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. >>> this is chris gordon in fredericksburgvirginia.uslim woman said she was denied service at this fast rt. when she refused to deliver her head scarf for religious reasons. >>> and they've gotten the stamp of approval from celebrities. do those >>> don't miss this new segment. ten-send soundoff. tomorrow morning, it starts at 5:00 in the morning. pat will be live at the honorer road commuter lot. i would get up at 5:00 just to see that. a transit worker in boston has en fired after he was caught on tape beating a customer. the passenger was stuart wilson. he said the transit worker gave them wrong directions and waste an hour and a half of his time. when he went back to tell her, she refused to give her name. he said he was trying to take her picture when she knock his phone out of his hand and started punching and kick him. she says he was belligerent and drunk. he says he had been drinking but he was f from drunk. the transit officials decided wilkerson may ha been aggressive by thrusting his cell phone in her face but she did overr

our live team coverage continues now with chris gordon at the courthouse. chris, you're an attorney. this jury has been deliberang again for two days now. in your experience, what does that tell you if anything? >> that the jury isorking very hard to reach a unanimous verdict. whether they find guandique guilty or not guilty, they have to, all 12 agree on a verdict. if even one disagrees, it could be a hung jury and no one wants that. they have a lot of circstantial evidence. it is in the jury room. they're looking at it. they're going over it. there are a lot of thing they don't have. no dna evidence. no murder weap. no official cause of death and no eyewitnesses. so they also may go over the testimony. do you have other questions? >> yes. how important is the testimony of armando morales? guandique's fmer cell mate who testified that guandique confessed to killing levy? >> reporter: his credi sbilt of utmost iortancto the prosecutioin this case. it is uncorroborated. they did not call another jail mate of, who was in thejail to corroborate the testimony of

this is chris gordon, news4. >> c.a.r.e. said it appreciates the strong statement issued but the woman tells news4 she's not satisfied. she said fast mart issued a news release but the company has not delivered a formal written apology. >>> coming up, 50 cats. >>> the comic strip offended so many people on veteran day that the creator is offering an apology. >>> and we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ [ dad ] yeah! [ cheers and applause ] [ male announcer ] achievement gets points for living life. earn pnc points for your credit and debit card purchase ♪ find out more at pnc.com/getpoints. pncfor the achiever ins all. >>> a woman who owns50 cats is being forced to get rid of them. neighbors gab to complain about a really strong odor comingrom her two bedroom apartment in knock ciy. the woman said she started without only two cats. she said she didn't mean to become a hoarder. thorities planto remove the cats from her apartment in stages. they'll be taken to an animal shelter for adoption. wow! >> doug, give us an upda on the weather fo

he has a translator. >> chris gordon, thank yo >> thank you, chris. >>> other news, police release ad sketch to help catch the suspect who may be coected to three sexual assaults in montgomery coty. the most recent attack happened on saturday. the investigators say a woman was dragged into a wooded area and raped. it happene near the aspen hill road and georgia avenue. that is the third sex assault to happen in this area since june. police release ad sketch today and also a surveillce pho of a possible suspect. the two men were reportedly responsible for the earliest attack but investigators think the man in the sketch may be involved in all three assaults. >>> breaking news. police in manassas, virginia, announced two arrests in the beating and stabbing of a 19-year-old at a shopping center last night. theictim survived. they believe the attacks were part of a gang war. the same one blame for the death of 15-ye-old miguel hernandez. he was attacked on his way home from osborn high school on friday. the students held a vigil for him this afternoon. >>> critics of the new tsa screening

chris gordon explains. >> reporter: the danger is greatest when students are getting on or off stoppedeterans drivers have seen too many close calls involving student or parents nearly hit by motorists speeding by. >> a student or aedestrian could have been struck. it could have been very horrific scene. somebody could get seriously maimed or even killed. but it happens a lot. i see it quite often. >> reporter: this sign posted by a middle school warns motorists it is unlawful to stop it from either direction. the law is the same. in virginia, the district, and here in maryland. >> montgomery county has replaced 96 buses with new one equipped with two on board cameras. one aimed at traffic behind. the other looking forward. when there is a violation, the driver hits a button to time code the video so school officials can review it. >> the swing air come out. you can see it travel past the front of the bus. soonts the lights come original you're supposed to stop. >> this video shows a school bus rolling a stop and an suv driving by. what happens to violators? their they get a warning le

