in connecticut, a maintenance company. he employees 17 people in that firm of his, some older, some younger and can't afford insurance. his older employees use the emergency room as their home doctor. if one has a child with an infection, they'll spend all day in the e.r. waiting for them to get basic treatment, costing the employees a day's work and kevin a day's work from the employee. by the way, we can't afford any additional costs. think of this. if you have an insurance policy, on average, your family is paying $1,100 a year on your insurance policy to cover people like kevin's employees, the uninsured. that's how much the average cost is per family. that's a tax on every insurance policy to pick up the cost of kevin's employees, the one who shows up in that emergency room. you don't get free medical care there. they're charging for it. how do they charge for it?

karen flor ren from the day in new london, connecticut, thanks so much for joining us.ate it. >> thanks, campbell. >>> tonight's breakout story. cnn's michael ware's incredible reporting from pakistan deep inside taliban country and his warning about what it will take to defeat them. >> to put it simply, america cannot win the war in afghanistan. certainly can't win it with bombs and bullets and it can't win it in afghanistan alone. . so what do you think? i think i'll go with the basic package. good choice. only meineke lets you choose the brake service that's right for you. and save 50% on pads and shoes. meineke. >>> if you watch cnn, you have seen michael ware. he has spent more time covering the wars in iraq and afghanistan than probably any other western reporter. well, tonight he's our breakout with an incredible piece of reporting. he tracked the taliban leaders who are targetings and killing u.s. soldiers to their hiding places in a remote mountain region of pakistan. . i came to these mountains to unravel how the taliban in afghanistan are based from here acro

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in missouri. gordon joseloff joins us from westport, connecticut. spondent, what was it like working with mr. cronkite? because for me, i'd be nervous doing a life shot out in the field and walter cronkite tosses to you. my heart would beat out of my chest. >> i think you quickly got over your nervousness and the fact it could be walter cronkite, dan rather, it was cbs news. and if you made the jump to cbs news, hopefully you got over your nervousness and really were concerned about what you had to say. >> i never worked for cbs news or nbc news. same thing for tom brokaw. when he threw it to me for the first time, i wasn't sure i would be able to talk or katie couric. but he made a mark on -- you see now on television not that he wasn't a dashingly handsome man but you see journalists, you know, everyone who is cute and pretty and you have to look a concern way, walter cronkite did not believe in that type of journalism, did he? >> he certainly did not. one of the reasons that i was concerned when they asked me to go to moscow as an on-air correspon

in the 60s right now. showers right along the hudson river, just to the north of new york and connecticut. that's all moving out to the east and northeast. for user pressure moves in. dry weather continues through friday, the and sunshine as well. by saturday night, more humidity, chance of a shower or a thundershower by saturday night. small craft advisory into the morning hours. northwest winds at 10 to 15 knots on the bay tomorrow. bay temperature 77. so tonight generally clear, a few clouds, 62, otherwise a beautiful night, and tomorrow lots of sun is, 84, continued on the dry side. even a little cooler. 84, humidity comes back on saturday, and saturday night, scattered thundershower around, drying out, late sunday 84, 66 the second half of the weekend. denise. >> thank you, bob. >>> coming up, frustration boils over for the orioles, and manager dave trembley isn't going to take it any more. >>> the night for the orioles started with the leadoff hitter suffering from an upper respiratory infection. his teammates went out to stop a three-game losing streak, facing former oriole erik bedard. luke scott, single up the middle. 2-0. when the thr

in the university. >>> congratulations. thanks for joining us. remember, 4200 connecticut, farmer's market this weekend in front of university of d.c. >> still ahead. lindsay czarniak sit downs. >>> there's going to be a lot of laughter at the theater this weekend. we get a preview. >> oh, no. we are english. >> which one are you. >> reporter: if he touched a nerve with his movie borat a couple of years ago. -- he stomps all over him with his new comedy "bruno." he plays a very gay austrian fashion freak who sets out to make his mark on america. >> it's a jump suit made entirely out of velcro. >> reporter: he knows few bounds and ruffles more than a few feathers both onscreen and possibly in audience as well. "bruno "bruno" is rated "r." >>> hayden pen tee area drops the super powers entitled character "i love you, beth cooper." that's the line he uses in his val districtry speech. >> i love you, beth cooper. >> reporter: even though they never have spoke is about they wind up getting together and it turns into a night that he won't want to remember. "i love you beth coope

