family. we talked about -- we were kindred spirits and we'd like to go to the junkyards to look at the cars. he and bernard parker were best of friends. he can't believe what happened here. >> i would have never imagined something like this. >> reporter: good friend? >> yes. he's a wonderful friend. we worked in the yards together and planted -- >> christmas time. he's the first guy that has christmas lights up. >> reporter: at first it looked like a terrible accident, but when they took a closer look, it was ruled a case of murder. the victim, 59-year-old bernard parker. he'd just retired to the federal government. he'd lived in the woodmore crossing neighborhood for 20 years. >> reporter: it happened three blocks from his home. three blocks. police say mr. parker was shot inside his car. the car went out of control, jumped the curb, hit a street sign and over the lawn and then crashed into this tree over here. mr. parker rushed to the hospital.

he was pronounced dead a short time later. martin dugeal. he lives in that house over there. >> i'm shocked, really, you know? it's a quiet neighborhood, but things happen everywhere these days. >> reporter: now coming up at 6:00, i'll show you how police are trying to use a small piece of clothing to track down the killer. jim, back to you. >> reporter: pat collins. a warning is out tonight on a virginia campus still shaken by violence this past spring. police at the university of mary washington want to find the guy who tried to abduct a female student. this happened friday evening and now there is a statewide lookout for the guy and his blue chevy truck. mary washington student grace manuel was killed last spring and her roommate was charged with her murder. there are concerns about a school resource officer using a taser on a high school student. police say it occur youed after an officer and school administrators spent two hours

trying to calm a student down. news 4's meagan fitzgerald spoke with those parents today. >> reporter: school is supposed to be a safe place for students and teachers alike which is why most schools like chantilly high have school resource officers or rsos, but the way the sros handled one incident is under scrutiny by some parents. >> it is very concerning as a parent. >> reporter: on monday an officer was called in to assist administrators with a 16-year-old student who was becoming violent. they say he was punching lockers and banging his head against the wall. >> a student for some time. the student responded at some point to a restroom. >> reporter: lieutenant wright with the fairfax county police department says the officer who has crisis intervention team training tried to de-escalate the situation, but when he realized the student was a harm to himself and possibly others, the officer called for backup to take him into custody.

>> they got one handcuff on the student and actively resisted and pushed off of officers. >> reporter: that's when wright says an officer deployed a taser like this one, but with the darts removed so it could shock the teen, but was not invasive. >> in order to distract the person. >> reporter: when some parents of chantilly high school students found out a taser was used reactions were mixed. >> i couldn't think of anything else they could have done. >> i don't believe that's an appropriate action to be used on a child. >> reporter: but police insist the officers did what they had to do to make sure everyone including the student was safe. >> that's a serious situation and someone who is a danger to themselves could easily spiral into a danger to others. >> reporter: school district spokesperson says that all of the administrators involved in this incident handled it according to their protocol. we understand a letter went out to parents after the incident happened telling them of the situation and the use of a taser was not delivered and that

message was not delivered to parents. coming up at 6:00, we spoke with a psa president for the chantilly high school here and what she says will happen next now that a taser was used against a student. wendy? >> meagan fitzgerald. what caused the walls to crack and the foundationdation to shift at an apartment in prince george's county. crews are back to try to get answers and that surfaced on good luck road. one resident spotted the cracks in the walls and the ceiling and another said it almost felt like an earthquake. two buildings had to be evacu e evacuated and resident his been forced to stay out until at least the end of the week. and we saw a pretty good day out there on our wednesday and our veterans day looking pretty good with sunshine and saw breezy conditions and the wind beginning to subside and temperatures will continue to fall this evening if you're headed out and about, you may need the jacket and 58 degrees at 7:00 and nice weather, 56 by 8:00 and nothing on the radar

now, but all you have to do is look back to the west and this is what we're tracking. it is a very, very strong storm and snow into portions of nebraska, severe weather including numerous tornadoes and they've seen a lot of tornados in iowa. we'll get this part of the storm and not the severe part and we'll be tracking the showers for your day tomorrow and turning windy and much colder and we'll show you when that change happens and what it means for your weekend weather and i'll have it in my forecast at 5:45. a controversial political action committee backing d.c. mayor muriel bowser is shutting down after withering kri icriti. tom sherwood reports that the shutdown of freshpac has not damaged her image of ethical behavior. >> reporter: muriel bowser won the mayor's office promising to move beyond ethical scandals. >> ethical, open and transparent.

