thank you for joining us jennifer granholm / michigan governor. even though the trend toward electric cars is slow to take off that same battery manufacturing plant we just highlighted is growing quickly.the factory in michigan will build advanced lithium ion battery systems for electric and plug in hybrid cars, trucks and buses experts say it's a segment that is likely to see higher demand even as the overall auto industry struggles. "there's a clear mandate that if a car company meets requirements for reduced emissions to improve fuel mileage.. they'll have to electrify... that takes years.. the work going on right now with development, is supportive of the long term play for increased electricification of all transportation fleet " and more good news is that the factory has been able to re- train dozens of workers who lost their jobs at the auto companies. "we're taking workers who came out of shuttered auto plants putting them to work here half of the 300 employees we have were unemployed before they came to work here "that plant will be expor

there is one being used in michigan that can tell if you have used in the last five hours not like a the last 30 days. so adult action so i think the city attorney in oakland at the conference said we want to have this move forward and turn it from illegal under ground economy to an economy that is going to help pay california's budget deficit. allowing it to be sold in areas and given a permit. and medical cannibis law passed in 1996, cities to have opt in for commercial action. city has to give a permit for any activity is legal outside of possession or small cultivation in your home. that is where we think a lot of revenue will be generated. city of oakland is managing a large scale grow that is going to raise the city a million dollars in permit fees to hopefully end the public deficit. >> you had interesting support yesterday that was kind of surprising, joseph mcthat mere rashes you have a judge and deputy chief retired? >> yeah, i think it goes to show that our collision is broader than we thought when we started first moving prop 19 over a year ago to the actual ballot box. l

michigan's demand. the rest of the refined product that is used in consumed here in michigan comes from chicago. three or four of the big refineries in chicago, there are a couple of different large pipelines that bring that product over. you are already on the heels of an incident in the kalamazoo river, and about a week and a half ago there was an incident in chicago. the pipeline 6b that delivers some crude to us and some down to toledo is out of commission. the other problem that bring screwed over from chicago is out of commission. -- that brings crude over from chicago. those businesses and other suppliers who rely on chicago to supply this market, we have to bid up and over what someone else is willing to pay in those markets to be able to get that product over here. just this morning, i received a note that the problem in chicago has been repaired and is now back up and running. at noon i saucepot prices starting to decline. it is just -- i saw prices starting to decline. it is just a supply and demand issue. >> this is the last question. with the oil spill that happened, how has this ma

the main initiatives of your department. >> right. >> we found this pamphlet that the state of michigan uses and defines a cyberbully, and they say the type of content of cyberbullying may send and includes the following, vulgar and argumentmentive message, cruel, offensive and insulting remarks. under that definition, is andrew shirvell a cyberbully? >> well, that's a pamphlet by a different agency and i'm glad you brought it. we've educated a half million kids on how to protect themselves from predators and also bullies on the internet. now, that being said, there isn't a crime of cyberbullying in michigan law. and the reality is -- >> i'm not asking whether it's a crime or not i know in michigan there is no cyberbull exlaw yet, but do you think shea cyberbully? >> he's clearly a bully. absolutely. is he using the internet to be a bully? yes. but is that protected under the first amendment of the united states constitution? yes. >> jeffrey toobin last night on this program, cnn legal analyst, said that this is more about you than about shirvell. and he said that shirvell is a political all

michigan, it's anderson cooper and "ac 360." anderson? >>> thanks, larry. thanks for joining us, everyone. picture this, you wake up one day and discover a public official is targeting you, he singled you out by name and set up a blog dedicated solely to making vicious allegations against you, calling you a nazi, all that for starters. weird thing is you don't even know the guy and you're not even out of college yet. sound like a nightmare? it's happening to a college student in michigan and tonight we confront the public official behind it. we're going to ask him, why this kid and how does he justify targeting him? also breaking news, growing concerns about a possible al qaeda commando attack with gunmen on city streets storming hotels, shooting anyone in their path. if you remember the attacks on mumbai, this would be the sequel. we've got the latest where officials fear it could happen and where the killers could be coming from. >>> and later the defense rested in the two men accused in the horrific home invasion and murder in connecticut. we'll show you what kind of defense they put on

