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investigators say the man behind it all was once in charge of security at dulles airport. news 4's pat collins is live in silver spring. pat? >> reporter: wendy, this guy lives in manassas, does security for tsa, at dulles, but it appears he did his dirty work at this hotel in silver spring. 39-year-old bryant livingston, a tsa airport security manager charged with running a prostitution operation out of the crown plaza hotel in silver spring. according to court documents when police entered room 506 at the hotel, they observed 11 people to include three naked females and four males attempting to get dresse eddres. according to the papers multiple people were laying on the two beds in the room, others sitting in chairs, one man told police
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he paid a hundred bucks to go up in that room and have sex. it was the hotel that tipped off police after a manager there noticed livingston escorting women and men into the same room. when police got to that room, what did they discover? >> the door was opened and they observed males and females in various stages of undress. >> reporter: according to the court documents, the manager says livingston mad done the same thing at the hotel on other occasions. and when he was confronted by the police, livingston claimed he runs the airport security at dulles. homeland security said it received a similar complaint about livingston and prostitution back in 2009. it's unclear as to what, if anything, was done about it then. now according to the court documents livingston lives in
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this house on gent court in manassas. according to the tsa livingston was a transportation security manager at dulles. they say he joined the agency in 2002. they say the allegations against him are unacceptable. they say he no longer works for tsa. so how did livingston link up the johns with the hookers? well, sources say he used craigslist. live in silver spring, pat collins, news 4. we have breaking news right now out of southeast d.c. where a man has been shot by police. it happened here in the 800 block of 51st street around 2:30 this afternoon. officers arrived and found a man with a gun who started shooting at them. police fired back. the suspect was taken to the hospital with life threatening injuries. a jet blue pilot suspended and now criminally charged with a mid air meltdown. the flight had to make an emergency landing in amarillo
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yesterday after the pilot started steering the planer -- the plane erratically and telling passengers to say prayers. jane watrel is live with more. >> reporter: the high flying rant is the talk of passengers here at reagan national airport and at dulles. the pilot is now facing charges of interfering with a flight crew. it was a shocker at 35,000 feet as passengers wrestle a jet blue pilot to the ground. after he appeared to have a nervous breakdown. >> out of his mind, screaming, and saying to the passengers, say your prayers. say your prayers. jet blue flight 191 was flying from new york to las vegas tuesday when captain clayton osmond reportedly began erratically steering the plane, flipping switches, and operating the radio. the copilot was so concerned he persuaded the captain to go to the restroom. he asked an off-duty pilot to come into the cockpit and locked the door. witnesses say captain osmond
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left the restroom then appeared to lose control when he realized he was locked out of the cockpit. >> it appeared he was trying to openhe side door so i wasn't going to let that happen. >> reporter: at dulles international this jet blue passenger hailed the copilot as a hero. >> i feel that these planes, you know, you're pretty secure. they are well trained. i'm sure that copilot is feeling pretty good right now. >> reporter: after making an emergency landing in texas, police and medics took the captain off the plane. on the "today" show jet blue ceo was baffled by the pilot's behavior. >> i have known the captain personally for a long period of time and there's been no indication of this at all in the past. >> reporter: captain osmond has apologized for the incident. flyers say the crew and passengers should be commended for their quick thinking. >> i'm glad the passengers took charge. that's helped us more than once. >> reporter: i have total faith that at this point the passengers are going to unite and take care of themselves as a group. i think we learned a lot from 9/11 in that way. so i totally trust my fellow
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flyers. >> reporter: captain ogden was a 12-year veteran of jet blue. he is now in fbi custody. reporting live at reagan national, jane watrel, news 4. family members are telling their side of the story after a pit bull attack sent two montgomery county teenagers to the hospital. it was last night in gaithersburg family members say a 14-year-old girl was walking home on boulder ridge terrace when one of her neighbor's two pit bulls attacked. the dog was not on a leash. the girl's 15-year-old brother ran from their house to help. the dog then turned on him. both of them suffered serious bites. >> she was bit on her leg really bad. she has stitches on her arm. i don't know if it was bite marks or scratches on her breast right here. the dog attempted to attack her on her neck. >> it was probably bound to happen. the guy is a nice guy. he just got two pit bulls and
