over an inch and a half at bwi thurgood marshall airport. but things have slowly dried out a bit. 62 at the inner harbour right now. cloudy skies. it was really windy out there today. those have subsided a bit. out of the west at eight. and humidity is up. and at 93 percent. so on sky watch hd regional radar, things are tapering off. and coastal low moved in here today. and brought a lot of rain showers. mainly toward the delmarva. now the showers are toward the north in pennsylvania. and new york. but we could see a still of rain showers overnight and for the daytime on su saturday. before the coastal low really officially makes the way out of our area. so here is the state rainfall totals for the daytime for today. over an inch and a half reported at bwi thurgood marshall airport but look over toward dover. close to 3 inches of rain reported. the delmarva peninsula got hit hard from the coastal low that really moved in our area. for the daytime for today. brought some heavy rain showers, and the strong winds out of the northwest today. gus

but he read about gandhi, and we got us in trouble with thurgood marshal. 40 years he had breaking down of the legal barriers, and in 1960 a group of up-starts want to take it on our own and decide to be civil disobedience. i mean my parents almost put me out over that. but it took us just about a year before constant motley and all the same lawyers across the south, wiley branton, arthur shores, all of them. when you see a picture of martin luther king doing anything, you see a picture of a naacp lawyer. and so we have not had a segregated, divided movement. we have had a united front even when we disagreed. look now where we go from here, the two things i want to focus on is getting everyone a bank account, and voting on the weekend. on the almost 200 nations that vote, we are down in the lower third. but all of those where people vote, 70-90%, they vote on weekends. they don't vote on workdays. now we in georgia can vote for 30 days, but it's 30 work days. so weekend voting. and the only reason we put voting on a tuesday is because that was a good day fo

right now, at bwi thurgood marshall airport checking in at 66 degrees. and under mostly cloudy skies. winds calm at this hour. and humidity is still up. 93 percent. we could see patchy fog as well overnight before the winds shift to the northwest. allowing for cooler dryer air to move in to our area. state temperatures right now. 70 in d.c. 71 degrees in baltimore. 65 in dover. but a chilly 55 degrees in oakland. and temperatures will be dropping down tomorrow. start to feel the cooler chilly air move in to our area saturday to sunday morning. and we will feel temperatures in the upper 40s. so high pressure system sits on top of us, and builds in nicely. so if you have out plans this weekend. plan saturday and sunday, you are in luck. tomorrow future scan model at 1:00. beautiful sunny day in store for us. nice conditions. dry conditions. and comfortable as well that sticks with us for 48 hours. and sunday, 11 a.m. plans to head to church sunday, great day for brunch outside. but there is a low pressure system organizing itself, in the ohio valley. and i

but with that work of thurgood marshal that pushed our situation to the point that the president of theed states had to make a statement. and that statement was the 101st air bourne. and i would like to thank dr. hurst to be a part of that group, for the naacp to meet in little rock in 1987. that was our first time for the nine of us to get back together again. we had no seen each other in 30 years as a group. and the naacp held their fall meeting in little rock, arkansas. and i would like to thank him for that effort. [applause] >> i think my colleagues have said pretty much everything, but i would like to just remember when we received the medal, and i think it was w9kon of the amazing experiences i had ever had. but now i am sitting with this group, and i am saying wow, we were really important when we were 15 and 16 years old. [applause] and it's a wonderful thought, but i am hoping, and i think that if i were to talk about what we as a little rock nine represent, and what we would hope to impart to all audiences, is that teenagers think deeply, have great ideas, want change. [appla

because he worked for thurgood marshall.he helped him in the effort to desegregate public schools throughout the south. so he has this letr that he bought saying, dear boss' i am writing to tell you that i am now worng at harvard university. that was 1971. anyway, their became the first tenured african american law professor at harvard university. [applauding] as if that wasn't enough then i also have the letter that derrick wrote to the dean in 1990 which out wind his protest to hire women of color. such an activist, such a man of great humanity. it has been a blessing for me to learn from him, to be hisriend and colleague. while. we un lucky to have in year. >> of want to know 100 years from now, what do we do to preserve this impact in a. >> the most important thing we can do is to preserve the bidders already enormous. >> incredible letters. and spoke to adam clayton powell's first one. i had an hour-long conversation. she told me about these amazing letters that they wrote to each and a. she was a showgirl. when we get

