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his name was lenny robinson, age 51. his friends said lenny was no joke. here is that cop cam video, but this is the real lenny robinson according to his friends. >> lenny was just a nice guy, had a heart of gold, would do anything for anybody. >> he sold his business and it was part of his energy to give back. >> reporter: robinson was a regular at children's hospitals throughout our region staging superhero visit. here he is in 2012. >> look at me. i want you to get better. >> oak. >> i want you to do -- okay. >> i want you to do me a favor and get better. that will make me happy. >> reporter: friends said robinson was a self-made man who started cleaning windows in high school and grew it into a multi million dollar business that he recently sold to dedicate himself to sick kids. the car he was driving was a $250,000 exact replica of the batmobile in the 1960s. >> he wanted to see a smile on their face and just to make them happy made him happy that he was able to help somebody. >> reporter: robinson, a divorced father of three adult kids, the accident

robinson was an ordinary man who became extraordinary the moment he put on a cape. don dahler has more. >> reporter: some superheros are born. others find their calling later in life. >> do me a favor, do well in school. >> reporter: lenny b. robinson was the latter. >> very nice the meet you. >> reporter: but this batman's mission wasn't to fight crime. it was to put smiles on the faces of children. >> you guys rock. >> reporter: robinson dedicated his life to visiting kids who were fighting life-threatening diseases. he had fans of all ages. >> i love you, man. you're the best. you're the best. >> you're doing a great job. >> i want you to do me favor and get better. >> okay. >> that will make me very happy. >> reporter: 14 years ago, the baltimore native sold his cleaning business. he used the proceeds to buy a lamborghini, which he modified to resemble a batmobile. robinson became internationally famous when a video was posted of him being pulled over by police. >> it's a black lamborghini with the driver dressed as batman. >> reporter: instead of issuing a tick

department police officer ted robinson radios the crew.e's met with an eerie silence. >> we kept calling 901. others were also calling flight 901. no one had heard anything. >> there's still hope for finding survivors at 7:00 p.m. when air new zealand calls marina collins and asks if she's alone. >> and he said, i don't want to alarm you, but jim's flight is late. we haven't heard from him for a while. i suggest you get somebody to be with you. >> the weather is so bad it's 12 hours before rescuers finally spot the crash site. from the air, it looks like a smudge in the snow. >> when we came around the side of the mountain and saw the total devastation, i was shocked. it just did not look like a plane. >> due to the speed and force of the crash, coroners determined all 257 people on board died instantly. mountaineer keith woodford has his own ideas how new zealand's deadliest aviation disaster could have been avoided. >> if they had reacted 10 seconds earlier, there was a reasonable chance that the plane could have been able to climb out o

don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> rose: lenny robinson, man who found a purpose and changed lives.cbs evening news." for scott pelley in new york i'm charlie rose. thank you for joining us. i'll see you first thing tomorrow on "cbs this morning" and back here tomorrow night for scott. good night. captioning sponsored by cbs captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org ss group at wgbh to hike it even more. how mh the gas tax could go up... and where they say the money >>> you think you pay a lot for gas now? the state wants to hike it even more. >> shaking from a quake in the east bay. new at 6:00, how much notice scientists got as they tested out a quake warning system. >> the strongest pitch yet for the raiders to move south. a former 49er executive selling the carson stadium as a win for the entire league. good evening. i'm ken bastida. >> i'm veronica de la cruz. many of our freeways and roads are in pretty bad shape. tonight there is a plan to fix them. new at 6:00, phil matier says the plan is to make drivers pay more. >> one way or another we do pay. whether it's

at first the problem seemed to be that robinson was recovering from his wartime experiences. he was often on the move, living primarily on the west coast, and welty's letters to him suggest that she was trying to connect herself through the letters and also through super charged moments communing with nature. this is a letter from november 1946: the most beautiful night sky... welty's work at that time and later i discovered that he had eng e had ben teaching her work since the end of world 1960's. and also introduced the work to william who was also my mentor and professor of american literature emeritus said emery. along with falconer and other authors with 19th century and especially, for 40 years. so in this situation i have come to understand her were can i was captivated so i chose to write my pieces about her work. she cave into emery to receive the honorary degree in 1982 there is a photograph in her robes. and i assert her getting the degree there was a party at the professor's home that night and i was invited and faculty members were swelling around and many were t

