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good morning. inside jaycee s world. for the first time jaycee lee dugard s aunt speaks out about the reunion her family has prayed for for 18 long years, what life for jaycee and her daughters is like now and what it was like during their captivity, this morning, surprising new details. ted kennedy in his own words about the pain and remorse he carried for 40 years over chappaquiddick. a look at the revealing new memoir he didn t want anyone to read until after his death. at long last, ten weeks after his shocking death, michael jackson will finally be laid to rest, today, thursday, michael jackson will finally be laid to rest, today, thursday, september 3, 2009. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this thursday morning. i m meredith vieria. i m lester holt. ever since jaycee lee dugard s rescue, we ve been wondering about this. her aunt gave an exclusive interview to the orange county register, they said with jaycee back in her live, the darkness and despair that surrounded the family for 18 years has instantly be lifted. jaycee and her daughter are not being pressed to give details about their lives in captivity, but they had access to the internet and jaycee taught her daughters to read and write. we ll have more an what her aunt had to say in a moment. there was some confusion about the relationships between the daughters and mom. there s still cop fusion about. that also a tack toll remember, a high school football player uses the skills he learned on the field to take down a gun wielding classmate on a school bus, the brave act with credited for saving 22 lives. it was all caught on tape. that young man, kaleb eulls is with us this morning. plus levi johnson is speaking out in his version of what life in the palin house doesn t come close to what the alaska governor has portrayed. we ll get into that just he d. but let us begin with jaycee lee dugard s aunt speaking out for the first time. that s right, the dugard family for the past few day, it s been about reconnecting with jaycee and getting to know her two daughters. her aunt tina diogu bard spoke to the orange county register about the emotional reunion and said despite everything that happened, jaycee and her girls are happy. when she laid eyes on her niece for the first time in 18 year, the two immediately recognized each other. she described her as a beautiful 29-year-old are woman and her two daughters are educated and bright with their mother s blonde hair, bright blue eyes and big smile. jaycee s aunt told the orange county register, there s a sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness, jaycee and the girls are happy. tina yeasy and her two girls spent five days together during which tina said the girls played video games and drew pictures. jaycee read a lot and talked about recent movies saying she want the to see the sandra bull lock movie accou the proposal she didn t ask her what life was like in the tent in the backyard. saying people probably think it was a horrible scary thing for all of us. but adds the horrible scary thing happened 18 years ago and continued to happen pour 18 years. the darkness and despair has lifted. while in captivity, jaycee was able to teach her daughters to read and write. she says, it s clear they ve been on the internet and know a lot of things. one of the girls pointed out constellation to even if in a one night while they were staring at the sky, but for now, jaycee s aunt says it s all about reconnecting. tina dugard said they have not been watching the coverage, she said i may never know what happened, but she s home. they clearly have a long road ahead of them. thank you so much. i m going to bring in criminal profiler pat brown. good morning to you. good morning, to you meredith. she said since they ve been reunited there s a sense of comfort and optimism, a sense of happiness, jaycee and her girl, according to the aunt are happy. does that surprise you? not really, i mean we re all focusing opt real negative, meredith and the horrors that we would feel, we would experience in those 18 years, but they have now gone to a nice place, they see a beautiful home, happy people, i m sure they re shell shock and lot of deal with, but they re reunited with people they do feel a bandar bin sultan to. you know how sometimes you meet with someone you haven t seen in 10 or 20 year, there s an almost connection there and all the years just fall away. i think there s a bit of that. there s a bit of a honeymoon period, then the reality will set in and that will be more to deal with. but pat, i would assume they would be severely traumatized, but to listen to the aunt, jaycee taught them to read and write, and to me, they strike me as really normal kids. so what does that say about the resiliency about jaycee and her daughters? there s a lot of it there. but we re looking at it from the outside, we re looking at everything that s awful, the aunt is trying to tell us, 24 hours a day were not awful for these kids, they were are in, there interagtding with each oh, doing things. i home schooled all three of my children to the winter college, so i didn t keep them in their backyard, but my children grew up with me. i can tell you a whole day at home is not an awful thing, we did a lot of reading and writing, read literature, had a good time, they did to the go to school. so these girls were not necessarily harmed in that way, the relationship with a captor was one issue that was tear ribld and the fact they couldn t get out of that location was horrible for 18 years, i can t imagine that but the aunt is trying to say not all 24 hours were awful, so these children didn t live like they didn t have anything. so she said look at the positives there. some of the things that happened if, there there were some good things that happened, too, we have to focus on. that the aunt is saying they re not talking about what happened, they re not offering any information, they re playing board games, watching movies, spending time together just homelanding hands it about reconnecting, according to the aunt. is that the right idea at this point, that s what they need to do? absolutely. they don t want to start off saying, your whole life is a sham. 18 years have been garbage. that isn t true and that s what the aunt is trying to say. later on, when they re trying to reconnect with the world and trying to deal with what happened in the past, that s where the therapist will come in and help them through that, that s not what it s all about, we love you, you re here, you re healthy you can do things, you have to talents, we appreciate those talents in you. we re not thinking of you as animals, we re thinking of as wonderful human beings, starting off on a good foot and i think the mother and aunt are doing the right thing. all right, pat brown, thank you very much. we wish that family all the best, they ve got tough days ahead of them. let s go to natalie, she s in for ann at the news desk and has a check of the top stories. firefighters are making more progress against the massive wildfire north of los angeles. nbc s lee cowan is at the fire command center. lee, still a very long way to go there. yeah, natalie, still very long way. this is now officially the largest fire in l.a. county history, it s burned through more than 220 square miles an firefighters say they still have about 90 miles of fire lines they still have to dig. but as you say, they are making progress, a lot of mandatory evacuations have been lifted. some of the firefighters are actually being sent home today as well as for weather, cooler temperatures today, higher humidities will help and they are hoping to get those fixed wing aircraft back in to give firefighters on the ground the edge. lee cowan in los angeles, thank you, lee. more than 50 students at emory university in atlanta have been diagnosed with swine flu and are living in their own dorm, kept away from other students while they recover. the health department is investigating lewd behavior and sexual misconduct among private contractors guarding the u.s. embassy in kabul. kabul is one of the most dangerous places in the world, no place for for the kind of antics you re about it see here, which one state department official called disgusting. these shocking photos may look like grat boys gone wild, but they re