>> sergeant debbie webb: i pulled up and i saw him and our victim. they were standing right here.rthbound. so i took my car, pulled it around to cut him off. so i jumped out right when he was running northbound in front of there, and then we just ran around the corner on the other side of tropicana. you saw where we caught him and stuff? basically when he went to go, i grabbed his hand and he went on the other side, but i had hold of his hands over the wall. and i just put my taser on the other side and just told him, "hey, i'm going to tase you," blah, blah, blah. >> clarkson: good job. >> webb: pulled him back over the wall. >> you know what happen? i see the car, i try to make a joke. it's my fault. i don't run. >> clarkson: you want to tell us what happened? >> sir, i really, my eye is... >> hernandez: do you need medical attention, sir? >> you tell me. >> hernandez: i'm asking you. >> that's it, i try to, you know, this fancy guy, you know, he got a nice car. i like, why not i play a joke? i see the car, i run around the corner. i come back, he's like screaming like: "aah! my

phone and webb monitoring programs with a reporter.nowden is currently in hong kong any lawmakers called for him to be arrested and returned to the yous to face justice. >> president obama family vacation to africa could cost taxpayers nearly 100 million dollars. here's why. the trip includes hundreds of agents of course to guard the family. military planes to air lift 56 vehicles including 14 limousin limousine. if you have bullet proof glass to cover window at all of the president hotels. and aircraft carrier with full medical center near by. obama are planning the 8 day trip to after can for later this month. in comparison former president clinton trip cost about 43 million dollars in 1998. >> all right well, you may have seen this magnificent painting in the sistine khaem. wayne discovered that it has arrival sort of in san francisco. let wayne show you. >> maybe you have noticed the construction project on jefferson street in fisherman wharf. hyped the lounge is a more elaborate one. >> which project more did. i think mine. >>repo

from bad to worse this week for washington as more details of its global surveillance webb to the public eye with america's closest allies. expressing shock and disappointment. and hope.

alexander webb has come back. that is encouraging but the mouse that i was going to click has not. [laughter] [applause] a powerful little thing. isn't it? there is our numbers. they look even worse och -- in cold print. given the inadequacy of military record keeping for instance no graves registrations for these losses suffered by the army of northern virginia may have been even higher than these official figures. but even beyond the simple numerical shock, and these army suffered dead body blow to the commander for structure from which it never adequately recovered. this will give you some idea of the damage done of these 52 general's one-third became casualties of some sort. of the 18th virginia, 29 of the 31 officers were killed or wounded. said lieutenant colonel and major were all wounded and three company captains killed and to capture. the john bell division lost for the colonel of the second, ninth, 20th georgia while khrushchev south carolina brigade to more regimental commanders were killed. and another lost the brigade commander who was mortally wounded and died in a f

. >> webb simpson is the 2012 united states open champion. >> a three-shot victory for lee trevino. >> first australian to win the open. >> i guess patience and hard work, i guess it pays off. >> the older you get, the more thrilling it gets because the harder it gets. >> the third open championship. >> and justin rose just a couple of moments from getting his arms around that trophy as well. easy tap-in, the look to the sky and justin rose has won the u.s. open championship at merion. only player in the final ten pairings to avoid an over par score today. you bet he earned it. and phil mickelson had his opportunities today, but justin rose had some pressure shots that he delivered and executeded down the stretch, which is the kind of stuff that u.s. open champions are made of. >> phil, those wedges on 13 and 15, 13 goes over the green, then 15 hits that big drive with the 2 wood off the tee. wedge to the green. makes bogey there. those two holes were really k l killer for him, then of course the two double bogeys on 3 and 5 and 36 putts, so even though he hit 15 greens out of 18 hole

