school buses rolling in here at walter johnson and bethesda.ow thanks to our sharp eyed cole healing, -- colleague, paul lester, we were able to land an interview with the first student to show up at walter johnson. he arrived at 6:15, his name is noel osmond, he is a freshman who hopes to land a college scholarship and already knows he wants to be a neurosurgeon. a very impressive student, the first to arrive here at walter johnson. a short time before that we were able too interview school superintendent joshua star. >> this year we are focused on the future right? what does it mean to be a successfully educated kid in the 20th century. we are reaching out to our families. >> speaking of families, what can parents do to ensure that their child is as successful as possible, in terms of getting a good education in the county? >> reporter: parents need to be engaged with their children. talk to your kids about their friends, what they like and don't like. set a curfew. make sure they know what they are doing. car time is some of the best time to

here at walter johnson it will be business as usual. we are the third largest school in the county, but we have the staff to teach our kids and we are just very excited to be here and we know this year will be exciting as well for the kids. jennifer bicker the principal of walter johnson thank you so much. i know you have work to do thanks for being with us. mike and andrea, i wanted to mention again the trend we talked about this year, and that is online shopping. back in 2003, only 10% of us shopped online for back to school supplies. this year almost 40%. the numbers have quad drupe would. we are live from walter johnson. we'll see you again at 6:00 a.m. with a live interview. >>> it has been a violent 24 hours in afghanistan. first, government officials report taliban insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a village in southern afghanistan. this happened as people were gathering for a fest value with music and dancing. an afghan soldier turn his weapon on international troops and killed two coalition force service members in eastern af

right about 7:00 here at the walter johnson high school. and one of the people that they are happy to see happens to be dr. joshua star, the superintendent of montgomery schools. this is your second year. how is this year different for the you? >> i did a lot of listening and learning last year. it's taking what i've learned from the community about what people want to see in the schools and putting it into action. >> reporter: enrollment is a big deal. we're talking about a record year. my kids go to montgomery county schools. and i hear a lot of not necessarily complaints, but challenges with crowded classrooms. >> we have 149,000 kids this year. we're growing every year. we try to keep class size manageable. but it's a manner of money and space and we have to make tough choices. we have the resources to serve every child that comes through the doors. >> reporter: and the new elementary school. >> a great new high school has opened. and we have our 202nd school. >> reporter: and do you think it's going to be enough? or do we need to keep

melanie alnwick is live as walter johnson high school in bethesda. >> reporter: good morning. we expect to be hearing more about those changes in the montgomery county school system and even into the curriculum a little later this morning when we have a live interview with the superintendent, dr. joshua starr. that should be coming up around the 7:00 hour. for now, we are standing by and talking a little bit about some of the new things, the new buildings here in montgomery county this year. they are expecting 149,000 students to go back to school here in montgomery county and just as a comparison, i was just looking up. loudoun county has 68,000 students so you can see how big of a school system montgomery county is. they are opening a brand-new elementary school in silver spring. they decided to name it the flora singer elementary school. it is the first new school in montgomery county since 2009. students also at paint branch high school will be returning to a brand-new mod werized school campus so that will be exciting for them as well. at rockville high school and watkins

. >> reporter: before sunrise the american flag was raise at walter johnson high school. noel osmond was the first student to arrive. >> very exciting. four more years until i graduate. >> reporter: soon after, hundreds of other students filed in with varying degrees of enthusiasm. >> i'm just tired, i guess. i'm really excited. >> i'm excited for my classes but i'm really tired. >> reporter: time has run out for summer assignments. >> it is a little disappointing, to finish my sculpture i was supposed to do for ap ceramics. other than that, pretty exciting. >> reporter: scoot security staffer was a one woman welcoming committee ethis school year, montgomery county has a record setting 14,000 students and its most diverse population ever. >> back to normal. basically the same task. you have to wake them up, because they are agers. -- they are teenagers. >> reporter: for some, it might take awhile to adjust to the morning routine. in bethesda, andrea mccarron 9news now. >>> students also went back to school in the district today. the newly renovated elementary school on al

we have a report outside walter johnson high school. >> reporter: good morning. really the headlines for a lot of the systems in the area going back to school is bigger enrollments. and in montgomery county, a record enrollment year, 149,000 students. and the system has prevented two major construction projects. we have paint branch high school just underwent an $80 million modernization and it has the capacity for 2000 students. it includes a greenhouse and a new auditorium. in silver springs -- >>> and a $30 million building. singer was a holocaust survivor who became a foreign language teacher and helped create a curriculum for teaching about the holocaust. the system is growing by 2500 students a year. and students and parents may see a little bit more capacity, shuffling around of schedules. and 750 teachers were highered and another 50 more are to be hired once the enrollment settling in. the superintendent told me one of the challenges he wants to focus on the closing the achievement gap with minority students. >> so many of our students do better than cou

melanie alnwick is live at walter johnson high school in bethesda with a look ahead. >> reporter: good morning. while students had the summer off, it certainly was a very busy few months when it comes to construction projects and modernization. here in montgomery county, they spent the summer replacing roofs, replacing gym floors, replacing playing fields, doing whatever they can to make the school environment better for the 149,000 students that are going to be returning to the school system. one of the largest ever. montgomery county is also opening a brand-new elementary school. it is flora singer elementary school. that is going to be in silver spring. it is the first new school that montgomery county has opened since 2009. we have paint branch high school which has undergone a $80 million mod werization were -- modernization. d.c., frederick, loudoun, all back in session today with more students than yesterday. in d.c., chancellor kaya henderson is kicking off a five- year improvement program that she is calling a capital commitment. they want to focus on increasing reading and ma