reportedly private security contractors for the state department, guarding the u.s. embassy in kabul. this is not just about guys in parties being naked. this about a total breakdown of the command structure. reporter: the private watchdog group project on government oversight claims supervisors and security guards often engaged in lewd and deviant behavior that posed a significant threat to security at the u.s. embassy. the company is armor group, subsidiary of whacken hut wsi. to be clear, there were some things going on in kabul, which we were not aware of, but frankly, we should have been aware of them. reporter: with the state department and military stretched so thin, the u.s. military heavily relies on private contractor, in fact, there are more private krablgters than military forces in afghanistan today. in this incident just a reminder that u.s. government people responsible for these functions have to keep tabs on the contractors and hold them to the highest standards. reporter: in this case, we contacted the private contracting company involved, but got no response. meanwhile, the embassy in kabul announced this morning they re already taking some steps to clean up the place. and has now banned alcohol from that security guard camp. probably a good idea. natalie. absolutely. jim miklaszewski at the pentagon. thank you. the world s biggest drug marek pfizer has agreed to a pay a record $2.3 billion fine after the government accused it of improperly marketing 13 medicines. and in norway, take a look at this image of what a photographer taught kaat of what appears to be a crying a live of tears as a flash melts into the sea. that particular flasher has been shrinking as much as 160 feet a year for decades. that is truly a remarkable shot there. 7:10 right now. back to meredith, lester. the new image of global it is shipping a beautiful yet again. an area of low pressure off the carolina shores. basically partly cloudy today. looking great for the next several days. throughout labor day weekend, we lester, over to you. stephanie, thanks. now to the raging debate over president obama s push to reform the nation s health care system. the president plan s s to make case next week in a prime time address before a joint session of congress. chuck todd is nbc s chief white house correspondent. good morning to you. this speech is being called high risk/high reward, but is is it the last-ditch chance for the president to sell his plan? well, look, as you know, august is going to be the month of the town hall as far as politics of 2009 is concerned and there are some democrats who are frankly wavering a little bit in supporting health care reform and they ve been begging to get the president out there more to describe in detail what his plan is. rather than having this be the democratic plan or multiple plans. so what the white house is doing is responding to that plea. now you ve got the president, he s up there. this is the biggest of stage, this is a joint session of congress speeches, prime time and as far as the politics of health care is concerned, it s probably the last shot he s got to fix this publicly. will this be a chance for him to either take the public option off the table once and for all or to leave it there? that s a great question. you know, yesterday, i interviewed david axelrod. i asked him this question three different ways, he wouldn t touch t they still want to stick to their one stance, which the president believes there should be a public option but not drawing a line in the sand. we re going to supposedly hear more about exactly what he believes is the best way to go forward on this on wednesday and in the way axelrod, said, look, i don t want to scoop my boss. he s going to let the details go from there. the republicans are asking for a do-over, start from scratch, is that going to happen? it s not. this is case where the president is going to go throughout and frankly speak to democrats. it s going to be an odd picture in this respect. you re going to have half the chamber signature on their hand, republicans think it s nothing more than a political ploy. the president trying to fix his poll ratings, et cetera, they re going to be sitting on their hands a lot and the other half of the room cheering and this is what the president is going to do, talk more to democrats. thanks very much. you got it. 7:14, here s meredith. now to senator ted kennedy s much anticipated memoir, an advance copy is offering reve revealing insight into the lion of the cincinnati s public and private life. andrea mitchell has more. good morning, meredith. this is the book that teddy kennedy struggled to complete as he was battling brain cancer. he expresses deep remorse for chappaquiddick and other personal failings and reveals details about his relationship with presidents carter and clinton and his three brothers, considering their accomplishments, it occurs to me my life has been a constant state of catching up. approaching his own mortality, it is a reflective and confessional ted kennedy who noted his own moral failure, most notably chappaquiddick, the car accident that took the life of mary joe kopechne, a tragedy that haunted him every day of his life. i would understand full well why some might think it right for me to resign. reporter: in true compass, he describes his actions as inexcusable, writing he panicked and made terrible decisions and atonement is a process that never ends. he described excessive drinking and driving joan kennedy deeper into her anguish, writing, try id to stay ahead of the darkness. kennedy offers new insights into vietnam, writing that president kennedy, his brother, was looking for a military solution but never found a way to get out of the conflict. had he reveals that that his brother bobby offered to negotiate peace with vietnam in 1967 but that lbj did not trust bobby s motives. after the assassination in dallas, he reveals that the family feared for bobby s emotional health, worrying that his close to being a tragedy within a tragedy. the poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs. reporter: kennedy is blunt for his reasons for running against jimmy carter in 198 okay, describing him as a difficult man to convince of anything and their relationship as unhealthy and blaming carter as squandering an opportunity to get something done on health care. he did not run in 1984 because his children feared for his life. he did not blame bill or hillary clinton for their failure to pass health care and called the president after he confessed he is affair with monica lewinsky to assure him he would stand by him. he used notes he kept for more than 50 years in an oral history project. an advanced copy was obtained by the new york times. in describing his personal and family tragedy, senator kennedy write, i have fallen short in my life, but my faith has always brought me home. meredi meredith. andrea mitchell, thank you very much. 7:17. here s lester. now to new revelations about bernie madoff s ponzi scheme. in a report the watchdog says the agency had repeated opportunities to uncover the fraud going back 16 years and blew them all. senior investigative correspondent lisa myers has more. lisa, good morning. reporter: lester, good morning. this is a devastating indictment of an agency that is supposed to protect investors. the report paints a picture of incompetence and inexperience, of examiners who didn t do the most basic checks. in some cases because going through the records would have been too time consuming. bernie madoff s investment activities first aroused suspicion as early as 1992. the investigation by the s.e.c. s inspector general reveals that over 16 year, the s.e.c. received six substantive complaints that raised significant red flags, which have followed up on could have uncovered the ponzi scheme. we already knew that in 2005 whistle blower harry makopoulis gave des of the fraud, but now it appears there are many more missed clues, including this one from last year, that madoff keeps two sets of records, including one on his computer. for 16 years, it was one abysmal failure after another that loud him to continue his scheme. reporter: there were five s.e.c. examinations, all know rowly focussed ament not one thorough and competent or looking into a the possibility of a ponzi scheme. even when s.e.c. lawyers caught madoff in lies and misrepresentations, the matter was eventually dropped. it is incompetence, but incompetence of a magnitude that s hard to believe. reporter: now to help madoff s victim, his $8.75 million beachson front home in montauk, new york,up for sale. shown on a video tour conducted by u. s. marshals. the view says it all, panoramic view throughout the house. reporter: understated elegan elegance. 