>> bruce leshan, 9news now. >> d. c. police say that suspect is carlos lopez jimenez. >>> well police say a 43-year- old suicidal man who complained about his job is now dead, shot and killed by police. all this happened this afternoon on the 7600 block of valley park road. that is in maryland. >> police say the 43-year-old called 911 around noon saying he was armed and wanted to take his own life when s.w.a.t. teams got there, the gunman stepped out of the house and waved his gun. several officers fired their guns and killed him. >> the rumors are that he is bipolar. >> this is the 14th police involved shooting in prince georges county and in what appears to be an unprecedented year, three of our officers have been shot. >> investigators aren't sure if the gunman fired his own weapon and how many times he was shot at by police. the several officers involved are right now on routine paid leave while they look at an internal investigation of exactly what happened. >>> well last night we first told you about a bold female

>> thank you very much, bruce leshan reporting live from bellefonte, pennsylvania. we want to let you know that bruce is the only local television reporter with a seat inside the courtroom. so, he will have live updates for us throughout the day. of course, beginning at 5:00 p.m. you can also follow the developments by going to our web site at wusa9.com. >>> montgomery county rescue crews are on the scene of a trench rescue. authorities say that a ride on bus hit a construction barrel and knocked a worker into a 16- foot ditch. this happened a short while ago, a mid county highway and washington grove lane in redland, maryland. authorities say the man suffered serious but nonlife- threatening injuries. >>> the virginia woman carjacked at gunpoint by ross ashley, the day before thursday's deadly shooting at virginia tech is now speaking out. joyce bennett rented an apartment to ross ashley. she said that he was never a problem until he walked into her office last wednesday, armed with a gun and demanded her car keys. >> he comes up to my desk right here and he says he

district court, bruce leshan, 9news now. >> the u.s. army expanding its test area for ground water contamination. the frederick county board of commissioners has agreed to let the army drill wells on county owned property right near that base. the army will conduct tests on 88-acres of land. that is the area between the main part of fort detrick. the army ran biological testing and dumped waste there. >>> most of the district's firefighters and ambulance personnel live outside of town. some live way outside of town. the fire chief is trying to change that. as bruce johnson reports, he's running into opposition from the union. >> this is bruce johnson in northwest washington. the question, does it make a difference where your neighborhood firefighter lives? 75% of d.c. fire department personnel live outside the city. some from as far away as west virginia, pennsylvania, north carolina, even new jersey. dc's fire chief says he can provide the same service for a lot less. he wants to eliminate the 24 hour shifts and replace them with 12 ho

bruce leshan, 9news now. >> a spokesperson for walter reid national military medical center says this matter is under investigation. so she could not comment on it specifically. here is good news. kendall's cancer is in remission right now. >>> a new york city man has now surrendered after a horrifying crime over the weekend. a woman set on fire in an elevator in brooklyn and it was caught on tape. you see the man with the container of flammable liquid. what you can't see is his helpless victim. a beloved tenant who was burned alive. neighbor heard her screaming. >> i smell smoke. i go back outside. i see smoke pouring out of the elevator. go back in my apartment and call 911. myself and someone on the 6th floor was knocking on doors, telling people there's a fire, get out, get out. >> investigators say the 47- year-old suspect reeked of gasoline when he turned himself in. the 73-year-old victim hired him for odd jobs. she fired him after he allegedly stole from him. >> from one awful caught on tape story to another scary one. a run away stadium cart injures several people after a hig

only on 9 tonight, bruce leshan has a troubling case.-year-old daughter of an iraq war vet allegedly hit with a massive overdose of chemotherapy at walter reid army hospital. >> i have leukemia. >> you have leukemia? >> yeah. >> other than a tube in her chest, three-year-old shows little sign of all that she's been through. >> who do we go visit on your make a wish? >> tinker bell. >> a year ago, doctors diagnosed her with leukemia and recommend add three week course of the potent chemotherapy drug. in one short 15 minute dose, medical workers at walter reid allegedly pumped kendall with more medicine than she was supposed to get over the entire three weeks. >> i was telling her one thing and my heart was saying something else. and i was praying to god that he let me have more time with her. >> it can severely damage your heart muscles even years later. and children particularly vulnerable. >> lobster red color. it looked like she was burning from the inside out. >> over the next few weeks, kendall was back in the hospital repeatedly. >>

