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texting behind the wheel. we talk about this a lot. in terms of safety it is no different than driving with your eyes closed for five seconds. i'll tell you important news on how to break that habit. but first, football under the microscope. as you likely know the nfl season kicked off this week and while i love football i couldn't help but cringe when i see these big helmet-to-helmet collisions during games. there's mounting evidence about the long-term impact of those hits. we talk about this quite a bit on the show. just this week a new study found that nfl players may have triple the risk of death due to brain diseases like alzheimer's and als. in recent years more than 3,000 former players have filed lawsuits against the nfl and they say that for years the league tried to play down or even cover up the long-term dangers. the change seems to happen overnight. >> he didn't recognize where he was and he didn't recognize who people were. >> one day your spouse seems fine. the next day a dispairing, broken ver

who have passwords to be able to get on to the to the to the text and to be able to come. and to make suggestions going to work advisors but very little public input and i just wanted to point out i mean these are all of the countries that are going to be involved in this really is quite shocking i want to break down really quickly what implications this would actually have i mean people have called it worse than nafta it's so under the radar but really talk about the international tribunal of pointed by these things that could pretty much override our national sovereignty in terms of trade laws and things like that give us a hypothetical sort of scenario about what could happen with this international tribe you know what what we have seen is that in leaked text about investment in foreign investment what it what it would provide is allow foreign investors if they came if they were didn't like a public interest regulation like an environmental law a toxic ban or public health laws what they could do instead of having to go through domestic courts which we believe we have a

19th is the no text on board pledge day. to pledge to never text and drive, go to it can wait.com. >> hurt and in a wheelchair, still doing the show. >> it's kind of sad, kind of pitiful but you've got to give him credit. >> he's got to do the music. next, "right this minute." >>> it's a hot wheel childhood dream come true. fire it up. >> come on, man. this is awesome. >> the hot wheel trick made real next. >> he gain internet fame in america trying to hug strangers. how does this act play in rome. >> right under his arm. >> see who can take a hug and who can't on "right this >>> let's take a look at videos we have for you today. best of rtm time. >> beth, you know i love train videos. this one, the magic is back. he likes to crank people going through the drive-through this. time he's pretending to -- i don't want to give away what he does. you'll have to check out the video. it's a good prank but i feel sorry for the workers. >> wow, i don't know what to say about that. steven, you'll be excited about this one. >> what's t

messages is the main mode of communication with half of all teens sending between 21 and 70 texts a day where the national highway administration says that the hand held is the highest among 16-year-old and according to the national safety council, texting while driving causes 1 million 600 accidents per year and according to the insurance institute. texting while driving is the cause of 11 teen deaths every day and motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death among teenagers killing between 5,000 and 6,000 teenagers every year and in the fatal crash rates is four times that of older drivers and in an at&t survey, 435 teenagers admit to texting while driving. was this 35 teenagers? >> okay. i am sorry. and admit to texting while driving even though 97 percent know that it is dangerous and a driver who sends a text message while driving not only jeopardizing his or her own safety but also the safety of the passenger and pedestrian ans and other drivers and whereas the federal transportation secretary states that texting and cell phone use behind the wheel is a national epidem

wednesday is national don't text while diving day. katie marzullo, abc7 news. >> great reminder, thank you. >>> event taking place at oakland coliseum now that even the most ardent a's fan would have never predicted in april, hundreds in line to buy tickets for a wild card playoff game. the american league division series the a's are the surprise story this year. the number one wild card seed with the second best record in the american league despite having baseball's second lowest payroll. >> we were talking about selling wild card and playoff detectives in advance. mike do athletes that i is jinxing, more pressure, do they like it? >> i don't think so. -- i think the a's don't quit no matter what the scores that makes them so fun and young. >> go buy the tickets. >> have fun. absolutely. fun, hasn't been fun getting into sfo flight arrival delays of up to an hour clouds are starting to break i hope those flight arrival delays will end in the next hour or hour and a half, looking at that sunshine from south beach towards oakland righ

