well, tonight another scary scene, this time during the marshall-west virginia football game. ing struck the upper deck of the stadium in morgantown, west virginia. the game was delayed twice as the stadium was evacuated after the lightning and wind gust of 68 miles per hour. espn reported that a fan was struck by lightning in the upper deck, but west virginia disputed that claim. in the end, west virginia won the game, which was called due to severe weather in the fourth quarter. and we'll be right back with a looknnis ppened to tennis star rafael nadal when he collapsed during a press conference today. has reached . now, you guys found the other airline guilty of charging a 150-dollar change fee. you bet! southwest would never do that. and that was after she changed her flight and paid the difference in airfare. that other airline treated her wrong. she was understandably upset. well, who can afford a 150-dollar change fee? he was surprised with the verdict. you got that right. [ male announcer ] don't pay a change fee on top of a fare difference. fly southwest, the only majo

>>reporter: mountaintop mining accounts for about 40% of all the coal mining in west virginia. it's a form of surface mining that accesses shallow coal seams. one the coal industry sees as essential... >>raney: we're able to recover the full coal seams in the top of the hills because you can't underground minethem. they're too thin. you can't hold a top, you can't have a bottom. you can't have a safe environment for an underground mine in these upper coal seams. >>reporter: but activists say mountaintop mining is creating anything but a safe environment. i meet bo webb beside an elementary school that lies directly beneath an active surface mine...one he's convinced is poisoning the area with dangerous coal dust and chemicals... >>webb: the american school board journal came in here and did a story and their investigation showed that 10 people, students, staff teachers had died from cancer that attended this school in the previous 6 years of their report.. >>reporter: however coal industry supporters say surface mines are both legal and safe. and while they admit active sites ar

west virginia. that's why business and labor endorse tomblin for governor. >> it's just the beginning. re work to be done. >> all right. west virginia governor, there's normally three races in this period, louisiana, mississippi, kentucky, and all three are blowouts. the wo republicans ap peer to be holding on, but mississippi might get closer than people think and kentucky looks like democrats will hold, so west virginia, the special election. jennifer duffy, the democratic governor here doesn't use the "d" word very often in his ads, i've noticed. but he's got the support of everybody, labor and the chamber. >> you know, it's interesting that he has managed to get both, you know, traditional democratic groups like labor, the teachers, he gets the chamber of commerce and the manufacturers. it is interesting, and all said, it's based on his proven record. they know what he's going to do. he's been in politics for 40 years. he has done nothing controversial in the year he's been the acting governor, done things voters like, reduce the food tax, even touts a bill that makes it easier to g

on the communicators in the past now the fcc is doing them so they are more complete in the states like west virginia that state is almost nothing in terms of high-speed internet. verizon dumped all its fire lines to what they call frontier and on the wireless side, it's there's no real high-speed internet and west virginia. the idea that at&t would have to make commitments like that as a condition of the merger is absolutely critical for consumers. price issues that is the job of the fcc and they've done it on the other orders, wireless and winder line where they say for example of the wireline side merge with bellsouth that was commitments in terms of price and in terms of wireline build off in the rural southeast u.s.. so this is the fcc part of the deal. in terms of what actually happens to consumers as opposed to the antitrust issues the justice department is focused on. >> if we could let's go back and clarify again with the promises they've made regarding jobs and are those in writing? what are the guarantees that you have? >> we have lots of faith and what they say that these are written comm

and the choices right now in a state like west virginia, the broadband maps that we've been doing for years that we've talked about here "the communicators" in the past, now the fcc is doing them so they're even more complete. the service in a state like west virginia, the entire state is, you know, almost nothing in terms of high-speed internet. verizon dumped all its wire line to a company called frontier, and on the wireless side there's no high-speed internet in west virginia. the idea that at&t would have to make commitments like that as a condition of the merger is absolutely critical for consumers. now, on price issues, you know, that's the job of the fcc. and they've done it on other mergers, wireless and wire line. for example, when at&t merged with bell south, there was a commitment in terms of price and in terms of wire line buildout in rural southeast u.s. so these, this is the fcc part of the deal is to slap conditions on in terms of what actually happens to consumers as opposed to, you know, the antitrustish shies that the justice department -- issues that the justice de

the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: i yield two minutes to a distinguished member of our economic subcommittee, the gentlelady from district of columbia, eleanor norton. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i thank the chairman for coming forward. enough of the outrage on both sides if i may remind us all that's precisely what the american people told us during recess they didn't want to hear. i do want to correct one item that the prior gentleman just in error he just made, there were no jobs in the american recovery act. there were three million jobs made from the american recovery act. and if there had been more funds in that act, we wouldn't be here today with the american jobs act trying to get more money to avoid a double dip recession. . this bill is not what the american people deserve and i apologize to them, that we have had to lower our standards. but it does save us from another jobs catastrophe like the one we experienc