us, in new england. i mean, a lot of severe weather coming into connecticut, massachusetts, vermont, new hampshire.st a couple of showers close to us. mid-80s on friday and well, we'll be close to them. saturday and sunday, maybe a thunderstorm on saturday. much better chance for them on storms on monday. a little bit cooler. and temperatures in the mid-80s, next tuesday. and that is with a little better chance for some showers and thunderstorms. >> still no real 90s happening. you know, we always do the weird news this time. we have some weird news, okay? >> you can have a competition. it is kind of easy and geeky news. >> okay, tomorrow, they will last for a second. but your clock is going to match the calendar. '04, '06, and '07, they will match the date. thplus, ey will go usfor '05, '06, '07, '08 an 9.'0 are you impressed 9.hawith tt? >> i'm gointhto see mine impressive level that is low. >> well, we'll start with the kind of cool out there. if you want your temperature there. >> i don't know how to say that. >> do you have better stuff? >> mine might be better. let's get to the real weird new

us is becoming more and more difficult. it was only about ten years ago, when i was representing groups in connecticut, the costs they were askingay were 2%, maybe $10 a week. didn't seem like a big deal. but here we are ten years later, and they're asking for 15%, 20%. we just can't afford it. it's time for health care reform. it has to happen now. >> moyers: even people content with their current coverage but concerned about the future were demanding reform. >> i have a very good plan right now. but with one whip stitch, i could lose it all through bankruptcy, through a job loss, through a medical injury or some tragedy. and i could be denied coverage. we need a public option where... that'll bring true competition and bring these people in line. do you think big pharmacy and big insurance is going to put anything on the table unless they are afraid? because they've had a lock on it forever? no, they're not going to give it up. we've got to take it from them. >> moyers: this is where protestors hoped their voices would penetrate-- the inner sanctum of the capitol. here, a congressional subcommittee investigated the twisted tac

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karen from "the day" in new london, connecticut, thank you very much for joining us. eciate it. >> thanks, campbell. >>> coming up in tonight's "money & main street report", you'll see how a little ingenuity is giving a unique coffee shop just the right jolt. >>> we keep looking for signs that we're getting out of this recession. new numbers show that fewer people are being laid off. we're also finding some inspiring stories. moernz saving jobs by thinking outside the box nor this case, outside the coffee cup. senior correspondental earn chertoff has this morning's "money & main street." >> it all started with a left wing radical activist who wanted to create what he called the anti-starbucks, a communal cafe, booksto bookstore, debate parlor and performance space. ♪ >> reporter: box top he called it, short for voice of the people. >> my vision was to create a place that people could come together and voice their opinions and share and cross pollen ate. so you know, across the political spectrum. >> reporter: in one of the most diverse neighborhoods in the country, vox

us. talk about the traffic rite now. live from connecticut avenue and beach drive some crash activity in this area blocking part of beach drive. use caution if you are heading out this way. moving along and flipping that camera shot on over. an ugly sight. it is jammed from 95 to georgia avenue. the drive time 20 minutes. moving to the district to inbound new york avenue we go. this delay is starting to clear from the washington times building to bladensburg road. okay past florida avenue to the third street tunnel. not done yet. the inner loop. we are tracking it on the map from 95 to 66. a lot of green cars. a little slowing down in the yellow on 6. that's minor volume. to wrap it up, here is 66 eastbound. jammed 123 to the capital beltway but i'm happy to report no incidents or accidents at this time. over to you. >>> we begin with breaking news. former defense secretary robert macnamara has died. he served as secretary of defense during the vietnam war and the president of the world bank from ' 68 to 81. he died this morning in his sleep at his home in the district. he was 93 years old. >>> in just under an hour, dc

, i said a wagon and they took it home to oliver whoa cut's home in connecticut where his daughters made them into bullets. they were used against the british in battle and the americans joked that we use melted majesty against the british. you know, his majesty melted into the bullets and i had said something like, he put it in a wagon and michael mccurdy very wisely said, you can't fit into one wag in a statue that is gigantic and weighs and number of tons. there must have been a buy-ins. it might seem like a little thing but i am trying to write inaccurate book and a look back at some of the sources and no one is exactly sure. there was no cnn their video taping it, so you just have to use your common sense sometimes. in short i changed it to what michael said, wagons. he was helpful in a number of ways in the history part because i'm trying to get it accurate and sometimes you know it is not that easy. i thought it would be an interesting thing because i want to talk about some of my favorite signers in making listen to some stories about them. can you guys named the 13 colonies? i don't want one person to name them