news4's chris gordon has the latest n from a maryland truck stop along 95. chris? >>> good evening. eay reports in a newspaper and over the radio seemed to indicate that at least 1,300 drivers of tractor-trailers may be operating with license that's were suspended or revoked. this afteron the nba tells us, those reports may have been based on a misunderstanding. there are more than 4 million licensed drivers in maryland. of those, 170,000 car commercial licenses to drive trucks and big rigs. during a recent audit, the maryland nba had a computer software problem that apparently failed to identify commercial licenses that should have been suspended or revoked because of points that were not properly recorded on the licenses. the administrator sat down with us to clarify the situation. >> there was only 139 active cases identified through the routine audit by the offices. all 139 cases have been addressed and the appropriate revocation or suspension letters have gone out. >> reporter:hey then voluntarily went further, viewing more than more than 1300 cases. >> we've started reviewing

news4's chris gordon joins us live from greenbelt, maryland work the latest developments. >> reporter

. >> chris gordon, thanks so much. will bring you the verdict as soon as we get it to you. just stay with news 4 throughout the day and thanks for joining us. be sure to tune in later today forral all the latest on the case and i'll be back tomorrow morning at 4:30 with news 4 today. seyou tomorrow. [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable, and enjoying it less and less? stopr second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month for a year. and there's no term contract required. if you don't love os, you can cancel with no early termination fee. call now. it's your last chance to get this special bonus: over 110 premium channels including starz, showtime, fios gives you the be, superior picture quality and more hd, plus internet rated #1 in satisfaction, speed and reliability. why keep paying for cable? get fios tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month -- it's your last cnce to get over 110 premium channels free for 3 months. call 1.888.818.fios. call the verizon center for customers with disabilities that's 1.88

chris gordon joins us from u.s. district court in greenbelt with more. >> reporter: good evening. publicer is advance representing two of the proffers county branches of government have been arrested in less than a week. last friday was prince george's county executive jack johnson and today, three members of the county police force. fbi agents executed search warrants and arrested three prince george's county police officers and six civilians on corruption charges. i asked if this investigation is connected in any way to last week's arrest of county executive jack johnson and his wife leslie. >> we have ongoing right now, a series of related corruption investigations here in prince george's county. we're not going to talk about wh if any connections there might be among the investigations. >> reporter: this was the scene in laurel, maryland, at the home of prince george's county police sergeant richard delabrer who along withorporal chong chin kim is charged with conspiracy to commit extortion by interfering with commerce. the officers allegedly took payments from the owners of l

chris gordon is an attorney as wells a reporter here at news4 who has coverage many famous trials. let's talk about that cell mate. any indication from jurors how much of an impact he may have had during the deliberations? >> reporter: they were asked that question specifically. and they didn't answer directly them basically said that as a group, they have decided not to discuss the specifics of deliberations. and here's the legal analysis, and for our viewers. logically, you have to understand that this jury believed armando morales and his story, that a confession was made in jail. and that guandique told him he had killed chandra levy. otherwise there is no evidence putting guandique at the scene of chandra levy's murder. >> we didn't hear from him. he did not take the stand. mute we hear from him during the sentencing phase in this? >> reporter: you may well. when it comes to sentencing, a defendant is usually the last one ven the right to speak. he is asked, do you have anything you would like to say. quite often if there is any chce, the defense attorney will tellhem express

