the wagon loads -- they had three ox-drawn wagons. they loaded them as heavily as they could with provisions and set out crossing the missouri river. in 1846, when you cross the missouri river, you left the united states behind. and this was -- they were very aware of this. they were leaving the united states behind when they crossed the missouri. they crossed the missouri and they joined a party of immigrants bound for oregon as a matter of fact. it was called the smith party. and we don't know exactly who this smith was. there were quite a few smiths evidently who emigrated to oregon that particular year. and so nobody is quite sure who this particular smith was. but they joined this smith party and headed out across the plains full of very high hopes, a great deal of excitement, particularly, the young people were excited and particularly the unmarried young people were excited. many of them had never been thrown together in such a large group of people and never had been around so many people of the opposite sex before. so that wa

, you know, the fired gm chief, rick wagoner had been the stud hos that siered sceptor, if rick wagoner had been the stud horse it would have been -- gm would have been telling the obama white house to go get some new management. is what would have happened, you know? see, cars, now cars, cars aren't that reliable, especially the cars of yore but neither are horses, at least with cars it isn't personal. horses have complex psychologist, and they have itty-bitty brains and horses are like your adolescent children and cars are like your computer, you know and the computer may be ballky and slow and may even be worstless but it never dresses itself in all black and gets every part of its keyboard pierced and screams that you just don't understand, and goes out and takes drugs and is brought home by the police at 3:00 a.m you know? actually horses don't do that, either but you understand what i am saying and changing a tire on a car is no fun but easier than shoeing a horse and you will not get kicked orbit en or have manure dumped on your head while changing this tire unless you change it

well, don't you get a sense that the wheels have fallen off the wagon?ou get a since that the wheels have fallen off the wagon, something has gone wrong and if you look back at the decade, especially here in the u.s., it is argue automobile this is essentially a lost decade. and, the reason for that, i think is that we have neglected sort of the full humanity, what science tells us, the full humanly is and what terrifies me, a little bit, is that if we look at our schools, for instance, we are talking about high stakes standardized tests and giving kids pizza and ipods and money for studying and getting good grades and basically using the same kind of reward scheme we used on wall street. to motivate or kids, and when in fact, it is empirically flawed, and wrong and i think we can do a lot better. one other thing, before i wrap up. talk about sort of where books fit in in the grand scheme of things, i'm not a narrative writer like these folks here, i write a different kind of book and seems to me as a reader, there are a certain kind of book i want. you

shea schedule the meeting with fdr after douglas has left and has a range f senator wagoner d spoored the bill, very important new deal figure, to be waiting by the phone. perkins convinces fdr, you have to put $3.3 million back in, douglas has schemes separat out. now is the time, when she convinces him, she gets fdr to call wagoner and fdr says francis convinced me you have got to keep it in. that tension between perkins and douglas was a rich part of the 100 days story. >> which remindse of that great story, cabinet officia were really obscure, no special plans made for them. shea fudge through the mud. >> it is remarkable considering the pub and ceremony associated with the federal government, i said the book with frances perkins pointing to the cabinet labor secretary, there are no more hotel rooms, she knows someone who runs a hotel, gets her own roof, no one tells her how to get to the inauguration, so they g to a church service, and everyone who knows how to get to the capital goes, i begin the book with this early on, her and henry wallace are waiting outside th church and no

. >> reporter: one look around the wagon works collision shop in alexandria and it's not surprising that bumper repairs are common. what does surprise customers is the cost. >> they are very surprised because they think of a bumper cover as something cheap. >> reporter: it's the damaged parts underneath that drives up the price. >> it hit the reinforcement and buled the rail. that is 1500 to $2,000 up to 8,000. >> reporter: and it doesn't have to be a high-speed crash. even three and 6 miles per hour taps can rack up thousand in repair costs according to the insunce institute for hay safety. iihs performed full bumper collision tests at 6 miles per hour and corner collision at 3 miles per hour on six popular mid-size sedans that had redesigned their bumpers since 2007. none earned the rating of good. >> this is silly. again, we are talking about walking speeds. >> reporter: only the 2009 mazda six scored and acceptable rating with an average repair cost of $871. everything else was marginal or poor. the worst performers, the chevy malibu with average repair cost of $2,300. iihs believes

