wendy back to you. >> jackie benson.jackie. >> tv production company apologizing for staging a police raid that frightened people in the d.c. neighborhood. four officers stormed the house. guns drawn. and the 300 block of aspen northwest. neighbors weren't told of the raid before it happened last wednesday. to make things worse, the officers were from montgomery county which further bew dered the folks in d.c. montgomery konty police say the production company didn't realize the officers were outside their jurisdiction. the crew was filming a cable tv series, called prison wives. >>> with gas prices falling, watching the numbers at the pump can be painful. it won't be an issue for hundreds tomorrow morning. derek ward is live with details of a big gas give away. >>> but alexandria's motorists are improving, at a better rate than motorists in any city in the country over the last few years. >> the average driver in alexandria will go 7.2 years between accidents compared to national average. >> four years ago it was 5.4 ye

jackie benson. news 4. >> another line of storm is now passing through the area. bob is in the storm center. how does it look, bob? >> stormy night. things are settling near washington. want few show you lying thing. for you folks in charles county. southern prince george's county. the hot spots now. right now around the washington area, things have settled down a little bit. there is the area of rain that continues to move into prince george's county. the very heaviest right now is heading towards of all places waldorf, la plata, as we go through e night all moving through the big storminess is up in new england. after an hour. thunderstorms ending tomorrow. we'll be back to sunshine and summery weekend coming up. tell you about that. no warnings out. pocket of intense lightning moving through the county. >> one month after the deadliest crash in metro history, the federal government is stepping inn in. a new bill going to set standard. one mandate installing black boxes like those on airplanes. news of the federal bill comes as ntsb reported that metro circuits

wendy, back to you. >> jackie benson. thanks. >>> president obama says he is closely following the search for a captured u.s. soldier in afghanistan. he told nbc's meredith viera, the u.s. is doing everything it can to bring the private home safely. a taliban23oor--yolead r23-yea soldier hostage earlier this month in ailitantid vaneo that surfaced over the weekend he said that he was afraid heon't be seeing his family again. his family released pictures showing him growing up in haley, idaho. the town remains cautiously optimistic. >> we don't do gloom and doom. everybody is positive. upbeat. trying to send that positive, upbeat message, you know to bowe and the community. >> the town plans to hold a vigil for him tomorrow night. 22 area high school students are getting a firsthand look at china's health care system. after several contracted cases of swine flu. students are part of a cultural exchange program. instead of touring the site there they're in a hospital or under quarantine. we are joined from wilson high schoo

jackie benson spoke with the victim's family. family members say he always had a smile on his face. despite being thousands of miles away from his wife and young daughter. despite long days in a restaurant kitchen to make money to send home. investigators say the victim was walking home, 10:30 p.m., after a day of work. went in with his brother. 33-year-old, who also works at the restaurant. he was once a police officer in el salvador. >> in spanish he describes how the suspects ambushed the two as they walked along the lane, a few feet from the safety of home. one of the suspects placed a pistol to his head while the other pulled a knife on his brother. the robbers demanded money and cell phones. there was a struggle. his brother watched in horror as he was fatally stabbed in the abdomen. police say there was a similar robbery on the same quiet block long residential street july 17th, two men also employees who lived in the same house as the gutierrez brothers were robbed. one had a stinging substance sprayed in his face. outrage over the crime is so strong, that charles county she

wendy back few you. >> jackie benson. thank you. >>> investigators outside chicago say they have found more human remains dumped around an historic cemetery there. the cook county sheriff enclosed the entire burr oak cemetery tonight. while investigators try to determine how many graves were disturbed. also, hampering their investigation. the cemetery records seem to be missing or destroyed or too disorganized to follow. the sheriff wants few give families answers as soon as possible. >> this is a horribly, horribly difficult. i can't tell you the number of will ion talk to, who can't find their children. who can't find their babies that they buried here. people who can't find their mothers. >> four employees have been arrested. it is believed they made hundreds of thousands of dollars reselling those plots. >>> d.c. council members scald for a probe into that contract that marion barry awarded his ex-girlfriend. this evening, news 4 obtained the arrest report that details just why barry was arrested in the first place on