right now, checking in at bwi thurgood marshall airport, 72 degrees in baltimore. made it to a high of 77 degrees today. and 64 degrees in harrisburg, and 66 degrees in pittsburg. we do have a cold front that will be dropping down in our area overnight tonight. allowing for the clear skies, and cooler temperatures, and high pressure system to build in here for a beautiful weekend. so waking up tomorrow, just an ample amount of sunshine. 6 a.m., 58, chilly if you are headed out in the morning hours for a early jog or walk. and 71 degrees by lunch time. pleasant conditions. and we're headed for a nice weekend. but when you head back to work, quite a different story. so i will all of that coming up in a few minutes. >> that's okay. we still have the ravens' game to deal with. it is that time of the week again, ravens' fans to get psyched for sunday showdown in san diego. fans showed off purple pride today at the mall in columbia and joined by the ravens cheerleaders and poe. the mascot. kickoff against the chargers is set for sunday at 4:15 eastern standard time, of c

an inch after reagan national, just over an inch at dulles international and .75 inches after thurgood marshall, bwi international airport. the rain is coming down and the temperatures are holding steady. upper 50s to 60s. 59 in fairfax, 59 in manassas, 61 in annapolis. now nearly an inch in the washington area, almost an inch at dulles airport. 1.21. culpepper, over .75 inches and .67 many hagerstown. raining along the i-95 corridor. a break in the action in loudoun county. by and large, most of the area is going to continue to see rain in the overnight. be ready for that. the rain is now ending in far southwestern virginia. the rain will taper off early on our sunday morning, but nonetheless, you need to be ready for a cloudy and wet start. the earlier you get up, the wetter it is going to be. gradually tomorrow we will see an end to the rain showers. a saturday night soaker for certain across our area. one main area of low pressure coming through tomorrow. most of the rain will end by 8:00 to 10:00 tomorrow morning. there will be a chance for a scattered shower or two late tomorrow afternoon

we were on the cool side. 71 is the high at bwi thurgood marshall airport. we're checking in at 64 degrees in baltimore. 62 degrees in harrisburg. 65 degrees in new york and chilly 59 in boston. so we could see another 1 to 2 inches. here is the predict rainfall totals from the coastal low system, through early sunday morning. we could see about 1 to 2 inches here in baltimore, and around 3 inches in chestertown. this model is more accurate for chestertown as the delmarva has a better chance of seeing significant rainfall from the coastal low system. for tomorrow, eastern shore forecast. mostly cloudy skies. high of 70. and winds out of the northeast at 15 to 25 myspace an hour. continue with the windy conditions again. downtown baltimore. high temperature of 73 degrees. with winds out of the northeast. see sunshine. see clouds. and then we will see scattered rain showers early morning hours. most of the day dry. wake up with showers. depending how far inland the coastal low makes it. but sunday looks nice. ravens' game. 1:00. against the chiefs. 78 degrees.

partly cloudy skies at bwi thurgood marshall airport. and there is the rain i have been alluding to. it looks like it will get here, probably, by mid to late afternoon. the heaviest rain should be tomorrow night. and our temperatures are in the mid 60s. in and around the area. and it looks like tomorrow, we will start off with partly cloudy skies. with 66 and the rain coming in later on. my full forecast coming up in a bit. >> all right tony thank you. >> loyola college now has a new name. it is now officially known as loyola university maryland. students and officials marked the occasion with a ceremony at reese arena, president of the school said this is a call to continue a tradition dating a century 1/2 in north baltimore. >> we must embrace fully the opportunity of guiding thousands of promising men and women through an educational experience that prepares them for their personal and professional lives, and indeed for leadership roles in those areas of their lives. for which they are so well suited. >> during today's stare money uni

the temperatures right now from our storm center weathernet around the region, from thurgood marshall in baltimore right now, 76 but they had a high of 82. umbc also at 76. still 81 in sykesville at piney ridge elementary school and deerpark elementary school now at 79 degrees in owings mills. maryland's most powerful doppler radar tracking those little sprinkles moving through and as we go through the next 48 to 72 hours we will see increased shower activity cross the region but no tension -- terence torrential downpours. we'll have upper 70s to near 80 for the next few hours but things clear off with the showers moving through. complete forecast coming up. >>> autopsy results on a yale medical student will stay secret for now. there's late word from new haven, connecticut, that prosecutors fear details of annie le's death could hurt the case against her killer if made public. mary kutursky is following that case. >> reporter: police interviewed 150 people in connection to annie le's killing and sources tell abc news investigators are zeroing in on a lab technician who worked in the