are you at all afraid that you're jumping on the band wagon there? >> we've asked them to provide us with information. our experience in this goes back six years. i think we have strong credentials in this area. we're interested this protecting investors. we want to make sure they're getting honest, accurate information. but we only can do that if we look at the information. and that's what we're asking for. they will certainly have the opportunity to tell us exactly what they did and explain how it happened. >> okay, secretary, i hope you keep us posted on what you're doing because we're certainly very interested in the story. thank you so much for joining us. >>> the markets may be flat, but a number of companies are hitting new highs. western digital, expedia, bed bath & beyond among the 52 week winners so far. here to run us through the rest of the names, bob and rick and scott. let's kick it off with bob. >> what the heck is going on? why rchbt we getting a rally when we have all this great economic news? look what's doing better today. all the

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it was placed in the back of the station wagon by her husband, but he forgot to tell her. the dog lay in the backseat four hours. it was 91 degrees outside when the animal was discovered. it died from complications of each stroke. a volunteer has called for the woman to resign. she has no plans to leave. she says the spca has given her their support. >> 69 degrees on tv hill. coming up, a popular tourist or wants you to trade york children's unsafe toys. and they are offering rebates. >> this morning action is being taken to prevent the pri recorded phone calls to your house. >> this is a live picture at the westside at liberty. running smoothly. but there is flooding in thompson. we will update you on the we will update you on the closure there as well come on in. you're invited to the chevy open house. where getting a new vehicle is easy. because the price on the tag is the price you pay. you'll find low, straightforward pricing on remaining '08 and '09 models. including eight that offer an epa-estimated 30 miles per gallon highway or better. like this '09 malibu 1lt wit

she says last wednesday their 16-year-old mix was placed in the back of the stage wake -- station wagonher husband, but he forgot to tell her, so for four hours, he lay in the back seat. by the time she discovered the dog, it was 91 degrees outside. louis died of complications from heat stroke. >> this can happen to anyone at any time, so anytime you put a pet in a car, you need to be extremely alert and you need to inform others. >> a volunteer has called for starr to resign, but she has no plans to leave and says the organization has given their support. a judge approves the plan for michael vick to repay $20 million to creditors and emerge from bankruptcy. that changes on him liquidating $9 million in assets, including houses and an s.u.v.. vick reportedly signed a one- year $1.6 million contract with the philadelphia eagles with an option for the second season regan he was greece -- release from federal custody after serving 18 months for dogfighting. >> we will check in on the eagles, plus the orioles and done eagles gathered. done eagles gathered. ...at the jcpenney lowest prices

and he would take his produce by wagon to mobile. mobile was the market town for jones county and it was about a three to four-day trip over land by buck board wagon. they would camp along the way. they would raise livestock and hogs and turkeys and they would drive the turkeys before them down the road and the turkeys woodland in the trees and roost in the trees and the younger boys -- when newton was a younger boy, part of his job was to get the turkeys and drive them down the road. one of the things that the dirt farmers learned how to do in making these market trips to places like mobile obama was they learned every backward path and why they were so effective in evading confederates they knew the topography so well. they knew how to float things down the pearl river. some of these rivers that run through jones county and the surrounding counties become very narrow and yet they were very adroit at negotiating these streams and floating things down them and finding little islands to hide in, you know, all sorts of caves and things

