that is why this charitable organization really represents what william don shaver was all about. he was all about making sure that people were taking care of, their basic needs. >> now, your insta-weather forecast with chief meteorologist tom tasselmyer. >> we are not in danger of having floods we must wait, but we are getting more rain than we have had here since the end of march. it is not very wet out there, only a little more than 0.10 inch in most areas, but we have not had any measurable rain around here since april 2. the showers are welcome for gardening and farms and stuff like that. the eastern shore has not had as much rain as we have had in baltimore and areas west of i- 95. it looks like the showers down in virginia are going to slide east toward the southern part of maryland. you might still catch a few showers as the evening wears on. it will not completely get out of here until around dawn tomorrow. ocean city, east in cambridge, st. mary's county, maybe some of the rain down in north carolina will come up to the northeast as well. here in town officially, just 0.

. >> they managed to shaver life, but when she woke, she learned how long the road back would be. >>y arm or, hey, i'm okay. i couldn't move my arm. >> months of painful rehabilitation to move to stand up with the help of crutches. but her life was moving far faster, so she made one more decision, use a wheelchair in the short term. her therapist told her about the rugby team. >> the sport she says gave her confidence and outlet for her energy. fellow player has watched her develop. >> she would come out and right off the bat, instinctively knew how to do it. >> she allowed to focus on her studies, finishing college and getting into a top flight law school, something she couldn't have done if she focused solely on her rehabilitation. her new dream is to help other disabled people. >> if i wasn't disabled, i think my life would have been about -- obviously i'm hoping to have a career and lots of goals but they are not just about me anymore. i think that is the beauty of it all. >> beauty with a good dose of toughness thrown in. carolyn johnson, "abc 7 news." >>> she is still waiting f

shaver was sent for prison for a drunk driving crash.hey report he killed schaver to avenge the girl's death. he wrote a statement saying the innocence of the child will be defended at all costs. >>> a military board is recommending that a southern california marine that criticized president obama on his facebook page be dismissed. sergeant gary sine called president obama the enemy. stein's attorney says he was expressing his personal views. >>> newly released audio recording captured the coordinator telling his team to injure 49ers before the playoff game. one was kyle williams that is recovering from a concussion. >> we need to find out in the first two series of the game the wide receiver number ten. >> it was recorded by a documentary film maker. greg williams is heard urging his players to go after heads and knees. >> obviously you know you get pumped in a pregame speech trying to get your players fired up. obviously he went over the top saying tearing acls and stuff like that. that is dirty. >> the saints lost that playoff game to

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. >> afghan war veteran anthony shaver. and john schultz joins us. iraq war veteran. chairman of vets.org. there is a certain degree of analysis to be around this image, tony, john. the question that continues to recur to me every time i'm forced to confront this, which i think is healthy for us to con trunt this, honestly, is what is the mission of the soldiers on the ground in that country that keeps them in that country for this summer's fighting season, when we know that the withdraw is scheduled for next year. why are we fighting this summer in this context? do we know what the mission is? the question goes to both of you, tony. >> well, we're there, theoretically because of the counter insurgens strategy in iraq, well enough, but it is not working here. it is not going to work. we have talked about this for years. >> the strategy as being executed as planned will not work, it is failing. first, the network, intelligence service of pakistan was behind the attack on sunday. next, the fact that intelligence system we set up throughout afghanistan failed, this is a

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