>> reporter: but freshpac birthed on the scene this year. close bowser associates vowing to raise $1 million to help fight her political battles and much of the money came from people in city contracts raising questions about pay to play politics. >> it's one thing to be arrogant. it's another thing to be stupid. but to be arrogant and stupid is unforgivable. >> reporter: veteran post columnist colby king told nbc 4 that freshpac even though it will now close down, has done its damage. >> this was an effort not so cloaked effort to get around the law and to play politics in the city the way we've seen it before and the way it ought to be condemned. it's an affront and it's an affront to the city and it's an affront to clean government and she's going to pay a price for it. >> mayor bowser is traveling in china this week. some freshpac donors also are along. neither bowser nor leaders of

freshpac commented to news 4 on the freshpac shut down. bowser has told news 4 the pack was legal and she was doing nothing unethical. and mary chai, another harsh critic of freshpac told news 4 freshpac is a reason to keep tabs on the bowser administration. >> it was roton in the beginning and rotten on its implementation. >> the mayor won't be back from china until sunday. there will be more questions when she returns. jim, they've left a lot of questions about who will raise the money? who was asked? there's a lot more to know. >> shutting it down doesn't mean it's going away. >> shutting it down changes the chapter of the story. >> good reporting. tom, thank you. veterans day started as a way to honor those who served in the first world war. it's the anniversary of the day that war ended in 1918, but now veterans day has come to honor

americans who served through every conflict. ♪ ♪ >> remember all the sacrifices made in american history by people who stood up for their country. ♪ ♪ >> the one common thing that all of us that were in vietnam, one sound we'll never forget is the wap, wap, wap as the world

awaits the healing. [ "taps" ] >> if tomorrow after the parades and the ceremonies, we roll out the banners and sweep the veterans lauls and go back to our daily lives, forgetting the bond between the service of our veterans and our obligations as citizens, then we will be doing a profound disservice to our veterans and to the very cause for which they served. >> we have a video of president obama laying the wreath at arlington's tomb of the unknown today on our facebook page. we invite you to take another look at it and share it in honor of those who served. >> thank you, pat. the investigation of a home invasion in prince george's county takes a new turn. a girl is stabbed when he opens the door and the man hunt may be over.

and now at 5:00 tonight it's the local grocery store wars where you can get the best quality for the price. we can help you save hundreds a year depending on where you shop. i'm adam tuss in north arlington. it can cost you.

there is a van. one of the cars is completely on fire, but it's a van and they're trying to get kids out. >> i think they might have been able to -- oh, my god! there's little babies. >> what's -- what's going on. >> it's babies. it's a whole van full of kids. my husband is helping pull these babies out. >> those are just a few of the frantic 911 calls in the seconds after that fiery church van crash in maryland. then their relatives and neighbors tried to help people who were trapped. four people died, but 13 survived and are now recovering. well, right now out there thousands of cars are in stop and go traffic along three highway in northern virginia. a corridor, a road that takes them from arlington to falls

church, our transportation reporter adam tuss is live in arlington with some of the plans to get things moving. adam? >> reporter: wendy, i can tell you as someone who drives this road a lot it is a frustrating spot. it's not so much all of the cars out here. it's just that it doesn't really maybe sense from a transportation perspective. now a push to change all of that. cars, cars, cars, more cars, did i mention there are a lot of cars here? >> the congestion, bottlenecks. >> reporter: yeah. some have said in northern virginia communities were brief usely planned specifically for cars and we're paying for that now. that's what's happening with lee highway. all you have to do is try to find a parking space at strip malls and you'll see. ginger brown, the co-founder of the lee highway alliance wants a change. >> i don't think cars are going away, but we cana absolutely increase the walkability, the bikeability and the use of

transit. >> reporter: a more complete strt. listen to the residents here and you get the same message. >> yeah. i think it would be a good idea to make it more walker and bike friendly and there are a lot of family and they would benefit from those changes. >> reporter: you have to cut into the road or the businesses and mid or high-rise condo-type buildings may not sit well with residents on nearby, leafy, quiet streets and there's a movement by many here that want to make this community better. >> we are probably in the second paragraph of the first chapter. we're excited about where we're going. >> reporter: now there is a push here to make this road look a whole lot different one year from now. arlington county getting involved and coming up on news 4 at 6:00, i'll show you exactly how this road could change and how it might impact your commute. jim, back to you. >> adam tuss, thanks, adam. we're all honoring veterans on this holiday and nearly half of our country thinks we aren't

