the death of hadiya pendalson has struck a nerve not only in chicago but across the country. tonight, they have two men in custody. they were both picked up on saturday night on suspicion and have been charged with one count of murder each, and two counts of attempted murder each, plus some weapons violations. michael ward, according to police, has confessed to killing her by accident. he says he approached a group of people he thought also had rival gang members in the group, and opened fire. he didn t realize that he was opening fire on a 15-year-old and her friends after they had just completed a final exam in high school. ward said he got out of a car, shot the individuals under this overhang in a park and was taken away in a getaway car by williams. according to police, nobody stepped forward. the break came from police getting leads, going out and finding witnesses that they will later bring in to trial. they do not have a murder weapon in this case. they also say war
anything else. phil, thank you very much. president obama calls out mitt romney using the etch a sketch label. this you want to hear next. we wanna be our brother s keeper. what s number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let s go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world s cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america s biggest cities. siemens. answers.
but the reality is this morning everybody is talking about the money that president obama will raise because of coming out for gay marriage, which is probably going to make this money look small. ted, what about that. certainly celebrating the president coming out in support of gay marriage as phil was mentioning there, how big an issue is this in wooing tinseltown? i think obama already had their support. this is i think mainly a question of enthusiasm. i think this is his position now on same-sex marriage has gone a long way toward that. norman leer, i talked to his people. he not wanted to actually donate to the campaign. he wanted to put his money elsewhere. he said yesterday he s actually maxed out to the president. he was so impressed by this position. dustin lance black, the oscar winning screen writer of milk had been questioning why so many people were supporting democrats when they still hadn t come out
only a third is coming from the actual attendees. the rest from tens of thousands who donated an average of $23 for a chance to win a ticket to the star-studded affair. the winners will be announced later today. i m joined now by ted johnson, politics editor with variety magazi magazine. and phil bronson. the president has not embraced hollywood the way president clinton has in the past. why is he stepping up interest now? obviously because this election is nearing but also the campaign looks at the amount of money that the super pacs are raising and they are left with very few options. where can they go for the wealthy donors on their side. it really is pretty limiting. it s hollywood, new york, silicon valley. so that s why you really are seeing obama courting industry donors, studio chiefs. he s made personal calls to some
of the heads of the major studios out there. every dollar counts. phil, about two-thirds of those dollars, expected $15 million fund-raising dollars to come from small donors who wanted a chance to go to the dinner. what do you think of this new fund-raising rule, if you will, going for small, raffle-sized donations. obama did well with small media donations. this is really not about small donations. this is about people paying for an opportunity to get close to hollywood. whether they do it through ticket sales and then through ticket sales hollywood celebrities get wealthy and those who want to donate to president obama, it really doesn t matter. hollywood has had an addictive co-dependent relationship with washington probably back since shirley temple supposed by shot eleanor roosevelt in the rear end with a sling shot. as you point out bill clinton, talk about addictive, he was like a stalker in hollywood.