. >> he jumps on the band wagon, you know. >> reporter: hainesworth still keeps a home on the water in knoxville where his back yard allows him to have his passion in boating. >> you thinking it's an accident. there is no accident. just traffic. >> reporter: but he realizes playing for washington has its perks. >> oh, yes. i have invitation to come to the white house. he has secret service folks want to take us on a tour. >> reporter: the defensive tackle believes his play will win over fans but there is only one thing that will win over his son. >> i have to win the superbowl for you to become a redskins fan? yes. that's what he says. i hope we can do it. >> you know, i didn't realize, i recognized that place. he had moved into my bachelor pad from 15 years ago. [ laughter ] >> in fairness, he is shopping for a full-time place. the man has enough money. and you saw his crib down in tennessee. >> exactly. >> with the boat and all of that. don't hold a benefit. can we agree on that? michael vick tonight did play. and after two and a half years, no rust was evident. vick thrown right in

employers are going to say, wow, 10% to 20% less let's jump on that band wagon and forget the privateurers we're going to go with the government plan. a couple things to say about this. first of all, employers right now don't always go for the cheapest plan. they can, right, they can buy whatever they wanted. they don't always go for the cheapest plan. often they go for something that is a bit more expensive than what they could get because they want to compete for employees and because maybe they like the slightly more expensive plan. that's one thing to keep in mind here when we're talking about this government-sponsored health insurance plan. >> will all employers be allowed to use this government-sponsored plan or does your company have to be a certain size or make a certain profit or what's up with that? >> that's an excellent point, heidi. not all companies can say, okay, we want the government plan, let's do that. different plans spell it out differently, but there are limitations as to how many companies can jump on that band wagon. for example, under some plans, if you're a l

ready to leave because many of them crossed the arkansas river and had everything with them and their wagons with every belonging they had with them and with their dogs and their families, and their... and they are talking among themselves, this is all reported, saying, now, this is right. we need to leave. and, until this -- there is justice and i'm going to find canaan, and, then the scenes -- hundreds of scenes like this, just incredible. so, sure, it would be great to see and vivid, many vivid ways to talk about history, that in way, as well. >> our time is up, make it quick. >> the -- the intersection -- i wasn't thinking with these questions the intersection between scientific knowledge and the knowledge of the humanities, and the liberal arts, cp snowe was also a student of rester ford's at cambridge and they were friends, and they were once going to the dinner at the house together, of the head of the english department, and snowe was talking about how brilliant this man was, and what he had written and interpreted, and rutherford, who was extremely well read, said, yes, i know he's

josh hamilton said he's sorry for falling off the wagon after pictures surfaced of him dryinging with some unidentified women on the internet. they were taken in january. hamilton said he called his wife and the team right after this and apologized and they are all moving on. tiger woods won his 70th pga tournament when he won the bridgestone wgc invitational. this beautiful shot, it was a great come from behind win. this was an eagle on two. this is his second tournament win in as many weeks. tiger has not won a major yet but has one last chance, the championship is this weekend and he has the big momentum. new england patriots and the american can academy of dermatology will team up to fight skin cancer. skin cancer will affect one in five americans and more than 1 million new cases are diagnosed each year. that's sports. >> teaming up with the football team. thank you. >> during her reason visit to africa, hillary clinton showed she can get down and funky. she's doing pretty well. this video is the secretary of state busting a move and popped up on youtube. she joined the group dan

the obamas haven't exactly been loading up the station wagon, but for sasha and malia, it's been an opportunitythe beauty of this country, nevertheless. our report now from nbc's norah o'donnell. >> all right. she'll have a cup or a cone? >> cup. >> cone. >> reporter: president obama ordered up a scoop of fun for his daughters this summer. >> you don't have to make it that big. she's not going to be able to eat all of that. >> reporter: the ice cream store was one of the sweet stops on the obama girls' vacation. aeys thayhalwved aas bla they always have a blast. >> reporter: this weekend it was all about the great outdoors and america's west. >> here in mtana, you've got bears and moose and elk. in washington you just have mostly bull. >> reporter: for 11-year-old malia and 8-year-old sasha, it meant some thrilling whitewater rafting. the first family then toured yellowstone national park and old faithful. >> look at that. that's a geyser there. >> reporter: but perhaps the most breathtaking moment was standing on the rim of the grand canyon at hopi point, thousands of feet above the colorado r

