. -- no in richmond, safeguards, it has not worked. unless there is a threat of an embargo or military action. i think we should change the emphasis to the primary emphasis on iaea safeguards, the acceptance of the 1997 [unintelligible] the second approach might be to shift the emphasis to agree to make iran agreed to withdraw and rich uranium elsewhere. not keeping the stock of enriched uranium, while having the permission to continue operating its existing cascades of centrifuges. some new ones is needed with respect to enrichment, and said of stating once again for the sixth time, no in richmond, or else nothing. -- no enrichment, or else nothing. do not expand further and agreed to withdraw the low-enriched uranium to moscow will it -- where it will be converted to fuel rods and returned to you for your research reactor. maybe that would be a more effective approach and then iran could say was a victory that we have the right to have industrial enrichment or whatever they call it. on the other hand, it makes the time between politi

. -- no in richmond, safeguards, it has not worked. unless there is a threat of an embargo or military action. i think we should change the emphasis to the primary emphasis on iaea safeguards, the acceptance of the 1997 [unintelligible] the second approach might be to shift the emphasis to agree to make iran agreed to withdraw and rich uranium elsewhere. not keeping the stock of enriched uranium, while having the permission to continue operating its existing cascades of centrifuges. some new ones is needed with respect to enrichment, and said of stating once again for the sixth time, no in richmond, or else nothing. -- no enrichment, or else nothing. do not expand@@@@@@@@k a nuclear weapon, much longer than if iran kept the stocks and stopped the centrifuges. >> going back to the earlier questions and things you said about nato and the number one threat perception in russia being made at. let me ask the question a 5- year-old asked. what is it that russian security things nato would do to russia? it's fine to say nato is a threat, but

as we look at the next four days a cool afternoon. 50 is all we will do here. 69 richmond.hat's where the warm air is. the showers will be ending this evening. tomorrow sun returns. cool, low possibly mid-60s and back in the 70s as we head to thursday. this afternoon, numerous showers. 50s for highs. northeast winds five to ten. definite jacket, sweatshirt, umbrella weather if you will. showers taper off tonight. some spots in the upper 30s if not mid-40s as clearing late. northeast winds at five. and then the sun returns for your wednesday but still cool with highs in the low possibly middle 60s. it is only 42348 gaithersburg and hagerstown. winchester 46. fredericksburg is 61. richmond, as i said, 69. locally gaithersburg is 48 as is reston. 52 springfield. arlington is 49. what happened to the 90s the last week? we will see them in a couple of month months. east northeast winds at 14. light rain is reported and the bigger picture. this is what is coming through us. a little energy back through ohio and pennsylvania. that's why we can't rule out and say this will be out o

and three unsuccessful attempts tobago place with woundings, mainly in virginia, between d.c., and richmond. but conclude willing back in montgomery county. mohammed and malvo wop captured at a maryland restaurant some 50 miles northwest of d.c., ending the manhunt. but my book does not chronicle the story, although there's a chapter on it to orient people, but what it does is take a look at the newspaper men and women who covered it and there were more newspaper men and women than this actually were police in the task force, trying to track these men down. the media that 2000 strong, turned out an inexhaustible supply of words, images and sounds to explain what was occurring, an initial way to address this explosion is to begin with the continuous coverage available on tv. studying these broadcasts of two hours or more, of breaking news, allows an excellent but not fully typical vantage into the -- into understanding in general what the press tried to do. post other coverage had minutes, hours, or even days between the appearance news material, but continuous coverage, wall to wall, as the

pitburg at 44 degrees. -- 52 at richmond.ce map for today, we talked about breezy conditions as this area of low pressure continues to move to the east. rain showers continue up to the north and east. those will push out of here as the day progresses. those winds will come in here as well. it will be rather breezy during the course of the afternoon and more sunshine builds in as the clouds pull out. forecast for today and the next five days. today, looking for a high in the low to mid-60s. tomorrow, mid-60s with sunshine. thursday and friday look good as well. very warm on saturday way high into the mid-80s. that is a look at what is happening with the weather. now, let's get an update on traffic from julie wright. >> not looking so bad right now. light volume between college park and bethesda. eastbound on 270, accident ask sift there. follow police direction to get through. still quiet and clear clarkdzburg headed in towards rockville. 355 running smoothly headed in towards rockville. 3959, live shot leaving edsall road. >>

mary's and down towards richmond, we will be in the ban of on and off showers through the evening commuteit pushes towards york and harrisburg. by tomorrow morning, it's off the coast and we should see a good-looking day. for today, downtown baltimore, down to 62 degrees with a chance of on and off light rain. we expect the rain to push through caroll county, 59 degrees in parkton. the push make it to the eastern shore getting to 66 degrees. we'll check out the week and forecast in the next half hour. >>> we have a quick note from overseas, olympic committee president has passed away. he died at a hospital in barcelona after being admitted with heart problems. he oversaw a big expansion of the games, he was 89 years old. >>> all right. it's get back to work wednesday and not some do we feature those trying to find a job, we'll get you to spruce up the resume as well. >> how the resume game has changed. we'll look for a job now. >> olympic great dorothy is here to talk about something she's passionate about and get a preview. >>> also ahead, how to get your kids to ask for more vegetables

