bringham said his son was acting out of self defense. >> he had no weapon. >> bringham says he slammed his dump truck against the giant wire against the jersey wall for a second time suspect poventud would not shoot him. poventud faces attempted murder and weapons charges. pamela brown, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> get ready for a rematch in the next maryland governor's race. former governor bob ehrlich will take got monometallic this fall. ehrlich made that decision about a month and a half ago. -- will take on martin o'malley this fall. o'malley said he welcomes the competition. >>> we have the latest on the toyota recalled. they will find out whether they will face dozens of lawsuits but whether they will all be consolidated. a panel of judges will decide. toyota has been hit with more than 100 lawsuits because of sudden acceleration problems. >>> still ahead, a cell phone crack down along maryland's ways. we will talk about the latest push to make drivers go handsfree. >> your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. at least one congressman says he is not worried about how

police arrested truck driver james bringham last nit. they charged him with attempted second degree murder for his involvement in the violent highway encounter. the road rage incident happened during tuesday's evening rush hour on southbound i-95 this is a picture of the father of that toddler. however james bringham was trying to merge on to the highway when he came upon another car. police say 25year-old gabriel povetund had his 2-year-old daughter in his jaguar at the time. they say both men were aggressively pursuing each other for miles. the truck hit the jaguar, then the father pulled out a gun and fired at the truck. povetund faces charges including child endangerment and attempted murder. one day later police decided to also charge bringham with a similar serious charge. now, both men are from woodbridge, virginia. this morning's hearing gets under way at 9:30. pat and joe, back to you. >> thanks. >>> well, if you see heightened security around the area t may be the navy's annual training exercises. the navy has those exercises t

bringham said his son was acting out of self-defense. perhaps he had no weapon. >> bringham said he slammed his truck into the jack wire for a second time so that poventud would not shoot him. poventud faces of weapons chges. pamela brown, abc 7 news. >> thank you. >>> get ready for it rematch in the next maryland governor's race. former governor bob ehrlich will take on more and o'malley this fall. ehrlich made that decision about a month and a half ago. ehrlich plans to officially announce his candidacy on april 7. o'malley welcomes the competition. >>> toyota will find out today whether it will face dozens of lawsuits or whether they will all be consolidated. a panel of judges will decide whether to combine these suits and where to send them. toyota has been hit with more than 100 lawsuits. there have been sudden acceleration problems. >>> 5:36. >> tiger woods is making its comeback complete. we will tell you when he faces his first press conference. >> i see people swerving. they are on the phone. >> maryland is now on a road to they

. >> 44-year-old james bringham charged with attempted murder and failure to stop at the scene of an accident. they pieced together in happened during tuesday's road rage incident on i-95 in woodbridge. he was originally charged with reckless driving. >> i'm thankful my son was not hurt. >> his father defended his son, saying he was acting of of self- defense when he slammed into a jaguar twice against the new jersey wall during rush hour. >> he pointed a gun at me. i ran him into the right guard rail. >> they say this father of three was trying to merge onto i-95 off road 123 when he encountered the jaguar. moments later they were pinned against the jersey wall. that is when pulled into it got out of his jaguar, leaving his two-year-old daughter inside and fired shots at the dump truck. poventud faces attempted murder and weapons charges parity would like to hire a lawyer for making the police. a preliminary hearing for james bringham is set for may 5. >> we are following breaking news from loudoun county. investigators are searching for two suspects that subtly assaulted a stranded

at bringham's home family members refused to answer the door. he's now being held without bond on the attempted murder charge along with poventud who remains locked up too. >> i'm hopeful everybody will get the message that if you do act like this, you're going to be charged and hopefully punished for what you've done. >> reporter: whether it's a gun or a car, both can be deadly weapons under the law. in manassas, sherri ly, fox 5 news. >>> coming up right here on the news edge at 11:00, the rules for tanning beds will be changing soon. you know about the risks. now the government is considering a crackdown. who would be banned from the beds? >>> the octomom has never been one to shy away from controversy. now she's getting recognized officially. she was named the most controversial mom according to babble.com. kate gosselin and sarah palin weren't far behind. check out the top ten including britney spears at number seven. stay with us. we're back after this. ♪ vo: this season, your homean look like a picture in a magazine with the better homes

bringham says his son was acting t of self-defense. >> i do not fault him for what he did. he had no weapon. >> that was pamela brown. bringham now faces attempted murder and reckless driving charges and gabriel also faces several charges including attempted murder and child endangerment. the metro board expected to approve a contract for hundreds of new railcars, the so-called 7000 series that are crash -- more crash worthy. the new cars are expected to cost $2 billion. 64 of the new cars will be used for the metro rail extension to dulles airport. and they are showing off a new piece of equipment designed to get first responders on the scene of an emergency quickly. it is a battery-operated mobile emergency response vehicles, and they come in pieces and can be installed in just three minutes. the transit agency says they can run anywhere along metro tracks and natural used a grant from homeland security department to buy 26 of these vehicles. we'll be back at 7:56 a.m.. >>> could you imagine catching thieves on tape robbing your house. and then realizing that thief is one

. >> and we were unable to reach the trucker, james bringham and the stepfather believes the son wasaking in self-defense. he has been ordered held without bond until he can meet with the court-appointed attorney. brian. >> paul wagner, live in the newsroom. >>> as the -- has the serial bank band it struck again? that is the suspect and this time, he went after a bank customer, not the teller. the latt robbery happened in the 8700 block of centerville road, the seventh in monasses since november and there have been a handful in fairfax county as well. they working on the possibility that there might be two serial lovers in that area. >>> a new approach to a bank robbery in connecticut. the pair of suspects called ahead of time and that gave employees the time to get -- the would-be robber's arrested when they showed up. >>> after admitting to being professional shoplifters on national television, that california husband and wife will serve time. the wife was sentenced to a year and day, arrested last september after an appearance on the dr. phil show where they bragged about their escapad

. >> reporter: the driver of the dump truck is 44-year-old james bringham. he's been charged with wreckless driving. state police say that it's a miracle no one was hit by the gun fire on the highway. so far, they have no reports of even a vehicle being hit other than the truck. state police say that there might be further charges. gabriel is being held without bond until he can meet with his court-appointed attorney. will. >> paul wagner live in the newsroom. thank you. >>> aaa is warning a surprising number of upset drivers end up actually grabbing a gun. their numbers show in road rage cases, 37% of offenders used firearms against other drivers. 1500 people a year are killed or hurt in road rage cases. the harvard school of public health reports e drivers carrying guns are far more likely to be involved than those who don't. >>> the president may have signed healthcare into law. the senate is in the second day of debate on the second piece of the reform package, the reconciliation bill, about 150 peoples of changes. they're intended to resolve the problem

. >> the dump truck driver is james bringham of woodbridge.h attempted murder because he did hit the car. during this wild scene the 2- year-old daughter was in the backseat. >>> and an arrest in connection to a gang street rape. this happened in alexandria. the victim was with two friends inside a vacant apartment. now according to court documents, three gang members burst in and threatened the girls with a baseball bat and then repeatedly raped the 16- year-old. one of the suspects was picked up at his home where police found jewelry stolen from the victim. >>> investigators may never know why a woman was shot and killed in fairfax county yesterday. she was killed as she sat in a car on orinda court. the person that killed her, killed himself later. he had recently gotten out of jail. as police closed in on him, he drove to his family's apartment and killed himself. >>> someone beat a teenager to death with a baseball bat in a park and his killer is still on the loose. >>> well it's a type of baby carrier that has grown in popularity but now