he fell out the back of the buggy and run over by the wagon. >>> autopsy results are in for billy mays they are a surprise to fans. the medical examiner said cocaine use contributed to the heart disease that killed mays at 50. the personality was found dead at his condo in june. >>> counterfeit something giving a more sophisticated rounds. the money is fooling people. the money is real but the denomination is not. the crooks are using a real 5- dollar bill and making it into a 100 dollar bill. >>> katie has a preview of what is coming up on the evening news. >> the number of homeless people at record levels but one city is helping them through classic literature. could it work in yours. assignment america tonight only on the evening news. >>> a tee lightful end to the work week. don't get use -- a delightful end to the work week. don't get used to it. >> bob. >> heading to the beach a good place to be. it is nice and pleasant a slight chance of a shower and upper 80s saturday and sunday. warmer on monday. around here tomorrow. it will be a nice start to the weekend but it will warm up

. >> is that the first time you had fallen off the wagon, if you will?, it was, and it was pretty devastating for me. you know, obviously i felt horrible about doing it. but at the same time it was a valuable learning lesson for me, too. it made me realize that no matter how far i think i am away from it, one drink just doesn't work with me. >> have you been sober since the incident? >> absolutely. absolutely. it was definitely an eye opener and, you know, i've drawn closer it over to him and continued to help me through this and same thing with my support system. you know, they're in place for a reason, to use them. they know me as good as anybody. so i'm just thankful i have them. >> such an important time of the season for this team. how much of a distraction do you think this could be going forward? >> it's not a distraction. you know, i'm actually surprised something hadn't come up before now. so, you know, you never know. people look to make a quick buck and i put myself in a position to make that happen. you know, especially being in the public ey

. >> and we were pushed into the back of a pad y wagon like sardines, pushed us in, packed us in. >> reporter: the women say they want to keep their records the way they are. they don't think a pardon is necessary. >> i didn't commit a crime, kill anybody, i just stood up for what was right. >> reporter: they see the records as a testament to what the civil rights era accomplished. >> i'm proud of it. i want to remain part of history. >> i was in jail for justice. many people would not have the positions they have if it had not been for those of us that march. >> thanks for that story. the two women in that story say the southern leadership conference paid their fines when they were arrested. the organization played a huge role in the civil rights movement. >>> we've got a warning for florida and we're also tracking a couple of named storms in the atlantic. there's also lots of weather for the rest of the country to keep an eye on. busy day for reynolds wolf. he joins us with information. hey, reynolds. >> for sunday what we're seeing will be pretty nice conditions in the corridor. c

because everybody else had those horses and mules pulling wagons and stuff.an a-model ford, my father did, called him professor jackson. so it means something to be a jackson. >> jean casarez of the legal network "in session" in for nancy grace tonight. more information coming out on the search warrants executed in las vegas. do you realize that actually three search warrants were executed on tuesday? one at the office of dr. conrad murray, one at the home of dr. conrad murray, and one later in the day at a storage unit in las vegas. they didn't find anything in the storage unit, but yet some time had passed, which is interesting. i want to go back out to smokey fontaine. he is the chief content editor at newsone.com, interviewed joe jackson just days ago. quite an interview you got. i want to ask you about omar bhatti. he is the young man that was sitting in the front row at the funeral service. many believe he could be a son of michael jackson. he has said he is not, but what did joe jackson say? >> joe jackson said unequivocally that omar bhatti is michael

in their driveway, they encounter a man in a red station wagon and is on a cell phone. they ask him to leave. he says he wants to stay and make a call. there is an exchange of words. it is not pleasant. >> i told him i was going to call the police. he laughed at me and went like this as i was talking to him, he was going like this. >> reporter: and then comes what you might call the coffee cup incident. >> started his vehicle and started down the hill towards me like he was going to run over me. and i yelled out to him go ahead, you -- run over me in front of my family. but i was thinking to myself toss the coffee. but instead he kept going and i went like this on the rear window. >> reporter: the man in the red car takes off and goes down the road this way. they taketruck, trk,uc theyonk,ow g theow road that wa zoe. turns out, that man in the red car went back to the house and took zoe and drove to the creek and tossed the little dog off the bridge. that man is david beards. he has confessed. i talked to him today. >> i have made few months ago the worst decision in my

