we're delighted to have her on the show joining us from maine.nks for joining us, julia. >> thank you. >> i want to congratulate you first off on being such an influential voice. you're so young, just 14 years old but obviously passionate about this issue. my understanding is you started this petition after hearing your friends essentially complain about how they look during ballet lessons. tell me about that. how did this start for you? >> well, i definitely heard it from my friends. my friends weren't very happy with how they looked i guess. and i blog for an organization called spark summit and we were trying to figure out why that was. i think it's from the media and the photo shop that's used in the media because girls try to compare themselves to images that are impossible to be like. >> you know, i work in the media as you know and i'm really interested in this issue and also the fact that you were able to get a major publication to change their policy. what was it like? i mean, was that a tough battle? how did it go back and forth? >> wel

joining us from moscow's main mosque where people celebrate the most sacred days in the muslim holy cow ito. the decision of a russian court to jail the three members of punk band pussy riot for two years has split society and provoked a massive international reaction the group's anti porton stunt of the country's main orthodox cathedral was ruled to be hold as a motivated by religious hatred dozens of people have been detained during a protest both for and against the group number of gatherings backing the ban that were staged in russia as well as in spain france britain and other countries foreign governments also have their say whether us calling on the authorities to review the case charges be all over has a story. but you've already met you moved to the scene you know that the in the revenue division you from would want to bring in the program you put everything we should reduce the. chance to their trial heat headlines around the world a global audience who's watching as much. and you can fit in a somewhat sea of each found out their fate to their performance the punk rock friend

joined us from moscow's main mosque where people celebrate the most sacred days in the muslim holy calendar theater. now the decision of a russian court to jail the three members of punk band pussy riot for two years has split society and prefer a massive international reaction by the group's anti putin stand in the country's main orthodox cathedral was ruled to be hooliganism motivated by religious hatred dozens of people have been detained during protests both for and against the group a number of gatherings are backing the band were staged in russia as well as spain france britain many other countries as well foreign governments also chimed in to have their say with the u.s. calling on russia north northeast to review the case the saudis put all of our reports. regarding please let you know if there's. any deducing if i would listen then you. jump to their trial here headlines around the world a global audience who's watching as mary. snow. and you can tell in a somewhat sea of each found out their fate to their performance the punk rock prayer in russia's main to phaedra outside the cou

us bank. from mainei, thousands of high school students across the country are getting in on the action by volunteering in their community. it's great, helping others, and it feels good, too. are you in? whoa! anyone can do it. all it takes is a little time. are you in? chris young: action teams of high school students are joining volunteers of america and major league baseball players to help train and inspire the next generation of volunteers. it's easy to start an action team at your school so you, too, can get in on the action. ♪ neil: all right. he was a very big deal at the 2008 convention for barack obama. he will not be at the democratic in charlotte, north carolina. by the way, that does not mean they're going to be storing for the mormon. it just means that there will be going crazy for barack obama. a lot of them stepping the festivities and the events, not that they have been reluctant to raise money, but let's just say a lot of them are increasingly disappointed in barack obama. fancy's nanc

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it her friend hanna green who spoke with us via skype from maine says katie loves swimming so much it's never been a sacrifice. >> her training schedule leading up to leaving for omaha, it was eat, sleep, train and then eat, pack, sleep, train. >> reporter: and it paid off. just this morning hanna sent katie an e-mail, the reply from katie before her 800-meter freestyle race? a bit uncharacteristic from her normally calm and composed e- mails. >> she sent me an e-mail that said it's go time with like 50 exclamation points. so as you can tell, she was very, very pumped up for this meet today. >> then to get gold it blew me away. >> she definitely will not change as a person. she is so grounded and has such a great head on her shoulders. i look up to her every day. >> katie beat janet evans record set in 1989 and her first major competition, shawn, the olympic tryouts. pretty impressive. >> can you believe that? that's an understatement. thank you. >>> you may remember this story, too, the indian woman who crashed the olympic opening ceremonies. she's apologizing tonight. she's in the red

from dr. dr. hip. all right. >> thank you. appreciate that. >> that does it for us for now. maine maybe for longer than now. hour 7 news at 11:00 on channel 7.