robinson is survived by three sons. heartbroken,ily is they are comforted by the joy that robinson brought to so many. 7 on your side with a consumer alert. it is worse than we thought, the irs says the cyber theft of american taxpayer information may have affected twice as many people. some 220,000 people may have had their tax forms stolen. to irs is sending letters warn victims of possible identity theft and all for free credit protection. an extraill also get id number to protect themselves in the future. bezos isceo jeff pushing back against a blistering exposÉ in "the new york times," with current and former employees who called amazon "a brutal and soulless work place." bezos said today that people must be treated with empathy and respect. describe the key to amazon's success. bezos: the whole culture starts with the customer and works backwards. they said that he was backstabbing and had a disregard for people with cancer. in an e-mail, he said that any employees who experience they should contact him directly.

bo robinson is no stranger to big problems with this staff. the trentonian reported misconduct and abuse of authority and with the most bizarre love triangles you are here. this is nicole plays nice supervisor working for the new jersey department of corrections at the bo robinson facility before she was fired for misconduct. the reason this is amanda brown and inmate of the bo robinson facility and also part of the work release program. she was working at a restaurant in nearby ewing new jersey. workers from restaurant alleged pleasanter ski -- sea mate patellar bosma supervisors have to go outside and talk to her. outside meant the supervisors car allegedly engaging in sexual activity and drug use. when brown returned to the bo robinson facility one day she tested positive for substance and spill the beans about the inappropriate relationship with her supervisor. the third in the triangle is her boyfriend a trooper. his face has been blurred in a photo because it seems like collateral damage and the mess. this conduct is not rare. i spoke to

lenny robinson leaves behind three children of his own. live in the newsroom, back to you. >> still a sad story. the crash is still being investigated. driver of the other vehicle has not been charged. >>> an army parachutist who died after getting injured in a chicago airshow -- accident rather had ties to this area. 32-year-old sergeant first class corey hood had family in ashton and bealeton, virginia. he was a member of the army's golden knight parachutes team. he died one day after the accident in chicago. he collided midair with another parachutist and video shows him clipping a building after the collision. >> it was scary. everyone just stopped talking. it was a moment of silence. it was a true moment of silence. >> the other parachutist landed on a beach suffering a broken leg. he was later released from the hospital. >>> lots of smoke but no explosion, that's what pepco says about a manhole in northwest d.c., 31 and t streets. pepco says the equipment malfunction is what caused all this smoke to drift up and out of that manhole.

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at first the problem seemed to be that robinson was recovering from his wartime experiences. he was often on the move, living primarily on the west coast, and welty's letters to him suggest that she was trying to connect herself through the letters and also through super charged moments communing with nature. this is a letter from november 1946: the most beautiful night sky... welty's work at that time and later i discovered that he had been teaching her work at least the middle 1960s. he also introduced ms. welty's work to william b dilling hamm who also is my mentor and he is at emory. he taught along with partner and other authors in 19th century for 40 years. so in this situation i came to read and understand miss welty's work and i was captivated by it and so i chose to write my phd thesis about her work. she came to university to receive an honorary degree in 1982, there's a lovely photograph in the book of her in her academic robe at emory. i was in the audience and observed her getting the degree. there is a faculty party at watkins home that night and i was invited a

robinson, which can be seen wednesdays on nbc, comedian and argument, very funny man, craig robinson.ause ] >> larry: so there are some changes going on in high school advanced placement courses. the cultural conservatives pushed for ap u.s. history to be more patriotic and emphasize, they want to focus on american exceptionalism rather than america's faults. okay? and republican candidate in fact, ben carson had this to say about some of the changes. >> i mean i think most people when they finish that course they would be ready to go sign up for isis. >> okay. so is focusing on just the good parts of our history, is that good for kids? or is that like, you know, liking kris brown but for getting about his past? i mean -- >> well, i mean, i don't know. we can't remember america the way we remember our grandfathers. this is how grandfathers want to be remembered, because every grandfather is horrible. like every grandfather is father. >> every grandfather is horrible. >> even all of them -- they all like cheated on their grandma. it was cool. they all cheated on grandmother. even the g