doing enough for those who have served. a new fdu public mind survey found 48 of those polled believe the u.s. is short changing our vets and that's pretty consistent on both sides of the political aisle. more than half in the polls say it's the government's job to care for the veterans with a large portions of those polled blame congress for letting them down. among those most critical, perceived issues facing veterans, a lack of mental health services and homelessness. >> many veteran comes back and they don't know what they're entitled to and unless you apply for a benefit you don't get it. >> the executive director for disabled americans sayedcation is key both for the government to inform and for returning veterans to proactively see what may be available. >> i have no problem with being

vetted, but i do have a problem with is being lied about. >> we can't continue to be the policemen of the world. >> we sure as heck better be the world's leader. >> we all know you can't pick them up and ship them back across the boarder. >> if you don't think walls don't work all you have to do is ask israel. >> i would not be talking to vladimir putin, not in a green room for a show, but in a private meeting. >> donald trump is on twitter today of course, claiming he was the victor in last night's debate. there was a lot going on up there and joining us to break it down is nbc's senior political editor markmurray. what is the takeaway? >> you had good performances yet again from marco rubio and ted cruz and those guys have had very good debate performances in the past and they are able to set themselves apart as being the best debaters, but when you look at jeb bush, he did enough

to be able to survive. he's able to shoo away the political vultures that were circling over his head and is able to tell his donors, fund raisers that he has some time to get things back on track and maybe the big losers for the night were donald trump and ben carson and your two leaders in the field, wendy. they've had such a big focus so far, but when the focus office policy on them, they stumbled a bit compared to their foes. >> will that matter to people? >> i think this debate has a shelf life of another 24 hours or so. >> carly fiorina, how did she do with i didn't meet him in the green room? yes, she did. >> she's a fantastic performer, one thing we ended up learning that she did end up meeting in a green room with vladimir putin and did meet, she said in an interview with jimmy fallon back in september. >> who did you meet? >> i met him in beijing. we were in sort of a green room

setting, actually. >> a little bit of an inconsistency. >> is that a smattering at all that the fact checking isn't adding up with what the candidates are saying? is th is that generating at all? >> almost picture that you're a republican voter and what matters to you is at least the republican primary level and you have to think about it being a republican voter so some of these people might not care about inconsistency here or there. >> okay. mike murray, it's always fun to get your take on things. >> so who do you think has the momentum coming out of last night's debate? trump is coming out ahead of the pack, but you can still vote online. ♪ ♪ i'm carol maloney out at redskins park and of course, the

guys were beyond frustrated with what happened in new england on sund sunday. the main message in the locker room here. we're better than that. at 3:00 and 5:00, they still have plenty to prove and a lot to play for. >> and a pre-practice meeting huddled in the practice field and set the tone. redskins know they need to rally. >> it's a good reminder before we went to the individual drills to be very, very focused. >> and there's something about this team and we get back to being us and the details and i think we'll be great. i know we will. we have everything in place to be a dominant team. >> the defensive unit could be getting a big boost this week. deangelo hall, the veteran corner missed four games with a toe injury and he's declaring himself ready to come back and he's bracing for the talented saints qb drew brees on the other side. >> this will be a test for us, the phase 2 hall of fame

quarterback, back-to-back. it's a national football league for a reason. we just can't wait to get out of there with them. >> you have a twinkle in your eye. >> i'm juiced up to get out there and who better to face than drew brees? >> reporter: deangelo is not alone. it will be interesting to know that the saints quarterback is talking about his own great sense of urgency in this game. so, guys, start bracing yourself because sunday might be another showdown. at redskins park, carol maloney. back to you guys. >> carol, thank you. a veteran and champion for gay rights is getting an honor in d.c. ahead the life and legend of frank caminy and this crash was just the beginning of a journey for a local father who was determined to get to his kids.