the top of the news the bus, wagons and suvs are gassed up and lunches should be packed.students are getting ready for their first day of school. in at least three subdivision, eyewitness yous in and mary good morning once again. >> good morning everybody. stuns from baltimore city, baltimore county and howard county all go back to school today. >> 80,000 kids in the city school system head back to class. >> kids are excited to come back, they come back to clean, operable school, nice environment, good principals, good teach everies. >> schools all over have been sweeping up the finishing touches before kids return and the school system is hoping to clapt lies on what they see is recent gains including a 6% boost at high school, 7% at middle schools and a significant drop in the number of suspensions. >> we came from a police where we had to make extraordinary progress and now we are at a point where we can truly become a model for the nation. >> reporter: on the ride to school the mta hopes kids will pay attention to new slogans on the buses and on the air. >> remember t

the company says certain models of their 2009 jetta, jetta sport wagon, gti and eos have faulty temperature transmission on their vehicles, which could lead to a warning light on the dashboard. so far, no accidents or injuries have been reported. for more information, visit wjz.com and click on the recalls page. >>> and coming up on eyewitness news at 4:00. bassinet safety. government officials warn about the safety of a popular bassinet. >>> this is 9-year-old sophia latrenton. she is helping to save the horses down here. her story when eyewitness news continues. >>> a string of warm, humid weather continues. get your updated first warning forecast. >>> for the top stories on beej.com, for -- wjz.com. for instant updates all the time, click wjz.com. >>> all right. another hot day, tim. >> and a few, really widely scattered showers around. take a look at live doppler radar. really to the north of the metro area. and off to the northwest, i should say. there are some showers moving through. moving into westminster, that region from martins burg, into the panhamming. again, very widely scatte

it involves 2009 and some 2010 jetta, sports wagons.you think your car is part of the recall, call your dealership. >>> wal-mart is recalling dvd players. the players could overheat and burst into flames. it happened five times. no injuries have been reported. it was sold at wal-mart stos between january of '06 and july of this year. if you have one, take it back to wal-mart for a refund. > safety officials report two more babies have died after being trapped in simplicity bassinets. a total of four are linked to the cribs. a take brick flap can be dangerous if it's not securely connected. go to myfoxdc.com and click on web links. >>> how about vitamins. candy bars to ice cream, food makers are dressing up junk food spicing them with vitamins and nutrients. consumers are eating it up, even paying premium for the products. the industry calls them nutriceuticals. but beware. nutrition nifts say it tricks people into thinking they are healthy and eating more. >>> we have good and bad news now when it comes to how long you are expected to l

this car right here, this ford station wagon. it's an older model.robably will get $400, $500 when it goes out. the owner will be able to put in for that on their taxes next spring. roughly $500 they will be able to write off. if they were to take this car in and trade it in now cash for clunkers, they would get $3,500 to $4,500. a lot of people are telling us that's a lot of money to turn down, so they are getting new cars rather than donating these in for charities. shepard? shepard: the united states postal service considers shutting down hundreds of post offices from coast to coast. tonight a look at just how deep a hole the government mail agency is really facing. as more americans communicate and pay bills online, the postmaster general reports the postal service lost $2.4 billion in the last quarter alone. it's on pace to lose about $7 billion for the entire fiscal year which ends next month. he says there were $9.5 billion fewer pieces of mail delivered last year than the year before. a rush hour commuter train roars into new york city, the s

