snyder's funeral did. members of the westboro baptist church holding signs. pray for more dead kids. inside it was up to the nine justices to determine whether the protesters of the 2006 funeral was free speech as the attorney and church member argued. >> the rule of law is the mere fact that you take offense at words or call yourself having your feelings hurt over words is not enough to shut up a speech. >> reporter: or i those wore were intentionally inflicting emotional distress and not protected speech. >> when you specifically identify the snyder family by name, by name. be inwent oex by name. that is targeted harassment. >> all we wanted to do was bury matt with dignity and respect. >> reporter: the church has protestedt hundreds of military funerals. their message that god is punishing soldiers for the country's tolerance of homosexuals. a court awarded the family

millions, only to be reversed on first amendment grounds by a higher court. so for an hour, the justices asked tough questions to both sides. what makes a public figure. should funerals be treated differently and why should the first amendment protect expectations. the issue that has drawn such high emotion now in the hands of the nation's highest court. >> reporter: inside th courtroom there was no clear indication of which way the justices might rule. the court's decision is expected sometime early next year. news4. d.c. police kept a watchful eye of a man who was shot and killed after another funeral. the service ended peacefully. 21-year-old jamal coates was gunned dn last week. today they attended his funeral at king emanuel baptist church. police were also out in force to

prevent any acts of retaliation. he wasilled after attending a friend's funeral on u street northwest. two rival gangs sboth got into a dispute that led to violence pass funeral led out. >> i commend mpd. they did a good job. >> coates and another man were getting into a car after last week's funeral when they were shot. their car then sped off on u street, hit another car and flipped overful police have made an arrest in the case. right now crews are trying to repair a ruptured gas line in columbia, maryland. the contract had been digging in the area and pierced the pipe. it then caught fire. this happened around 2:30 is afternoon near an office poork stanford boulevard. eight businesses including a car dealership are now without power. so far no, injuries.

more than 30 police officers may have to be pulled off the streets in prince george's county because of a cheating scandal at the department's aining academy. internal documents obtain by the wash post show all cadets who graduated in the class of july 2009 received perfect scores on several comprehensive and mandatory tests. police chief roberto hilton has ordered an investigation. the pt reports the cheating allegations began last year after a cadet complained an instructor had been providing students with answers. the police department is still considering possible impacts on arrests made by the officers in question. firefighters in montgomery county could lose their jobs because of budget cuts. county executive ike leggette said one in ten firefighters could get pink slips if voters reject a new ambulance fee in november. under his plan, 107 fire and rescue positions would be eliminated. voters will decide whether to

impose the iding ambulance fee between $30 and $800. the county would then charge insunce mpanies. budget cuts are the reon why school resource officers will no longer be assigned to middle schools in prince william counties. the cuts will take effect beginning next fall. right now, there are six office here's monitor 15 middle schools. this is international twuk school day. thousands of kids across our region and a lot of the parents took up the challenge and walked or biked to school. kimberly caught one students in takoma park, maryland. >> reporter: international walk to hool day has real national meaning. right at this tersection last year, a crossing guard was hit by a car. she still hasn't returned to work. >> be ready to walk to school! >> reporr: it takes serious organization to get a bunch of kindergartners out the door by 8:00 a.m.

>> what about you? >> what's your name? >> union. >> are you brothers? >> no. just friends. >> cousins. >> reporter: but community activism is a family affair that arts early in takoma park. >> walk to school. you can do it, too. >> reporter: the takoma park elementary school principal ys thanks to renovation, this is the first year her school has had a safe walking ramp. >> we are just returning so this is our first year back. so far so good. everybody is very safe and watching out for the children. >> reporter: teaching kids and parents about it is the easy part. >> we've had a lot of reckless driving. among residents driving to work, they need to slow down and watch for the kids, the crossing guards and patrols. >> reporter: 30% walk to school

every single day. what's the best part? >> walking to school with my friends. >> i'm her friend. >> reporter: and on this day, the chiren celebrate their first accomplishment before the bell rings. >> i walked to scol today! >> reporter: now if you're thinking you missed your chance to walk with your child to school, you haven't. organizers internationay want all of october to be walk to school month. reporting in takoma park. >> notice they were allundle up there? >> yes. >> a cool day out there and we have one more cool night before the warm air starts to sh in. >> meteorolost doug kammerer tells us how warm it will get. >> we'll see some big change coming up in the next 24 hours. by this time tomorrow, you'll be going, what a relief. it has been very cool outside. this shows you why. men of cloud cover across the area. now even a couple of showers trying to make their way in.