wish you were back here in richmond. >> sometimes i do too.ight, before we get to governor mcdonnell's statement that he just put out this evening, i want to go back to how he defended his proclamation to the washington post earlier. he said, "there were any number of aspects to that conflict between the states. obviously, it involved slavery and other issues, but i focused on the ones that were most significant for virginia." now, i'm guessing, governor wilder, that to african-americans living in virginia, slavery was a significant issue, but you tell me. >> i think so. >> what did you think when you first read that? >> when i first read it and heard about it, i knew that it was not right. i knew that it was wrong. i knew it had to be revised. i knew there had to be a change. i knew there would be a reaction. all of that has come true. >> you spoke with governor mcdonnell this afternoon as he was putting the statement together. >> yes. >> what did he tell you? >> he called and he pretty much said that he was going to do what he's done in term

the hole opened up in richmond, california thursday. watch them digging and digging and not reaching it, it is hard to figure out where it could be. i've even had the police check to make sure it didn't get towed. so there is no report on it. so it is definitely down there somewhere. >> workers have started building a rode around this sinkhole because it cut off about 100 homes. it is not clear what caused the sinkhole. >>> former president, bill clinton, is telling people to be careful with the words they use to criticize government officials. he says, don't demonize them. he says, all angry anti-government rhetoric has him worried about increasing threats against the president and other elected officials. clinton brought up the issue during a speech on friday. he mentioned the 1995 oklahoma city bombings as he warned about care less language used against the government. >>> a man considered a legend among cigar lovers has passed away. hear how this simple farmer made a world of difrnls when ference comes to luxury cigars. belowhe surt

. >> reporter: this meteorite fell on a doctor's office along richmond highway. >> it is probably 4.5 billion years old. >> reporter: i'm sorry. how old is it? >> 4.5 billion. >> reporter: meteorites fall over the world. most fall in the ocean. this surprised the doctor when it fell through the roof of his offices. >> we heard an explosion. i thought the bookshelves fell. i looked to the left. there was a lot of debris in the hallway. i looked into the room, there was dry wall fragments, foam from the roof and a rock that was broken up in the center of the room. >> reporter: the doctor sent the meteorite to the smithsonian where it will be studied under microsco microscopes. how do you know it is a meteorite not just a rock? >> we can tell because there is a brown coating called fusion cust. a little bit melts and forms this coating. >> reporter: everyone wants to know how much is it worth? >> it would have a financial value of whatever the dealers are willing to pay for it. there is a market for meteorites on the street. >> a patient of mine this morning said there is a one in a bill

now this big coal company from richmond, virginia had its eyes on this last range.the already devastated so much of the area but there is a largest coal plant in the hemisphere nearly $8 billion of toxic waste sitting in a pond in the earth and the dan up in the hills and down slope in the little valley or villages and elementary school that if the earth and the dam broke like what happened with buffalo creek or montanan county kentucky in the year 2000 or what happened to the neighbors of the pond, about 1,000 people in the valley would have four minutes to flee the 72-foot tidal wave of the coal sludge and they are blasting within a few hundred feet of this honeycomb sludge to get the last mountain. and i said i don't want to talk about that stuff. i'm tired of talking about the dark legacy of coal to read my book is the triumph, the resiliency of these amazing people who worked with the native americans, against the slave owners and the coal miners to save the land and the people who marched and we have the first union in 1870. my grandfather had an eight hour wo

the storm scan showing be storm system stretching through richmond and the carolinas, working to the northeast in the next few hours. by about 3:00, most of it should be east of the bay. on the weatherbug, the strongest wind gusts were fairly close together, nationals park, our studio in arlington, bowie, camp springs, 58, 54 miles per hour the morning outlook is good. the pollen will be out of the air, wash off your car. the skies will be clear in the morning, 49-55. at any more big weather action from mother nature? we will let you know. >>> our team coverage continues with john gonzalez it northeast and the storm nearly cost a man his life? >> it is miraculous the man is alive tonight. we're still getting heavy rain, strong winds. the damage is widespread. this massive tree came down in northeast d.c., literally buckling the sidewalk. it damaged the fence, and the home's back over there. but that is only the beginning tonight. this quick moving it storm dropped gallons of rain and streaks of lightning tonight. the number of downed trees caused a tremendous amount of damage. that w

. >> i know you represent richmond in the state senate. attorney general in addition to this lawsuit that he's speaking at all these events, he also attended a gun right rally in richmond today, reportedly 100 people there, many of them wearing visible weapons. how do you feel about the state's top lawyer addressing -- addressing that group? how do you think it fits into overall how he's performing as attorney general? >> i think he's not performing as attorney general, at least as he should. it seems he's already on the campaign trail. tomorrow will mark the 90th day of this administration. campaign is over, and what he ought to be doing is helping to solve the problems that everyday, ordinary virginians are facing and not be campaigning. >> do you get the sense that the new governor and new attorney general are more focused on building a national profile than they are the local problems facing virginians? >> i think that's absolutely the case. they are clearly playing to their base. but what they really need to remember is the election i

