. >> audrey smaltz has long been a vital part of the fashion industry. >> i came up with the name theround crew, because i heard the reverend dr. martin luther king talk about, those big jet planes can't get off the ground without a ground crew. >> in paris, i always say, where's audrey smaltz with the ground crew. it makes everything run smoothly. >> reporter: the path to the fashion world began with audrey's own modelling career. >> i was born, bread, toasted, jellied, jammed and honeyed in harlem. i always enjoyed fashion, art, culture. because it always seems i was always 6'0" tall even at 16, i started with a modelling agency. >> reporter: modelling would take her to bloomingdale's where she became one of the first african-american models. >> someone said i want to see audrey smaltz. they pointed me out. oh, no that can't be her. because of the color of my skin, she said you don't want this job. i said, yes, i want this job. >> reporter: she landed a pivotal position as commentator and coordinator of the ebony fashion fair. >> an entrepreneur is a person who takes risks. i mean,

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audrey in washington. audrey? >> caller: hi. boo-yah, mr.oo-yah, audrey. >> caller: i just want to say you are absolutely the best. you are so generous with all of your knowledge of all of us little guys, and i read two of your books, and i listen to you every day and i'm a retired widow, and i have my what i call my stock play money account and you've made me able to double my account. >> there you go. i say ♪ hallelujah >> let's go to work. >> caller: i have aapl, apple, dis, disney, gld, gold, mcd, mcdonald's and t for at&t. >> well, first, let me say i think we have a portfolio here that is made up definitely with horse sense. we have gold, we know we want that. i put that in every portfolio and mcdonald's, the stock is still here, why? because the company is was the largest in the dow. apple, 500 about to be taken out, and at&t goes from 32 to 33, and you don't even have to think about it and disney, i love the quarter and the analysts don't seem to like it and they're gone. we have a telco company, a computer, and a food company and go

audrey rocks.regon. >> caller: hi, jim, my stocks are dlr, slrc, nly, at&t, and exelon, exc, particularly interested in your thoughts on annaly and exelon. >> these are very controversial names right now. okay, first of all, exelon, i think is a fine utility and i think it's terrific. people don't like it, and i think they're making a mistake. i think it's a great utility and i like the yield, and i think it's safe. att, a great utility, this time, telco, and a terrific yield. i want to own them both and a speculative resource company. here's the real problem. we have solar capital which we have had on air and this is a non-diversified management fund. we've had them on and it's terrific. it's a financial company. they both have high yields and mike ferrell, a lot of people worry about his health, and he put out a release saying things are going to be good, and i think the quarter was viewed as a miss. i'm not worried about the quarter, but i would take annaly and throw back solar capital, and once

her el thank you, audrey. -- and thank you, audrey. and commissioner press for helping me out on this. we went over to broadway to discover in a more holistic and general way what the problems were. there were two entertainment commissioners that are neighborhood representatives. we spend a lot of time discussing what is in general that would make a better broadway and how we can achieve a better street dialogue through community neighborhood organizations. the venues themselves as well as elected officials and the government offices. first off, i did not realize what they've -- a problem party bosses were until the meeting we held in the broadway area. people are very upset about party bosses mostly because they fall under a state level jurisdiction. there are no regulations on the amount or type of alcohol allowed to be consumed by patrons that bring it themselves on to the buses. they are often writing between 30 minutes and two hours and dumped into neighborhoods that have a lot of entertainment and say, there are the clubs, now go

fox 5's audrey barnes is in the newsroom tonight with these exclusive details. audrey. >> a neighbor saw smoke billowing from the apartments and alerted three prince georges county police officers who were at the business next door. without hesitating, they rushed into that seven story building and started evacuating people before the fire department arrived. the three officers could see smoke coming from the sixth floor of the apartment building. after calling the fire department, that's where they headed. >> we ended up having to kick the door in because it was locked. >> there was a sprinkler inside that six floor unit battling the blaze. officers concentrated on getting residents out until the fire department could get there. >> banged on all the doors. there were some elderly citizens that live there. some have special needs. so we just ran through the hallways trying to evacuate as much as possible. >> most of the elderly residents had no idea the building was on fire. >> did you hear a smoke alarm? >> i didn't hear any audible noise. there was flashing li