3,000 square feet and a pool, with ralph den near yo as a neighbor. madeoff told investigators he thought he was caught three years ago when he had to give the s.e.c. aaccount number for his trades. had the s.e.c. simply checked that account, it would have been game over. madoff said he was aastonished when the s.e.c. never followed up. amazing story. 7:20 is the time now. here s meredith. thank you. ten weeks after his death, michael jackson will finally be laid to rest. jeff rossum is there where tonight s private ceremony will be held. good morning. hi, meredith. good morning to you. you said it, been so long since michael jackson died, begs the question, why did it take so long to get this to moment, the funeral tonight. friends say the answer is pretty simple, major jackson family infighting. they couldn t decide what to do, when to do it or where to do it until now. so that service will be held tonight, private at sunset, this morning, we have new details. michael jackson will be interred here inside forest lawn s great mausoleum, this grand marshal hallway leads to crypts 13 stories underground. during tonight s sunset service, michael will rest inside a gold casket worth $30,000 wearing a special wig and shoulder length hair and makeup like he s about to perform. daddy has been the best father you could ever imagine. reporter: paris, prince and blanket reportedly wrote notes saying daddy, we love you, we ll miss you and will place them inside his casket next to his famous white glove. al jackson will be at the funeral. a lot of people don t understand, that at the end of the day, with his superstar and icon status, this is somebody s daddy and somebody s son. reporter: to fend off curious fans, his casket will be encased in deep concrete. this is a fort knox of cemeteries. it s a replica, 13th century italian building. reinforced concrete, lots of security, lots of movie stars are interred there and it s got 24 hour security. reporter: in fact, it s the eternal home of walt disney, humphrey bogart, nat king cole, george burns and the list goes on. though, nbc news has confirmed the gladys knight will sing at the grave site. we re told debbie rowe was invited but it s unclear if she s coming. tonight s funeral will be a sharp contrast from the public memorial in july and for the family a short escape for the spectacle swirling outside the scemetery walls. michael s death has been ruled a homicide, his personal physician dr. conrad murray and others are under investigation. i just want to see the people that were involved, that caused michael s death, i just want to see them punished. reporter: security is so tight around here, police have already closed off the streets around the cemetery. meredith? jeff, thank you very much. when nbc news has learned about other sexual assault and kidnapping allegations, coming up, against jaycee lee levi johnson speaks about what he claims sarah palin pushed for during her daughter s pregnancy. plus a high school football player who tackled a girl who was threatening a bus with a gun. we ll share his story after the news. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. here s a look at one of our top stories. anne arundel county police have identified the two sisters found dead inside a look him home yesterday morning. the 15-year-old and 55-year-old were found shot and killed. when police and the stopped the shooter in prince george s, he pulled out a gun and that is when officers shot him several planned several times and he died from his injuries. he had an extensive criminal record, most of it recent. the delays have got much heavier since last checked. we have a vehicle fire creating problems in the area of shawan road or rather, york road. shawan road is with the delays begin on the southbound harrisburg expressway. heavy delays there. also, a problem in the city. saratoga and greene street, watch for an accident. southbound 795 is backing down from owings mills to the beltway. southbound to under 95 remains jammed from 30 to down to the area of 197, where we had an earlier accident. 12 minutes of the northeast outer loop. if you are heading out here, typical delays that stretch back to white marsh. a life of the of liberty, where we still dealing with delays. can we are looking at a nice day today. partly cloudy skies, high of 80 yet again. slight chance of a shower down around ocean city today. 77, and beautiful trend continues through labor day weekend. check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. our next live update, 7:55. 7:30 now on this thursday morning, september 3, 2009. another stunning start to the day here in new york and we have an absolutely stunning crowd soaking it all in. go out and say hey in just a while. mile unside studio 1a, i m meredith vieira with lester holt, matt is out today. other alleged crimes in phillip gard do do s past, he s the man accused of kidnapping jaycee lee dugard and holding her for 18 years. also stunning new allegations being made by levi johnston. in a new vanity fair article, he portrays the picture the governor play portrays to the world isn t true at off. we ll tell you what he has to say coming up. do you know where that picture is coming to us from? well, we want to you log john to our website to guess. we ll tell you more about that and give you another clue just a little later on. i have no idea at this point. when was the last time you saw a phone like that? exactly. we re beginning with new information on phillip garrido. george lewis is outside of the garrido s home in antioch, california. good morning to you. good morning to you, mered h meredith. we ve all heard about the 1977 rape conviction of phillip garrido but now nbc news has learn of other rape allegations, cases that were never prosecuted. in one instance, the alleged victims were a young 14-year-old girl who refused to take the stand against garrido. antioch, california, police lieutenant leonard orman says an old case has new significance. the victim was how old at the time? about 14 years old. reporter: one april evening in 1972, he says, the alleged victim and a girlfriend went to the public library to meet a couple of boys. one of them was phillip garrido, seven years older than the girl. with garrido at the wheel, apparently high on drug, the lieutenant says, they drove through the streets of antioch where police tried to pull them over. at some point, they were able to lose the police and that s when they go to mr. garrido s home. reporter: at the house, the girls were taken it a shed out back where lieutenant orman says they partied, the girls given drugs. it continued at a local motel, where the girl who had been with garrido told police she was sexually assaulted, repeatedly, she was eventually discovered by her parents. the victim made a decision not to testify, therefore the case was dropped. reporter: that was shortly before garrido married his first wife christine, who earlier this week told inside edition about his alleged sexual appetites. multi partners is what he wanted, i wouldn t go for that. reporter: in 1977, garrido was convicted of kidnapping and raping a woman in nevada and served 11 years. this is the arrest report obtained by nbc news. the prosecutor in that case says one hour before the victim was abducted, garrido tried to handcuff and kidnap another woman but that she got away. the judge in the trial would not allow testimony about that earlier incident. i can look right through the fence and see them. reporter: back in antioch, a neighbor says he observed wild parties in the complex of sheds and tents buy hind the garrido house. they were just drinking and high fiving and carrying on. you know, hollering, music was wild. it was hard to tell because the music was really loud. big bohnfire was going on. you know reporter: women? didn t see any women over there at all. reporter: did you hear any women? they re doing an investigation. i can t say pour sure. reporter: he says the fbi has now