in the economy from jpmorgan today. >> thank you very much, el nesto grande! >> the market kind of tiptoeing around. how should you proceed? joining us for the cnbc edge in stanford, connecticut, my colleague, chairman of holland and company, owner of the tunnel and in philly, if you're lucky, he gives himself the 6:00 to 8:00 a.m. shift. so if you're lucky. go through the tunnel at that hour, he might take your money. in philly, shawn clark at clark capital management. start with shawn. where are we headed here? head & shoulders was a bust? now we're going back up, or this is a head fake and we're going back down? what? >> yeah. that pattern that most technicians were talking about, the head and shoulders pattern, if it held it probably would have indicated that we would go down to 800 on the s&p 500. we saw 875 break. triggered a bunch of stops and real quickly, this week, monday, a little rally tuesday and then big advance yesterday. i think almost invalidated that pattern. i'd like to see the s&p get above 930 and hold. if it does that, i think we then look for the june 12th highs of 956. i would expect those to be penetrated to the upside. then i think that -- >> wait a

lye to us you can see the firefighters are here in the remaining stages of wrapping up, reeling in their ropes and everything they would have used to climb down there. i can tell you that connecticut avenue southbound atwoodly road is a little jammed up at this point because of the fire engine the other fire department apparatus brought in here. but, again, what we can tell you at this time is that the ten people who were trapped in that elevator are out right now. six adults and four children, including baby. they are all okay after what i'm sureas a very unpleasant experience this afternoon. back to you. >> such a busy area, too. we remember three years ago people were stuck for a long time. jackie bensen, thanks so much. live on the scene. >>> now to the other big story we are following this afternoon. the fallout from that massive blaze that that destroyed the home after well-known washingtonian. >> among the questions being raised today, what sparked this massive fire and what is wrong with some of the fire hydrants in the area? they were not working properly last nature. >> news4's derrick ward spent the dayt that time fire scene on chain bridge wood in northwest. he joins u

book he completed "raggedy schools" and founded a school in connecticut to help low income minority children to prepare for college. he johns usow taking a break from the festival in new orleans. thank you for your time. >> thank you so much, melissa. impossible to take a break with 250,000 people around us. i'm having fun. >> thank you for trying to take the break. tell me more about your magnate school and why it is successful in the mission as well as the school? >> the magnate school is successful because we are committed to win. winning means sending children to college. we're not going to take any shorts, we expect our children to go on to a four-year college. we designed the school that supports that. we have a year round college preparatory school, faculty, highest of expectations, each one of us understands that it is not just enough to teach in the classroom. we have to support the children outside the classroom. >> speaking of outside the classroom. you mention support of the faculty. the support of moms and dads is -- integral to your program. >> well it is -- integral to all schools, however, as integral as it is,

nancy tyler was kidnapped by her ex-husband and held at gunpoint in the connecticut home they used to share for 12 hours. she managed to escape shortly before her ex burned that house to the ground and she's with us this morning for her first live television interview since that agonizing day. >> she just told me she did not think she would get out of that house alive. she's a lucky lady. >>> on a lighter note, rather intimate items of marilyn monroe's put up for auction. they include a bra that the iconic actress used to enhance her famous figure. we'll tell you all about that just a little later. >>> we'll begin with the video of a u.s. soldier being held hostage by the taliban. nbc's george lewis is in hayley, idaho, the hometown of bowe bergdahl. >> we're in front of zany's river street coffee house where bergdahl worked before joining the army. his family and friends prayed over his safety, deeply worried about him after seeing the video. on the tape, clearly under duress, private bergdahl talked about his family here in idaho. >> i miss them every day. when i'm gone, i miss them

a jilted husband in connecticut apparently took til death do us part quite literally. his name is richard shenkman. he is accused of kidnapping his ex-wife and holding him hostage at her home near hartford. they say shenkman set his own home on fire after cops fired pepper spray at the place. police say he also called for a priest to give his wife last rites. she managed to escape before the fire started. cops tell us he eventually went out a back door and was arrested. the couple's divorce was finalized last year, but he was appealing the decision. court records show he left his wife more than a dozen threatening voice messages like this one, and i'm quoting. we're not divorced, we're not getting divorced. shepard: but he didn't make it happen. it cost the city of los angeles $4 million in overtime and other services, they tell us. now just one day after michael jackson's memorial, los angeles is looking for ways to try to get some of that money back. 17,000 fans had tickets for yesterday's event. some 31 million people watched it on tv, we now know, a big number. acc