wendy back to you. >> jackie benson. thank you. >>> d.c. council member, marion barry, criticizing u.s. park ply after prosecutors formally dropped the stalking charges against him. >> at this inappropriate arrest led to consternation, led to embarrassment around the nation, and all of this. this inappropriate arrest. >> park police say officers believe they did have enough evidence to arrest barry. last saturday, in anacostia park. officers say barry's estranged girlfriend, flagged them down. meanwhile, she is denying that she got work from barry because she was struggling financially. she says she wrote a legitimate proposal for an education program. >>> mayor a has now fired five employees at the youth detention center after two jail breaks there. the center's superintendent was demoted, two other staff members, suspended. a teen escaped from the d.c. owned facility located in anne arundel county. six others broke out last weekend. fraternal order of police issued a statement on behalf of all correction officers there, saying there was n

it is called mattress dominoes and that's because of a group of employees at bensons for beds in england. looks like they pulled it off and now they have to wait for words in the guinness book to find out if they are in. the record at stake, largest chain ever of massive dominoes the record holder currently nobody. nobody has ever done this before. i'm thinking they have the record locked up, whatever that is worth. >> i was going to say what's the report. >> probably nobody has done it. >>>. >>> in the mail bag tonight, bernard, apparently of no known address offered condolences to the peggy cooper who lost her home in a fire. a situation he says did not have to happen. the complete loss of the home and everything in it could have been saved if our city had done what it should have, concerning the present fire hydrant situation. if we can spend so much money on things that are not needed why can't the city get behind such needed repairs as our fire hydrants. it is sad it takes such terrible happenings to wake up the city to what is really needed. >> the wakeup happened a couple of years

now, you know one of our favorite technician is rick "top gun trader" benson huhr, the chief trader, and also my colleague. he runs the top gun trader newsletter. he's made a call based on his reading of the charts, not the fundamentals that the energy sector names, the oil and natural gas stocks and oil service stocks, which have taken a severe beating lately, will soon stop underperforming relative to the s&p 500. now, what does that mean? the s&p 500 in this period has gone up this group has gone down. rick's not saying that oil itself is necessarily going higher or that the energy stocks are, either. he's just saying they'll do better than the s&p 500. that's a wake-up call for portfolio managers. he says if you've dodged this bullet, you may have to get back in over the course of the summer if you're going to beat this. his raesenning? take a look at the week le chart of the relative performance. the etf that contains the oil stocks, xle, his's looking at it versus this, and this gives you exposure, by the way, to the s&p 500, this is the chart that compared the stocks, and it's

news4's jackie benson is on the scene with the latest. jackie? >> reporter: pat, we want to show you what it looks like here. police were called here about 4:00 this afternoon. for, a report of trouble at the home you see there. once they got there, they found a fefemale, an adult asian fema, who had been tied up and stabbed to death. we understand she was stabbed multiple times and found in a bathroom of the home. which we understand is being used as some type of business. we believe an acupuncture business. fame fairfax police are out in force, going door to door in this combined commercial residential area, trying to find out information about what happened here. we understand that they very early on requested the services of a korean language interpreter. she is here. and right now they're waiting to begin their investigation. we understand that the victim is still inside there and they are trying to find out right now, who was in there at that time, also, a search for a suspect. back to you. >> jackie benson, thanks, jackie. >>> opening a ne

back to you. >> jackie benson live in annandale. the. >>> the prosecution has rested in the trial of jabanita jacks,5 witnesses testified for the prosecution. blte adate,ys they accuse jacks of sintabbg her teenaged daughter and strangling her three younger daughters. they said that jacks lived for months in the house with their decomposing bodies. prosecutors said there was no evidence of forced entry into the home. the case is being decided by a judge instead of a jury. >>> today president barack obama spoke to the police officer who arrested a black harvard professor drying to get into his own home. mr. obama caused a stir after saying that the cambridge, massachusetts police had acted stupidly. this afternoon, the president said he could have calibrated his words differently. reporter chris clackham has that story. >> reporter: the surprise visit at the briefing by the president follows his remarks this week that cambridge, massachusetts police sergeant, james crowley, acted stupidly in the arrest of harvard professor, henry gat