. >>> college football, severe storm stops the opener between west virginia and marshall. out the lightning strikes. with 14:30 left in the fourth, the game is called. west virginia over marshall, final 34-13. >>> as the world track and field championship and south carolina don't blink. in the last leg by the 4 x 100 relay, trips, lands on his face, the u.s. is out of the race, usain bolt for the win and the record for the jamaican team. >>> when we come back, the top stories. >>> and remembering 9/11, a new video uncovered taken moments after flight 93 crashes in pennsylvania. 93 crashes in pennsylvania. but his nose was raw and sore. achoo! [ male announcer ] and common tissue made it burn even more. ♪ puffs plus lotion is more soothing than common tissue, and it delivers our most soothing lotion for every nose issue. a nose in need deserves puffs plus lotion indeed. to give your cold a comforting scent, try puffs plus lotion with the scent of vicks. on a recent trip to france we discovered the inspiration for a totally new yogurt. activia selects french yogurt. so silky

it turns out of report of a plane that had gone down in the west virginia border. and there was the report of the plane down in pennsylvania in chinks fill and turns out that was true. united 93. as we went to the process and the immediate aftermath there is no question of a significantly elevated level of concern but i don't know how to do my job if i had not and part of my job was to make certain we never again got hit like we did on 9/11. >> thank you mr. vice president and the american enterprise institute for hosting. thank you for coming. [applause] >> lee are extraordinarily grateful to have a friend like you that represents the ambitions so well. we are so thankful for your time this morning. thank you for being here and the questions we will let you get out of here. i think you have media interviews then we will excuse the crowd. >> fall is one of the biggest book selling seasons and book release season ends of them all. this is the 2011 fallbrook preview show and joined by two industry watchers and book followers. bob minzesheimer with "usa today" the book

the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: i yield three minutes to our distinguished subcommittee chairman, ranking member, the gentleman from illinois, mr. costello. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois is recognized. mr. costello: the legislation is a clean extension of the f.a.a. bill and takes the extension through january 31 of 2012. in february of this year, the senate passed a bipartisan comprehensive f.a.a. re-authorization bill by a vote of 87-8. by contrast in april, the house approved an extension that was very controversial and it was a bill that was passed on a party-line vote. in fact, the house passed bill passed by the narrowest vote margin for a house f.a.a. authorization bill in almost 30 years. i said at the time that the poison pill provision that was put in the bill by the majority that it would prevent the bill from passing both the house and senate and being signed into law by the president, and in fact the white house said that they would veto the legislation with the poison pill

you mentioned snow that is only out to the west in west virginia and west portions of maryland. 71 degrees out there now. we are looking at the cold front making its way through the area as we speak with the clouds around most of the region. starting to see some breaks in the clouds to the west toward leesburg and frederick where the temperature is 68. falling to the 60s there, still warm ahead of the front. 77. cam bridge 75. the frontal boundary is producing shower activity. prince george's county, king georges county and maryland you will see a light shower pass through the region. st. mary's county to the south you will see some heavier showers moving in. it's part of the frontal boundary moving in. temperatures down to 54. when you wake up tomorrow morning, it will be cooler. it's not the coolest we have been this season but we are going to get cooler still. i have cool numbers for you. pat? >> thanks, doug. >>> president obama says the u.s. has dealt a major blow to al qaeda's most dangerous affiliates. it's known as al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. his name is anwar al-awlaki. the

sometimes the corners were cut according to west virginia code you have to be licensed by the state in order to service loans secured by property in west virginia. it was discovered that bear stearns would have been buying west virginia loans for several years now and were not allowed to service it without reporting the oversight to regulators there and forced a mafia style code of silence within its walls to quietly fix the problem ok that was confidence game directed by nick verbinski nick welcome to the kaiser report hi thanks for having me max all right nick before we get into the substance here tell us a little bit about bear stearns what sort of bank were they had they fit into the wall street matrix and when and how did they collapse just on a timeline well it's a good question of bear stearns was known for many years as the most brass bald profit powerhouse on wall street and they had a reputation that that they really reveled in which was that they did business with whomever and however they pleased. for many years at work to their great advantage as the the profits kept pilin