asked him not to discuss that. what law enforcement wants to know, is were there multiple victims and perhaps multiple predators. the story of what went on here at the garrido house gets more twisted with every passing day. just keeps unwinding. thank you very much. lieutenant orman is with us exclusively. good morning to you. good morning. what s starting it to emerge is a history of a man with sexual assault that stems back way before the alleged abduction of jaycee, now allegations that he raped a 14-year-old in 1972. i know that case was dropped because she refused to testify but do you believe that may have been the start of his sexual crime spree? it certainly is an indication that it started early on in his life. in re-examining this case, lieutenant, what are the circumstances surrounding it tell you about this man, phillip garrido? what insight do you get? in my opinion, excuse me, in my opinion, the 1972 case certainly indicates that he is a predator, someone who wants to prey on younger girls. you know, you look at this case, 72 case again, charged with rape, charges are dropped. four years later, he does indeed kidnap and rape a 25-year-old woman, serves 11 years of a prison sentence before he is paroled, then a few years later, allegedly abducts jaycee, for the next 18 years, she is living in his backyard, he fathers two of her children, all the time he is a registered sex offender and he has regular visits from parole officers, leaves a lot of people scratch aing their heads, wondering how can that happen? it s a very unusual situation. i don t think it happens very often. i think if it s a perfect storm type situation where he had the type of lot and house that he could accomplish this sort of thing. he was able to disguise it very well. do you believe in most cases because there are literally thousands and thousands of sexually offenders on the registries throughout the country. do you believe most of them are carefully monitored? i think everybody is doing their best. i think that we try and identify those that we think are going to reoffend and pay a lot of attention to those folks, but obviously the numbers are overwhelming. in this case, here s a great example of someone who might be likely to reoffend and nobody picked up on anything. they certainly did not pick up on the fact that he had these people seek created in his yard, that s correct. due lent do you think there will be other victims found along the way as this case continues to unravel? i think we have a long way to go, there s a lot more to be looked at and it wouldn t surprise me at all if more victims were located. when you say there s a lot more to be looked at, what do you mean? all agency just specific to the county i am in, contra costa, we are all looking at cold cases we have this person may have been responsible for and that will be a very long process. all right. lieutenant leonard orman, thank you so much for your time this we are a little booklet and we are normally this time of year. 65 downtown. 58 at the airport. 80 is the forecast high. a mix of sunshine and clouds. and for all your weather needs, you can always go to weather.com. meredith, look at this. you need to grab your jacket. everyone in the crowd is wearing long sleeves. it s chilly out here. i ve got to pull my sleeves down. still to come, parking tigts, pawn shop visits, even mayor counseling, the surprising things that can damage your credit score. but up next, did sarah palin want to adopt her own grandson in order to hide her teen daughter s pregnancy. the new claim being made by levi johnston, right after this. . now to levi johnston, the father of a sarah palin s grandchild speaking out about life inside the palin home and the picture he paints isn t exactly the same the former governor has promoted. norah o donnell is in washington to tell us more about it. there s no love lost between sarah palin and her daughter bristol s former boyfriend but now levi johnston is trashing her publicly. saying she complained about her workload, didn t cook for her kids and tried to keep bristol s pregnancy secret. is he telling the truth or is this just another ploy for publicity? what you see right here is waus scylla. reporter: this is levi johnston like you ve never seen him before. and we are going to show you vanity fair wear. reporter: now he s estranged from the palins, and busy trying to make it as an actor and model. teterering on the edge of a new york skyscraper in this video from a photo shoot with vanity fair. in an interview with the magazine, levi said palin complained her job as governor was too hard and asked bristol and him to keep their baby secret and that she and todd would adopt him. she also questions palin s mothering skills saying before she was nominated, there wasn t much parenting in that house, sarah doesn t cook, todd doesn t cook, the kids do it all themselves, but is he telling the truth? when matt visited, she cuddled with her newborn and baked a salmon hall but casserole. this is the cleanest protein on god s green earth. reporter: he is also challenging her outdoorsman. she says she goes hunting ands off animal meat. he says i ve never seen it, i ve never seen her touch a fishing pole. but she s seen picking fish like salmon out of nets, something she s done for more than 20 years. i think the article makes levi johnston just looks like kiss and tell creep, almost anybody can become a celebrity. levi johnston s claim to fame is that he got his girlfriend pregnant. there s also talk that levi johnston could pose for playgirl magazine. now governor sarah palin won t comment on the latest charge, instead she is focused on finish her book out next spring. she s also hitting the speaking circuit and sifting through over 1,000 invitations. something tells me we haven t heard the last of levi. coming up, scientists working to make death disappear. we ll tell you about that right after this. back at 7:48, in secrets of the future today, living forever. can science make that reality? here s nbc s keith miller. reporter: humans have dreamt of immortality since the beginning of time. we re the first creatures that know clearly they re going to die, so we re pretty upset about that fact. reporter: religious belief is built on everlasting life. alchemists have searched for the secret of eternal youth. drink that potion and you ll never grow one day older. reporter: it is treated as living reality. accept it. reporter: now some scientists think death may be overrated. there s no evidence of a death gene. we simply die because of a series of accident noose accumulated cellular and molecular damage is what kills us, they say. fix that and a much longer lifespan may be within reach. when do you think it will happen when life expectancy will be in the hundreds? with a bit of luck, it s going to happen within the next few decades, that suddenly we go to having a life expectancy that can t be measured. reporter: the holy grail is to discover how to slow down the aging process to stop all of us from growing old. i think we re going to be able to defeat aging, to keep people in a biologically youthful state as long as they live. we stop people from getting sick, the longevity benefits are side benefit. reporter: and it will take an arsenal of cutting edge medical technology, some of them already out there, to repair, replace and maintain our cell structure. for those who can t wait, there s a $1 billion industry devoted to holding back the hands of time. some people swear by the benefits of sub zero temperatures. and for a cool $120,000, you can go into cold storage. perhaps to be resurrected in the future. a calorie restricted diet can extend the lifespan of worms and mice, but does it work for humans? david fisher has lived on 1,500 hundred calories a day for 20 year, about half the average male intake, it involves some sacrifice. i smell a pizza and yeah, i ll think, well that s quite nice. reporter: but fish, now 52, says he feels and looks like a much younger man. what i don t want is for nature to set a limit on my longevity. i want to keep the option open. fame, i m going to live forever reporter: but a vastly extended lifespan brings potential problems. can you imagine watching reality tv for a thousand years? i certainly cannot imagine watching reality tv for a thousand second, but hello, i probably will not have alzheimers