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i would tell her, well, mom, you just wait and see. >> wendy's mother tried to talk wendy out of goingthe u.s. but failed. it was january 9, 2003. >> translator: she just said to me, mommy, we're going to try our luck. so they hit the road, and that was when they disappeared and we didn't hear from her again. >> the girls were taken north, traveling dozens of hours through the central american mountains. finally, the recruiters dropped the girls at a house in mexico and vanished. they awoke to strange men giving harsh orders. >> translator: i fell asleep there along with my friends. when we woke up, the men had arrived with clothes, but clothes i had never used in my life. it was inappropriate, cut way too short. and i said, i'm not going to wear these clothes. it doesn't matter what you say, the man said. here it only matters what i say. >> wendy says she realized at that moment there would be no factory job. the horror started the next morning. they began with ana. >> translator: they grabbed my youngest friend and began having their way with her. afterwards they did the same to my o

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bush bailed them out and since ken lay and phil and wendy gramm got into the game on behalf of enron wall street bankers have gone from out of salaries to in some cases earning over a billion dollars a year per person is over twenty people on wall street every year make over a billion dollars since then in two thousand and ten the supreme court said these billionaires could begin to buy politicians and little russians with their money as the citizens united decision so with enough money to corrupt congress the banks are set out to do it and on their very own republican candidates for president several wall street bankers are among romney's biggest multimillion dollar plus funders and another wall street guy foster freeze owns ricky santorum this didn't start with citizens united that was the high water mark it really all started with ronald reagan appointee and wendy gramm had to see f.t.c. and ken lay making her and her husband an offer they couldn't refuse or a group of graeme's are now retired and incredibly incredibly rich in our democracy is unmeasurable or poor. it's wednesday

. >> and i'm wendy rieger in for jim handly. today a state attorney in florida says a grand jury will meet next month to decide whether charges should be filed against that shooter. >> 17-year-old trayvon martin was shot and killed in february. martin was talking to his girlfriend on his cell phone just moments before his death. nbc's jay gray has more on the new developments. >> reporter: it's been almost a month. >> the guy is yelling help. >> reporter: still those cries for help and the controversy over what happened here echo through this florida apartment complex, and now across the country. >> so you think he's yelling help? >> yes. >> all right. what is your -- >> there's gunshots! >> reporter: today the justice department acknowledged investigators and agents with the fbi are now looking into the death of 17-year-old trayvon martin. martin was killed by a crime watch community volunteer, 28-year-old george zimmerman, patrolling the area with az 9 millimeter pistol after a string of robberies over the last year and a half

that's from chopper 4. >> no. >> and wendy, you saw this earlier tonight. the moon right next to venus. spectacular shot, jupiter down to the lower side of the screen, as well. just a fantastic shot. yeah, that's the chopper shot. i didn't know we could afford a lens like that. 60 degrees out there right now. that was the high temperature today. a low of 46. that's the current temperature. and again, that's the coldest number we've seen in over two weeks. and yep, here comes the cold. it's going to get a lot colder. after today, a nice day today, 60 here, 63 in manassas, and 57 up towards frederick. not bad at all for the latter portion of march. now, temperature down to 46. look at the dew point, though. 12, a very dry atmosphere. that means we're going to cool off very, very quickly. if we can stop these winds. right now winds of 22 miles an hour, winds gusting to 31. so we do have windchill to talk about out there right now. windchills in the 30s across the area. we do have actual temperatures in the 30s. up to the north, 37 in cumberland, 37 in hagersto

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wendy, jim?ank you. >>> a legal victory for virginia tech in connection with the 2007 shooting rampage there. today a judge overturned a $55,000 federal fine that was imposed on the school after the massacre. the judge ruled the university actions did not violate any law that requires schools to issue timely warnings of campus threats. the department of education had issued that fine. virginia tech appealed it. the ruling comes two weeks after a jury in a wrongful death lawsuit found the university was negligent in its response and the school may appeal that ruling as well. >> stafford county teenager is under arrest tonight charged with vandalizing the church. the 16-year-old is accused of spray painting a racial slur on the back wall of the bethlehem primitive baptist church on chapel green road in stafford county. earlier this month he is charged with illegally entering a property and damaging a church. >>> academy award winning actor gary sinise was injured this morning in a car crash along t