at a washington briefing, boston imam suharb webb acknowledged that some were aware of tsavraev's extreme views. muslim leaders must be more proactive in addressing extremism, but must we able to do that without heightened fear of scrutiny and law enforcement. >> we need to be given in leeway to engage this problem. the fact that the tsavraev brother wasn't able to sit down with an imam and go through kou counseling is a problem on our side of the fence. i need to sit down with someone without being worried as being subpoenaed or held as a material witness. >> and cair is calling for an independent investigation after a tsavraev acquaintance was shot in florida during an interview this week. there were conflicting reports whether the man was armed, but the government said he had become violent. cair wants a civil rights review. faith-based groups continue to pledge their massive mobile inflation to help victims of last week's deadly tornado in moore, oklahoma which destroyed some 13,000 homes and killed two dozen people. numerous relidge oust groups are helping with cleanup and providing

stevie lee webb and so does alichia cruz has the week off.vie lee webb is covering the phones. >> hey, i'm back again. >> bill: everything good at wimbledon? >> i have to go because i'm playing in wimbledon today. i'm rated 24th in the country and i don't even play tennis. >> bill: 24 seed? cyprian bowlding is here as always taking good care of us on the video cam. so there's a lot of excitement in washington yesterday looking for the red panda. >> it was crazy. it was crazy. >> bill: it took over this town. everybody's talking about it. >> it was weird how it happened. it's interesting how it happened because the national zoo sent out a tweet and the way -- they sent out a series of tweets after that saying they were missing a red panda. >> bill: in case you don't know a new red panda about a year old only been at the zoo for two or three months and i guess it wasn't paying attention when they gave it that little training class in the beginning that you're not supposed to leave the zoo. you're here, you can have a good time and eat all you w

surveillance webb has identified himself saying he expects to be made to suffer a for his actions twenty nine year old former cia technical assistant outward snowden is now holed up in a hong kong hotel afraid to leave his room for fear of retribution but he says he has no regrets about exposing washington spy network against hundreds of millions of its own citizens was too important i could be you know rendered by the cia i could have people come after me or any of their third party partners you know they would they work closely with a number of other nations or you know they could pay off the triads for you know any any if their agents or assets we've we've got a cia station just up the road in the consulate here in hong kong but i'm sure that they're going to be very busy for the next week. and that's that's a fear i'll live under for the rest of my life however long that happens to be you can't come forward against the world's most powerful intelligence agencies and be completely free from risk because they're such powerful adversaries the no one can meaningfully oppose them. if they

for the lardarius webb back on the field testing his knee. michael hough will replace ed reed. to ravens will try to repeat as nfl champions. >> we will be right >> you're watching wbal-tv 11. live, local, late-breaking. this is 11 news today at 6:00 a.m. good morning. welcome back to 11 news today. i'm mindy basara. >> and i'm stan stovall. plate ofracted by this donuts. today is national donut day. ts you can get some free trea today. krispy kreme is giving away free doughnuts. in theave some donuts studio. he wants to thank jennifer franciotti. >> she stopped off on our way to work. >> breakfast of champions. >> you can eat 10. [laughter] you imagine me with a mouthful? [laughter] to make a dough you will experience some rain. the airport has picked up an inch of rain so far. the heaviest rain is falling into cecil county. light rain for everybody else. thunder could be possible. ofexpect the wind to gust around 30 miles per hour around baltimore. >> do i have chocolate all over my teeth? >> it is a busy ride. we have accidents around the area. have a right, we lane closure.

>> frank webb had a bit of a scare. >> around the turn a bomb squad truck roll bid with sirens on.looked at each other like, you know, not a great sign but not going deter us. >> organizers expect 34,000 runners. no parking signs are up prohibiting parking friday night they're excited about the business bringing into the city. >> following the event we fill up right away. hotels that are all full. >> just go to abc 7 news.com. >> joe biden visiting san francisco. lyanne melendez is there. >> well that right. pro testors started to gather. these barricades right here beside me were moved just a short time ago, closing off part of this neighborhood. also $100 million for a presidential visit overseas. >> a teacher >>> vice president biden arrived in the way area ahead of schedule. he wasn't supposed to land until 6:00 tonight. here for a democratic party fund-raiserfs= and we're live at the sea cliff neighborhood where it's happening. >> that is right. pro testors are waiting for the vice president to arrive here this sea cliff neighborhood is going to be shut down. not everybody is