rights now at bwi, thurgood marshall, 69 degrees. winds from the northeast and pressure falling.arning in affect for baltimore and harford county but you'll notice the gail warning is now. national weather service canceled that and i have a feeling they'll cancel this in the next hour or so because the heavy rainfall has passed out of the region. temperature wise around the area. in york, 61 downtown. 61 in easton. win chester, virginia at 68 degrees. throughout the day the slow moving area of low pressure continues to pummel us with heavy amounts of rail. some places getting more than 3 inches. but as you can see, the rain is in the process of coming to an end. across the area right now, maryland's most powerful radar still indicating some heavy rainfall here in the maryland, baltimore county, harford county line and the pennsylvania line. that shower activity will continue for about the next hour to hour and a half. it will start to come to an end through the evening. you can always go to our website, to abc2news.com to check out our interactive radar when you click on the weat

show you what's going on right now at bwi thurgood marshall, 62 degrees. 78% humidity. wind, there isn't any. it's gone. pressure falling 30.04. there are your tides tomorrow at fort mchenry. high tide 7:09. low tied 1:50. the winds out of the northeast 6-12 miles per hour. sunrise at 6:38 will set 7:32. low this morning, 66 degrees. high 77 degrees which did hit our two degree guarantee right on the nose. 62 outside right now. 55. 67 in hagerstown. 55 in york. 57 in winchester, virginia. in atlantic city, they have 67 and in ocean sit city right now, 72 degrees. top cal depression erika, winds are down. gradually making its way northward disorganized area of some shower, a little gustywinds, but it looks like erika will fall apart throughout the day we had lots of sunshine, clouds on the eastern seaboard. cloud activity on the outer banks of north carolina down near the cape hatteras region and showers potulny into the atlantic and overnight we'll have thin clouds on the easternshore. here in the baltimore region, thing are looking great because of the big dome of high

because of the coastal storm. 67 degrees with a few sprinkles out at bwi thurgood marshall airport. and here is what it looks like. midnight tonight. scattered sprinkles. tomorrow morning. between six and nine especially. and then later redeveloping in the afternoon. with only a daytime high of 70 to 73 degrees. we will check for some sunshine, in my full forecast coming up in a bit. . >> new product that claims to keep your prescription drugs out of the hands of teens. it is called the med safe cabinet. and it costs about $60. it works like a digital lock box. securing your prescriptions with a combination. someone tries to open it and uses the wrong combination, the box goes into lock out mode. >> as a parent you never want to think that your child could possibly do prescription drugs. but you know what i would never say never. i hope my children aren't but i don't want to give them the temptation. >> partnership for a drug free america estimates that one in five teens has used prescription medications to get high. and every day 2500 teens try a prescription pain killer for the fi

over to thurgood marshall, we are good on 270 in the camera, southbound are the headlights at montgomery village avenue. >> thank you. >>> we are following a developing story. >>>> the manhunt for an abductin suecmat yma be over. e st tuation startedlaat night with a call from a woman who said she had been carjacked and kidnapped from a metro parking lot. matt brock has more. >> police would not confirm they havehe suspect in custody. they do tell us they made an arrest. from the looks of things, there was a huge manhunt underway. now it is clear and quiet. it is nothing short of a nightmare. this is where one woman's nightmare came true, the parking garage at the franconia- springfield metro station. a woman said a man took her hostage at gunpoint and drove for around for about an hour. he would essentially let her go in hock lorton, not far from where he crashed her car. police chased him here after the woman saw help from a nearby home. after midnight, police made an arrest in a block from here. police 19 confirm that this is their suspect. you can see things are quiet. the woman was