mostly to the northwest and west of the d.c. area. also out toward the martinsburg, west virginia area, northern loudoun county, all seeing some light showers. those who continue to make their way down to the south and east. manassas at 59. the area of low pressure that has sat there over the past couple of days will continue to spin, but it is starting to make its way to the north and east. that will mean some great weather for us. one more cool night tonight. 56 degrees by 9:00. 54 by 11:00. king up tomorrow to a temperature around 50 in the district. some areas, most areashould wake up to temperatures in the 40s once again. a big warm-up coming up. i'm talking about a great stretch of weather. i'll show it to you in my full

forecast coming up. >> that sounds so good. thank you. >> if you live in maryland and you got a lead foot, you smng speeding through a construction zone is going to cost you. the maryland state highway administration and the state police are setting up mobile speed cameras as part of the safe zones program. the goal is to get drivers to slow down in order to make construction zones safer for workers and motorists. more than 1,000 citations have been issued as part of the program. the mobile cameras will be used in work zones along u.s. 15 and frederick county and other locations, including the icc work zone. >> they work everywhere else. let's hope they do in construction zones, too. let's get the word on the ride home now. hey, ash. >> reporter: good afternoon. let's start of where you don't have to worry about speeding because you're dealing with substantial delays on. 95 headed southbound, fresh off

the capital beltway. the mainline of traffic inching along, making your wayoward 71 hundred. the pace lhtens up. it looks like the main focal point will be drivers from the main lane, peeling off into the express way. we're looking muc better. as you can see here, we've got some traffic. this will be headed eastbound. in the far left, yousee the little ambulance. they've been finationling for some time. i can't show you the dramatic shot which is why we have the far right lane blocked. as we travel around the capital beltway, we are going to show you off with some slow moving traffic. fortunately, no accidents to report. you can see the outer loop is a ttle congested headed through

silver spring through bethesda as well. >> thanks, ash. >> tomorrow marks the start of the 10th year of the war in afghanistan. 1,200 american service members have been killed. today there is word that secret talks to end the war are underway once again. steve handelsman has the latest. >> repter: the white house said today, it supports reconciliation, meaning a compromise to end the ghan war that cost more than 1,200 u.s. lives. >> the terms of the deal seemed reasonable and did not lead to a taliban keover of the country. it is most americans would welce it in order to prevent the next round of fatalities. >> reporter: the army staff sergeant robert miller lost his life to the taliban in 2008. toy was awarded the medal of honor. president obama described how miller counter attacked, precting his fellow green

berets. >> he had been hit but sll he kept calling out enemy posions. still he kept firing. still he kept throwing his grenades. then they heard it, his weapon fell silent. >> reporte president obama wants the start of a u.s. pullout next summer. but the taliban is on the rise in afghanistan d next door in pakistan. u.s. convoys there under incrsing attack. if a deal does get cut between taliban leader mow ham omarand afghan president karzai, is that a defeat for the u.s.? one opinion? >> no, no. cutting a deal allows to us refocus on what is important to us. al qaeda and stabilizing pakistan. >> reporter: after fighting the taliban for nine long years, the tenth year starts tomorrow. america's longest war. but u.s. officials insist the fight will go on uless the taliban breaks with al qaeda.

i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. when news4 at 4:00 continues, a red toxic udge is sweeping through an entire village. the latest on the possible impact. some encouraging economic news about the upcoming holiday retail season. and get the national anthem wrong and there is a severe consequence. we'll tell but the new ban.

flooding and mud slides have killed at least 75 people and left thousands homeless in indonesia. days of torrential downpours have submerged hundreds of homes and destroyed roads and bridges in west papua ovince. in one village a river burst, sweeping residents away and leaving thigh high water behind. more than 2,000 people have sought shelter in government buildings and makeshift camps. indonesia experiences these deadly landslides and flooding evy year. meanwhile in hungary, crews are working the stop a different kind of mud floe. a flood of toxic sludge has already entered se of the country's waterways and could potentially affect all of europe if officials can't stop it. michelle kosinski has that story. >> reporter: parts of western hungary are under a state of emergency because of flooding but we're not justalking about water. we know how damaging that can be. this is a toxic caustic red

sludge that flooded at least six villages. broke free from a dam containing a reservoir outside an aluminum production plant. apparently it causes burns on contact. it already hurt 12 people. killed four including two young children. we know that that mud was as deep as nine feet in some areas. >> this is a serious environmental problem. we're concerned that it could cross e border and that's why we have environmental legislation in place. so the solution -- >> reporter: it has gotten into one river. the worry is that it could get into the water system and cause an even greater disaster. nbc news, london. we have some breaking news in maryland where an suv has crashed into the front of a mattress warehouse store.