tonight's daily take we regularly drug companies to the products don't kill us why did reagan's appointee wendy gramm you regulate financial products letting them kill our economy and those recent spain. you need to know this. we do begin. in two closely watched primaries down south tuesday rick santorum pulled off a clean sweep winning both held by alabama and mississippi despite outspending santorum five to one in alabama and the reader want to mississippi romney got third place in both contests other words his wall street super pac donors were no match for rick santorum is wall street super pac donors newt gingrich fiction finish second in the two states which is own campaign spokesman had said before and word need to win states to remain a credible candidate but based on his concession speech last night gingrich doesn't seem to be going anywhere. we will continue to run a people's campaign i believe after the primaries are over will be obvious that the so-called front runner in fact didn't get there and from that point on we'll be in a whole new conversation. so much of the publican party c

. >>> and wendy's has dethroned burger king as the country's second-biggest burger chain.urger king has more restaurants, which makes wendy's move up in the sales rankings that much more impressive. but mcdonald's has twice as much in sales as wendy's and burger king combined. >> has to be the fries. that's the secret. mcdonald's fries. >> and mcdonald's playland. >>> overseas markets fell after china raised gasoline prices. the nikkei was closed today. hong kong's hang seng fell 49 points. in london, the ftse opened lower. on wall street, the dow edged up 7 points yesterday. the nasdaq index rose 23. >>> well, oprah's own cable network is having a little bit of trouble. 27% of her employees have been laid off. and there's been another executive restructuring. all this follows the sudden consolation of rosie o'donnell's show last week. oprah owns the own network with discovery communications. it hasn't really found a strong audience since debuting in january of last year. >>> here's a sign that some of us need to cut the cord. many of us are still getting money from home.

wendy walsh, i have bib watching closely. i know the stats by heart. have seen so many stories on them. i was like, i could be one of the 176 million in the odds here. so near impossible odds, but it really got people excited. >> it got people excited because we're in a recession. people love to have a rescue fantasy. women are famous for the rescue fan ate. the cinderella complex. guys haven't had it so much. make the peter man complex that wendy is going to take care of them and the lost boys, but this is what people do, they hold out hope, especially in times of recession. 21% of americans think playing the lottery is a good way to save for retirement. >> are you kidding me? >> i kid you not. i should say, also, that most of those people only hold a high school education. so they're not thinking that they can depend on themselves to save for retirement. >> it was good for the 1 in 176 million who won, or the three people. that's a great retirement plan. but considering the odds, you know, for the rest of us, not so good. you tell people about the od

senator wendy davis was not at her office at the time of the attack, but two of her staffers were.f the staffers reportedly jumped over the waste-high flames, ran to the break room, got a fire extinguisher, and put out the blaze. there was some damage to the building, as you can see here, but thankfully, nobody was injured. senator davis was kept on lockdown by law enforcement for four hours at her law office, as a precaution. a suspect in the firebombing fled the scene and was arrested by police in a convenience store parking lot a short while after the incident. police say the man is 40 years old, he's homeless, he had visited the senator's office at least twice before he allegedly threw the half-dozen molotov cocktails. and while there is no indication that this attack was politically motivated, senator wendy davis has been in the national spotlight plenty in recent weeks because of texas state politics, because of this guy. the man who was once the front-runner in the republican presidential primary before sputtering out in a series of really catastrophic debate performances is

wendy, what did you feel? i'm sorry, we have someone on the phone. who is calling in? wendy? dan? just wanted to find out if you were able to feel the quake that happened just a few minutes ago. >> are you kidding? it shot me right out of bed. able to feel it? it was quite a jolt. i'm here in the marina. we feel everything very strongly here. >> and we're just hearing from lawrence that the usgs is reporting it is a 4.3 magnitude quake that was just about a mile east of richmond. so i'm sure it was quite a shock to you. a little stronger than we've been feeling lately, right? >> yes, it was just a -- the thing that frightened me about it, is i was in the one in 1989. and when you have that big jolt to begin with, then i got out of bed, i jumped out of bed and i was immediately braced for the next big jolt coming after it. which it didn't. thank goodness. but i'm standing here in the kitchen, looking at the pots and pans on my rack, in the kitchen, still swinging. and what is odd is that my hanging lamp in the dining room is not swinging. so it tells me -- that tells me it is from