the 2.5 magnitude earthquake was 8 miles north of richmond. it happened just after midnight. no damage was reported. >> it is a fairly common thing when there are that small. farther west, there are hot spots. south carolina and portions of misery -- portions of missouri, there are some hot spots. >>> what did you updated on the rain. most of the heavier elements are passed on to the eastern shore. a few little patches to go. around 8:00 or 9:00 is when it will all end. and that is the trend. it might stop at 9:15 but you can see the back edge. we will have a different weather pattern moving in for the next few days. let's check a few stops. landover at 49. 46, that is chilly in fairfax. tomorrow, back where we belong in the mid 60's. here is the ford board but the official numbers. 100th of an inch of rain. dick g-8 and 48. below normal temperatures. -- 58 and 48. below normal temperatures. cool whether all through the mid-atlantic. a short drive to the south and west, you were in the warm air. look how big this area of warm air is. temperatures close to 70 in dallas. a huge

she was also a virginia native, born in richmond.donnell has asked all state flags fly at half mast today. kathy park, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> more details. she had been in the hospital since her 98 birthday last month. she was on the platform at the lincoln memorial when martin luther king delivered his "i have a dream" speech. she died of natural causes. >>> major waterboarded is being lifted for residents across northwest washington. residents across northwest were told not to use water because of a spike in chlorine levels. you should not shower or drink it. the warning now just applies to wait six-block radius. and that radius is shrinking. >>> the house has abandoned legislation giving d.c. a vote in congress. it will now likely not take it up at all this year. steny hoyer said a major problem was its inclusion of a provision eliminating the top gun control laws. >>> there is no suspects in the murder of a popular principle found dead in his home. last wednesday, officials say brian betts was still alive at 11:30 p.m. the

. >> reporter: virginia, known for its civil war battlefield, its capital richmond was the capital ofst battle over that legacy. virginia republican governor bob mcdonnell has declared april confederate lift month to understand the sacrifices of the confederate lead, soldiers and citizens. >> i thought that just having people look at the history had, learning from the mistakes of the history, but understanding virginia's role in the battlefield et cetera would be helpful for economic development so that's why i signed it up. >> reporter: but the governor is now apologizing for what he calls a major omission, failure to mention mention of slavery. the civil rights advocates had accused of governor of trying to white wash history. >> to not take even a second to acknowledge that the civil war, the main purpose of it, the main reason for that fire that burned across this country was the's refusal to let go of slavery which is a deep and abiding crime against humanity, does suggest that he lacks courage. >> reporter: for better or worse, virginia is steeped in confederate history, monumen

my mother was a nurse, and in fact, she was the head of nurses at a hospital in richmond, virginia, a black hospital. my father was very fortunate because he could find work. in fact, he employed people. he was self-employed all his life. but my mother, being a nurse, was not able to work in any hospital, nor was there a nurses registry that would take a negro at that time. c-span: you say in your book, early on, that you were not aware of prejudice until you were about 12 years old. >> guest: well, i'd had a little experience with it in that one of my little neighbors, who i loved very much, told me one day that she couldn't hold hands and go up the hill or down the hill with me as we went to school, as we had always done, because she found that i was a "nigger." so that was one of -- that was my first shock. but i think -- i lived also with the realization of my mother's feelings about not being able to get the kind of job that she wanted. c-span: but you -- when you got into girl scouts and... >> guest: no, the ywca. c-span: i'm sorry, the ywca -- but the whole business that -- the

the same for richmond. miami looking at 72 degrees.rd to believe we had a cold front that moved through during the early-morning hours. a change of the wind direction. temperatures are actually warmer compared to what we had yesterday. from eyewall isla -- from iowa, tornado watches and a severe thunderstorm watch. no rain in our forecast at least until thursday. that is when a strong cold front will move through our area. satellite radar across the region, mostly clear skies out to the west of us. partly cloudy at the delmarva peninsula. this is what we expect tomorrow. another midol day. lots of sunshine. cooler air well to the north of us -- another mild day. sunshine for tomorrow. the baseball game, perfect, 75 to 80 degrees. here is the extended outlook. some humidity? yes, we are talking about humidity in april. upper 80's to around 90 on wednesday. here is the cold front. cooler, drier air towards the start of the upcoming weekend. lucky days. >>> hopefully, it is lucky for the nationals. >>> coming up on abc7 news at 11:00, can

bob mcdonnell's office in richmond received one of the letters wednesday and turned it over to the fbi and state police. letters demand the governor leaves office in three days or risk being removed. the anti-government group guardians of free republics believed to have sent them. >>> the new jobs report is out for march. it shows some growth. even the president is remaining cautiously optimistic. u.s. employers added 162,000 new jobs. that's the highest number in one month in three years. nearly 1/3 of those jobs are temporary census workers. unemployment held steady at 9.7%. 15 million americans are still looking for work. >>> still ahead, an out of control car jumped the curb, crosses a parking lot and ends up in a front yard. >>> popular singer will hear from police after a music video which she stripped. >>> time stops at a busy train station as hundreds stand still. >>> how about weather? >> weather from traveling to egg hunts, church and relaxing, this will make things sweeter. i'll have your forecast coming up. >>> a big-name running back hoping for a fresh smart with the redsk