as bruce leshan tells us, a decision from the fda could be the final chapter. >> plan b could soon be available along with aspirin and decongestants right out in the aisle. >> very safe. very effective. it should go over the counter because time is of the essence in making it work. >> taken within 72 hours of intercourse, plan b is an estimated 85% effective in preventing pregnancy. right now, it is available to women 17 and older without a prescription. but they still have to ask the pharmacist to go get it because teens 16 and younger need a doctor's order. susan wood quit the f-da during the bush administration because she felt the science behind the morning pill had been pushed aside by the politics of abortion rights. >> i'm really hoping that fda will do what it would normally do which is do its job and make a decision based on the evidence. right now, that means that this product, plan b one step will go over the counter for all women. >> critics have some problems with plan b. they say that it can act after fertilization and then that way, it is similar to using an abortion pi

bruce leshan reports on the frightening new world of car hacking. >> reporter: this is now gone way beyondetical. >> how can someone do this. >> reporter: a maryland family is convinced hackers got the electronics of their son's dodge charge er and stole it from the driveway while he was deployed in afghanistan. >> nathan loved that car. >> reporter: frightening to me the idea you can rolling at highway speeds and someone can remotely slam on the brakes. >> the potential exists. >> it's not like you have to worry that somebody is going to point the phone at your car. we're not there yet. but it's definitely something to keep an eye on. >> unlock. start. just about anything we would like to do. >> reporter: in san francisco, researchers accessed a central computer processor through an internet connected car alarm. >> every single one of these that we looked at led to a complete car compromise. >> reporter: in seattle, researchers blacked out the make and model of a car that offered multiple pathways for hackers a thousand miles away to send out gps coordinates, open the doors. >> so here we

finally testify publicly. >> reporter: i'm bruce leshan in belfont, pennsylvania.ped usky will be here and so will some of the young men see accused of abusing. the attorney for victim number one tells me the teenager is nervous but ready to testify. camera crews staged in front of the home where sandusky allegedly abused many of the boys during sleepovers in the basement. the former penn state coach

bruce leshan was in the courtroom as it all unfolded. >> i'm bruce leshan in pennsylvania.ky. former penn state football coach, jerry sandusky, decides at the absolute last second to cancel a scheduled preliminary hearing right here at the courthouse. jerry sandusky had been slated to be in court, confronted by the public testimony of at least five of the young men he allegedly abused. but within minutes, he

bruce leshan is here with news of thousands of postal service job cuts and a plan that would extend bya day the delivery time for nearly all of the first class mail. bruce. >> yeah, lesli, the postal service could lose $14 billion this year and its leaders say it can save billions by giving up its commitment to deliver cards, letters, movies, and prescriptions overnight. >> postal officials announced plans to shut nearly half of the services giant mail processing facilities. and to cut 28,000 jobs. those cuts mean virtually all letters that used to arrive in one day will now take two. and almost all letters that used to take two days will now take three. >> the overnight service commitment is causing this tremendous amount of excess capacity within our network. and we have to do everything in order to save this postal service. >> post office is struggling with the huge growth of e-mail and online bill pay. millions of messages that used to go through the mail are now handled electronically. the postmaster general wants to shut 3800 post offices and deliver the mail just five days a wee

i'm bruce leshan. a story coming up. >>> the washington, d.c. veterans affairs medical center and wusa9 salute all who serve at home and abroad this holiday season. >> hello, my name is lieutenant colonel jim wood. i'm in afghanistan. i would like to say happy holidays to my wife, sue, and my daughters and all my friends. hope to see you soon. >>> speculation is over. time magazine named the protester as the person of the year. in 2011, protesters didn't just voice their complaints, they changed the world. across the middle east that has spread to europe and the u.s. by the way, last year, facebook founder, mark zuckerberg. >> conservatives have been rallying against a war on christmas. we're talking about persecuted christmas carolers. bruce leshan has been looking into this. is there a battle against christmas? >> you know, some e evangelical christians think so. this has become a cultural wedge issues. on the left, there are just as many people who think this is a manufactured, ratings driven fantasy crisis. >> they start off by saying, oh go

bruce leshan will be the only local reporter inside that courtroom. he's live from penn state and he will be filing reports tonight beginning at 5:00 p.m. >>> occupy protesters out west are trying to shut down some of the largest ports in the country. they're marching on the port of oakland, along with those in anchorage, seattle, portland, los angeles, and san diego. protestors successfully shut down oakland's port last month. they cite a dispute between some port operators and longshoremen as a reason for the blockade. the action is considered the occupy movement's most traumatic gesture since police raids shut down most camps. >>> occupy protestors will likely cause some congestion on capitol hill today. protestors are marching from their encampment at mcpherson square and they're going to the headquarters of both republicans and democrats. the g.o.p. is on first street southeast at c street. the democrats are located at south capital street and d street. the march will begin about 3:00 this afternoon. >>> president obama is meeting with the iraqi