this video just makes you feel cold. the weather is quite a challenge for drivers in northern arizona after the first big winter storm of the season. that is snow, ice and wind making for some dangerous conditions in flagstaff. visibility is very low, at least three cars slid off the highways. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> oh, that was part of the same storm system moving our way for

the day tomorrow and not bringing us any snow here. outside right now, a very nice day. our veterans day is quite nice with plenty of sunshine and it was on the breezy side and we saw rains 20 to 30 miles an hour and those winds still out of the northwest at 13 miles per hour and temperatures right now at 60 and most of you into the low to mid 50s back to the suburbs and no rain to talk about right now, but here is the storm. it is back to our west. here's yesterday's storm over toward boston and back to the west, we're watching this storm and look at it coming out of denver and there are tornados on the ground right now into portions of iowa and one of them even came over the des moines airport. this system is going to produce 50 and 60-mile-per-hour plains and you saw the snow in flagstaff and how about reno, nevada? the dogs getting in on the action toward reno and 18 inches of snow in parts of the area right there in reno. they saw about three to six inches and there was 18 inches in parts of the reno area.

absolute lie amazing and one of the biggest snowfalls they have seen there. the national weather service saw four inches in just one hour and nearly 40,000 people without power from that storm system. now again. that storm is coming our way, but we're not going to see anything like that. for us, the clouds first and then it's the shower activity, but watch how fast the showers move out. here's 8:30. nothing going on. the morning rush should be okay. here's the showers from hagerstown toward front royal and winchester and watch what happens around 9:30 and the showers moving closer to the d.c. metro area, and i think through 9:00 d.c. is dry and we see them sweep on through in 10:00, 10:30 and by noon they're out of here and this is a very fast-moving system and this is a cold front that will come through and we actually get warmer during the afternoon and high temperatures back into the 60s and we see a secondary

moment come on through. 7:00 to 8:00 a.m., tracking some showers, but i think we're still dry and a nice afternoon here, too. tomorrow in the 60s and then into the 50s and below average on friday and 57 degrees wind, gusting upward of 20 to 30 miles per hour and saturday, a high of 53 and that coming with plenty of sun and windy conditions and some of you may stay in the 40s all day and a high temperature of 57 degrees and we do have much colder air moving in and fortunately for us we're talking 50s and not 30s and and veronica johnson has the rest of the seven-day forecast. >> now at 5:00 tonight and an arrest in the racial threats at the university of missouri and howard students are taking a stand of their own. we'll tell you what brought students to the yard today. also, saving you money at the grocery store, find how the how it measures up in comparison

to the others. >> a father flipped his car when he got some bad news and it's what he did next to get his

and now at 5:30, a father flips his vehicle trying to get home to help his children after a fire starts in their house and that's just the beginning of his

journey. after getting a phone call no parent ever wants to answer. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins is live near his home in upper marlboro with the rest of his story. >> reporter: there could have been a series of tragedies here today. a house fire with a 9 wroeld and a 13-year-old inside along with their 15-year-old babysitter. a father who gets the news and then has a horrible, single-car crash on his way home, but luckily it didn't turn out as bad as it could have been. >> this accident happened just seconds after he was told his three children were involved in a house fire. pet grew rushed home when his vehicle rode into the intersection of center avenue and enterprise road. his car flipped over and landed upside down. he broke out of the car and began running the additional half mile until he made it home where he found his children safe. they got out of the fire on

their own. he was evaluated for injuries sustained in the crash and transported to the hospital. his wife calls it a miracle. >> by the grace of god and just the love of his family. >> that's right. >> the love of his family. >> he loved his family. >> that was his wife along with her mother. she, of course, was overwhelmed with emotion because of all of the near misses that happened today, at the end of the day her entire family and her husband arrived home a little while ago. we hear from him and he says when his car flipped over it was like everything was in slow motion, but there was only one thing on his mind and in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins. a stabbing of of a little girl in prince george's count they police described initially as a home invasion. police are no longer looking for any suspects. the attackers were first described as two men posing as delivery men. police did say that the 10-year-old was stabbed after

answering her door in her riverdale home and her parents were not at home at the time and she was there with two underaged siblings including a 15-year-old sister. police are still trying to figure out exactly what did happen. police arrest a 19-year-old they say threatened black students and faculty at the university of missouri. the early arrest was the latest development for a campus dealing with racial tensions. investigators say the student at the university of missouri science and technology department is about 90 miles away from the main campus. police say he made a threat on social media that app called yikyak to, quote, shoot every black person i see, end quote. >> i think it's messed up, man. i can't believe this is even happening here. >> there was a lot of fear. a lot of people moving around. a lot of different threats going on from campus, people in shots. racial unrest has put

missu's campus on rest and they urged the campus chancellor to step down. close to home, students at howard university are taking a stand in solidarity with their peers and dressed in black and holding hands here. dozens of howard students from the midwest gathered at the flag pole on the yard this afternoon. the students say they had an obligation to suppt black students at missu. students at howard took a stand which gained attention earlier this year. howard students have been complaining about finances all year. after the school's band performed in all black during a football game, school administrators apologized and promised to work on student issues. when d.c. mayor muriel bowser returns from her trade mission to china he won't be coming home empty handed. the mayor finalized a deal to bring $155 million from foreign investors into the district and that money will be divided between two ongoing projects.

