pat moran stepped down as director of his father's campaign. ken molestina has more on the video from a conservative watch group which focuses on exposing government corruption. >> reporter: the hidden camera video was recorded at an arlington restaurant on october 8. the investigator disguises as a democratic supporter and tries to get advice. listen closely. >> he's looking for two guys to help him. he's got -- [ inaudible ] >> reporter: after understanding the intention to scirpt the new voter i.d. -- to skirt the new voter i.d. law, they walk and talk even more. moran seems es assistant and tries to -- hesitant and tries to lobby the investigator -- to encourage the investigator to lobby for votes instead. but the investigator pushes on. the field director and son of an 11-term congressman finally seems to give in offering advice on how to pull off the deception at the polls. >> look at the law. >> reporter: shortly after, he reiterates his point. >> reporter: i'm ken molistana, 9news now. >> he told us about the person who shot the video,

of democratic virginia congressman jim moran and he's also the field director of the arlington office for his father's campaign just a few weeks ago our friend pat i'm self in a teensy bit of a bind when he let his guard down to a man who turned out to be an undercover reporter reporter approach moran. on his way out of a restaurant and confided in him how he's incredibly nervous about the upcoming election but he fears the idea of romney winning reporter then tells him that it is a list of one hundred registered voters who just haven't voted in a long time and so that he'd like to go vote and their place under their names and this is how the congressman son reacted. that it was that you and that's. when you and. he just you believe deals with something with a. great idea pat just forge those utility bills right. he actually proceeded to troubleshoot with the reporter about what documents could and couldn't be forged and he was asked on how to do that moran entertain the idea of finding some technically savvy person or just using microsoft word check it out. with. this like the software or. something. but i think the most classic part of the sto

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the investigator disguises a democratic sporer a approaches pat moran trying to get advice. listen closely. >> -- [inaudible] >> all right. >> for two guys to help him. >> yeah. >> he goes around and -- >> round these people up to vote. >> they get -- [inaudible] >> oh. >> after understanding the investigators intention to skirt the voter id law, they walk and talk a little more. >> i don't know, but that's tough man. >> he seems he has at that seems hestant and tries to encourage him to lobby for the votes instead. >> to make sure it went through zpsh -- [inaudible] >> i feel like it is going to underperforming district. >> but the investigator pushes on, the field director and son of an 11-term congressman finally seems to give in offering advice on how to pull off deception at the polls. >> look at the law. >> okay. >> but like a utility bill or something like that shortly after he reiterates his point. >> i'm impressed man. >> i would look at the law. you will have to have the same address on there. it looks like you will be able to satisfy that, but the l have to look l

pat moran immediately resigned from his father's campaign after the release of the video. >>> a warning to parents you may not want your children to hear the next story. it is ghoulish and coming out of new york city. a police officer is accused of plotting to kidnap, cook and ultimately eat the body parts of the women he planned to murder. suspected officer gilberto valle is a six-year veteran and university ever maryland graduate. he's already appeared in court in manhattan. the f.b.i. says it intercepted shocking e- mails from the queens resident that outlined the scheme of torture and cannibalism targeting and gathering information on a hundred women. there is no indication he had actually made good on his alleged plans. >>> new york city police say a mother came home last night to find two of her children dead and the woman responsible for their care bleeding nearby. the nanny was on the bathroom floor suffering from what appeared to be self-inflicted stab wounds. police say that the woman's 6- year-old daughter and 2-year- old son were stabbed to death in the bathtub. she'd been o

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moran. his son pat has resigned over what ef said in a secretly -- what he said in a secretly recorded video. kristin fisher is in our satellite center with more. who recorded this, kristin? >> reporter: it's very interesting. this video shows patrick moran giving advice to an undercover investigator about how to commit voter fraud. this undercover investigator works for a conservative watchdog group and solicited the advice. there's a big question this morning of was this just a blatant setup or was it proof of dishonest politics? we're going to let you be the judge this morning. here is the back story. patrick moran is the son of the 11-term congressman from northern virginia jim moran. patrick has been working as a field director in his father's reelection campaign when this video was recorded right outside a restaurant in arlington on october 8. in the video, the undercover investigator is disguised as a democratic supporter and approaches patrick with a plan to cast fraudulent ballots. at first patrick is hesitant. he tries to encourage the investigator to lobby for the votes legally in

