Lawyers for a Fox News reporter who is being asked to name her sources for a story on last year's Colorado theater shooting urged a New York appeals court Wednesday to quash a subpoena that requires her to appear at a hearing in the state. Lawyers for Jana Winter made the arguments in New York state's Appellate Division in Manhattan, saying the state's shield laws protect journalists' sources. Christopher Handman, representing Winter, said allowing the subpoena to stand would take the power out of the state's shield laws if she were forced to identify her sources. 

Cheap Oakley Sunglasses Winter was subpoenaed in connection with a Colorado hearing about a leak concerning a notebook Holmes mailed to a psychiatrist before the attack at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo., in July. Winter's exclusive July 25 report said the notebook contains drawings depicting violence. Her report, citing unnamed law-enforcement sources, was picked up by news organizations worldwide. Twelve people were killed and 70 were injured in the attack. 

Cheap Oakleys Holmes faces more than 160 counts of murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Holmes' attorneys say the leak was a violation of a gag order and want the sources identified. Holmes attorney Daniel Arshack argued to the five-judge panel Wednesday that the issue was one of credibility. He said a number of law enforcement officers had been asked whether they were the source of the leak, and that none had taken responsibility for it. The panel of judges questioned both attorneys, asking whether the issue was one of press freedoms or one of court process, as well as whether New York's public policy of protecting press freedoms had any place in the trial. Winter is also scheduled for an Aug. 

Discount Oakley Sunglasses 19 hearing in Colorado before Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr., who is trying the Holmes murder case. Numerous media organizations and First Amendment groups have filed petitions and issued statements on behalf of Winter, asking the courts to dismiss the subpoena against her. 

http://oakleyszq.weebly.com/ Jason Kidd jumped from playing to coaching in less than two weeks. The Brooklyn Nets named Kidd their new coach on Wednesday in a rare and speedy transition from uniform to suit. "This is a tremendous opportunity to be named head coach of the Brooklyn Nets, and it's a role I have been studying for over the course of my playing days," Kidd said in a statement "Championship teams are built on being prepared, playing unselfishly and being held accountable, and that's how I expect to coach this basketball team. 

I am truly excited about this next phase of my basketball career." Kidd, who had a stellar 19-year NBA career, retired from the New York Knicks on June 3 and quickly set his sights on the Nets' job, convincing General Manager Billy King he is the right person at the right time. "Jason is a proven winner and leader with an incredible wealth of basketball knowledge and experience," King said in a statement. "This will be a natural transition for him to move into the role of head coach, as he embodies the tough, smart and team-first mentality that we are trying to establish in Brooklyn." The choice also has the support of Nets point guard Deron Williams who is friends with Kidd. "Excited to get to work under our new head coach @RealJasonKidd great leader and great basketball mind will be a great head coach #BROOKLYN," Kidd tweeted. Indiana Pacers assistant coach Brian Shaw interviewed for the job on Wednesday, and King decided on Kidd who played 6 1/2 seasons with the Nets in the early and mid-2000s. Kidd made the Nets relevant, leading them to two Eastern Conference championships. 

They lost to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2002 and the San Antonio Spurs in 2003. "Jason Kidd has a long and legendary history with the Nets and with the city of New York," Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov said in a statement. "He has the fire in the belly we need, and has achieved as a player everything the Brooklyn Nets are striving to achieve. We believe he will lead us there. Welcome home, Jason." Earlier in the day, ESPN analyst and Hall of Famer Magic Johnson voiced his support for Kidd. "From Jason Kidd's standpoint, I think he'll do a great job," ESPN analyst and Hall of Famer Magic Johnson said Wednesday. "We have seen Mark Jackson do a wonderful job with Golden State, and if his heart is into it and if he's willing to put in the work, because what he won't understand, it's going to take more work than it did as a player." 

Kidd is making the unusual step of going straight from playing into a head coaching job. But it is obvious Kidd wanted the job. Just days after he retired, he began reaching to potential assistant coaches. Avery Johnson retired in 2004, took a job as an assistant with the Dallas Mavericks in 2004-05 and became the head coach later that season. But most NBA players-turned-coaches waited a few seasons before they became head coaches. Mike Dunleavy Sr. unofficially retired in 1985, took time off from basketball and returned as an assistant in 1986 before becoming head coach of the Los Angeles Clippers in 1990. Doc Rivers retired in 1996 and became the Orlando Magic's coach in 1999. Kidd has a high basketball IQ and was considered a coach on the floor. But it is not clear how that will translate from player to coach. Johnson recalls being frustrated during his brief 16-game run as the Lakers' coach in 1993-94. 

"I understood how hard it is for coaches," Johnson said. "I stayed up all day and all night going over game plans and watching film, and I couldn't even sleep. I'm thinking about the changes that I want to make, all the different plays I want to run against the different teams, so I gained a lot more respect for coaches than I had before. … "Nick Van Exel was our point guard and I used to holler, 'He's open, he's open, he's open!" So by the third game in, Michael Cooper, my assistant coach, pulled me aside and said, 'Earvin, he can't see like you, so you've got to quit hollering that he's open, because you can see it but he can't see it.' 

