university decided to suspend athletes. >> vanderbilt is a school with a salad academic reputation.t's football program coming off a record winning streak. but now they face a major hurdle. a rape scandal involving four former players. >> there is a lot of shock. just an unsettling feeling. >> reporter: the former players stand accused of sexually assaulting a 21-year-old unconscious student in june. a fifth player and two california men are accused of taking part in an attempted cover up. >> if all the allegations are true, then i personally can't believe something like that could happen here. >> that took over the show. >> reporter: willie, a former vanderbilt athlete has covered the team on radio for more than 20 years. he said the allegations immediately bring to mind other assault cases like players from steubenville. he said vanderbilt's decision was quick and firm. >> they banned the kids from campus, kicked them off the team. it was important to mention that the victim was a student as well. they didn't put the team and those players before the victim. >> reporter: it's not

he said vanderbilt's response was quick and firm. >> they acted as an unit.hey banned the kids from the campus. they kicked them off the team. >> all right, we had some problems with that story. that was jonathan martin reporting. the nixon library has released the final installment of the former president's secretly recorded oval office phone calls and meetings. on one of the tapes ronald reagan said of watergate, this, too, shall pass. of course it didn't. we all know that nixon resigned in 1974. >>> the national security agency is under fire. according i to new information e nsa collected 56,000 e-mails of americans with no connection to terrorism. it was revealed that they classified three secret court continues and they found ways to limit the information it collects and how long it keeps it. that will do it for this edition of al jazeera news. i'm stephanie sy. we're back at 4:00 a.m. eastern with another news update. thanks so much for watching, and you, of course, can get news all day any time at www.america.aljazeera.com. the water -- it requires thi

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especially from vanderbilt.guys we look up to. >> i don't think it's fair to take what happened in the past few weeks and pass that on to the rest of the team. >> the school noticed four football players acting suspiciously on a dorm surveillance video. >> we are shocked and saddened by the allegations that such an assault has taken place on our campus. >> reporter: authorities filed additional charges against two of brandon vandenburg's friends for their alleged roles in the coverup. police continue to work the case and say their main focus is the victim. >> everything we're doing here is for her so that she can have justice. >> three of the four former football players charged with rape are expected to be in court tomorrow morning. boyd, meanwhile, is free on bond. he has been suspended from the football team while the legal process runs its course. kate, chris? >> all right, alina, thanks so much for that update. thanks. >>> now to impact your world. actor rein wilson is using his fame to help educate girls a

it's about the vanderbilt family. several decades after the commodore died cornelius vanderbilt the extraordinary wealth of that family had largely dissipated so we didn't really have that descendent who is considered one of the richest americans anymore. i'm enjoying now but is it talks about how temporal wealth was and the important of american longevity and good economic policies. pulitzer prize-winning author alice walker presents a collection of personal and political essays letters and poems. ms. walker opines on a range of topics from health care to the obama presidency for about 45 minutes. >> i am very happy to see all of you. it's a wonderful evening to be in the city, which i know of unfortunately through so many of your disasters, but i was thinking, looking at the fountains, there is a little one you have for the children and a bigger one for the adults and i was thinking about water flows in peace of the history that is so fitted for me of the bombing of the people of the imprisonment of my media, that h

researchers at venable you -- vanderbilt university found that it is 30% higher than adults without systemic trouble. the adults with a systemic pain were more likely to be diagnosed with depression. teenagers with stepsiblings could have fire risk of developing dangerous habits. researchers at bowling green university said they are more likely to have drugs in use sex for the time they are 15. scientists aren't sure exactly what causes the outcome of but they have likely witnessed the breakup of their parents and watch their mother started new relationship. >> now, insta weather forecast with ava marie. >> it is not a bad afternoon at there as long as you don't mind increased humidity. we have gotten through the day mostly rain free in baltimore. a couple of showers in philadelphia all the way into long island or it -- into long island. a few scattered clouds building in from the west and those will be increasing tonight. we have a warm front pushing in from the mid-atlantic. that is helping to kick off the showers to our northeast. another one from across the great lakes region. there is a