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animals are animals. they are unpredictable. >> both teenagers were treated and are now home. police had to shoot the dog. after their attempts to subdue it failed. this afternoon the owner was issued two civil citations that could cost him $600 in fines. tonight new reports portray trayvon martin as a high school student who was often in trouble. he was suspended three times for vandalism, truancy, and possession of drug paraphernalia. that follows a detailed account of what george zimmerman told police that martin attacked him first knocking him to the ground, smashing his head on the sidewalk before the fatal shot last month. the martin family calls it a conspiracy to tarnish the teenager's image. some lawmakers are coming to the boy's defense. >> just because someone wears a hoody does not make them a hoodlum. >> congressman bobby rush, a democrat from illinois, was
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removed from the house floor today for wearing a hoody while speaking in support of martin. the fate of the nation's health care law now rests with the nine justices of the supreme court. three days of oral argue middle school co school -- oral argument concluded this afternoon and this morning it centered on what if questions such as if the mandate to buy insurance is removed should the rest of the law be thrown out as well? this afternoon's argument concerned whether the federal government can order a massive medicaid expansion for those states that would eventually have to pay. and the supreme court decision is expected in june. two republican presidential contenders are in town tonight. newt gingrich is talking to students at georgetown university right now. the former speaker of the house is also shaking up his staff. he laid off a third of his workers and replaced his campaign manager in a new strategy heading into the republican convention this summer. gingrich remains a distant third in the delegate count. texas congressman ron paul will attend a town hall meeting at
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the university of maryland college park tonight at 7:00. paul is in last place in the delegate count. republicans hold the maryland primary april 3rd. now to a hotly contested primary in maryland's sixth congressional district. congressman roscoe bartlett is one of only two republicans serving maryland in the u.s. house of representatives. well, now the ten-term incumbent is facing seven gop challengers. chris gordon profiles this upcoming race. >> reporter: representative roscoe bartlett posts videos on his website detailing his positions, his record, and his participation on committees in the u.s. congress. six of the seven republicans who are challenging bartlett appeared at this forum sponsored by the frederick news post. state senator david brinkley believes he is the best qualified to replace bartlett. >> my business is here, i'm born and bred here, my family is here. i know what this district needs to thrive and survive.
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>> reporter: kathy efzali is a delegate in the maryland general assembly. >> i hope to continue to lead to elect more conservative constitutional conservatives in maryland as well as our national government. >> reporter: the sixth congressional district combines parts of western maryland with portions of frederick and montgomery county where robin figer has placed referendum questions on the ballot. >> my questions in montgomery county have gotten 2 million votes over the democrat. >> reporter: each candidate explained why they think they are most qualified to serve in congress. >> i am responsible for other people's money as being a project manager. i just know what it's like to be out there and try to fight for what you believe in. >> i'm the guy can figure stuff out that nobody seems to be able to figure out. and i'm also a very good salesman. >> i've started companies. i brought companies public. one of the companies i brought public is one of the largest information providers on the
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internet. >> another candidate said he was unable to attend the forum because of a scheduling conflict. congressman roscoe bartlett wasn't there due to votes in washington. there is also a field of democrats hoping to challenge for bartlett's seat in the fall election. i'll report on the democratic primary at 6:00. chris gordon, news 4. next and new at 5:00 tonight a local man kidnapped on his way home from church. how police were able to track him down without the suspects even knowing. too hot to handle? tonight's ride on bus drivers take a stand and demand some of the vehicles get taken off the road. megamillions mania. the jackpot grows to half a billion dollars. what you need to know. wendy, what we need to know before friday night's drawing. ♪
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there are new developments tonight and a rash of ride on bus fires in montgomery county. the bus driver's union has filed a grievance and wants two models of buses pulled from service. there have been six ride on bus fires in just three years. the causes have ranged from circuit breaker problems to brake issues. the union says its contract is being violated because it
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promisprom -- the buses no longer meet reliability standards. the first five fires happened aboard diceesel buses. we're getting our first look at the ticket that was given to prince george's county's council member karen towles. this is the original ticket given for an unsafe lane change. police later charged her with reckless driving after they clocked her going more than a hundred miles an hour on the beltway last month. towles plans to fight the citation in court next month. a reckless driving conviction would cost her $510 and six points on her license. towles already has three points and six more could mean her lns is suspended. we've got wet roads for the rush hour in spots. >> some spots. some areas seeing moderate to heavy rain but all in all not a bad day. some areas got up into the 70s. others into the 80s. >> ooh. >> wow. >> how about that? right now let's take a look and
