i was valid trend of my high school before went to virginia tech. >> what did you choose virginia tech? >> why did you choose virginia tech? >> i have an opportunity to choose some other schools. i had some interest from yale. but it was mostly finances. i got some scholarship money and it turned up the that would be the best place to go. it was a great institution. >> at what time during your virginia tech experience did the focus come that you do the news and where? where did you want to do it initially? >> i was thinking about business and computer science. it was interesting. i was doing pretty well in it, but sort of bored by it. i did not feel like i was doing what i should be doing. i remember telling my mother, well, if i am good at it, i will do ok. she said, well, son, it isn't you. just try to be good at it. so i switched to communication and journalism in my sophomore year. >> we will come back to some of the details of your early life. i want to jump into one of the videos from abc. this is october 8, 2009. this is about gang violence. let's watch it and then we will come

minneapolis, a 10% drop, in phoenix over 8%, chicago 7.6%, washington, d.c., and the northern virginia techdor, that's a rare bright spot. prices increasing there. but take a listen to arizona realtor john greer about one home in on the market in the city of el mirage. >> this is a short sale property, which means the owner owes more on the property than what the house is worth, what it will sell for. this house, the list price, is $70,000. probably was worth 60, possibly 70% more than that during the peak. >> wow. 60 to 70% loss. let's bring in alease gling, this is not just arizona, this is across the country. you're seeing short sales, homes in distress, selling. that's a big part of the housing market right now? >> well, it's about 61% of the housing market according to the realtor's latest numbers. that's just way out of whack number. of course, home prices have to be going down because if you're looking at median home prices, it's the number that have sold above and below the median price. when you're selling lodss of foreclosures and short sales on the low end you need a lot of high

he want a prize for his compile of the virginia tech his coverage of the virginia tech massacre. >>>cipants paid as much as $10,000 for a five day program designed to push their physical and emotional limbs. ray could get a sentence rangenning from probation to almost 12-years in prison. >> police in southern california searching for the suspects that shot and killed two people. this happened yesterday after 4:00 p.m. near this baseball field in venice. a third person was shot in the leg and is expected to survive. so far, police have not released the names of the victims or said what lead up to that shooting. >> it's can 18, brazil is confirming the e isence of a newly discovered tribe that has never had contact with the world. they say 200 people live in the tribe and grow corn, bananas, peanuts and other crops. earlier this year, another tribe made headlines in brazil's attempts to protect them from illegal loggers. brazil has identified at least 14 isolated populations in this part of the amazon. >> right now, america is the second largest trading nation, but in four years, we wi

jose antonio vargas is a high-profile reporter at the washington post covering the 2007 virginia tech shootings. he told abc news at 12 his mother sent him to california to live with his grandparents, he's been living and working in the u.s. illegally since then, he wants congress to pass the dream act to allow people to come to the u.s. as children to become citizens. >> i am one of many, many people. and we are not who you think we are. we don't just mow your lawns and baby-sit your kids. and serve you tacos. >> you can watch more tomorrow on world news and friday on good morning america. >> during her trip to south africa, there was a powerful message for a group of young female leaders, mrs. obama received a rousing welcome, urging the women to change the world for 9 the better uk be the generation that brings opportunity and prosperity to forgoten corners of world and banishes hunger from this continent forever. >> the trip included a wreath-laying ceremony at a memorial honoring those killed during a 1976 student uprising. she and her daughters dancinged with children at the day

son los a moor gos recuerdos de tragedia como virginia tech donde decenas de estudiantes murieron clasea nación americana y los demócratas no están dispuestos a cambiar la koconstitución de es nación tienen que permitir que los ciudadanos arriba de 18 años puedan portar un arma para protegerse. >>> un derecho que puesto en manos nexo pero tas podría ser devastador. >>> en el momento que un joven responde sin pensarlo bien y si hay esta oportunidad puede haber un mal que no queremos. 4r5 sólo propuesta ya ha conmocionado a los campus. >>> no sabemos el estado mental o emocional en que están, al no saber esto, nos da nos preocupa mucho que estos individuos puedan entrar en una aula. >>> además, de criminólogo es profesor de la universidad de texas en arlington dice las armas no van con el espíritu académico. >>> las nif si daedz en estados unidos son lugares seguros en la propiedad pública. >>> hay algo que los legisladores han olvidado a decir de laos estudiantes y es querer legislar sin conocer la opinión de quienes a diario conviven en las aulas. >>> por eso, los jóvenes les piden a co