he's one of four players from vanderbilt university accused of raining a 21-year-old woman. it happened in the dorm room. he is charged with five counts of aggravated rain and two counts of aggravated battery. he was released on $250,000 bond. >> tonight a brewing controversy within redskins camp between a star quarterback, robert relationshipon iii, and shanahan over playing time. the song i have stuck in my head is, "put me in, coach." >> yes. you know what it was? a collision of opposing wills. a headstrong player and a headstrong coach. mike shanahan said he doesn't have a problem with him playing in week one. the coach was adamant about him not playing at all in the preseason. >> robert griffen iii wants to call an audible. >> i want to play. >> that's not part of mike shanahan's rehab gameplan. he stated from the outset that rg-3 will not play during the preseason. >> hopefully he's running for the first game of the season. if there are no setbacks, he'll be ready. >> today griffin was cannedied with his thoughts on the plan and is clearly chomping at the bit for shana

a riding mower trims the massive front lawn here at the vanderbilt mansion in new york.yard -- the folks who manage this national historic site have brought in some additional help to clear the brush of a steep hill. >> goats are the original weed whammer. >> shepard: the park pays 2500 bucks to lease the goats for the summer. it reports human landscapers would cost about 10,000 more. >> it would be expensive and also there is a safety concern. it would be very easy just to lose your footing and just start tumbling down the hill. if you are using a piece of equipment like a weed whacker, somebody could get injured. >> come on, girls. >> shepard: 200 miles away in carlisle, pennsylvania, a principal rounds up his flock of sheep. they're grazing under a field of solar panels which generate power for the school district. workers found it took hours at a time to mow around the equipment. the sheep do all the work. they are free, they don't care, they are doing what sheep do and that's eating grass. >> shepard: it's what they did long before motorized mowers exploded in popul

tampa bay's david price was spirit for his alma mater vanderbilt. vandy opens tonight. we're talking about college football. it's back. the rays beat the angels, by the way, 4-0. >>> not sure what to have your favorite athlete autograph here? well, how about your baby? ian desmond of the washington nationals autographed one fan's baby. somehow i think that one will be washed at some point. maybe it was on the pants. >>> class is definitely back in session. but can you crank it like a chainsaw? can i speak? the viral dance move by the oregon state cheerleaders is trying to crank up the spirit. they want fans to perform the dance at home games. the move seemed to be pretty straight forward. >>> just ahead, george clooney and sandra bullock together in italy. just what the heck is going on here. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. welcome back. a damp day expected in the pacific northwest. 67 right now in seattle. portland only at 66. and it's not going to warm up all that much more as we go into the afternoon because it is going to be fairly rainy with off an

sue with the vanderbilt university press is in the back of the room, sue, thank you. she and her colleagues took some time to do their good work, and i'd like to also recognize richard mccarty who linked me up with the vanderbilt university press and vice chancellor beth fortune is also here. it took a while for the press to do their work. probably the better answer, the research, all these interviews. but it was fun to do because it took me back to my reporter days, and in some ways this book is as much about journalists as it is about politicians. but that took a while. so we probably started the interviews five, six years ago, and people were very patient with me. >> i'm going to ask the last question, and i'll ask the senator. i know these were six tough hours, unforgettable hours. as honey said, the worst day of her life. what about the days following? how did what happened that day impact your administration over the next four years? >> well, it'd be tough for the country, but if every united states senator serving today had a six-hour boot camp like i had for h

. >> two other teams produced one of the most exciting games of the opening night with vanderbilt leadingjust over a minute left, jeff scott, 75 yards for the thrilling game winner. ole miss wins. both teams had over 400 yards of offense. >> with a lot of nfl teams trying to protect front line players thursday night, a lot of backups got starters minutes, including phil sims. matt sims played the entire game, 285 yards thrown. the jets got a big night from exchicago bear khalil bell, who rap for 80 yards and two scores. the jets finished the season beating philadelphia 27-20. no doubt the mind is willing, as miguel cabrera pursues a second straight terrorism crown but is his body able. he pulled up lame as he tried unsuccessfully to stretch a single into a dowell. he's been suffering from groin and abdomen issues. he aggravated one or both on this play. he would have to leave the game. hunter's three-run walk off home run won the game. >> despite being acknowledged to be the hope among the american men, john had to listen to the crowd cheer loudly for his opponent. he said later he was di

