only once. what am i going to do? i can t let these people terrorize me. a father on a mission to save someone else s child. he lost his own to bullying. now he wants government to make it a cry. i was responsible for my son s safety. and good morning, everyone, i m tony harris. those stories and your commence right here, right now, in the cnn newsroom. your job, the nation s economy. the focus today for president obama. the president s economic recovery advisory board meets with him three hours from now when the state dining room. let s bring in our senior whitehouse correspondent, ed henry. ed, good as always to see you. what s the agenda for today s meeting? well, this is an outside group of economic advisers, not on the white house staff, by and large. you ve got the outside chiefs at ge and caterpillar. you also have gray beards like the former fed chairman, paul volcker, so it s supposed to be sort of a breath of fresh air giving the president new ideas. h
my kitchen and there s a guy in my kitchen? i m almost happy i didn t hear anything. reporter: homeowners are taking matters in to their own hands. don has hired armed guards in case inextraordinariers decide to strike again. may keep the gun closer to me at night already police won t comment if they have any surveillance video or if they have it and now good it might be. they condition comment if they think it is more than one person. what do the thieves go after? it is always the same thing every time? yeah. that s the mo and that s how they know it is linked to this serial burglar. they say he comes in and takes the purse usually and takes the cash and then he dumps the purse somewhere out in the lawn, but in these three cases today he has kept the purses. also recently this burglar took two handguns out of a car. so something to keep out for and police are very concerned about the latest development. surae chinn, 9 news now. now now let s update you on an armed
bad weather may be to blame for a large sinkhole in annandale this morning. the storms passed through the area near annandale and beach tree roads just after 1:00 in the morning. and investigators are looking into the possible bill of a lightning strike caused the pavement to buckle, damaging underground verizon cables and took almost 12 hours for the road to be repaired. things are back to normal now. breaking news out of southeast washington at this hour. police say a man working as a landscaper has been shot to death. this happened in the 4600 block of hillside drive southeast. not far from the scene of a recent shooting. another recent shooting. news4 s jackie bensen is at the scene with the latest. jackie? reporter: take a look behind me and we want to show you what it looks like as you can see crime scene investigators and detective, homicide detectives, around what we believe is the victim s car. this is the second shooting of a latino contractor in this neighborho
fraction of the thousands of cases appealed there every year actually make it and he said yesterday he was stunned they got that far, bill. bill: and he s getting e-mail support and other support coming for the family, shannon? reporter: absolutely, as the star gets out there, people say, this is about lance corporal matthew snider and we want to support the family and no one who lost their child at the age of 20 who voluntary went to iraq, it is unconscionable and, donation as modest as ten dollars have been coming in and bill o reilly announced he ll help him pay the legal fees and wants to stand with the family and snyder said he s worried any money he d have to pay out to westboro would be used to harass other military families and he said i don t plan to pay them a dime unless i lose at the supreme court and he s convinced, if he wins at the supreme court, he says the church would never pay him back. bill: shannon bream on the story for us, in washington, our best to the family.
gretchen: tomorrow, raquel welch, buzz aldrin and others. i ll be here tomorrow. steve: big show. see you then. away, good morning, i m bill hemmer, welcome to america s newsroom . martha: rain, rain, go away. good morning, good to have you with us, i m martha maccallum on this, another wed morning and rhode island face whag their governor is calling unprecedented flooding facing what their governor is calling unprecedented flooding, and president obama issuing a state of emergency, this as the water-soaked communities remain on high alert because there s more coming. bill: here s a look at the map now but the state is affected up and down the east coast, forecasters saying the rain will taper off today, but there s always this lag when the rain ends and the flooding begins and that is what tens of thousands of people are waiting for this morning. molly line is live this morning in warwick, rhode island. reporter: good morning, bill. this is a dangerous situation.