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sextoortion. >> the special prosecutor is planning an announcement in the trayvon martin case, and george zimmerman disappeared on his lawyers. >> accused of faking a terminal illness to get her dream wedding. >> breaking news in alexandria. police searched a big building for a man who attacked two women. the women thought this were looking at an apartment. at corner of eisenhower and mill road next to the beltway. turns out the building is oneinn which the s.w.a.t. team drains. shomari stone is there with our report. shomari? >> reporter: good evening. police searched this building behind me. you can see still police officers outside at the foot of the stairwell there. move off to the right the you can see all the floors. well officers searched all the floors along with every corner of this building. an officer told me the suspect was long gone.
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>> it's disturbing of course. >> arpd wilexandria police s.w. team moved to to search for a man. >> it's scary. my wife and i live here. >> reporter: this man lives across the street in an apartment complex. he came outside to walk miles shocked to find 20 police cars, yellow crime scene tape on mill road nearize izthe metro stati. police say the two women were frightened after responding to an ad for the apartment they came out to mill road. the suspect grabbed them. pulled them inside the building and began hitting them. the women were able to escape. within five minutes police showed up to the scene, believing the suspect hid inside. >> we want to ensure the suspect is not in the building. >> reporter: the swat team trained in this empty biddiuild. they know the layout. after a three hour search they told us the suspect got out >> never something that occurred
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that it would happen in this neighborhood. >> now police are on the lookout for the suspect ac, a white mal reddish hair, blond ponytail, green eyes, seen wearing a 3/4 length shirt. bo women have minor injuries. one transported to a hospital just as the a precaution. police are interviewing them. live here in alexandria, shomari stone, news 4. >> rockville pike is open after a high-speed chase. police began, chasing a car in rockville. before officers could catch up to the driver, he hit at least one other car. the suspect tried to run away after the accident. but officers caught him. no serious injuries. the fbi calls it sex,000 torto -- s s sextortion. a man has been arrested on child pornography charges involving a 14-year-old from prince george's county. jackie benson has more on a
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story parents need to hear. >> reporter: 39-year-old richard of brazil, indiana accused of coercing a 14-year-old boy in beltsville to fondle himself during a video chat. the federal complaint, claims that finkbiner recorded this and told the teen he wanted to see more. demanding his e-mail address telling him to get a skype account. he threat tuned post the video on a website available to the boy's friend. he told the victim "only i have this link," you want to play this game or want to be a game porn star? the boy told his family. who called police. >> some times the threat ties make their parents, teachers, or friends or their coaches or their pastors -- make these images available to people close to them. >> court documents indicate that
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finkbiner met on omegle.com, the motto, talk to strangers. disclaimer says people under 18 need parents permission. i enter likes. a stranger begins to chat. it comes to a halt when i identify meyself as a reporter. a search at finkfiner, contained thousand of images. >> omegle is causing concerns for parents not just because of anonymous chat, because it shows as a social website it can even evade parental controls on computers. efforts to reach the founder have been unsuccessful. in a 2010 interview he said the site is not for young children. but that's the only thing that keeps them off of it is that recommendation. >> so many challenges for parents out there today with all the social media? >> this one is new. we have seen a lot of stuff, blogs, online, where parents are saying keep your eye on this.
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we feel uncomfortable. >> hard to monitor all this. >> thank you, jackie. >> special prosecutor in the trayvon martin case said she will have an announcement in 72 hours. whether charges will be filed is any one's guess at this point. but there are questions about whether her hand was forced by a bizarre news conference in which george zimmerman's lawyers admitted that they have not heard from him since sunday. jay gray reports. >> like so much in this case. >> good afternoon. >> reporter: the announcement was sudden and jarring. >> we have lost contact to him. up till this point we have had contact every day. he has gone on his own, i am not sure what he is doing or who he is talking to. but, the -- at this point we are, we withdrawing as counsel. >> the now form eer attorneys, y they aren't sure where he is, haven't talked to him and are worried.
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>> george zimmerman is not doing well, probably suffering from post-traumatic stress, we are concerned for his emotional and physical safety. >> concerned he apparently reached out to special prosecutor angela cory. >> one of the things every defense attorney tells his client is don't talk to the prosecutors, don't talk to the cops, don't talk to anybody. >> citing legal and ethical boundaries, cory refused to talk with the man at the center of her ongoing investigation. representatives of the martin family are talking tonight. >> we are very surprised. >> and frustrated. martin's parents concerned about the latest twist in the case. >> to day the killer of trayvon martin is unaccounted for, that's extremely troubling for them. in fact, we are really concerned whether or not he is a flight risk they said he is not in the state of florida. we are really concerned if he is ever going to be brought to justice. >> reporter: a question that his parents. >> no justice, no peace!