school and park and localize local citizen to collect and carry this trash from the west virginia roadpitol. >> we really try get the word out it's not worth it. trash is going to come fwabing we don't do education program. >>reporter: they clear roads and stream from his maryland to missouri. traveling on the school bus complete with 6 bunk beds, couch, kitchen, and an engine that runs on used vegetable oil. the work can be infectious. 51-year-old russian intern who enjoys it so much he has joined them. >> best way to explore america. i didn't know that america is so polluted. >>reporter: but as with any road trip it's about the country and the people. only this trip has given them a wonder 0in human consumption and what we throw away. >> baltimore a lot of liquor. you notice the trend. eastern shore of maryland is known to us as the home of light drinker. western shore of maryland is bud light drinker. you notice people drinks lots of pepsi and coke and west virginia it's all about mountain duchlt that continued pretty much through ohio. >>reporter: as they continue picking up whatev

so if the distinguished senator from west virginia, the president of the senate, wants to come in anda modification in tax law for example, adjust the rates, say, in these three brackets, one way or another, because we have the numbers now from the joint committee on taxation and it is the only proposal, our bill, the only proposal they've scored -- we can give to the senator from west virginia and any other member of the senate, the other 98 senators not here, we can give them the actual numbers that have been furnished by the official scorekeeper, the joint committee on taxation, so we can be in a position to have a real debate. there has been an enormous amount of groundwork done, mr. president, on this issue. i've already mentioned the similarity and reforms on the individual, you know, rates, the corporate rate reforms proposal are similar, revealing the alternative minimum tax, it's in our bill, it's in all of the bills. we understand what a crushing burden this alternative minimum tax is. it's got middle-class folks all over america, if you got somebody who, say, is on the poli

saturday, the skies over west virginia saw the tragic ending of an air show. spectators watched in horror as one plane crashed and burst into flames while attempting to perform an acrobatic maneuver. the pilot died on impact and investigators are still looking into the cause. >>> life imitated art in oklahoma this weekend. at least one tornado touched down which was the film location for the movie, "twister." unlike the hollywood version, this storm didn't cause any major imagery. >> friday night lights turned into a night of fights. a melee erupted in the fourth quarter after two players began fighting at the end of a play. disciplinary action for a total of 12 players from both schools are pending. >>> for just one day, the public was given a rare glimpse into a top secret relic into the cold war. a hexagon spy satellite was declassified and put on display from 1971 to 1986 the government's spy tool, nick named big bird carried out surveillance missions from space photograph images of the former soviet union, china and other targets around the world. >>> now

cold enough to generate a few showers here and snow showers in the mountains of west virginia over the weekend. it looks like it will be a slow- moving system. occasional showers popping up monday into next week. another storm are rives and refuses to leave. clouds and breezy scattered showers. fifties in the morning and afternoon. temperature will not change a whole lot. gusts of 20 knots on the day. the weather service has posted a small craft advisory. it will be little warmer on the bay. the bay water temperatures will start to drop as chilly air comes in. we do expect rain and snow mixed out in garrett county with afternoon highs in the low 40's. most of the day's temperature stuck in the '30's there. not quite as called on the eastern shore, but cooler than normal with scattered showers. we should be able to get into the lower mid-60's, but there is a slight risk of a shower on saturday and sunday. 150 mile per hour winds that looks like it will pass to the south and east of bermuda as a category 3 hurricane saturday afternoon at work its way up to the cooler waters of the atlant

them sick, and they will go to extraordinary lengths to get away from t welcome to the quiet zone of green bank, west virginia. this is where scientists come from all over the world to listen to the universe using that enormous radio telescope over there, but in order to hear the cosmic chatter, everybody else has to be very, very quiet, and that means no cell phones, no wi-fi, in fact, no wireless at all. >> diane shue is one of an estimated 5% of americans who believe they suffer from electromagnetic hypersensitivity, or eha. >> my face turns red. i get a headache. my vision changes. my memory, it hurts to think. last time i started getting chest pain and that's painful. to me, that is becoming life threatening. >> this is continual scanning and recording -- >> now she constantly monitors levels of electromagnetic radiation. before moving to the quiet zone, she was forced to take extreme measures to protect herself, spending most of her time in a homemade insulated box known as a farraday cage. >> i cannot go outside because of the cell towers. that's why i'm in the radio quiet zone. there are no cell tower