governor bob mcdonnell, after tim pawlenty, now being christened the new voice of the when "the richmond-dispatch" endorsed him last year they noted his, quote, moderate temperment. mr. mcdonnell was hand-picked by the republican party to give the republican response to president obama's state of the union address earlier this year, after he had been in office precisely 11 days. mr. mcdonnell was praised as the moderate seeming new face of the republican party. move over, tim pawlenty, there is a new republican moderate seeming guy in town. a new republican moderate seeming guy that declared the month of april will be confederate history month in the commonwealth of virginia. governor mcdonnell releasing a proclamation to that effect saying, quote, april is the month in which the people of virginia joined the confederate states of america in a four-year war between the states for independence. oh, that's what we're calling it now, a four-year war between the states for independence. sounds awesome. is that all it was for? proclamation goes on, whereas virginia has long recognized her con

rain that's going to cause some issues on the morning drive heading from virginia to roanoke to richmond to harrisburg to d.c. we're seeing the showers spread your way and eventually they're make it to baltimore, maryland, and delaware. relatively calm in texas, around amarillo and texas, strong storms later on this afternoon. looking good in the northern plains. the rockies look pretty nice. the southeast wet weather early today but you should clear out this afternoon. >>> if you're watching us on kark tv 4 little rock ark, leave your bags at home when you travel around the globe at the passport to the world exhibit at the arkansas museum of discovery. and that's your "early today" event of the day, lynn. >>> all right, bill. thanks so much. >>> well, now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. a lot of actors would actually want to be on the other side of the cameras directing and eventually jennifer aniston is one of them. inspired by drew barrymore's recent debut as a director, aniston has her own in the works, telling the "national enquirer", quote, it's g

the rain is far south down by richmond. let's check out some rainfall totals. about 15 hundredths of 1 inch fell in mclean. temperatures falling into the 40's in frederick. 43 in leesburg. 48 degrees in downtown washington. here is your wednesday morning wake up forecast. by then we will be partly sunny with some cloudiness, but a cold start. a nice improvement in temperatures throughout the day. we will share the next seven days in a few minutes. >> right now leaders from nations are on their way home. there is the end of the nuclear security summit. the group worked on a goal to secure nuclear weapons andy discussed sanctions against iran. john gonzales is live in the convention center with what happened inside and outside the meeting rooms. >> we are at side at this hour. things are busy. -- we are outside. the roads are slowly getting back to normal of around the convention center. inside, the president accomplish major short-term goals, including persuading china to join in on new sanctions to pressure iran to get rid of its nuclear enrichment program. whi

and i'm going on to except a job at the university of richmond in the fall in teaching american studiesen jd comes marching home is the name of the book, laura is the author the, sasha is the retired her. >> coming at next come booktv presents after words an hourlong discussion between guest us and the author of a new book. this week jack matlock, ambassador to the soviet union under president reagan, discusses his but "superpower illusions: how myths and false ideolgies led america astray - and how to return to reality". in the book ambassador jack matlock looks at the role played by mikhail gorbachev and been down the soviet empire and argues that president reagan's successor is learned the wrong lessons from the end of the cold war. he's interviewed by dimitri simes, president of the nixon center and publisher of the national interest. ..

and richmond. but concluding back in montgomery county mohammed and malveaux would be captured in the maryland prescott some 50 miles northwest of d.c. in during the manhunt. but my book does not, calvo story although there is a chapter to orient people. but what it does is take a look at the newspaper men and women who cover it and there were more newspaper men and women than there actually were police and the trust deed to a task force trying to track these men down. the media to thousand strong turned down an inexhaustible supply of words, images and sounds to explain what was occurring. in an official way to address this explosion is to begin with a continuous coverage available on tv. studying the broadcasts of two hours or more of breaking news allows an excellent but not for the typical vintage in to understanding in general with the press tried to do. most other coverage had minutes or hours or even days between the appearance of news material. but continuous coverage or wall-to-wall as the

it was after the in richmond had been exposed to the world, and there was a resolution that basically condemned iran for violating, for not having told about this facility in advance. this was the first resolution passed by the board of governors since we reported iran to the security council. it was significant, and we got a pretty good majority of the board to go along with it. it was not just the u.s. and our european colleagues. it was japan, australia, russia, china, countries in africa, countries from south america, but turkey abstained. how could turkey of staying on the fact that the country next to them -- abstain on the fact of the country next to the misfiling security council resolutions and failed to tell the iea above this facility that did not look like a civil facility. the turkish ambassador said, we are trying to mediate, and we thought the timing was bad, but what i told my turkish friends is, beware of offers to mediate. i did a lot of traveling to talk to governments in dispute. every government i talked to, particularly on the board of governance, they would tell

down toward richmond, for the most part, all the showers are out of here. did find a couple showers in southeastern sections of maryland. down towards st. mary's county, into calvert county. this is light activity and this will run down 495. in the next 30 minutes and it's going to be about it. let's go back to the computer and talk about temperatures. with clouds and showers, it's a great equalizer. 54 in bethesda, 55 in college park. high was 57 today at national. it's 10 degrees below average. mid to upper 50s out towards sterling and leesburg. tomorrow morning, plenty of sunshine, cool, 40s and 50s to start. and then by afternoon, again a nice day. partly cloudy, breezy and pleasant. showers are possible, but the bulk of the day will be nice. high temperatures around 70. winds will increase at 10 to 15. satellite picture, radar combined, our weekend storm is in the rockies, causing some rain and snow in the rockies. thunderstorms in the plain states. this system is finally leaving us alone. with a weak system, we talked about that. only about a third to