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show you how things are shaping up. we've had some shower activity come through the washington, d.c. area. really just some light showers around the district. you can see now the sun is shining again. we will see another chance for a few showers but most of those will stay to the south of washington now. and i think most of us to the north will actually see a pretty nice evening. this is why. you can see where the line is right around the district down to the south and east. it extends out to the west. there are a few storms popping up a little bit to the north of this line so we'll continue to watch it but that line pretty much moving from west to east right now. and not a whole lot of progress down to the south. you can see where the heaviest rain is and you can also see here we're not talking about thunderstorms in the immediate area. down to the south the heaviest rain portions of st. mary's county, portions of calvert county along route 2 there back down through 5 and just to the south of mechanicsville is where some of the heaviest rain is. it should be around leonardtown. you're probably seeing showers
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now in leonardtown but the heavier rain in the next 15 to 20 minutes. the same thing for you folks. now woodbridge seeing that rain. i-95. route 1 very wet. a very wet commute south of springfield. you'll run into rain down toward the fredericksburg region and back to the north around manassas, noexville, brentsville all seeing some rain as you move into fairfax county and still seeing some rain too right around fairfax and 123. watch out for some of those showers. once again, nothing too heavy. just some light to moderate rain from time to time. all the thunder and the lightning, we did see some come through a little earlier but look back to the west. this line extends well to the west and this is some big time storms here. a lot of lightning. a lot of thunder with these storms. they are moving our way but they just cannot keep that severity as they make their way across the mountains. that's good news for us. temperature out there right now? 70 degrees. a very mild 70 degrees. winds out of the southwest about 7 miles an hour. the winds have been gusting a
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little bit during the day today. here's the frontal boundary. we'll see that front move through. the showers will end and tomorrow we'll see sunshine. breezy conditions with winds shifting to the northwest. 15 to 25 miles an hour. then on friday, the winds die down. the sun still comes out. i think we see a pretty nice day on friday before we get into some rain on saturday. half the weekend right now looking a little bit wet. this evening, a few more showers and thunderstorms. they'll continue to move out. most of them should be to the south of washington. temperatures tomorrow morning not bad at all. mild and breezy. 47 to 52 degrees. looking good tomorrow morning. tomorrow afternoon, not bad either. sun, a few clouds. rather breezy and mild. high temperatures in the mid 60s for the most part. as we move on through the next couple days 65 on your friday. fantastic friday. there are the showers on saturday. still looking at saturday to see how much rain but it doesn't look like a lot at this time. sunday also looking pretty good. not a bad forecast. >> all right. not bad at all. military service members who
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sacrifice so much can't find work when they come home. that is why nbc news has joined hiring our heroes, a partnership with the u.s. chamber of commerce to help veterans find jobs. nbc's charles hadlock joins us from a job fair in fort hood, texas. what unique challenges do military families face when trying to find work here? >> reporter: one of the biggest problems is a military family is very mobile. they move from post to post around the world so for a military spouse it's very difficult to get a deep resume and keep a job because they keep moving. and fort hood, texas is one of the largest army posts in the world so they centered today's job fair here on the spouses. 1,000 spouses of military families came here today to work with 88 companies. each company that came here came loaded with jobs. so a lot of folks were able to walk away with good job leads today and that's the best news
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of all for these families who have served the country so bravely. >> that is great news. charles, how can military skills translate into civilian jobs? they have a lot to offer. >> they certainly do. and the army has changed now. every soldier who leaves either by the end of his enlistment or retiring entirely goes through a, basically a career training. they get training in how to write a resume, training in how to do a job interview, how to present themselves to a new employer. all of that is helping. and as you mentioned, job skills do translate and the army is helping people realize that, hey, if you're an engineer you can become an engineer in the civil side. teachers, law enforcement, doctors, nurses. all sorts of skills that you learn in the army or in the military in general can translate to civilian life and that's what people are learning here at this post. >> a great program there in fort hood, texas tonight. charles, thanks so much.