. >> bwi thurgood marshall says despite the airlines cutbacks, it saw passenger travel increase by 7.5%ly. >>> turning to sports, you can't win them all, even if your name is roger federer. argentina's juan martine del porto turned out to be no pushover. he took home his first grand slam title. >>> as for the ravens, they're feeling pretty good this morning after the season opener sunday. some were probably in uh, talking about the first game, replacing matt stover, new kicker steve hauschka missed a field goal. he says he's okay with all that. >>> the ravens travel to san diego to take on the chargers this sunday afternoon at 4:00. see that game exclusively, right here on wjz13. >> okay, outside it's gorgeous. looks like a san diego morning. actually it looks like a san diego sunset. [laughter] >> the water's on the right side. >> exactly, correct. all right... now we're in the low 60s. going for high of 85 today. tv guide joins us. was a stable magazine in american homes. successfully morphed itself into a pretty darn good website by the way. do you still get the magazine? >> i believ

the great son of our nation, up thurgood marshall, would be great -- would be proud about the work we are embarking on today and the work debt is being engaged on and those who were testifying. several feet from hear, thurgood marshall did a great work that led to the ground breaking brown vs. board of education decision and expanded the umbrella, constitutional umbrella for our children and created the cultural and educational landscape that we're now trying to enrich. here in the law school and working with scholars here at howard university. we all appreciate the fact that this is a starting point to the discourse in which our nation has been engaged since, in discourse that has had ebbs and flows and, nonetheless, it is continuing. we see this assemblage as a continuation of that. i just want to thank, on behalf of our president, each of bust to continue with the discourse -- for each of us to continue the discourse. and how we will guarantee the constitution umbrella over them, and guaranteeing equal educational opportunities for all of our children. we here at howard are pleased

rain, but there will be late in the afternoonment and tomorrow night. 64 as we speak at bwi thurgood marshall airport. temperatures in the mid 60s. and looks like we will have partly cloudy skies through the mid-morning. cloudy by afternoon. and then the rain later on, will the ravens' game have rain on it? i will let you know in the full forecast coming up. >> thank you, tony. >> you can be in charge of your own personalized forecast. i radar is available at foxbaltimore.com. use the interactive tools to track coming storms down to your street. go to foxbaltimore.com/i radar. >> it was indeed a great day to get out and read a book. >> and a great weekend to do that too. the baltimore book fair started today in mount vernon. you can buy books, swap books, and it is an opportunity for readers to meet writers. there is still time to get out there. it runs until -- it ran until 8:00 tonight. and it starts at noon on saturday. and sunday. fox 45 news is the sponsor of the book fair for the 14th year. >> if you are looking to do something inside. 11 baltimore museums are offering free admission sa

we saw over an inch and a half of rain reported at bwi thurgood marshall airport. look over to dover. close to 3-inch of of rain. delmarva got hit with the coastal low. brought a lot of rain showers early this morning. and throughout most of the daytime for today. and close to 2 1/2 inches in wilmington. and the winds were strong out of the northwest today. and still a little strong out there right now. 14 miles an hour in d.c. 8 miles an hour in baltimore. and 9 miles an hour in salisbury. and winds around five to 10 miles an hour overnight and for the daytime saturday. northeast regional temperatures. that's that was the other thing today. felt like late november out there for today. we stayed in the low 60s today. and that is where we are right now. 62 in baltimore. 61 in harrisburg. 68 in new york and 62 in boston where the coastal low is moving toward the northeast, toward new england. so there is the coastal low system. slowly departing through the daytime for tomorrow. improving conditions. as that slow moving coastal low makes an exit. but right around 1:00

so i will show you how long the cool bwi thurgood marshall airport sticks around and the seven day. >> thank you so much. >> you can be in charge of your own personalized forecast. i-radar is available at foxbaltimore.com. use the interactive tools to track coming storms down to your street. go to foxbaltimore.com/i-radar. >> a facelift for baltimore county school for the arts. county executive jim smith and the governor broke ground today for the new carver center in towson. facility replaces the existing one. and it will accommodate 1000 students. offers distinct areas of study like cosmetology, culinary arts, theater and business. school is set to open march of 2012. >> if you have a story to tell us. upload pictures, video and written stories by going to foxbaltimore.com/yourtake. you can also send photos directly from your cell phone to pics@foxbaltimore.com. . >> public option or not. the debate rages on in congress. up next, what the so-called gang of six said a public option should not be in the health care reform bill. >> the recession is very likely over, at this point. >> w