vargas became a "washington post" reporter, part of a pulitzer prize winning team thoo covered virginia tech shootings, he later moved on to the huffington "post" and interviewed mark zucker burpg, all that time he kept his dark secret unit this week when he wrote about the experience for today's "new york times" magazine. i'll hold it up here. the headline is "outlaw." welcome. >> hi, thanks for having me. >> you thoou you'd be criticized, that you'd be slammed that you were admit to go having been a liar and that you could be deported tomorrow. why would you decide to come forward with this information? >> because i'm not the only one. i'm one of millions. in this country who are living kind of under the shadows. it was my way -- at the end of the day, i think we have to tell the truth about this immigration system and because of that, i had to tell the truth about myself. >> i will come back to that but t i do need to ask you, you deceived your editors as you acknowledged. he write that's feels duped and that he was particularly uncomfortable that you wrote for the chronicle about illegal

a product of mountain view high school, vargas one the prize for his coveragest virginia tech shootings "the washington post." >>> a former mountain view school official now admits she helped vargas get his driver's license illegally and says that considering the situation she has no regrets at all. >>> a new bill co-written by a bay area congresswoman would legalize pot on the federal level. it is set to go before congress tomorrow. here are the details. the legislation co-sponsored by oakland congresswoman barbara lee would limit the federal government's role in marijuana enforcement to just cross border or interstate smuggling. under the bill, people would be able to grow and sell pot in states that allow it without fear of federal prosecution. >>> after taking away lawmakers' paychecks, he's not a popular man. tonight state comptroller john chung is fighting back. he says taking legal action to stop him from holding lawmakers paychecks would be "unadvised." he is holding paychecks from all 120 lawmakers because they failed to balance a budget by the june 15th deadline. a spokesman f

we're talking about virginia tech, and tucson be shared. it is very tragic. there is no civilian application for this large magazine. >> it followed a the massacre in california. >> we have more straight ahead here on kron 4 morning news and as we look outside it gets better and better as we head towards the weekend of full list of the weekend coming up when we return. >> the rain was heavy and now is gonna show you what was like. >> their wares of few sprinkles on highway 11 and has a we head into highway 17 it is a steady drizzle and has reached the summit of 17 great picks up again as we continue north over the summit there is water sheeting across the road now we shall wipers and headlights are on that now. the ride as we head into the valley the water and rain has tapered off. kopp not a good day for driving >> a large tree in san francisco's north beach collapsed a tree. >> a tree toppling over in san francisco's north beach this is on lombard street. crews are working to clear branches and other debris from that tree. this huge branch actually snapped

then went onto win aplitesser prize for his coverage of the virginia tech massacre when working for theople in oakland want to send a message to the men who solicit women on international boulevard. and they're sending that message to their home. the east bay asian youth center is launching a dear john letter writing campaign. by working with neighbors and police, they hope to cut down on the number of men participating in prostitution. >> the idea is to shine a light on them. bring this sort of secretive behavior out into the light. and let folks know we are watching. >> local business and homeowners will watch out for cars in the area that pick up women. then they will record the car's license plate and hand that information over to the youth center. then police will mail out a generic letter to the home of the car's registered owner. organizers hope to get the first batch of letters in the mail by mid-july. >>> time now 5:26. harry potter fans, you're in for a treat. the author who created harry potter just announced an online video game revolving around the young wizard. it's called

. >>> it's going to cost more to attend virginia tech. the university's board of visitors unanimously ratified across the board tuition and fee high hikes for the academic year that begins this fall. in-state undergrads who live on campus will pay nearly $1,500 more per semester. that's a 9.4% increase. students and other categories will also pay more. the increases are part of a $1.4 billion budget approved by the board. >>> the high school graduation rate in montgomery county is at the top of the class. this is the third straight year education week magazine has recognized montgomery county as number one in the nation among the nation's largest public school systems. chris gordon reports from the richard montgomery high school graduation today at constitution hall. >> reporter: montgomery county public schools have the highest graduation rate in the country. 85% of its students compared to 71% of all students across the country get to walk across the stage, shake hands, get photographed and throw off four years of tears and fears to rea

