on the transplant list because of his history of noncompliance according to stokes his family their son had been denied the transplant in part because of his history with law enforcement and poor grades doctors also allege that stokes had not been reliable about taking his heart medication now the public relations manager at children's healthcare of atlanta made this statement to our team. and all transplant cases we work closely with the family and their support network to coordinate the best possible results for the patient and continue to find solutions in this particular case we are continuing to partner with the family. now the hospital has changed course cena steps will be added to the donor list after all joining me now to discuss this case is michael denzil smith a contributor for the nation and no nobbler fellow at the nation national at the nation institute how are you doing michael dunn are you now michael what's your take on the hospital and nationally damon anthony stokes noncompliance there for making him unfit for the heart transplant then turning around their decisio

now the hospital has changed course saying that stokes will be added to the donor list after all i was joined earlier by michael dunn selfness a contributor for the nation as well as a novel or fellow at the nation at the nation institute to discuss this case i asked him what his take is on the hospital initially deeming anthony stokes non-compliant therefore making him unfit for a heart transplant and then turning their decision around but having won they should have given more reason why they found him to be non-compliant i think that that was one of the complaints of the family is that they didn't give any reason to begin with and then they they were left to guess that it had to do with his history of with men and bad grades but that would be just a simply ridiculous reason to deny someone a heart especially when you're talking about a fifteen year old i mean it would be ridiculous for anyone of any age but two to say that a child isn't eligible for a heart transplant because you believe that. their history of. with law enforcement precludes them from a healthy life is. addictive of

in part because of his history with law enforcement and poor grades now doctors also allege that stokes had not been real and had not had not been reliable about taking his heart medication the public relations manager at children's healthcare of atlanta made this statement to r.t. in all transplant cases we work closely with the family and their support network to coordinate the best possible results for the patient and continue to find solutions in this particular case we're continuing to partner with the family now the hospital has changed course saying that stokes will be added to the donor list after all joining me now to discuss the matter is nancy berlinger research cholera center plenty and say hey jim hello aaron and see what's your take on the hospital initially deeming anthony stokes non-compliant then turning around on their decision. well in that it sounds as though and i really just know the news reports that were probably we've all seen is that the hospital you just used the word noncompliance the so the idea probably had to do with some concern on the part of the transpl

stokely in uniform for today's practice in owens mills. clark not participating until he passes his physical exam. stokely is a blast from baltimore's past, a member of their first superbowl team 12 years ago. stokely is the last player from that team still active in the league. i asked him today how his game has changed with his advanced age and experience. >> i don't know if i'm as fast. i still feel like i can play football though and help a team win games, so as you get older, you've got to learn your role. i know my role, what the team wants and expects from you. and so i just try to go out and execute it and help a team out. >> linebacker courtney upshaw absent from practice to attend the birth of his child. ravens play host to atlanta in their second preseason game thursday night. >>> finally, at traffic stopper in downtown chicago this morning. that is nascar driver dale earnhardt, jr., literally taking his car for a spin in front of the chicago theater. it's a promotional appearance for the sprint cup race. earnhardt currently in

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rendon stokely made official his return to baltimore. stokely becomes the only player on the team who won the 2000 super bowl. feeling. a great the fans are unbelievable. just to be able to have another opportunity to play here. i am just trying to do my best and help out in whatever way i can. >> joe flacco had a heckuva time with fans beforehand and delivered during. it is designed for the offense to have an easier time. beleaguered core made some great plays. all the way to the end, when drama ensued. >> we split the team up, played 12 minutes of football. that last team was something you could not make up, so it was pretty exciting for the fans. >> they are back thursday to face the falcons. a big win sunday. fans throwing a tomato late in the game. he expresses outrage. the orioles took a while to get going. up therdy opened floodgates. top eight, adam jones. there you go. and r.b.i double. lead.s take a 5-2 a three run homer with a career five -- career-high 85. 10-to the final. inning jones tags down that brand. he never thought h

stokely wearing 80 practicing for the first time as he returns to the ravens started his career as a raven back in 1999. spent four seasons with peyton manning and last year as well in denver. clark could practice tomorrow. both players worked with ravens offensive coordinator. stokely looks like he still has quickly and reliable hands and if clark shows the same thing then the ravens have some new options on offense. >> when you look at him, you can see they've been productive. obviously their roles have changed over the years and haven't played as much in certain situations. we have a good blend of different groupings we use and we would be able to get them in the mix and give them an opportunity to see what they can do. >> michael jordan wants everyone to know even at age 50 he can still dunk. sound impressive until you see who he dunks on. he took a camper on and dunked on him. i love this kid's reaction. no big deal grabs the ball and takes him back to the free throw line to try again. one day this guy is going to realize telling stories ability michael jordan dunking on him wil