thurgood marshall, 1954. the board of education. equal schools under the law. curt smoe former mayor of baltimore, maryland. our sitting senator right now, senator burris, from chicago, illinois. a graduate of howard law school. our own colleague, gregory meek, from new york, graduate of howard law school. the school today probably is just as important as it was, not probably, is just as important today as it was 140 years ago. i'm honored that the house will take up the legislation today that we would pass it on suspension. in a couple of week, they're having a ceremony on campus at howard university and i invite all alumni of howard university to come back on campus and let's celebrate. today we live in a world where equal protection under the law is a must. we must make sure that every citizen in america has access to quality representation, access to a fair process, and that lawyers from all over this country and abroad who represent those clients will give to the very best of their ability. howard university law school 140 years old. we thank those who beg

that is the 6-3 case in which the supreme court, in the boys of thurgood marshall writing for the majority, said if they could restrict corporations from using their general treasury funds, spending them on individual candidates in connection with state elections. dissenting were o'connor, kennedy, and scalia, two of who have continued to play roles of campaign finance. i am sure we will sure but justice kennedy today, and teamwork critical votes -- the more critical vote coming up, john roberts. i think that the fate of government corporate regulation is evident and the number of briefs that have come in. three times as many have come in for these arguments that are much more important for constitutional free speech. after initial opening remarks, we're going to do some question and answer up here and take questions from you all. so please be ready with any kind of query's that you might have for our group. immediately to my left is a jim, crews general counsel -- who is general counsel for free speech. to his left is larry, associate general counsel for the afl-cio, and next to him is th

. >> grief counselors were sent to the school today as well as thurgood marshal middle school. >>> in spotsylvania county, bus drivers are disturbed by a policy that requires them to get a physical by the same school nurse practitioner. others are complaining about the treatment at the hand of that nurse practitioner. julie carey joins us to tell us about this. >> reporter: that new policy took effect last month. about 50 bus drivers went to last night's school board meeting to protest, including some who say they were subjected to inappropriate behavior during their exams. every year spotsylvania county school bus drivers have to undergo and pass a department transportation physical to keep their job behind the wheel. when she was first hired eight years ago katrina duncan went to a nurse practitioner for her physical. she was alarmed by the exam. >> we had to get undressed. i had to stand there and do c calisthetics while i was standing there she asked personal questions about my sex life. >> reporter: they are speaking out against a new policy that would require them all to to that

grief counselors were sent to thurgood marshall middle school. >>> john moore, 44, of arlington, died. he was hit by a train working in a tunnel. metro officials say moore is the third worker to die on the job this year. >>> in iraq today, mortars were fired toward the green zone in baghdad as vice president joe biden made an unannounced visit there. this is the vice president's second trip to iraq in three months. shortly after he arrived, militants fired four morters toward that heavily-fortified complex. nobody was injured. none of the mortars landed in the green zone itself. the vice president's visit went on as scheduled. he met with top u.s. officials there and focused on troop levels and on stabilizing iraq's political situation. >> frankly, i think a successful election is sort of the necessary condition for those political outstanding political questions to be resolved. >> u.s. combat operations are scheduled to end in iraq by august 2010. a full u.s. withdrawal is planned by the end of the year 2011. >>> admiral mike mullen is the president's senior military advisor. he is c

and precipitation none reported at bwi thurgood marshall airport. or inner harbour, even though there were showers that moved across parts of the northern portion of the city. and then the northern baltimore county. as far as the temperatures right now zing at 74. in baltimore. 70 in harrisburg. new york city at 70. pittsburg at 69. and little warmer air works up from the south over the next couple of days. we have a southerly flow of wind. so do not keep the temperatures going up a few notches. back in the 80s in the next couple of days. but showers work the way into parts of north carolina, southern portions of virginia. we a frontal boundary back over indiana, and ohio. this is going to continue to converge over the area, by tomorrow afternoon, so chance once again for shower activity. through the afternoon. into the evening. and then that willinger also into thursday. looking at mostly cloudy. skies right now. few drops out there across the state it looks like we will see, on the future scan, that potential, once again, scattered in nature. tomo