francisco state, interned at the san francisco chronicle and won a prize for his coverage of the virginia tech massacre. >>> moammar gadafi calling on the united nations to investigate a libyan attack that the nato government says killed 15 civilians. this aired on tv late last night over his speech. he calls nato "infidels without any conscious." nato says the target of the attack was a military communications building and that the organization goes to great lects to avoid civilian casualties. >>> 6:17. southwest airlines pilot suspended without pay after his profanity laced rant was heard over an open microphone. other flight crews and controllers clearly heard what he said as that pilot flew from texas to san diego last march. you can hear the pilot lashing out at gays, females and overweight flight attendants. >> chicago crews 11 out of 12, there's 12 flight attendants, individuals, never the same flight attendant twice, 11. [ indiscernible ] over the top. [ indiscernible ] homosexuals and a granny. 11. i thought i was in chicago which was partyland. >> okay. whatever's transmitting watch

he served as adjunct faculty at georgetown public policy institute at virginia tech center for public administration policy about where he teaches courses on public policy process of public management and budgeting processes and i think you're about to add another university to johns hopkins. without further ado, i will turn you over to my very learned colleague,.or jason fichtner. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone. thank you for coming to the event. my name is jason fichtner, research fellow. i was recently at the administration we had the privilege of serving in every positions including deputy commissioner and chief economist. while social security, one of my responsibilities is to say the secretary to the social security board of trustees. the trustees consists of six members. the secretary of the treasury, labor, hhs and commissioner social security along with those for our two public trustees nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. unfortunately over the career switch over to the trusty reporters, we didn't have the benefit of the trustees. those positions w

. >> the first big story i covered was the shooting at virginia tech. difficult to cover the story. >> i feel like they could be my kids. it breaks my heart. >> a special edition of "today" as we remember michael jackson. >> michael jackson was an unparalleled showman. [ bell ringing ] >> crash of the titans. wall street in panic mode this morning. >> i was overcome by the sheer size of the destruction. >> you are so lucky. >> these people are proud and dignified. they want some answers, justice for their children. >> she brings the human touch to every single story she covers and has always done that here at "today." ♪ caught in a bad romance >> i will miss her spirit and sense of fun. >> let's rock, new york! >> you can't put a price on that. >> fire! fire! ♪ >> she pushed me. [ screaming ] >> if she ever stops jumping. >> meredith blows off steam as well as anyone i have ever met. ♪ >> oh! [ screaming ] ♪ green acres ♪ we are here >> doo doo! ♪ >> there's nothing like halloween on the plaza. ♪ >> welcome to "today" on a friday morning. i'm matt lauer

$2 million to help build the knowledge with preincubator facility as part of the development of virginia tech and now we've seen 2,000 highway jobs created and the inception of 140 high-tech businesses. the way e.d.a. works, mr. president, is there's regional offices, about civics them, they get funded throughateppropriations committee through the commerce department and then each region makes the decision as to which projects really meet the goals of the legislation, which is to bring economic development to distressed areas, create jobs, and leverage the dollars. so in addition to this, e.d.a. in 2008, we gave them an extra $500 million in disaster assistance to give to areas which were experiencing disaster problems, and they assumed a role of a secondary responder working with communities to support long-term post disaster rebuilding. an example of that -- again, back in iowa, they provided funding to help construct and install an upgraded energy-efficient natural gas-fired boiler system following a flood that destroyed the boiler that had provided steam heat and hot water to st. luke's h

. >> they ran up against a top seed twice losing to virginia twice. cal techoach says the up and down year is going to help his players become better professionals whether it's playing baseball or other occupations. but it was a good ride for cal. they are here for at least another seven to ten years. >> what an amazing season to think that you were going to have no baseball and then go that far. >> some of the guys left because they heard about this last fall and the coach trying to get these guys other teams. a lot of the kids stayed for the final season and look what happened. they are staying and they made it to the college world series. so good stuff. >>> 4:56 now. putting the brakes on bicyclists on the golden gate bridge. the new plan to slow down the speed. >>> and i'm at a church here in san francisco where they are going to be talking about wardrobe and racism. we'll have the story coming up. >>> if you are hitting the roads for your holiday weekend, good news, gas prices are expected to fall. i'll tell you why and when to expect those changes in a s