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>> reporter: and supporters have been asking more than a month now. jay gray, nbc news, sanford, florida. >> the trayvon martin case unfolds in our area. university of maryland, black student political association held a rally at college park campus. students marched and performed to promote peace. speakers said martin's death isn't just an issue of race, but an issue of justice for everyone. martin's parents expected to hold a news conference with reverend al sharpton in washington tomorrow. tonight the case drew comparisons to diante rollings the teen shot and killed by an offduty police officer un2in 20. they talked about how crime, poverty and negative stereotypes impact black men and boys. mitt romney attacked president obama with renewed energy now that he knows he has the republican nomination all
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but sewn up. rick santorum suspended his cam pa paign. he could not keep up with romney's delegate account. santorum's announcement came hours after his 3-year-old daughter was released from the hospital. >> we made the desomething to get into this race at our kitchen table against all the odds. and we made a decision over the weekend, that -- that while this presidential race for us is over, we are not done fighting. >> santorum did not endorse romney or any other candidate. newt gingrich and ron paul remain in the race. but, they have fewer than 200 delegates between them. congress is going to look into complaints that the library of congress discriminated against a game man. the former employee was fired last week. according to the blade newspaper, peter trevere allege heed was harassed more than a year by a supervisor who cited bible passages related to
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homosexuality. trevere is expected to hold a news conference outside library of congress tomorrow morning. >> billboards going up nationwide, showing a former d.c. school teacher who is now on the fbi most wanted list. eric toth thought third grade at bovar elementary on the ground of thecathedral. he left after police found pornography on a school camera. he is computer savvy and may be trying to get work as tutor or nanny. there is a $100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. wireless carriers and law enforcement are working together to try to fight smartphone thieves. verizon, at & t, sprint, t-mobile plan to build a database that disables phones after they're reported stolen. within 18 months there will be a national database to prevent stolen phones from being reactivated with a different carrier network. european carriers already use a similar system.
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tonight, new details in the recovery of a prince george county, volunteer fire fighter. kevin o'toole suffered burns few more than half his body, battling a house fire in riverdale end of february. o'toole had successful surgery on his left hand and arm yesterday. he could be released from the hospital in two weeks. o'toole has been promoted to sergeant in the volunteer fire company. frozen treats weren't the only things one ice cream truck was serving up in maryland according to police. officers arrested alexander hoskins and accused him of dealing drugs from the truck he used to serve neighborhood kids. after getting a tip, police stopped the truck and found marijuana cash in the man's underwear. >> interesting to know now that somebody is that clever, you know, that, just, i don't know. they're just trying to destroy our youth. >> his grandmother told news 4 offcamera, there is no way.
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hoskins its out on bond and out of business. >> special screening of "bully" brought the film's director to the district tonight. lee hirsch joined leaders of american federation of teachers and national education association at the auditorium in in northwest d.c. the movie follows five kids over the course of a school year. it shows how bullying affects them and their families. the movie will hit selected theaters on friday. >> ahead tonight, a woman arrested in virginia charged with making up a story about cancer to get her dream wedding. and later when you hear who blew her cover. >> three mega millions winners in mare planned have come forward to get their check. don't expect them to quit their day jobs. >> the first lady proves she has what it takes to survive a workout with the biggest losers. >> veronica? >> have you had to grab the jacket yet? you may for tomorrow morning. a freeze watch to the north. warnings to the west. [ female announcer ] with xfinity,
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jail cell, charged with six felonies for appearing as a bride with terminal cancer. in an effort to get thousands from citizens and community groups in new york state. married in may, 2010, went to aruba on her honeymoon. things quickly fell apart from there. after getting a divorce from her husband after four months, he reportedly went to a newspaper and revealed her true story. vega was picked up in virginia friday and take tin to new york. the attorney general charged her and released this statement -- our office will hold this individual accountable for fleecing the public through lies and deception. according to prosecutors, vega did not have any type of cancer much less terminal. her life was never in danger. jim. >> those looking for work as a software engineer could be on a good track. that job topped this year's list