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>> you bet. when we come back, protesters are armed with duct tape and trying to send a message. they say your safety could be at risk if congress doesn't do something fast. the images are hard to forget. now almost a year later we get a look at the repairs along the georgetown water front. >> it's the story that has a lot of parents talking. a hollywood actress prechewing her son's food and giving it to him mouth to mouth. we'll hear her explanation. plus find out how a local high school athlete's misfortune on the football field is helping get him
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he gained notoriety on the football field but he is excelling on the baseball field. >> dan hellie has more on this high school standout. >> this is a kid that's definitely going to be going places very soon. the madison high school baseball program is a power house. they're ranked 30th in the country. coach mark jorman has helped more than 70 players go on to play at the college level. none of them have made the major leagues. junior shortstop andy mcguire just might change that. hakem dermish has more on a kid who first started getting national attention on the football field. madison junior short stop andy mcguire is smooth on the baseball diamond. during his sophomore year on the football field, mcguire committed the biggest blooper of
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his high school career, making national news. >> i guess i took one too many steps, caught it, turned around, the next thing i know i'm looking up at the ref and he's laughing. i hand him the ball. my teammates are all laughing. >> i didn't give him that much grief. i said nice catch because it was a pretty good catch but i mean it was kind of cool because everyone, you know, looked for madison on espn and stuff. >> i was more impressed by the fact that he held on to the football. he hit that thing hard. of course we joked about it and i had fun with him about it but in the end i think he had the best line of all. >> now that i've been on the not top ten ail just go ahead and strive for being on the top ten plays sometime in my career. i think that's motivation. honestly. >> reporter: the truth is andy mcguire is the top ranked high school junior in the state. he's also in another class of his own. mcguire is the first player from virginia to earn a baseball scholarship to the university of texas. he is the complete package.
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in baseball terms, mcguire is a five tool player. he excels at hitting for average, hitting for power, base running, and strong throwing and fielding abilities. >> each person does their part to contribute to the framework of the team and i like to think of it that way. instead of, you know, just the one kid who is doing everything. >> a great teammate. honestly, i can't say enough about andy mcguire. i love being around him. everybody does. he brings energy and keeps it light. he is also ready to work. some of the plays he makes even during practice because we like to practice the way we play. he'll go up and get a ball, you know, nobody else in this district, maybe even the region is going to catch. >> we sit here as coaches and a lot of my coaches have played here and well just last week alone on three different occasions we looked at each other on plays he made in practice and just, you know, high school kids aren't supposed to make those plays and so we kind of shake our head on a daily basis every day like what are we going to see next? you know, he's got that "it"
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factor. >> reporter: that also includes humility. according to coach jorman scouts have projected andy as a first-round pick in the 2013 major league baseball draft. yet even with the extra attention this 17-year-old remains grounded. >> i think it's just my love for the game. i love baseball. i love practice. some people hate practice. i love it. of course every kid wants to play in the big leagues and that's really cool. i mean, i'd say that motivates me less than my love for the game and my passion. just me wanting to keep playing as long as the lord lets me. >> reporter: the nation knows andy mcguire as just the kid who ran into the goal post. but if you really get to know him, he's a kid with a passion for baseball, who's definitely worth watching. hakem dermish, news 4 sports. >> man. how polished are those kids? like college kids already. andy actually chose texas because as a kid he played x box ncaa baseball and had texas on
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the cover. and he was always playing with the longhorns. he said he loved burnt orange. when he got a scholarship offer from texas he had to go there. how often do you hear a video game helps make a college decision for a kid? it may not be a decision at although. if he gets drafted in the first round you're talking about a multimillion dollar signing bonus. there could be a really big decision there. >> he is going places. he is so grounded too. >> yeah. humble kid, well-spoken, very impressive. >> good to watch. >> he'll be fun. >> yes he will. coming up, hunger games is making history at the box office and now is your chance to train like a tribute. how a local gym is using the movie to help people trim down. outrage over president obama's plan to cut funding for repairs on metro's aging system. kidnapped at random. the victim's wife tells us how it happened and the bizarre chain of events that
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a fast forward through the headlines. a man who once ran security at dulles international is charged with running a prostitution ring out of a silver spring hotel. police tell us bryant livingston rented a room at the crown plaza hotel and used it as a brothel. >> the pilot whose erratic behavior caused an emergency landing in texas yesterday has been suspended and criminally charged. passengers had to pin the captain down after he started screaming about a bomb and telling passengers to say their prayers. let's fast forward to the damp weather, doug. a little damp out there in