. >> before sunrise, the american flag was raised at walter johnson high school. at 15, noel was the first person to arrive. >> i have four more years until i graduate. >> hundreds of other students filed in with varying degrees of enthusiasm. >> i'm just tired, i guess. and i'm really excited for the school year. >> i'm excited for my classes, but really tired. i don't want to be here. >> not really excited. >> time has run out for summer assignments. >> a little disappointing because i hope to finish school homework and finish my sculpture i was supposed to do for a ap ceramics. exciting. >> i love it. i miss my students. it's a pleasure to be back. >> this school year, montgomery county has a record setting 149,000 students and its most diverse population ever. >> back to normal. basically the same tasks. you get up, wake them up because they are teenagers. let's get out of the house. >> for some, it may take a while to get adjusted to the early morning routine. >> you're late for a very important date. >> in bethesda. >> i'm trying to get the fact that the gir

what they are very sensitive and i think when you read a book like the biography of walter cronkite or lyndon johnson were the stories of the women who have done so much, it doesn't reach everyone of us. i hope you had a great summer reading. [appltie pavlicek discussed her book, au"fast and furious: barak obama's bloodiest scandal and its shameless cover-up." well. >> good morning, everyone.c. apparently it is red friday. i hope you are having a good time in washington dc. the weather is holding out pretty good. you thi which is great. wha how many of you have heard whato do you think has happened about >> passengers? >> the scandalous. >> the scandal, the movie? >> website. exactly his own justice department set them to cartels to kill people. t the obama justice department sh, actually named this program after the hollywood movie. and i had the official hollywodi government slideshow cover to prove it. they actually took aas screensht of the hollywood movie cover and put it into their official ring documents and official names.tel theing unfortunate thing is thah this "operation fast and furious"

johnson had health problems and it made walter cronkite to tell him there were problems in vietnam. ut there is the press secretary of lyndon johnson that lbj apparently said at last cronkite, lhasa country on it last middle america. that's not very hard to document and he precisely said that any recognize that i'm starting to really lose the mainstream media. he thought of himself as a cbs guy who do walter long time. he didn't feel like losing character like that. i would call an important in creating the antiwar sentiment they continued, but not some important on johnson's decision to drop out. i do think cronkite turned lyndon johnson. >> host: c-span: the other quote who worked for abc back to cnn. it's a little long but i'll read it anyway. i myself had a deep reverence for him, for everything he stood for. after lots of chitchat over a couple of stiff whiskeys on the racks i asked him whether anyone today can do what he did back in vietnam after tag. to my abiding disappointment, he gently told me now, he didn't think so because unlike in his time, there are multitudinous voic

they're all very substantive, and i think when you read a book like the biography of walter cronkite or lyndon johnson or the stories of these women who have done so much, um, i think it does enrich every one of us. so i'm kay bailey hitchson, and i hope -- kay bailey hutchison, and i hope you have great summer reading. >> for more information on in the and other summer reading lists, visit booktv.org.

getting nasty with the president isn't the same when walter cronkite ripped the vietnam war and bolted on president lyndon johnson. combined with polls showing the smallest percentage of americans are satisfied with the way things are going. clear problems with the white house right now. to professor larry sabado. >> the media relationship with president obama the honeymoon is over. the bloom is off the rose. this often happens as reality meets the promise of what a candidate said during a campaign. this happened to jimmy carter in 1980. the media was much taken to him in 1986 but by but they moved to ted kennedy or necessity liked john anderson the middle of the road semi liberal independent who ran against both reagan and carter in november 1980. i think some of that is going on now. they recognize that the market, their market is not as entrenched with president obama as they were four years ago. they follow their market. they have to get viewers and get buyers. you know how that works. >> neil: absolutely. newsweek, i'm going explore more on this on fox business network, if you can't get readers praising the

lyndon johnson grants them secret security, detailed in the use of presidential helicopters and even a projection from the white house so my birthday were being treated at walter reid and wanted to watch movies in the white house library. richard nixon as the clubhouse as john mentioned, which only one reporter in history has stepped foot inside. >> when i asked the white house if i could see the clubhouse on jackson square across the street from the white house, called a press secretary jay carney used to be my colleague at time and said what building? [laughter] i don't think we know anything about this. in 1969, richard nixon as president and he's getting calls constantly from the country taxpayers, where he's going crazy. he's been sent home. his term is done. he decides not to run for reelection. he's a little stir crazy beauties entering and from a firehose for 10 years, longer than that. he says i want to do stuff. need somewhere to say. get them in office, a place to stay overnight. a young military aid since there's a kernel and the air force was named brent scowcroft. got this assignment. instead they basically take over rundown townhouse on lafayett

lyndon johnson grants secret security and secret service security detail and the use of presidential helicopters and even a projectionist from the white house film library being treated at walter reed and wanted to watch movies in the white house library. richard nixon at the clubhouse, as john mentioned, only one reporter in history has set foot inside of. >> when i asked if i could see the club house which is on jackson square right across the street from the white house i call a press secretary jay carney who used to be my colleague and said what building? i don't think we know anything about this. in 1969 richard nixon is president and he is getting calls constantly from the hill country of texas where lyndon johnson is going crazy. he has been sent home. his term is done. the decides not to run for reelection and is a little stir crazy. he has been drinking from a fire hose and constantly calling the white house a and i want to come up and i need somewhere to stay. johnson was driving the nixon white house to such distractions that nixon said just get him out. get him a building would get him a place to stay overnight. a young military aid to was a colonel in the air forc