>> audrey barnes in the newsroom.ou. >>> and local college basketball dominating the sports scene this saturday. >> the maryland terps taking a settle win on the road against duke. >>> and we dealt with some snow today and now we're dealing with some cold temperatures. look at the colder air is that is settling in for us and from the upper midwest. it's making the trek across our area into tomorrow. how long it's going to stick around. next.  ♪ okay, so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol and who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. that's yours. lower cholesterol. lower cholesterol. i'm yummy. lower cholesterol. i got that wrong didn't i? [ male announcer ] want great taste? honey nut cheerios. want whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol? honey nut cheerios. it's a win win. good? [ crunching, sipping ] be happy. be healthy. can i try yours? . >> maryland had the cameron crazies today. >> this is what they call the student sec at duke. >> oh, george and they torment t

audrey barnes spoke with the judge about the threat on his life. >> reporter: prince george's countyge herman c. dawson has been on the bench since 1998. he is the coordinator of all juvenile cases. fox 5 news has learned that one of the juveniles who may have been in the judge's courtroom earlier this month has threatened to kill him. according to court documents and the state's attorney's office, 16-year-old garrett bailey is being charged as an adult with solicitation of first degree murder, possession of an illegal firearm and threats against a state official. anden cedably, there are still threats against the judge on bailey's twitter page including this one laced with the racial slur. who wants 1,000 to kill that blank dawson. in another tweet, bailey calls dawson, who is black, a racist, who quote lock up all the white people, end quote. neighbors in bailey's bowie neighborhood say there are often police cars outside the family home. one said his mom has had plenty of trouble with him and another said he is suspected in a rash of break-ins in in the community. we are told bail

audrey barnes has the story. >> reporter: many of the residents of the spelman house apartments are elderlyairs. evacuating them during an emergency can be challenging. to learn that the alarm failed to sound saturday during a fire on the sixth floor has upset more than a few. >> it is supposed to tell us that something is going on. >> reporter: disaster was averted partly because of two prince george's county police officers. they were the first responders on the scene, flagged down by a neighbor who saw smoke pouring from a sixth floor window. >> we immediately began to evacuate the surrounding rooms to get everybody out in case the fire grew bigger. >> there was a lot of smoke and we just responded and did what we had to do. >> reporter: fortunately for these officers and the residents, the apartment had a working sprinkler system. a lawyer requiring sprinklers and smoke alarms in residential homes in the county has been on the book for years. >> since 1992, we have not had a fire fatality in any residential sprinklered home. >> reporter: in three separate fires in just 20 hours this wee

audrey barnes is live in d.c. police headquarters with more. audrey. >> reporter: ryan, police chief kathy lanor is praising the public for their intervention and they say that is what resulted in the quick arrest in the murder of 24-year-old jeff parker jones. he was a transgendered woman, was stabbed in the head at the bus stop on east capitol street at sycamore road last thursday. several people intervened and tried to help her after the crime, and chief lanier said they also got plenty of tips, which resulted in today's arrest. a 55-year-old gary niles montgomery of northeast. he was taken into custody by the fugitive task force after 2 this afternoon. new, investigators would not say if montgomery knew his victim or if he is the person of interest in this video that they released shortly after the stabbing. montgomery is facing second- degree murder charges, and he is due in court tomorrow. we also asked about the possibility that this was a hate crime. chief lanier said that is part of the continuing investigate. -- investigation. back to

audrey barnes spoke with the judge about the threat. >> reporter: prince georges county, 7th circuitcourt judge has been on the bench since 1998 he is the coordinator of all juvenile cases one that was earlier this month threatened to kill him 16-year-old garrett bailey is being charged as an adult with solicitation of first degree murder possession of an illegal firearm and threats against a state official and incredibly there are stillthreaten against the judge on his twitter page including this one laced with a racial slur who wants $1,000 to kill that blank dawson in another tweet he calls dawson who is black, a racist who quote locks up all the white people neighbors in the buoy neighbourhood said his mom has plenty of trouble with him. >> we are told bailey was in court on a break-in case last week and someone heard him threaten the judge. judge dawson who says he handles between 50 and 75 juvenile cases a day, says he doesn't specifically remember bailey and didn't hear the threat personally. but dawson says he is glad the sheriff's office is taking the threats seriously. >> a