the last few hours we learned of a crash at the thunder over the ridge event in west virginia. the crash involved a t-28 trainer aircraft. no information on injuries so far. we are working to get details and images from the scene. we'll bring it to you when we get them. joining me to talk about aircraft safety is jim tillman, an aviation analyst with military and civilian airlines and he knows about weather, too. he was a weatherman when i worked in chicago. he joins us from scottsdale, arizona. what do you make of the photos we are seeing of the supposedly missing tail section? >> you know, there was quite a little bit of speculation about what, if anything, may have happened to the airplane itself or mechanical failure. for an experienced pilot like this one to sufficient the kind of consequences he did. looking at just the surface, it looks like a trim tab. a trim tab really takes care of the air load on the control surface so as you consider the fact that if you have your stick in a neutral position and you want to move the airplane from one kind of angle of attack with the

the web site is weather.gov. joe is joining us from west virginia. go ahead, please. >> caller: yes, steve, my first question would be to c-span. i would like and like to know why the c-span hasn't aired a show on mountain top removal mining that's occurring in the especially southern west virginia and eastern kentucky. and because of the climatology and effect that it has on the change and the climate and the hot royalty. i guess my question to the gentleman is with over a million acres mountains removed up to 800 feet in height, and with the change in the way this effects the weather in the appalachian mountains, is there any opinion that you have that this creates a problem for the economy just like part of the weather service is to protect the economy. i would like to know your opinion, what can be done, and i would like to do a program on mountain top removal and let the people of america knows what's happening to west virginia in order just to keep the lights on for people in places like washington, d.c. i love c-span. thank you very much. >> ho

saturday the guys over west virginia also saw the tragic ending of an air show. one plane crashed and burst into flames attempting to perform an acrobatic maneuver. the pilot died on impact. investigators are still looking into the cause. >>> a life imitated part in oklahoma this weekend. at least one tornado touched down. this storm didn't cause any major damage or injuries. >>> friday night lights turnsed into a night at fights. a melee erupted in the fourth quarter. disciplinary actions against a total of 12 players are pending. >>> finally, for just one day, the public was given a rare glim ms at a top-secret relic from the cold war. this spy satellite was declassified and put on display. the government spy tool nicknamed big bird carried out surveillance missions from space photographing images of the former soviet union, china, and other targets around the globe. >>> well, now for a check of your national weather, we go to wtvj meteorologist ryan phill s phillips. good to have you here. i know you work evenings there in miami. you're just waking up like the

welcome to the quiet zone of green bank, west virginia. scientists come from all over the world to listen to the universe, using that enormous radio telescope. in order to hear the cosmic charter, everybody else has to be very, very quiet. that means nacelle phones, no -- no cell phones, no wifi, no wireless at all. danielle is one of 5% of americans who believe they suffer from electric hypersensitivity. >> i get a headache. my vision changes. my memory is hurt. i started getting chest pains. to me, that is becoming life- threatening. this is doing a continual scam and recording. >> she constantly monitors levels of electromagnetic radiation. before moving to the quiet zone, she was forced to spend most of her time in a homemade insulated box known as a fair the cage. -- farraday cage. >> that is why i am in the radio quiet zone. there are no cell phone towers. >> the disease is not medically recognized in the u.s., and the world health organization says that while the symptoms are genuine there is no scientific link to electromagnetic fie

the stands. another deadly crash earlier today at air show in west virginia. crash but sparing the spectators below. joining us is robert mark. good to see you. sorry it's under these circumstances. >> good to see you, too. >> rick: would you take your family to one of these air shows. >> i have. they go through extraordinary work to make these as safe as possible of course what people need to understand the people watching the show are almost never even remotely close to where the aircraft normally are this is one of those freak situations. so many pilots, forget about the spectators. so many pilots have been killed over the years. 20 pilots have been killed. is this acceptable to you as a pilot? i think that people that do in this are in a different kind of challenge than i am for certain. let's be serious, people have been racing cars, accidents at nascar and indy and places like that for years. and it's pretty much the same thing. >> rick: yeah, but these planes are 50, 60, 70 years old. what do they do? how do they outfit these planes to sort of get them r