another car hit it, slamming it in to robinson who was standing in front of the car. robinson was known to visiting hospitals dressed as batman to help kids cope with serious illness. >> they're constantly fighting for their lives. if this helps them, that's what it's all about. >> robinson had sold his successful business to dedicate his life to helping the children. the driver of the other car was not injured. so far no charges had been filed. >>> campgrounds will be closed for several more days as the camp tries to contain the plague. the disease is carried by rodents and fleas but transmission to humans is relatively rare. the campground will be closed until friday as crews treat the area with a flea kill ing insecticide. >>> east of yosemite crews are still working to contain the walker fire. it's burning within a mile of tuyoga path. you're looking at video of the smoke. residents have been warned they may have to be evacuated. >> let's hope that doesn't happen. we notice not only the smoke but i think there was ash in the air. because the haze, i really think b

his name, lenny robinson, but you may know him as batman. >> anybody who knew him, he was batman. for my kids, to the neighborhood kids and they loved him. ♪ ♪ batman >> reporter: i remember some time ago seeing lenny robinson in action. he dressed like batman, he drove a batmobile weaned go around to hospitals trying to cheer up sick children. this is lenny robinson's bat cave, a prestigious home in the owings mills section of baltimore county. his neighbors very proud of their batman and sometimes, they would play alfred to help him get ready for his exploits. >> high wife and his wife would have to help him dress into the costume, literally, have to come up, zip the costume up, the rubber suit, and then he would struggle to get into the car and he would wave and honk and say good-bye and a few hours, he would come back and say, i had the greatest day of my life, i made these kids happy. >> reporter: last night, batman died in a bizarre accident. police say he was hit by his own batmobile after it was struck by another car on the highway near hagerstown. they say the bat car bro

robinson. >> dressed like batman. kevin: known to many as "the beltway batman" following a comical traffic stop. >> his heart was full of love. kevin: the 51-year-old spent days sporting the dark knight suit and driving an iconic black car bringing joy to hundreds of children sickened with cancer and deadly blood diseases. >> he would drive up in the car and everyone was like reel out there in -- wheel out there in wheelchair or run out if they could and just sit in the bat mobile and push the buttons. kevin: but last night his bat mobile broke down here hagerstown. a passing car hit and killed him. this picture shows some of the dents and the scraped black paint along the bat mobile passenger side. >> one of a kind. kevin: susan worked side-by-side with robinson. >> the loss of batman has made the lives of thousands of sick children smaller without him. >> i think we lost a hero for sure. kevin: police say robinson was heading home from an auto show in west virginia last night. the investigato

lenny robinson had a successful cleaning business. he sold it years ago so he he could be batman and visit sick children. not long ago i saw him work his magic at a hospital outside of baltimore. >> do batman a favor, get better. to the media out there and to the world, you must ask yourself, self, did i make a difference today? that answer had better be yes. >> reporter: he was on his way to another hospital one time when he was pulled over by the cops, who had trouble running the bat tags. >> he's got no tags. got batman on, he's dressed like batman. >> reporter: it was an odd encounter but in the end it was all good. lenny robinson put thousands and thousands of miles on that special batmobile, going from hospital to hospital to visit sick children. he was batman. he was a superman. he was a good man. in washington, i'm pat collins, nbc 10. >> the number of people killed in traffic accidents is up 14% across the country and it's only august. the stats from the national safety council consider the number of deadly accidents between

it began with some sort of domestic dispute between robinson and carswell. >> the lady that was killed she was a wonderful person. it's sad they couldn't resolve it another way. >> robinson is charged with second degree murder. >> new details. prince georges county fire has been released from shock trauma in baltimore. roofing fell on the firefighter on apple orchard lane. another prince georges county firefighter was released today. he was burned fighting a fire in laurel earlier this week. we have new details on the national news big -- or should we say little arrival. it has been pandemonium all day. the zoo is trending right now, after the giant panda gave birth to a new panda cub. we sent you the news with an alert on the nbc washington app. we streamed the post birth zoo news conference live. darcie spencer joins us with all the excitement. darcie? >> that's right. the little cup is spending its first night here at the national zoo with its mom, if you're like me, you've been glued to the panda cam all night, you can't get enough of watching this little cub with his mom, unfortun