. >>> to nashville for ole miss and vanderbilt. vandy up three. on le miss has a late touchdown.y win 39-35. okay so to baseball now. the a's were u67 4 on the tigers in the bottom of the ninth when torii hunter comes to the plate. >> swing and a high drive into deep left center-field. that ball is gone! it's a walkoff home run for t i tori. >> check out what happened in the post-game interview, though. >> try to get out the park. >> oh, here we go. >> it actually feels good. >> that's awesome. you see there hunter gets gumbled, side steps r takes the bath. he took it like a man. >>> let's get a check on your weather. so that looked good. >> i would rather get gatoraded than gum balled. >> that's a good point. let's talk about who will get wet. it's the holiday weekend. while we get some bad weather in the northeast they can use it out west. >> they need it out west. unfortunately there's no rain anywhere across california so we are seeing firefighters still having to battle this rim fire and take a look at this time lapse. this starts august 24th and goes to the 28th. it starts

to do their good work, and i'd like to also recognize richard mcharty who linked me up with the vanderbilt press, and it took a while for the press to do their work, but the better answer is the research, all the interviews, you know, that took me -- it was fun to do taking me back to the reporter days, and in some ways, the book is as much about journalists as it is politicians, and that took awhile. we started interviews five years ago, people were patient with me. >> i'll ask the last question. i'll ask the senator. i know these were six tough unforgettable hours. as only you said, the worst day of our life. what about today's following? how did what happened that day impact your administration over the next four years? >> well, it's tough for the country, but if every united states senator serving today had a six hour boot camp like i had how to get along with the opposite party in the country, we'd be better off. [applause] you know, this did not occur to me until we talked about it, but i didn't know ned and john wilder and bill leech. i mean, i knew them, you know, we met, but we ha

a new study out of vanderbilt university found more than 50% of adults who had abdominal pain as children had anxiety disorders during their lifetime, compared to 20% of adults who suffer from anxiety but did not suffer from abdominal pain as kids. >>> it might be contagious for humans, but is yawning also contagious for dogs. researchers in tokyo found that dogs yawn when they see a human yawn, especially if it's their owner. the study says dogs yawning is in reaction to their owner. they also found their heart rate doesn't increase when they yawn, eliminating the theory that yawning is a sign of distress. >> i guess yawning is contagious. >>> let's get a check of our forecast this monday afternoon with jeff ranieri. >> a nice start to the work week for everyone. that marine layer and also the fog clearing out quicker than we had seen the past several days. let's go ahead and get a look for the past nine days. we've had the foggy wind, major control here across the bay area. in fact, when it did finally clear over the past nine days it was only between about 1:00 and 3:00, then the fog w

in at six from vanderbilt university and has taught at many colleges. moral darwinism, how we became hedonists showing how darwinism completely undermines the ethical foundations of christianity, judaism, and islam. its materialism cosmology is incompatible with natural law. also co written books, the architects of the culture of death and ten bucks that screw up the world. his book today is worshiping the state, how liberalism became our state religion. [applause] been did the title of my book is obviously all little in your face, i guess you could say. rather outlandish claims. first it implies that liberals where should the state and second that liberalism itself has become a kind of established religion. that brings us to an obvious set of questions. first of all, is this just overblown rhetoric to sell a book? liberalism really has become our established state religion. and liberals somehow do, in fact, worship the state. we can add on top of this, what does it matter? >> let me begin with that last question. what does it matter if liberalism is, i

impulse control and you get back to the basic problem that chris who is a colleague of anita's at vanderbilt, wait he has put it, how do you distinguish and irresistible impulse from an impulse not resisted. there is a basic gray area, a difficult ability to say, did you actually choose that and did you choose it in a way that the law would recognize. so the law all of the time develops concepts that scientists are interested in studying. it might be competency, for example. well, competency is really a multifaceted construct from a legal perspective. it could be competency to be executed, it could be competency to commit a crime. it could be competency to contribute to the decision as to whether voluntarily commit yourself to a mental hospital. it could be competency to participate in an abortion decision. so competency means many different things. the first thing you have to do as a scientist is ask the question, well, what does the law mean by it because if you want me to measure it, i have to somehow apply it. so going back to the question of free will, because a scientist can't operatio

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. >> researchers at vanderbilt university say this robot is helping children like curious aidan, learn to harness their attention. the robot tells aidan to look in the direction he's pointing and aidan responds. they found autistic children pay more attention to the robot than a human therapist. a little mechanical guy giving a lot of extra support. >>> and you have to trust us, this one is a love story. it played out on brooklyn baseball field and the wife had no idea it was coming. courtney jamieson didn't know what to think as her two daughters saw the hotdogs racing toward them, the crowd starting to cheer, and then someone emerged from the costume, and she froze. unable to believe it was her husband back from tour of afghanistan who wanted to surprise his wife and his family. and boy did he. >>> when we come back next, a song from the heart is a new music sensation. the husband and his tribute to the girl who once changed his life. here's our person of the week. here's our person of of the week. but your erectile dysfunction - that could be a question of blood flow. e's our person