the southwest waterfront whatever redevelopment is going to get $100 million and the skyland project in ward 7 will get 55 million. those projects will include hundreds of affordable housing units and and retail and more than 1300 permanent jobs. she's an icon from her civil rights era and one of her most iconic looks is about to go on display. we're talking about katherine height and s dorothy height. the council will display dozens of those hats in selected cities across our country. she talked with barbara harrison about some of height's favorite hats. >> there would be two that would be her favorite. this purple one. of course, purple was her favorite color and this was one of her favorite ones and very elaborate with the rhinestones. this is the hat she wore with

dr. bethune and eleanor roosevelt. >> starting next year, those hats will be on permanent display with the smithsonian here in washington. a special veterans day service in falls church honoring a local man who is the highest ranking american officer killed on foreign soil since 1972. major general harold green was killed last year in afghanistan. his widow, dr. sue meyers was the keynote speaker today. she applauded all who were involved in public service. she said her husband always made time for others so he could pay forward the blessings he enjoyed. >> reporter: i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. we have new video coming into our newsroom. this is from the plane crash in ohio. you can see the plane in the upper left part of your screen fly by and burst into a ball of flames. the plane crashed into an apartment building yesterday in akron. the cockpit voice recorder is on

the way to washington right now. a florida-based real estate company says seven of its employees and two crew members died onboard the jet yesterday. no one on the ground was injured. the red cross is now helping 12 families who called that apartment building home before it was destroyed. wendy? a headstone for the man who helped create the stepping-stone for civil rights laws for the lgbt community. more on the memorial for a local veteran. plus a plot to bomb black churches in virginia and according to police may have been a family affair.

the other day i spent a wonderful afternoon looking at fast cars with this week's wednesday's child. his name is tyriq and like most 16-year-olds he's dreaming about driving some day, but his real dream is to end the moving from home to home that is sadly, a part of being in the foster care system for many youngsters. tyriq is hope for example a loving, adoptive home and second on the list is learning to drive? because he has a passion for automobiles and specifically bmws, we came here and the owner warmly welcomed tyriq. we got a tour of the massive showroom. don nichols took us back to see where the bmws are maintained. this was a differential. >> tyriq was impressed with the underbody and equally impressed with the interior especially with this fancy number.

tyriq in the tenth grade wants to go to college and some day be able to afford his passion for cars. >> what do you want to be when you grow up? >> want to be someone who owns cars. >> his grades this year show remarkable improvement. >> he's been trying to do his very, very best. >> she says it hasn't been an easy love for tyriq as a foster child having to move from home to home. >> it's hard because i have to leave friends and you have to go to a new school and it's just a lot. >> when he finds a family who is able to understand him for who he is and help him to confirm that trust and understanding, i believe that. >> he says all he wants in an adoptive family. >> someone that cares and listens to me. >> at sterling bmw they have a few gifts for tyriq to take home and the whole sterling team came to wish him well. >> if you have room in your home

and your heart for any of our wednesday's children, tyriq in particular, please call 1-88-to adopt me and go to nbcwashington.com and if you're considering adoption search our website to learn about a special event coming up on december 5th that includes all kinds of ways of adopting children. wendy? jim? >> thank you, barbara. hey, are you ready to go grocery shopping? >> it comes down to quality and cost. >> you want the best food for the least amount of money, right? who doesn't? grab your pen and wallet. i'm erika gonzalez with a

do you always shop at the same grocery store? >> not me, but would you try another one if you knew you could save money, big money? erika gonzalez has a breakdown on the prices for us. before you make your next trip to the grocery store listen to this, our friends at consumer checkbook.org spend a lot of time going store to store around the d.c. area comparison