this is new video from gulfport, mississippi, us 90 the main beach road, billboard has torn lose and deep in some areas, knee deep in other places. officials say they were prepared for the system's arrival but caution residents should not take the wind and storm surge lightly. >> that storm surge is relentless, folks need to day in while the storm comes through. we have resources ready to g although the -- until the winds come down we are asking if you are not somewhere dangerous stay where you are at unless you are told to evacuate. >> plaquemines parish is a hot spot storm surge event by isaac has pushed water over-the-top of an 18 mile stretch of levees. homes are flooded, hundreds of thousands without power, deputies are going door-to-door looking for people who did not follow the evacuation order and are now trapped. strong winds are hampering the rescue efforts to get those people to safety. since katrina, fema has updated the levy system in new orleans to the tune of 10 billion dollars, the levee that the water is pouring over in plaquemines parish was not included in that pro

and frederic chopin polish sailboats where head of us our sister ship from poland will be our main rival both ships have similar designs and sails according to the time correction will last about thirty minutes during the first phase i. think again a thirty to ninety minutes will be enough for us to win here to give a long blast campaign. but. one by. by noon more than thirty sail boats have left the port of lisbon the second part of the race is short little more than two hundred nautical miles may will need to make up for the time she lost in the first place before she reaches the spanish port of kids is the crew unfurls mears sails all three thousand square metres all. over all of the boats in this prestigious class of ships mia has the greatest claim to victory her rivals pale in comparison to the number of wins she has racked up over the years she also boasts a skilful crew. strictly speaking these races are a side project from the russian ship is primarily for training purposes cadets of them a car of academy a would be captains of the russian merchant fleet if they learn how to set

us from our studio. >> they have all just about left the main stage, but this was a bit of history.nada won its first olympic medal ever. well, world champion, now an olympic champion. [unintelligible] of the dominican republic, also still up. gordon, going crazier it now. winning the gold in athens, the republic has done it. once again there is a 400 meter hurdle. michael did his best to grab silver. had to settle for the bronze. the world champion finished fourth. the first of the night came with the shot put. it was big. she had to very nearly defend her title from the official entry list. the olympic gold medalist had to settle for bronze. silver was 4 meters 75. she was one of the first women to win three separate titles. one of two gold medals on page #10, jumping gold here. all four writers, it was the dutch who cracked. let's take a quick check on the metal table. china is back on top. great britain, clear in third. that title took their toll to 18. looking good for the host, calculating a party going on right there. >> i would love to be there. sports that you will not find

so use lysol disinfectant spray on soft surfaces everyday when you're cleaning up to kill 99.9% of bacteria. lysol. mission for health. -- >>> severe weather possible from south carolina up to maineelays now there nor here at home some will develop and when you away from the tv you can use our flight tracker at abc7news.com. >>> members of the wisconsin sikh temple where six died in last weekend's rampage have started the healing process. investigators began allowing the sikh community back in the building yesterday. they swept, scrubbed and painted overdamage let by a gun with man police identify as a white supremacist. a bullet hole remained in a door frame which members say will not be repaired to remind them of what happened. >>> three bay area cities plan to take part in tonight's nationwide candlelight vigil against violence. sikh leaders ask everyone to join them. last night a similar peace rally was held out a government building in san jose. renewed calls for peace and acceptance. the shooting in wisconsin has shaken many to the core. >> the violence has to stop. we can't send our kids to movie theaters, shopping malls, we can't go to our churches, you are scared to send

with us a say in an hour now surely will be discussing barack obama's residency in the white house with washington based author andrew limb. that'll be all from the headlines an update of our main stories for in about two and a half minutes from now stay with us live here in the. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images kobold has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are on the day.