. >> gregg: three former vanderbilt players arrested following an investigation into an alleged sex crime player indicted in the case but not as yet in police custody. police are saying an investigation revealed an alleged rape of an unconscious victim. >> heather: to a new warning for your wallet and even the smartest of shoppers may not be immune to this one. probably everyone has taken advantage of a sale here and there. now, a new study reveals that behavior is actually costing you more than you think. pat powell is the founder and ceo of powell financial group. she joins us now. thank you for joining us first of all. so, pat are we spending less money or not? what are you seeing in the numbers? >> there is a great deal of confusion with the numbers. according to the survey, people say they are spending less than they did a year ago. when you actually look at the numbers it's just not true. people are confused about this. particularly people admit they are spending more on groceries because they are eating at home and they say they are spending more on household items but when you loo

scc and vanderbilt open. a minute and a half to go. breaks loose for a 75-yard touchdown run.otout, 39-35. bleacher report.com make their super bowl picks. will the patriots make it to the game? will tim tebow be on the roster? he had a decent night for the final preseason game. he was sacked four times. it's up to bill belichick. they must cut down their roster to 53 players by saturday. >>> how did the chargers get ready for a game? a walk through wednesday on the aircraft carrier "uss ronald reagan." they got to show off their skills. a huge military following. it's great to see the chargers showing our military heroes love out there. it is funny, you can't go too long. >> you have to be precise. i love they did that for military heroes, honoring them. nothing more american than that. you have the military members, football and a beautiful, sunny day. >> you can't beat it. >>> coming up, entertainment news for you. fergie has a new hit, not with the black eyed peas, with her husband. their first child. next. could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yep, ever

build full all players have been -- football players rape of aindicted of woman on their campus at vanderbilt. isa store owner says racism not the reason oprah winfrey was discouraged from buying a luxury handbag in switzerland. to looksaid she tried at a 38,000 other crocodile clerkg, but the store refused to show it to her saying it was too expensive. the store apologized, but a owner called it a misunderstanding and says the salesperson simply wanted to show winfrey it is available in other materials. winfrey earned $77 million last year. >> so she can afford it. she could afford several. >> yes. now let's see what is coming up tonight at 6:00. >> gordon peterson is live in the newsroom. >> just a short time ago, president obama announced a series of changes to the nsa surveillance program. why the president says these changes would have happened even if edward snowden had not leaked the information. and more on the terror threat in pakistan with people living in the d c area concerned about loved ones overseas. that and more coming up. beer is raining from the skies of south africa thanks

four vanderbilt football players were charged with that rape.. >>> in florida, soundly rejected, the state house not getting anywhere near the yes votes needed for a special session. protesters upset with the george zimmerman case verdict were upset. >>> lawyers for shelli martin will be in court. shelli zimmerman is not expected to attend this hearing. >>> a spike in shark attacks prompting officials in hawaii to study the movement of tiger sharks. there were ten attacks in hawaii. eight this year. last week, a 20 lost her arm during a snookling trip off the coast of maui. it includes tagging and tracking some of those tiger sharks. >>> one nevada community has a bear problem, and they say they cannot solve it because of animal rights activists. officials at incline village near reno said a bear broke into their home tuesday morning in broad daylight. and the family found the bear hanging out in the kitchen. it's the latest incident involving a bear hitting homes in that community. the state wants to trap and relocate the bear. but the families

just this friday, four former vanderbilt football players were indicted on five counts of aggravatedof an unconscious 21-year-old student inside a campus dorm room back in june. earlier this month yale university released its semiannual report showing that from january to june this year six students were found guilty of nonconsensual sex. none of those students were expelled. just one was suspended. alexander is a yale graduate, also a current yale law student, and s. dale carter is part of the national campus safety initiative. alexandra, you and 15 other folks filed a complaint, back in 2011, which found that yale failed to properly report sexual vi rent crimes. where do you believe that universities are failing specifically survivors of sexual assault? >> i think the real problem is schools are viewing sexual violence are looking at it as a branding. they're always trying to keep the story quiet. they're telling people, don't report this violence, don't go to the police. and that means they don't really have the interest of the survivor at heart. they have the interests of the sch