it impacts 2009 and 2010 models of the jeta, jeta sports wagon. so call your local volkswagen dealer if you have questions. >>> smart for two, you know that small car out there is getting top ranks. in the latest test by the insurance institute for highway safety. it withstood the force for five times its weight. they each earned an acceptable rating, 10,000 people are killed in roll over crashes each year. you can learn more about this latest round of tests at wusa9.com. just go to living smart. >>> well, a 16-year-old camp counselor is being hailed as a hero tonight. she was on a bus filled with kids when the driver collapsed and died suddenly. digital correspondent, jessica doyle shows us what happened next. >> reporter: rachel jumped up from her seat when it happened. the 16-year-old was sitting one row behind ramon when the 59- year-old had a heart attack behind the wheel. >> he looked like he wanted to get up, but he didn't. >> the bus driver, he fell over the bus and then our bus counselor just stopped the bus and everybody started screamin

didn't pitt just say he's off the pot wagon? you won't believe this story, but is it true? tv's most provocative entertainment news show starts at the top of the hour.

lot of times when a celebrity gets hammered, this is interesting, that everybody jumps on the band wagon and they only singled the person out, and -- >> i appreciate that, but that's not what happened here. sue moss, i'll be right back with you when we get back. but i want to report a verdict. tonight's ireport winner of our number one fan contest is brenda. brenda says the show gives her courage to stand up for her beliefs. an artist, brenda designed this portrait. i think it is maybe me. it is nine pounds of jelly beans, and 32 ounces of glue. she stayed up nights doing it during the show. congratulations, brenda. and i want to eat your work of art. you get the copy of the new mystery, new york times best seller, "the eleventh victim." thank you, friend. and tonight, out to kathy, who is courageously battling a rare eye disease and she is slowly losing her sight. she wanted to read my new novel "the eleventh victim" and so, kathy, we are sending you tonight after the show, this audio tape of the book. to our friend, kathy. stay strong. >>> as long as he conforms to all of the terms of

if he falls off the wagon, goodbye. they have got to keep this guy on a very short leash.pard: there is always one from you. eli manning will beat them once or twice. >> i hope. shepard: you are welcome to come back any time. the government says that beat up vehicles that are turned in for this cash for clunkers program have to be crushed. part of the plan here is, you turn in the gas guzzlers and you get some of them off of the road. it does not say how to crush them. look at this. if you're taking 8 extra-strength tylenol... a day on the days that you have arthritis pain, you could end up taking 4 times the number... of pills compared to aleve. choose aleve and you could start taking fewer pills. just 2 aleve have the strength... to relieve arthritis pain all day. shepard: u-turn in that old clunker and collect your cash. it is the part of a government incentive to get rid of the gas guzzlers. one participating car dealership near tulsa, okla., cooked up this pr getaway. it has been a huge success here. listen. >> it was fun to watch. >> it was cool. >> it was awesome. s

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. >> and speaking of filibuster, do you think the american people right now have fallen off the wagon with president obama if he doesn't, you know, play that hand. i think it's the liberal base getting shaky. your thoughts? >> my thought is we were elected to lead, not to follow. the american people want us to get out in front. even if they are hesitant to follow us, they put their trust in us. and the democrats were given a majority and president obama mandated to get health care reform done in this country. this is our opportunity. and we ought to put the polls aside. if we get it done, you know, the rewards will be to follow. the american people will realize we took risks, he took a lot of risks, but he got him done and he serves their interest. i know they'll re-elect him if he gets this done. joe madison, good to have you with us tonight. what do you make of daschle going over to the white house today and having a conference with president obama? what's your read on that? >> on what my read is on that. i heard jim moran saying they've elected us to lead but i think it's now time

she had to take a wagon back to memphis. this happens to her twice actually she is refused again. she wins the lower court for go for not getting the see she paid for also the fact that the conductor manhandled her. the judge says she should be able to ride in the ladies car she is of ladylike appearance and she does not want to ride with boisterous men who are smoking but when she gets to the higher court, it defense the informal racial segregation that is emerging in mississippi and they do with by actually challenge days challenging whether wells is a lady. what they end up ruling, did tennessee supreme court justices say she is just harassing them. the smoking car is good enough for her and she is harassing the court. >> host: they change the notion of the a lady but not the only time? >> when she wins and a lower court but newspaper says the dams against damages of what a cost to put a colored teacher in a the smoking car and she will face this again and again that people will challenge her status as a lady. >> host: even being a teacher, professional did not qualify? >> gues