brown university's wendy schiller and msnbc contributor jimmy williams. look, the self-proclaimed senator racked up zero delegates in puerto rico sunday while mitt romney got a big boost in illinois. alisha, what we've seen here is that now, mitt romney has well over 10% of his lead just from these territories. what happened in puerto rico? >> i think the big story that everyone missed was governor luis fortuna calling out his troops. he scheduled his primary the same day as this presidential be primary meaning his entire party was showing up voting for mitt romney. what you now see romney doing is saying i won puerto rico. clearly i can doing well with latinos. just because you win the island of puerto rico doesn't mean su win puerto ricans in the i 4 corridor. >> jimmy, does this victory have any legs? >> not really. puerto ricans traditionally vote democratic. cuban-americans traditionally vote republican. you can't vote into an island and tell people they can't speak the language and expect to carry the people. so that's a problem for rick santorum. m

wendys is the number two burger chain. they edged out burger king in sales for the first time in the chain's history. wendys made 8.5 billion dollars in the united states last year alone. the chain still is way behind first place mcdonald's, which made more than $34 billion in annual sales. >>> this is far out. ashton kuchar is headed to space. he reserved a $200,000 seat on a virgin spacecraft. it is not clear right now if he will take flight. the aircraft is in test mode. when it's cleared for takeoff, they will fly 60 miles above the earth's surface. >>> abc2 news to go is coming up next,. >> making homeownership a reality. what h be happening this morning that's going to change lives for 30 new families. . >>> parents want to alleviate school overcrowding and residents want to save the park. the latest on a new school proposal being built coming up. >>> good morning, this is your abc 2 news to go. we have a lot going on, sherrie johnson tells us about a controversy going on right now in baltimore county. linda so, live

wendy liebman is here! oh, man. [ cheers and applause ] wendy liebman in the house.nna be fun. i love her. hey -- hey, guys, i noticed this -- this trend on facebook where people will post an image of an inspiring quote on their wall for everyone to see, you know. the quote is usually by someone famous, like an actor or politician or historical figure. i love reading them, but sometimes i'll read one and i'll think, "they didn't say that." [ light laughter ] you know -- but it can be hard to tell 'cause no one checks these quotes to see if they're real or not, so -- i'll show you guys what i'm talking about in my new segment called "don't quote me." ♪ ♪ don't quote me 'cause i'm -- ♪ >> jimmy: now, this first quote is from one of my favorite literary and film characters, gandalf, the wizard from "lord of the rings." [ laughter ] he says, "the wizard is never late nor is he early. he arrives precisely when he means to." that's definitely something gandalf would say. it's also a wise and it's great excuse for being late. here's a -- but here's another gandalf quote. "e

wendies or burger king. >> wendies or burger king. >> there are two studies out.ealthy americans driving those who are less well off into money problems? a stu study out what is this thing all about? >> a new paper bio coon mi econ have the trickle down spending theory. spending by the rich drives the nonrich to increase spending more. as the rich increase spending by 10 percent the nonrich increase theirs by # 2.5 percent. those that are surrounded by the rich report more financial duress and some what surprising to hear that politicians who represent areas with high inequality are likely to vote for policies that increase credit inspiring wealthy to pay more. too hard to keep up with the joneses or keep up with the kardashians or housewives or other rich families we are exposed to. as the wall street journal points out there are other possib possib possible things that maybe it's the high spernding by the nonrich that is creating more rich people. sort of reversing the cause and effect here. economists are calling it the keeping up with the jones' hypothesis. >>

so wendy nguyen put videos together to show you what is going to be trending this spring.tarts off with our pastels. she suggests you pair the pastels with neutral colors to create a very feminine, spring fresh look. she also shows us that bright colors are very in. you see the orange paired up against the blue. and if you don't want to do two commimentary bright colors together, you can pair it with a patterned item, in this case a black and white striped blazer. so you take any item that has prints on it and pair it up with a very simple top. another one of her videos that she uploaded recently, she shows you how to do the distressed look. perhaps you have a pair of jeans you need to ramp up. and she shows how to do the distressed look yourself. >>> you know what's annoying? round-abouts. >> oh. like traffic circles? >> yeah. and they have them everywhere. this round-about is in the u.k. and i think this driver, this bike driver, is really annoyed at this round-about. >> ooh. >> well -- let's think here. it looks like the car should have yielded to the bike e right? >> y