richmond, virginia almost 70 degrees at the top of the hour. visible satellite pictures. you can see that boundary coming through and clearing back south of us that will come through later tonight. then we'll cloud up as the next disturbance moves in tomorrow during the day. you can soo he that disturbance is already putting the rain down across eastern kentucky and down into western north carolina down towards asheville. that's moving in our direction as we push into the day tomorrow. a couple things going on with the weather pattern. a little bit still of a cool one as we get high pressure spinning some cooler air. at least areas just north of maryland. then we've got the showers coming out of the south disturbance here. thing about this particular storm system doesn't look that impressive meaning it doesn't look like the showers will hold together all that well. could see scattered showers. that could mean slick roads for the evening commute. traffic headaches with that. then it quickly fizzles out tomorrow night overnight. i think this partly cloudy thursday. so a bet

they under the low 70s into virginia and richmond right now. this is all seasonable and typical stuff for the latter part of april. a little spoiled there earlier this month with thele 0s and 9 -- the 80s and 90s. it will bring increasing cloud cover tomorrow right now. our band of cloud cover is breaking up. we've got more coming out of the south and west. this will likely bring rain tomorrow after nan and tomorrow evening. not a lot of rain. this storm is not that impressive. it is a relatively large storm but doesn't look like a lot of punch. the showers will not hold together all that well tomorrow evening. we will see scattered showers. cooler stuff north of us, but it's where we're watching that's south and west of us as this line of showers comes out of the virginia area into maryland tomorrow afternoon. this is 5:00. could douse our beltway here with some showers around that peak evening commute. you know just a few rain drops will cause major headaches. this looks like it will fizzle out after sun schett tomorrow evening. and then mayb

the old goal leading down to richmond. you'll make 70 degrees. the next seven days. cool the first two. and then warm in the middle. 58 tomorrow. 52 on wednesday. we'll see some breaks in the clouds late on wednesday. that'll lead to a very nice thursday and friday with temperatures, back into the 70s. and just a couple of showers on friday. but 75, who cares. a little cooler over the weekend. drizzle possible. get early saturday. we're back near the 60s. then sunshine on sunday and monday, looks good. >> not bad. >> well, from our weird news files, it seems like the cub fans will stop at nothing to lift the curse of the billy goat. and we do mean nothing. even if it means going on the pub crawl with the said goat in tow. sunday night, the fans are having some drinks with this goat. hoping to find whatever guys may have kept the teams in winning anything since the 1940s. and you'll see that it all goes back to the 1945s. in the world series against detroit. when a man whose name was billy, by the way, brought his goat to game number four. he was kicked out because th

>> it's in richmond, virginia. >> what is it called? >> shockomoto. i work on japanese and british bikes. these are mostly vintage bikes, vintage cache that makes people willing to spend money on them and it's a very small operation. islamic any reason in particular that you don't work on harleys? [laughter] >> yeah, people ask me sometimes why i don't work on harleys, and why generally say is i work on motorcycles, not lifestyles. i'm not qualified to help them with their lifestyle issues, it is beyond my competence. >> what is soulcraft? >> the title on the book is a play on a george will that cannot 20 years ago. his was statecraft and i thought it was funny to replace henrietta lacks with soulcraft but i guess if pressed to define it would be like education, the forming of the souls. >> what does that mean? >> often we think of education in a fairly narrow terms of requiring may be a narrow set of technical skills. apply think most people would agree that education entails some kind of education of the affections, disconnected, actually can be con

we have a few temperatures in the 60s around richmond.then baltimore. 55 in harrisburg. 44 in pittsburg. then we are seeing 39 degrees in chicago. so you see much colder air toward indianapolis, falling out of the great lakes, over behind that cold front. so you can see along the cold front, where the showers and thunderstorms have fired up. stronger storm activity down south. and in parts of virginia, to the north of us, also, heavier thunderstorm activity. but for the most part n the form of rain. already tapering off in western maryland. and over parts of western portions of west virginia. so a break from the rain by morning rush hour. as the front pushes through, removing the warm air with cooler temperatures. for rush hour, the ground may be wet but start to get breaks in the clouds through mid-morning and afternoon. maybe a trailing shower on the eastern shore. but dryer air with high pressure moves in. cooler temperatures for the next day or so. but we will see more warm air trying to inch in by sunday. and taking the temperatures

now, the chairman of the richmond-based company that owns the upper anch mine released this statement tonight sayin quote, the top priority is the safety of our miners. we're working diligently on rescue efforts and continue to partner with awfully the appropriate agencies. our prayers go out to the families of the miners. we want to assure the families of all the miners we are taking every action possible to locate and rescue those still missing." three other miners have been killed in accidents at upper big branch over the past 12 years and the company has been fined by the government for various safety regulations. it produced 1.2 million tons of coal last year, brian. >> bob barnard live in our newsroom. obama is offering his condolences to those who lost loved ones. he also has spoken with west virginia's governor. the president says the government is prepared to offer assistance. >>> there have been several other mining accidents in recent years. 2007 six miners and three rescuers were killed in a collapse at the crandall canyon mine in utah. a year earlier two separate incident

