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middle school with more on this. >> reporter: jim many parents are shocked by this arrest. tonight we sat down with that physics teacher and he broke his silence and says he was not intoxicated at cool. >> right now i'm insulted. >> reporter: the man is tired after an emotional 24 hours. he was arrested for public drunkenness on school property monday at 2:45 p.m. >> were you drinking at the school during any point during the day? >> no. >> were you teaching while you were intoxicated at the school? >> no. this is for me i had last night and i don't know what happened. >> reporter: he says he drank alcohol sunday night and drove to school monday morning. a member of the staff smelled cholt on his breath and called
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the sheriff's office. >> did you drive while intoxicated to school? >> no. i don't -- >> why were you arrested for public intoxication? >> i never done the public drinking. >> reporter: investigators say a breathalyzer test came over the legal limit of .08 if he were driving. >> no students were impacted by this. >> reporter: he started teaching physics last year and spent six years at schools in fairfax county. >> police say you were drinking too much to legally operate a vehicle. is that correct? >> no comment. >> no comment? >> mm hmm. >> he resigned on mont and claims that the staff micromanaged his teaching and said he was going to school here
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and teaching to the kids and they didn't understand him. he does plan to fight this charge. i'm shomari stone. back to you in the studio. occupy demonstrations flared up across the up country this evening. several people were pepper sprayed in an occupy seattle demonstration. officers used pepper spray to try to break the group up as it marched in a show of solidarity demonstration with the new york city demonstrators. police shot a man with a gun in the business school at berkley at the same time that hundreds of people descended on the campus for anti-wall street protests. officials don't know if the suspect was part of the movement. police were told that a man walked in the gun. officers found him in a computer
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room with several students. there is no word on the man's condition. here in d.c. protesters are back in mcphearson square after a solidarity march tonight. they took even the lobby of a building in chinatown. is it a company that owns zuccotti park in new york. the d.c. protesters marched to the white house tonight. the assistant coach at penn state who claimed to have seen jerry sandusky abusing a child in a shower spoke out today. mike mcjiri said he reported the abuse to joe paterno and made sure that the abuse in the shower stopped. mcqueary has been in seclusion today. today he gave an interview to scott telly. >> describe your emotions right
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now. >> all over the place. just kind of shaken. >> crazy? >> crazy. >> you said what? >> like a snow dwloeb. >> mcqueary is on indefinite administrative leave. he has received death threats and is worried about his safety. wilson ramos says he will stay in venezuela for the off season so he can play baseball. that decision comes just a few days after being rescued from kidnappers in that country. ramos started to practicing today with a baseball team in venezuela. he is not answering questions about the abduction. one woman's frightening experience in a parking lot could help solve the murder of a teenaged girl last seen a year and a half ago. that is the hope for fairfax police tonight. and aaron gilchrist is live with that story.
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>> reporter: fairfax county police are hoping that the surveillance video and the sketch we are about to show you will lead to new clues in the murder of vanessa pham. >> i get my hopes up but try to remain calm. >> reporter: tracy talked to us from her home in connecticut via skype about the fact there may be new evidence in her cousin's killer. you see a woman leaving the unique thrift store. a man got in the passenger seat as she sat down on the driver's side. she screamed and ran. the man hung around long enough for the women's description to produce this scotch and a new clue. >> it is scary to know that this person, if it is the same person that is still doing what they are doing. >> reporter: her cousin vanessa
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was shopping at fairfax plaza in june of 2010. video showed her getting in her car, pulling out and hesitating before driving off. her body was found in the car nearby less than an hour later. >> hopefully this can be a break in the case and there can be any evidence or somebody might recognize this person. >> reporter: fairfax police say the man committed no crime but they want to talk to him and any witnesses that night. paige heard about the october incident and is shocked it happened here. >> you think it is rare to happen again in the same sot or not necessarily any time soon again after that. >> hope to catch that guy but i think it is anomaly. >> the entire time we have been here tonight there has been a security guard driving around the parking lot here. but the fairfax county police want to hear from anyone who was here at 8:30 on october 27th.