robinson mr. robinson victoria wavers. mm! ooh! the girl that got away. craig robinson, the guy who stood me up for prom. come on; you're not still upset about that. oh, no, not at all. i was able to wear that dress a lot of places. oh, you want to see pictures of me and my dad slow-dancing? it's not sad at all. hey, i apologized for that. - did you? - yes. "girl, why you trippin'?" that's an apology? why don't you let me buy you an "i'm sorry" drink? [000:29:57;00]

. >>> lenny robinson known to so many as batman. he spent his days cheering up sick children at hospitals across the area. many of them came to his funeral today. robinson was killed in a car accident on i-70 over the weekend. his father hopes to find a way to carry on what his son started. >> somehow or another now that he's gone, we have to keep his memory going. he had this wild idea that he could go help children, and he took that idea and made it work. >> robinson told us when his son put on that batman costume, he truly became the super hero. >>> the former police officer charged in a shooting death of a man in fairfax county fainted today. prosecutors say torres showed no emotion earlier in court today even after the judge denied him bond. it wasn't until a trial date was set that he fainted, collapsing on the courtroom floor. his trial date is set to begin september 14th. >>> in virginia, a judge will hear arguments in maureen mcdonnell's appeal next month. they are found guilty of doing favors for a nutrition supplement com

this included biblical passages and eulogies from robinson. jackson went online and ordered batman suspenders to honor his late employer. >> you see a funeral this big you know it has to be a great man. all the people wouldn't be here. >> heart of gold and giving and kind. he loved riley a lot. kevin: 4-year-old riley brown melt ro byson in the hospital. riley idolized him ever since. >> he has been through a lot of pain for the surgeries. he was hurting and going through the therapy on a regular basis. >> they guided the procession and 130 cars deep to a private burial for a man being remembered as a real-life superhero. >> a good man. >> he leaves behind his ellerly parents the brother and the sister and three sons. lepny robinson was 51 years old. in owings mills, kevin lewis, abc7 news. kimberly: breaking news yesterday. now we know a young mother was killed when a fight between children erupted in gunfire. leon: tonight we learn she confined in a friend about her fears over the gun violence in the city. she worried about her children and

he will biography of jackie robinson and links to accuse. i'm wondering, how did he get to know arthur ashe, or how was that connection made so that he assisted him in the writing of the memoir? did you interview him for your book? professor hall: i was not able to interview him. there was a time where he was going to be on campus -- somewhere i was going to be -- purdue, or something like that. it turned out that i could not make it -- we kind of missed each other. sure of thectly specific story and how they met. i know that ashe, in the 1980's, was very much in touch with the black intelligence. he would have many friends, henry louis gates, and others. my guess is that he would have made that connection either through a talk he gave on campus, or in interaction at an event. he considered professors, and people -- african-american scholars among his close group of friends. i'm guessing that is where the introduction to, but i'm not sure exactly. >> great presentation. how did the attitude of the city of richmond towards its native son, art

robinson remained calm and composed. turn it officials would look for any excuse to disqualify. on the court, he ordered ashe and his teammates to play any shot within two inches of the line to avoid accusations of cheating, and if it was within two inches, play it so you do not get accused of cheating. they worked hard to ignore as best they could racial epithets, and not display it in a visible way. it is hard to find something of them displaying any kind of a motion on the tennis court, although there were some. his assumption that in the diary is that if you wanted to get into a poker game, and there was only one game in town, you had better learn to play by the prevailing rules at the table. johnson told a reporter for the washington post, quote, i cannot use a boy unless he can control his emotions, so johnson was very, very aware of not only making these players better to be able to compete on the court with white players but teaching them the ways in which to go about doing that. and the rest, they say, for arthur ashe is history. i want to take a little bit of time and