fox 5 audrey barnes working this -- on the loose tonight. fox 5 audrey barnes working on this case tonight. >> the victim in this case is 84 years old and laid on her apartment floor for a day before her neighbor found her. it's an image he says he'll have trouble getting out of my head. >> she's like my grandmother. so you can imagine that. reporter: jonathan dohock said a neighbor asked for his help with an elderly woman who was attacked in her apartment left lying in her own blood. 24 hours after the attack wednesday afternoon until neighbors found her on thursday. >> she was sitting there so long you could is here eye and lips bruised and bleeding. reporter: -- her eye and lips bruised and bleeding. reporter: what do you think about something that could do that to an 84-year-old lady? >> need do it to anybody. reporter: prince george's county police were back in the complex friday night warning residents about the danger and searching for witnesses. >> we're doing a campus of the neighborhood. reporter: investigators say the suspect tric

residents will be allowed to stay here tonight but so far that decision hasn't been made shawn. >>> audrey how many people are we talking about? how many people live in the building, do you know? >> it is a four story building with -- storey building with several ditch rent condo -- different condos, people were at work but at least 18 people were here when the leak was discovered but probably twice if not three times as many live in that building and could be effected by the leak tonight. >> hopefully they get it fixed in time thank you. >>> another big story we are following tonight autopsy photographic testimony in the murder trial of george hughly, the medical examiner reports there is evidence of an attempt to smother yeardly love who was hughly's formeragner is live wi latest on today's testimony paul. >> reporter: laura, that was one of two big surprises, from dr. william gormly today a medical examiner here in virginia the injuries to her face are consistent with a struggle and attempt to smother he asked whether or not there was any injuries to her nose he said simply no that blow

fox 5's audrey barnes is in the newsroom. >> prince george's county was the first in the country to requireh sprinklers and fire alarms in all newly structured residential homes and in three separate fires in just 20 hours this weekend sprinklers controlled them preventing more serious property damage and injuries. nowhere was that more critical than at spellman house apartments in college park. >> reporter: many of the residents of the spellman house apartments are elderly and use wheelchairs. evacuating them during an emergency can be challenging. to learn that the alarm failed to sound saturday during a fire on the sixth floor has upset more than a few. >> it's frightening because it's supposed to tell us that something is going on. >> reporter: disaster was averted partly because a prince of two prince george's county police officers who were the first responders on the scene flagged down by a neighbor. >> we immediately began to evacuate the surrounding rooms, took everybody out in case the fire grew. >> it was a lot of smoke and we just responded and did what we had to do. >> reporter

joining us now audrey whalen, they have been spending a lot of time down there. good to have you here. confrontation that happened, i guess over the weekend you were there, 3:00 a.m. when the police came in tell us a little bit about what was going on and what that was like. >> sure well, i was there at 3:00 a.m. in the morning police came in 5:40 a.m. and it was a little scary honestly coming out of the darkness like these mounted police and for the most part, they set up barricades and began moving tents out, it wasn't very confrontational then around 5:00 a.m. as protestors got moved out of the park entirely there was a big scrum on k street and people running, riot shields, things getting thrown. >> were you scared by all this? >> you know, it is kind of what happens when you cover occupy dc, some times it gets crazy. >> let's talk about the status of the movement now, now that we have had this kind of clean out that has gone on and new rules being enforced, what do you thing the status, how did the occupiers feel at this point. >> i think they are a little s

this is a 20-year-old female, audrey anna. >> she could have easily beat that train. because that train come before -- >> that's the interesting part down, and go back up. police say they had nothing to do with it. it was just pure luck. >> seems like that's the one rule she remembered from her drivers test. like stop at the train tracks. she forgot the rest, but remembered that one. >>> this video is from brooklyn, new york. tell me what you guys think is happening. >> does this look like a violent video to you guys? >> not at all. >> not violent at all. looks like some dude is wearing socks with sandals. that's pretty offensive. >> in this video are two officers, one is officer deagoo palasios, and driving the car, john hockingo, and there is verbal confrontation between the parties. but the video ends and five minutes later, john ends up being handcuffed, spends three days in jail and is ultimately charged with a felony and is now facing seven years in prison. of according to a sworn criminal complaint, the officer said that the defendant, john, drove his car at hi