eun, back to you. >> jackie benson, thank you. >>> a ctionary tale for cyclists who ride their bikesin virginia. obey the rules of the road or you can get a ticket. and that ticket could lead to four points or more on ythr ou er'sr linsere. ititap hd neigpeto ehtyc csstlin th noucoasn lonty mhot w taking part in a charity ride. jays watrel has more. >> reporter: if you blow through a stop sign like this one in loudoun county, the long arm of the law could reach out and write you a ticket. >> that's what folks have to realize. they have an obligation to obey the law like erybo seeldy. they can be hd accountable cke everybody el. >> reporte i htappened last month near ltsete ovll vienwh70n cyclists took to the road foa 15mile charity 15deri. eit cyclists got tickets for running stop signs. doug landsow got two of the bikers off with fines. the rest paid fines. and got four points on their driver's license. >> they should have been given warnings, information captured from their driver's lines. if they got caught a second time they would be in big trouble. it is unfair that dogs get one

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jackie benson is live outside the wilson building with the rest of the story. jackie? >> wendy, sources tell news 4 that neither mr. barry nor his attorney, fred cook, will likely be present in the courtroom tomorrow. to hear the stalking charges dismissed. >> the arrest of mr. barry should have neveraken place. the false allegations against mr. barry should have never been made. >> spokesperson natalie williams confirmed council member barry did award an employment contract to donna watts brighthoff, the woman at the center of the arrest controversy. >> ms. watts at the time, was qualified for the position and went through the proper channels in order to get, be awarded for that contract. >> for donna watts brighthoff, a painful end to the relationship with the most controversial charismatic politician in d.c. history. he claims he was intensely jealous of her ex-husband who remains a friend and helped her through cancer treatment. here's how she describes what happened after barry left her home, july 4th. >> i said he is bothering me. make sure he goes home. i though

tonight, that debate took center stage in northern virginia in front of a huge crowd, jackie benson joins us live. >> wendy, it was a capacity crowd for a discussion of urgent need. more than 1,00 people packed the auditorium at tc williams high school in zrand dry ya, most part of an interfaith coalition. they urged virginia governor tim kaine to fund a program to provide dental care for uninsured residents of prince william county. recently cut from the budget. >> as you can tell, i have lost some teeth. i have seven loose teeth, i experience pain but i never know when it's going to come. >>s governor tried to find the funding need. >> this is a huge and important issue, it's one that we work together on a good bit over the last few years as i approached my last six months as governor but where there is still a very, very significant gap. >> the forum comes as the obama administration continues its push towards health care reform. at children's hospital in the district, the president said our current health care system is not focuseded on patients and now is the time to fix it. >> we ta

. >> jackie benson. thank you. >>> a dozen school children returned to quite a welcome at dulles airport tonight. part of the local group that spent much of the summer trip in china, quarantined because of fears of swine flu. craig melvin has more on the story now. craig? >> jim, as soon as the maryland and d.c. students touched the tarmac in beijing, 16 days ago they were whisked away, quarantined because the kid on the flight had a fever. tonight many students returned here to dulles to thrilled, relieved, family and friends. >> says welcome home in chinese. >> some of the anxious parents, held signs while they waited. >> in the end, these kids, weathered it all. once they got out of the hospital and quarantine they did get to see beijing. >> other parents recalled the worry. >> there was only one moment i was really, really worried when there was 12 hours no one was hearing from anyone when the quarantine first went down. >> thursday night. 12 students who spent the better part of what was an educatio