if you are using 97, no delays from route 50 all the way up toward 695. a live look at some of the other main lines here's what it looks like out on the harrisburg expressway. no problems to report. if you're using 95 to get into the city here's a live look just north of interstate 395. we'll show you that coming up actually in just a few minutes but no significant delays. all the way to the fort mchenry toll plaza. the beltway, traffic starting to pick up over there on the west side. looking at a 13-minute ride down towards 95. but it will remain clear. that stretch will take you just 12 minutes. that's a look at your abc 2 time zaire traffic. over to you. >> health news this morning. planning on getting on a trade mill right now? more than half of adults say they walked more than ten minutes but only about half of u.s. adults get enough exercise. to improve their health the cdc says they're recommending up to two and a half hours of moderate to intense aerobic activity every single week. >>> there is some good news this morning concerning the numbers of heart disease in children. cholestero

use target. also, the impact on union square. third street is the main route for many coming from the east bay and the peninsula. union square is a valuable resource for us, both from a city standpoint and a fiscal standpoint. to make third street more of an obstacle will have a significant impact on the union square merchants and open space. the shadow impact on union square is significant. we understood that shadow impact on the transit center. it seemed a worthwhile trade-off with the increase transit service. that did not mean to open the door to this and other projects , which is caused by the height of the tower. i asked you to please send the environmental impact bat for further study. thank you. president fong: sir, did you have -- >> good afternoon. my name is howard wechsler. i and the council for the residential owners association. i believe you should have all received the comment letter and traffic report that we submitted on friday. i would justli

us. from the story members of russian punk band pussy riot a waste the verdicts for staging an anti putin stunt and russia's main cathedral prosecutors want us three year prison time the case attractive that some of the wilds of biggest music stars from. the middle probs i don't chintan was. i'm sad to central russia that's kept around said to children in an underground bunker for almost ten years the children aged between one and seventeen years have never gone to school or been seen by a doctor and had rabies being allowed into daly's. plus a major offensive is under way in egypt's volatile sinai region it's to try and restore security to the border of bonnets which should have to sixteen interruption soldiers dead last week. time now for our very special olympics sports update and here's kate. hello and welcome to the latest sports news here the headlines golden girl you get here and i about retains her olympic gold as russia claims they want to make gymnastics. while gold will russia's gay carryout kin set a new olympic record in winning the men's fifty kilometer will. and champions for the city to claim the

used in recruitment efforts. for more insight let me bring in main mink. also back with us from yesterday is pete simi, professor of criminology. he met page ten years ago. thank you so much. frank, let me ask you about it. just tell your own story. i'm not going to push in any direction. how did you get involved with skinheads and hate rock? whole thing? what did you learn? what made do you it? what made you change? >> okay, well, you know, i got into it when i was about 14. i had a pretty rough home life. he was a fearful kid. when this kind of came into my life, here ' -- where people that gave me attention and they talked to me about my home life and the music part came in real quickly because, you know, i can go to so many bible studies to preach hate and go to a couple of meetings here and there but what i needed with me at all times was something to keep backing up my beliefs and the music was definitely that part for me. >> what role did race play in -- race part? >> the race -- i mean, race became my religion. what i thought of everyone else was that they were inferior

it's a little removed from the main campus you are used to seeing. it houses plantarian and museum. it's popular for kid's field trips. they say monday someone told 29 ipads from the building here. it's a grand theft that amounts to more than $13,000. uc berkeley's paper reports earlier this summer sometime between june 15th and august 10th an android tablet and set of head phones were stolen. campus police were able to track down the stolen goods through -- live from uc berkeley i'm tara moriarty. >>> romney's vice presidential running mate -- >> yeah his running mate is paul ryan. he will be giving his acceptance speech tonight. our reporter renae marsh is there right now. renae, thank you. you're talking about the nights last two headliners coming up. it should be a big night. >> reporter: it is a big night ahead of us. we're talking about you said it mitt romney's running mate paul ryan will give his big speech. and condoleezza rice will also be giving a speech. it is quiet in here now. last night the crowd went absolutely wild during the two headline speeches we are talking abou

us of the main. certainly what we've heard everything from illegal abortion operation which stands to reason on some levels because all of these fetuses were late term between twenty to twenty six weeks in russia you can only have an abortion up until twelve weeks and passed the twenty week mark you can only have an abortion if it's for medical reasons for the woman involved in the pregnancy so these all are very late term for that there's also some suspect of illegal cloning operations in those accusations came out as well as possible legal or illegal stem cell research people who are skeptical about those theories say that these fetuses could not have been used for research because they were stored in from. aldehyde which would have rendered them useless for that type of research at this point in time. again it looks like they're not going to try and find out where these fetuses came from or what they were used for because there is no criminal investigation and also of course it doesn't answer the question as to why a car that was responsible for the dumping of the fetuses was registered with the