surveillance webb has identified himself saying he expects to be made to suffer for his actions twenty nine year old former cia technical assistant edward snowden was until monday holed up in a hong kong hotel afraid to leave his room for fear of retribution but he says he has no regrets big motivated by an overriding need to expose just how vast washington spy web and become. even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded and the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude. to where it's getting to the point you don't have to have done anything wrong you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody even by a wrong call and then they can use the system to go back in time and scrutinize every decision you've ever made every friend you've ever discussed something with and attack you on that basis to sort of derive suspicion from an innocent life and paint anyone in the context of a wrong door. while the united states criminal chases are ready to go with top officials calling for edward snowden to

brandon webb says reputation means everything. >> being in the s.e.a.l.s, it's an alpha male world. have one of the toughest, most male dominated units in the military, and one -- it takes a lot of guts for someone like chris to come out with this. >> chris beck, now kristin beck, retired from service in 2011 and is living her life openly as a woman. her navy s.e.a.l. past is still a part of her, the battle scars testament to her dedication in the field. >> i'm 80% disabled. i fell off a ship. we were trying to board, and i fell off the ladder from 18 feet up, and i landed on a -- on the boat down below. i also had an accident where i broke part of my scapula. i broke this wrist, i've broken a lot of my fingers. i consider myself very lucky. i put up with all that pain as my payment for my freedoms. so i paid for my freedom to be able to live my life. >> why did you want to be a s.e.a.l.? >> that's a tough question. i wanted to be a s.e.a.l. because it was like the toughest of the tough, and so for me, having my femininity, it was like -- i've heard people say before, it's like esca

now last year webb simpson won and justin does it again today.on is the runner up for the 6th time in his career. not shown but tied for 4th was ernie. very few teams have the a's number but seattle was 6-3 against oakland this season. today they sent the mariners a message. bartolo colon over came a rough second inning to win his 6th straight start. 2-2 in the bottom of the fifth. that is a hot shot to center. he race from first and he beats the tag, 3-2. a's put together a 4 run 7th inning. ripping and ripping. that is not coming back. his 10th homer of the year. two pitches later, smith slashes his own homer to make it 6-2 a's. to the 8th inning. brandon moss, deep for his 12 homer. moss been hitting a lot lately. josh redick, 4th hit of the day. another souvenir. he was a double short of the cycle today as the a's win 10- 2. a's collect 17 hits. he is now 9-2. now they hit the road tomorrow in texas. carrying a three game lead in the division. coming up, nascar heads to michigan. >> giants in atlanta they trail 1-0 in the second. trying to be

. >> caller: yes, i was wanting to know if the cast is familiar with gary webb and his reporting on the cia and drug wars in south america. >> host: michael, why are you interested in that topic? >> guest: i'm interested in wars around the world's and during the 80s it seemed like a very big topic was covered very much. >> host: your second question, sir. >> caller: as far as the drones stumbling of the black budget access in the paydown budget. i was wanting to know if we have any idea how big this budget is inside the united states. >> host: first of all, i'm familiar with his work on stories and i don't know too much about what he uncovered the on what you would describe. i do get into cia latin america operations in the 80s. counternarcotics operations as a way to talk about the operations officers doing cia work could not america ended up in the counterterrorism worries of post 9/11. a lot of people in the latin america world for some reason ended up doing counterterrorism missions. cia budgets can have estimates on the pentagon now is required for the budget. how much of these spe

david webb and fox news contributor danine berelli. >> didn't bother to read it and made some interestingn, eric holder is a radical activist and instead of defending our constitution, he attacks it. from fast and furious, to not prosecuting new black panther party in voter fraud, he needs to go and needs to go. >> he talked about the warren court, not radical enough of the this is the eric holder meme. he believes in this and now in a position to use the nation's laws to enforcuse redistributet justice. is he supposed to uphold the laws of the constitution, not the goals of the administration. >> if he would uphold the laws of the lands, yez would not have needed that law on their own, they took the language from federal law. what is your reaction to the comment we are a nation of racial cowards? >> he's the coward. he hid behind president obama's executive privilege. would not turn over documents to congress, wouldn't cooperate. what is he trying to hide? hiding truth from the american people. brian terry's family doesn't have answers. nobody is held accountable. it's outrageous. >> it

