campaign against childhood obesity is creating controversy in georgia. some say the new ads are harming the kids they are supposed to be helping. blain alexander from our affiliate wxia in atlanta explains for us. i don t want to be outside because all the kids, they always pick on me. reporter: emotional testimony from a child who s not even in high school. part of a new initiative from the georgia children s health alliance called stop childhood obesity. we felt it would take some drastic measures. reporter: some say too drastic. they re ruffling feathers across the country. they re doing more harm than they are good. they re stigmatizing the children, making them believe that there s something wrong with them, that they re doing something wrong. reporter: the push to get kids to think healthy has gained national attention in recent years. in fact, the city of san francisco has even banned
equipment there. but what the lawmakers are saying, they want to put the warning out to tsa that they better not do it because they are going to take it on. but you ve got to say good luck to them for trying it because, you know, nobody wants to be groped at the airport. well no, i m only saying that. maybe some people do. not me. no, no, no. i mean if you think that the patting down is a grope. i would rather that than have something happen, than an incident. don t take that the wrong way. absolutely, absolutely. so go ahead, do your thing, as long as i m safe. touch me all you want. yeah, yeah. finally, sunny, our affiliate wxia reports three middle schoolers in the atlanta area were suspended after they called their teacher a rapist, a pedophile and bipolar on facebook. can a school do that? isn t facebook a private venue separate from school? it is. i m a bit troubled by this. a school certainly has an interest in facebook and they have an interest in making sure
alleged to have threatened local people with a gun, a stun gun. they call her a liar. i mean, she has a history of writing bad checks, of threatening the lives of people. i mean, if you have to look for a suspect in a disappearance of a little girl, you don t have to look too far in this case. again, just to mention it, she also has family members who said that she used to lock zahra up, beat her and then lock her up inside the house so there are horrifying storying this case. thanks. thank you. michelle rhee announced she s resigning at the end of the month. last month s primary election defeat of mayor fenty. a georgia woman could not believe her eyes. she realized the power company wanted her to cough up more than a billion dollars. she thought, hey, who forgot to turn off the lights? here s the story from affiliate wxia in atlanta.
atm over against a tree. a tabloid that features mug shots of people who have recently been arrested, complete with their names as well as their charges. doug richards of nbc s atlanta affiliate wxia has the details. if bad and busted is not the most popular newspaper in the county, it may however have the most buzz. this newspaper appears to be successful. what s the draw? i imagine the draw probably is that a lot of people are nosey and want to know what their neighbors are doing. reporter: it s a very thin, 12 to 15-page newspaper with the names, addresses and photographs of people recently arrested. the publisher is an oconee county resident who wouldn t speak with us until
crowd of 30,000 people who showed up to apply for government-subsidized housing. the crowd was triple what the city had expected. doug richards with affiliate wxia has the story from east point. from what i see, this is a conspiracy reporter: an unhappy crowd had stewed in a hot parking lot over much of a three-day period. it is rid clus. it s like animalistic conditions. it s inhumane. giving out right here. reporter: they had gathered to get a piece of paper, an application for federally subsidized housing, a chance to merely get on a waiting list. there are no open slots and we made that very clear to the applicants that were coming here starting monday when they started showing up. we made it very clear that we did not have vouchers to give out, we did not have any public housing vacancies at this time. reporter: but they had spots on a waiting list. and for folks in this crowd, it