the voc wagon, fuel efficient, well made consumer reported recommended cars people are coming in and reporter: that's something the dolites found out the hard way. >> we came last wednesday and there was no money. we had to wait and come back friday afternoon when there was money and then there's no cars. >> they didn't have any cars so they finally were able to transfer a car here. >> reporter: the silver spring couple is reluctant to part with their 15-year-old van. it's in pretty good shape and holds so many fond memories but they just couldn't say no to such a good deal. >> if it weren't for the clunker program, we wouldn't get rid of it because, you know, we couldn't get $4500 for it if we sold it. >> reporter: neither can thousands of others. this dealership says as soon as the new shipment comes in, customers are waiting. >> we're selling them off the truck. i will tell you, for $4500 if a customer came in looking for a red car, they may be okay with a white one. >> reporter: the deal -- [ inaudible ] they'd like to see some of the promised money roll in from the feds. >>> how

in their driveway, they encounter a man in a red station wagon. he's on his cell phone. they ask him to leave. he says he wants to stay and make a call. there is an exchange of words. it is not pleasant. >> i told him i was going to call the police. he laughed at me. he went like this as i was talking to him, like this. >> reporr: and then comes what you might call the coffee cup incident. >> started in his vehicle and started down the hill towards me like he was goin to run over me. and i yelled out to him -- go ahead you -- run -- run over me in front of my family. i was thinking to myself toss the coffee. but instead he kept going. i went like this on the rear window. >> reporter: the man in the red car takes off and goes down the road this way. they tak eynth go dntrowk. they go down t road that way. tbu whenhey return home, no zoe. turns out that man in the red car went back to the house and took zoe and drove to the creek and tossed the little dog off the bridge. that man is david beards. he confessed. i talked to him today. >> i made the worst decision of my life.

. >> i drive a 93 cavalier wagon that needs some help. and i need a car. and the greatest thing to be would be to be up there with drew carey and say, hey, i won a car! >> ron matz, wjz eyewitness news. >> you can take part in the price is right contestant search tomorrow from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the maryland spca in baltimore. there is a contestant form you need to fill out. and you can find that. just click on the link at the top of the home page. and good luck. >>> still ahead on eyewitness news tonight. help from your fingers. for the first time, one iowa town is taking 911 calls via text message. >>> dramatic floodwaters turn rescuers into victims after thousands are found alive in a typhoon. >>> i'll have the exclusive first warning five-day forecast. >>> first, here's today's report from wall street. blatch ♪ ♪ i always feel like (announcer) it's right here, it's easy... ♪ somebody's watching me. ...it's the money you could be saving wh h geico. ♪ who's watching? ♪ tell me who's watching. ufuffled music (announcer) 's's right here, it's easy.

rter: but even if customers are getting as much as $4,800 in rebates for their gas guzzling battle wagon, dealers say uncle sam has been slow in reimbursing them for the redates. >> it was taking hours to transmit one. >> struggling to get a recognition as far as is this approved or rejected. haven't gotten a lot of feedback. >> reporter: but feedback from consumers is loud and clear. the $3 billion in rebates was scooped up in record time. gm and ford decided to ramp up production and bring back some laid off workers because of the program. andrea, don't feel too bad for the dealers who haven't been paid by uncle sam yet, automakers are advancing the money to dealerships to make sure they keep the customers inside the show rooms and keep the money flowing before the tap turned off on this monday at 8 p.m. live armando trull for 9 news now and wusa9.com. >>> a mystery in queen anne county, maryland. what do we know? 12 high school football player and two coaches had to be hospitalized. the question is what made them sick? sky 9 was over kent island high school yesterday afternoon. during