active along with the group of folks in bedford county, teen driving initiatives, working with the virginia techhings like distracted driving, texting while you're driving. my daughter was a passenger in a vehicle that basically the accident didn't need to happen, but it probably most likely happened because of distracted driving, off-road, over recovery and there are a lot of things we can do to keep teens safe and there are a lot of people working pretty hard on that and i put some time in that. >> linda, you feel sorry for the guy who -- >> i feel so sorry. >> tough act to follow? >> very tough act to follow, almost impossible but hopefully possible. >> for those of you trying to maintain that idiot status, any quick advice you have for us? >> i think just taking the time to be there, and then listening. parents have a tendency to sort of try to tell and sometimes i know with lyndy and her grief, i had no answers for that. everybody grieves differently. my wife, beth, carly, myself, lyndy, our family, the church we go to, everyone sort of deals with it differently, and just sometimes just sit

public policy from georgetown university and phd in public administration and public policy from virginia tech. he serves as adjunct faculty and virginia, where he teaches public policy process, and i think you are about to add another university to that history this fall, johns hopkins. without further ado, i will turn you over to my very learned colleague, dr. jason fichtner. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone, thank you for coming to the mercatus event. i'm senior fellow, i recently had the privilege to serve in a variety of commissions. while at social security, one of my responsibilities was to serve as the secretary to the social security bored of trustees. the trustees consistent of six members. the secretaries of treasuries, labor, hhs and the commissioners of social security. along with those four are two public trustees nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. unfortunately, over the three years in which i worked in the trustees report, we didn't have the benefit of public trustees. those positions were vacant. unfortunately circumstances where i'm now very glad ha

provided 2 million to help build the knowledge workerelopment incubation part of the default of the virginia techcreated and now we have seen lahoud 2,000 jobs created and the busin inception of 140 high-tech . pres businesses khan and the way thatffices works mr. president is there's a regional office is about six of f them and they get funded throughhrough her appropriations committee to the commerce department and at least each region makes the decision as to which project to really meet the goal of thec legislation which is to bring economic development to the distressed areas create jobs and leverage the dollars. so in addition to this, the eda in 08 we gave them an extraas ter 500 million of disasterreas whic assistance to give to areas disas which were experiencing aed disaster problems come and they assumed the role of a secondaryer responder working with the to affected communities to support long-term post disaster anxample rebuilding. an example of that again, backo in iowa, they provided funding to help inspect and install an upgraded energy-efficient natural gas-fired systemthe er fo

the gentleman from kansas virginia tech. >> thank you, mr. speaker. today i rise for a very special trib boot to a strong, wonderful, sweet woman who has played a remarkable role in my life. ed in a yoder, my grand -- edna yoder, my grandmother, will be celebrating her birthday next week. she reflects the heart and soul of our american heritage and the spirit that is the bedrock of our nation's values. mr. yoder: born in 1911 and raised on a kansas farm, she and my grandfather carved a way of life out of the kansas prairie through hard work, determination, and strong heartland values. each time i step on the floor of the ubs house, i strive to honor these principle that is my grandmother and her generation have taught us. mr. speaker, join me in wishing my grandmother a happy 100th birthday. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado rise? mr. polis: permission to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman f

[laughter] >> with virginia tech i have two questions. thanks very much for your talk. we've gone over the first one and that is how diverse could these rules before produce? and i kind of thinking in the good and effective in practices specifically for cantaloupe or leafy greens or tomatoes or will that be more of a wide method thrown in terms of preventive action for produce? and then the second question i can't seem to get clarity on are the exceptions or non-exemptions for farmers and restaurants if you can talk about that. >> to the diversity of the producing sector, the economy is just enormous and it's one of the big challenges that we've got implemented in the law because we've got everything from a thousand acres of lettuce fields in sabrina in california to the three to 4-acre the growers of produce and farmers' market and commercial channels, and so the differences in the scale but also differences in commodities and pose different risks, different climactic and economic conditions and the country so it would be enormously complicated and congress made it cle

at micro tech, northern virginia company all the talk about raising the debt limit is not some obscurelitical find. >> affects us because we have to build in contingencies and worry about what happen it is and we have to plan for the health of our people. it panics our people. >> why are they panicking here? this is a government technology contractor. it employees 700 people to help support the military and host of federal agencies. ceo tony jiminez says they depend on the federal government's ability to borrow money in order to pay its bills. >> devastated. >> when you start having money issues the first thing that starts happening the bill pairs take a good hard look at the contractors. >> reporter: he fears he won't get paid. it is just one elm of what the white house has painted as potential catastrophe. even though some in the gop raise doubts about that claim. house republicans jumped on big buses and took a field trip to the white house to talk face-to-face with the president. the east room meeting was closed to the press. california republican gerald isl islip tweeted. >> p we

