sheldon dutes joins us from police headquarters. >> the crash is under investigation and they believe it may be alcohol-related. it happened in the whitehall area of baltimore county. four men and one woman were riding on a utility atv when it veered off into the field and then went over the edge of a ravine crashing into a stream. two were pronounced dead at the scene in the other three were rushed to a hospital in northern pennsylvania and are expected to survive. >> in baltimore county, we ask citizens if they operate atv's to do it responsibly in an area where you can see or there is good visibility so that accidents like this do not happen. >> again, the crash is under investigation but it is too early to determine whether or not charges will be filed. live outside police headquarters, sheldon dutes, wbal-tv 11 news. >> baltimore police are working to solve a double murder from overnight. two men were gunned down just before 4:00 a.m. they believe they were walking when their attackers started shooting. of the victims' identities have not been released and you are asked to call m

finally, we have sheldon siegel. and sheldon siegel is a corporate lawyer who has written a series -- i think seven books now, a fictional criminal defense attorney named mike daley who actually lives here in san francisco. and he's written a series of books and these becomes have been shown and transcribed and read throughout the world. so we're going to start now with a clip, a video clip and then we're going to go to the panel. >> i think it is our national novel. if there was a national novel of week, this would be it for the united states. i think it's the favorite book of almost everybody you meet. >> the first time in my life that the book had sort of captured me. that was exciting. i didn't realize that literature could do that. >> i remember reading a copy of my aunt's in jamaica queens. it was the first book ever written by a white writer that discussed racism in ways that was complicate and sophisticated. -- complicated and sophisticated. >> a touchstone in american literary and social history. it's a stor

paulette frankl, "lust for justice," tony serra, and sheldon siegal. so before we take a break, i do have a surprise. a few years ago, i guess six or seven years ago, i met an amazing artist. i was visiting his home. and he had created this wonderful sculpture. i immediately recognized it as being clarence. it turned out that he had created a number of just amazing sculptures of trial lawyers. and he went on to do one of clara fults, the first woman attorney in california and became the leader of the public defender movement. and just by happenstance, he called me and had this idea of encapsulating one of the greatest trial attorneys of our times. so, bill? is he here? this is not a magistrate. [laughing] -- not a magic trick. >> i've never met tony serra, so i have to make use of the internet to get a sense of who he was and the imagery. what clearly came over was his passion for justice. and in some cases almost a rage for justice. and initially when i started the imagery with the clay, i tried to show this passion for justice, this rage. but then i

[laughing] now, sheldon, you've written books about a fictional defense attorney. the stories that you tell really get into, i think, the issues and stories of our time. and that's why your books have been so popular. first of all, you know, how did you become a writer? why did you become a writer? and how did you end up writing did a criminal defense attorney in san francisco, of all places? >> i was not told i would follow tony serra. i need to go back and prepare a little more. [laughing] i learned something, too. i guess i better stand up. [laughing] i'm really honored to be here. i'm the toy department. i write novels about the types of cases that lawyers like tony handle. in the daytime i work for a big law firm of the type that tony probably would not hold in the highest of esteem, but i'm delighted to be here. you know, i think if you talked to most authors, they will tell you that there is something hot-wired into our system that says we need to try to tell a story. there is nothing at all in my background. i am an absolutely accidental writer. there is no

lyndsay sheldon reports from north carolina where the bank is based. >> there is a lot of uncertaintys to how bad off b of a is at the end of the day. >> this economist says there is no doubt bank of america is facing more tough times. some experts say a lawsuit could hurt people needing loans to run small businesses. >> they have concerns about capital requirements. >> they say the lawsuit which targets more than a dozen banks could also hurt the already fragile economy. >> when they can't win economic activity contracts. >> the lawsuit says the banks misrepresented the value of mortgage securities. they sold to fannie mae and freddy mac. both mortgage giants lost billions. they defaulted on their mortgages and they were picked up by taxpayers. still he says he believes b of a will find a way to weather this storm the way it has dealt with other lawsuits and concerns in the past year. >> b of a is not going to go away. it is not going to get taken over by somebody else. >> that was lyndsay sheldon reporting from charlotte. just last month billionaire warren buffet single handedly bai

finally, we have sheldon