the united states. i support coal. west virginia has been destroyed by now on top removal -- mountaintop removal. all the mining companies are currently -- violating water discharges in the state of west virginia. they pay a monthly fine to proceed with the mining process. mountaintop removal, you are 50% more likely to develop an exotic cantor such as brain cancer or colon cancer -- you are more likely to develop an exotic cancer. host: what is your question? caller: what is he asking to repeal regulations when the current loss in west virginia better being enforced by the state agencies are not being followed? every one of these companies went in and pleaded guilty. host: i have to leave that there. guest: we are not rolling back anything. god bless them for doing that. rationing down -- ratcheting down. the people of west virginia will have a chance of success working with your state regulators that the federal regulators. host: 1 more student aboard the c-span bus. caller: good morning. i am -- i am concerned about the medicaid budget. in new hampshire, cuts have been made causing extreme dist

but that wasn't the only crash disaster last weekend. in west virginia a pilot was killed during a stunt. container brown on rising concerns on the popular daredevil shows. >> reporter: on friday afternoon, veteran racer and hollywood stunt pilot jimmy leeward had just round add turn at a speed of up to 500 miles per hour when disaster struck. as the ntsb combed through the wreckage over the weekend investigators said they may be close to finding the cause. >> we have identified and recovered portions of the accident aircraft's tail. >> reporter: the tail is key because, just seconds before the plane plummeted to the ground, photographs show a piece of the tail section missing, something that could have caused the pilot to lose control. memory cards from the on board camera and a data recorder were also recovered and sent to washington, d.c. for analysis. >> look right here where it hit. 6. >> reporter: 25-year-old melvin george stad barely survived. >> it started coming down, i thought i'm gonna kei, i started running, then i reached around to my back a

this one in martinburg, west virginia. the plane, also of world war ii vintage, crashed and burned on the runway. officials say the civilian pilot was killed. no spectators were harmed. cbs news has learned tonight minimum tax rate on people making more than $1 million per year. the new rate is intended to guarantee that millionaires will pay at the same mr. obama the name the tax after warren buffet who often points out he pays taxes at a lower rate than his secretary. mr. obama called for quick passage of his jobs bill in his weekly media address. a cbs news/"new york times" poll puts his approval rating at 43%, his lowest yet and as whit johnson tells us, his jobs plan is proving to be a tough sell even to some democrats. >> reporter: to sell america on his plan for the economy, president obama will need support from democrats like joshua scannell. >> he hasn't done much since he has been in office. >> reporter: a former obama '08 campaign activist, scannell has little faith in the president's new jobs bill. >> i think that

more on the second deadly crash this weekend at an air show in west virginia. the pilot was part of an acrobatic team was killed when his plane went down and burst into flames on the runway. no one on the ground was hurt. the ntsb is also investigating the cause of that accident. >>> there have been at least a half dozen air show-related crashes in this country already this year. here to talk about air show safety is nbc news aviation analyst and veteran commercial pilot john cox. john, thankfully, we haven't seen many cases of planes coming down into crowds. but that said, it is going to have to be a hard look at how we ensure crowd safety at these kinds of events. what changes might we anticipate? >> i think, lester, we're going to see a good look at the overall process, in other words, what happened to the airplane. also, what we could do to ensure crowd safety. air shows have had this kind of problem a couple of times before. there was a tragic accident in ramstein some years ago and every time this has come up, we have made improvements, we have made it saf

up in the mountains of west virginia, the rain could be mixed with a little wet snow saturday and sundayit will be as close as western maryland, the first snowflakes of the season. enjoy the warmth tomorrow. 72 to 77 degrees. isolated showers. 15 knots on the bay, with waves around 2 feet. in the atlantic, remember the hurricane season goes through november. the storms are further out to the ocean. philippe is not going anywhere and showing -- staying week. -- weak. ophelia has become the first hurricane of these -- the fourth hurricane of the season. it looked like it was going to go away, but then it strengthened. it remains near bermuda. ophelia is a category one hurricane just east of bermuda saturday afternoon, then continues north and will weaken while phillipe stays well to the south. while the storms are staying in the atlantic, ophelia will be a minor problem in the weekend for bermuda. we are looking at low pressure from the ohio valley. a chance of a shower tomorrow. chilly weather saturday. highs in the upper 50's. a dip into the low 40's. partly cloudy, with a high around 69