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some locations. most locations though especially from washington to the north seeing some breaks in the sun coming back out but right now all of the rain just south of d.c. along i-95 into portions of southern maryland. the thunderstorms back in toward west virginia. we've really seen our storms die down. take a look at waldorf right now and you can see just to the west of waldorf around la plata and west of 301 starting to see some of that rain making its way in there moving away from i-95. we'll see more shower activity throughout the evening and then the weekend forecast. i'll have it all in just a moment. >> all right. a riverdale man abducted at gun point. >> it happened overnight as the victim was walking home from church. >> police were able to make an arrest near the scene of the crime. tracee wilkins with our report. >> reporter: the front end of this navigator truck was smashed to pieces when thieving kidnappers crashed their stolen suv into it. >> my wife was saying that she saw some cops running through the yard chasing someone. she heard a gun shot. >> reporter: this man says his
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truck got involved near the end of what was a strange crime spree. he says his neighbor, who lives just a few houses down, was the actual victim. the victim's wife did not want to be shown on camera but told us her husband had just returned home from church when two armed men approached. it all started just after 10:00 last night in the 5200 block of 59th avenue and riverdale. >> they say you have to give me the money and they say if you don't give me the money i know where your home, i know where your family and i'll do something to your family. >> we had a call of an abduction. the victim attempted to enter into his home. when he was approached by two males at gun point. >> reporter: the carjackers forced the victim to drive them to an atm on kenilworth avenue where they withdrew cash and then strangely enough turned around to bring the victim back home. but the victim's wife called police and when the crooks saw the cops, they tried to speed off, crashed the victim's suv,
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and then took off on foot. one suspect was found hiding near some nearby buildings. >> how is your husband doing now? >> he's nervous. >> reporter: while he may be nervous, the victim's wife tells us her husband was not seriously injured. something everyone in this community is grateful for. prince george's county police say that at some point during this pursuit one of the suspects fired at police officers. luckily no police officers were struck. now, they do have that one suspect in custody and are still looking for a second suspect. they're asking anyone with information to give prince george's county police a call. in palmer park, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. new developments in the wrongful death lawsuit following the virginia tech shooting in 2007. earlier this month a jury found the commonwealth negligent because school officials delayed alerting the blacksburg campus of the first two shootings that occurred in a dorm. more than two hours later that gunman killed 30 others. the jury awarded the families of
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two victims $4 million each. state officials are now asking a judge to enforce a $100,000 cap on claims against the commonwealth. the parents attorney is now trying to recover a total of $2 million from a fund that covers state workers related to their official action. a giant role of duct tape arrived at three local bridges today part of the protest by the laborers' international union of north america. the union workers headed underneath i-295 in southeast and wrapped the pillars in duct tape to symbolize the fact that the bridge has been deemed structurally deficient. the 14th street bridge and key bridge also got the treatment. congress has been fighting over a highway funding bill and the extension expires on saturday. metro is working to fix a potential electrical hazard on dozens of buses. the transit agency says there is a flaw on its excels orbuses that could cause a battery short. they're made by a company called
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new flyer which issued a voluntary recall last week. now the manufacturers working with metro to retrofit about 47 buses. the work is expected to wrap up in may. metro tells us the buses are still safe to use in the meantime. regional metro officials are surprised and worried that president obama is cutting back on planned federal funding needed for repairs. they say the cutback could unravel a regional commitment to fixing the aging system. tom sherwood has our story. >> reporter: metro is in the midst of a major reconstruction program of train stations, tracks, rail cars, hundreds of millions of dollars in work to do. >> every time it operates, every day it operates it's wearing out stuff, so you've got to have constant reconstruction. >> reporter: former d.c. city administrator tom downs is now a metro board member. president obama's new budget includes a surprise cut in the
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federal share of a ten-year regional agreement to overhaul the system. >> i'm deeply concerned about it. you know, over a decade that means $150 million. >> reporter: in a letter to congress the region's congressional leaders say it is critical that the funds be restored. maryland, virginia, and d.c. each agreed to chip in $50 million a year for ten years for metro repairs. the federal government wants to add another $150 million each year, a $3 billion repair fund. but now the federal funds are uncertain even though 40% of metro riders are federal workers. >> that makes absolutely no sense. for our city to work well we have to have a great transit system for us to serve the nation. the ability to get to work safely and on time. it really is short-sighted and not good for our country. >> reporter: the funding dispute has some metro riders worried. >> that should be a priority. this city lives and breathes on transportation issues. >> reporter: at the dupont circle metro stop tom sherwood news 4.