here with reaction is david webb, bob massey. sir, he can't pay?und he couldn't even in the interview name all the kids. >> if there was ever a time that sterilization should be a law, he should not be allowed to procreate ever again. >> you would support that? >> for this kind of people. it's ridiculous. it's stupid. the other thing is, we have to ask ourselves, we don't know all the facts. no disrespect, what about the women involved here. i don't know if they came from the same community, there has to be responsibility all over the place. >> everybody, yeah. >> and the last thing is, be honest with you, i think david will agree, we've been paying for years on these type of things, if you go to paternity court in most states, have you these women who are impregnated all sides by the way, diversity everywhere on this. no child support paid and we pay for it. >> what? you know, sean, i'm going to go to numbers taxpayers should be upset about this. what's wrong with this man, i don't care about his color. the women should have kept their legs closed

abbas teeseven sector called del webb. sixty-five, 55 and older.owerful demographic that they're falling. i think there is a lot of earnings power in the business that is not capturing the business. even after the big one. is not attractive. but if it came down, ten, 15 percent, looking to get more constructive. cheryl: i'm old enough to remember the position. that goes back a long time. david goldberg, ubs home-building analyst. >> thank you for having me on. cheryl: the bell will ring. we now have got -- you're probably ready for the market they to be over. we have about 39 minutes to go right now. on-line video is moving toward a fast-paced easy to share platforms. all fighting to stay ahead of the trend. today facebook is playing catch-up with its is to grant video. we will talk about that coming up next. also, the market is selling off one day after the fed lays out his plans to slow down purchases, but is it just a fed fake out? charlie gasparino has that story on why easy money might not be going anywhere. i would like to hear that. ♪ friday

>> brian webb from our station in phoenix.e a chord with you, this kind of story. >> the first thing that comes to mind to me, just as i'm showing my age here, when i played baseball we slide with feet first, instead of head first. that came a little later. my little league days were back in the '70s and we slid with our feet. a tragic story but a wonderful gesture. >> i love it's not just about the draft pick. they're going to put him to work. that's the best part of the story. >> announcer >>> this morning on >>> this morning on "world news now" -- attorney anxiety. legal teams on both sides of the george zimmerman case question hundreds of jurors. the challenge ahead in the racially-charged case. >>> where is he? the search for edward snowden. the young man in the middle of a scandal involving secret government eavesdropping. the new details about this young computer whiz, what neighbors are saying and what feds are demanding. also, why there is so much outrage. >>> then, sleeping together is almost impossible for abc's dr.

i know what dragnet means from jack webb. you stuck that word a digital exhaust. thank you so much dana priest, and jonathan weisman of the great "new york times." up next, kennedy's civil rights speech led to monumental changes in this country after he was killed. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> for all those people who say that congress is an awful dysfunctional place, there's no shortage of people out there who want to get in, or in some cases back in. last year we saw nine former members of congress returning to the house of representatives. the highest number in almost half a century. now marjorie margolies is hoping to win back a seat in pennsylvania. in fact, its seat where i grew up. she lost her seat in 1994 after voting for the clinton budget cuts. that big tax increase there. anyway, bob barr, the man who helped lead the impeachment proceedings against clinton is running for a seat in the atlanta suburbs. there he is. we'll be right back. >>> we're back. june 11th, 1963, a pivotal day in civil rights history. president john f. kennedy to

i know what dragnet means from jack webb. you stuck that word a digital exhaust.a priest, and jonathan weizman of the great "new york times." up next, kennedy's civil rights speech led to monumental changes in this country after he was killed. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ dad ] ah! lilly. she pretty much lives in her favorite princess dress... and she's not exactly tidy. even if she gets a stain... she'll wear it for a week straight. so i use tide to get out those week-old stains and downy to get it fresh and soft. and since i'm the one who has to do the laundry... i do what any expert dad would do. i let her play sheriff. you are free to go! [ dad ] tide & downy are proud to support the national fatherhood initiative. get involved by tweeting #dadsway. [ lilly ] happy father's day! i did? when visa signature asked everybody what upgraded experiences really mattered... you suggested luxury car service instead of "strength training with patrick willis." come on todd! flap them chicken wings. [ grunts ] well, i travel a lot and umm... [ male announc