us. now, that never went away. like here in connecticutmething in our laws which say you have to be a suitable person to have a pistol permit. well, everybody knows republicans are not suitable to a democrat and a democrat is not suitable to a republican. and that that wording was put in there as the tail end of the jim crow laws. it's got to go. there are other sayings which i think you could brought up which is apropo. there used to be the soap box, the ballot box and the cartridge box to protect our freedoms. that's gone. the other things that people forget is i could have bought a gun via mail, email, or mail at the time by sending in a box or two and having a gun sent to me through the u.s. mail without any check. that was a right we used to have. we've done away with it. the other thing is that during the first world war and second world war, veterans sent guns home from their -- from their duty posts in europe and pacific. and then everything changed in 1968 with the assassination of a president. and then the american people weren't

used ingredients to keep that calorie and fat content down. >> reporter: the putoraks are living proof that the vow "in sickness and in health" carries some real weight. stephanie sy, abc news, west hartford, connecticut. >>> that's it for "world news" on this sunday. i'm dan harris. for all of us here at abc news, thank you for watching. for all of us here at abc news, thank you for watching. and good night. captions by vitac

peter alexander in south windsor, connecticut, for us this morning. 16 after the hour, here's natalie thank you. before you grab that bottled water and walk out the door, do you really know what's in it? some new questions are being raised about its safety and value. nbc's tom costello is in washington with more. tom, good morning. >> reporter: hi, natalie, good morning. you know, bottled water is hundreds of times more expensive than tap water and there are hundreds of bottled water companies that are out there promising their water is pure and clean. some even vaguely suggest medicinal or healing powers. but it turns out most of us know less about what's in our bottled water than we do about what's in our tap water. it's a sizzling hot summer day in july. so you grab a bottle of water. but, do you know what's in it? >> my kids love to drink bottled water. they love having it around. >> i can take it. i can just drink it on the bench or whatever. >> i prefer it. it tastes better than tap water. >> reporter: well, if you think bottled water is cleaner than tap water, some environmenta

in a moment. >> larry: joining us now in pittsburgh, dr. cyril wecht, the forensic pathologist and former coroner of allegheny county, pennsylvania, and in stanford, connecticutdr. henry lee, doctor of forensic science at university of new haven and author of "blood crimes." dr. wecht, what about this from a toxicology report would tell you there was a homicide? >> well, homicide determination is a legal one as miss sax and mark have already portrayed. it will be the determination of the prosecutor's office. i've been involved in a few cases, at a federal level, in west virginia, in which charges of homicide have been brought. there's a specific federal statute if somebody supplies drugs, sells, or just gives drugs resulting in someone's death -- >> larry: all right. will the report, then, in your opinion, be definitive? >> it will be definitive in terms of the drugs that led to his death. it will not necessarily be definitive in all of the drugs that have been prescribed indiscriminately, improperly for him over the years. there's no way to determine that. he doesn't have lengthy hair which can be studied through segment l hair analysis. you can only go back

for the couple's luxury park avenue penthouse that the countess is now using as her temporary castle. and this week in connecticut divorce court the mud just keeps flying, with explosive new details of extramarital affairs on both sides. on the witness stand, another bombshell. david admitted to showering his mistress with expensive gifts. >> the mistress really cleaned up. she got a $13,000 fur coat, malino blahniks worth a total of $10,000. >> reporter: the trial may last into the fall, with a pretty penny at stake in this ugly divorce. for "today," peter alexander, nbc news, new york. >> and coming up, al roker has left the set, but look who's joined us, david beckham. >> welcome back, david. nice to see you. >> nice to be here. >> nice to meet you. >> we're going to talk to david in a second. he's agreed to show us every tattoo on his body. >> yes. >> in just a couple of minutes. >> is that right? >> i'm not sure. >> good to have you back. we're going to talk to beckham in just a little while. this is "today" on nbc. >>> 7:22. you're taking a look live at our plaza which has been transformed into a vineyard s

