crisp play made coach zorn sme. he said his guys will see a lot more of this. >> it felt good. you always look forwd to putting the pads on. first day of contact. >> as the level of competition goes up, the tempo goes up, it is live. we did not try to tackle anybody, we help each other stay up. the intensity level has risen. we will be doing this a lot in the morning practices. it >> one player a lot of people are keeping a close eye on is devyn thomas. he has a lot to prove in his second year. his rookie camp was a washout. they're hoping that thomas will compete for a starting spot. >> we talk to him about, don't worry about the catch, that will come. he is a good receiver. he was trying to learn it route running, how to get to the place on time, with speed and confidence. those are the things i'm starting to see this year that i did not see last year. >>> the nationals made another move today, yesterday trading nick johnson. today, they recalled eliza duke's from aaa syracuse. last night, ryan zimmerman gets hold of that one. it is gone. swayback, deep center field, 20th hom

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afghanistan today, a deadly bombing aimed at district police chiefeft at least ten people dead and sme 30 inred. it happenein harrah, that's the in city in that region that's here in the border th iran. the remote controlled bb went off on a crowded street near a fruit mark and appareny tgeted the police chief ase drove into town. th official was in citical condition. >>> this month has also gotten off to a deadly start for american and nato forcesn ghanistan. with t total of nine killed over t weekend, they include six americans, o canadians and one french soldi. >>> wi afghanistan's elections less than three weeks ay and the number of reign troops that country increasing steadily we trn again to karin von hiel. for some analysis. she jos us fom washington. nice to have yo bac >> thank you. >> we had a cord number of sualties last monthnd august is already a bad sfarpt why are so many more roops dying, and h there been exchan in the mission that causes this >> unengineer i think this was anticipad, not on is the summer of the fiting season in afghanistan,ut also of course we deployed-

south koreans and sme japanese have their own issue which are not the sam that the u.s. has wi north korea. and they're not all that excited and enthusiastic about t u.s. deing with north korea directly without them. butmoving fward, no real substantl change in policyin north korea is going to happen without the u. consulting with its key allies in the region, south korea and japan. >> chaes armstrong, thank you very much. thank you. >>> protters took to the streets, ain today in iran, shouti death to the dictator, as president mahmoud ahmadinejad was sworn for his second term. amateur video posted on e inrnet what was said to be groups of peopleathering near the parliament building in hran, where that inauguration was held, state-run television rerted that 5,000 security forces werdeployed in the ea. witnses claim that police us tear gas and batons to break up the antigovernment rallies >>> en with ahmadinejad now officially installed a president an's opposition leaders are promisinmore protests. itn's carl dinnereports on today's ceremony and what next for iran'governm

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sme look atpe ueper 50's in montgomery county. also in ashburn. the satellite radar picture. clouds are pretty thick. we will see it partly sunny afternoon developing. showers continue to fall to the south and east of bust. if you're down in southern maryland, you may see some sprinkles or showers. most of the. number which of remain dry. low 50's detroit, a 50. there is a lot of cool air out there. tonight, we will have a refreshing blast. woolsey numbers, maybe 50's by tonight even downtown. partly sunny. the further west you head, the better the books for you. the better chance for a shower as you head to the southern suburbs. we go through the overnight, we will continue to see a refreshening day, a 52-59. tomorrow, some scattered clouds. very comfortable, into the 80's by the upcoming weekend. >> we have the first word on a new spelling fame. everything looks great. normal travel times on 95 between richmond and baltimore. 70 between hagerstown and baltimo. we good. we will loood at a prince george's county with no complaints. we'll look thro

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. >>> our sme is 6:43. cash for clunkers will hit the road soon.white house will announce as soon as tomorrow plans to start to wind down the program. some dealerships nationwide are getting out now. they say the government has been too slow in getting the $4,500 credits to them. we told you about this earlier in the week. so far 435,000 clunkers have been turned in across the country. >>> the program is having a side effect on used cars. they are getting more expensive to buy. digital correspondent, andrew stack explains the simple reason, supply and demand. >> reporter: don and sharon planned on their new car being a used car. >> for a few bucks more i ended up with a new car with a 100,000-mile guarantee on it. >> reporter: part of the reason they opted for a hyundai accent may have something to do with the cash for clunker deal. they are buying a new toyota corolla but because their chrysler is heading to the scrap yard it will be one less used car on the market. >> did it go as a cash for clunker. >> it did. >> it is a supply and demand thing.