. >> i know what dragnet means from jack webb.word a digital exhaust. >> you like that? >> thank you so much. dana priest, pulitzer prize winner from "the washington post" and jonathan wise man from the washington times. up next, kennedy's civil rights speech led to monumental changes in this country after he was killed. this is "hardball," the place for politics. my mantra? always go the extra mile. to treat my low testosterone, i did my research. my doctor and i went with axiron, the only underarm low t treatment. axiron can restore t levels to normal in about 2 weeks in most men. axiron is not for use in women or anyone younger than 18 or men with prostate or breast cancer. women, especially those who are or who may become pregnant and children should avoid contact where axiron is applied as unexpected signs of puberty in children or changes in body hair or increased acne in women may occur. report these symptoms to your doctor. tell your doctor about all medical conditions and medications. serious side effects could include in

stevie lee webb, thank you stevie. here to man the phones.rian bowlding never takes a vacation, here on the video cam. for current tv. >> cyprian has been getting some fan mail here recently. >> bill: he has. people don't like it if we don't give cyprian attention in a big way. the business event at the grand canyon. willie geist from morning joe to host it on discovery channel right and was there when nick wallenda actually made it, winds whipping up to 50 miles per hour. he made it across the grand canyon on that wire with the help of jesus. >> nick wallenda, ladies and gentlemen, has made history. he's the first human to ever cross the grand canyon. on a wire. nick congratulations. >> thank you. >> bill: i don't think he's just the first human to cross the grand canyon on a wire. i mean has any nonhuman? a giraffe. i normally don't fall into watching stunts like this. i watched that last night. i feel a little dumb that i watched an hour and 45 minutes of build-up leading up to the actually walking because they had the whole background and

i sat with webb hubbell who is a high-profile person in the anteroom, in the finance committee, the banking in handcuffs, and the chairman, and said we can't do that and they did and he came out and kept supplied on the whole whitewater deal. that is how i met with hubble of the first time. second time was i was headed to fresen, a was a self reporter, like reporting for your own firing squad and you got to meet web hubbell. i want to go in prison. and he walked me through how you survive from day one and that was the best amount of time that i spent and gave me in sight as chief justice of the arkansas supreme court, former attorney general and was very empathetic to the plight of a lot of people in prison and i walked out of prison not a angry and didn't walk out of prison thinking the former congressman, i walked out feeling a bond with a lot of people and i need to tell that in this book and i have because things are going on inside those walls. don't expect anybody to have sympathy for me, but i have the ability to have a network can stand here tonight, to be on television, to have wri

scientistcently to a too was involved with the james webb space telescope. we did greatest. -- digressed. we spoke of the purpose of doing a science mission. to speak to me about how it applies to me. i got a counterpoint about doing science for its own sake and doing science to complement other activities like exploration or technology development. bitdon't you talk a little about walking that line and make sure everyone is coming away with something? and a good compromise no one is happy. much morees back to fundamental questions. why do we do basic research? ?hy do we have nasa what is nasa's mission? let me just say that fundamental basic science is humaneder for all of the spaceflight. we learn things about nature and the universe. from a strictly u.s. investment strategy, when we try to do these hard science rejects we challenge our contractors, our engineers, to invent new things. that is how we make forward progress for the economy and jobs and human health and understanding. all of these things work together. to do something where we are building a