much of the shenandoah valley, panhandle of west virginia. much of western maryland and into west virginia's mountains. we have it in the low 60s this morning. look at the cloud cover continuing this flow out of the south. this persistent weather pattern locked in place, giving us more clouds today. sunrise at 6:59. we might get a little mood enhancing sunshine breaking up by midmorning perhaps into early afternoon. then middle to late afternoon hours, we may get an isolated shower passing by. there's only a small chance of that. highs reaching upper 70s. and then cloudy tonight. by dawn tomorrow upper 60s. tomorrow a bit milder, up around 80 degrees. still humid and still cloudy. and a greater chance of a shower maybe during the afternoon. that's the greater chance is the afternoon hours. we might have a small chance tomorrow morning. then wednesday and thursday partly sunny. highs near 80 both days. a small chance of an isolated shower both of those days. finally, as we get into the weekend, thanks to canadian high pressure coming down, brin

bob weiss is the former governor of west virginia and now the president of the alliance for excellent and nancy karlsson page from leslie university and the author of the book "taking back childhood." governor, you first told me the statistic, fifth grade. that you can see a child going off the rails academically by fifth grade. what are the warning signs? >> they're pretty intuitive. the important thing is to do something about them. first of all, declining academic performance, second increased absences, tardiness starts to go up. and number three, disciplinary. i would add a fourth one. that's what researchers established in if you get a good data system, you capture it, you intervene and the ability to read and write at your grade level because by eighth grade, we see on the only federal or national test, we see 25% of our kids reading several grades below grade level. i can go to any state look at that score and tell you within a point or two what their dropout rate will be within the next three or four years. >> why don't we use that data and intervene fiercely when we see distr

the presiding officer: the senator from west virginia. mr. manchin: first of all, my good friend from florida, i appreciate him bringing it to our light and maybe we can help. i thank you, sir. to my good friend, the senator from louisiana, i think what she speaks about is us identifying and who we are as americans and the way we've taken care of each other. i don't know of any state that has not had to depend on fema for help, and not just the statististates that she showed - hurricane alley, where the hurricanes hit, but basically all of us have had to depend on assistance. i think what she brings to light is who we are as americans and doing what we can to take care of each other. i for one said we need to rebuild america, we need to take care of america first. i tries speak about the difficult fiscal choices that we as members of congress must soon make in the deficit-custing proposals that president obama has recently -- the deficit-cutting proposals that president obama has recently made. as we face our exploding debts and drveghts it is

turned out there was a report of a plane that had gone down on the ohio-west virginia border. know, that was america's 77 that simply dropped off the radar and hit the pentagon. news report of a plane down in pennsylvania, shanksville, turned out that was true. united 93. as we went through that process and the immediate aftermath as were putting together policies and so forth, there's no question but that there was significantly -- i don't know how i could've done my job if i had to. and i felt that part of my job was as the president's, was to make certain that we never again got it the way we did on 9/11. >> well, with that i would like to thank mr. vice president, think the american enterprise institute for hosting. [applause] i think all of you for coming. thank you. thanks so much. thanks so much, stephen, vice president cheney. aei is extraordinarily grateful to a friend like you, scholar, states and and men of action which represents abi's ambition so well. we are so thankful for your kind -- kind of this when. thanks to all of the questions. we will let you get out of

you get a report of a plane gunned down on the ohio-west virginia border, but it was just a plan that had dropped off the radar. there was a report of a plane that went down in pennsylvania, turned out that was true. we went through that process, in the immediate aftermath, of putting together policies. there was no question there was a significantly elevated level of concern. i felt, like most of us did, like i did not know how to do my job if i had not been concerned. part of my job as the vice- president was to make certain that we never again got hit the way we did on 9/11. >> with that, i would like to thank mr. vice president and the american enterprise institute for posting. thank you all for coming. [applause] thank you so much. we are extraordinarily grateful to have a friend like you. a scholar, statesman, a man of action who represent us so well. we are so thankful for your time this morning. thank you for all of your questions. we will let you get out of here, i think you have some media interviews right after this. then we will excuse the crowd. thank you again here in --