19th is the no text on board pledge day. to pledge to never text and drive, go to it can wait.com. >> hurt and in a wheelchair, still doing the show. >> it's kind of sad, kind of pitiful but you've got to give him credit. >> he's got to do the music. next, "right this minute." >>> it's a hot wheel childhood dream come true. fire it up. >> come on, man. this is awesome. >> the hot wheel trick made real next. >> he gain internet fame in america trying to hug strangers. how does this act play in rome. >> right under his arm. >> see who can take a hug and when we switched to fios, we got better tv, better phone, better internet. it was like somebody like took our computer, shook all the junk out of it. we're actually getting more for our money with fios. [ male announcer ] it's time to get more for your money. upgrade to verizon fios internet, tv and phone with our best price online. just $84.99 a month, guaranteed for one year with no annual contract. there's at least three computers. [ girl 1 ] a tablet. [ woman 1 ] couple of

was different from the hebrew text on this word. augustine says it is mistranslation but he says the holy spirit puts the translation into greek deliberaty looking ahead to mary's conception. so that's something that rather than deny that there's a problem other nicer point.and made >> but that's not scholarship, is it? >> well, i think it's scholarship to acknowledge when there is actually a conflict rather than to deny there is one. >> of course in mythology, greek parnology there is birth from virgins. >> in roman imperial mythtology, augustus mother was a virgin, alexander the great's mother was a virgin. >> you mean in that type of mythtology. >> they didn't allude to isiah because they weren't jews. one way of saying a person is important is to have their mom be a virgin at the birth of the hero. >> who was sells us. >> he wasn't a roman historian, i was a floss fur. >> clus. >> yes. >> he wrote a book on the true teaching he criticized judaism and christianity. >> what did he say jesus' origin was. >> that's a story about a r

wednesday is national don't text while diving day.atie marzullo, abc7 news. >> great reminder, thank you. >>> event taking place at oakland coliseum now that even the most ardent a's fan would have never predicted in april, hundreds in line to buy tickets for a wild card playoff game. the american league division series the a's are the surprise story this year. the number one wild card seed with the second best record in the american league despite having baseball's second lowest payroll. >> we were talking about selling wild card and playoff detectives in advance. mike do athletes that i is jinxing, more pressure, do they like it? >> i don't think so. -- i think the a's don't quit no matter what the scores that makes them so fun and young. >> go buy the tickets. >> have fun. absolutely. fun, hasn't been fun getting into sfo flight arrival delays of up to an hour clouds are starting to break i hope those flight arrival delays will end in the next hour or hour and a half, looking at that sunshine from south beach towards oakland right

; there are many different texts. it's wide-ranging because it's such an ancient, ancient religion. but we can look at the vedas as being the first key texts - you may have heard of those very ancient texts - closer to nature mysticism. of course, the upanishads in the next roll-in - we'll hear the wonderful stories that speak of the oneness, particularly arjuna on the field of battle meets krishna, and the great story that everyone turns to with karma that arjuna doesn't want to go into battle, but krishna says, "nobody really lives, nobody really dies - it's that wonderful maya, that dream that we're all living." so, it's kind of like, "get over it, arjuna!" slap on the back. it's kind of like the glenn fry song. but anyway, that's the idea. the bhagavad-gita - that's the one where the arjuna is in - the upanishads is first - bhagavad-gita is where we see arjuna and krishna on the field of battle. and of course, the bhagavad-gita is all part of a vast, vast- the mahabharata is a vast grouping of literature. so just

you've got tightly-packed, condensed text. the collars that are operating here -- colors are predominantly punctuation. and so medieval readers and writers would employ these different colors in order to help them navigate their way through the text. in spite of any sort of help that these colors could give, however, the whole process of reading one of these books, um, could be very, very difficult, so they created other forms of readers' aids, and this bookmark is an example of this. and i'll show you how it works right now. step one, this is very much like any modern bookmark we can think of today. it's on a string, and you just lay the string in, and it will mark your page opening. however, you'll notice that there are four columns of text on this page. well, this would be pri miss, the first, second, third and fourth columns. if you take our bookmark, you'll notice, one, that it has a lovely little drawing on it. pen and ink drawing. and you'll notice that it spins. this is what's called a vovelle bookmark. on the back you