wouldn't make any comments regarding my employment. >> i was reading the criteria the state of michigan uses to identify a cyberbully, someone who uses technology to harass, embarrass, intimidate or stalk someone else and lists the types of content of cyberbullying including vulgar and argumentative messages, cruel and offensive, insulting remarks. under that definition, aren't you a cyberbully? >> no, absolutely not, and that's a total mischaracterization from the local news reporter, ross jones, that did the piece on me who was very biassed. >> i don't know who that is. i don't know who that is. i've read -- the state's definition of cyber -- >> that's where you're getting this -- >> no, i read the state's definition, a pamphlet the state hands out, and that's the definition. it seems to apply to you. >> well, i don't meet the definition. i've never contacted chris, i've never spoken to him. >> you've -- >> a cyberbully is someone. >> you stood outside his house and videotaped. >> i do not follow him around. i protest with a sign. that's exercising my first amendment rights, anderson. that

if you're watching us on wdiv 4 in detroit, michigan, celebrate creativity. set brating exhibitions at the annual diy street fair. that's your "early today" event of the day. >> sound like fun. thanks, bill. >>> now here's a look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. we now know whether joaquin phoenix's retirement from acting to start a rap career was real or fake. his brother told the "new york times" the whole thing, including phoenix's appearance last year on david letterman was a hoax. >>> after 54 years, today is the final episode of the soap opera "as the world turns." >>> scottish singing sensation susan boyle fulfills her dream of singing for the pop yesterday. >>> in the box office, the team come the easy a produced for nearly $1 million is the favorite to take first with $20 million or more. ben affleck stars in "r-town." experts expect it to take second. those film same experts don't expect the new horror flick "devil" is to do much better than $10 million this weekend. >>> and this comes tout from wnbc news 4 new york where a group of dog

us by. they tower to 40,000 feet and flashing lightning in michigan. e significant rain producers have passed on to the east of us. still, a very active pattern the next two weeks. two week rainfall estimates from models range from an inch and a half to four inches. that's way above normal. and suggests that we will get into an active autumn pat personup autumns that start dry turn wet in statistical work we have done in the office. that may be what's starting to happen. extense of cloudiness, windy, cool today and rains on the order of sprinkles or brief showers even though it looks ominous at times. high today 72. northwest winds 12 to 24. tonight then the clouds will scatter and diminish and so will 9 winds which start gusty but start to calm late tonight. low down to 55. even 50 in the suburbs and then warm up as south winds take hold and the sun returns tomorrow to 78 degrees. and by saturday, cloudy spells develop. several scattered showers are possible. we will be studying the charts on those so to see how extensive they are. they won't be all da

showers and thunderstorms riding alonggthe front across ontario and northern michigan. for usd ii will looks like this change wwll not arrive. really with much precipitation. there is cold front that is moving through parts of ohio. you can kind of see it there. ii makes the way through by saturday. saturday you notice the change. sunday you definitely notice the changes as it moves down on you to the southeaat. eastern shore here is how it looks. 933with plenty of sunshine for easton, denton, chestertown. central portion of the state, 95 and plenty of sunshine, with the western portion of the staae. at 91. with plenty of sunshine. and then again, there issa beaatiful moon tonight. clear skies. 77 for tomorrow. downtown inner harbour. hot one. and then the five-day forecast. shows 85 saturday. front moves through. cooler temperatuues behind it. on sunday heading to the game. great one. showers will not rrive until next week, tuesday with temperaturee in the 70s. >> you cannot even stand up right now. >> yeah, i can. >> four state lawmaker up for reelection, that's not the mome

we are being robbed of our recovery in michigan because wall street banks are red lined us. ness, which is the engine of our economy can't get access to capital, can't he create jobs this is wonderful news. i can tell you there are a lot of businesses in michigan ready to go have demand but cannot meet it because they can't expand. >> virg benero, great to see you tonight. i'm not going to take this opportunity to call this a big political moment and victory for president obama. i have done up to hall meetings all over this country. there are a lot of people hurting, a lot of small businesses, you know in your backyard, virg what is happening in michigan. this is a victory for america, that some statesmen came together with the majority and decided, let's get some money, let's loosen up the credit, let's float 30 billion to community banks and get small business going again in this country. this isn't about politics. this is about people who are hurting and businesses that need to move forward. virg, great move, i think you have got do it again, buddy, and i love, i will put