the rgettable lloyd benson.. e unforgettable dan ququle. and of coursrse, jack mp, joe lilierman,ohn edwards. who did wewe forge >> frankn d. roosevelt, 1920 --- >> no, here's my poioint, pat. in the televisioioage of campaiing which began in 196960, in the telelevisioage, we are vicious to loserers. we do nonowant thear from you agagain. not one persrson who'seld the vice p presidentl slot in the campaign and lost, in ththe televion age, has ever made e to higher office. go ahead, pat. te me how she's going totoet there. >> richard nixixon lost presidenenal candate in 1960. head been vice presidentnt and ran for president. lost in '62 and cacame back d won the e esiden twice in 49 states. it i ia tougroad. i will say this,s, i thinkhe could nceivably -- because look, there's enormousus loyal and lo for her in the party. i can see heher blowinout the conservativeve side the caucucuses in wa and the iowa stw poll. and d havingne other candidate run ainst. dodown to e finals. i can see her cocoeivabl getting the e nominaon. it advdvice hardi

federal judge benson legg has denied the mortgage giant's move to dismiss the case. baltimore city sued the company in 2008, saying the lender unfairly targeted minority borrowers, setting them up with loans that were destined to fail. the judge cited no affidavits submitted by former wells fargo employees as sufficient proof to proceed with the case. >> hopefully, the results of our lawsuit and the tens of millions of dollars we're losing, we'll be able to help come back and stabilize neighborhoods, as well as to work with families who have been in foreclosure. >> the next court date is scheduled for july 20th. >>> another gorgeous day here in the baltimore area. right now maryland's most powerful radar again not indicating any precipitation around the region. some cooler temperatures than we had yesterday, as we remain below normal fortune wise. here is your forecast for the next couple of hours. partly cloudy, mild. temperatures will be in the upper 70s for the next couple of hours. and how long is this nice weather going to last? we'll have the complete forecast

benson, you okay? have to make sure he's breathing, we have to see saturation, make sure he's ventilating. >> reporter: that's all typical stuff. >> standard of care. yes. >> so the propofol -- >> you're going to get a little sleepy, benson. okay? give me some good, deep breaths. >> take a look at his eyes, how quickly -- >> deep breaths, benson. doing great. may feel a little burning. okay? >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> there's a reason for his heart rate increasing. his eyes just closed. >> his eyes closed. what else? >> he stopped breathing. antico2. he's not breathing anymore. we're going to help him breathe. >> the breathing right now is taking place with this bag and this mask. for that medication he wouldn't be able to breathe on his own without those things. just with that much propofol there you stop breathing and you're going to need a breathing tube. what's so attractive about this medication? >> it's really been in the advent the last 10, 15 years. it is b

reporting from leesburg, jack n can benson. >> they were damaged by a two-alarm fire. hapted before 11:00 at the frank listen office park. the office park consists of townhouse type buildings. they say the blaze damaged at least six of those buildings. it took 75 firefighters to put out the fire. no one was injured. the cause is under gg. . >>> new today from the attorneys representing the family of a man shot to death by police in miami beach. he was walking along a miami beach sidewalk on vacation with his brother on june 14th when they were stopped by police. he was shot and killed by a police officer during that stop. today the attorneys for his family are releasing audio tapes from the night of the shooting. they say on the tape you cld hear police say we didn't find anything after the shooting. the attorneys say police were referring to a weapon, which they never found. they also say the police reportedly yelled at his brother after the shooting as he asked police about the brother. miami police say the officer involved believed he had something under his shirt.