stokes' mother says doctors were concerned because her son had a rough history.nd that he had problems in the past showing up for the doctors' appointments and taking his medicine. >> i know that he will comply with all of the rules. he will take his medicine because he knows that is how he's going to live. >> a 15-year-old -- >> reporter: stokes' mother took her case to the media. their story going viral online. it's the second time in as many months that a family has months that a family has been able to apparently have organ donation rules altered after attracting media attention. in june, sarah murnaghan, her in june, sarah murnaghan, her family went to court. ultimately convincing a judge to put her on that list. this summer, she received two transplants. some wonder if the public fights over organs are changing the rules. >> the resource is really limited. we also know that, when programs decide to not transplant people, it's done very carefully. and not easily. >> reporter: and the hospital won't confirm that stokes is back on that waiting list. but tells

he's not stoking this type of activity.he reason why he doesn't speak out about something like this is for exactly what i said, he does not care that -- as opposed to being a president who could start healing the racial divide in this country. he's decided he's going to let that divide exist. he should be right now, front and center of this particular issue saying, these teenaged kids should not be doing that. >> i can't have a problem with george bush spending most of his days in texas in the western white house than in the white house in washington, d.? the president took a couple days on vacation. i'm confident that he as well as the majority of his office, whoever is in d.c. right now at the white house is doing work on our behalf. >> no, what you're -- >> i'm not saying that george w. bush who had most of the staff. >> what you can't -- what you are not confident about is exactly what i just told you, obama is hanging out with black separatists at martha's vineyard on his vacation. >> black separatists? >> i don't know

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i think part of the balance is protecting r0i78 residential stoke and i know we've got some good product but it's clear for the demand for more rooms and if we can do it open sites and build hotels and housing residential units at the same time would be best. so i'm kind of curious but as far as supply and demand to keep up with moscone's expansion of 5 hundred rooms. if you did build that suddenly do you think that the rates would change but would the pie get bigger. how many people are we denying because it's too costly >> i think the pie would get bigger but the demand will be there for the additional rooms. those minimum 6 hundred rooms needs to be in one property. it's the key to being successive. so i think it will be successful i don't think it will negatively impact the city occupancy and rates >> thank you. i want to add two other comments for the need for hotels. we have great things outside lands happening and for the most part the business is going to stay downtown and if you want to limit some of the car issues around ocean village would be great and there's also challenges

i worry about the next generation of jihadists we're going to stoke up by our involvement. we were sold the bill of goods. it's not that they hated us for our lattes and gap jeans and lap dances, but to the contrary it's our foreign policy, our so-called involvement in what they described a the arabian peninsula. tamron, here we are funding the side that overthrew a democratically elected president and then killed 600 to 700 protesters. it's truly unconscionable. >> as our team on the ground, ayman mohyeldin and others, have reported, both sides in this equation are not, if you will -- and i hate to put it so simply -- fans of the united states here. now you have to factor in, p.j., this hosni mubarak equation. you heard ayman in his report talk about that is again stoking the flames of what could certainly turn out to be far worse than the 1,000 lives already lost. >> well, picking up on michael's point, the message -- i mean, we had an opportunity to the -- to send a message six weeks ago. whatever we do now, the damage is done. the fact that we haven't called it a coup s

the conservatives over there at the telegraph and city am are saying we're already in i was more of stoke the housing bubble and all bubbles eventually burst and then all you'll be left with negative equity but all that debt well there's still many areas of the country that still isn't. we're going to be that let's let's figure that out what country well he got us tonight and see what canada destroyed canada or the u.k. he's just a fly by night scrounger carney it means carnival that our coast guard artist yeah that's right there is the you can't say that oh i didn't like i did tell you i was a show in a korean man. all right well let's come back and discuss this again. right sunroof from save our sabers dot co dot u.k. thanks once again for being on the concert for you max. and that's going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max kaiser and stacy herbert i'd like to thank our guest simon rose of save our saviour's dot co dot u.k. if you'd like to get in touch tweet us at kaiser report and so much time as. well talking about language as well but i will react to situatio