so he said your co-chairs will be richmond bowles.a i have the deep respect and admiration for him, and i called gershwin and said we have to talk to the president and see where he is and we did. all i can tell you is both of us agreed that we may be only able to move the football a yard, and i have no idea but i can tell you that i have no illusions we are going to get savage from the right and the left. we will be beat up. every time we go somewhere someone says are you going to handle that tax or what are you going to do for the children, the veterans? i said everything is on the table including the new president's and commerce health bill. that's on the table, too. anything off the table, now that maybe the only thing that would save us from yesterday, the commission letters and we are the single member of the team that didn't know that this was one of the deepest problems of this country. >> let me get back to my question. is it doable which may be at the heart of this. thinking about this, and it reminds me of the israeli-palest

government was talking about the point of no return i understood that and interpreted as having in richmond capability. but they didn't act at that point and we tend to understand more about with the decisionmaking problem but i suspect the government how complicated that was in the middle east. what about other countries in the region? if i may pick on your own country, turkey, and he knows i'm a great reporter that i am a friend of turkey and work closely with turkey in nato and during the balkans and at the iaea, but i have to say i've been disappointed recently. after i left the iaea board of governments passed a revolution on iran that was after the second enrichment facility had been exposed to the world and there was resolution that basically condemned iran the house for violating security council resolutions, not having told the iaea about this nuclear facility in in france. this is the first resolution that was passed by the board of governors since we reported that iran to the security council. it was significant and we got a pretty good majority of the iaea board to go along with

across the entire u.s., good old baltimore, washington, richmond, the good atlantic hottest place in the u.s. today. the front lines up and begins to push in tomorrow. i think we'll be warm, dry, and a little bit of sunshine ahead of. this but then showers and storms tomorrow evening. that will cool us off big time as cooler air fiteners. for friday, opening day, i know, it will be cooler, but most of the rain ends on friday. 68 tonight, a few clouds, stays mild. tomorrow, 83, still a warm day; but not quite as hot, and then tomorrow night, a good chance for showers and storms as we drop into the 50s. you can see the outlook here as we push toward the weekend, much cooler friday and saturday, right around 60, but does get warmer toward sunday. and we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] are you watching cable? here's what you should be watching: your cable bill, because you could be paying way too much. stop spending more for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone, for just $69.99 a month for six months -- three top-rated services for one rock-bottom pric

a wider perspective and we find 70 plus toward richmond and norfolk getting close to 70 today. this is typical for this mid- late part of april, i guess you'd call it. as we look at the satellite view, one little round of cloud cover now. then clearing and our next storm system is beginning to approach out of the south and west and a chance late in the day. it's not that impressive of a storm to be honest with you. we'll see scattered showers but not a prolonged soaking rain at least. cool conditions north of us right now. we're milder today even though we're getting a bit of a north wind from the great lakes. this weather system will bring us a shot of rain. the forecast model will begin to bring it in and any rain will make the evening commute a real headache. after we go past sunset tomorrow night, these showers fizzle out it would appear. as we go through the night on thursday, passing cloud cover and a little bit of drizzle. i think thursday is looking relatively dry and that will be a good thing. tonight, 47, generally cloudy and mild out there, quiet. tomorrow into the d

i am going on to accept a job at the university of richmond in the fall teaching american studies. >> when ginnie comes marching home is the name of of the boo >> every year the national press club hosts an author's night. author of 14 books. a new book out called defenders of faith. let's start with the basic questions. >> the holy roman emperor. the tenth sultan of the ottoman empire. the two came into a clash in vienna in 1527 and 1532. really was a clash of empires and the clash of civilizations and the clash of religions. we think after 9/11 we were the only ones that never had this experience of jihad versus crusade, but this is what i have been really doing for the last four books, reminding people of episodes in history where christianity and islam came into conflict. >> what was the result? >> well, the result was that the ottoman turks, the islamic forces. had they not been stopped what he wanted to do was go all the way to the rhine river. had he prevailed europe would had been islamic in 1527. so it is a major turning point in history. >> when you are working on this type

it was a year ago, abc news followed her brother to this gun show in richmond, virginia.e gave him one hour and $5,000 cash. within minutes while still in line he bought his first gun. >> this is what? >> this is a glock. >> you got this before you even got in the show? >> yeah, he was sitting outside of the door. went up to him. how much you want for it? 450 bucks. >> a glock handgun. same kind of gun used to kill at virginia tech. >> reporter: inside omar made purchase after purchase. not one background check, he emerged carrying in this case a semi automatic assault weapon. >> what did they ask? >> nothing, nothing. i just went up, gave him cash, he said cash is all you need. >> reporter: an hour later, his hands were fold. watching it all, former atf age agent. i gave him cash, he said cash is all you need. an hour later, his hands are hold. watching is arms. for the family the fight continues, just this week three virginia congressman sent a letter asking them to support a bill closing the loophole and support the family whose of course fighting ever since. >> a stat