at bwi thurgood marshall airport right now, 67 degrees with a few sprinkles out there. currently we're in the upper 60s to 72 down at the inner harbour. and it looks like when the winds tomorrow kick up out of the northeast more of the precip is fetching itself from the ocean toward central maryland and think our rain chances increase tomorrow. it looks like midnight tonight, 62. scattered showers. tomorrow morning, heading out on to work, school, 69. at the school bus with the kids, fog. and lunch time barely to 70. scattered showers. we will be searching for sunshine in my full five-day forecast coming up in just a bit. >> all right. tony thank you. >> you can be in charge of your own personalized forecast. i-radar is available at foxbaltimore.com. use the interactive tools to track coming storms downtown street. go to foxbaltimore.com/i-radar. >> if you have a story to tell us, about anything including the weather, upload pictures, video and written stories by going to foxbaltimore.com/yourtake. you can also send photos directly from your cellular folks to pics@foxba

peter smith and oliver fridly competed at thurgood marshal academy.aking foods that are good to taste. >> vegetarian is the new green. a vegetarian diet is better for the planet, better for yr body and better for the animals who suffer to become our food. washington is a great place to be a vegetarian which was evident recently when vegetarians and the curious gathered for veg fest d.c. it's all about the food. people were lining up for dozens of vegetarian offerings from restaurants like sunflower cafe. think vegetarians are deprived? check out these vegan treats. >> when i started, it was harder. now they are similar to products you would buy in the store, veggie burgers, veggie dogs or veggie bacon. >> veg fest d.c. is sponsored by the group compassion over killing and the vegetarian society of d.c. >> the goal was to bring people in who are not vegetarian and to ask vegetarians to bring your friends, bring your family and hask them come sample some of this food. >> reporter: first a meat-based diet creates an abundance of greenhouse gasses and xlu

it up to questions, you clerk for -- clerked for a truly great supreme court justice, justice thurgood marshall, who himself was solicitor general and an incredible advocate for the supreme court. i was fortunate enough to meet justice marshall. in fact, after the poker game, you may not remember the second time that we met was when i was visiting with of the clerks to the supreme court -- with the clerks to the supreme court. [unintelligble] pecking away at an electric typewriter. tell us, insofar as you can without disclosing confidence, about the influence of justice marshall has had on you, on your career in your life -- and your life. he was a man who almost -- he would say "oh, shucks, i don't know anything," and then he would come out of left field with something incredibly incisive. >> there's a tradition in the justice department that when you come into the office, you are given a list of portraits of former attorneys general, and you can pick which portrait you want on your wall. but there's a hierarchy. so the attorney general picks first, and then he has a lot of wall space. big off

several feet from hear, thurgood marshall did a great work that led to the ground breaking brown vs.ard of education dision and exnded the umbrella, constitutional umbrella for o children and created the cultural and educational landscape that we're now trying to enrich. here in the law school and working with scholars he at howard university. we all appreciate the fact that this is a starting point to the discourse in which our nation has been engaged since, in discourse that has had ebbs and flows and, nonetheless, it is continuing. we see this assemblagas a continuation of that. i just want to thank, on behalf of our president, each of bust to continue with the dcourse -- for each of us to continue the discourse. and how we will guarantee the constitution umbrella over them, and guaranteeing equal educational opportunities for all of our children. we here at howard are pleased to have a great school of education and with our team here is sitting here, working with our school of science and math. we are pleased that you have come into this in barman to discuss this critical questio

we have clear skies and 51 degrees out at bwi thurgood marshal airport. a pretty clean scan. we won't have any rain in our area but there will be clouds coming from the south and west as we speak. there you see the rain. that's a warm front that is going to come through. warm pressure is going to through wednesday and thursday. not big pours but there will be rain in the forecast. today partly cloudy skies, we will top ought 75 degree out ats the clouds begin to thicken. comfortly cool, maybe a sweater tcould be in store, but then you can get rid of it by then. let's see what lauren cook has to say in the traffic edge report. >>> thank you, tony. we are dealing from the effects of the mass si massive watermaik on friday. look at this, this is the aftermath. crews are trying to repair the 6-inch watermain break. it's massive, but as you can see some traffic is managing to get by. if you are trying to access the local roads, you want to use the 695 ramp. and for those trucks trying to access the marine terminal you want to use 695 to keith avenue. you're traveling the southboun

justice thurgood marshall, who himself was solicitor general.ncredible advocate before the supreme court. i was fortunate enough to meet justice marshall. and after the poker game, you may not remember the second time that we met was when i was visiting one of my former clerks at the supreme court. and he walked me around to justice marshall's chambers. he had done a sweat shirt and blue jeans. and there was elena kagan. tell us a little bit about -- insofar as you can without disclosing confidence -- about the influence justice marshall has had on you, your career, and your life. he was a man who almost terrorist the notion -- he almost a cherished the notion, the oh, shucks, and then he would come out of left field with something incredibly incisive. >> i will tell you something about what justice marshall means to me by telling you this story. there's a tradition at the justice department -- i am looking at ray fisher and he knows this story very well. when you come into the office, you are given a list of portraits of former attorneys genera

