thanks for your input on so it might have to go further and assistant professor at university of north carolina and also antiwar activist place. don't forget visit our web site for more stories and in-depth analysis we're covering that. but also these tonight is one of our t. dot com you may have called her and we can find the search for earth like planets now. fruit finally saying nasa they say they are world sibling it's a long way away six hundred light years they don't know if it's made of rock or gas or what it is but they've got high hopes of it's about twenty two degrees c. maybe humans maybe not also online though it's beginning to feel a lot like christmas huge crowd of scientists have ditched their sleighs for skis and snowboards as they get into the seasonal spirit in the u.s. nice to see you too. time's running out for eurozone leaders to say the single currency as they prepare for eleventh hour talks in brussels germany and france are pushing to change e.u. treaties to create a fiscal union and introduce tougher budget rules however the european council president believes that they

researchers from the university of north carolina at greensboro look at more than 1300 women and found that mothers who work part-time jobs or happier, and were just as involved in their child's school as stay-at-home moms. coming up next, and the maryland lottery numbers, and another check of the insta-weather-plus forecast. >> time for your maryland lottery numbers. >> good afternoon, maryland. your pick 3 numbers are -- in a moment, the pick four game, but first, you can enter your extra yards into $10,000 crash drawings. like us on facebook to earn a promo code for an extra yards. pick four. the maryland lottery -- let yourself lead. >> -- let yourself play. >> other than cold, we don't have a lot going on. >> it is december, so we could be worse. low 50s this afternoon trade really the same the next couple of days. slight chance for rain and tomorrow evening. not a washout of a forecast, but have some umbrellas handy. >>

this is according to researchers at the university of north carolina. they looked at data from more than 1400 moms. moms who worked full or part-time jobs were less depressed or healthier in general. moms who worked part-time were also able to balance their life. >>> a police officer obviously makes a wrong turn somewhere. what the office are said was the blame for crashing this cruiser into a pole. >>> the folks at lexington market got a performance from the harlem globetrotters. >>> an uptick in domestic violence. now baltimore county is trying to help. >>> the tree is up. the lights are hung and the present are wrapped. are you overlooking a hazard. >>> abc2 is working for you. we put some of the hottest video games to the test with the help of some local kids. >>> it's not so much the random violent crime you should fear this holiday season. it's the crimes committed by the ones we love. that was the emergency from baltimore county officials. brian kuebler has more. >> reporter: baltimore county leaders were lined up, armed with facts and warnings.

according to a university of north carolina study, only 22% of parents remember a doctor saying that their child was overweight. even among parents of very obese children, only 58% recall a doctor telling them about it ivel. >>> if you live in d.c. and owe an overdue book to the library, now could be the best time to return it. >> the public library system has an amnesty program in place through february 5th. you can return your overdue book to any d.c. branch without worrying about paying the fine. the libraries are forgiving fines on overdue cds and dvds. >> time to check on the question of the morning. >> people who do this every day experience better sleep. is it a, workout? b, clean their bedroom or c, watch little or no television. >> that's a good one. i think i know the answer. log on to facebook.com/wusa9 and leave your response. we would love to hear from you and we'll reveal the answer in our 6:00 a.m. hour. we'll be right back. >>> grab the umbrella and main no jacket with temperatures in the 50s and 60s at this hour. we do have some areas of light rain. temperatures warm

researchers at the university of north carolina studied more than 1,000 mothers over a decade and concludedk full or part-time have better health than stay at home moms, including fewer symptom of s of depression. and they say part-time working moms show more sensitivity and giving their children more learning opportunities. and they recommend companies enable working parents of both genders to work part-time by offering benefits for part-time work. >>> and the legendary jewels belonging to elizabeth taylor have been sold. her 33 carat diamond the one she called her baby, a gift from her husband, richard burton, sold for $8.8 million. and that necklace of perfect pearls, once part of the crown jum jewels of spain, sold for $11.8 million. altogether, bidders spent $116 million on her jewels, smashing the record for a private jewelry collection. >>> and still ahead, our made in america team back. your christmas gift list that could put so many americans back your christmas gift list that could put so many americans back to work. ck? i don't trad i trade on fundamentals. analysis. information.