stuart: these texts were accompanied by figures, scenes. and since they didn't understand anything but the dates, there was no way of telling who was depicted or what the scene was about. and thinking that perhaps the figures were priests, and here was a gentle people obsessed with time and nothing else, the maya began to take on a non-human aspect. here was the strangest race of people that ever lived -- sort of gentle astronomers, forever gazing toward the sky and never doing anything that other people did. keach: twentieth century scholars wanted to believe in an idealized maya past -- no wars, no power struggles, no economic turmoil. but in the 1940s, evidence uncovered at magnificent ruins like palenque in northern mexico began to change this notion of a peaceful maya. archaeologists investigated a structure known as the "temple of the inscriptions." the building's upper level seemed imposingly solid. but beneath it, archaeologists discovered a hidden staircase. it had been deliberately blocked with rubble in ancient times. it took thr

right now we live in a texting world. if you are 18 to 29, you send or receive on average 88 text message as day. you only get 17 phone calls. those older than 65 still get more text messages. it's easy to say "i'm sorry" in a text but what's lost is the explanation on how this hurts upand are y--- you and what your eyes say. some tell us to mex our text messages, by skyping or face time where you can interact with another person. >>> all right. tropical moisture. that's what it's been about and what this will continue to be about. several more days you're going to be dealing with the rain coming into the east coast mainly out of the midwest. the humidity is helping to fuel the showers as well and as we look at maryland's most powerful radar showers to our east as well and in the larger perspective, again, hit and miss scattered showers will be a good belt the heaviest rain beginning to move out of the city and the county. there's a flash flood warning that will extend past the 7:00 hour. kent narrows was very, very wet.

they're not on strings or bound in to the text. this is a significant and fun object for more reasons than the fact it's extremely rare. this is what i really like to call an example of mid evil hyper text. books, as you can see, looking a the layout can be hard read in the middle ages. so you tightly packed contest densed the text. the colors are punctuation. modern punkuation systems didn't develop until the late 16th century. mid evil reader and writers would employ the different colors. inspite of any sort of help the colors could give, however, the whole process of reading one of the books could be difficult. they created other tomorrows of readers aid. this bookmark is an example. i'll show you how it work right now. it's like any modern bound bookmark we can think of today. it's on a string. you lay the string in and it will mark the page opening. however, you'll notice there are four colums of text. well, this would be -- [inaudible] the first, second, third, and fourth columns. if you take the bookmark, you'll notice one i

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i mean, texting and phone use. to dial numbers basically fundamentally the same thing is texting. we know that the music can be also a very distractive -- loud music can be distracting to kids, as well. >> that's my jam might turn into that's my jam-up. what are other common mistakes you want to tell parents about? >> kids think their first year of driving with learner's permit or have their license they are ready for the road. the truth is, they are just not ready for every situation that may come along while they're driving. it takes many years to get the real experience and be in many different situations before they actually in are ready to handle what happens to them. it's good for parents to teach their children how to drive at night, when it's raining and snowing. >> there's that invincible -- when you're young you don't think you could get into a trash, not a terrible crash. how do you get that message home that you are flesh and bone, this can be hurt, slow down, take your time or what have you? >> well, what's interesting about that is we found some kids very anxious to

text b if you are more excited about a pennant race. standard text messaging rights applied. an amazing run by the orioles. still strong for the man who defined purple pride. the sons of art modell expressed their father's love for the city of baltimore. facebook publicly for the first time since their father, the original owner of the orioles, passed away. the modell suns talked about how much their father cared for baltimore, and the people who live here. >> we know that opp -- that poppy have an incredible love affair with baltimore, and baltimore had a love affair with my father. >> art modell passed away once the morning. the nfl has called on all teams to honor our mondo before this weekend's games. there will be a public to view tomorrow at the stadium, from 11 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.. fans can come and pay their respects. that is tomorrow at the stadium. parking for the tribute is free. tonight, a ravens linebacker is responding again to a lecture by a maryland delegate and it burns to the ravens honor. -- emmett burns to the ravens owner. the letter read, "many football su

