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Top stories we are following on this friday september a woman in a San Francisco park is run over and killed while with her child. You may be surprised who is responsible for hitting the woman. We have the latest in the investigation. Expect hot weather this weekend as the bay area will be hit with a mini heat wave. Well tell you just how hot its going to get. Span of the bay bridge is open is almost here. We have been seeing unusual amounts of traffic. Well take a look at what to expect on the ...

Proposed settlement. Woodruff its back to school time, but a number of communities face classrooms that are failing their students. We have a report on the Important Role principals play in education reform. Brown and we continue our look at the legacy of the march on washington 50 years on. Tonight, reflections on the challenges ahead for Martin Luther kings vision for a multiracial democracy. 40 of whites dont have friends outside of their own race. So in some ways were still as segregated as ...

Woodruff its back to school time, but a number of communities face classrooms that are failing their students. We have a report on the Important Role principals play in education reform. Brown and we continue our look at the legacy of the march on washington 50 years on. Tonight, reflections on the challenges ahead for Martin Luther kings vision for a multiracial democracy. 40 of whites dont have friends outside of their own race. So in some ways were still as segregated as we were 50 years ago ...

Secretary of state paul, Stanley Mcchrystal and marcia anderson. This is part of the chicago ideas week conference. They represent less than 1 of the american population. Most of them, from workingclass families. From not too far from here in the workingclass neighborhood of chicago or the bar rios of the southwest or the deep woods of the self and the hills of new england. Or from the rural part of my native great plains. They volunteered a sense of patriotism and a determination to advance the...

Who will help lead those behind them. It is different than after world war ii because the smaller population, which makes it harder. They are more of a minority. It is important we do these things to reassure them and the organizations. I need a point of order. [laughter] you can go on this time. I do not want to through do that again. It is not as ivy league schools. My College Public institution that serves the innercity section of york did away with rotc about 16 years after i graduated becau...

Latest version of the video game halo. Which sold almost 4 Million Units in just the first week on shelves. Halo just one reason why video games are quickly eclipsing hollywood block busters for pure profit. And abcs Neal Karlinsky explains why. Action big cameras, big special effects. And a music score by a full orchestra in england. World class artists and a crew of hundreds, and what you get is the lead contender for this years biggest entertainment block buster. Not a movie, a video game. Ha...

Order to even get care, and that care was segregated from the rest of healthcare. Youve heard many times about the other problems that are associated. Well, theyre literally paid for separately with a workforce thats trained differently. Now, as healthcare reform and parity roll out, people at all parts of that continuum ought to be able to get care from being screened early, as candace says, through interventions in the office of their primary care doctors to Specialty Care that they already ha...

Think should be a part of it. I can talk to the principals personally. That help is invaluable. I will tell you i was surprised when we did our first fundraiser. We have raised over 100,000 each year for this. I thought when people would talk about budget cuts and the reasons why we couldnt open the schoolyards, this is true. The use of proceeds i thought would be 100 paying for people to open and close the gates. The majority of the money is going to the ptas, and thats a good thing for them to...

Waiting a month or two. They went to the pta, hey, look, we invested a lot of time on the Community Garden and would it be okay to hold off. I thought thats what it meant. And can you clarify pasara, a school in my community. Do they do the cleanup . Do they get the same level of service from the city . Yes, okay, good. Now i have a question. Is there you know you say you are looking for more schools to participate. So you have capacity for growth, because you know i look through this. And there...

Williams. Good evening, im lester holt in tonight for brian. In newtown, connecticut, this was a day filled with trepidation and deep emotions as the pupils and staff of sandy hook elementary returned to class for the First Time Since the mass murder there. Tomorrow will mark three weeks since the rampage that left 20 children and 6 adults dead. The building where it happened remains off limits tonight, still an active crime scene. And so for the time being, sandy hook has a new home. It also ha...