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>>>> ror thiss s amamazizi sesent allll of f usus sme rd repoport a aing ololencece ali tomorrow. that's obviously an attempt basically not to let people not leave their homes in order to vote, especially in the south there's a great fear people will not vote because of fear of violence. that is president karzai's strong hold. reporters do not seem to be taking that into account. and there is so much violence, there's still so much to report. >> nick schrifin in afghanistan this morning. >> in pakistan security forces have captured the taliban's top spokesman. officials say he confirmed earlier reports that the group's leader was killed in a u.s. missile strike earlier this month. final confirmation of his death have been difficult to confirm. >> the wars are taking a heavy toll on the mental health of american troops. this year alone 96 active duty members have committed suicide. so the army says it is launching a new campaign to bolster mental toughness. beginning this fall every u.s. soldier will be required to take classes aimed at managing anger and reing stress. >> soldiers

. >> typically, parents wait until middle or late until thehor sme to make sure their kids areme up-to-date with their shot schools are ofngaconti clinics and and satu. they are kelly miller middle school and kramer middle in southeast, coolidge high school in northwest and baleu high school in southeast. >>> an australian couple arrived in our area setting a new world record for fuel efficiency. john and held even taylor have driven thousands of miles through 48 states in a volkswagen jetta averaging 67.9 miles per hour without the use of any extraordinary vehicles, fuels or technology. the record they set yesterday shatters t previous record of 58.8 miles per hour. the taylors set that one as well. the only difference between last year's trip and this year's is that they used fuel-efficient tires. they roll more easily and useless fuel. >>> some baltimore police officials aren't in love with the way one maryland lawmaker said "i love you" to his girlfriend. john carden conducted an elaborate hogs to propose to his girlfriend. he was going to use a police boat in the inner harbor. they sea

they have would be wondering, there sme chance he survived the crash and would an immediate search andce, cnn, los angeles. >>> stunning development in a story we've been following since june. the navy says a petty officer charged with the murder of a fa fellow sailor committed suicide. jonathan cam poes stuffed tie let paper in his mouth. he was charged with the death of provos, who was gay and his family said he complained of being harassed days before his death. the navy has no record of a harassment record. faced an investigative hearing in the coming weeks before he took his life. >>> a rough time for folks aboard a continental flight. the plane veered off course for an emergency landing after sudden severe turbulence injured 24 people. it touched down in miami before dawn with ambulances and stretchers standing by, even an airline catering truck was pressed into service bringing passengers down on the elevated lift. four people aboard were seriously hurt. hitting the ceiling getting knocked unconscious by flying debris. it's a really emotional and terrifying experience. >> went d

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microsofts of the world and that story is interesting, but i think not nearly so interesting as all of the sme's who are impacted. as for what's going on on the hill, virtually, no proposal has made it in to legislative language. certainly not serious legislative language. how far, the threat persists of tinkering with the international tax system, outside of kind of a tax reform notion and we find that whole approach to be frankly dangerous. i think the key point to understand about the current tax system, i see this reported sometimes and it's reported erroneously, this is not a way to advantage our companies. this is a way to level the playing field for our companies. hence, if you take away this deferral portion, you're basically putting our companies on a lesser footing than the foreign rivals and as we all know, there are plenty of companies around the world that are directly competing with our if novation industry. >> i think there's another important point here to make. i think first of all, what you're hearing from many in congressional leadership is we want to talk about this in the co

that story is interesting, but not nearly so interesting as all of the sme's. is going on a belt, no proposal has made it into legislative language, the threat persists of tinkering with the international tax system outside of a tax reform notion. we find that whole approach to be dangerous. the key point to understand about the current tax system -- i see this report is sometimes -- this is not a way to advantage of our companies. this is a way to level the playing field for our companies. if you take away this deferral portion, you are putting our companies on a lesser flooding then the foreign rivals. there are plenty of companies around the world that are directly competing with our innovation industry. >> i think there is another important point to make here. first of all, what you are hearing from congressional leadership is we want to talk about this in the context of a broader tax reform package in 2010. we open and walk and that discussion, as there are lots of issues with our corporate tax code right now that i think most of small, medium, and larger

you need it that goes up in sme. as far as the other problem, i think you are right.they do have fundamental problem with management. and they are creating an organization or have created an organize to improve their image in the west. they've hired lot of folks in this town. to do so i was going through my favorites listi the number of pr firms that are working for russian. it's quite an impressive list. but i don't think it's going good. i mean even in the public relations, even dawn will tell you you can't sell a bad product with a good catch line. the conduct has to be good. d russia is still not a good product as far as the west is concerned. the russians -- likely you are going to see putin giving larry or wolf those kinds of briefings. if you remember putin appearances on cnn, they are not particularly successful. putin is not the best speaker for russia under those circumstances. but again i don't know that you -- that story so easily even with slick pr. >> right here. >> the title of conference is the russian military. as i hear the panel speak it's like the

had a great meeting in north carolina a couple weeks ago with a number of math researchers who spent smetime talking to us about learning progressions. and phil was there, and i think the conversation was a really good one. as we start to think about what are the great spans or great clusters look like it is a individual great? well, kids cognitively don't develop in the little grade. so maybe they are one to two or three before. so i don't know the answer to the question, so to forgo any question in the future of what they will look like in k-12. we are still tried to figure that out. will have a long conversation with our working as we get into the development of what those standards, k. to 12, look like. i did want to spend a little bit of time talking about the process, but i think i will let -- do you want to do the process? i left your slides here. i wanted to kind of dvd overview of where we have been, where we are going. i don't know if publicly mentioned this, but the new standards after the second round of reviews will be out on the 14th of september. they will be out for a 30