>> this is a live picture from chopper 4. this is happening in wheaton on veers mill road on university boulevard. this suv has driven through front window of this store. luckily n injuries reported there this afternoon in wheaton, maryland. secretary of state hillary clinton dsmissed reports today that vice presidential swap is in the works. rumors have been floating around for months that clton could replace biden. the notion was stirred up again last night when veteran journalist bob woodward brought it up in a tv interview. some believe an obama-clinton twoikt improve the president's chances of winning a second term. at awomen's conference this morning, clinton said bidenis doing a wonderful job. >> we have a great relationship and i have absolute no interest and no reason for doing

anything other than dismissing the stories and moving on. because we have no time. we have so much to do. and i think both of us are very hay doing what we're doing. >> the white house said any reports of a vice presidential swapre, quote, absolute fiction. in wisconsin, an odd situation in the race for governor. the libertarian candidate didn't get enough signatures to get his anymore on the ballot but terry virgil, the candidate for lieutenant governor did. so his name will appear on the ballot next to the words, no candidate for governor. if he wins, he would become governor because of the law, calling for the lieutenant governor to take over should there be a vacant six he said he is now campaigning for the post but he has raise nod money and has no staf the market spent much of the day going back and for the between positive and negative territory. in the end it closed mixed. the dow up about points to end the day at 10,967.

the nasdaq was down 19 points to close at 232. the s&p 0 dropped under a point today. closed, put theow within striking distance of 11,000 for the first time since may. the first forecast is out this morning on how much holiday shoppers may be spding this year. while the figures are not that impressive, they are a lot better than the last two holiday seasons. chris clackum has more. with retail sales christmas two years ago, down a disastrous 4%, and then an uptake last year of only .4%, analysts find it easy to avoid being overly optimistic about this year. >> we know that we're comparing ourselves to pretty tough years e last two years. we know that the economy is more stable than it was. >> the national retail federation is expecting to ring up a 2.3% increase in holiday

sales this year. matching the average annual incrse over the last decade. it is a bright projection for retailers, as well as for those looking for work. >> last year in 2009, the retail industry created about a half a million temporary jobs. and every indication we've gotten thus far is that we're going to do that or even better than that this year. >> reporter: retail sale have been up and down all year so finishing stroer, if only slightly stronger,s still better than the alternative. >> retaer cole's plans to increase its hiring by 21% this holiday season. the department store chain expects to hire more than 40,000 worker. that's about 35 employees per store. most of the job will be filled by mid-november. macy's, toys are us, pier 1 and others plan toire more workers.

there's a national crackdown with those on the national anthem. it call for criminal penalties against anyone who doesn't sing the anthem the way it's supposed to be sung. the philippine house of representatives passed it on monday. what is the proper way according to the bill, the anem should be sung only in the tempo intended by its composer. violators of the bill would be subjecto a two-year prison term. and a $2,000 fine. boy, our anthems at the super bowl go all over the place. >> there it is worth learning to sing it the right way. >> coming up, a scamollect millions. now the organization has shut down. plus, a record load of tune yax push thormen are having quite the catch. wearing shirs ♪

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yesterday we warmed up ever so slightly. today it was back down.

>> so far today, 60 degrees. tomorrow, 73. >> we'll wait. >> we talked about one more cool day today. we do have that cool day out there right now. very cool and cloudy. but our eather, not too bad. especially when you consider this. take a look at this video out of arizona. the entire state gets about four tornadoes a year. two of them hit today. just to the west of flagstaff, arizona. this one caused a lot of of damage. about 38 mobile homes were actually destroyed from this home. the good news is there were no real injuries but it did produce a lot of damage. and a fairly quick amou of time. they're dealing with more storminess toward the southwest. our area, not bad. look at this shot. this is just gorgeous. the clouds o to the east. sunshine, and blue skies off to the west. right now we're sitting at 60 degrees with the winds out of the westbout 12 miles an hour. it stl feels very cool out there. the temperature are 59 in sterling. 56 in martinsburg, west virginia, and 55 toward