the virginia cavaliers who had chris taylor is bottom of the night to a tech toothis o be too weak processiate world series, and a could be two- weeks--tell says there first phase of >> gary: to approval local players. >> 38 years and body in front of the wing wade. for a hall of fame guy to be able to do that? in front of dwayne wade? he is going to perhaps a play one more year. >> to you get a long with lebron james? >> actually, yes. >> i cannot believe a man who is 20 sutures sold he could be the most criticized. he is never been in jail. he is never be his wife. >> i do not know what anybody has analyze been analyzs much as the hous he has. and whu can answer the phone " king james " you are going to bring on the things through your life. >> when you have been treated like that sense you were 13 years old? 14 years old? you start believing it. however, maybe life is not like that. >> what do think happened last night? >> since he knew that dwayne wade was there perhaps that fog to mop. and now, since his >> if you look out and you see that lebron james and what else? and when wbear wi

virginia. there will go onto precut to and played the winner of the south carolina tech game.as a 70 in all rounds. from northern ireland, to close this at shattering a u.s. open scoring record by check necklace, tiger woods. he finished with eight-under,- jack nicklaus-- >> and i went to the swimming pool today and it was so nice and a san francisco. >> how often? and how beautiful. >> , even more for the same tomorrow. tuesday, wednesday, and we're starting off with readings into the 50s. and another great day with upper 70's, san francisco, 80s and 90s through san jose and the hot spot will be in the east bay. and even warmer for tuesday close to 100 degrees. cooler weather thursday and friday, that is more typical for a san francisco. cool fog and temperatures in the 60s. >> summer is on tuesday. >> we will see you at 11:00 p.m. and hope to see you then, goodbye. ♪ [ woman ] sam begged and pleaded... so i sent him to camp. we'd earned lots of points with our new citi thankyou card... and i put them to good use. he told me about his bunkmates, and how he signs up for every

virginia where teachers partner with u.s. companies like ford and gm to teach high-tech skills and help students land jobs. president obama's goal is to keep education spending. republicans say the government has gone too far already. we can help get out of the severe economic downturn if washington gets out of the way. >> the poll showed obama leading possible republican opponents for 2012 by double digits. >>> scorching temperatures prompt heat warnings in more than four dozen cities and several areas the high temperatures have turned deadly. jay gray has the latest. >> reporter: a brutal heatwave continues to challenge records and the resolve of thousands from the mid south through the eastern seaboard. excessive heat warnings have been issued in dozens of cities. 90 or better in downtown detroit with the concrete and asphalt. >> reporter: the climbing temperatures can be deadly. >> yeah, real sad. >> reporter: 75-year-old arlene white was dead in her memphis apartment. she apparently was not using her air conditioner. >> reporter: in chicago human safety workers are going door to door to check on elder

we actually contacted a lot of tech companies in northern virginia was about 300,000 remains. it is a challenge, but it's a record-keeping system and we got about 20 companies to come together on a pro bono basis, they spent thousands of hours coming forward with the report on what would be a step eisteddfod impassive to correct this problem. secretary, thank you, we received a report and said they would work with it doing it all pro bono. we only got this report about 120 days ago, which included short-term and long-term recommendations for the cemetery such as digitizing records system and improving handling remains were cochairs for business practices and basically techniques. but to see the army in 120 days has implemented these actions to our knowledge. this is still an area and concern of the committee and nonmembers of congress, this is a disgrace. and not quite the stories that come, but let me close and mention and salute the work done by a virginia high school student who is not graduating this year, the 11th grader whose ricky callahan, a whiz kid computer student f

deadly bus accident on i-95, virginia state police are out in force conducting safety checks on commercial vehicles. and as julie carey reports, they are using some new high-tech tools to help them make sure these vehicles on the road are safe. >> turn off your four-ways. >> reporter: alongside interstate highways and busy local roads like route 1, operation road check 2011 was in full force as state police spend the next three days conducting random safety inspections of commercial vehicles. the annual enforcement comes a week after four people were killed when a sky express bus driver fell asleep at the wheel on i-95 and drove off the road. >> there are too many lives lost to the careless and reckless actions and behaviors of some drivers. there is no room on our highways today with the volumes of traffic for equipment failures or fatigued drivers or for careless and reckless behaviors. >> reporter: but rarely do these inspections apply to bus drivers. that's because while state police can pull over truck drivers any time for ranom checks, federal rules forbid it with passenger buss. evidence gathered after the crash shows the sky express driver's log was tw