there was a crash today at the thunder over the ridge show in martinsburg, west virginia. the pilot was killed. but no one on the ground was hurt. the crash reportedly involved a t-28 trainer aircraft. i-reporter jennifer clark took these pictures and called the crash "very scarey." friends and family of two americans imprisoned in iran are anxiously waiting their release. an attorney for shane bauer and josh fattal says rirnian authorities are close to signing the necessary documents. the two the were arrested with a friend while hiking along the iran/iraq border in 2009. a court convicted them of spying. authorities demanded that each pay half a million dollars before their release. >>> the battle for moammar gadhafi's hometown won't be easy. government forces retreated today after coming under fierce fire in sirte. a spokesman said eight miklaszewski gadhafi fighters killed and 31 wounded. in southern libya, one tiny town surrendered without any fighting. residents cheered the government forces as they marched toward the south. people burned the flags of the gadhafi regi

there is no real high-speed internet in west virginia. the idea that at&t would have to make commitments like that as a condition of the merger is absolutely critical for consumers. price issues, that is a job for the fcc. on the wireline side when at&t merged with bellsouth, there was a commitment in terms of price and terms of wireline build out in the rural southeast united states. the sec part of the deal is to slap conditions on what actually happens to consumers, as opposed to the antitrust issues. >> let's go back and clarify what the promises that at&t has made to cwa regarding jobs. are those in writing? >> these are written commitments they have made that on the call center side, the biggest single place in terms of front-line jobs across america, these are the big locations. there is a t-mobile center in rural maine with 500 jobs. those people are fighting for their jobs right now. the workers were outside yesterday's. at&t is saying no jobs cut in any of the centers, none. stop the of shoring. in addition, they will bring back 500

and should be around 8:30 and maybe following the lsu-west virginia game. we'll have highlights. ound of the tour championship kj choi five under 67 to move into second place. and there is a day that belonged to a pair of aussies. loflt a handle on the club and still able to get it on the green. there is six under two back against adam scott. >> there is a hot dog could be a good factor to get players to play hard. >> and there is -- he played it up. >> that is disrespectful to the team. >> and raiders? this is next week. they have patriots coming in. >> so there is back to back. >> that does it for this edition of abc news. >> you can join conver intaigs the slight at facebook.com. >> and get headlines 27 -- -24-7. here are the headlines we'll find there. good night for now. [ tab pops ] ♪ whatever lola wants ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ lola gets ♪ ♪ and, little man little lola wants you ♪ [ cellphone dings ] [ cellphones ringing ] [ memen screaming ] ♪ make up your mind to have ♪ one diet pepsi, please. ♪ no regrets ♪ ahh. ♪ ♪ what's going on over there? ♪ ♪ these sweehoney clustery things have fib

there could be snow in the western mountains of west virginia. it is not likely to stay, but it is a possibility. so far, it has been a very wet september, the wettest on record. the third wettest month we have ever seen. we will be drying up tonight. partly cloudy. much less humid, temperatures dropping. that is the cooling trend we see. mid-70s tomorrow with mostly dry conditions. and the weekend, we struggle to even get into the 50s for high temperatures but a slight chance for showers for saturday. for the reagans came, for now, we're calling for mostly dry weather. >> a cat in massachusetts has two names, and for good reason. meet frank and lillie. it is not your ordinary pet. according to guinness world records, he is the longest surviving two-faced cat. the cat was just a day away when the owner rescued him. he was not expected to make it. but 12 years later, he is still going strong. >> everything works in unison. when this side eads, this side sometimes goes up and down. >> he sees out of the two outside eyes. the middle one is not functi

the weekend. yes, in parts of west virginia and pennsylvania in the mountains, we could even see our first snow flakes of the season. how about that, lynn? >> i don't know. i'm not prepared. >> nobody is. >> i haven't done the switch of the wardrobe yesterday. i don't even have the sweaters. thanks, domenica. >>> well, another entry in hollywood's weird baby names. plus, can an r-rated comedy drama about cancer win it all this weekend at box office? your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. you're watching "first look" on msnbc. [ female announcer ] so you think your kids are getting enough vegetables? maybe not. v8 v-fusion juice gives them a full serving of vegetables plus a full serving of fruit. but it just tastes like fruit. [ male announcer ] get five dollars in money-saving coupons at v8juice.com. montrose, california. ♪ in here, anarchy meets order. working with at&t, doctors set up a broadband solution to handle data and a mobility app to stay connected with their business. so they can run the office... even when they're not in the office. it's a network of possibilities -- helping