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romney has a small and loyal circumstance from his time in maine and paul ryan got us thinking back.ntroducing mitt romney to a huge crowd, look at this. april fools'. you could hear at the time mitt romney saying to paul ryan, i'll remember this. and another quality mitt romney likely approves of when it comes to paul ryan is his ability to keep that secret. evading the stakeout at the end of his own driveway there in wisconsin, one of our digital journalist watching, studying every move, just as we do every four years looking for signs. >> reporter: it was like any other friday afternoon in janesville, wisconsin, population 63,000. the only difference, reporters. staked out in front of paul ryan's moment studying his every movement for clues. they had gone hours without seeing his wife, he or his children. they staked out pawlenty hose home in miss miss. rob portman's home in ohio. >> i get lots of phone calls. >> reporter: and then at 3:08, back in janesville, this. congressman paul ryan dropped off after attending funeral services to remember those lost outside of milwaukee. he t

from the main campus. officials from the police department, the superintendent's office, the county executive's office are trying to pull together a press conference to tell us more about this perry hall shooting. again, perry hall high school, located just off avenues are road. >> i think we are still unclear, tim, trying to ascertain -- are there students being bused to perry hall middle school and if so, how are they going to be reconnected with their parents? >> they are pretty much connected. perry hall middle school is across the street from the perry hall shopping center. it is not unusual to have students evaluated from the school and brought to the shopping center. it is a large parking area and can probably handle a lot of students. it is my understanding it is down the street. it is the closest location to the high school itself. the shopping center is also at ebenezer. i think anyone who gets to that location, that is the location where most of the schools are in that area. >> this is lisa robinson in the news from. each school is supposed to have some kind of emergency response management plan in place. that calls for some sort of plan to get th

comes to us from tampa where the republican national convention, mitt romney and paul ryan weren't the only pair grabbing attention. a convention manager proposed to his girlfriend right on the main stage using video screens to help pop the questions. nicely done. along with the showbiz flair. he got down on one knee as it should be and he popped the big question the traditional way and much like the candidates the bride-to-be accepted the nomination. check out the rock. asked if mitt romney will be invited to the big day, she asked, will he pay for the wedding. nicely done. all right. i'm lynn berry, and this is "early today," just your first stop of the day, today on your nbc station. >>> i accept the duty to help lead our nation out of a jobs crisis and back to prosperity, and i know we can do this. >> an electric night at the republican national convention as vice presidential nominee paul ryan takes center stage, promising changes in washington. >>> plus, we continue to track the path of tropical storm isaac. the powerful storm moves inland. this is a look at where it is right now. the storm has battered the gulf region, forcing thousands to evacuate as floodwaters swamp com

alternates that were replaced by nine state committee that didn't include any input from maine voters. they elected usf your main committee women is trying to fight this. >> shee trying to fight two of the rules that are are trying to pose along. they met last week and decided which delegates would or would not be seated. we were really hoping they would follow their own rules which states that if they were to, if it's within ten days of the convention that it would go back to the duly elected delegates. >> there's another rule you are upset about about changing the rules for future conventions making it hard for someone like you to be here. >> it gives them a rubber stamp to change the rules any way they want. we elected to represent the body. our input is that is needed. it's our party. unfortunately, now they can change the rules at will without, with three quarters the executive committee. >> let's talk more broadly about ron paul. you were protesting you're one of the several because he's not speaking. he was offered a speaking slot. >> he was offered a speaking spot under two conditions. one, th

the main office and the private sector. the meter joins us from the business desk and all eyes on wyoming today where central bankers are meeting has arrived investors are basically rubbing their hands in anticipation of the fed chairman ben bernanke east speech now two years ago he gave a hint that there will be a new wave of quantitative easing and basically happened he expanded for out the year let's take a look at what's happening on the markets a pretty much illustrates the anticipation on the market with the dax up one point four percent that self would see like behind a bit point six percent u.s. futures are also pointing to a positive start and this is all on hopes that ben bernanke he will announce further stimulus maybe a new wave of quantity easing although personally i doubt that there will be any kind of indication because we know we've had this story many many times that investors are very much anticipating this kind of action from the government but it seems the economic data is not bad enough to have one thing on the market i mean