disease. where does sex fit into this? it s quite clear we ll be able to maintain people s sex drives for as long as they live. reporter: for a thousand years? i think they ll be very tired. and that means the question of eternal love. for as long as you live. reporter: giving the marital vow til death do us part, a whole new meaning. for today, keith mill, nbc news, london. wow. i can t afford another 100 years of my body parts dropping and drooping. i can t, i can t go there. i was thinking about the retirement planning i ve got to row start. but you can have sex. that s great. enough already. yeah. still to come, an act of bravery on a school bus caught on tape, the football player who tackled a gun wielding girl coming up. but first your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am stan stovall. let s get a check of the morning commute with traffic pulse 11 and sarah caldwell. very heavy volume-related delays. harrisburg expressway is down to nine miles per hour. from shawan road down to the beltway. read on the southbound j.f.x. just south of the belt when. northeast out of it, 14. southbound 795 backing down from owings mills to the beltway. saratoga and greene street, watch for an accident there. all this is due to an earlier accident. 17 minutes is the drive time on the other the west side. six-minute ride on the south as you make whiteford mchenry make your way to fort mchenry. we will switch to a larger view of the west side delay. standard stuff there. we will see another gorgeous day today with a mix of sunshine and clouds. very comfortable again. 77 to 80 degrees. still below where we should be at 82. sun sets tonight, winds still steady at the northeast. the trend continues fight in and through the labor day weekend. next shot of showers and the seven-day not until wednesday. check the bottom of your screen for updated news and traffic information. traffic information. our next live .and big hearts happy too. because as part of a heart healthy diet. .those delicious oats in 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(cheerios spilling) cheerios. how can something so little. .help you do something so big. 8:00 now on this thursday mornin morning, 2009. you re looking at the folks gathereded on plaza waving hello to family and friends back home a nice crowd here today, a very fall-like day. i m meredith vieira along with lester holt, matt and al are off today. a high school player is being hailed today for a true hero. not for this actions on the field. he saved nearly two dozen lives when he tackled a fellow student who was waving a gun on a school bus. he s going to share his story with us. 22 kids on this bus. he deflects attention to him while the kids are escaping. turned out well. you don t carry a lot of debt, you pay your bills on time. but if you ve been to a pawn shop or marriage counselor, that could affect your credit score. we re going to learn more about the things we do to improve that score and why it s becoming more and a more more important these days. we are kicking off something special this morning we are calling were the where are we today? we will be live at locations across the u.s., but here s the catch, you have to guess where we are. our first location, we showed you earlier, here it is again. do you recognize it. if not, here is a clue. well, that clears it up for me. like a recording studio? what is hawaiian soundproof? i haven t a clue. i have no idea what that is. didn t help us so. if you think you know, go to our website, go to todayshow.com and enter for a chance to win $25,000 sweep stakes and tomorrow we are going to reveal where we were today. if that makes sense to you. right now, we want to go back inside and get another check of the news headlines and say hello to natalie morales. good morning again. hundreds of people who evacuated that massive wildfire burning north of los angeles are being allowed to return home. during the night, firefighters made progress setting controlled burns and removing dry brush around the blaze, which has burned more than 110 homes and buildings and some 220 square miles. an investigation is under way into what sparked the fire. people in mexico are assessing the damage from what had been hurricane jimena, it sank boats and ripped off roofs in the southern california peninsula. this morning, the death toll has risen to 57 from wednesday s mag my tud 7.0 earthquake in indonesia. rescuers are searching for people who may be trapped under the buildings that have been toppled. president obama take his case for health care reform to capitol hill, he ll make an address next wednesday to a joint session of congress. washington street is keeping an eye on two reports out today. erin burnett is at the new york stock exchange, today the focus on jobs and retail sales, right? so far optimism in charge after a tough start to the month of september, we are looking a little bit solid here at the o we re going to get a preview of the jobs numbers tomorrow, that s how many people filed for unemployment claims this week, that s an important number that will move markets today. also on the retail front, consumers, work they re spending matters, the biggest retailer out so far, costco saleses were down but not nearly as much as anticipate the. so that s a good news story for the markets this morning. back to you. erin burnett, thank you. the man accused in the shooting death of a guard at the u.s. holocaust memorial in june will have to stay behind bars until his trial. a judge wednesday also ordered 89-year-old james von brund to undergo a competency test. this is first. the madison of wisconsin has named its official city bird, and it s a plastic flamingo, it stems from a prank when university students put a thousand plastic flamingos on the lawn outside the dean s office. back outside to meredith and lester. i like the pink flamingo. i think matt has those on his lawn. r r it would just be a couple of degrees below normal, with a high of 80 degree high of 80 today. it looks like we will be beautiful again. for tomorrow, more of the same. partly cloudy and 81. all right, meredith, back to you. thank you very much, steph. thank you. he saved 22 lives by tackling a girl with a headed gun, now he s here to share his remarkable story. that is coming up next. depression is a serious medical condition that can take so much out of you. i feel like i have to wind myself up just to get out of bed. then.well. i have to keep winding myself up to deal with the sadness, the loss of interest, the trouble concentrating, the lack of energy. if depression is taking so much out of you, ask your doctor about pristiq®. 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one of my younger sisters woke me up and said kaleb, that girl has a gun. i just immediately just woke up and put my glasses on to see what was what. and she was just pointing a gun at different students at the back. and i just opened the emergency door at the back and just tried to catch her attention to get her to point the gun directly at me. and not at anyone else and i tried to help everybody get off the back of the bus and kept her attention. i just tried to calm her down and get the gun away from her. just give it to me or put it down. she refused. so i just tried to catch her attention and as she glanced or blinked for like a half a second, i just lunged at her. so you just juan opening, one chance when she looked away from you. but the moment you opened the door to let the other kids out, suddenly her attention was on you, at that point, you potentially became a target. did you realize you were putting yourself in jeopardy? yes, sir. and why did you do that? just to keep her from pointing the gun at anyone else on the bus. at that point, some of the kids now were managing to get off the bus, but there were are still some on there. when you made the moment to tackle, was it easy to actually get the gun from her, or did she still have it in her hand? when i tackled her, it just knocked out of her hand. were you able to restrain her? what did you tell the bus driver at that point? that i had the gun and i just ran out the back of the bus with it. sheriff, let me bring you into this conversation. by the time your folks got there and realized what had happened, did kaleb make the one and only, the right call in this case? he made the absolute right call. if it