chris gordon, ns 4. >> the fda is expected to make a finding that caffeine is an unsafe food ditive to alcoholic beverages. it would issue letters to manufacturers, that marketing the beverages could be illegal. >>> marijuanpossession charges have been dropped against a prominent washington journalist and his wife, howard aaronsteen and his wife orly katz were arrested. a government witness failed to show up for a hearing on the case. the government could still file charges again. >>> a gruesome discovery in frederick county, maryland. highway workers found the body of an adult in a box near braddock mountain. the workers called state police. there was no i.d. with the body. >> homicide investigators right now are looking to any missing person's reports, in any neighboring states as well as asking for public assistance. if anybody saw anything unusual around that mile marker 48 in the last few days, please call the state police at the frederick barracks. >> authorities don't know w long the body has been there along the roway. >> a new report out on prince william counties controversia

just hours later, chris and his partner gordon were jarred awake from a dead sleep. >> really like shakingen all of a sudden everything started going dead. >> the engine fire had knocked out power. by the morning light confused passengers filled the deck. there was no more fine dining. this was the scene below inside the cabin, pitch black. >> some kind of insulation which has been showing up on the carpet. >> while the insulation fell, buckets were needed to catch the constantly dripping water, possibly from overflowing toilets. the floors were slippery. >> we came around one corner and there's this huge like a 90-year-old man had fallen flat on his back, laying on the glass on the marble. >> gill's mother never fell but the useless elevator led to problems. >> my mom is 82 and on the upper deck and she would have to walk up and down and up and down. >> another terrible feeling consumed gilbert soon after the fire. >> that was kind of the frightening part. there was no one around. the ship's just adrift. >> a feeling that went away. when help and food arrived. the men filmed this welcome

gordon and chris say the trouble all started early monday morning. >> all of a sudden there was kind of a, like a shudered and then the ship started to kind of vibrate. >> somebody came over the loud speaker says alpha team alpha team, you nope, report for duty or something. >> reporter: it sounds like something from a movie. >> very much. >> reporter: and then say say everything went dark. the fire knocked out the engines and the lights. and for a day and a half the toy lets. >> i think that and the rotting food smell because after you get the mayo sandwiches for the tenth time and you smell the rotting milk, you can't eat. and they only fed us sal lalds and fruits for awhile. >> reporter: without power, there were no fridges to keep the food fresh. no way to cook hot food either. and, no place to dispose of the food rotting in the kitchen. >> it was solid sandwiches they would put anything they could possibly have inside two pieces of bread. and, so, i don't think i want to have anymore sandwiches or salad for awhile. >> reporter: as soon as the toilets started working again, the m

many passengers, like gordon and his partner chris are treating it like a floating camping trip. >> it's been pitch black for ooefrl days and most of those folks have been up on the decks and a lot of them have been sleeping on the decks with their plan kepts and so on. >> a lot of people are upset that there's no coffee, because there's no hot waters. cold showers is not our idea of fun. >> reporter: and the tug boat breaks down? >> well, i -- >> reporter: coast guard captain tom ferris says one of the two tug boats did break down, leaving the boat with only one working tug, called the chihuahua. >> that tug is back onscene, as i understand it now. they're getting along at about seven knots. >> reporter: at that rate, the boat won't be back for another full day. and even then, this misbegotten voyage won't be over. carnival is madly snapping up every available hotel room and airline ticket, trying to get these people home. but diane, we're hearing now that the bar is open on board, presumably the drinks are on the house. >> presumably, yes. what a mess out there. thank you, david wright

court by eighteen points and the absence of starters chris kaman and baron davis the clippers got the game under control from the very beginning eric gordonscored twenty eight points including this way up to the sundries in front of twenty eight twenty one this side won all the quarters except the second one by the kings and school got opponents west single point lucky blake griffin adults twenty five points and fifteen rebounds how to take this rush to a one hundred points to enter to victory. everything to join. the other game of the night atlanta left washington no chance of beating the wizards by twenty points the home. meanwhile over to england and football where manchester united could go top of the english premier league at least for twenty four hours if they win at home to blackburn in one of eight matches on saturday so alex ferguson's side second only goal difference behind chelsea will go to new castle on sunday meanwhile if united failed to take three points they could believe felt by all still would also go talk if they win an aston villa in the early kick off in form bolton who faced a local dobby with blackpool everton welc