hagerstown, maryland. look at the doppler radar. a couple showers trying to make their way in toward the south and east. we'll zoom in here. this one down around parts of loudoun county. also over toward rock hall and barnsville. then another area showers, light showers just to the west of gaithersburg. we'll continue to watch those between frederick and gaithersburg out there right now. as far as what we're going to be seeing throughout the rest of the day. this area of low essure continues to sit and spin. it isinally starting to move to the east. as it does, things will change for us in a big way. look at the temperatures. 57 in buffalo. 64 in new york. but look back here to the west. 77 in st. louis and in chicago. 72 toward atlanta. all of that warm air will start to move our way as th area of low pressure starts to move off to the north and east. in behind it, nice weather. high pressure building in. and then i think we're just going to see a fantastic stretch of weather right on through the early portioof next week. so what can we expect for this

evening? mostly cloudy. on the cool side. a sprinkle possible. 56 to 60 degrees. don't be surprised if a couple those sprinkles are on your windshield. for tomorrow morning, clearing skies, sarting off cool. but warming up nicely. 43 to 50 degrees. then warming upinto the 70s under plenty of sunshine. much nicer. a little on the breezy side but warm with a high of 70 to 74. ho about tt? look at saturday. >> i'm not even goi to mention the numbers. just soak it in. 78 on sunday. >> just nudge that 78 to an 80. >> some areas will hit it. >> you can just round it off. >> maybe at 6:00. >> 79 is close enough tonight. still to come in our next half-hour, how a good samaritan helped rescue a girl who was abducted. >> plus, a new anti-gay bullying

documentary premiered in d.c. last night. we'll talk to the

welcome back. >> here's what's happening right now. the supreme court heard arguments today in a lawsuit against the kansas-based church that protested outside a marine's funeral. the court will decide whether the church be can be sued for

that protest and whether the marine's father can check on an earlier suit. justices are expected to issue an opinion earlier next year. some u.s. officials have long said the war in afghanistan would not be won through military means. today the "washington post" reports that the taliban and the afghan government have begun secret high level talks over a negotiated end to the war. there have been previous reports of lower level overtures between the two. the afghan president hamid karzai's government announced no high level talks have taken place. this is international walk to school day. the goal is to encourage healthy habits and build awareness about walkable communities. thousandf students and a lot of their parents took up the challenge and walked or biked to school. this is the 13th year the u.s. has tan part in walk to school day.

e federal government is taking action against a company that they say bilked billions of dollars out of saying they uld lower people's tax debt. >> reporter: if you owe over 15,000 in tax, you've probably heard the pitch. >> this is your one-second chance. use it well. >> reporter: adds promised to help people climb out from under tax debt. >>merican tax relief got them to accept a fraction of what they owed. >> reporter: he was desperate when he heard the ad. >> we can reduce your tax debt by up to 90%. >> reporter: and up, whoa! >> sounds like a plan. turns out he wasn't the only one. some 20,000 people paid american tax relief fees totalling as much as $100 million. the problem is they didn't deliver. >>he downturn in the ecomy, scam artists are trying to take the last dollar out of people's pockets. >> repter: today the federal trade commission announce ad

judge has shut american tax relief down accusing it of bilking consumers. >> plainly a company preying on the most vulnerable. people deeply in debt to the irs. >> reporter: at first he said he didn't tell his wife. >> a guy thing. >> i want to fix it. >> reporter: he said he sent them $750. nothing happened. then he fessed upo darlene who happens to be an accountant. >> i wanted to take them douchbl. >> reporter: she was not alone. the ftc said they never even approaed the irs. meanwhile they said they live large in a beverly hill mansion and drove luxury cars. >> i was very, very angry with american tax relief. >> reporter: the fullertons have gotten half their money back after protesting and have worked out their o arrange. s to repay theis. >> it comes down to the old phrase, if something sounds too good to be true, it is too good

to be true. >> reporter: that was kevin tibbles. the fees range from $3,200 to $25,000 for the purported tax relief services. a kidnapping suspect nabbed in california, thanks to the help of a good samaritan. this happened in fresno, calirnia. will an 8-year-old girl was abducted while playing outside her house monday night. statewide amber alert went out, including the description of the suspect and his vehicle. 11 hours later, a drivereard the alert, spotted the vehicle and saw a little girl's head pop up in the ndow. so he cut off the truck and forced it off the road, giving the little girl time to escape. the driverdentifiedas victor perez said he didn't let fear get the best of him. >> for a split second during the chase, when i confronted him, we've seen that. i saw the little girl and that was it. fear was out the window. police arrested the suspect