. >>> the four ex-vanderbilt football players accused of rape have pleaded not guilty.used of raping an unconscious girl back in june. he's pleaded not guilty and is suspended from the team. two others are accused of evidence tampering. >>> hard to believe a mother is capable of this. police in utah say this woman lied about her 4-year-old daughter having cancer, collecting some $3,000 in donations from her community. they say she convinced everyone, even the little girl herself. >> we contacted the division of child and family services. they were able to provide us with medical records and nothing suggests cancer was an issue. >> she's charged with communications fraud. there's no evidence to support the claim that her 11-year-old daughter also had cancer. >> that is truly outrageous. >> and odd. >> and odd. >>> a school bus full of sixth grade girls heading for a camp out overturns. it rounded a sharp curve. the girls from pembroke hills, missouri were shaken up by the incident. none of the injuries are life threatening. >>> a deal on the future of san diego mayor bob

vanderbilt did an archive in the library and is here but papers as governor, nobody would bother. they found all kinds of things. one thing they found was an envelope addressed to me with ray blanton's return address and it was the key to the governor's office. he had mailed it to me. later on that night i went back to my office and we had code phones with blinking blue lights and i pushed the button and it was the governor's highway patrolman. i can't remember his name. this is so and so, the governor wants you to call. it was a very poignant moment. talking about resistance. one person that did resist was the governor's council who was walking out of his office with the computations and louie stopped him. >> tells that story. >> eddie fiske had been out and was no longer the governor's council, he was arrested in the middle of the month before. so judge robert willard was the governor's legal counsel and so when they went up to secure the capital, they made their way to judge willard's office, on the ground floor, and he was preparing some final paperwork and was putting it in h

. >>> four former vanderbilt university baseball players are pleading not guilty to rape and sexual battery only be called a disturbing case. they are being accused of sexually assaulting a female friend of one of the players in a dorm room while she was unconscious. >>> an elderly man shot and killed an escaped inmate. it was an inmate holding him and his wife hostage inside their own home in bedford, iowa. a retired prison guard knew that rodney long was on the loose, that he was armed and also dangerous. so he loaded his shotgun and he kept it next to his bed before going to sleep. it turns out that long broke into his house and took his loaded shotgun but while long was rummaging through the house, god knows looking for what, he got it back, got his own shotgun back and then shot and killed that break-and-entering escaped felon. so there you go. a four-hour ordeal over and that escaped inmate is dead. >>> for more than a year, there has been a string of thefts at a convenience store chain. oddly enough, of cardboard cutouts featuring the actor david hasselhoff. while some find that funn

. >> in tennessee, four former vanderbilt university football players have pleaded not guilty to gang raping a woman. they were form ally charged, accused of raping an unconscious woman back in june inside a campus dorm room. a fits student and football star was charged as an accessory for trying to cover up the attack. >> three oklahoma teenagers are accused of committing a murder because they had nothing better to do. on friday, 22-year-old australian student christopher lane was shot to death while scrogging. police later arrested three suspects, ages 15, 16, and 17. investigators don't believe they knew the victim and said the killing was apparently motivated by boredom. two teens were charged with first degree murder at adults, the fourth charged with being an accessory to murder. >> san diego mayor bob filner reached a settlement with one of the women accusing him of sexual harassment. it remains to be seen whether he will step down. we have details. >> we do not know details of the tentative agreement nor do we know if that agreement includes filner's resignation. friday aftern

plenty hot in nashville, for mississippi and vanderbilt.hawaii plans to knock off southern california. that was a very well-written weather college football -- >> it was. i feel like i know what's going on in weather and college football now. >> who did that, jack? >> had to be jack. kudos to jack! round of applause. [ applause ] from all of us. >>> while we're on the sports theme, let's go to the u.s. open where venus williams its out! >> she battled and battled again in a marathon match against her opponent from china. went all the way to third set, tiebreaker. williams came up just short. this is the third year in a row, williams exited the singles tournament after two rounds. she's also playing doubles with her sister serena. >> before you think the tournament is totally serious. check out a lighter moment there. check that out. it happened during the women's first round match, briefly delayed by the squirrel. unwanted visitor took its time getting off the court as well. eventually tucked in behind a scoreboard. never to be seen again.