had not been for what he did on that bus, there would be a lot of sad families today. that gun, i understand, was load and it s one that i m told is pretty cheap and could have gone off accidently, is that correct? it very well could have. and what can you understand the young girl is a juvenile, so we re not identifying her. but what can you tell us about her and why she had that gun? all i can tell from looking at the video, she was very irate and mad at somebody on the bus that she stated had been picking on her or messing with her. and i don t know what she was planning on doing with the gun, but the way she was pointing it at everybody, if it would have went off even one time, it would have been very sad for some family. kaleb, we know that you play offense on the football team but that was a pretty good defensive move, i guess. do you credit your football training and skills with enabling to you do what you did? yes, sir. all right, well, listen, i understand you re a great student, you got a great future ahead of you both on and off the field. we thank you not only for being with us, but certainly thank you for what you did. appreciate it. yes, sir. all right, kaleb and sheriff thomas vaughn, thank you so much for being here. there s more to come on today, surprising reasons why your credit score could be falling even if you pay the bills on time. we ll tell you more about that, after this. wouldn t help prevent. .help prevent my symptoms from coming back. i just figured it couldn t get any better. and then i found out something i didn t know. i found out there are two main causes of asthma symptoms. .airway constriction you feel and inflammation you may not. most controllers don t treat both. so my doctor prescribed advair. advair treats both main causes to help prevent symptoms in the first place. 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(announcer) only from maybelline new york. we re back at 8:19. this morning on today s money what could be hurting your credit score? even if you pay the bills on time, your score might be slipping and the reasons might be surprising. donna, it s great to see you. you, too, lester. the credit score has always been, there but is it in fakcts more important are today than it used to be? it s more important than ever. it might be your most important number today, because of the credit crunch and row the recession, lenders are super cautious about who they re lending money to. so today, you need a much higher credit score in order to qualify for the best rates and terms when you re borrowing money. two years ago, 700 might haven been good, today you need 750 or hi higher to qualify for the best rates on loans. like college again. what might be holding us back in terms of our credit score. the first one might seem obvious. mistakes. mistakes are so common a recent poll said a third of people who pulled their credit report found mistakes. a friend of mine recently looked at her credit report, it cost her 75 points on her credit score for something she never even applied for. so you need to read this report carefully. look for the mistakes and fix them. a lot of people think that by spending less, putting the cards in the drawer for a while, you re doing a good thing. that s right. but you re doing a bad thing in terms of yo credit score. if you re not borrowing money, you re not going to have a track record. what s happening these day, credit card companies don t make a lot of money on you if you re not use your credit cards, so if your card is inactive, they re more likely to cancel your credit card, which could reduce the amount of available credit to you and that s going to hurt your credit score. having a lower credit line will hurt your score. use it occasionally and pay it off. pay it off, but use it. another area i find confusing and a lot of folks are falling into this trap right now with regard to modifying mortgages or short sales on home, sometimes it hurt, sometimes it doesn t, explain that to me. a lot of folks are struggling financially with mortgages and working with banks to modify their lons to do a short sale. now, those things are better than having a foreclosure, a foreclosure will hurt your credit score much more, but a short sale or a modifying your loan could hurt your credit score, too. here s why. a short sale is where the bank agrees to take less than you owe on your loan. now if the bank reports that to the credit bureaus, reports that transactions a paid as agreed, it probably won t hurt your credit score, but a lot will trort as a deferred payment or partial payment. it s semantics. they got the money they expected but report it differently. you agreement you negotiate. so they don t have to agree to use these certain term, but you should definitely talk to the lender, and they can do what s called a good will adjustment to report it in a way that s not going to hurt your credit score. i know a lot of credit card companies receipt now are trying to look boot future, look at things that might suggest you might be in trouble down the road. some of these i found surprising. going to a pawn shop, even getting marriage sthaerp a flag in their minds. explain that to me. credit card companies are keeping an eye on consumer spending patterns more than ever. for things that might signal financial distress. taking out cash advances, going to marriage counseling, that could signal a divorce down the road. those are signs of financial distress. if credit card company thinks you re going to be in financial distress, they may reduce your credit limit or shut down your card and that can hurt your credit score. who else can see your credit history? if i apply for a job, do they city and can that affect your future employment? an employer cannot pull your credit score or credit history without your permission, but today when you apply for a yb, a lot of applications ask now to have your permission to pull your credit report. if i say no. that could be suspicious, so most people do say yes. but if you have a shaky credit history, that could be, that could raise some questions as well. they can t pull it out. donna, thanks very much, appreciate it. thanks, lester. now once again, here s meredith. now to the knew movie taking woodstock. what does our gene shalit think? good morning, welcome to the critic s corner. the woodstock concert that rocked the summer of 69 was a cultural watershed with its outpouring of tens of thousands of youths. the new york state thruway is backed up from the george washington bridge. they preached peace and love with traffic jam, the village was jammed. thousands of kids jammed in rain and mud. it was just one jammed thing after another. now, i know it s going to be something of an imposition, but we re more than willing you say want to use these fields here? in taking woodstock , director ang lee explains thousand happened. focusing on four lives that changed. elliott tib, dmitri martin is a country boy whose parents run a rundown motel. just give us a couple of months, please. his motion, nonstop cranky at the top of her voice. where have you been all day and night. is kindly beaten down by his father. dad, that s bleach for laundry. it kills the germ, what s the difference? and showing up from who knows where, an eczema rene turned pistol pack transvestite l. ev schreiber. you need help. what kind of help? what do they find? you ever a permit, right? elliott owns the only legal permit. very cool. so they make a deal. with $5,000 do it for you? woodstock is a go and elliott s folks are broke no more. for some, this may trip memories of high times past. but aside from a few set pieces and very good perform any, taking woodstock is an aoccasionally medium, film to file and forget, but nice try. that s the critics corner for today. i don t know if that s what they want to hear, nice try. but anyway, we re going to learn how to snap a picture perfect family photo, but first your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. the baltimore ravens play their final game of the preseason in atlanta tonight. our coverage starts at 7:00. you can see it on wbal-tv 11. for those of you not football fans looking for the by the nbc lineup, tune in to wbal plus on comcast channel 208. for complete listing of tonight s program and, log on to wbaltv.com. let s get a final check of the morning commute with sarah caldwell. as you approach the beltway, left lane closed with an accident there. that delay stretches of a back to marriottsville road. delays on at lipper begin at reisterstown road and open up at the body. everything moving well on the j.f.x. for the most part. southbound harrisburg expressway, dealing with delays from shawan road down to the beltway. heavier from an accident at 30 to down to 197. outer loop northeast side, still pretty heavy. six-minute ride on that south from the 895 split to the fort mchenry. we will switch to a live view at liberty where it is looking better. you can see the sunshine that is up out there. 