who neighbors say had been driving around in that area for days. mel gibbon satisfies ex-girlfriend and the motherof his child said she feared for her life and thought he might kill her during the fight earlier this year. oksana greg revva talked about it for the first time. the 40-year-old musician had some surprising things to say. she believes gibson is depreed to the point of being suicidal at time. still she said she wants gibson in her daughter's life but she wanthim to get help. >> she is very christian and she believes in forgiveness. she knows she is going to have this man in her life the rt of her life. i ink her thinking is i'd better make the best of this situation. i want to get on with this. he is after tall father of that child. >> gibson is under investigatn for domestic abuse. his attorney didn't talk to nbc news despite quz. he accuses her of trying to

extort money from him to keep those now infamous tapes from being made public. the charge she denies. the couple is in the middle of custody battle over their daughter. there is more to come this afternoon on news4 at 4:00. beyonce makes a jaw-dropping appearance on the "today" show. >> wow! plus, they hope to be the world's tallest couple. one for the cord books heading your way next. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable

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the "today" show fashion got a big surprise when a celebrity strutted down cat walk. >> beyonce popped on to the set to model her m's new clothing line. look at hoda. they are stunned. jaws were droing. the star says her mom has been designinsince she was a lite girl and she couldn't be more proud of her accomplishments. she never hesitated being there right by her side sporting her favorite fashion. >> she is so talented and i s happy that everyone can see she has her own line and she is definitely always thinking about everyone. and she believes everyone

deserves to look fabulous. so i think it is great that the price point -- >> the fashion shrine being sold in walmart. sizes range from zero to 20. nearly every item costs under $20. th's a ringing endorsement ther they make quite a teen. >> what better way to promote your new line. here is a tall tale from stockton, california. it's about a couple who may hold the record for being the tallest in the world. >> he is 6'1". shis 6'5". wayne and laurie are hoping to be crowned the tallest living married couple by guinness world records. official from guinness were in stockton to take the official measurements them believe they're a half inch taller combined than their closest competits. both are realtor by trade. who are really tall. call it the catch of the year. hundred of bluefin tuna are

turning up in the canadian island. nearly 300 were caught. fishermen are expected to reach their entire quota within 48 hours. the downside here, tuna buyers stay fish are hard sell and prices are poor because so many are in storage. plus there is concern that it may be an endangered species. that's a lot of can of tuna in that one we just saw. >> yep. and a pretty tall fish tale. >> it is. coming up, after a student's death at rutgers university, a new documentary is out that focuses on anti-gay bullying. pls, he survived a vicious bear atck. today, he talked from his hospital room.

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> there is a baby boom at the national zoo. now a giant ant eater is pregnant and due any day. the giant an eaters are remarkable animals. very unique physical characteristics, especially their long noses. the mother to be is having weekly ultrasounds to monitor the progress of her long nosed baby. it is a delicate procedure to keep her happy while the vets take a look at the baby in utero. the reports were good today. the baby was moving a lot and the mother is doing just fine. >> it is almost like a trunk there. that's a big nose.

>> that's how they eat all those ants. to our weather, it is getting really nice. >> starting. to we're going to see some really big changes over the next 12 to 24 hours as we finally get these clouds moved out of the area. we've seen a couple of peeks and pokes of sun. you'veeen a little blue sky out there but also some showers as we look toward the north. 60 degrees. the winds out of the west at 12 miles an hour. it still feel on t chilly side. you will need that jack. 57 in frederick. sterling at 59 degrees. fredericksburg at0 degrees. doppler radar, not a lot out there but watch what that when we zoom in here into part of montgomery county. there's a prettyood shower that's making its way to the south over toward gaithersburg right along 270. that extends into parts of loudoun coty and into prince william and fauquier county. don't be surprised to see a

couple of showers throughout if you are making your way home or getting toward head to the store. take your kids to the ball game. the satellite and radar showing that area of low pressure just to the north. it will move to the nor and east and that will mean some much nicer weathe say goodbye to low pressure, say hello to high pressure. and high pressure normally means good things for us. in this case, it will mean nothing but sunshine and nic weatr thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, monday, tuesday. monday. 56 to 60 degrees as we move through the morning tomorrow. still cool morning but warming up nicely. high temperatures tomorrow, 70 to 74 degrees. mostly sunny. breezy and warmer and there is that forecast. got to show the four-day. there it is. the sunshine, highs in the 70s. that's what happens when you run into time. >> we'll keep this up for the