. >> he gave an incriminating speech in lahore, which is again stoking the emotions of the local people, talking about jihad, and linking it to myanmar and palestine -- a familiar kind of chatter. i would say at this stage one has to put a question mark on the ability of the government to deal with this kind of fervor, which is so evident in pakistan. >> in the wake of such activities, india is likely to delay its response to islam about's proposal daschle islam -- islamabad's proposal for secretary-level talks. posters in lahore put up by the parent body of the terror group that carried out the attacks in mumbai openly invites people in the media to attend the prayers he will lead. he has been seen addressing rallies in the capital of pakistan. accessed on says it has no proof against him. they arrested him twice after india's allegations, but on all occasions he was let off by the court. in another significant element, pakistan, in his first mission, accepted the underworld man was in their country, but now he has been chased out. the unexpected revelation came when the pakistan prime

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how about that, stokely is coming back. >> reporter: how about that. caught the famous pass in super bowl 35 in tampa. >> he did indeed. >> reporter: and also dallas clark, the former indianapolis player, great tight end, they're signing him. maybe todd heap will come back. >> you ner know. >> reporter: ravens are going to be good this year. go o's, they win again. in arizona tonight. it's manic monday in fells point. we have a great group this morning. we can't wait for their performance. it's open door care when the eyewitness news morning edition rolls on. nrz ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> good morning. how come christie can't go after the thunder from down under? why do i have to go first? okay. 70 degrees right now. at least they have a weather name, thunder from down under. i got nothing. 90% humidity. 67 the your dew point. humidity building into the region for right now. we may have some thunder later this evening into tomorrow. we have dew points building. 62 oakland, 71 ocean city. around the immediate metro area, temperatures around that 70 deg

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. >> christopher stokes is the director general of doctors without borders.e gives us more details on that incident. >> reporter: yes, doctors without borders are working with a whole series of clinics inside of syria, and in this case we're talking about three clinics in particular in and around damascus. with which we've been in contact the last few days. we've supplied them with a drug used in the case of patients presented with neurotoxic symptoms, and the picture we've been able to put together struggles the use of a neurotoxic agent last wednesday, and they propertied 3,600 patients and 35,050 have died as a consequence of that attack. >>> we cannot access those hospitals. we do have teams inside syria but fought specifically in these areas in and around damascus and it is impossible for internationals to get in there. the credibility we would assign to this, the fact that we've been working with these structures for six months, regular contact with these doctors. these doctors have given us precise diagnoses of patients they've received over the last f

made it official the signing of brendan stokely. the 14 year veteran brings much- needed experience to a receiver corps. he is on the field but not taxing. here is a live look at the open- air practice. jason dufner has been exceptional so far. he has been every bit as good as he was a year ago -- a year ago when he had a game-winning kick to send the ravens 28 feet -- afc championship game. we'll have much more tonight at 11:00. punter.e the loan rubber match for the orioles and a big one. everyone that they chase for the wildcard keeps on winning. to start off today, it was a chilly at west and but endorse was really happy to be -- bud norris was really happy to be starting. an amazing catch in the first inning. we will stay there in the first and this will go into a similar spot, brandon belt hit it farther. no catch to be made there, giants would score twice in the first. the bottom of the second, a flare to left nate mclouth. what a great sliding grab that saves a run. top of the seventh, eight 2-1 giants late. j.j. hardy gets

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he can art to stoke kroirchs controversy, but he has to know he isn't helping hi party local li. which is what they really, really want. so if ted chris, for instance, were running for congress or senate, or governor in some red stays, that he was doing exceedingly well with those kinds of red-meat, but it's going to take a coalition builder, you know, in nontraditional ways. lieuies gmt ohmert is the poster child for the destruction of the national gop. >> but, you know, shouldn't they, crystal, be meeting weekly about creating jobs? about dealing with some of the egregious things that americans are facing daily in the economy still trying to recover? meeting about obamacare and how to stop the president? isn't that a little less than what even their constituents expect of them when they vote for them? >> yeah, what a novel suggestion, to actually spend your time focusing on things that would benefit the american people rather than taking health caraway from millions. they're not even meeting to suggest other health care alternatives. all they're focused is on is how with kell d

. >> reporter: anthony stokes will die if he does not get a new heart in six months, but last month thee. >> they gave him a death sentence. >> reporter: according to this statement, the doctors said that anthony is not a current transplant candidate because of a history of noncompliance. >> they said that they have no evidence that he would take his medicine and he would not have follow-up care. >> reporter: but a family spokesman said that anthony's illness was sudden and never been sick before and how could he have been compliant with the doctor's orders? and they believe he wasn't needed a heart because of low grades and in juvenile detention because of a fight defending his b brother. news of the rejection received national attention. >> surely life and death like it is for a 15-year-old anthony -- >> reporter: and by late monday a dramatic change of heart. the family spokesman telling cnn that the hospital did a complete 180 and reversed the decision, and anthony is now on the transplant list and awaiting a new heart. the hospital did not confirm it, but released a statement tuesd