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emergency landing because of smoke detected in the cockpit. 693 was headed from connecticut to orlando, florida, when they spotted an electrical fire. passengers had to uses, but the plane landed safely and everyone on board is fine. >>> norah o'donnell is live in fair banks with more on the governor's last day. >> reporter: this is it for sarah palin. later today, she will resign as governor right here. she is giving up her powerful perch. for what, it is not clear. we do know she used her twitter account to tweet she took a seven-hour road trip from anchorage to fairbanks with a camper full of kids and coffee, listening to country music. she won't say if she's running for president. but nbc news has learned that she has raised more than a million dollars for her political action committee, and that can fund a lot of political travel. her first expected stop is the ronald reagan presidential library in california in two weeks and she's also received an invitation to go to iowa, site of the first in the nation presidential caucuses. hasn't accepted that yet. we'll see. melissa? >> thank you so much, norah o'donnell. >>> in central florida, they're cleani

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hour, right here in the "cnn newsroom," we are expecting connecticut senator chris dodd to tell all of us news conference what he told his local paper at the "hartford courant" that he has early stage prostate cancer. we want to talk about this with our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, and elizabeth, what's ahead for the senator? >> well, what's ahead for the senator is we're told that he's going to have surgery. >> yes. >> which is a not uncommon approach for prostate cancer. it's an interesting cancer in that people do different things. some men actually choose to do watchful waiting, mean that they don't actually do a therapy or a surgery. other people have surgery. sometimes people will do surgery and radiation. people do all sorts of different approaches. however, the good news about prostate cancer is that especially if it is -- if it is caught at the right time, it is quite survivable. if that's a word. >> survival rates are high? >> survival rates are high. ten years after a prostate cancer diagnosis, 91% of the men are still alive. >> okay. >> so, that's a good numb

in portions of new york state. and back towards portions of connecticut. but for us like dry for the next couple of days. bigger picture here, closer picture, we can see that the clouds are breaking up. relatively quiet night around the area. as the future scan shows, model data shows nice clear start for the commute. tomorrow beautiful. temperatures in the lower 80s. comfortable day to be out. if you get a chance to get outside and enjoy. looks like it will stay like this for a couple of days. and then the heat returns. toward the weekend. and the humidity will take the temperatures up quite a bit. eastern shore looking at clearing conditions. temperatures at 83. for you folks out in easton. central portion of the state. looking at the temperatures around 83 with sunshine. and once again, we will see the frontal boundary push off to the east. making way for clearing. and we will get our chance for rain down toward the end of the week. wednesday looking at 83. 85 on thursday. friday 85. with sun examine clouds. 91 by saturday. 30 percent chance for showers. and then

in new york. but he used this occasion to once again push for this reform of health care that he has been working so diligently on, pointing out that in connecticut, 100 people today will lose their health insurance and it's another reason why people need health insurance. >> what they call a message opportunity. >> exactly. i think it was noteworthy, too, when he said i'm running for re-election. he's the most endangered democrat in the senate today. the latest poll numbers show he's down about ten points from the republican who's running against him. he's got a tough race ahead and also this personal challenge. let's bring in nbc's kelly o'donnell is with us from capitol hill, as well as david with "the new york times." kelly, let me start with you. i know you ran into the senator last night. he was in good spirits. what are you hearing about how this may affect his schedule? >> well, as he described it, it will be a light schedule and perhaps he is fortunate in that that real heavy lifting of the committee, that work was finished and we know that he knew throughout that very tense and exhaustive process on what they call the health committee,

use. >> you yourself do not own a small business, but you know many who do in connecticut. what is the feeling of small businesses where you're from? >> i think they're scared because you have small businesses, ten, 15 employee, they're laying off people, too. that's their livelihood. if they can't get access to credit to keep going, they're struggling a lot. >> what do you think will happen? do you think the obama administration will put a proposal together and get this going? >> i think if they were smart, they would keep thinking about what they're doing and execute on it. >> thank you so much. and again, we spoke with the sba today who told us this is just not even a proposal. just an idea being kicked around. we'll bring you the latest when we get it. back to you. >> i like what you've done with the place. >> thank you. >> speaking about what they've done, something fishy going on in oklahoma. take a look. pictures really tell this story. it's called noodling or hand fishing. requires no rod, reel or worm. you simply stick your arms into the water and you see what come

firefighters in connecticut -- i thought that all whole issue was -- you know, rush limbaugh throughout the words racist, reverse discrimination -- i thought that that was truly absurd. i am used to hearing of certain things in politics, but that was beyond the pale. >> i think the initial jeffrey rosen article before the nomination for the most part was a whisper campaign of her not being petsmart or a bully and it is just completely untrue, but something that it really takes a huge group of people to read but -- rebut -- and it was clearly intended to cheaper from being nominated. -- cheaper from being nominated. >> one thing that has not taken a lot of hold is questions about her temperament. we all talk about the way she prepares for all arguments in a way that many judges do not. she is searching from the bench, she asks difficult questions and has very high standards for lawyers to answer the questions. she feels like she really needs to know the answer. i have never seen her bully in any way, though, and i think her colleagues have sat with her on the court have really responded to that and said that that is not at all who judge sotomayor is. >> in a letter by her law c