next 20 minutes. >> you want to show that 79 there. >> i wanted to. >> all right. thanks. the bullying has gone or for decades but now it is making news after several stations nationwide committed suicide because of it. >> a new documentary debuted in the district last night hoping take message about gay bull yiging in the classroom. >> reporter: 34-year-old jamie is an advocate now but then he was a scared middle schoolers. starting with his sexuality and bullies. >> many classmates saw him as gay. that wasnough for him. >> reporter: just this past weekend the students at rutgers university held a memorial for tyler.

prosecutors say he jumped to his death last wheek videos showed him having sex with another man. they teased him for years. the 15-year-old hanged himself three week ago in texas, middle bullie pushed him too far. the 13-year-old shot and killed himself september 23rd. all three and several oths have been bullied in school. >> gays and lesbians are terribly vilified in our country and the one place they should be safe is in school. and unfortunately, they're not. >> reporter: richard cohen is president of the law center which produced the documentary. he said the film is about more than one gay teenager's struggle with bullie it is about his school district's inaction. >> i think that policies in school have to be explicit and have to name gays and lesbians in particular. you can't be neutral on an issue like this. >> reporter: he wants legislative action. an he wants tolerance. >> i hope that peoplean see my story and realize that we're

human beings and we deserve respect. >> reporter: craig melvin, news4. the southern poverty law nter is making the film, making the film as available. making it available along with a teaching kit, free of charge to every school in the country. so far more than 15,000 kits have been given awa police in questioning a woman's story of her husband's murder by pirates. plus a man was attacked by a bear and survived, talks about the horrifyi ordeal. tonight, the supreme court case that pits the right to grieve privately against the right to say what you want no matter how repugnant. we're live with the debate over the protests at military funerals. allegations of cheating within a local police department. dozens of officers may be pulled off the streets. haggling for hotel deals? experts say skip the computer.

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there are new developments concerning a murder along the texas bored. he th woman said she survived the attack but there may be a wixted janet has the latest. >> reporter: the stor of mexico an pirates shooting at tiffany and david hartley as they jet skied on the border has now become an international incident. sikhnswers in the return of her husband's body, she had a three-hour meeting tuesday at the mexican consul. >> it seems like you have to file an official missing person's report in order to get

the federal level. now it i official. >> reporter: the u.s. authorities id they couldn't search for david's body because it happened on mexico's side of the lake. and they had no evidence official inexico were looking. >> authorities a -- >> reporter: on today, she told meredith there was little assistance from across the border. >> they're not doing what ty need to do to get in that water and find him. they're not getting in the water them don't have people on the ground them don't have people looking for him. and that's why we're pleading that. please. bring him back. >> how are they going to find him? >> reporter: meanwhile official in mexico questioned her story, telling a texas newspaper, we are not certain that the incident happened t way that they are telli us. but on the u.s. side, the sheriff overseeing the case said a credible witness corroborates tiffany's account of what happened. >> i have gone through the same thing. at the present moment, based on

what we have, there is nothing really to doubt her story this time. >> reporter: meanwhile with his motorcycle up on stage, a memorial for david hartley last night. a celebration of a life well lived. >> he liked the finer things in life. he was always up for an adventure. >> reporter: for those left behind, no closure. until they can bring david home. that's news4 at 4:00. news4 at 5:00 starts right now. tonight aegations of cheating among the men and women who patrol streets of prince george's county. good evening, everybody. welcome to news4 at 5:00. i'm jim handly. >> this cheating sndal involve more than 30 office here's

graduated last july. official are scrambling to figure out what impact this may ha on cases in the county. chris gordon has the latest from the police headquarters. >> reporter: this is the county police training academy. the focus of an internal affairs investigation of alleged cheating that could involve discipline, suspension or even removal of 32 prince george's county police officers and two members of the maryland national capital park police. it casts doubt on their honesty and credibility. prince george's county state's attorney glen ivy whose office prosecutes crime has formed a team to determine how many of his cases involve police in the alleged cheating scandal. >> we have to look at each case individually to make a determination on whether we can rely on that case. and ha confidence in the integrity of the outcome. that involves cases that have been litigated and some xasz are still pding. there are "washington post" quotes an internal memo