four our vanderbilt players are linked to the rape itself.m the school. >>> kidnapping survivor hannah anderson is trying to be strong one week after fbi agents rescued her and killed her captor and longtime family friend, her first public appearance at a fund-raiser held for her near san diego. bizarre new details emerging about the case. letters from hannah among things seized from the scene. that hannah and dimaggio called each other 13 times before he killed her mother and brother and then kidnapped hannah. they say hannah was a victim and not a willing participant. >>> an unstable childhood. dimaggios father an abusive man addicted to methamphetamine. new details on the man accused of kidnapping hannah and killing her mother and brother. >> he was sort of the guy in the middle of the group of friends. >> reporter: this man knew james dimaggio and her sister for half a dozen years. he calls the technician at the scripps research institute quite simply a normal guy. >> he wasn't loud or outgoing and he wasn't shy and retreative or ice lati

war a similar dynameter emerge in the republican party and the coding that truman and others and vanderbilt and thus were that at the water's edge. so i don't believe that it is as simple as once local one whole part of the party or the political establishment was transformed. their opposition just went into a different form of more generally and frankly it just improved roosevelt's hand who was a master strategist and tactician both. something that i think he has forgotten when we looked back on him more generally. on the idea of rebalancing if you think about it in the historical terms what generally happens at the end of the war in the united states with it is the second world war or the korean war for the cold war, there is a desire of americans to want to come home, to want to focus on the domestic pursuits and i would argue that we are right on the cusp of a substantial debate in the united states about coming home and about spending more time at home. you see that without elite levels a wonderful book by richard called foreign policy begins at home, which has been purposefully miscon

. >> nashville for ole miss and vanderbilt. up three with more than a minute to play, jeff scott takes it 75 yards. >> a minute to play. >> yeah. >> ole miss knocks vanderbilt with a late touchdown, they win 39-35. >> i tell you what, i went down to ole miss last year. we all need to go. curtis wants us to go down. >> down the grove. >> we're going to the grove. >> yeah. >> baby. >> think we'll come back? >> i don't think so. >> "morning joe" brought to you -- >> the grove. all right. very good. well still ahead on "morning joe," "fortune" magazine rele e releasing its list of 2013 fastest growing companies. first, a special labor day "parade" magazine why manufacturing is coming back to america. we showed you some of that yesterday. parade's editor in chief maggie murphy will join us today to tell us more along with former governor ed rendell. when more "morning joe" returns. humans. even when we cross our t's and dot our i's, we still run into problems. namely, other humans. which is why at liberty mutual insurance, auto poli

four former vanderbilt football players are facing aggravated rape charges this morning.s in nashville say the men sexually assaulted an unconscious woman in the dorm in june. the university kicked the players off the team shortly after the incident came to light. one suspect is now in custody. the whereabouts of the other three are still unknown. >> number five, new surveillance video shows derek medina turning himself in to police. he is the south florida man who allegedly killed his wife then posted a photo of her dead body on facebook. the man behind medina is his father. the man that you will see. medina has been charged with first-degree murder. he is being held without bond. >>> calling the search for hannah anderson and james demaggio difficult is an under statement. the pair, thought to be in a wilderness area more than 2 million acres. plenty of room to get lost in the wild. all of this started a thousand miles away with an amber alert and a deadly fire. >> just please let my daughter go. >> bret anderson desperately wants his daughter hannah back. police believ

during that timeframe, would they have known the rockefellers and the vanderbilts?> chester arthur and his wife did. i would not doubt that she would've had contact with them. kerry cashed -- carrie. >> thank you. was there a big age difference between the president and mrs. garfield? >> i do not recall. i think it was five years or less. >> the president was shot again july 2 and he lingered until september. the decision was made to move him to the jersey shore. >> the very place he had been headed to see her. that is where he dies, in her presence. she gets a letter from julia tyler. mrs. tyler writes her a letter and says, i wanted to emphasize that, and she used the word a sister. ofking about this sort sorority of presidential spouses. >> the funeral. 250,000 people came. set the stage for this victorian-era funeral. >> what says it all is the way the white house looked. there are photographs showing it trimmed. mrs. garfield was strong throughout. she did not break down, unlike mary lincoln, who was unable to emotionally withstand the public display of this. m