nice thing to do to a guy who is completely jack webb. put a bed on the set.." about a snail who wants to win the indianapolis 500. we caught up with the stars on the red carpet, samuel l. jackson, snoop dogg and ryan reynolds, asked them if there was ever a point in their life that they felt like an underdog. >> exactly. we always feel like the underdog. you always feel like you don't know where your next job is coming from or how are you going to get there. or are you going to continue to be a viable product of this world? >> underdog the wonder dog. >> i always feel a little like the underdog. you can't help it. in this industry, as much as we perceive these people being successful, also a lot of rejection still. >> it arrives july 17. you can catch the interviews in the fox light.com and follow me on twitter for the latest celebrity buzz. >> alisyn: is it kid friendly? >> absolutely. >> steve: kids love snails. >> alisyn: it's hard to see somebody as cute as ryan reynolds as the underdog. >> it is, isn't it? samuel l. jackson is the highest grossing actor

stevie lee webb gone. new member of the team here to screen our phone calls for us.rian bowlding as always, here on the video cam. good morning cyprian. good to see you all. the action yesterday was not here in washington d.c. it was down in texas in the texas legislature. they're about to consider the toughest tightest restrictions on abortion seen by any of the states or the congress in decades. but wendy davis state senator from texas was not about to let it happen. she showed up at 11:00 yesterday morning wearing a pair of pink sneakers and everybody said uh-oh! the marathon is about to begin. it wasn't the marathon. it was the filibuster. she taught members of congress about how to filibuster. she stood up at her desk on the floor and said here i go. >> members i'm rising on the floor today to humbly give voice to thousands of texans who have been ignored. >> bill: and she started speaking and she started and the goal was as you'll probably learn, she had to go until midnight to run out the clock so they could not vote on this draconian bill. and she got until a

jim webb, mike, sashgsby cham his, jim demint bailing.se guys get in and realize they can't do the things they wanted to do and they're bailing. it's not just -- it's not just hard to get them to get folks to run. it's now getting harder to get some of these folks to stay. bob corker and mark warner who were totally left out of the financial reform bill, and they wanted to be more a part of it because of seniority, they weren't a part of it, they've had similar frustrations. >> chuck, back in 2009, the president went to the summit and was being lectured. i think 2009, 2010, by sarkozy and others, about these massive spending plans and told that he was going to have to curb spending and curb debt. of course, now, the papers you read most of the papers, reporting of this, they say the united states is doing better than most european countries that have been hurt by three or four years of austerity programs. how is the president standing with the group now compared to how it was three or four years ago when he was getting lectured by the fre

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bill in world war ii teamed up with jim webb from the state of virginia. the two of them put together a g.i. bill that our men and women who served are richly deserving. he offered the toxic right to know law, another great law that he and i cosponsored. it came to -- down to a question of the chemicals that are put in fabric in our furniture, which sadly are leeched out and get into the environment of our homes, many times affecting small children. frank was quick to be the leader on that issue. even though his state of new jersey is one of a lot of chemical manufacturers and produce,he led in this effort to protect families and children. he wrote the law to create the patterson great falls national historic park. after he cast his 9,000th vote in december of 2011, senator harry reid proclaimed on the floor that frank lautenberg has been one of the most productive members in the senate of the herhistory. at the time of his resignation announcement, he set out the agenda for his remaining two years before he left the senate. refor the purposing the u.s. ch

former senator jim webb did a marvelous article in which he begins by saying the congress of the utee irrelevant. and that's his word, and that's all power now vests in the president, and it seems to me that in a democracy that's not the way it is supposed to work. >> host: you make the point, even when the congress stepped, in, say the gulf of tonkin, and few cases where congress put a brake on it, and the same thing with iraq. >> guest: there was that one time in 1973 when the congress passed the war powers act. the war powers act was an act of utter frustration on the part of the congress. the vietnam war had been going on and on and there was no end in sight. and so the congress truly fed up, and also fed up with right-hand nixon at that time. parenthesis, which a number of us were, close parenthesis. but at that time the congress passed the war powers act. the most idiotic piece of legislation you can imagine. seriously. what this legislation says is that if the president wants to go to war, within 48 hours he has to inform the congress. inform. not consult. inform. then he has