. >>> the battle in chattanooga, tennessee, jacob ward went to the cyber front lines. >> penny is mother of two with no access to broad bend. they have two choices, dial up or satellite internet service, which is not reliable. >> the internet we use is our data on our cellphones. >> she has been waiting for years for broadband to come to her area. she's not alone. 53% of americans living in rural areas don't have access to basic broadband. the reason comcast isn't there or the reason why other providers aren't there is because it costs a lot of money and the revenue is not very high. but one company does bring the internet. the local utility who brings internet service, and an ends a half mile from where this family lives. >> we can make a financial business model serving some 6 those areas and we could do it quickly. >> david wade is the chief administration officer and said that the company is willing to invest $60 million into the county but it can't because of a law that prohibits companies from expanding past their service areas. >> so epb and the city of chattanooga filed a

explaining. >> reporter: today chattanooga, tennessee is known as the gig city. that's because in 2008 then mayor ron littlefield helped to make chattanooga one of the first american cities to offer super high-speed internet through its own power utility. to do it he had to battle with telecommunications giants. >> whether you deal with those giants, with the comcasts and the at&ts, they are reluctant to gich up the market they have. >> littlefield and city officials worked with their power utility, electric power board or epb. needless to say, the existing providers were not happy. >> representatives of at&t and comcast paraded into my office to tell me why they didn't think chattanooga should get into this business of competing with private enterprise. >> epb paid for the $320 million price tag with bonds, a line of credit, and a $111 million government stimulus grant, but not before littlefield said he offered to let local telecoms build out the infrastructure themselves. >> they both said, we can't aforked to do that. i said we really can't afford to not do that. >> epb began

chattanooga, tennessee. jake ward went to the cyber front lines. >> house was your day at school? >> reporter: penny is a middle school teacher and mother of two with no access to brood band. they have two choices, dial-up, or satellite internet. which she says can't reliable. >> the internet we use is just using our data on our cell phones. >> reporter: she says she has been waiting for years for broadband to come to her area, she is not alone. 53% of americans living in rural areas, don't have access to basic broadband. the reason comcast or other providers aren't there, is because it costs a lot of money, and the revenue is not very high. but one company does want to bring the internet here. epb, that's chattanooga's local utility which provided ul ta high speed service. and the company has fiber infrastructure that ends just half a mile from where the family lives. >> we can serve those and make a financial business model work out of serving some of those areas, and can do it fairly quickly. >> reporter: david is the chief information officer at epb. the company is willing to

murdered at a black church in charleston, five u.s. service men killed in chattanooga, three dead, nine injured at a movie theater in louisiana and the fatal shooting of two journalists in virginia. we do not know the motive of today's shooting, but most often, mental illness is involved in these mass shooting so we brought in our dr. jon lapook. jon, what's being done if this country about mental illness and mental had gone? >> reporter: scott, we know when it comes to mental illness, early intervention works. it just works. but the big problem in the u.s. and elsewhere is access to care. so too often, a pediatrician or a school or family identifies somebody at risk, and then it's months and months before they can get to a child psychiatrist, an dad lessent psychiatrist. there is a pilot program in d.c. it started in may. and they're training the pediatricians, they're training the schools to evaluate those kids have a tele-medicine, have a the phone. and it turns out only 10% of the time do those kids then need to be seen face to face by the psychiatrist. what this does is remove the

that a lot of the plants have been moving south to places like chattanooga and mexico where un knifed workers aren't part of the case there, but it's becoming clear that these workers, if this news is confirmed, certainly got a lot of bank for their buck in terms of the agreement. >> david, good to see you, david in detroit for us, and volkswagen's top executive in america was on capitol hill today, and he was -- grilled by lawmakers, and the ceo said that the scandal wasn't the fault of those in charge, but blamed it on lower level employees. >> but this was not a corporate decision. from my point of view, to my best knowledge, the corporation, in any board meeting has authorized this. but this was a couple of software engineers who put this in for whatever reasons, and i would also like to find out. >> . >>> ford said that the company doesn't have --er horn says that they don't have a plan. and it could take one to two years to carry out. a transportation insider, matthew joins us, and you know what, matthew, i'm going to get to the uaw deal in a moment, but mr. horn, what did you t

hearings and with the news in germany. so the point of what we've got going here in chattanooga is we're thrilled to have the plant here, and they've been a good corporate citizen here, but we've had to start this class action to make sure that the consumers can also be addressed by volkswagen corporate headquarters as well. they've got a lot of things going on if they're being raided by the police, facing epa and carb, they've got a lot of things going on, and we just want to keep them addressing the consumers as a group. so from what michael horn said, there's 430,000 vehicles that will not be fixed by just software and are going to need major hardware additions to the vehicles. so that's going to be expensive and time consuming. and as a consumer, we're all confused with whether we should be driving these cars. can we legally? yes. but should we and what do we do in the meantime? so it's -- it's the kind of thing that needs to be addressed civilly as well as all of these penalties that may be coming volkswagen's way. >> as mentioned, you are one of millions of consumers right no

hometown, born in like chattanooga, but then moved down therefore his music career. >> the atl has rocking music. all of georgia does. mylong, from at ends georgia. >> i went to track camp there every summer. >> were you a track star watch was your event? >> one hundred, 200, 400. >> so, speaking sport. somewhat here, florida police officer is coming under scrutiny for wearing his firearm. >> so the officer wanted to help coach a kids football game. he didn't want to take his weapon on. fox's ang lee davis explains. >> for 15 years there is man has made the cuff call from the side lines. but now, this referee, who doesn't want to be identified, is calling foul on a cops behavior. the incident happened last month during a bok academy football game. officer helped to coach in full uniform. >> half time i said, look, tell the officer if he is going to coach, remove the firearm. and no problem. >> referee said he made two requests to to the head coach. but officer chilly didn't change. cords together complaint, when leaving the game? >> he stopped me, i mean, i was walk to go my vehicle, so he

bus stop. police in chattanooga tennessee say shooters inside two cars opened fire at a bus stop crowded with children. students ran to nearby homes for cover. witnesses heard as many as 20 shots and what police are calling a gang related drive by shooting much the bullets hit several homes but amazingly, no one is hurt. >> family members are very upset. they've been working with me and my officers this morning. they know background information. they're work wig me to try to find heel who know specifics so we can identify the people who jeopardized our children and put them in jail for this unacceptable behavior. >> police have at least one person in custody and they're after the others involved. >>> potentially very dangerous sis discovery in public bathroom. five-year-old girl now got her hands on gun. >> what's even more disturbing who left that weapon there in the first place. fox's david, spoke with some parents who say they're grateful that everyone is safe. >> reporter: jodi czar list says his five-year-old daughter walked into a situation that could have have been deadin