>> boynton robinson suffered a stroke in july.years old. >>> returning to new orleans, today president obama will make his sixth trip to the city since taking office. he'll see a city transformed in the decade since hurricane katri katrina, but as michelle williams reports some of what has made new orleans has not changed at all. >> i've been a chef for 69 years. >> reporter: for her cooking is a calling and at 92 years young, she's calling all the shots. >> in this kitchen i tell you it's my highway or the highway. >> reporter: you'll find her at dooky chase. for three generations the family owned restaurant has been a fixture in the town of tre may. it's been a fixture, a crown town neighborhood that's endured the grade degree dee presentation and the perils of forced segregation. what did this place mean? >> this was like a safe haven for all of us. >> reporter: but i2005 it didn't stand a chance against hurricane katrina. >> we had 5 1/2 feet of water in here. lost everything. >> when did you first see your restaurant? >> a ye

robinson used his fortune to cheer up young patients at hospitals as the caped crusader. >>> and a big announcement from "saturday night live" today, revealing tracy morgan will return to host an episode in october. it's a major step forward as he recovers from a traumatic brain injury he suffered in a deadly highway crash in june of last year. morgan tweeted today, "stoked to be going home." >>> when we come back, the woman so many are turning to when their best friends get sick and they can't pay the vet bill. ccer abt fgin ==akevo= aaloltoa. much americans love our pets. we spent nearly $56 billion on them last year alone. but not all owners have the resources to keep our best friends healthy. and that's where one young woman is stepping in to make a difference. here's our rehema ellis. >> how are you doing, babe? >> reporter: derek mccain's dogs, rose and shiba, are more than just his pets. they're his family. >> my dogs mean everything to me. of course, i love them. i take care of them. >> how hard is it to get them to the vet? >> well, it's almost impossible. >> you know your mom

police say 67-year-old roosevelt robinson was the man held up inside his home and 3600th block of 18 street just after 10:00 a.m. friday until today. robinson is charged with second-degree murder while armed in the shooting death of loretta carswell, who is the relative. police say the standoff began after robinson fatally shot loretta carswell after a long-standing feud. >>> no let up in the violence of the district this weekend. after two martyrs overnight, we are now at 101 people killed this year. well leaders do their work, stephanie ramirez found people taking back their own streets today. >> reporter: early saturday morning, police say 24-year-old antonio dean was shot on stephen's road in southeast, maybe six minutes later, 26-year-old kenneth watson junior was shot multiple times in in the torso on 54 street northeast. the two deaths bring the number of homicides to now more than 100 in the district. a mother of three sub this. >> it is scary because you don't know if they are coming home or not. >> she says she wants mark -- more community policing. >> this man says he reli

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police say that leonard robinson was killed in a traffic accident on sunday. they say that robinson was check the engine on his batmobile when another car struck him. robinson became a viral sensation in 2012, when dash cam video surfaced of police pulling him over in his batmobile. he was 51 years old. >>> the nation's oldest known veteran has passed away at 110 years old, emma was 38 years old when she joined the women's auxillary corpse in world war ii. this is video of her from last month when she met with president obama at the white house. the president released a statement expressing his sympathy and calling her a trailblazer for jen rations of americans. we're told she passed away sunday after a sudden illness. >>> lawyers for convicted boston marathon bomber tsarnaev dzhokhar want new trial there is time they want it outside the boston area. in a court filing, had i defense team says it was not possible to select an impartial jury in the area, because of widespread outrage. the 2013 a taj left people dead, dozens wounded, and he now faces the death pe

lenny robinson had a successful cleaning business. he sold it years ago so he could be batman and visit sick children. not long ago, i saw him work his imagine knick a hospital outside of baltimore. >> do batman a favor, get better. and to the media thought and to the world, you must ask yourself, self, did i make a difference today? and that answer better be yes. >> reporter: he was on his way to another hospital one time when he was pulled over by the cops who trouble running the bat tags. >> got no tags, batman on it and dressed like batman. >> reporter: it was an odd encounter, but in the end, it was all good. now, lenny robinson put thousands and thousands of miles on that special batmobile going from hospital to hospital visiting sick children. an inside look at his special powers coming up at 5:00. >>> this was a shocking homicide and robbery. folks will remember what used to be the clarion hotel in oxon hill and the night that a gunman went into the hotel and held a gun to the clerk's face and then shot and killed another work