. >> 95 between richmond and baltimore. no problems on 66 inside and outside the beltway. if things are open at the wilson bridge. heading onto route 4, going east. on your way towards done park they were doing some paving overnight, should be cleared by the time you get there. to upper marlboro everything is open. no disruptions through loudoun county where we are looking in a green light and the airport. >> thank you. >>> we have a traffic alert for anyone on the roads between midnight and 2:00, the road crews will close all lanes of the dulles toll road, part of the metrorail project. closures will last for up to 15 minutes at a time. keep that in mind. >> it's 53 degrees in roslyn on this wednesday. >> more amazing numbers about teenagers and texting. wait until you hear how many messages they send on a daily basis. >> members of congress pay tribute to the life of dorothy >> you are watching abc7's good morning washington. with doug mcelway, alison starling, meteorologist brian van de graaff, and lisa baden with traffic. this is good morning washington, on your side.

jonathan richmond joins us. please to not look at my nails.e talked mostly about women, but does it apply to men? >> anyone that has fingernails, it will apply to. >> is it just fingernails, or is it the toenails, too? >> they will be mostly the same thing. we see the fingernails very readily. it is a more appropriate topic, but it will happen in the toenails as well. >> how does what you eat affect how your fingernails look? >> like anything, you will notice differences in your skin and hair depending on how your diet is. a well-balanced diet will help your fingernails grow appropriately. you should probably not seen -- see changes in your nails if you do that. if you become malnourished, you will see changes in the nails. >> any sudden or drastic change might be something to be concerned about? >> nails grow quicker than other things, but there usually are not sudden, drastic changes that happen unless it is a severe illness. gradual changes over time, you may notice some difference. >> what you think about the vitamins that promise to make

dangerous fault of their-- fog. 95 between richmond and baltimore, no problems. 270, 66, the dallas green lake, and the dulles toll road, no problems. >> we begin with breaking news from prince george's county. two sheriff's deputies were involved in a shooting at a nightclub. details are scarce. it happened at brinkley rd. in temple hillel. and there's no word on the number of victims or what led to the shooting. we have a crew on the lake. >> a popular d.c. principal will be laid to rest a week after he was murdered in his own home. brian betts was loved by his students and co-workers. bien carter has some of the emotional tributes and the latest on the investigation. >> words like irreplaceable put on the outside of the door at the school. yesterday the students went to a public memorial for the principle. today there is a private funeral service. police continue looking for a suspect. a week after this tragic death, the beloved shaul middle school principal will be laid to rest. he motivated and inspired his students more than any other educators could. students and faculty are still

of course in those thunderstorms up to 50, maybe 60-mile-per-hour winds. 57 here, warmer in richmond. that helped to fuel these storms as it moved to the east right now over southern maryland. as these storms cross the bay, they should weakening considerably, one cell, one area of low pressure that is to our west over west virginia, that is slowly, finally exiting the area. which is going to take probably overnight. we still have a chance of winds and thunderstorms. as the winds go back to the northwest, we'll start clearing out. that looks like that will be the picture. tomorrow afternoon into tomorrow night, and looks like nice weather into wednesday and the rest of the week. they'll be breezy tomorrow, advisory on the bay during the day and into wednesday. tonight then, showers, maybe some thunder, and maybe some drizzle around here. obviously the thunderstorms are well to our south. in the morning, then sun, breezy. getting drier during the afternoon. a chilly but clear night in the area for tomorrow night. >> good. >> okay, thank you. >>> thank you, bob. >> i think i might go wit

north into baltimore and south into richmond, normal travel time spirit of the complicated near andrews air force base. a pretty good ride out of leesburg. looks good into reston. new the dulles toll road and the greenway,. beautiful on the george washington parkway. this is traffic north of an way towards memorial bridge. >> looks good. thank you. >>> the world bank and imf will meat and there will be road closures 7:00 there denied until 5:00 tonight, 18th, 19th, and 20th streets closed sunday street through pennsylvania ave. d street and h streets will be closed and 18th street through 20th street and will be parking restrictions. >> 55 degrees. >> coming up, taking speed cameras to a new level. there is a new deal that's out of this world. >> first, we will tell you about of this world. >> first, we will tell you about tributes planned for the announcer: whether it's earning a promotion... they're the culmination of lots of hard work. the graduate school has more ways to get you the knowledge you need to reach your next goal, your next great moment, with continuing education program

the virginia tech families took out a full-page ad in the "richmond times" newspaper today urging senators to support the measure. gun rights advocates are opposed to it. >> the 2010 census is bringing up a controversy on racial identity in the united states. census officials say they expect the number of people describing themselves as biracial to increase from the last census ten years ago, but some with one black parent and one white parent are choosing to only check off black. that inkwluds president obama. an official with the naacp says those responses signify that being black in the united states may be more of a political and social construct than it is a biological reality. 35 million people describe themselves as black alone in 2000 census, while 7 million said they were biracial. the stock market largely poegsed gains today after friday's selloff. the dow gained 73 points today to close at 11,092. the s&p 500 rose five point and the nasdaq lost one point today. the day started out pretty slowly amidst concerns over the government's civil fraud charges against gold man sachs, but