. ♪ this time at the university of north carolina asheville. tter to take back christmas and the presents than the star soccer players of the bull dogs. >> they're back. >> they're back. dan jackson, we interviewed them earlier this year, they're back trying to recover the presents that the grinch stole with their mad soccer skills. oh! ♪ >> i like that they have such a dramatic setup to showcase their soccer skills. >> yeah. ♪ >> regular old shows were getting a little boring but the costumes, amps it up a little bit. >> they got the presents back. now it's time to get back at the grinch. ♪ >> on one side of the atlantic you have the "jersey shore," on the other side you have "california," based in dublin in a neighborhood. whatyo lts the cast of "california" which is basically ireland's version of "jersey shore." and, of course, the show hasn't even aired yet and it's getting phenomenal views on the internet from the trailer that they have on-line. and some of the same crazy high jinxes are going on. >> when the guys go into the room, as you c

researchers at the university of north carolina in charlotte show 25% of children who were arrested at least once for something other than a traffic offense. experts say abuse in the home, poor performance at school and hyperactivity increase the risk. >>> new medical technology is giving a new outlook on life to a veteran. he's a vietnam vet. one of the first to receive a bionic ankle through a v.a. hospital. it's a prosthetic foot. it replaces the calf muscles and achilles tendon. it's battery powered and programs for the user. calibrated by bluetooth through a smartphone. hendricks says he's gaining more confidence with every step. >> this is a real foot, the way it rolls. it's computerized. when i get ready to take a step, it throws my foot out there for me. when i'm walking on it, it's weightless. >> wow. he says he's moving faster than he has in ten years. the bionic ankle gives him 100% power where others can only give 50%. >> new research suggests vitamin d supplements may not be as affective as thought. taking vitamin d and calcium can lower the risk for bone fractures in olde

i want to the university of north carolina, wearing my unc tie. ere ranked one, a bit overhyped at the beginning of the basketball season. lost to and i think first of all, he's going to be running against newt gingrich. he's the sixth republican now now to surge to number one in the polls ahead of romney. we have seen what happened to bachmann, and to perry and to cain. so first, it's far from clear that gingrich is going to be the candidate. also important to remember, he was last in office about 15 years ago. he's the sixth republican now now to surge to number one in the polls ahead of romney. we have seen what happened to bachmann, and to perry and to cain. so first, it's far from clear that gingrich is going to be the candidate. also important to remember, he was last in office about 15 years ago. the views that were popular then are very different from the views popular today. i think that's exactly, you talked about the ron paul ad at the beginning of the show. i think that's the point of the ron paul ad. after voters start studying gingric

i want to the university of north carolina, wearing my unc tie. e ranked one, a bit overhyped at the beginning of the basketball season. lost to and i think first of all, he's going to be running against newt gingrich. he's the sixth republican now now to surge to number one in the polls ahead of romney. we have seen what happened to bachmann, and to perry and to cain. so first, it's far from clear that gingrich is going to be the candidate. also important to remember, he was last in office about 15 years ago. the views that were popular then are very different from the views popular today. i think that's exactly, you talked about the ron paul ad at the beginning of the show. i think that's the point of the ron paul ad. after voters start studying gingrich/romney. are they going to find a lot of differences? that's what we'll find out in the next week or so. >> how quickly does it happen? at some point. making this point. running a race with the clock. who ever is at the top when the key first contests happen. its the guy. >> we're 30 days out. the

she was the university of north carolina chapel hill student body president. >> we the jury find the r on the basis of premeditation and deliberation. >> when there is a first-degree murder -- >> the judge sentenced 21-year-old lawrence junior to life in prison. you may remember this. this image of him using carson's atm card. she was kidnapped. she was in the back seat and was later shot five times. former prosecutor and criminal attorney mark is here. are we surprised that he got life? remind us why he wasn't even eligible for the death penalty? >> because of his age. he was 17. life was the appropriate outcome under the circumstances. casey anthony verdict a surprise. this one very easy to predict. >> mark, what was the defense that the team made in what evidence did they present? >> well, what the defense does is create reasonable doubt presented on behalf of the prosecutor. the star witness, testified that the defendant confided in him and told him all of the detail about their crime but then the defense alleges that mcneil is testifying because he was captured in a federal drug