. >>> wendys is moving up in the fast food chain according to research, it beat out burger king for the first time in sales, ever. wendys made 8.5 billion dollars last year, the chain is still way far behind mcdonald's, which made more than $34 billion in sales. a full report will be released next month. >>> take a look at this winter is over, but don't tell that to these peers. they celebrated with friendly competition, the pond skimming contest, skiers and snowboarders try racing down a mountain and making it over a makeshift pond. those that did it got a t-shirt and bragging rights. if you don't make it across, a dip in the water. imagine the water is chilly. >> i would have to do that for something more than a t-shirt and a little bit of money. >>> less talk about the cold air. we are dealing with warm weather, there has to be cold air trapped somewhere. it's west at this time. we have a trough digging across the west. we have a ridge that's building in across the east and we are trapped in under the weather. with the cold air, cold enough to support snow across the west, the arizon

. >> wendy, police are on the scene. this was a vaeery disturbing incident. at 8:45 police were called, two teenagers being bit be in a pit bull. the two teens, boy 15, girl 13, were bitten several times by police on arms, leg and girl on her taken to the hospital by ambulance. there were two dogs at the scene. allen one acting aggressively. a sheriff deputy on the scene tasered the dog. when that didn't work in an effort to subdue it nonlethally. officers were forced to shoot the dog. the other dog ran away. the owner is said to be dr disstradi distraught over the incident. >> this happened inside radio shack on columbia road. the vuk tim ick titim is okay. >> chaos in an airliner, the pilot kicked out of the cockpit and controlled by passengers. the man was screaming words about a bomb, al qaeda, telling everybody to say their prayers. tonight, we're hearing from some of those who wrested the guy to the floor. jim? >> reporter: jim, routine flight until about two hours before its scheduled landing when sources say the captain began pushing buttons and steer

time since wendy's was founded by dave thomas back in 1969.cdonald's, though, trumps both, and by a big margin. >>> in london today, the queen celebrated her diamond jubilee. it's been 60 years since her coronation to the thrown following the death her father. and today in a rare address to both houses of parliament, she paid tribute to the virtues of resilience, ingenuity and tolerance. and mentioned the only other british monarch to celebrate a diamond jubilee, queen victoria back in 1897. >> in an era where the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye catching than doing something extraordinary, i'm reassured that i'm nearly the second sovereign to celebrate a diamond jubilee. >> the queen also had had kind words for her husband, prince phillip. she called him a constant strength and guide. >>> in this country, the first lady revealed a little more about those secret shopping outings she's sometimes been able to take just to get out of the white house bubble. last night on the late show, she told david letterman about a woman she encounter

. >> wendy, do you agree with that? he did get 20 delegates there? >> it might have some resonance with any mexican-americans that chicago's got a fairly large population of mexican-americans. if they're registered to vote and vote in the primary, that could help him. he's doing well today against santorum. every vote counts in that primary. any bounce from that solidarity would help him in chicago. >> i don't think the puerto ricans translate to mexican-americans support. it's like a 1-2% hispanic voters showing up in the primary. it's not a base that can offer him the oomph he needs to win the state. >> there seems to be a misnomer here in the united states that everybody here illegally is from mexico. skm latino voters or cuban-american voters or guatemalans. they'll look at you and say i'm sorry, you but i have a nationality and it's not. >> i'm talking about people living in second, third, fourth generation mexican-americans. >> the press seems to have this remarkable misnomer in that everybody latino is a mexican, and b is going to do certain t