richmond is 71.own into the carolinas, temperatures are holding into the 70s and back to the northwest temperatures were in the 60s. we're not expecting big cooldown. we will be cooler tomorrow simply because we'll have clouds. less amount of sunshine and they'll help keep the temperatures in the low 60s. mostly cloudy at 11:00 and 69. showers tomorrow morning. i will say at 8:00 though, may be a better way to say it would be spotty showers and the way it's looking right now primarily to the south of the metro tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m. so we're hoping that this rain will hold off a little bit. at least the morning hour commute will mainly stay dry but by noon just about everybody will be in for at shower activity. high pressure to the south of us. so that's kept us fairly nice today. notice the clouds coming through. the high-level clouds. most of this rain is still well on off to the south of us as the area of high pressure comes to the south and the warmer air. they've had thunderstorms in sout

stretching from new york city, richmond. across the mountains to 50s and 40s.cooler air behind the frontal boundary. that is noticeable into tomorrow afternoon. you can see the front where the showers and thunderstorms are at this time. we saw a lot of severe weather in the southern tip of parts of virginia. so they have seen tornadoes down there reported. back west, you see the rain comingdo to an enin wheeling west virginia where the cold front is right there. drops in overnight. breaks in the clouds. few remaining warnings south of williamsburg around there in virginia. and most of the mid-atlantic no more severe weather warnings at this time. which is good news, as we head into the next several hours. front pushes through. taking the rain with it. 6:00. i think, the rain will be done. i think most of it on the eastern shore or further east. cooler temperatures continue to move in with the northwest wind. more sunshine breakout. thanks to the big blue h. high pressure sticks around through the weekend. and into portions of next week. so nice dry conditions s

black lawmakers in richmond are offended by the decision.yan helton said it is important to honor history. his family fought on both sides of the civil war and his 23- rolled son is a soldier. >> my son last year went to iraq, and i was so proud of him. >> help growth in northern virginia and wants his 6-year- old to know the commonwealth's role in the civil war. about that is where we came from, that is who we are as americans. >> this woman takes issue with the name. >> i think civil war history month would be an excellent idea, but i don't think singling out the confederate side would be beneficial. >> many democratic and black lawmakers are outraged. and it seemed like he was kowtowing to the right-wing extremist component that still supports the confederacy. with that in mind, it is irresponsible. he is the governor for all of virginia. >> today at the manassas battlefield where stonewall jackson looks on, there was support for governor mcdonnell's decision. >> i think it is a good itiative by the governor. it is one that brings the con

. >> reporter: virginia is known for its civil war battlefield, its capital, richmond, was the capitalnow a new battle over that legacy. virginia republican governor, bob mcdonnell, has declared april confederate history month. >> i wanted to focus on primarily the -- the role of the confederate veterans. >> reporter: the proclamation reads in part, quote, it is important for all virginians to reflect upon our commonwealth shared history, to understand the sacrifices of the confederate leaders, soldiers and citizens during the period of the civil war. but glaringly absent, any reference of slavery. civil rights advocates accuse the governor of trying to, quote, whitewash history. >> to, you know, not take even a second to acknowledge that the civil war, you know, the main purpose of it, the main reason for the, you know -- for that fire that burned across this country was the south's refusal to let go of slavery, which is a deep and abiding crime against humanity, does suggest that he lacks courage. >> reporter: the governor says he did this at the request of the group sons of confeder

. >> that was richmond federal reserve president jeffrey lacquer, speaking to steve liesman about the fed's actions. while the fed contemplates the moves, my next guest says stimulus could be a problem for the next year. laura tiesing is a professor at the university of california berkeley, also a member of president obama's economic recovery advisory board. it's always wonderful to have you on the program. >> it's always a pleasure to be with you, maria. >> tell me your thoughts on where we are. your thoughts is friday's reported gains were just modest. >> i did say modest. if you look tess effect of the census and slowdown in february because of the weather, and you look at the numbers, i looked at the average over the first quarter, so the average is 55,000 jobs a month, actually now in the last two months of the first quarter, it was up to 66. that is still almost half of what we need just to stabilize, just to meet the increase in the labor supplies. that's why i use the word "modest." i think it's encouraging, because i think other parts show the situation is stabilizing. even t

look at richmond, nice and toasty, right? the east coast here and with temperatures up into the upper 70s right now and some clouds at 11:00 and dry. a spotty shower tomorrow morning and doesn't look like a big deal. the temperature down to 54 degrees and shotty shower at noon with cloudy skies and looks like tomorrow afternoon and into tomorrow evening. the better chance of what we would call some widespread rain and high pressure to the north of us. the front pushed to the south and the winds out of the north, breezy this afternoon and that kept the temperatures mainly in the lower 70s, pretty much areawide and you can see rain to the west. we'll come back to, that okay? severe weather down from the arklatex region to mississippi and new orleans there. it's going to be very, very dangerous down here tonight because there is going to be a good possibility of very high winds and large hail and tornados as well. last night, they had a big outbreak in the central plains and in all of this severe weather is going to be tracking