us no matter our color, sex or ethnicity. >> reporter: critics also point to her ruling in a connecticut racial discrimination case where whitehters were denied promotions because no african-american candidates were qualified. last month, the supreme court overturned her ruling, but supporters say she was following the law, not making it. today, judge sonia sotomayor has a chance to defend herself. today has been reserved for opening statements and the actual questions are scheduled to begin tomorrow. the hearings are expected to last most of the week. brian moore, nbc news, washington. >> it's unlikely that republicans could slow the nomination process or even stop it altogether. that's because the democrats have a filibuster proof majority. >> well, already faced a month of scrubbed launches, but space shuttle "endeavour" hopes today will be its lucky day, the 13th. nasa is pushing for a launch at 6:51 this evening. the shuttle was supposed to lift off this weekend, but bad weather prevented that. in june two launches were scrubbed because of hydrogen leaks. if today's launch does occur, "endeavour" will take seven astronau

us now. thanks for coming in today. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: a lot of press that she was involved with the white firefighters out new haven, connecticut. the city was worried that other minority candidates hadn't done as well. they won at the pree supreme c, overturning sotomayor's decision. will that be enough to give her a major bump in the road? >> hard to see this decision derailing the sotomayor nomination. clearly the supreme court said she was wrong and decided by a 5-4 margin. there were four justices that more or less agreed with what judge sotomayor said. it as worry some decision and troubling from a conservative perspective but the supreme court said she was wrong. i will imagine they will ask her about that in the confirmation hearing. >> shannon: we got word that 71 new documents had been sent in. i spent friday afternoon and evening going through those from the puerto rican legal defense and education fund. a lot of people think that is a conservative group and they were involved in a number of cases that involved discrimination issues and actually trying to help the minority candidates and were trying to force affirmat

connecticut for example receive 221,000 but 884,000 in additional resources. the use of those monies has been predominantly to allow for transportation and storage of resources and the purchase of additional commodities. i can tell you i have been, as i said earlier i have been in a number of these food banks and it is amazing they have segregated the stimulus purchases from the regular purchases and is remarkable how much food has been purchased from stimulus dollars. and then they will turn to you and they will say, this is feeding and providing hundreds of thousands of meals, hundreds of thousands of meals. and then you see folks who have never have to have the assistance before, never have had to have assistance before the war going to food banks. thankfully there are volunteers, thankfully there are people who are concerned about this o are manning those food banks and volunteering. i know i come as part is the president's united we serve i did some voluntary work sorting some of the cans that were donated in it is a remarkable reaction by a very gracious and com

in real quick. jenna, your thoughts here? jenna, you with us? >> caller: i'm sorry. hi, how are you? >> good. >> caller: i just wanted to say, i live in connecticut. and i know, this is the longest and worst kept secret in hollywood. this prescription drug, when is the cover going to be blown. look at marilyn monroe, judy garland and now the biggest star ever. what are they doing about this? what can they do? >> carlos, i'll go to you as our -- i mean, how big is the problem? and our caller is zoning in on hollywood. let's start there. it is a nationwide problem, but what about hollywood? >> it's huge in hollywood, because stars -- i mean, because doctors are human beings and they get star-struck. when a star comes to a doctor and says, i need this script, i need this prescription, the doctor is until recently going to say yes because there hasn't been any repercussions. we saw with anna nicole smith, with heath ledger, now with michael jackson, and that's why i'm hoping this investigation is far-reaching. because we need doctors in hollywood, and around the country, who are prescribing these drugs to these celebrities, to take a second and say,

connecticut can, rhode island, as well as massachusetts. in the meantime, we've got showers and thunderstorms that are lurking back just to the west of us. right now here is the baltimore area. here is that one storm system that came through the carroll county region. it's now gone into baltimore county. just some light showers. but another batch of thunderstorms is heading in that direction. once that batch gets through the region, things should calm down for the night. as you can see, again, very spotty storms across the area. temperature-wise right now, in moncton 76. 76 in owings mills. westminster at 77 degrees. it's 8 for rock hall. northeast right now at 77 degrees. here is your forecast for tonight there is the majority of the rain, just to the west of us, getting ready to pull into and through the baltimore- carroll county region. it makes its way towards the north. during the day tomorrow, okay. a chance for scattered showers on and off through the day. but once it gets through, saturday is looking pretty good. but by sunday evening, we're getting another system headed in our direction. here your forecast. for the overnight per