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are not well in this white house and they're not going as planned and obviously, they're circling of wagono try and get things back on track and they passed the stimulus bill and they promised that unemployment with a not rai raise-- would not raise over 8.5% and creeping up to 10 in urban areas, 14%, legislators are reading, they're not reading bills and billions are being spent. cap and trade, another disaster for them, and health care, the president thought he'd have the health care bill before the recess and he's not going to get the health care bill in the fall. so, look, things aren't going well, they're circling the wagons, we need now as republicans to take advantage and tell the american people the truth. and that is that taxing and spending are never works. >> okay, susan, i want to let now here and ask you this, the president says he doesn't care about phone numbers and that's not how he makes his decisions, but they're slipping. how did he do on health care? >> oh, i think we're still in the middle of this story, jamie, i personally believe that the bills we're hearing about no

and you need to circle the wagons.verything you aren't thrilled to own and use the cash to shore up your positions in the stocks where you have the most conviction. that's right. when it comes down, you got to buy the ones you really love. how does one get tough on his or her portfolio? should you beat it up for lunch money? maybe give it a stern talking to about how it's not meeting all of your needs? how about grounding it for a week and no tv and, more importantly, video games either? certainly no beer bashes. okay. i'm not ruling these out. but, i mean, you have to give every one of your stocks the harshest possible evaluation. suspend the benefit of the dow. assume everything you own is guilty until proven innocent, which is, of course, how we want it in cramerica. focus -- that's because we are not really big fans of the first ten amendments. focus on the first qualities of your stocks. emphasis the downside. make your stocks prove all over again that it's worth holding and not a potential -- if this strikes you

first of all, they attacked rick wagoner for using his own company plane, remember that? and then they attacked all of the bankers for flying in on their jets and then they turn around and order -- let's call it procure, more jets. i'm sorry, you were saying there is a hypocrisy here, is that right? >> there seems to be a tone deaf you know, issue here in congress. and i'm not surprised. we're going into the mid-term elections next year. and i -- you know, a number of these senators were in had some tough races. i hesitate to go back to my electorate and explain why i needed a new jet. >> don, let me go back to your correction call. maybe it's a political call, maybe not. why were you speaking of this in your smart money column? >> only because i don't want to get greedy here. we called the bottom today for our clients and had a 50% rally in five months. that's very nearly unprecedented in the last century. i just don't see any reason to overstay our welcome.e. and what we're looking at is another 10% or so. and all our technical work combines sentiment and valuation feat

a red voekz wagon. can you see that humvee there on one side. cop car behind it. they have a robo camera trying to get a look at what's going on inside that vehicle. it's a standoff still on going. >> hundreds of people fled their homes ahead of a wildfire raging out of control near pat civic coast. it's about 60 miles south of san francisco. flames threatening 250 homes. 600 people evacuated. 2400 aches have burned so far number injuries. and they have no idea how it started. now this is a great story. dramatic rescue caught on camera in the irish sea. a man forced to ditch his aircraft. and he was saved after a rowing team spotted the plane plunge. they radioed for help, threw him a line. a helicopter plucked everyone out. the rowers were trying to break a world record but abandoned at tempt to save this guy's life. they were ten dmaz to break a 25-day record. one guy said that it's a plane. another guy said it's a sea gull. thankfully they listened to the one guy that said it's a plane. >>> finally this one, john, i talk about inflight entertainment. a flight f

that they want to hook their wagon onto the memory of ted kennedy in an effort to once again pull the wool over the eyes of the american people. it doesn't matter what you call it. save the children health care, it's still not going to work because the american people are smart and they've read the content. sean: isn't it, it's unseemly to me, now -- i've had conservatives attack me and say, you didn't bring up his cadcal socialism, all the other personal issues he's had in his life because i'll be honest, i think, at this moment, i feel sorry for his family, they've lost a family member and we will have time to discuss his career. out of respect for his family i've decided not to go down that road personally. that's my decision. but democrats are politicizing this. they're trying -- it reminds me of paul wellstone when he died. do everything for paul wellstone. this is his memorial service. >> absolutely. it's pretty unseemly. it's manipulative. worse, it's transparent. i mean, like -- as if the american people who have been judging health care on its face value is are suddenly going