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audrey. >> federal agents say el khalifl targeted several targets. day after his arrest, people visiting the capital found primarily business as usual. >> there were plenty of people milling around the capital today and frequenting nearby restaurants, which could have b khalifl. >> it's a good thing that we are on top of things. >> because if people stop going to the restaurant -- >> this political science professor from boston says the spoiled plot won't alter her visit to d.c. in any way. >> we are going to the capital on tuesday. the little guy is concerned. >> heavy police presence was reassuring for visitors who had nothing but praise. who monitored him for more than a year before moving in to arrest him. >> i am impressed they are able to track down. in the plot, before it actually happened. >> i'm actually from d.c. and i can't imagine d.c. without this area and i think it would be a scary time if anything happened to this area. so i'm glad something was done and that it's safe once again. >> things are returning to normal at a gated community

state department. >> audrey barnes tonight. our coverage does not end here. this is the latest arrest in a string of so-called lone wolf terror suspects. we talk about the trend with a former cia agent at 10:30. >>> now to our other big story, a winter weather alert. in fact, we're keeping a close watch on this storm you see here. it's it's now over the gulf coast marching east and could bring us some snow, but its projected path is changing by the hour. let's check in with gary mcgrady to get the very latest. >> that doesn't look like much down there, does it? really there are two parts to this storm actually. one component, severe weather down in the south the next couple days. we'll be up in the cold air, so some of that moisture gets up here, it's going to produce a little snow. everything still seems on track. i haven't seen anything to really change my mind one way or the other about sunday. today was so nice. tomorrow will be pretty night. you'll be hard pressed to think we may get snow on sunday through most of the take tomorrow. some places will be -

audrey ellsmith delmon the -- dabel nunnedevelopmental centerd many others. she was an advocate for the san francisco unified school district special-education disability department. she continued on to found the a copy of a great center working with owners and residents who lived in hud's 236 properties that had expiring section 8 project. the program assisted with counseling and referrals. in 1985, ms. johnson received her evangelicals calling and began her christian event -- evangelist our reach to the committee. i believe this shows her true hard as a christian. she worked with a community to begin a tradition of feeding the poor and needy before thanksgiving at the property where she lived. carmen has worked hard to continue this tradition which has taken place for more than 22 years. she has done work in community violence and has raised ostrich -- foster care children as well. she is a true example of someone who has followed the christian lessons of compassion. i am proud today to present both of you with these commendations for african-american histo

foundation, partner foundation, dedicated to heightening awareness of critical issues, the bernard and audrey rapaport foundation, committed to building a more just, with verdent and peaceful world. nor information at macfound.org. the jessie and betty finck foundation, barbara g. fleischman and by our sole corporate sponsor, with mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement product. that's why we're your retirement company. >>> welcome to our third episode about the powerful players in high places who rewrote the rules of american politics and the economy. you can read all about it in this book: "winner-take-all politics: how washington made the rich richer and turned its back on the middle class." if you missed the first two programs, you can see them on our new website, billmoyers.com. the first is with "winner take all" authors jacob hacker and paul pierson. the second with david stockman and gretchen morgenson on "crony capitalism." in this edition, we'll look at a seminal moment when wall street and washington stacked the deck against the rest of us. remember,

the bernard and audrey rapaport foundation. committed to building a more just, burdened and peaceful world. more information at maxfoundel organize. the jessie and bessie finck foundation, the hkh foundation. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement projects. that's why we are your retirement company. >>> over the past few years wrb it's passing interest in this subject. >> no, no. >> the recent film "contagion" was froeden out of a global pandemic plague. from a handful of peanuts. it's such an inescapable invitation to think, it could happen. that could be us. what would we do? perhaps because the movie had invaded my head, for several days, i kept coming across stories in the news about contagious disease and the conflict between religious beliefs in immunization. all of them grant exceptions for medical reasons, say, for a child with cancer. almost all of them grant religious exemptions and 20 states allow exemptions for personal or other beliefs. some parent