shopping, price, service and quality. you are probably loyal to one grocery store, but you could be paying more than you need to. checkbook.org compared prices for you. it compared the same 152 items at several stores. the most expensive among popular chains in our area, safeway. checkbook found it had higher prices than wegman's, harris teeter and safeway's prices are higher than giant. >> we found a bigger gap. it appears that giant has chosen to be more price competitive. >> we contacted safeway about its prices. a comparison of a small number of items does not provide consumers with a true picture of prices across the entire store nor does it appropriately reflect the savings that our customers enjoy, even though giant has lower prices, it's still not the cheapest. >> giant's prices are still far higher than say walmart or

target and the big discount stores. >> checkbook found a family that spends $200 a week at giant could save about $1200 a year by shopping at walmart. checkbook also evaluated stores on quality and service. so when it came to both price and quality, checkbook found wegman's wows its customers. >> it receives overall ratings that are higher than any supermarket chain we've ever seen anywhere. they are able to match those really high ratings from their customers with low prices. >> at g box stores like costco, sam's club and bj's checkbook found you could chop a third off your total bill compared to other supermarket, but do the math. if you pay for an annual membership the savings only add up if you shop there regularly. >> especially if it represents a long trip for you, but if you have to go out of your way to get to that costco you may as well go to wegman's. check out the checkbook data survey through the nbc washington app just search grocery and then tonight at

11:00, find out who in the region is paying the most when it comes to discount grocery stores. back to you. >> it adds up. upon we'll see you at 11:00, erika. thanks so much. all right. so it was lovely today, lovely and warm. >> it did and now we'll cool off a little bit this evening, but if you've got that grocery store run to make this evening, it's going to be dry. tomorrow morning, a different story and get ready to get the umbrellas back out and we always like to tell you about the change and when it's coming. here's your 5k clo, your 7:00 and your 9:00 a.m. hour for tomorrow morning. so we get thursday going and it will be an overcast sky and high clouds start moving in this evening and cool conditions at 7:00 a.m., and i think we'll still be dry and the rain will start at 8:00 to 9:00 a.m. and there's your change. keep that in mind because if you're going to be getting to work early in the morning you'll probably miss the rain before 9:00 a.m. and there it is around frederick and leesburg, around

warrenton as we track this out for you and the latest technology and hagerstown and winchester could be a few small pockets getting moderate rain and the biggest rain chances up here and around d.c. and the beltway and around 270 and north of i-66. by lunchtime the rain is already out of here for the most part. can't rule out a little sprinkle or drop or two coming through. we will be clearing out and i do think that by the afternoon hours we'll get sunshine and the wind will start to pick up. let's show you again the areas that have medium to moderate impact with rain hitting the roads tomorrow. around leesburg, 72, to 270 and areas of i-83 and north i-95 out of d.c. and right around the beltway and the northern side for tomorrow morning. by the afternoon, i think we've got the green lights with just a sprinkle or two, with just a drop or two coming down and again, you'll want to watch your braking and your speed because the leaves will coming down with wind and mainly light rain and

there could be a pocket or two when we get the moderate rain and our temperatures will start out in the 50s and the mid-50s by around 10:00 a.m. with the rain moving through. so not only will you need an umbrella out the door tomorrow morning, but also a nice, warm jacket and rain boot, as well. temperatures in the 60s throughout the area and 61 frederick and 61 degrees in fredericksburg and tomorrow the weather will have a low to moderate impact on our area. biggest thing about tomorrow again is once the rain moves out, just how cool we start cooling down with the temperature at 60 degrees for some of the thursday night lights with football by friday morning it will not be that cold out there tomorrow morning and just wet and amelia segal and let's talk about what is going to be going on tomorrow morning and she could be with al roker at iwo jima. yes, roke-a-thon as he's reporting on the weather. tomorrow we'll have a look at the forecast coming up on news 4

at 6:00. >> thanks, veronica. homelessness is an issue. and efforts to fight it are starting to pay off. he says virginia's 1400 homeless vets are in the process of getting housing and something he says maybes virginia first in the country to functionally end homelessness. >> after they put on that uniform and they serve our country and when they come back we provide them with the housing and the resources they need to lead successful lives because they've dedicated their lives for us and we need to do it back to them. >> the governor says the biggest challenge is making sure once these vets do get housing they do not end up back on the streets. on this veterans day, members of the military gathered at congressional cemetery alongside members of the gay and lesbian community to honor a world war ii veteran. many credit frank kameny with being the father of the gay rights movement and news 4's mark segraves has more on the new headstone unveiled today to