said the text. text a to expected blowout or b if you expect a close game. update on the voting. 65% of those who voted think a close game will happen on sunday. high school football. gilman. the greyhounds coming off one of the biggest wins in school history. third game against out-of-state competition this year. gilman out early. matt tilly not to be caught. 78 yards. nice 21 yard touchdown run. 14-7, gilman. tily -- another monster effort. he goes 56 yards. 37-14. dunbar. defending baltimore city champs. coleman -- wants a big ho le. he got one. 2nd quarter. that arm tackel. 14-0. carlos austin take the punch and disappears for a little while. there he is. still running. goes all the way. dunbar, a big win. 27-0. visitors get off to a good start in this one. ryan jones. one handed. graet effort -- great effort. charges back. scoops. races into the touchdown. third quarter. jackson thornton. hanging it up. 45 yard touchdown. big win. 41-31. frigid that was. -- frederick douglass. he gos in. victory by a final of 14-6. >> sunshine for the weekend. comfortab

every member of the family is texting. i study funerals, and people are texting. >> reporter: at funerals. at funerals. nd the cover of the new yorker captured this. the whole family is at the each and each of them is on their phone. >> reporter: her book "alone together" surveyed hundreds of people about their plugged-in lives. her conclusion, we have lost the art of conversation. >> an 18-year-old boy talks about how he would rather text than talk. he says i'll tell you what's wrong with having a conversation. it takes place in realtime. you can't control what you're going to say. >> reporter: these days texting is seen as a skill. in new york recently thumbs were flying as teens competed for the coveted title of "america's fastest texter." on average, 18- to 24-year-olds send and receive a whooping 3200 text messages a month. >> is it too strong to call this an addiction? >> i don't like the work addiction personally. i think we're vulnerable. i think we're submitten. we're like young lovers who are afraid that too much

secretary of state and decorated four-star general is, of course, a best- selling author whose latest text is called "it worked for me: in life and leadership." he joins us tonight from washington. secretary powell, good to have you back on this program, sir. >> thank you, tavis, good to be with you again. tavis: i promise to get right to the book if you allow me to ask a few questions about items in the news. i suspect that doesn't surprise you, given the roles that you've played in our government, that i might want to pick your brain about a few things. let me start, of course, with the news made some weeks ago by you that you have not decided as yet, at least, unless you want to break some news tonight, you've not decided as yet to endorse in the presidential race, which leads to two questions. i try not to ask them in tandem, but let me just get them out the way and give you time to answer them. the first question is do you intend to endorse in this race, and if so, what are you looking or listening for to help make that decision? >> well, tavis, i'm a private citizen and i'm on a book

i was texting and yeah it was hard to look and be on the road at the same time. >> texting while diving is illegal in california. -- texting while driving is illegal in california. >>> seeing it without having to pay the price, what a fantastic idea. >>> let's turnover to meteorologist mike nicco, clouds again to start our day, a little more too. >> more widespread which means cool again compared to average as we try use the sun says energy to get rid of the cloud cover. feels like fall again, 5:17, clouds not touching tops of the buildings, because the marine layer in the clouds are higher this morning. a lot of cloud cover, no radar returns, dry this morning. let's talk about temperatures, just updated these, everybody in the low to mid 50s now as you head to the monterey bay, cloud cover and low to mid 70s. for this cycle, sunshine this afternoon, even a few pockets out at the coast. with a strong sea breeze, temperatures will be cooler than average not only today but the better part of this seven day forecast. autumn doesn't arrive until saturday morning. possibly cooler weather aft

gov quinn signed a pledge not to texting and drive into wants you to do the same he send the note textting a proclamation in september as texting and driving awareness month. the governor was joined by secretary state jesse wide as he urged all illinois drivers to promise not to text in drive. this is a public health measure. back in 20 09 gov quinn signed into law a statewide ban on texting while driving since it took effect more than 2600 people have been convicted for that offense. considering hikes in the amusement the year tickets could go up a lesser amount in the cigarette tax as well as the mayor wants to hold the line on sales in the real- estate taxes after signing off on the million dollars school property tax hike. j.p. morgan chase which was unavailable to some customers including tonight a group was planning to launch a cyber attacks on the west bank and the new york stock exchange. according to forbes 400 the country's three richest men are bill gates warren buffett and larry ellison. casey and buffett are also the most generous people on the planet and have given over $