used this program to great success. mississippi, pennsylvania, florida, texas, michigan, and five other states, and we are starting an online campaign to petition signatures in each state, not only from the employee side, but from a business side. let us create more jobs. let us add to our payroll, payroll taxes, to help us at more to the government, but we need another leg up for another year. help us in his advocacy effort in 2010 and 2011. so, mayor newsom, thank you one more time so much. and i would like to introduce one of the faces of the people who works for me. there is a real sight to this, and it gives me great pleasure to introduce ginger, who works in archives and just celebrated her one-year anniversary with the archives. >> thanks, robert. thanks, mayor newsom. thanks, everyone, for having me here. i am a single mother, and 15 months ago, i was having to make the choice between putting food on our table and putting -- paying our electricity bill. we are one of those families that mayor newsom spoke up. this job has meant so much to me. i have added skills and accomplishments to my resume over the last year. i

michigan state students. devon, what do you have for us? >> hey there, tom. welcome to michigan state university.little giddy around here, tom. but i think as secretary duncan noes in michigan we feel doubly pinched by this problem trying to make it less reliant on manufacturing. we have a real problem in michigan of losing our best and brightest, hanging onto our young people let me bring out a senior. just about on the launch pad. you question for the secretary. >> you mentioned money as an incentive for inner city teachers to come to the inner city. and, i was wondering what besides that would be your incentives? i'm a product of detroit public schools. those types of urban districts, teachers really need motivation to stay and get there in the first place. >> let me be very clear, tom, money is only a small part of the answer here. i would strongly encourage her to come back to detroit public schools. that's a school system that desperately needs reform. definitely needs the next generation of talent. far too many young people in detroit, 50%, 60%, drop out of school. they're starting to make

us. this line of showers over lake michigan is with a cold front that will come in tomorrow morning abouthis time or so. by then it will be pretty much rain-free. temperatures, 72 downtown. white marsh, 69. columbia, 67 degrees. chestertown, 68. 69 in rock hall. this is the satellite picture. a warm front is moving in. it will turn hot and this afternoon. the cool front will move in tomorrow morning. this warm air will provide mostly sunny skies that hot and humid conditions, especially for this time of year. it is officially a fall. a southwest wind about 10 to 15 miles per hour. we have matthew. matthew is down in the caribbean moving towards central america. it looks like kathy will spend some time down there. it also looks like matthew or some other storm developing in the caribbean make it close to us or across florida or somewhere around the eastern seaboard by next weekend. here is the forecast. lisa is way out in the atlantic ocean. sunday, monday, but into tuesday, matthew would change from a tropical storm to just a depression over the yucatan peninsula. there is a lot of rain d

in michigan, you have an assistant attorney general using his blog to slam an openly gay president at for the past six months, andrew shavrel is accusing him of influencing a male student to the point where the student morphed into a proponent of the radical homosexual agenda. posting a gay orgy in the dorm room and trying to recruit freshmen. anderson cooper challenged the assistant attorney general. >> i'm doing this as a private citizen off work time as a university of michigan alum. we're quibbling over tactics. we're not quibbling over substance. the substance of the matter is chris armstrong is a radical homosexual activist who got elected partly funded by the gay and lesbian victory fund to promote a very deeply radical agenda at the university of michigan. >> first of all, mr. shir dg ve you're not in school anymore. second of all, the students elected this guy president. if there are problems, can't they handle it? i think there is something wrong for a official beating up on a college kid. funny how michigan's attorney general can't put enough distance between himself and sh