. >> what is important about that is something that thurgood marshall said. jammed in the door and tries to push as many people -- the kind of person who keeps their foot jammed it in the door and tries to push as many people through. i wish you well. when you get there, i'm going to need people who are going to be pushing people to the side. there are challenges. the challenges, particularly, when you look at statistically where we are as a community. when you look at the aids infection rate. when you look at the recidivism rate with drugs and presentpris. these are the things that people make presumptions and assumptions. your course, like mine many years ago, should be corrected at best, certainly rocky -- should be crooked at the best, certainly rocky. you are already so from power, by the time you're -- by the fact that you are here, to become a lawyer and do it however you want to do it. i spent a lot of time as lieutenant governor of maryland visiting with 13-year-old to 17- year-old young men in the baltimore detention center. my frustration was not s

. >> what is important about that is something that thurgood marshall said, and that was, we all havel ourselves up by our own bootstraps, but every once in awhile you need to bend down and help somebody else. and part of the legacy of the african-american community in particular has been that, reaching back and pushing forward. you will find, ladies and gentlemen, as you matriculate through this institution and start walking through the various doors that you have outlined for yourself, that she will run into two kinds of people. it will be the first one that will stand in the door and say, what you want? i do not know you. who do you know? what do you want to do? the idea what to do it? i will think about it. i will get back to you. the next person you were going to run into is the person who will stand there with the flat in the door and try to assure you through and push in as many people as they can to empower your generation. and the question becomes, and we talk about the issues that we talked about

. >> what is important about that is something that thurgood marshall said.we'll have the ability to pull ourselves up by our own bootstraps. but every once in awhile, you have to bend down and help somebody else. part of the legacy in the african-american community, in particular, has been that, reaching back and pushing forward. you will find, ladies and gentlemen, as you matriculate through this institution and start walking through the various doors that you have outlined for yourself and others have, you're going to run -- two kind of people. it is when to be the person begin going to run into to kind of people -- you're going to run into two kind of people it is going to be the person -- two kind of people. another kind of person you're going to find it is the kind of person who keeps their foot jan the door and tries to push as many barefoot and jammed in the door and tries to push as many people -- the kind of person who keeps their foot jammed it in the door and tries to push as many people through. i wish you well. when you get there, i'm going to n

a graduatef harvard law school, a law clerk to supreme court justice thurgood marshall, a profeor aty of chicagoor 27 years, the author or coauthor of more than5 books and hundreds gf scholarly articles. byarge margi cass sunstein the most cited scholar on any law faculty in the united states of america. one envious observer said, "if you look at what he's wtten and done, he should be 900 years old." now, what is the concerns of his academic work? well, the overriding concern is that we have smart, science-based, cost-effective, results-oriented policies to protect public health a safety safety, to promote energy security, to strength enour economy -- strengthen our economy and our financial system n. a recent book that professor sunstein coauthored called "nudge," he wrote that by knowing how people think, we can design rules and policies that make it easier for americans i o choose what's best for themselves and their families. in other words,ass sunstein believ that the best types of rules and regulations a the ones that encouge american consumers and businesses to make good decis

this is thground on which thurgood marshall stood with charles hamilton schuster and dean thompson as theprepared for the landmark brown vs. board of education mitigation. it is appropriate that we come back to ask how we fulfilled that extraordinary promise and that ruling which outlawe separate but equal in the nation that has yet to be able to find a way that all children have equal access to an education that will prepare them for college and for life. >> i'm delighted to be here today wearing two hats. the president and ceof uncf, and also a new mayor of the aspen instituteommissioned on child left behind. and i want to say a special word of thanks to aspirin, to the aspen institute for taking leadership in addressing this extraordinarily important issue for our nation. the commission was formed in 2006 to take an independent, bipartisan look at the strength and weaknesses of no child left behind here a lot that is a vital part of our nation's commitment to educating all children, including those often forgotten. the commission is cochaired by two former governors, roy barnes of