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of best jobs. actuary, human resources manager, dentrounded out the to five. the worst job this year, lumberjack, dairy farmer, enlisted soldier, oil rig worker, and newspaper reporter. >> no! >> no. very bottom. >> ranked the jobs on income levels, stress, physical demand and prospects for employment. >> three baltimore public school workers may never have to work again. at n the anonymous, tres amigos, claimed the prize, a woman in her 20s, man in her 40s. and woman in her 50s. they all worked for the school system in maryland. each will walk away with $35 million. despite their big win, all plan on keeping their day jobs for
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now. >> that's great. that's what they always say. >> at lowest a couple days. >> just so they don't blow their cover. >> kind of cold out there tonight. >> yeah, going to say for the thin-skinned, folks with the poor circulation, it's usually me, the one complaining. that i'm cold. you are probably walking around out there with a jacket. it is chilly. we have temperatures in the 40s already. mentioned earlier, the freeze watch, around frederick into winchester. off to the west, virginia. and then freeze warnings for extreme western and southwestern virginia. 49 degrees, look at our camera right now. still doing the, shaky-shake. wind still gusting up to 22. so on top of the, fact that we have temperatures that drop, still the wind hanging on. 38 in hagerstown, maryland. low 50s. stafford, fredericksburg,
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charlottesville in the low 50s right now. bus stop forecast. it's going to be chilly. tomorrow, near freezing, fred tricfred -- frederick. leesburg, very chilly. likely to go with the fleece and parents don't let your kids walk out the door with short pants on tomorrow. it will be a nippy one. we could see a few showers tomorrow. rate dar rig the radar right now. scanning the area. don't have any drops. there will be possibility of seeing precipitation off to the west. coming quickly through the area. scattered showers. we need that rain. again, abnormally dry for so much of maryland. northern virginia. north, pennsylvania. down to south. it has been a dry spring so far for us. of course, we didn't get that much snow this winter. right? right now on the radar. the spin. taking place. low pressure down here. and there will be a weak
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disturbance running through yth area tomorrow. for western grant, pendleton, high spots in west virginia. possibility of a few flakes. very light. mixed with rain for tomorrow morning. high pressure will be moving in. forecast then for tomorrow morning -- 37 to 42 degrees. jacket required. and it's not going to be all that warm either. 52 to 57 with again, light showers, coming on through the area, mainly during the afternoon, between 2:00 and 7:00. look at the weekend, guys, warming up to 78 sunday. >> you thin-skinned people will like that. >> exactly. >> thank you, veronica. >> coming up -- the nats/mets. we like the way this one turned out. stay tuned!
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suffice it to say the mets were undefeated. does that work? >> yes. undefeated no more. detwiler, when the season started. tonight detwiler proved he belongs. near perfect against the mets. he got plenty of help at the plate. jason worth raised his batting average, nearly 200 points with the first four-hit game since
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2009. good to see natitude invading new york. desmond leading off in style. a lead-off home run, his first of the year. and the first for the nationals at city field in 365 days. nats on top, 1-0. bottom of the first. here is detwiler, runners on the corners. he gets him swinging for the third out. then on the third. daniel murphy. having a seat. bottom four, justin turner is gone. detwiler, strikes out six. allows two hits. top six. jason worth. lines one into right field. ryan zimmerman, comes around to score. worth with four hits on the night. couple batters later. 3-0, nationals. wilson ramos, two on. hits one towards the wall. lucas, tracking it. can't track it down. and comes home to score. the nationals go up 4-0. they win 6-2.
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now 3-2 on the season. all right, to camden yard. yankees and 0s in the second game of the three game set. bottom four. nick johnson. former national. runners on first and third. we have a play at the plate. matt weider, wow, can't get them. the orioles, take a 3-0 lead on the air. look at that. 3-1 lead rather. top seven now. tied at four. runner on first. doubles down the third base line. nick swisher, coming around the bases. he is coming home. the throw from andy chavez. what do you think? got him. matt weider is able to make the tag. this time he is the man playing defense on the play. certainly got hip. didn't he. top 12 now. we are tied at 4. the wizards -- how about the wizards tonight. they downed the dwight
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howard-less magic. giving them back to back wins for the second time this season. >> wow. >> pretty empressiimpressive? >> the word -- dwight howard-less. >> a mouthful. >> it's sports the we can throw whatever we want. it's a word. kevin serafin, used sparingly. lately. playing really well the last couple weeks dwight. howard. not playing he was injured. getting help from j.j. reddick. hits the three pointer. gets fouled. four-point play. old-fashioned style. john wahl, playing defense. breaking down the defense. 15 points. seven assists on the night. john wall. 41 at the break. fourth quarter now. wizards, up by one. roger mason. taking the shot. uh-uh. how about kevin serafin. you know why they look this guy? he can hit the shot. the hook, both hand. left and right. career high, 24 points. serafin. 13 rebounds.
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final wall, final minute, wall, singleton. su singleton had ten points. nationals had five players undouble figures. 93-85. a very good night. to be a wizards fan. enjoying that. >> magic
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