>> he worked in upstate new york. >> for a day on the show. >> joining us now, the governor of michigan with us. nice to have you with us. >> thank you, mika and for the conversation this morning. >> it's exciting how things are going in michigan. you know, we're going to adopt the entire state. >> i know you said that. >> detroit, specifically. >> we need to more than ever because it's been a rough, rough year. >> the lions -- >> we need a little bit of "morning joe"'s balm for the cold. come to detroit. >> does carl levin ever watch football? >> we asked him the morning after the lions, the guy was clueless. i might as well have talk talked -- he represents michigan! we asked him about the game, he sat there, blank look. >> it's true. maybe he didn't hear us. >> i don't think he's a lions fan. >> anyway, we want to have you come. i was just saying, perfect time would be when the volt comes off the assembly line, first mass produced electronic vehicle >> that will be in the spring. >> no. in november. >> that's not winter. >> we could be there. >> it won't be like yesterday in new york

michigan state ties it. finds b. j. washington, 24 yards. ties it for 28. we go to overtime. the spartans line up for a field goal that will send us perfectly executed michigan state. that crushing defeat. they send tim lincecum to the mound. lincecum has been revitalized as of late. gets the check swing. kerrwin daily ranks him up. struck out six. goes down to end the third with a man on third. bases loaded, brewers catchers. two-run single and a right. milwaukee goes up 2-0. last chance. no dice. beryl blown away. lose 2-1 and falls to second place. that's because the padres took care of the cardinals, bottom seven. shot off the glove. matt holiday scores. ties the game. ludwick unties that. three-run shot to left. padres win it, lead the national west with a half game over the g-men. the hottest men in baseball stayed that way. tattooed the dodgers. first inning two-run shot pushed colorado on the board 2-0. top 5, this time to deep center. pound l.a. 12-2. don't look now but they're only a game out of first place. a's looking for their second straight win over the twins. has liftoff! second home run of the year and oakland goe

and that will help us for the next couple of days,,3 temperatures in the low 90s.3 cold front pushing through michiganr pushing through central michigan, saginaw, detroit, flint. strong storms. ft. wayne getting strong storms in indiana. but it will continue to breakup as it runs into dry air over us. so future scan model data shows not much activity.3 slight chance for a late shower possiblyytomorrow night. a chance for a stray scattered showers or thunderstorm. then we are quiet until we get closer to the weekend. but the heat will continue across the region. tomorrow expect temperatures around 90 degrees. hht day. southwest winds at five to 10. then for the five-day forecast. there is the 30 percent chancee3 for maybe a poo-up shower or thunderstorm. 90 on thursday. and with more sunshine. and look at thii. friday kicking off the weekend at 92. yeeh, this is fall. we'rr looking at 92 degrees. and then on saturday, 80. sunday 72. -o we keep an eye to the sky. because browns take on the ravens and we may have a pop-up shower in the neighborhood. bbck to you. >> thank you, vytas. -> new namm tonight f

. >>> michigan's attorney general seems to agree with what i said yesterday, and that is assist ag is a bully. why? because that assistant ag is usingthe openly gay president of the university of michigan student government. the past six months, andrew s shirrvel have accused him of flagrant sexual promiscuity with another guy in student government, seducing and influencing a male student and turning him into a proponent of the radical homosexual agenda. hosting a gay orgy in dorm room and trying to recruit freshmen to join the homosexual lifestyle. shirrvel painted armstrong as a gay nazi and isn't apologetic at all. says he can do it as a private citizen. anderson cooper challenged his boss about that. >> certainly it's unbecoming of civil discourse, it's unbecoming of a common courtesy and, you know, i quite frankly, i feel embarrassed for mr. armstrong, that he has this unwanted attention. but again, anderson, this is speech put on a blog. now, if there's conduct that's verified, for instance, if a personal protection order was sought by mr. armstrong and granted, in the michigan civil service disciplinary code we could start lo