bruce leshan was back there in 2007. bruce, did the university do a bit better this time around? >> reporter: derek, it sure seems like it. here is the time line according to virginia tech police. the murdered officer radios in that he was is stopping a car at about 12:15. sometime after that, a man walks up to the officer and opens fire. panicked witnesses started calling 911 at 12:30 and just seven minutes later, 12:37, virginia tech sends out an alert, the first alert, to students, faculty and staff. gunshots reported, coliseum parking lot, stay inside, secure doors. ten minutes after that, 12:47, vt alert sent out a description of the suspect. a white male with a backpack. the university has put together at least eight different ways of warning students about situations like this. e-mail blast to all vt.edu accounts. electronic message boards in the classrooms. campus sirens and loud speakers. phone, text, desktop alerts and more. >> just a couple of minutes before 12:30 this afternoon is when the first call came into the police department. as i understand it from a witness w

fbi director robert mueller told bruce leshan he is hoping for more rest soon. >>> still to come, searching everywhere just for a little snow. what local ski resorts say they need mother nature to do to salvage what has been a snowless season. >>> but first fighting. the faa makes rule changes to make sure airline pilots are well rested. you'll want to know about that. that is coming up next. [ female announcer ] more people are using wireless devices... in more ways than ever. and our networks are getting crowded. but if congress frees up more wireless spectrum... we can empower more people to innovate... putting momentum behind our economy. and we can reduce the deficit... with more than thirty billion dollars paid by america's wireless companies. it's simple -- more spectrum means more freedom. for everyone. >>> you know, as you pack those bags for your holiday flight, you just might want to leave the knives and daggers alone. one passenger didn't do that and, well, they got stopped by the tsa. an agency spokesman says the officer found two of the ninja style daggers inside a hollowed ou

bruce leshan was the only washington television reporter in a courtroom. talk about a shocker when they canceled the hearing. >> reporter: yeah, no kidding. i mean, anita, you should have heard the reporters banging away on their laptops inside the courtroom trying to be the first to tweet it out. now attorneys for some of the alleged victims say waiving the hearing was an act of cowardism, but sandusky's lawyers say it was a tactic to avoid a hearing that was stacked against him. tight security, a mass of media, and jerry sandusky preparing to face the public testimony of five of the young men he is charged with abusing. >> stay the course. wait the opportunity to present our side. >> but the former penn state football coach failed to stay the course for this preliminary hearing. instead of listening while the young men detailed allegations of abuse, dating back to when they were 10 or 11 years old, sandusky's lawyer decided it waive the hearing, infuriating the attorneys for some of the alleged victims. >> he didn't want the boys to be heard or seen. >>

. >> reporter: bruce leshan, 9 news now. >>> fired head football coach joe paterno is not likely to attend the preliminary hearing. he's in the hospital after breaking his pelvis again and being diagnosed with lung cancer. >>> hundreds gathered on the virginia tech campus in blacksburg today for the funeral of campus officer dereik crouse. law enforcement officials, lots of them, honored their fallen brother killed in the line of duty on thursday. his colleagues spoke about him as a loving husband, father and a diehard pittsburgh steelers fans. virginia governor bob mcdonnell praised his commitment to being a lifelong public servant. >> without these sacrifices that derrick was willing to make, they're idle words on parchment and our freedoms are shallow. so thank you to the crouse family for this amazing sacrifice of love that you have given to your fellow 8 million virginians. >> crouse was making a traffic stop when a 22-year-old student at a nearby college walked up to his cruiser and shot him. the shooter, 22-year-old ross ashley then killed himself. crouse was also an iraq veteran an

in bellfont, pa, bruce leshan, 9news now. >> sandusky's decision caught the whole courtroom off guard. i am joined by criminal defense attorney, jim. a bold move, but was it the right one? >> yes, it was. this is a preliminary hearing. he would have lost. all the government has to show is that probable cause existed for trial to be had. so he would have lost. it's not beyond a reasonable doubt. this was a clever move because at the last minute, he waived the hearing, makes him look like he is saving these young men from the agony of testifying. >> but they still had to come. they had to gather. the town is ready. is there some level of theater that could end up hurts his case? >> definitely so. he could have waived this a week ago, a month ago. he wants to appear as he is the savior of these young men. he saved them from going on the witness stand. very dramatic. >> the prosecutors definitely surprised. you have been in that state. what would be your reaction to this? >> as a prosecutor, i would be disappointed i couldn't put my witnesses on the stand so that they could testify as to