us. steve: and thank you tore your service, sir. >> you're welcome. thanks for having me. steve: straight ahead, connecticut firefighter frank ricci joins with us his message for sonia sotomayor. but first, on this date in disney property actually designed and built by walt disney. steve: didn't know that. clayton: and on this date in 1995, duran-duran had the number one hit of the title song for the james bond movie. . you are one person, but you can move a nation. you can walk with a purpose to end alzheimer's... by joining us for memory walk. [ man ] you invite three people. [ woman ] and they'll invite three people. and before you know it, you have a team. more than 5 million americans... may not be able to stop the progression of alzheimer's. but we can. step up. move a nation to end alzheimer's. start a team today. go to alz.org. . . . . >> americans have the right to go into our federal courts to have their cases judged based on the constitution and our laws, not on politics or personal feelings. ainsley: that's frank richie at the center of one of the most controversial rulings made by judge sonia sotomayor. testifyingiest during her confirmation hearing. steve: the highest court eventually over

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in connecticut, bound for orlando. there was an electrical fire on board. those people have landed safely, though, at macarthur airport there in long island. i've got kras main from southwest airlines who joins usll, we have flight 693 from hartford to orlando diverted to long island due to reports of smoke in the cabin. don't have a lot of detail. i don't know the extend of what happened. had reports of smoke in the cabin, diverted to long island, landed safely without incident and on the ground assessing the situation as we speak. >> was it right after take off? connecticut, bradley airport, going to the macarthur airport. that's not very far. >> that's not very far. i don't know at what point there were reports of smoke in the cabin. i don't have all those details. they realized the situation on board and made the decision to divert to long island. >> any reports of injuries? >> not that i'm aware of at this point. >> okay. what in a situation like this will be the plan forgetting the passengers to their final destination point, orlando? >> in many cases, we'll make the decision to swap the aircraft. we'll bring in a new aircraft to operate that flight. i don't know if that's the situation h

in half. those stories and maryland's most accurate forecast all new on abc 2 news at 5:30. >> thank you, kelly. >>> our look around the nation takes us to south windsor, connecticut a 13-hour standoff has finally ended. police say an advertising executive kidnapped his ex-wife and held her hostage inside the home the couple once shared. richard schankman held police at bay, claiming the house was wired with explosives. he is accused of setting the house on fire after his ex-wife escaped. schankman is facing attempted murder, and kidnapping and arson charges. >>> in camden, new jersey, a man died after falling into a vat of boiling chocolate inside a factory. it happened at ten thank morning at lyons and sons. the 22-year-old man was walking on top of a vat when he fell in an opening. the vat was filled with boiling chocolate that was in the process of being mixed. the man was caught up in the machinery mixing the chocolate. >>> and vandals are caught on surveillance tape, smashing and stealing a statue of the virgin mary at a california church. you can see a man climbing a fountain at the church and throwing the porcelain centerpiece to the ground. then someone r

us. we'll be right back. >>> welcome back. live from connecticut and van ness. incident free through dc. it's angie with traffic inealtime on the way. >>> in the news now at 5:41, ousted honduran president vows to try to return to his country again today or tomorrow. honduras military prevented the president from landing in the capital by parking vehicles on the airport runway. he was forced from office on june 28th and two say he will be charged with treason if he returns. >>> demonstrators formed a human chain around mountains in northern italy trying to send a message to g-8 leaders. it is to raise awareness of problems in africa. >>> so far it appears the party of mexican president is losing ground in mid determine elections. mexicans went to the polls on sunday and early returns favor the institutional party. calderon has controlled the legislature since 2000. >>> a wildfire is burning near los angeles this morning. details on that coming up. >>> plus, we will introduce you to one of the top finishings at the at&t national who thrives despite a physical condition that could keep others out of the game of golf