62 down at the airport. 65 downtown. 63 in york, pennsylvania. a little bit warmer than this week. very pleasant out there. winds still northeasterly. trend continues all the way through out the labor day weekend. next shot of showers on wednesday. we will have another update at 8:55. (announcer) new icy hot medicated roll. for wherever you hurt. icy to dull pain, hot to relax it away. the new icy hot medicated roll. with the roll, pain s under control. freeze frame, freeze frame 8:30 on this thursday morning, september 3, 2009. we are ready for our close-up as we step outside to pose for a few photos with the good people here in rockefeller plaza. there is, however, method to this madness. are you guys good photographer? when i get my finger out of the lens, yeah. you are? i love taking pictures,ie whether i m good or not, that s subjective. i am really, really bad. but we have an expert with some tricks of the trade so anybody can take good family photos. take the red eye out. cameras are so complicated now. all these buttons an gadgets. but you don t need that kind of camera. the digital cameras now do everything for you. get the one in the supermarket, the disposable thing. i m going to dumb it down, all right. we have a story sure to make some folks jealous. we have workers who live in some of the most speck ttacular home and get paid for it. sign me up. oh, my goodness, look at these holmes. these people clearly not stressed, but maybe you have a lot of stress in your life, it could be the place where you live that s also adding to your stress. ming up, we ll run down the list of we are going to be warm today. the 77 to 80 degrees. another nice one in store. it only gets better as we head throughout the weekend. the next shot a shot was not until wednesday. for all your cupid shuffle need, 24 hours a day, go to weather.to find out if you can cupid shuffle outside or inside. will willard, you got any moves for us this morning? how is it waking up with al? it s fantastic. you ve got to be on the show more. you bring me over will it will be a production to end all productions, we had a nice embrace, the best to all of you. i enjoyed it. happy birthday to you. a little smucker s check here this morning. as we look at our birthday buddies. first of all, emma shuler of topeka, kansas, 112 years old, adistributes her longevity to be being god s will, also drinking three glasses of milk a day. never stop drinking milk. i love it. and toll house cookies. gertrude tarlton, of mission viejo, california. believes the most important thing in your life is anything involving your family. that s the truth, don t you think so? yes, it is. we have frank chadwick of mendham, new jersey, 101, retired chemical engineer, go golfed until he was 96. i like this. his philosophy, secret to longevity, he claims is doing everything his way. there you go. he s the frank sinatra of his time. susie jackson from ferriday, louisiana, 108, worked in the trenches on the levees. attends church every week and once during the middle of the week. wednesday we used to go to church. sara wolinsky, flushing, no, 101, practicing psychologist and earned her degree at age 74. and finally, we have james hannah of milledgeville,en itten it. his favorite millennium vi being a pastor for his local church. meredith, i bet you could do some powerful preaching. i do my best, willard. thank you very much. it s okay. so happy to be here from texas. picture taking 101, how to take a great photo, okay? they have alzheimer s and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. and they ve heard that biomedical research offers hope, that it could control, maybe even cure, their disease. senator barbara mikulski understands the importance of innovative biomedical research, for patients, their families, and our economy here in maryland. call senator mikulski today. tell her, thanks for protecting the promise of biomedical research and the maryland jobs it provides. it s not just the future, it s life. this morning on today s call to action, the children left behind. when military moms an dads are deployed overseas. lee cowan pound one marine who s latest effort is catching on by helping those kids catch a wave. ask jake copalman about life these day he ll tell you things are looking up. much like the surf. after all, sunsets over la jolla cove are world away from this fallujah was one of the bloodiest battles of the iraq ward and jay was there as a lieutenant-colonel in the u.s. marines. i ve been very fortunate, i deployed twice to iraq and i came back in one piece. reporter: jay first made headlines with his best selling book about a puppy he rescued from fallujah. now he s head of a nonprofit called freedom is not free. and he still is rescuing. are you. are you ready so surf? reporter: niece are all kids left behind when their parents deployed. little war yes, jay calls them. his surf camp, he hope, can help them find peace down the face of a wave. the point is to give them that break from the daily reminders that they re different from other kids at school. it s bringing them away to a place that is fun to be. reporter: zachary phillips has seen his dad just five months out of the last two years. the reality of the marine s long deployments expressed in a letter. it is sad when she gone because our family is not complete. and my mom does everything by herself. reporter: at just 11 years old, zach has been the man of the house. it was good to have him back because it felt like we were completed again. as a family. reporter: the same is true for 12-year-old katie rodriguez, her dad is also a marine. he was gone for seven months in iraq. and it was hard. reporter: but he s being deployed again. this time to afghanistan. this is really hard. it s just reporter: once in the water though, those tears disappeared, as katie rode in one wave after another, after another. so how was it? really exciting. like when you catch a wave, you re just like oh my gosh, what do i do. reporter: zach took to it like a pro, venturing farther and farther out for a longer ride in. it feels like you re just flying because you re not like walking anymore. you re just gliding, kind of. reporter: every kid is given their very own surfboard, donated as part of jay s tireless fund-raising. people getting involved and saying thank you is key, not just for the service member but for the entire family. reporter: a reminder that the sacrifice overseas often begins on shores close to home where on this day the face of the waves smile back. lee cowan, for nbc news, san diego. for more ways to help military family, logon to our website, todayshow.com. a photographehe back at 8:43. this morning on today s family, how to take picture perfect photos. whether you want a portrait to remember the last unofficial weekend of summer or for those upcoming holiday card, you can t simply point and click. here with tips is photographer monica rich kozan. my mouth isn t working. that s okay. everybody thinks you need an expensive camera, you don t though. it really doesn t matter what kind of camera. there are so many out there today, could you do digital, film. i still use film. you could even use a disposable camera. what s interesting is seeing the opportunity and seeing the photo and the timing to take the photograph. 