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>> thank you, aaron. we've enjoyed really nice temperatures over the last couple days. but that's about to change. >> you know it is going to change when we are talking about the middle of november and we saw 70s and high 60s. today was in the mid-60s. i think we will start to see things change big time. looking at the radar you can see light rain in much of the area right now. it will continue to move on in. but that is nothing compared to what is behind it. a lot of rain to come. some could be heavy at times. i'll show you when the heaviest rain moves in and when it may affect you during your rush hours both morning and night and which could be heavier. it's one of the worst fears for a family and it happened in buoy, maryland this weekend. the mother of a four-year-old never returned to pick her child
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up from the babysitter. and the babysitter did a remarkable thing. jackie bensen has the story. >> i was working on let's play. let's do nails. let's go to the park and with dora and the map. we were okay pieg our time with the four-year-old being a four-year-old. >> reporter: elaine had known sandy and her daughter for about a month and they moved here from los angeles, california. she watched the girl on nights that sandy worked at t.g.i. friday's restaurant. due at the home on sunday morning sandy never showed up and was not answering the phone. as the hours went by she began to suspect the worst. >> i went to her job and i asked if they had seen or had heard from her when was the last time they heard from her? i went from the information they gave me. i went to her house.
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and eventually i had to get the police involved. sandy had been killed in an hit and run accident on route 3. >> shortly after midnight on sunday morning we got telephone calls from citizens advising there was a female walking in the roadway. troopers were dispatched and by the time the troopers arrived she had been struck and killed by a motorist who fled the scene. >> reporter: elena made it clear that sandy's daughter would remain with her until her grandparents arrived from california, no temporary foster care or child protective services. >> my main concern outside of sandy was her daughter and making sure she felt safe and that she was secure where she was. >> reporter: sandy's parents arrived on tuesday and thanked
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elena, a stranger who is now a family friend and they ask that anyone with information about the accident that killed sandy to call maryland state police. jackie bensen, news4. tonight, long time gay rights activist was remembered in the room where a congressional committee once prosecuted gays. at the service, a d.c. congresswoman called him the rosa parks of the lgbt community. he spent most of his life advocating for equality for gays and lesbians after being fired from his job for being gay. from zero to six in a matter of months. the details about wal-mart's plans to build across the district. and an one undate on two settles of twins. and five incredible teenagers are honored for their efforts to beat the odds and
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be built at the skyline shopping center in southeast d.c. and another at rigs road and dakota avenue southeast. an announcement is expected tomorrow. the stores will generate 1500 new jobs. but community groups are worried about the impact on small business. sisters are now walking as two separate girls. the two showed off the results of their complex surgery today at the children's hospital at stanford university in california. the two-year-old girls were born joined at the chest. the hospital officials say they are doing so well they could return home to the philippines in the next few days. >> we are so excited now to go home. see them -- see them sitting in their own car seats.
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>> another set of twin girls once conjoined are also doing well after their separation surgery in virginia last week. these ten-month-old sisters came to richmond from the dominican republic and they are expected to return home next month. the last two winters in washington have been rough. blizzards and crippling storms and all kinds of stuff. storm 4 meteorologist doug kammerer now what is coming to be this year? >> it has been fun to be a meteorologist because you go from 70 inches of snow to just over 10 inches last year. this year what does it hold for us? whether you are a snow lover or hater we've got your forecast. in 2010 it was snomageddon. 32.1 inches of snow that fell in the first week of february crippling the region in the northeast for days. last winter it was carmageddon a
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storm that hit our area and left people stranded on the roads and highways for over 12 hours. >> going from silver spring to alexandria and it's been an hour and a half. >> i just spun out and had to give up. i tried to get my car but it was impossible. >> we have pulled out 50 cars. >> a lady said she was going to the valley and she took me home but it took us eight hours. >> reporter: it was a storm that we seldom see. the snow came down so fast there was little we could do to avoid being caught. what will this winter bring? one of the biggest players is going to be the central pacific ocean. that is the el nino oscillation. a change in the sea surface temperatures. cooler temperatures means that la nina is back. that will have an influence on our weather. most of the time it has to do