i visited raf benson on monday to see the helicopters that will be deployed in the field by the end of the year with training of the crew being done immediately in america. look, as they move from iraq to afghanistan, i've got to explain. they're dealing with different terrain. they have got to be reequipped for the functions in afghanistan. they are dealing with heights and a different problem of temperatures and weather and the helicopters are being refitted for that purpose and the crew are having to be trained in different environments to be ready for afghanistan. we have also a helicopter budget that is going to be 6 billion over the next 10 years to improve our helicopters in the future. we are working with nato, who are providing through contracts, helicopters for the transit of equipment. and at the same time, we've created a helicopter fund that was our initiative and others of our allies are now contributing -- i think over the next period 11 helicopters to the allied effort in afghanistan. so we have done everything that we can to increase the number of helicopters and there

a 34-year-old is charged with ambush in those offices just before noon near ed benson and wilmore avenues. >> the good news is that the officers that were wounded in the shootout are on the mend. there were treated and released on friday. the 34-year-old needed a second surgery this morning. he will be there for a couple more days. that is the same hospital where the suspect is under police guard. >> baltimore city police tell all the news that the 34 year- old suspect shot the officers. he terrorized to women and fired shots into neighborhoods saturday before ambush in the officers who responded to the 911 call. >> to assault women is cowardice. to be running around the streets of baltimore is a mess. he backed it up with his cowardly acts. >> he was carted away in an ambulance after the gun battle that sent them to shop,. one of his injuries were so serious that he underwent a second surgery on monday. of the suspect remains under police guard at the hospital and we are told that the weapon is being analyzed and tracked by gun trace task force. >> these are individuals that should be be

jackie benson spoke with another couple that had a terrifying encounter with a man. >> he opened the door. all i saw was the barrel of the gun. >> reporter: the 26-year-old womawho asked not to be identified talks about the moment she and her husband walked to the door of the home expecting to be greeted by their 2-year-old son and the babysitter. >> the guy came out and told me to get in the ground. >> reporter: the couple noticed some police activity but they did not know they were in pursuit of an armed man who robbed a pawnshop. now he was in her house demanding money and car keys. >> he tied her up. he locked the door and put a wire around the door handle and tied it to the railing so she couldn't get out. my son was trooper about it. >> reporter: the suspect made the man place a false 911 call. >> he made me call 911 and report he was over near walmart so it would throw the police off to get out of the house. >> reporter: moments later he was able to text a relative and then call his boss. >> he said very quietly, listen to me carefully, there's a man in my house and he has a g

. >> comedian and marijuanus do benson stars in "super high me," aov that chronicles his pot smokingor 30 straight days. >> i agree that if you feel like it helps you in yo life and makes you el better, whether it's anxiety or depression or, you know, you just like it, i don't see why you shldn't have cess to it. >> when it ce to defining who ould have access to it, proposion 215, the 1996 ballot initiative that decriminalized medical marijuana california purposely left things vague. >> it list approximately ten condions but then it said or any condion agreed upon by the physician and the paent where cannabis coulde helpful. so that pretty much leaving it between the doctor and the patient,hich is where it longs. >> dr. alan frankel practid intern medicine for 26 years before dedicating 80% ofis practice to medical marijuana. inver two years, he says, he saw 3,400 patients. the age age? osto 50. >> some of these pients are, you know, ceos, there's noone demographic. i an, we have all the data. it's from everywhere, every income group, every ucion level. >> they come thim with a wide

but passenger john benson who shot this video says he was coughing up blood monday night and hivesoden loped severe hearing problems right after the incident. the jet made an emergency landing in charleston, west virginia. southwest airlines inspected more than 180 of its fleet tuesday. the same kind of plane involved here. the airline says all of the planes are safe. four months ago, southwest airlines agreed to pay more than $7 million to settle charges. that it flew planes that missed safety inspections. it is unclear what caused the plane to blow open. >> the national transportation safety review board will do a thorough examination as they do with any aircraft incident. >> it could take months to figure out what led to this scary ride. >> cbs news. >> scary stuff indeed. one passenger described how she focused on keeping her kids calm. >> we were seated about two rows back from the wing and about four rows back, you heard this loud rush and your ears popped and then we looked back and you could tell that part of the inside was trying to pull out. and it was crazy and oxygen masks