. >> reporter: professor robert brame teaches criminal justice at university of north carolina at charlotte and was chief author of this study published in the journal "pediatrics." he says there's an increase in the arrest rate today partly because there are more reasons to get arrested. >> many schools today have zero tolerance policies. we have tougher laws today against drunk driving, tougher laws against domestic violence. >> reporter: he also says crimes increased during adolescence and that more of those who do wrong are getting caught. >> criminal justice system has become more punitive. over the past few decades. >> reporter: he says the study was done to alert not only parents but pediatricians. >> we want parents to be active at getting their kids to the pediatrician who may be trained to see things they're not going to see, necessarily. >> reporter: he says young people usually feel more comfortable talking to a pediatrician, even about behavior that could get them arrested. chris clackham, nbc news. >>> two fund-raisers are being held to benefit the family of a veteran bay area

i want to the university of north carolina, wearing my unc tie. weep were ranked one, bit overhyped at the beginning of the basketball season. lost to. nlv, we are number five. we know when you celebrate excessive low there are consequence that come with that. you tend to lose. newt gingrich has been doing a little of that. part of that because he has been so disciplined and focussed in the debate, the knock on newt is he has been an undisciplined candidate, speaker and messenger. when it's come to debates where we have seen the candidates he has been on point. you are seeing him in this position. >> how does barack obama feel about running against newt gingrich? >> i think first of all it is not clear at all if obama will be running against newt gingrich. gingrich is if you talk palin and trump, he is the sixth republican now to surge to number one in the polls ahead of romney. we have seen what happened to bachmann, and to perry and to cain. so first, it's far from clear that gingrich is going to be the candidate. also important to remember, he w

virginia, study at wake forest university, and did graduate work in urban affairs at the university of north carolina at charlotte. before joining "newsweek" in 1988, he served as a legislative assistant on the staff of senator william and representative edward markey. douglas waller is now a defense analyst for bloomberg government. among his many, many books, a number of them, bestsellers, are the commanders, the inside story of america's secret soldiers. air warriors, the inside story of the making of a navy pilot. and big red, the three-month voyage of a trident nuclear submarine. his new book is a biography of an outsized american character, general william wild bill donovan, the founder and director of the office of strategic services, the precursor of a modern cia. in this superb biography once a cliffhanger and a work of deep scholarship, doug waller tells the story of a man who built a far-flung intelligence organization out of absolutely nothing in the middle of one of the most brutal wars of our time. and ambitious young lawyer with political aspirations, working donovan had written to pre

i am the distinguished professor at the university of north carolina chapel hill and this is the panel called civil war perspectives. today we have two outstanding folks. the first, the new york times -- "the new york times complete civil war 1861-1865" compiled and edited by craig symonds and harold holzer. and we have "andrew johnson," a presidential biography by annette gordon-reed. one would think initial these books don't have that much in common but in fact as i read through them it became apparent to me they had an enormous amount in common. andrew johnson was a southern unionists and the war was over the union. furthermore there are huge constitutional issues. huge raise issues in both books so they dovetail nicely. let me introduce our authors and the authors will speak and then we will have a question and answer session. hopefully there will be lots of times for questions and answers and i expect you to participate. when we begin i remind you this is not a moment for you to give speeches, it is time for you to ask questions and for the authors to answer. first, harold holzer