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with the southern branch of the jet stream bringing in moisture along the east coast but without that the branch is weaker and not able to bring in the moisture. if we get the colder air most of the times it will not prove big time snows. here is the snowfall forecast this year. if you were hoping for no snow or a lot of snow we see a low chance of that happening. the highest chance is below 15 inches for the washington metro area. going for 7 to 13 inches of snow from smaller storms. most of those will be those starting as snow and changing to rain or starting as rain and changing to snow with colder air behind the system. we are going below average once again. last year we went 8 to 14 inches and we got 10 inches of snow. this year could be similar to
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last year. we've experienced strong storms and it really did come together and i think we could see more of that this winter be it may be too warm to get significant snow. the numbers will go up the farther west and down the farther east you go. we have all oft on www.nbcwashington.com. and we'll have a web chat that doreen and jim will both with on. >> we're the storm 4 anchors. >> we'll have that for you tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. if you have any questions go ahead and get on our web chat tomorrow. we'll let you know how much we're thinking in your area. outside right now one of the prettiest memorials in our area the world war ii memorial gorgeous out there. and another nice night. but we are seeing shower activity moving in and the showers will continue right on through the next 24 hours or
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sot. we had a high of 68 degrees. right now we're sitting at the low temperature of 57. this morning's low was 61. 20 degrees above the average just an incredible warmth. 57 degrees the current temperature. winds out of if south at 5 miles per hour. and as long as we have the southerly component to the wind we will be warmer. 60 in baltimore and 06 in fredericksburg at 11:00 at night in the middle of november. and this will provide a change. this frontal boundary has rain associated with it. heaviest in winchester and west virginia in morgantown and down through -- and berkley springs and portions of charlestown. around the d.c. area just light showers. but look to the west. we are watching this storm that is making its way to memphis.
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that moves in over the next 24 hours. some areas could get one to two inches of rain. this is what we are thinking about through 8:00 tomorrow morning some of the heaviest rain down to the south. and tomorrow morning a good chance just about everybody will see wet roadways. in the day periods of heavy rain moving through. and by 7:00 we're in the thick of it. some of the heaviest rain at 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 tomorrow night. we have a wet day out there on our wednesday and after that things cool down big time. showers likely tomorrow morning some on the moderate side. 47 to 54 degrees. tomorrow above average with temperatures in the low 60s. some of the rains will be heavier late and be on the mild side. and then 50 for the high on
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thursday and breezy. a high of 48 on friday. but back above average by sunday with a high of 62 degrees. rainy tomorrow and then on the cool side. >> watch out for the wet leaves. >> they are falling. still to come celebrating remarkable local teenagers who defied the odds to success. and caps and preda
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finers than the capitals. joe ward, no score in the second period. ward on the attack fires the shot. but making the save. ward is used to having this guy depending his back. scoreless later in the period. broward turns it over. fisher on the breakaway. but vokoun says no sir mr. carrie underwood. great save. still no score in the third. broward, and broward scores. he puts the caps up 1-0 with under five minutes to play. but the predators just 28 seconds later erat beats vokoun
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to tie the game. two in 28 seconds. serious. predators trying to get another one. 24 seconds to go. erat hits colin wilson for another goal. the predators add an empty netter. the capitals have lost four of their last five games. not a good way to finish. georges may man the pre-season n.i.t. bouncing back nicely with a 79-39 win over monmouth. and virginia tech taking advantage of home court advantage. check this one out in blacksburg, isaiah thomas his squad taking on the hokies. virginia tech up by 6. hokies lead 33-26 at the break. second half now tech up by 7. and they go to the big man inside again.
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this is what i like to call a man jam. he's going to throw it down. look at below. hokies up by 9. but the senior guard hudson knocks down the three with a game-high 31. the hokies win and advance to the semifinals to play syracuse at madison square garden next wednesday. in charlotteville, hosting winthrop, virginia realizes a good way to beat the zone is to attack the zone. that's how you take care of business. mike scott with ten of his game-high 18 in the first half. the cavs by three at halftime. the lead is not given up.
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