ffames rip trough an apartment bbilding jettcrashes.you can see parts of the wreckage here...smolderinn in the ire surrounded by thick, black smoke.the whole thing was in flames. the whole backyard and then things started o explode!! i don'' kkow..things just kept exploding and that blaak smoke kept going.police! pooice! anyone in heee...get out!!new video shows firefigthers and police breaking doors ttorescue anyone who might have been trapped in the building.we'reeso blessed and peally believe a miracle has haviig any victims. the two pilots were able to eject saffll.i thinn the pilots deserve a lot of credit for sttying with the airplane as long as they possibly couldd ejection was a just a couppe of seconds beffre the aiiplane impact..i ttink it's safe to say the pilots did everything they could tt minimize damage. the navy says the jet spilled fuel over this community...indicatinn hhrr was a mechanical malfunction. residents united to help emerggncy crews after the crash.it was citizens wwo ddagge