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still ahead, spay today way? it's one of the ideas floated by peta as the state of virginia sells naming rights to some highways. >> have you seen it? an actress prechewing her son's food then giving it to him by mouth. why she is doing it and wha
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people for the ethical treatment of animals wants to buy the naming rights to a virginia highway. according to the washington examiner peta wants to take, be the first to take advantage after new state law. naming rights can cost anywhere from five to $200,000. peta says it's willing to pay and already has a possible name picked out. spay today way. governor mcdonald still needs to sign the bill. once he does, it would take effectn the first of july. in this week's wednesday's child we meet two brothers. barbara harrison introduced us to the younger of the two last year and later discovered that he had a brother also in foster care. tonight barbara takes us to the verizon center where the boy's got a chance to meet the wizards mascot g man. >> reporter: on the wizards' practice court g man put the brothers through a quick warmup and then 8-year-old dujour and
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17-year-old stefan said they were ready to play some basketball. wow! oh, wow. neither of the boys, who aren't normally ready for a challenge were quite ready for that. you may remember dujour. last year we went to the white house for the easter egg roll. it was after that that social workers determined he actually had a brother also in foster care. what did you think when you first saw him? >> i thought he was my brother. >> reporter: because he looks like you doesn't he? >> yes. >> reporter: did you notice that you have the same eyes? >> yes. >> reporter: let me see those eyes. i think those are the same eyes as stefan has. >> i saw like my little 8-year-old self and i'm like, okay. this can work. >> reporter: yeah. both boys like sports and are working hard in school.
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>> and now it's back up -- i'm pretty excited about it. >> bs and as. >> reporter: what is your favorite subject? >> math. >> reporter: the boys got some neat gifts to take home. sadly for now, they won't be going home together. but maybe some day soon. barbara harrison, news 4, for wednesday's child. >> some good look kids. if you have room in your home and heart for them the number is 1-888-to adopt me or logon to our home page at nbc washington.com. coming up next the hunger games. the workout. how the blockbuster film is inspiring a new fitness craze at a local gym. almost one year later an inside look at the costly cleanup along the georgetown water front. doug? right now seeing some shower activity across the region but no more thunderstorms. those showers continue down to the south.
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taking a look at what's trending today alaeicia silverstone is ranking near the top. she post'd video that has a lot of people saying ooh. the actress chews up her 11-month-old son's food then feeds him by mouth. she calls it bonding but experts say don't try it at home. since adults' mouths are filthy and babies are still building up germ resistance. he doesn't have a choice. researchers looked at a group of overweight adults over a 22-week period and had them exercise and take a green coffee bean extract. by the end the adults dropped an average of 17 pounds. those experts believe it is because of an acid in the green coffee beans that is lost when
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you roast it. finally no winner to last night's megamillions. that means we all have a chance at the new half a billion dollar prize the largest jackpot in history. the chances of winning, one in 176 million. good luck doug. >> yeah baby! >> last night's numbers read them and weep. a few people matched the first five and will walk away with about $250,000. the next drawing is friday night at 11:00. well, nearly a year ago part of georgetown was swamped. flood waters from the potomac in that situation was made worse because the flood gates weren't put up. some parking garages were submerged. several businesses evacuated, forced to close. finally, news 4's melissa mele reports some restaurants are now poised for a comeback. >> reporter: it's been 50 weeks of salvaging, gutting, and then renovating. now some of the restaurants here at the georgetown water front are just weeks from reopening. >> it's been a rough year.