23u have the right time and shoot that photograph of your family, that s most important. i know you like black and white because it s a classic look. i do. when is color a better way to go. it s great for the birthday party, traveling, vacation, nothing is wrong with color but the thing about black and white that i love it s more timeless, it s very emotional, classic, it s a sort of a nostalgia about the black and white which you don t always get with color, but always keep the clothing classic, if you can. not a lot of logo, a lot of words, because that puts time and date on the photographs. always draws the eye to that. right, you want the emotion of the picture. let s go to your tips. don t ever ask people to pose. big no-no. the best thing you can do, don t smile. whatever you do don t smile, what happens when you say don t smile, they smile even more. that s the number one thing. also let kids be themselves. let me play, have a conversation with them. if they like to sing a song, sing a song with them. set them up in a situation that you know, lets them do what they want to do. like these three boys are absolutely crazy. when i went to photograph them. they just were jumping all over the place. this is a good example of another one of your tips because two of the boys were looking down. don t worry so much about where the face is in the photo. no, absolutely. it s more about the emotion and tap churing the, what s happening at that specific time. you also say, this one threw me a little bit. it s okay to go in for like half a face. i often think of those shots, i assume oh she doesn t snow what she s doing. no, no, it s great. cut off a little bit of the head, if it s a baby, focus on the little fingers and feet. that s what s so great about it t mirs takes are g be careful is not always so good. just have fun. another piece of advice you give is when everybody else is putting their cameras away, that s when you keep yours out. why? absolutely. most people were take pictures when the birthday cake comes out. will take pictures when they re opening up the presents. the best shots are what the kids are playing with the ribbons afterwards or when the cousin comes over and diplomats their finger in the cake, those are the best kind of shots. you can follow kids on their road to discovery. walk with them, if they re picking flowers, just kind of make yourself invisible and watch them, observe them, just take your picture and it will happen. you say strive for less than perfect. serve going for the perfect photo. you say do the opposite. absolutely. when you re shooting families of six to eight people, it s impossible to get the perfect show. everyone is going to be looking at different directions or blinking, so take a lot of film or if you do digital, take a lot of pictures, you can delete them. have them have conversations with one another. try to almost invisible. you ll get more of an emotional shot of the families being together. do you think people should always carry a camera in their pocketbook or whatever just for those cases? absolutely. i have a situation once where it started to rain, i was photographing some children and the best thing is everyone started to run inside, i said no, no, no stay outside. put a big towel over their head or go under the embrel l.a. those are fun times to capture. i m going to ignore you and lock away. so if you want to take my picture. monica, thank you very much. now you know what it takes to snap great pictures. we weren t to see your photos, head over to our website to send us your best. smile. we ll be right back. this is today on nbc. don t smile. look away. a lot of times when people are just concerned about hang out at their josh, others are enjoying their employment in some of the most beautiful place s on earth. here s nbc s digit aaldigital. jobs are hard to come by, but some have found a new way to make ends meet. weer in the mountain, anded we have no humidity and beautiful skies most of the time. reporter: they tend to livestock on a ranch outside of santa fe. we have six horses. five dogs, one cat. four cows. i think hats about it. and it s your job to take care of all of them? yeah. reporter: as care takers, lana and aaron live rent-free while taking care of someone else s house when they re not around. the day s work is probably an hour. you ve got the whole day to yourself. reporter: with the economy in turmoil, the caretaking business is booming and the largest care taking publication has seen a rizzs in membership. in the last three year, we ve been gaining about 10% a year, so probably 30% in the last three years. what kind of people are seeking to be care takers. we ve got quite a range. basically, anyone who wants to live rent-free. reporter: some care takers make a salary and have full benefits. not to mention all that free time. it almost sounds too good to be true. you re living rent-free, your utilities are paid, and you you get to do work that you love anyway. yep. is it too good to be true? you know, it s a blessing. i would have to say it s a blessing right now. because we re getting to do what we want to to. reporter: care taking position are not all the same. for some, the job means living the simple life and getting their hands dirty, but for others, a more comfortable life of urban luxury. . where we are, this is the golden gate bridge. and this is all of san francisco. cynthia morgan lives in a mansion on the san francisco bay with some of the best views in the country. i m a house manager, an estate manager, i wear many hats. i am the cook. i am the l off. ndress, the housekeeper. can you tell me, what s your day to day like? if it s a houseful of people, i will work at least 1 hour, i sometimes don t even stop for lunch. but then there s so many time when is no one is here. i would say it s definitely stress-free for the most part. yeah, 99.9% is stress-free. so this is a win/win for you? yeah, it is. at this stage of my life. for right now, this is great. they always say don t quit your day job. so we have a day job that we love. reporter: with a job like that, you can hardly call it work mara schiavocampo. earlier, i was outside and i let mary lee, a mother from wichita falls, texas, who was so excited to be here this morning. it was always her dream. so we decided to bring her into the stud joy along with david the doctor, as she told me. come on in. come on in, mary. have a seat right here. it s great to see you. mary, such a good story. tell us your story. you re a single mom who raised david. and my daughter, she s an rn in wichita falls and he has a doctorate degree in pharmacy. so your health care is covered. yeah. you re no fool. but i m just so proud of them. in my dream has always been coming to new york city. he called me about a month ago and said hey, mom, you got some vacation left? i said yeah, he said i m going to take to you new york city. i said yeah, sure. he said no, i ve got the tickets and we re going. and he said he wanted to take me before i gut too old. i do not remember that part. david, what does it mean for you as a son? she raised you. i m tell telling you god just blessed us enough that i ve done well enough that we can do this. coming from the hard times we had as a kid, just what my mom went through and her getting up at 3:00 in the morning, going to work every day. can i tell you, we re so honored that you made this one of your stops. this is my number one. it means a great deal to us. you raise yord son very well. you sure did. welcome to new york. meet the crew. we ll be back after your local news and weather. live, local, latebreaking. this is wbal-tv 11 news today in baltimore. good morning. i am mindy basara. three suspects in last month s brutal beating of an elderly black fisherman have been indicted by a grand jury. self-proclaimed white supremacist tom lockner and as that watson and emanuel miller are each to charged with assault and attempted carjacking and armed robbery any crimes in the attack on james privott. if convicted, they face a possible 85 years in prison. officials at the kennedy krieger institute will hold a town hall meeting to discuss employees safety concerns after two of their co-workers were hit by stray bullets. one of the victims was grazed by a shot as she left tuesday in, while another shot hit a co- workers purse. police say they were not the intended victims of the gunfire but it began as a fight between two girls on the basketball court. back in a minute now let s take a look at the forecast with sandra shaw. partly cloudy skies. 80 is the forecast high. a little the milder than we were yesterday. 77, a slight chance of a shower in ocean city. yamar in baltimore, more probably cloudy conditions. tomorrow in baltimore, more partly cloudy conditions. we will have another update in 25 minutes.