us at heros@wusa9.com. >> it is 6:13 on wednesday morning. here's what is in the news now. a man who connecticutsay held his wife hostage for hours has surrendered. this is video of the couple's home in which police say the man set on fire during the standoff. the woman escaped unharmed. >>> the house approved a plan for an historic marker inside the visitors center. it would acknowledge the use of slaves in building the capitol. it passed by a 399-1 vote. the senate is taking up a similar bill. >>> when it comes to bad traffic, we are number two. a report out in the last few hours finds drivers in our region waste 62 hours a year in traffic. second only to los angeles and we will have more on the study coming up at 6:30. >>> 299-1 -- >> 39-1. >> even better. we will try to find out who was the outstanding vote on that. >>> you have daisy dog. >> we have kiwi. >> daisy and frosty are in doggy heaven with thumper. >> she likes to ride with her head out the window? >> she likes to ride in the lap. >> okay. well, this is daisy dog. sorry to confuse you. let's show her. she loves to do this on the n

chris dodd, who has some political trouble back home in connecticut for his re-election, all of this coming together at a time when he is telling us it's good news that he will go through surgery and whatever treatment is needed with a good prognosis, but he'll be doing that while he's also trying to shoulder a lot of this health care debate. >> because this is all still breaking, we want to play another clip from senator dodd and what he had to play, kelly. . >> i want to remind people about this health care debate. i didn't want to be an exhibit necessarily, but i didn't want to be the issue. it's not about me. it's about people without health care or who are underinsured. people out there struggle every day. that's the risk here by not getting this job done. >> he's saying he'll be back, he'll be ready for this fight that certainly looms ahead for the democrats. >> reporter: yes and the answer we just heard from him was in response to a question about why he didn't tell the public earlier. he has known since june about this cancer diagnosis. he said when he was at the most critical point, the public point of his committee deali

connecticut and massachusetts. and all that activity to the north of us, as close as they could do that and in the sections of new jersey we're okay tonight, just a few clouds. temperatures tomorrow, not too bad. low to mid-80s and low humidity again. that is 83 on wednesday and low 80s on thursday. again, a few clouds, northeast flow. we're going cooler out there on friday. partly cloudy. we talk about the weekend being summer like, indeed that it will be, around 90 both saturday and sunday. a chance for a few storms on saturday. and now it fears that the best chance for storms is on monday night and the upper 80s next tuesday with a couple of storms. but we're in july, seven days, that is on that map and the front anyway. >> not too shabby. >> that's pretty good. thank you. >> yes. >> all right, they take credit for when it is good. still ahead, al franklin officially becomes the u.s. senator today. and now first, the last call for them at the d.c. institution, a popular georgetown pup that is closing their doors out erthe no , we'll take you there now. fa fa living with foot pain? get gold bond pain relieving foot cr

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in connecticut. carmen? >> caller: hey, jim, boo-yah. >> boo-yah. >> caller: thank you very much, thank you for helping us keep the safe this year. >> ippreciate that. i'm glad people didn't get too discouraged during the month of march. >> caller: no, just kept going ahead knowing that everything would be all right. >> excellent. >> caller: listen i have a question. i've been in and out of geron as a short-term play and made some "mad money," i'm thinking about getting back in at this price for a longer term investment and i'd like to know your thoughts on it. >> no, i'm not going to go there. i think it's much too speculative even though i know that amgen reported a good quarter, tomorrow off the amgen quarter was already up 10 before this, i think you're coming in at a bad level, i do not want you to buy. i do think there are others that are much cheaper, i'm going to include gilliad, sell, pullback, absolutely. mike in new jersey, mike? >> caller: hey, big boo-yah to ya, jim. >> what's up? >> caller: i got a two-fold question for you. i am a long research in motion. i don't know if you're still bearish on it right now, but this st

connecticut dealer called her back. saying "bring it in after all." >> when i went into the dealership, they told me that it had just been crazy today. >> reporter: many dealers told us they'll keep signing deals through the weekend. in detroit, where the auto industry is in ruins, one dealer couldn't remember the last time he saw this kind of business. >> we've been as busy as we've been in years with this program. >> reporter: in new jersey, liz higgins showed us the wear and tear on her family minivan. >> you saw the duct tape. >> reporter: this is her third time back to the dealership, determined to send her clunker to the junk pile. >> i had to spend $600 to have it repaired so i could drive it here. >> reporter: where will her minivan go next? and the tens of thousands of other clunkers? the bulk of cars will be crushed and disposed of at junkyards. but there are strict rules. among them, engines must be destroyed. pouring in clunker bomb to be sure it never hits the road again. it is called clunker bomb. even with the new money and word from the white house today that these clunker deals will be honored until otherwise noted, today, senator carl levin suggeste