text a if sunday's game is the most important. text b if you think any game against pittsburgh is important. or c if you do not think we will know until december. standard text messaging rates apply. high school football tonight. howard county. apleton put on a good show. the coach was named the baltimore ravens coach of the week. dixon, 5 yard touchdown. 13-0, lightning. capping off a 75 yard drive. 13-6. is it murray. he runs into the short touchdown. 2 point inversion. no good. but the game away. diverting on a 4th and 2. that did it. 13-12, final. >> fall is here. >> officially tomorrow. >> it is that season. i like fall. the greatest season around here. >> football. of course it is a great season. >> scattered storms samarra. skies will clara tomorrow night. sunday looks beautiful. 70 degrees for the high temperatures. last time a plane to england, the kickoff temperature was 20 was. a subtle improvements there. monday looks beautiful. lots of sunshine. [captioning made possible by constellation energy group] captioned by the

-- effects of driving while texting. hopefully that will be incentive for them to see what can happen while driving. >> as part of national preparedness, every family is encouraged to have a plan. what are the top three things that you would recommend in having in a safety kit? >> well, if i could take a little professional license, i'll give you four things i think shoe have. i think shoe have a flashlight, extra batteries. typically the power goes out so you want to be able to see and get around. don't use candles. have a flashlight. have extra batteries. if you have any medications, make sure you have the medications intact, water and also an am radio. typical a.m. radios where we'll get information out to you and believe it or not it's probably the oldest technology but it's the best technology during an emergency. >> can we get some of these kits at the hoax poe today? >> you absolutely will be able to get them. the district department of emergency management will be there. they'll be giving out the all weather radi

we are going to use the latest technologies, surf as nuns, speech to text deck takeses. we are going to use full touch and swite gestures to minimize key board entry. and we are going to have sbe greated photo, video, image and audio collection. all of this is going to be assembled in one place. so all of the relevant information about an incident is together and sent to the crime data warehouse in real time, allowing officers to spend much more time out on the streets instead of writing reports. arc-touch, being a france based business has many employees who live and work in san francisco, and we are absolutely thrilled to be part of this initiative. we would like to thank mayor lee for supporting technology companies in san francisco. we would like to thank ron and sf-city for bringing technology companies together so they can do great things for the city and its citizens. and most of all we would like to thank the chief for having the forward-thinking to start this program and make this field recording app, which we believe is going to be a great thing not just for th

why did thomas jefferson become consumed with revising the bible by omitting a lot of it in his own text of the bible as you began your book with? >> wl, presumably it's not because he didn't have anything else to do, i mean, he was a pretty busy guy in the white house but he ordered a couple books from england, a couple bibles and he sat there in the white house and he cut and pasted and took out the miracles and took out the resurrection. he believed jesus was a good guy, he believed he was one of the most important philosophers ever but he didn't like christianity and he was able to separate out christianity from jesus, say no to christianity and say yes to yeast. >> how many of the colonists, what percentage were religiously affiliated or had had religious beliefs in some specific denomination? >> i'm not sure the percentage. but much smaller percentage of churchgoers than we have now. something more on the order of, i don't know, one out of five rather than the vast majority. and those who were christians and who did go to crunch typically didn't think a lot about jesus either. >> h

am i looking for a sign that says "text your order"? no.re looking for a line that explains i don't have to wait. i instantly get it. i want to learn more about it. >> reporter: that one little change had big results. case in point, julie grouper is a current zingle user. she walked by the zingle signs for a year before she started using the service. >> i guess they had been here a while, but whatever they had just didn't really register. and then it was on the flat screen. and it just said, you know, something like, you don't have to wait anymore, and that kind of caught my eye because that was always my frustration with this location is because it's so busy. >> reporter: now simplifying the message has become so core to zingle that ford and his team have coined a new phrase. what does zingle it mean? >> zingle it means to bring it down to its very basic form and communicate as simple a message as possible. >> reporter: and they use it all the time. i sat through a staff meeting, and it wasn't long until i heard the term used as ford was t

