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>> well, they located his vehicle which was only parked about ten yards from where the shooter initiated his first volley of rounds through the fence that divides the ball field from the parking lot of the ymca. this -- he had to know how to get here. this is suburban d.c. this is a residential area. its not something you would just see -- you would see some of the ball fields from the highway but you would have to know how to take the backroads to get to this specific location. so the first thi...

Hers was a blue collar detroit suburb known as east detroit. neighbors mostly assembled cars or stamped out the parts for it. the borders of this teenage girl were home, school, church, and the mall for movies, meeting boys, and messing around. in the warm months, there were rundown ball fields for softball games, a family passion. and, of course, there was a friendly dairy queen down the street after softball. eddie jr.s the kid brother. >> what did cindy get, do you remember? >> vanilla probab...

For playgrounds and ball fields and in one case a mountain bike park. which is great. "fttátqq". you have to pull for them right? i wish them all best. what a challenge, #tiright? i mean it is hard but it is probably good to be able to look back at that one big disaster that really felt in a lot of ways like the end of the world. it is hard but good to be able to look back at something that consequence convention isly daft truss and find maybe the one nice thing there is to say about it. this i...

Have one remarkable article. and it notes one bright spot, basically, in the mount st. helens aftermath which is about that little town of castle rock. the seattle times said the little town of castle rock decided what to do with some of that sand and ash that almost buried them 35 years ago. volcanic sand is useful in playing fields and sand traps and. and now the city of castle rock is managing the sediment pile blue selling its volcanic sand. the town is earning some money, thousands of dolla...

Crackdown that can exacerbate tensions between the police and the city? >> thats right. we did not militarized neighborhoods which further polarizes the policing communities, what we did, we leveraged the greatest force multiplier, it is not technology or equipment, its the people themselves. once we started to communicate with them absent crisis, right? 911 calls cannot be the only time that police and the community are interacting. >> are meeting? >> exactly. once we started to interact with t...

Yet had the national political conversation. >> i think we have a map of the shale deposits in the u.s. massive fracking booms in texas, north dakota, ohio, pennsylvania. its much of the middle of this country. >> yeah. an theres huge -- i mean whats fascinating about fracking the way it transforms the landscape, texas oil fields are texas old fields and west texas is oil and had the oil industry there for years. places where new fracking deposits and gas deposits are discovered it could be a li...

Involved in a number of deaths. we will speak to the ceo and founder of five-hour energy about all of this. jenna: look forward to that conversation. one of the untold stories of sandys devastation is the cost of the cleanup. toys, photo albums, broken china, what can be found in fast-rising heaps of rubble in a temporary landfill out in queens. thousands of tons of debris piling up in a parking lot. liz macdonald is there now with more. liz? >> reporter: yeah, thats right, jenna. were in the he...

Parks and ball fields. and in all, nearly half of the states in the country falling and dealing with excessive heat warnings and advisories today and all of the dangers that go along with it. mother nature turned up the heat another notch with the midwest once again feeling the burn. not since the 1940s has the windy city sizzled like this, with temperatures above 100 degrees for three straight days and count gs. >> free water. >> reporter: on chicagos south side, volunteers offered free water t...

Rick levantha hr-rbg is live with more. >> reporter: the father released a statement saying he had no idea what happened to his daughter. investigators say they dont know either. we hear a pond is being drained about a block from the fathers home. the father did have visitors at his home the day she vanished and they seized a couple of vehicles from his driveway, part of an extensive investigation involving dozens of local, state and federal investigators with ongoing searches of wooded areas, b...

Thanksgiving side dishes? and what better way to do it than ncaa bracket style. yes, taking a cue from the ncaa basketball tournament, they seated 16 sides and set up their own bracket. the number one overall seed went to the old standby, stuffing. after the first round of voting, there was only one upset. 15th seed dinner rolls sent the number two seed, green bean casserole to the garbage. the winners of the foodie four will be announced tomorrow. im pulling for the sweet potatoes with marshmal...