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. >> deep breath, benson. doing great. may feel a little burning, okay? >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> there's a reason for his heart rate increasing. >> his eyes closed. and what else? >> we look up here. he stopped breathing. this is watching, and he's not breathing. >> take a look over here. all the breathing right now is taking place with this bag and this mask. from that medication you wouldn't be able to breathe on your own without those things. you can see part of the problem. just with that much propofol there he stopped breathing. he's going to need a breathing the tube. >> easy. >> easy. >> what's so attractive about this medication? >> it's just basically a quick on, quick off. why people may think it's something they can do at home. if it gets out of hand it goes away quickly. if it gets out of hand and nobody is there to resuscitate you, nobody can bring you back. >> that was quick. you gave him the medication. he's gone from being completely awake to completely asleep. >> he's not breathing. i'm breathing fo

. >> reporter: jackie benson, "news4 today." >> t speed camera ticket is $40 and no points. >>> no more free parking at bwi. the airport used to allow people to park for free for 30 minutes. now that first half hour cost two bucks. an airport spokesperson says there's a cell phone lot waiting for someone to arrive but you have to stay with your car there. the change was made to raise revenue during the tough economic times. >>> vdot notified 600 employees they're out of a job. it's the first of more than 1,400 layoffs currently in the works to close a $2.6 million budget gap. construction projects have been slashed by more than a third over the next six years. >>> now to the latest on the controversial that sparked a national debate. the arrest of a black scholar in his own home. it all began with a 911 call. this morning we get a chance to hear the tapes. harvard professor henry lewis gates says his front door was jammed and he was trying to force his way into his own house. a passerby mistook it for a burglary. >> i noticed two gentlemen trying to get into a house and they had to barg

just getting word of a crash in halethorpe, benson avenue and sulfur spring road.n the lutherville/timonium area, all lanes blocked and the traffic light is out. expect park heights avenue to remain closed between greenspring valley and walnut because of the downed power lines. honeygo is closed between whitemarsh boulevard and campbell boulevard from the earlier crash. try using park heights avenue as an alternate there. fayette street remains closed between luserne and linwood. a crash with a police van. looking at the maps, no problems at the tunnels. looking good on 83. >>> "good morning america" continues with jfk jr.'s close confidant, speaking out for the first time, about the man behind the image. and his legacy, ten years after his death. >>> plus, a love triangle that captivated a country. mary jo buttafuoco join s us lie to tell us what she's doing now. and what she thinks about her husband and amy fisher. >>> beauty secrets on a budget. we send our makeup artist, maria, to the drugstore, for secrets on how to look fabulous without spending a fortune. >>

i visited raf benson on monday to see the helicopters that will be deployed in the field by the end of the year with training of the crew being done immediately in america. look, as they move from iraq to afghanistan, i've got to explain. they're dealing with different terrain. they have got to be reequipped for the functions in afghanistan. they are dealing with heights and a different problem of temperatures and weather and the helicopters are being refitted for that purpose and the crew are having to be trained in different environments to be ready for afghanistan. we have also a helicopter budget that is going to be 6 billion over the next 10 years to improve our helicopters in the future. we are working with nato, who are providing through contracts, helicopters for the transit of equipment. and at the same time, we've created a helicopter fund that was our initiative and others of our allies are now contributing -- i think over the next period 11 helicopters to the allied effort in afghanistan. so we have done everything that we can to increase the number of helicopters and there

passenger john benson shot this on his cell phone in monday night's airlines flight ended up making thelanding in west virginia. no one was hurt. and a southwest spokesperson says the cause of this tear in the fuselage is still not known. >>> well, she's got any aspirations to the white house in 2012, sarah palin's got ground to make up. 2/3 of her own party don't think that the governor is qualified to be president. that according to a cbs news poll. 33% of republicans surveyed said they think palin has the ability to serve effectively as president. that is down from 71% who said she was last fall. >> wow. >> big drop. >> big drop. >>> to a developing story that's taking place outside of philadelphia. we have the latest now in the fallout in this racially charged case of a swim club. as reported, a group of kids from a local day camp, mostly black and hispanic, say they were asked to leave the valley swim club because of the color of their skin and now the group is taking the case to federal court. althea wright is the director of the creative steps program and the group's attorney, al