remember, to download our weather apps, just text wmar to 46988. >>> a image -- grand jury indicted 15-year-old robert gladden, jr. he faces nine counts of first degree aspaw. gladden is accused of bringing a gun to school and shooting his 17-year-old classmate. it names eight other's stopped gladden. >>> police evacuated a neighborhood in baltimore county after a hazmat scare. today two teens face chargings of concocting drugs for huffing in the basement on regally oak -- ridgely oak road. police arrested 19-year-old justin trionfo. today his mother told abc2 news that his arrest came as welcome news. she said her son and a friend were mixing engine starter fluid with water in bottles for huffing. it prompted and evacuation. >> i was upstairs and didn't smell it until i came down. i'm so sorry, though to all the neighbors about what happened and what took place, but he has been arrested and his friend. >> carol ready as also been charged with allegedly concocting the mixture. trionfo's mother said he posted a message on facebook saying he wouldn'ted to shoot up the school. >>> well, w

the first piece -- this is very much a comic piece, and i do hope that you had type to look at the text of the program. i apologize for the formatting however my talents do not lay in the area of design. what i had hoped to do so you have line by line happening and the english equivalent and those of you that have not had a chance to look at the text very briefly this is a parody of buddhist ritual. a priest decides he is going to show the powers of mystic buddhism and he appears and on the alter with different sorts ofornmen of owns and then progresses through profound things and all of these are tongue twisters but it's the first round of tongue twisters nothing happens and the priest is very upset and blushes extraordinary red and he tries again. the second time the chants are much shorter and he begins to lose his patience and again nothing happens. third time nothing happens and he basically says how much time to turn to the wonderrous powers of the lotus set raand he does chanting and the parody is something like if anyone is old enough to remember and the mouse before vatican two

. >>> a new weapon is being used on the war on texting while driving.ip tv show that shows the deadly practice and how this scene is being used to try to keep teens from texting. hmm, it says here that cheerios helps lower cholesterol as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios >>> a new study suggests that some people are addicted to internet like some are to cigarettes. the addicts say they constantly think about the internet and feel compromised when they don't log on. most of them had the same gene mutation as smokers. >>> five second is the average time your eyes are off the road while texting while driving. >>> fans of the show glee will send a character sending a text then being broadsided by a truck. the scene is now part of a service campaign to get young people to stop sending and reading texts while behind the wheel. recent numbers show 12% of driving admit to texting and driving. >>> salsalito police arrested a man for stealing a boat. they said the boat's owner reported

text "a" if you are more excited about the nfl season taking off or more excited -- or text "b" if you more excited about the orioles. we will have those results later. >> we are keeping an eye on the radar screen to see if any showers will pop up. so far, quiet around baltimore. a sprinkle or two here or there. so far, the strongest storms have stayed away from baltimore. the southeastern part of the county. this could produce penny-sized hail. it is nearly stationary, so some spots getting a pretty good downpour. it looks like for most areas this evening, quiet. mostly clear skies. warm and muggy. tomorrow could be a different matter. a strong cold front is headed our web. more on that in the seven-day forecast. >> residence in howard county can rest a bit easier to night after police say they have solved a string of home burglaries had -- that has been plaguing the area for months. they have connected three men to the burglaries that started back in july. there could be more charges coming. according to detectives these three men broke into homes at locations in the western area of

joining me to discuss the text is author and journalist ariel sabari. he joins us from rome. well, first i want to ask you about the fragment itself. there's a lot-- there's a lot that isn't known about this papyrus fragment, right in? such as even where it came from. so what can you tell us? >> well, what we know is back in the summer of 2010 a private collector e-mail professor karen king at harvard saying "i've got this small papyrus fragment, i'm not sure what it says, can i send you photographs for you to take a look at?" and she sort of blows him off for a while but eventually she does take a look at it and is quite intrigued because there's this sort of bombshell phrase in the middle of the papyrus in the ancient egyptian language of coptic "jesusaid tohem: my wife." but it's a small fragment. if you look at it, it's smaller than an it yes, ma'am card. >> suarez: so if written in the 4th century, that would be long after the death of jesus. so are scholars looking at this as possibly telling us about him and his life as a sort of biography or is it more just-- just for