jim moran's campaign released a statement saying that pat had a clear error in judgment. >>> the colorado teen accused of murdering a ten-year-old girl will make his first court appearance today. austin sigg turned himself into police. jessica ridgeway's body was found in a nearby field. sigg will also face charges for trying to abduct a woman back in may while she was jogging. >>> the man who opened fire on a california family is still on the run. overnight, a third family member died from injuries. two others are still recovering. police say someone who does not appear to be related started shooting inside the family's business in suburban l.a. yesterday, then went to their nearby home and continued firing. police also don't think the man ever worked for the family. the gunman is believed to have taken off in that family's car. >>> we've learned new details about a shooting, this one at a megachurch in georgia. the man was committed to a mental health facility in maryland. police arrested 51-year-old floyd palmer. in 2001, he was charged with attempted murder, assault and handgun charge

swrim m jim moran's campaign also released a statement saying that pat had a clear error in judgment. >>> ken cuccinelli is now stepping into a politically charged investigation into possible border fraud. they authorized the investigation yesterday and asked cuccinelli to get involved. it centers around a contractor hired to register voters for the republican party, who now faces criminal charges for allegedly destroying registration forms. the contractor's parent company is already being investigated in florida for more than 200 allegations of voter fraud. >>> more ballot problems in maryland uncovered by the news4 iteam. thousands of voters may have received more than one copy of their absentee ballot. the board of elections sent out extra copies after discovering postal bar codes on some ballots may have been incorrect. it comes just days after some voters reported their ballots were missing a page. you still vote, but the board of elections says if you submit both ballots, only the one with the later date will be counted. >>> spending on maryland's most publicized ballot question

jim moran's campaign also released a statement saying that pat had a clear error in judgment. >>> virginia attorney general ken cuccinelli is now stepping into a politically carjacked investigation into possible voter fraud. the state's republican controlled board elections authorized the investigation yesterday and asked cuccinelli to get involved. it senters arou ecenters around hired for the republican party who now faces criminal charge for allegedly destroying voter registration forms. the parent company is already being investigated in florida for more than 200 allegations of voter fraud. >>> coming up, a shooting inside a megachurch in atlanta. this morning, the ties the suspected gunman has to the d.c. area. >>> lee boyd malvo's new revelations from prison in an exclusive interview. what he has to say about his actions as a d.c. sniper and who he now wants to reach out to. >>> and another nice day on tap for today, but we have lots of changes in the ike leggett: gaming generated one hundred and eighty... million dollars for maryland schools. question seven will double it. rushern b

moran. i don't know whether it's going to have that much effect, pat. that's your basic question. how much affect will it have on congressman moran's re-election? i don't think it will have that much of an effect. >> i don't think it will have any effect on his. this is reminiscent of what was done, if you remember, with a.c.o.r.n. where these conservative operatives dressed up like a pimp and prostitute and went in and tried to get jobs or some kind of government form and they have a hidden camera. here's the lesson. there are cameras everywhere. >> right. >> this was clearly an attempt to try and embarrass the congressman, possibly the democratic party, to prove that it was voter fraud. and the reality is that maybe naively he just didn't say, look, man, get away from me. i don't want to hear it and walk away. and that's the lesson here. >> the campaign has called this an error in judgment. moran's campaign did. >> the smile you're on candid camera, you never thought that before -- wherever you go someone can do this. the moran campaign should have been -- >> you can walk out, so

pat collins, news4. >>> to breaking news tonight involving the campaign of virginia congressman jim moran. police tell us they've launched a criminal investigation into a potential case of voter fraud involving the congressman's son. an undercover video by a conservative group appears to show patrick moran discussing how someone could vote illeg illegally. he has since resigned as field director of his dad's campaign. as tom sherwood reports now, there is now reaction to the controversy today, but so far, the congressman has no comment. >> it's going to be with the new voter i.d. law as well. >> reporter: the undercover video shows 23-year-old patrick moran, the congressman's son, engaging in an october 8th conversation with a fake volunteer. the volunteer wanted to cast ballots of infrequent voters. >> and their 'dress on it. >> reporter: patrick moran who resigned as soon as the video was disclosed wednesday was telling how to get fake identifications. patrick did not answer knocks at his alexandria apartment where a filing cabinet sitting outside had all sorts of campaign materials. pat