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>> reporter: these last few weeks couldn't have come quickly enough for restaurant owner tony sybil. three of his family restaurants were destroyed by flood waters from the potomac last april when some of the flood gates here were left down. >> i stood at the top of the stairs and could look in at riverside grill and the chairs were floating a round. >> reporter: the river pushed 12 feet of water into tony and joe's, nick's river side grill, cabana and other restaurants and businesses. this is how it looked from above that day. waterlogged cars dragged from the parking garage, workers in hazmat suits cleaning up. residents and office tenants out until portable generators could be brought in. the prime properties have lost millions of dollars in revenue. they spent a year rebuilding, cooking what they can on their patio. >> we've gotten a lot of the heavy duty construction behind us and we're getting ready to start doing some of the finish work. >> reporter: tony and joe's will have a whole new look and nick's riverside grill has been gutted and expanded into the old
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cabanas restaurant space. >> hopefully they'll get it renovated and bring everybody back and it'll be the attraction it has been for so many years. >> reporter: in addition a $20 million renovation is under way at the complex. they're revamping the fountain area which will turn into an ice rink in the winter. >> this is a great place to work and all the surroundings and work they're doing here is going to make it even better. >> reporter: dean, thrilled better days are ahead. >> we are excited we'll have everybody back and we'll be newer and better than ever soon. >> reporter: in georgetown, melissa mele, news 4. here is doug now with a final check on our weather. >> we've got the showers right now all down to the south. not bad though around the d.c. area and points to the north. again, most of the rain continuing to move down to the south and most of us are going to stay dry through the rest of the night. you can see a few showers through fauquier county, prince william county, down through charles county where we're seeing the heaviest shower. eastern charles county, northern portions of st. mary's county right around mechanicsville and through calvert county right around calvert beach.
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you guys know just about every week i go out and visit at least one school around the area. this week i went to one school across the region and this one over toward bcs, bethesda community school where i talked to the fabulous 5s, the 5-year-old kids there. let me get out of the way so you can see these kids. take a look at this picture. fantastic kids all learning about the weather. i was amazed at how smart these kids were. teachers are doing a good job over there at bethesda community school right here in montgomery county. as far as the temperatures go out there right now, take a look this number. right now 70 degrees out there at the airport. we're looking at mostly clear skies now so a nice evening for the rest of us. dew point at 55. winds out of the southwest at about 9 miles per hour. tonight, this evening, looking pretty good. overnight tonight not bad. 52 in washington. 49 in manassas. 47 over toward frederick under partly cloudy skies and then mostly clear skies by the time you wake up tomorrow morning. tomorrow not bad at all. high around 65. it will be a little bit on the breezy side with partly cloudy skies. i still think we'll see a nice day even though we could see
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some winds upwards of 20 or 30 miles per hour as we move on through the next couple hours nothing to talk about as far as rain is concerned. tomorrow we'll be high and dry and that extends right on into the weekend. here's the next four days for you showing 65 on your friday. 65 on saturday. that's the next best chance for rain. even that doesn't look like a whole lot right now. guys? >> all right. thanks, doug. if you caught the hunger games fever, now is your chance to train like a tribute. washington sports club is offering a class. people don't exactly exercise to death but it is a matter of survival of the fittest. we checked it out and asked what's your workout? >> welcome tributes to the capital. please make your laps around the arena. >> the hunger games workout is inspired by the hunger games book, movie, and trilogy. >> all right. go to your pedestal. that's where you'll be doing your workout. we have our tributes. they come in to the honor and they do a couple lappas round
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the room. and then they are then told what they -- what supplies they need. >> get ready, set, go. grab one at a time. one supply at a time. to your pedestal. >> they have the archery, bow, 15 reps on each side. then we go to capital crunches, jabber jay jacks. then we go on to peter presses. then you do one lap around the room and that completes one round. we use our risers. they place it in front of their pedestal. that completes one round. more rounds you have, at the end of the game, you win. >> i want everybody to win. but only one will. when people see how many risers they have they become very competitive. and when they become competitive they realize from the game master that only one life is chosen and that's the survival of the fittest. >> at my age i didn't have much
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of a chance. 30 years younger i probably would have been very competitive and really tried. >> i thought, you know, exercises don't look too difficult. but then when you speed them up and make them very intense and you're doing five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten rounds it all adds up and it gets tougher and tougher. >> now, today, we had a tie. oh, my. drama. mary, eliza, pushups. >> so we have our two and we did pushupans one couldn't push up one more pushup. >> and eliza wins. woo hoo. >> my strategy was simply thai was not going to lose. i didn't realize i was so competitive but once she said there's only one winner and everybody else dies, i was like, i'm going to get that. >> okay. >> wow. the hunger games workout is offered at washington sports club in chevy chase on tuesdays at 9:30 in the morning for the next seven weeks. the class is open and it's free to the public. >> i'm sweating just watching that. >> i know. >> that is a workout. >> it is. it's a toughie.