honor his life and his legacy? he was the single most important and most influential person in the history of the gay rights movement. >> reporter: frank kameny lied about being gay so he could serve in world war ii. after being fired from his job with the federal government for being gay, kameny began a decades-long crusade to get equal rights for gays and lesbians. >> more than any one person, frank was responsible for ending the ban for gay employment in the federal government and for reversing the a.p., the american psychiatric association position that homosexuality was a mental illness. >> this guy, the in the ' 50s a '60s was pushing the envelope. >> in 1964 frank kameny was looking for a member of the military who would be willing to come out so that there could be a test of the legality of gay

service. >> kameny found the person he was looking for in air force sergeant leonard matlovick who agreed to about public with his sexuality appearing to the cover of "time" magazine. today a ceremony was held to honor both men on capitol hill. a headstone noting kameny's military service was unveiled complete with military honors he would have been denied decades earlier. >> at the time i didn't realize why, but now looking back, i understand he was fighting all his life. he was tired of waiting, and i'm glad he was. >> kameny was quoted with coining the phrase, gay is good. that phrase now etched in stone beneath the world war ii vet's headstone at congressional cemetery, mark seeigraves, news. there are signs the number of veterans who are homeless is shrinking in the district. miriam's kitchen prepared meals for people who don't have a place to live. at one time about one-quarter of

their guests were veterans and now it's just 6%. staff and volunteers served up hot meals in the basement of a church in foggy bottom. many help year round and some who helped today are also veterans. >> we shared something and we shared a commitment to our country. >> all of the people that are homeless don't deserve to be on the street, period. >> 1200 vets have gotten into housing and we're 80% of the way toward the goal. >> miriam's kitchen also connects homeless with social service programs and helps them work to find permanent homes. a father busted in a plot to create a race war. what police found in a virginia home that led to these arrests. how this disabled vet who used to sleep in his -- now has used to sleep in his -- now has hope and a new home on veterans

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five people are now facing charges tonight in connection with an alleged plot to bomb black charges in central virginia. >> and one of the new arrests is the father of one of the men that the fbi says plan to start a race war. drew wilder reports from enrico county. these are the faces of the husband and wife that police arrested on tuesday storming into this house on jerald street. ronald and terry cheney both face multiple charges. ronald's include possession of a weapon by a felon and possession

of marijuana with the intent to deliver. we've confirmed ronald chaeney s the father of ronald cheney iii one of three men arrested when the fbi and chesterfield police executed a warrant at the man of robert doyle, a man who was stockpiling weapon who was ready for in doyle's alleged words, an upcoming race war. doyle along with ronald cheney iii met at his home to discuss plots to target black churches and synagogues dating back to at least september. investigators say a third man charles holderman was brought in to help generate money for their cause. according to documents, that happened when doyle and cheney met with undercover fbi agents posing as arms dealers several times where in one instance doyle ordered automatic weapons,es policives and a gun with a seoulencer and an fbi

affidavit the group talked about robbing a gun store or a jeweler. his own downfall was, quote, not having a pistol or no car and that, quote, he was hungry and was a soldier. >> now two of the suspects in the virginia church bomb plot are due in court tomorrow for a hearing. news 4 at 6:00 starts rooity now with jim and doreen. at 6:00, a stun gun used on a student at a school in fairfax county. parents say they were not told the whole story. >> increasing pressure over the so-called pay to play politics and it's leading to a change in the d.c. mayor's office. >> also, a father's mourning turned upside down after a frantic call from home and tonight we'll hear from him. we begin tonight with a republican presidential race, the candidates back on the campaign trail now and they seem to agree there were no big winners in the debate last night. tonight ben carson says he knows why he's facing tough questions from the media. steve handelsman is back from

mill walk toe join us tonight. hi there, steve. >> hi, doreen, thanks. ben carson was not attacked tonight and trying to hold on to his top position in republican polls. carson is still charging that because he's a devout christian which endears him to a lot of republican voters, he's being unfairly pressed about inconsistency in his personal story. >> ben carson today went to friendly territory, fundamentalist christian liberty university. >> so many in the media, you know, want to bring me down because i represent something that they can't stand. >> reporter: but in the debate on fox business network, carson was not pressed on the accuracy of his life story. asked for specific economic plans, the seasoned candidates were ready. >> bold and simple flat tax. >> reporter: carson was not exact, focusing instead he told me on concepts like fairness. >> reporter: and the specifics, you have a grasp of that. >> i have a grasp of that and that will be coming out within n