. >>> world champs added a veteran player to the team, no stranger to baltimore, brandon stokely is back. drafted back in 1999 by baltimore and helped the ravens win the first super bowl and spent last season in denver with the broncos and signed a 1- year contract. >>> ladies, listen up, you need to be aware you will not be allowed to bring large purses in to the stadium with you what can you bring? tomorrow, we will learn about the new policy regarding bags on game day. the ravens will hold a press conference at mt at 11:00 too many morning. official says the rules will increase public safety and make it easy for fans to get in to the stadium. good news, gas prices appear to be going down. how much can you expect to pay when you head to the pump? could it be less or is this just a little bit of a reprieve along the way to higher gas prices? so i'm checking out the jetta. 34 hwy mpg. check. no-charge scheduled maintenance. check. and here's the kicker... 0% apr for 60 months. and who got it? this guy. and who got it? this guy. and who got it? this guy. that's right... [ male announcer ]

signed brandon stokely to a one year deal. ravens drafted him in 1999 and he scored the first touchdown in super bowl 35. the ravens agreed to a one year deal with clack. he played for the bucks and spent a decade with the indianapolis colts. he is going to be on the sidelines for baltimorement save on back to school shopping. tax free shoppiweek is underway. you saw people out there in droves. clothes and shoes, totaling less than $100 are tax free through saturday. the retailers association crunched the numbers and say the family will spend $600 in back to school shopping. the big u.s. chunk will go towards new clothes for the school year. we hope you picked up a few things to help students in need. partnering with the school for back to school supply drive. help for things like backpacks, pens, pencils and three ring binders. you can help, go to abc2news.com/school supplies for a list of drop off locations. you have until august 22nd to show your generosity. >>> traffic stop made famous around the country and the world. bat

the military rather than respond with calm has actually stoked the violence more so and is on the edgef a civil war. adam: that's what's so troubling here. i mean egypt is the largest arabic nation. it has got the largest population. you have so many different kinds of people who live there. you have christian coptics and sunni muslims and shiite muslims. the majority are not radal muslims we see in the streets or are they? >> we saw the largest demonstrations in humanity, adam, happen ad month ago when ey ousted the muslim brotherhood. what 60 years of oppression and violence against the brotherhood could not do, one of them trying to run democracy, rising from five to 10 million in the street, 30 million, alstalf the population signed a plebiscite to have them removed. mostly 90% are muslim. they don't want the islamists but they have not been able to thread the needle of democracy, they get lost between the two fascisms, mubarak era military which we see back to their violent ways and brotherhood which are into putting into place a islamic state and controlling through sharia and th

it has made 15-year-old anthony stokes a candidate for a donor heart. anthony was initially denied a spot on a transplant list because of what they called noncompliance. his mother believes he was being punished for having poor grades and a run-in with the law. >>> san diego mayor bob filner is vowing to fight amid sexual harassment claims. in a written statement responding to the demands for a recall, he touted the city's progress during his term. filner just returned from a two-week stint in therapy. now he's facing more problems. political reports the locks in his office have been changed. and four san diego hooters restaurants are boycotting filner, saying he will not be served. more than a dozen women are accusing the san diego mayor of sexual harassment. >>> new york mayor cory booker coasted to victory in new jersey's special primary. the democrat beat his closest opponent by some 40 points. the seat is that of the late senator frank lautenberg. after his victory, booker spoke to hundreds of supporters. >> i want to make sure you know if i am you

and, of course, as i think your president mentioned all, you know, to assure that all of those who stoke e spoke our comments are taken very seriously by the department and they address them and talk about them after the meeting but i'm wondering, you know, if either one of you wanted to say anything about any of the items tonight >> thank you, commissioners. as you can tell i'm taken extensive notes and we take the comment from the public very seriously and we'll be discussing these tomorrow morning with the chief and captain tom. i just want to say that captain tom you're doing an fantastic job. there are crime problems in all of the city we come out to listen specifically to you what we can do better. we really do hear you and we'll be adding those problems we'll definitely be addressing them >> and wanting if i could offer. i was here last year, it was clear the party bus situations was not a problem that i was aware of. and i came here thinking we were going to hear a lot of unsolved evidence but we see the number of the specific tactics you all worked on together so i really feel l