in real life he was lenny robinson, a self-made millionaire who sold a successful business to become batman and stage superhero events at pediatric wards throughout the region. >> i remember one day he came up in a batmobile, which was really cool, because it's just nonstop feeling bad and you feel like you're going to throw up, but that just makes you feel like you're a normal kid, but you have a disease. that is life changing, but batman come around and saves the day. >> reporter: ryan and his family have started their own nonprofit to help families with their financial struggles when children become ill and they credit lenny robinson as batman for showing them that regular people can have a super impact on the lives of others. in bethesda, scott broom, wusa9. >> and you saw all that in the face and the eyes of that young man. by the way, robinson was killed on sunday in that roadside crash after his replica batmobile broke down on i-70 west of hagerstown, his funeral tomorrow outside baltimore. >>> some very encouraging news tonight from maryland governor larry hogan. he says 95%

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greenfield, contributor to the daily beast, molly ball of the atlantic, kimberly strassel and eugene robinson of "the washington post." welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. >> good sunday morning. when he first began talking about running for president, a lot of people dismissed him, including myself. but there's no denying that donald trump has completely shaken up the republican race. topping national and state polls, drawing 24 million people to the gop debate and simply dominating the coverage so far. i caught up with trump yesterday in des moines, iowa for his first face-to-face interview. i wanted it to be less about personality and more about substance. we touched on a lot of issues, furtherism, isis, immigration, ronald reagan and much more. let's get to it. starting with his standing of the conservative movement. some of the criticism on you from conservatives is you're not a real conservative. when you hear that, you know, someone will argue on social policies you're not a real conservative. is

you can talk about tom robinson and that one of the motivations to the great migration. ow can talk about the scottsboro trial. talk about brown v. board, now that you have "go set a watchman." so there's a way to be taught in history classes. so i think she will have a legacy when we're talking about this period in american history, because that -- but i think it's going to be more of a historic legacy than -- both historic and a literary one. it will brim both worlds. >> i -- bridge both worlds. >> i think it's a great idea to teach it in hit. also it's such a beautiful book that people will read it. it's a book about home. a book that we return to, and i think it's got its place and we will be reading it. and also the fact that she and truman grew up next door to each other, how do writers find their voices and the bravery it took for her to drop out of law school, one month before graduating to to go to new york and try to become a writer when alice and her father war saying, come home and work at the monroe journal. that -- i think finding voices, writers, and a sen

amelia boynton robinson died today at the age of 104. all her life she blazed new trails.64, she became the first woman to run on a democratic ticket in alabama. and the first black woman to run for congress in the state. the next year, she helped lead the march across the edmund pettus bridge in what came to be known as bloody sunday. she was left beaten and unconscious in this picture which brought attention to the movement. recently her story was featured in the film "selma." earlier this year, alabama first elected black congresswoman, terri sewell invited boynton robinson to be her guest at the state of the union. before the president's speech, she talked to me about her hopes for a new generation of activists fighting discrimination. >> they are americans and to act like it, to work like it and to demand that every segment of discrimination be torn away from this tcountry that is supposed o be the land of the free, the home of the brave. >> in march, i was honored to walk across the edmund pettus bridge with miss boynton robinson and the president to commemorate the

it was a gift from lenny robinson. you see, laurie and lenny were partners in good. lori runs a foundation that arranges for superheroes to meet sick kids and lenny, lenny was batman. no, he wasn't the movie batman or the tv batman. he was our batman. you see, years ago, he sold his cleaning business, made a fortune and decided to become batman and make sick kids happy. >> he would electrify the room. like it lilt up. and kids would run to him and he would open up his big cape and the kids would gather underneath it, like he protected them. there was something healing about his presence. >> reporter: last night, batman died in a bizarre accident when police say he was run over by his batmobile after it was struck by another car on a highway near hagerstown. the bat car had broken down. batman was outside checking the engine when it all happened. >> lenny was a true hero. he was one of the good guys. he is -- when i think about what is all of our purposes for being here, it's to make the world a better place and he did that. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00, lenny robin