"I think that he's going to have to understand that guys are not going to be able to play like him, maybe be dedicated like he was or he can't expect everybody to be great like him, and so that will be his biggest challenge." 

http://oakleyszq.weebly.com/ FDNY rescues 2 maintenance workers from 44th floor of Hearst Tower. There was high drama -- and frozen traffic -- in midtown Manhattan yesterday afternoon as the FDNY rescued two maintenance workers stranded on a scaffold outside the 44th floor of the Hearst Tower. Fire officials said that the movable scaffolding used to hoist the men appears to have malfunctioned, causing the device to bend at an angle. After the initial emergency call came in at around 2:39 p.m., police closed off traffic on Eighth Avenue as firefighters went to the roof, about two stories above the stranded men, to figure out how they could be rescued. Some 12 FDNY units responded. Traffic was also brought to a crawl on blocks north and south of the building. 

At about 4:17 p.m., firefighters cut through windows adjacent to the stalled scaffold and brought both men inside the building. Officials said the men, who were performing maintenance on the scaffold that was specially designed for the unique building exterior, suffered very minor injuries. " 'Thank you, thank you,'" was how paramedic Moses Nelson characterized the reaction of the men after they were rescued. The identities of the men were not released yesterday, said Ted Lotti, deputy director of security for the Hearst Corporation. Officials said the men worked for Tractel Inc., a company that specializes in mechanical hoist systems with offices in Long Island City. A woman answering the telephone at the Queens office said the company had no comment and referred a reporter to the FDNY. Down below, New Yorkers were at first not sure about what they were seeing. Luis Santamaria, 25, who lives in Manhattan, was walking in the area when he saw a huge crowd and all the fire engines. His first thought was that they were filming another Spider-Man movie. 

"I've never seen anything like this, it's a very scary thing to happen to someone.," said Santamaria. "It's so crowded here it could have ended very tragically, but I'm thankful it didn't." Lucrezia Campinoti, 19, of midtown, was in a taxi when the driver her told her -- incorrectly -- that someone had fallen and died. "I'm here to see them save them, this is like, a really scary situation, they're so high up," said Campinoti. The Hearst building is headquarters for the media company. The modern structure was completed in 2006 at the cost of $500 million. Its exterior is graced by a series of triangular steel braces. 

Severe storms loom for Thursday in Washington area. The Washington region was preparing for severe storms expected Thursday, with forecasts calling for potentially drenching rain, strong winds and flash flooding. A cluster of storms moving toward the Mid-Atlantic from the Midwest was expected to hit the area Wednesday night and overnight into Thursday, affecting the morning commute, said Jason Samenow, The Washington Post’s chief meteorologist. 

“This definitely has the potential to be the most intense thunderstorm outbreak of this year,” he said. While the worst of the storms are projected for midmorning through late afternoon, the exact timing and nature of Thursday’s storms could dictate the severity of the impact, Samenow said. Storms should not be as intense if they hit early in the day, but conditions could turn out to “be more explosive” if they arrive later, he said. That could include destructive winds and even a few tornadoes. Across the region, transportation agencies prepared Wednesday to deal with the looming storm. The D.C. Department of Transportation planned to have generators available to power any dark traffic signals. In Virginia, hundreds of maintenance workers were to be standing by in case of downed wires, fallen trees or dark traffic signals. 

Crews in Maryland readied chain saws and other equipment Wednesday as they awaited the storm. “Thunderstorms and summer weather is almost all reactive,” said David Buck, a spokesman for the Maryland State Highway Administration. Pepco was gearing up “for a significant storm,” said Myra Oppel, a company spokeswoman. As soon as crews are able to work safely, they will be out repairing any outages, she said. “If we were expecting landfall from a hurricane, we could have a better sense in terms of what to expect in terms of outages,” Oppel said. “This, we know there’s a severe thunderstorm, but it depends on how it moves in and how it manifests itself in terms of wind speeds and how heavy the rain is.” Flash flooding was a key concern after heavy rain in recent weeks. “We’re forecasting heavy rainfall, and with the recent bout of rain the D.C. metro area has received, we really can’t take too much more rainfall of any kind without seeing flash flooding,” said Howard Silverman, senior meteorologist at the National Weather Service’s Baltimore-Washington forecast office. 

Flooding could be particularly dangerous for drivers who may not know they commute through flood-prone areas, Buck said. Officials urged travelers not to drive through standing water and to treat intersections without power as four-way stops. They also said not to touch downed trees, because they could be tangled up with downed power wires. Gusting winds and pounding rain could also snarl air travel, with delayed flights in other cities potentially creating headaches throughout the aviation system. “If other major airport hubs are affected, those impacts could cascade through the system,” said Rob Yingling, a spokesman for the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority, which operates Reagan National and Dulles International airports. 

“Chicago or New York, if there’s major cancellations there, that could have a cascading effect on some of the flights here.” These storms are coming a year after a destructive derecho swept through the area. But while “a derecho-type event” is not out of the question, this will most likely be just severe thunderstorms, Samenow said. http://oakleyszq.weebly.com/