these are big systems like vanderbilt university medical center, ucla, rush, northwestern, places wherehnology exists. heather: some of the best facilities out there. let's talk about consolidation in the hospital industry. you see so many community hospitals being gobbled up by these bigger conglomerates. they say they kind of need to consolidate in order to save money but the impact of that i would worry about. >> i think there's really, it's geographically determined. if you have a big city like new york or boston i think this can raise costs. it can be more difficult on the patient and allow for less choice. however in a more rural state, such as eastern north carolina, when big hospital systems like university of north carolina buy up small practices it improves access to care for patients who may not get that tertiary care in the first place. heather: let's hope that papers. one thing you're concerned about is the march to a single-payer system. government says, okay we'll let the free market take effect here and rates are just going to go up, therefore the government swoops in an

and vanderbilt opened their season last night. they took the lead with 1:30 to go.ut this run. he goes 75 yards for the touchdown. >> better than reggie bush. >> 39-35. > all right. the darling of this year's u.s. open, victoria duval is out. asked what she learned this week, she said that she is, quote, capable of playing at this level. >>> all right. a fantastic finish, indeed. two outs, bottom of the ninth, hunter steps to the plate, carol. i'm sure he did a backflip. >> i almost fainted. >> tigers win the game 7-6 over the a's and hunter said justin berlander called this shot before he hit it. >> that's right. he said you're going to hit a home run and he did. >> you see, positive energy works. >> and you just made my day. andy schultz, thank you. the next hour of cnn "newsroom" after a break. >>> happening now in the "newsroom," if the obama administration strikes syria, will anyone support the united states in the aftermath of an attack? >> it is very clear tonight that the world has not passed a motion, it is clear to me that the british parliament, reflectin

a vanderbilt wide receiver has surrendered to police in nashville saturday for his alleged involvementape cover up. chris boyd has been suspended from team pending further review. >>> united nations inspectors are in damascus investigating syria's use of chemical weapons. syrian officials say they will cooperate. >>> and in taiwan a baby panda has open her eyes for the first time. the zoo said it usually takes cubs 45 days to open their eyes. this one ahead of schedule at 41 days. the mother is becoming better at nursing after initially panicking when the cub cried in hunger. >>> going right now to central idaho, hundreds of firefighters in a desperate battle against what's being called the most dangerous u.s. wildfire. this blaze has already scorched 100,000 acres. it's forced thousands of out of their homes and businesses. >> i don't know when we can re-open. whether we'll be back in three days or three weeks. it's just so hard to say. >> let's now go idaho we can get an update. any chance firefighters are close to getting this thing contained? >> reporter: they are working in that d

to get through the next few days and grant accepts that, borrows $150,000 from william vanderbi vanderbilt and ferdinand absconds to canada and the money is lost. grant is unable to trust anybody ever again. >> we talked about the postwhite house years. people watching should know this. but at the time, there were no restrictions on running for a third term. did the grants wish to seek a third term? >> no, he didn't. many people wanted him to. she did. when he declined it, he didn't tell her. he gave the letter to him without telling her. and she began to be suspicious. they're upstairs at the hall in the white house. and she said you can't do this. and he said i have to -- she said you can't do this to me. he said, it's done. that's it. she seems to have held up fine until inaugural day when they got on the palace car, they called it, the train car. and then she said she went to the bedroom and fell on the bed and sobbed and cried and wept. she hated to leave the place. >> she said she felt like a waif with no home because she wasn't sure exactly what was going to happen. >> surely she fe

. >> ole miss/vanderbilt game. jeff scott, 75 yard. winning td. ole miss wins. 39-35. the teams combined for 915 yard in total offense. >> he could go all the way! >> nice! >> the battle of the carolinas, north carolina/south carolina. the gamecocks were in control early, using a couple of long touchdown passes in the first quarter. got control of the game. south carolina strolling the rest of the way. putting down the tar heels. 27-10. >> very nice. >> excited for football season, do you and ducis watch? ducis has to work, a sports guy. >> the answer, no. i lose my husband. >> sit on the couch. velveeta dip? >> not at all. we are rooting for the eagles. this year. >> how dare you. >> i know. >> i'm a new york fan. can't root for the eagles. >> i know. that's our arch-rival. >> get you rooting against the eagles so they don't make it to the super bowl so my husband is home with me. to bowl so my husband is home wit makes an epic journey throughr pines, wildflowers, and aspens. and is matched only by our journey to