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the guns of patriots newsletter so our readers are very very much interested in what was going on with this story in north carolina basically you had a five year period you would get a universe of two hundred forty thousand permit holders he found eight people in that five year period who were convicted of a murder or manslaughter i mean bull than than were convicted of voter fraud in that state in the last decade well i think that i think you you're locked on to what the problem was tom is in the second half of that new york times article he really focuses on the inability of the new north carolina law enforcement to enforce the laws that exist and he gives examples where sheriffs or other police departments when these problems are brought to their attention they took away the permit the problem is felons who should have lost their right to carry the prefer to carry didn't it's not a problem with the law it's a problem with some oppressive the taking away your right to vote as soon as you know as soon as you're convicted of a felony can't they just like have a second piece of paper that says oh by the way if you have a concealed weapons permit you lose that so i think that

full evidence after he received his phd in microbiology from the university of cincinnati and moved over to chapel hill, north carolina where he was employed as a postdoctoral researcher. and there he met a woman who he really took a shine to come a doctoral student named nancy haywood. nancy haywood was an attractive blonde, terrific student and someone who clearly had was two with goods going to take to have a dynamic career. nancy hage would quickly determined that bruce ivins was peculiar, abnormally strange and rebuffed his overtures for a closer friendship. this enraged him. and so he started a campaign against nancy haywood that preceded on for decades. most notably in the early stages anyhow in 1979, after bruce ivins had moved more than 300 miles away to the state of maryland, he drove back to chapel hill and obviously secretively broke into a room on were nancy hanks goodlatte boquist have peered at buffy appreciate it, there were no fresh guys, no backup, slaughter data from our experiments, everything a phd honan was in the left notebook and now is gone. so she was highly can learn from it about it. lo and

. >> durham, north carolina, the home of duke university.re low bridge. a clearance of only 11 feet, 8 inches which is clearly marked here. and here. >> some of the trucks when they pull up, they look like sardine cans that have been opened, so we call it the can opener. >> ever since henn moved to durham from germany in the 1990s, he's been fascinated by the city's history. and the bridge at the center of so many accidents. >> the buildings here were built around the early 20th century. the tobacco warehouses around 1904. that's probably around the time that this bridge was clearance and i suspect clearance wasn't a big issue then. >> but as trucks grow taller over the years, the bridge doesn't. >> i found photos on the website of truck crashes from the '40s and '50s and '60s. >> intrigued by the sheer volume of accidents at the bridge he sets out to document exactly how many occur. >> we were wondering if we could record the crashes to get a more accurate record of the frequency of these crashes. i have a camera set up here in the store an

universal television >>> hello and good morning. i'm lynn berry. today we begin with the end of a long era. after 4500 lives lost, president obama and the first lady were at ft. bragg, north carolina, to officially mark the end of the iraq war. all but around 150 service members will be out of iraq by the new year. nbc's kristin welker has more. >> hello, ft. bragg. >> reporter: appearing before a sea of members at ft. bragg, the president and the first lady marked a pivotal history in u.s. history. after nine years in iraq, all the troops are returning. >> welcome home. welcome home. welcome home. >> reporter: the speech, a tribute to the 1.5 million americans who served and the nearly 4500 who gave their lives. >> hard work and sacrifice. those words only begin to describe the costs of this war. >> reporter: the president facing a tough re-election battle did not declare victory in iraq but has called the withdrawal a campaign promise kept. >> we are ending the war not with a final battle but a final march home. >> reporter: back home john mccain said the withdrawal is purely political. >> i believe history will judge this president's leadership with scorn and disdain that it de

and we had a meeting the night before in winston-salem, north carolina, it was going to be on the campus of wake forest university, and the four of us had a meeting to go over questions. and i was the moderator, the three panelists were peter jennings of abc news, annie grower who was in the orlando paper and john maasic who was in the atlanta paper. and we went over, we had dinner, and it was very secure, it was in a closed room in a downtown office building, and suddenly peter jennings said i've got an idea. let's forget the debate rules, let's just say, mr. bush, mr. dukakis, go at it with no rules, nothing. and i was stunned. and i got very self-righteous, all of that, i said, oh, peter, we can't do that. we're honor-bound, we agreed to do this and this and this and whatever. i didn't know what we were going to do. fortunately, annie and john agreed with me, and so anyhow, we had, we outvoted him. we didn't really vote, but we -- there were, the majority, majority ruled, and peter went on and all of that. but we, and we followed the rules and all that. but i must say, it was spooky for me and scary, and can i