joseph county, michigan they use cinnamon sugar.go county, other fried food, it is fried white castle burger, fried avocados and a zucchini weenie, which is a hot dog toughed inside a zucchini and deep fried. but the texas state fair takes the cake and the fries probably fried as well. they have all the standards but for a nice dinner start with the deep fried club salad, then a fried frito pie and wash it down with a beer which, by the way, is also deep fried. that's not your drink of choice, they also offer a fried margari margarita. i used to think was fascinating until i realized all you have to do is put it in batter or dough and fry it. >>> brand new rundown. they were pitted against each other in blood matches but michael vick's dogs aren't being put down. believe it or not, they're being saved, rehabilitated and sent to loving owners. it is an amazing story of rescue and redemption. >>> plus, for a lot of kids it might be their only meal of the day so it better be healthy. a new push to make school lunches better. sanjay gup

michigan state ties it. finds b. j. washington. 20-40 yards. ties it 28. go to overtime. the spartans line up for a field goal that will send us to double o. t. perfectly executed michigan state. 34-31 over the irish and fall 1-2 after that crushing defeat. the giants are clinging to first place and need to win over the brewers to stay there so sent tim lincecum to the mound. after a touch stretch, he has been revitalized as of late. the check swing. daily ranks him up. yovaniy. a man on third. bases loaded. brewers catcher. two-run single into right. milwaukee goes up 2-0. no dice. pat burrell blown away. falls to second place. that's because the padres took care of the cardinals. pedro police shot off the glove. tie the game. former cardinal ron ludwick, the three-run shot to left. padres win it. lead the national leg west by the half game over the g-men. the hottest men in baseball stayed that way. rocky short stop tattoos the dodgers. puts colorado on the board 2-0. top five, this time to deep center. rockies pound l.a. 12-2. don't look now but they are only a game out of first place. to minnesota. a's looking for their second straight win

louis and around lake michigan they combine into a front that could bring us showers by tomorrow. tomorrow that low pressure, the bulk of the activity will pass to the north will be on the southern edge. some spots may pick up a quarter to an inch or so with thunderstorms possible. we'll have a great weekend >>> still to come tonight, it's almost over, a major announcement about the worst oil spill in u.s. history. >> city police changing the way they handle rape cases. is it making a difference? >> i say you are my heros. >> wife of the vice president is in m maryland today. why she's on a mission to improve education, next on wjz. >>> a beautiful sunny wednesday, are there any changes in the forecast? the first warning weather is coming up. >>> complete coverage continues with denise coke, vick carter and first warning weather with bob turk and meteorologist bernadette woods and sports. it's wjz, maryland's news station. i thought it was over here... ♪ [car horn honks] our outback always gets us there... ... sometimes it just takes us a little longer to get back. >>> mary joins

it was the o 'bummer of recovery. >> i can tell you michigan is an example of a state that has smartly used that. so for example, two days ago we had the opening of a battery factory to produce the batteries for the electric vehicle. that's one factory. there are 16 companies that are producing batteries now in michigan. that wouldn't have been here but for the recovery act but the 16 companies are going to be creating 62,000 jobs. that's spending. right? that's government spending but it's with in partnership with the private sector. so public/private partnerships to grow jobs, that's the kind of spending that we should be doing to get the recovery going and if you have the politics of growth, versus politics of contraction and i mean growth of the economy that will reduce your deficit. >> and there's question, too, about the strategic and focused decision of the white house coming to the economy. austan goolsbee, let's see how jon stewart framed his debut on some of the sunday shows and get your reaction. listen. >> goolsbee, you're the new face of the obama summer of recovery. spin us wi

us. we had a disastrous block just the way this 800 block is, a michigan mash of all different trees -- mish mash of all different trees and most of them inappropriate because they are new zealand christmas trees, the same we have in the 800 block. we moved forward on this. it was -- we got approval from the department of public works and they encouraged us to go to it. we got rid of all the unfortunate trees that were on the block, similar to the ones that are on the 800 block now. in their place, we planted nine trees. all consistent in height. i can't tell you the number of tourists that see these every single day. and they see the 800 block every single day. bus after bus after bus comes by to see these trees. there is more than to consider than just the tree. it's the beauty of this city. >> thank you. >> any other public comment? seeing none. we move into rebuttal. ms. short, you have three minutes. >> thank you. i don't think i have too much more to add other than to make a note that enflowering trees are capable of doing damage. they aren't known to have aggressive roots as ficus or