our bruce leshan was in the pennsylvania courtroom for the proceeding. >> reporter: former penn statetball coach jerry sandusky decides at the absolute last second to cancel a scheduled preliminary hearing right here at the courthouse. jerry sandusky had been slated to be in court all day confronted for the first time by the public testimony of at least five of the young men he allegedly abused. but within minutes, he was back out of the courthouse. >> we'll await the opportunity to present our sides. >> his lawyers saw no advantage in airing even more of the sorted details of decades of alleged child sexual abuse. >> we're ready to defend. we've always been ready to defend. this is a fight to the death. this is the fight of jerry sandusky's life. >> lawyers for some of the alleged victims are furious, accusing the former football coach of icing the kicker. calling a timeout even as the alleged victims are just about to testify about some of the most horrible events of their lives. >> putting these kids through this is just a total disregard of them and further abuse. >> sandusky stan

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. >> bruce leshan, thanks very much. >>> sandusky and his lawyers made an abrupt decision to go ahead without a hearing. >> the small town with sports and closed streets shut down businesses to accommodate the media crush of the courthouse. scott broom reports the sheriff hasn't yet calculated how much the town might have saved if sandusky announced his decision ahead of time. >> it's a cost of good taxpayer's money. >> tiny belfont, pennsylvania, just 6,000 residents. invaded and occupied by a media army. the town reacted by closing two main streets. uncounted miles of cable, 200 registered reporters, uncounted crew, and onlookers with cameras. here is the sheriff now. is there any way to calculate how much this day costs? >> i guess we'll be able to do that when we have an after action discussion. >> swarmed with at least 90 state and local officers. many on overtime. all of this so jerry sandusky could get a preliminary day in court, which he abruptly decided he didn't want afterall. penn state student, p.j. is angry all over again. >> if i was the county sheriff, i would be upset.

may be called to testify in what he witnessed in a shower on the penn state campus. 9news now, bruce leshanill be the only local tv reporter in the courtroom. we'll have his reports coming up tonight starting at 5:00 p.m. >>> an internal affairs investigation is underway after d.c. police shot and killed a man last night in northeast washington. so far, police are saying the man refused to obey their orders to drop his weapon. 9news now reporter surae chinn is live at police headquarters with more from one of the suspects' friends. surae? >> well, detectives had been out at the scene all night long. in fact, they left about an hour ago, returned here to headquarters. this was a police-involved shooting. the suspect turned victim, actually died. he was shot to death by police. and the police chief, cathy lanier came out to the scene to talk about what happened. it was on the 5300 block of clay terrace in northeast off division avenue northeast to talk about what happened around 7:00 last night. she says that witnesses found a man who was high on drugs shooting at homes and refused to put dow

bruce leshan is live in the newsroom and says investigators here a gang of thugs may be targeting postal workers. >> there have been nearly a dozen armed robberies like this in the last year and a half and postal inspectors are desperate to stop these guys before somebody gets hurt. >> nervous at all? >> life goes on, i have 51 years. >> neither sleep nor rain nor the threat of postal service bankruptcy, an armed robbery will stop postal workers from their appointed rounds. the truck back in front of the post office, a day after another driver was held up at gunpoint. robbed of his packages and gift cards and the days receipts and then locked up in the back of the trunk. >> what was the guy doing? >> he is fine. he is shaken up, obviously, but he is fine. he was not injured, thankfully. >> merely a dozen times since august 2010, armed robbers have held up d.c. area post offices, postal workers, and postal trucks. inspectors are unsure what is going on. >> we are very concerned, obviously, we are not ruling out any possibility whether it is the same group of people or whether it's individ

our bruce leshan is also there. he will be covering today's hearing. the only local television reporter with a seat inside the courtroom. he'll have live updates for us tonight beginning at 5:00. you can also follow developments all day long on wusa9.com. >>> it is 6:20. next in sports, a basketball thriller at howard and a dud on monday night football. >> it is time before our break to check on the question of the morning. between the ages of 2 and 5, the average child does which one of these things, roughly 400,000 times? is it a, say no? b, ask a question. or c, start crying. >> our facebook friends always have something good to say. david writes what's that, what's this? we're guessing his question is b, ask a question. >> be right back. >>> how should here with your weather first on this frosty tuesday morning. once again, many temperatures down in the 20s. if you park outside, you know the drill. a couple of extra minutes to scrape the window. let's get you going with a look at the day planner. high clouds will mix in. more so this afternoon than