." >>> wendy day in massachusetts. -- wendy day in massachusetts. -- windy day in massachusetts.ome areas saw gusts nearly 50 miles per hour toppling an overhead canopy at a gas station sendinit crashing down on a car. lookly the driver was not in-- luckily, the driver was not in the car. the wind advisory is in effect until this morning in the for the area. it was windy here yesterday and this morning. >> you are right megan. it was very blustery yesterday. and we are still getting windy conditions this morning. the only difference is that the wind shift is out of the north and west and we can see the wind sustained at about 5 miles an hour into aberdeen 6 into arnold chestertown around 6. but the gusts up to about 25 miles an hour. >> aberdeen and close to 30 into arnold and more of the same in chestertown. this is the scenario going throughout the day. we are dealing with rain this morning. mainly to the south of baltimore as of now. and this will start to slide out of here. i say we will be dry as we go into the 8:00 r, 9:00 hour. now back over to megan and charley. >>> a 6-y

wendy conditions heading out this morning.lso an overnight maintenance crew that's still working if you are traveling on u.s. 40. you will see it westbound 40 at golden ring road. so extra caution in that area. we did remove the maintenance if you are traveling at the tunnels this morning a live look at 895 north of charles street. all lanes opened north and southbound 895 as well as i-95. here's a live look at west side of 695 at i-70. we had a report of a collision eastbound i-70 at old national pike. no reports of lane closures with that accident. in the meantime, let's go ahead and see what's it's going to be like on the outside with the wendy conditions for that we go to -- windy conditions and for that let's go to lynette charles. >> it's breezy this morning. and winds out of the northwest at 5 to 15 miles an hour. that's the scenario going through the rest of today. but this morning, we do have a wind chill because of that. so instead of feeling like we are in the 30s we feel like we are in the 20s heading towards the e

wendy's has dethroned burger as the second biggest chain. burger king has more restaurants. neither is close to mcdonald's which sells twice as much as wendy's and burger king combined. oprah's own network in trouble forcing new lay-offs and executive restructuring follows the sudden cancellation of the rosie o'donnell talk show. one in 10 american adults of all ages receive money for help from mom and dad the percentage twice as great among ages 18 to 34 time to cut the cord everybody. that's america's money. >>> cal trains accelerating plans to fix one of the most dangerous stretches of highway 17 in the santa cruz mountains. the chp is calling for construction of a median barrier on the laurel curve stretch of the highway following a fatal accident friday. a man's car out of control and crossed into opposing traffic. the highway patrol says it has asked for caltrans for years to install a median barrier in that area. caltrans will now speed up a safety study. >>> search on for a driver involved in hit-and-run accident in san francisco 2:00 yesterday afternoon at bryan and

wendy's has bumped burger king for the number two spot.ing out burger king for the first time since wendy's was founded in 1969. mcdonald's trumps both and by a big margin. >>> the queen celebrated her diamond jubilee. it's been 60 years since her coronation to the thrown following the death her father. she paid tribute to virtues of resilience resiliency. >> in an era where the regular worthy rhythm of life is less eye catching than doing something extraordinary, i'm reassured that i'm nearly the second woman to celebrate a diamond jubilee. >> she had kind words for her husband prince phillip. she called him a constant strength and guide. >>> the first lady revealed a little more about those secret shopping outings she's sometimes been able to take just to get out of the white house bubble. last night on the late show, she told david letterman about a woman she encountered recently at target. >> no one knew that was me. because a woman actually walked up to me, right? i was in the detergent aisle, and she said. i kid you not, excuse me, i

wendy alcot has more. >> thousands marched through the streets of paris in silence. appalled at the killing of innocent children and one of their teachers. there's shock too overseas. >> for me, children are sacred. attacking children, this type of sentiment of anti-semitism, grabbing the hair of a little girl and putting a bullet in her brain, that's absolutely, absolutely not to be tolerated. >> we were shocked and saddened to learn of the horrific attack at a jewish school in france. we stand with the victims of this attack and offer our condolences to their families and their community. we join the government of france in condemning this unprovoked and vicious act of violence. >> more than 100 investigators have been drafted in to hunt down the man responsible for the killings. until then, some 6,000 jewish people who live in france will no doubt be fearful. wendy alcot, bbc "bbc news." >> in other news, gunmen in mexico have killed 12 police officers investigating the beheading of 10 people. the officers were attacked as they searched for the boveeds in a mounta