universe. a press conference for this is set for later today. >>> time now five things to know on this wednesday. president obama will visit troops in fort bragg, north carolina. thousands ofe will help close down operations in iraq. the president and first lady will be on hand thanking troops and their families for their service. >> the man accused of firing shots at the white house in an attempt to kill president obama in november will be back in court this morning. oscar hernandez is going to have a 9:30 court date to determine if he's competent to stand trial. >>> lindsay lohan will be back in a los angeles courtroom this morning. a judge wants to determine whether the actress is keeping up with her strict probation requirements, that includes working at least 12 days a month in the county morgue. >>> and singer fantasia had a baby boy. "people" reports the "american idol" winner gave birth tuesday to dallas barrino in north carolina. the baby was healthy. no word yet on who the baby's father is. >>> barbara walters revealed her 10 most fascinating people of 2011. in a primetime special tonight. the special could have profiled the life of the kardashians, pippa middlet

of attending college has increased dramatically. according to the college board, in-state tuition and fees at four year colleges and universities increased approximately 72% since 2001. in my home state of north carolina, the sticker price has jumped 25% in the past two years alone. this struggling trend of higher prices has several causes like weak local economy, increased spending on student service and academic support, and state budget crisis. states facing deficits and persistently high unploament are forced to cut speaning across the board, and as a result, public colleges and universities can no longer rely on the same level of state and financial support and make tough decisions including cutting services or raising student fees. leaders in washington long recognized the value of higher education and for paying students 20 compete in the global work force. in 1965, congress created the higher education act to help low income students pursue a college degree. as a result, last year, more than $169 billion in federal financial aid was dispersed to undergraduate students, up 81% since 2005. however, as our nation struggles with trillion dollar budget deficits and unprecedented national debt conti

of attending college has increased dramatically. according to the college poll, and in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities have increased approximately 72% since 2001, and at my home state of north carolinathe sticker price for a four-year public college has jumped 25% in the past two years alone. this troubling trend of higher prices has several causes including weak local economies, increase spending on student services and academic support and state budget crises. states facing deficits of persistently high unemployment have been forced to cut spending across the board requesters all public colleges and universities can no longer rely upon the same level of state financial support and must make tough decisions to help make ends meet including cutting services or raising student fees. leaders in washington have long recognized the value of higher education in preparing students to compete in the global workforce. in 1965 congress created the higher education act to help low income students pursue a college degree. as a result last year more than $169 billion in federal financial aid was disbursed to undergraduate and graduate students, up 81% since 2005. however as i mentioned struggle

north carolina in 2009 and notre dame last year. >>> now, the president of oklahoma state university says he will review stadium security measures afterhis chaotic post-game celebration saturday night. hundred of fans stormed the field after oklahoma state beat their arch rivals, the university of oklahoma sooners. more than a dozen fans were hurt. a lot of them were actually trampled on the field. >> all right. >>> 8:19. san francisco police take new steps to make sure holiday shoppers are safe. the new crackdown against and ole problem -- old problem. >>> and our meteorologist, rosemary, has already washed us it's chilly on this moond morning and she --mond morning and she will tell us what's -- monday morning and she will tell us what's hey head -- what's ahead for the week. speausms aaron, you're all set. great, thanks. mike, thanks for doing that discount double check. you saved us hundreds. what was that? the discount double check? it's when we comb through your policies and make sure that you're getting all the discounts you deserve. no, i get that part, but you guys are doing my move. the discount double check move? that's my

of attending college has increased dramatically. in-state tuition and fees at public four-year colleges and universities has increased approximately 72% since 2001. in my home state of north carolina, the sticker price for 4 year public colleges has gone up 25% in the past two years alone. this troubling trend has several causes, including weak local economies, increased spending on student services and academic support, and state budget crises. states facing deficits and persistently high unemployment have been forced to cut spending across the board. as a result, public colleges and universities can no longer rely on the state level -- on the same level of support. the must make cut -- must make tough decisions to make ends meet. leaders in washington have recognized the value of higher education in preparing students to compete in the global work force. in 1965, congress passed the higher education act. as a result, last year more than $169 billion in federal financial aid was disbursed to undergraduate and graduate students. up 81% since 2005. however, as our nation struggles with budget deficits and unprecedented national debt, continuing to increase federal subsidies to supp