what if anything to do next, there is still the issue of the victimses, joins us now is christopher stokesthe director of doctors without borders. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you, hello. >> are we seeing any new patients suffering from neurotoxic sometime systems? >> not at the moment. it's important to understand that these hospitals supporting, some directly and some supporting are very hard to access in terms of getting information, understanding what was going on. to our knowledge, not since the alleged attack of last wednesday, not fresh neurotoxic symptoms. >> has the death toll changed from 355 or the number of people admitted to hospitals still standing at 3600? >> yeah, what also needs to be understood is there still is as your previous correspondent mentioned a conflict on going inside these areas. it's not only an issue of neurotoxics agents, you also have fresh wounded doing to the on going fighting. these hospitals really are in need of supplies and resupplies. they really are working in the most impossible conditions. the conflict is on going with civil

this motion of states' rights, this nation of stoking racial hostility. that was a big claim against mlk and others. they're making the same claim against eric holder today. >> right. >> texas has taken their logic twisting to new levels. they say they weren't trying to disenfranchise people of color, just democrats. right? that makes it okay. here's the response to the justice department. doj's accusations of racial discrimination are baseless, redistricting decisions were designed to increase the republican party's electoral prospects at the expense of the democrats. so i guess that makes it all okay? >> right. i guess -- the other logic is if democrats were in power they would do the same thing. you have a very activist justice department, a very activist attorney general in eric holder, in going after these states, even after the supreme court decision in trying to monitor what they're doing under section 3 of the voting rights act. this is something i think we're going to hear a lot about. i think some people assume this was doa because of the make-u

. >> you can tell that he is stoked about the racecar and the dad points out that he was most excitede boxes which most kids are. here is the second package that he gets some nice nationwide apparel. little nationwide shirt. >> that is awesome. >> and some little shorts in there and another blanket. he is going to have all kinds of blanket blankets. and deegan had a nice message for the folks at nation woowide >> say, "thank you." >>> and now feeding a puppy. . >>> the dark knight is not just protecting gotham city, but expanding into real estate. that is a big block of wood and the guy is apparently one of the best chainsaw carvers, simon o'rourke, and he is creating something spectacular with the piece of wood. >> i'm seeing it now. >> and you are wondering, batman and the block of wood and what do they have to do with real estate? well, apparently this piece was commissioned by phil and leah to place in their apartment which is close to st. giles church so people could see it from the apa apartment, and raise the allure and then they could sell it. >> so someone commissioned this t

but it's certainly a blow to a lot of people in egypt, and it's certain to stoke more fear, anger, and the possibility of more protests. there is a protest planned tomorrow, it will be interesting to see how many people show up to that protest, and how angry they get. >> jonathan betz from cairo. thank you some of. we'lso much.we'll have more comd you can follow developments on www.america.aljazeera.com. >>> there is condemnation after chemical attacks in syria. al jazeera's omar al asalah now reports. >> reporter: a day after hundreds of syrians including women and children were killed or injured. a surge among the dead for missing relatives. a syrian opposition said more than 1,300 people died after government forces used chemical weapons in a number of areas east and west of the capitol damascus. accusationaccusation strongly dy the syrian government. the shocking pictures of the victims have brought swift international condemnation. the french government demanding some sort of action. >> if proven opposition is there needs to be a reaction. what does that mean? not to send soldiers

>> well, it is stoking a lot of reaction. in fact, we have been out on the streets talking about this, hearing what people have to say and some of the stuff that's really coming forward in the discussions we are having is, a lot of people thinking this sentence was just simply not strong enough, that it doesn't send a positive message about the consequences of doing such -- of committing such a crime and deterring others from going down the same path. on the other hand, activists and child rights activists are suggesting, in fact, this is the law and this is the parameters that the judges had to work with. so, mixed reactions, but generally, a lot of people with a lot of things to say. >> now, the family of the victim are talking about the possibility of an appeal. what good would that do when the court has already given the person convicted the maximum possible sentence? >> yeah, absolutely. as you mentioned, the family mentioned it wants to take its case to courts, to higher courts across india. the issue is here that as yo

stoked by a merchandising team of backpacks and t-shirts, perfume and books. that said that you are about to become the first boy band to ever reach a billion dollars. >> yeah, we read it. >> reporter: they try to keep it funny, no matter the topic. in fact, the lighthearted clean-cut image of the band is part of their appeal. >> so is there a lot of pressure to stay this sort of squeaky clean like pg? >> well, i don't know really. i think you've got to be yourself in this thing otherwise it's going to drive you a bit nuts. we try to be ourselves and whether people like it because people are not -- that's why we don't go around like confessing to be role models or something like that because you know, we might make mistakes. >> we're the five idiots that they knew from three years ago and we still are. >> part of it's like it's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them and don't keep doing them over and over again. >> reporter: three years ago harry was sweeping up a bakery and louie worked in toys "r" us. they were just five kids hoping for a break