i'm wendy rieger, in for dorene. >> and i'm jim vance. a rally initially planned for only 400 people drew thousands of people to sanford, florida tonight. and now leaders both in and out of that city are responding to calls for action in the killing of 17-year-old trayvon martin. today the police chief of sanford announced that he is temporarily stepping down. city leaders will allow the reverend al sharpton and martin's parents to have the floor during a council meeting on monday. and the governor of florida appointed a new prosecutor to investigate why and how an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch captain. but the lack of an arrest in this case continues to outrage people all over the country including here in our area. shammari stone with a report now from howard university where they had an event tonight. >> reporter: tonight howard university students paid tribute to trayvon martin. at times it was very emotional. >> saddening to see someone lose their life over something so minuscule. >> reporter: ang

>> there could be a loser, wendy. if rick santorum wins nowhere, which is possible, he could get no wins today, he's going to be seen as the loser. if he loses in ohio but does well elsewhere, he can continue, because a lot of these republican primaries today are not winner take all. everybody's going to get delegates, even ron paul today. if romney wins here in the state of ohio, and he wins as he could, five, six, seven other of these super tuesday 11 state kwon tests, he's going to be the big western. santorum could lose, romney could be the big winner on this election day. >> all right. we'll stay tuned. steve handlesman in ohio. thanks. >>> now we head to fairfax county, where voters in virginia can only choose mitt romney or ron paul as steve just mentioned. julie carrie is in the oakton area. is anyone going to the polls today? >> it's been extremely quiet at the polls today. at this precinct just 180 of the 3900 registered voters cast their ballots as of 4:00. it's not indicative of a lack of interest. it's du

wendy you will join me? >> why not.y. >> you should join us, too. hang around, barbara. >> see you later. >> okay. >>> well, in honor of pie day, today, montgomery county superintendent joshua star sent his twitter followers to a music video created by a math teacher at montgomery high school. did you hear this? >> very cool. >> yes. let's do this. ♪ ♪ triangles one by one, we know the laws and here to rums and angle sun, 180 degrees of sun, saw triangles one by one ♪ >> this video is the work of math teacher jacob scott who also goes by the name of two pie. >> scott was named the county's naacp teacher of the year in 2010 for his unique way of connecting with students. pie day is celebrated march 14th because it corresponds with 314 you might recall from math -- math class that pie is equal to about 3.14. i thought it had to do with the dessert. so -- the pastry. >> celebrate with the paste trip. >>> all rig -- pastry. people! look at you! texting...blogging... all this technology, but you're still banking like pilgrim

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wendy. >>> news 4 along with nbc news will watch the ohio returns all night long. watch nbcwashington.com for updates. we'll be back on the air live with news 4 today at 4:30 tomorrow morning. >>> president obama appears to be in campaign mode and took some spotlight away from the gop today by holding his first news conference of the year. he announced a plan to cut refinancing fees for fha loans by half. he talked about syria defending his decision to use sanctions instead of military action against iran. >> if some of these folks think that it's time to launch a war, they should say so. they should explain to the american people exactly why they would do that and what the consequences would be. everything else is just talk. >> reporter: the white house claims it's just a coincidence that the president decided to hold his news conference on what some call the gop's biggest day of the year. >>> gas prices could be a central theme in the presidential election this fall. they are already driving some people to steal gas right out of other people's cars. we have more

wendy's had sales of $8.5 billion last year, while b.k.'s sales were $8.4 billion. mcdonald's still rules when it comes to burgers with over $34 billion in sales. and for fast food overall, mcdonald's is number one, but its followed by subway and starbucks where sales neared $10 billion last year. susie i will put you down for one double cheeseburger. >> i have a real weakness for the french fries. i don't usually go for fast food but i will take the french fry. >> tom: i'll take the burger, you get the fridays that is nightly business report for this monday, march 19th. have a great evening,. >> susie: same to you, tom. good to morrow night. "nightly business report" is made possible by: captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org