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>> we could all use one. >> we could. about now. here's what's in store for news 4 at 6:00. pat lawson muse joins us with a preview. >> hey, jim and wendy. coming up tonight on news 4 at 6:00 an arrest and guilty plea have brought to light a disturbing trend, an illegal buttock injection. we'll have the story. plus we'll reveal which d.c. council members are taking a pay raise while others turn the money down. and the navy's latest under water spy has connections to this area. we'll have details on that. it's a creature. >> i was going to say. that's interesting. >> you'll find out at 6:00. >> thank you, pat. coming up next on news 4 at 5:00 there is an arrest in the 5:00 there is an arrest in the murder of a popu
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a husband and wife are now facing charges for the murder after beloved prep school teacher in vermont. >> melissa jenkins was found dead on the side of a road. police say she was strangled. >> this morning the police arrested a couple who once shoveled snow from jenkins' driveway charging them with her murder. the crime has the community reeling. >> reporter: at st. john's academy melissa jenkins' classroom has become a memorial with students and staff coming to grips with the unthinkable. their beloved science teacher murdered. >> there are some who are numb
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who can't take it in right now or some who are confused about how something like this could happen. >> reporter: on sunday night vermont state police found the 33-year-old single mom's suv idling on a road not far from her home. police report there were signs of a struggle. jenkins' 2-year-old son was found all alone but safe inside. less than 24 hours later police found a body off a back road 15 minutes from where jenkins' suv was located. on tuesday officials positively identified jenkins, ruling her case a homicide but not revealing any more information related to the case. >> a child that will now grow up without her. >> reporter: instead of the busy dinner shift at the creamery restaurant where jenkins moon lighted as a waitress people stood solemnly and watched news updates, many still in disbelief. a small community, young girl. way too soon for a life to ever end in such a brutal way. the whole community is saddened. it's, you know, horrible.
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>> just wanted to make everybody happy. >> reporter: ron and laurie crick considered jenkins family and her son like a grandson. they had been texting with jenkins the afternoon before she disappeared and were supposed to see her and the toddler today. now they are dealing with her death. >> the best mom. she is still the best mom. >> reporter: outside the private school where jenkins worked, locals gather for a vigil tuesday night. >> i'll never forget you. >> reporter: as the community struggles with the mystery surrounding jenkins' death, people here are focused on little ty who has lost his mother. >> she is ty's guardian angel because she is looking down on him. she is a perfect guardian angel. >> there is no word yet on the funeral arrangements. >> the school is holding a fundraiser this friday to raise money for her 2-year-old son. that does it for news 4 at 5:00 tonight. >> news 4 at 6:00 is starting
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right now. the man who worked to protect the nation's transportation systems has been busted for running a brothel. and escorted off the house floor because of his wardrobe. with thunderstorms bumping all over the area this evening. >> good evening. i'm pat lawson muse in for doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance. we begin with an important issue before the supreme court. it's one that could have an impact on the health care of everybody in america. the justices will decide whether the health care overhaul law is constitutional. today was the third and final day of oral arguarguments in th case. the justices also have to decide which parts of the law have to remain in effect or whether they'll have to throw the whole thing out. steve handelsman at the supreme court with more. >> reporter: you summarized it perfectly, jim. here at the high court today it was a day of what if oral arguments. the justices deman

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