chris gordon is in gaithersburg at the scene of a candlelight vigil tonight. >> reporter: this is chrisg at the house where marie gemmell and her two young sons were killed by a yet that crashed monday. and as you see, a small memorial the flowers out front.jyet that. and as you see, a small memorial the flowers out front.et that c. and as you see, a small memorial the flowers out front. tonight a large group is expected at a vigil, the community coming out to pay their respects. >> when i first passed the street once they opened it up for school, i had to pull over. i just got hysterical crying. i cannot believe what has happened. this week the community has donated christmas gift, clothing and school supplies for the family. but now it must turn to the sad task of planning the funerals. chris gordon, nbc 10 news. >>> also tonight, in ocean county, marie gemmell's friends will host a toast to marie. it will be held at river rock. >>> the golden nugget is threatening to sue over a tax plan. they say they are unfairly hurting smaller gaming halls. the nugget's owner plans to go to court

>> reporter: this is chris gordon at the shade,grove transfer facility. there is where trucks come to dump trash and recycled is materials. this morning picketters demonstrated outside the headquarters in laurel maryland. they've ben strike since last friday. the union said negotiations over the first contract have stalled. meanwhile, replaceme workers are on the unity truck making mickups of trash and recycled materials at 20,000 households in howard county and 12,000 residents in montgomery county. some of the strikers indicated to us that the replacement trash haulers were day laborers who were hired from convenience store parking lots or school bus drivers on holiday, but montgomery county officials say that is not the case. >> unity owns a number of sister companies. it's not the only trash company that they own. my understanding is they are bringing drivers and helpers in from some of their other companies. >> we asked some of the residents in wheaton to rate their trash pickup today. >> it was normal to me. it might be a little bit later than some

from waldorf, maryland chris gordon news4. >>> "news 4 at 4:00" a murder fist in hyattsville after a man was found den in his own home. police got the call just before 8:00 this morning. when they arrived they found the man unresponsive. they pronounced him dead on the scene. poli have yet to release his name. they are working now to determine a suspect and motive. >>> as the sunrises over indonesia right now dozens of military divers are getting ready to search for the bodies of victims and debris from the airasia fligdisappeared over the weekend. several bodies have been recovered from the waters. the u.s. military has sent in a destroyer. the uss samson from the south china sea to help with the effort. some officials are still holding out hope that crews will find survivors. more on that coming up in the next half hour. >>> right now former president george h.w. bush is out of the hospital and back home. he was released from houston's methodist hospital today. a family spokesperson says he's quote grateful to the doctors and nurses for their superb care. president bush was rushed

our chris gordon has our report. >> reporter: chopper 4 followed the thin blue line of motorcycles and patrol cars from across our region driving through waldorf, maryland. corporal jamel clagett is being remembered as a passionate officer, protecting innocent by standers from harm helping anyone in need and once paying from his own pocket for a hotel room for a homeless person. corporal jamel clagett was 30 years old and was known for acts of kindness. on sunday morning december 21st after working the midnight shift he brought breakfast tore the communicatio sta before driving home. he was killed when his car hit a tree. >> corporal clagett was a very compassionate indi >> repor near the end of the ceremony there was one final police radio call made to corporal clagett. ap 447, your watch has ended. you are gone but will not be forgotten. >> as a dispatcher hearing that last call it's a lifeline and not hearing him respond, it's really sad. >> reporter: corporal clagett leaves behind a loving family including a brother who serves with the prince george's county police department truly

news4 chris gordon was there. >> reporter: a bagpiper played "amazing grace." there was a 21 gun salute. five helicopters flew overhead with one veering off making the missing man formation. it began with a long thin blue line chopper 4 following police motorcycles and patrol cars from across our region driving through waldorf, maryland to st. peter's church where a caisson brought the casket of jamel clagett. >> he went and took breakfast to our communication personnel, our dispatchers before securing for his midnight tour and, unfortunately, on his way home he didn't make it there. >> reporter: in king george virginia corporal clagett's patrol car hate tree. sergeant chris smith leads the honor guard. his team worked tirelessly to make everything run perfectly so corporal clagett's family would know what he means to the sheriff's office. >> we had come to grow to love him so much and respect him so much as a person. he was one of those guys that would come in the room and you always felt good being around him. >> reporter: near the end of the ceremony there w

our chris gordon was in attendance for the swearing in of that county's first black sheriff. his name is troy barry. >> according to the constitutional laws of this state -- >> according to the constitution and the laws of this state. >> congratulations, sheriff barry. best wishes to you. >> reporter: history is made as troy barry becomes the first african-american sheriff here. >> there is a single reason why i entered the political race to be sheriff of charles county, maryland. i was not trying to make history. i was trying to make a difference. >> sheriff barry, hugging family members, crediting his wife for helping him decide to run. >> and i told him, i felt he was the right man at the right time for the right job. >> reporter: at a time when race relations and demonstrations focusing on ferguson, missouri, dominate news headlines, i asked sheriff barry how that will influence his thinking as he runs the charles county sheriff's office. >> i think a law enforcement entity should be reflective of the community, not specifically black officers. we are underserved in the a

news4's chris gordon spoke with them. >> reporter: using a crow bar, three men break into this apartmentn euclid street northwest at about noon the day before thanksgiving. by the time they left, computer gear, electronic equipment, clothing and watches were missing. this video was taken with a camera the tenant, tommy rossman, had placed on a shelf. when he discovered the break-in, he used his iphone to trace the ipad mini that had been stolen. >> i was able to track them to three different locations where they spent an amount of time and we're hoping the police detectives would be able to immediately check that out. but they never showed up. >> tommy's roommate followed the tracking device to a cul-de-sac in prince george's county. >> on the video, there is a gentleman with a pretty distinct gray hat. and i saw a gentleman with a very similar gray hat. >> reporter: after about ten minutes, the men in the apartment found and ripped out the hidden camera. but it had already done its job, taking close-up pictures of the three men d.c. detectives call persons of interest. they are asking a

in northwest washington, chris gordon, news4. >> all right.ngs are about to take a very cold turn. doug, break it to us gently. >> they have already done so. the nose dive is happening right now and you can see that if you just take a look outside or if you just step outside. take a look outside right now. you can see the cloud cover across our region. we had some pretty heavy rain come through the d.c. metro area earlier. temperatures down to 64 now, but down to 59 by 7:00. down to 49 by 11:00. so yeah, we're going to get windy and rather chilly. and we have already seen winds gusting over 30 miles per hour in some areas as this front continues to move through. notice the temperature difference. 66 in camp springs. 50 degrees back towards leesburg, and look at this, a 13-degree temperature difference between leesburg and rockville. rockville and gaithersburg and 11-degree temperature difference, the cold air trying to make its way in here and in the 40s toward the west. the first round of rain made its way through portions of the area. right

news 4's chris gordon joins us he's live at a transfer station with more on the strike's impact. chris? >> wendy, this is where the trucks come to dump the trash and recycled materials. yes, i am required to wear the safety gear to be here. our mission today was to measure the impact if any of the trash haulers strike on montgomery county r. in the predawn darkness union trash haulers picketted at the entrance of unity disposal in maryland. they say negotiations on the first-ever contract have stalled. [ chanting ] >> howard county issued a statement apologizing for any delays in trash pickups at the 20,000 households that unity serves. in montgomery county there are 12,000 unity customers. we followed thinks workers in the neighborhoods border article and your evaluation? >> i didn't see them pick it up but it's gone, so . i think 24eshd get a decent wage myself. >> reporter: this is the tipping room at the shady grove facility in durwood, maryland. this holiday week between christmas and new year's always has the heaviest amount of trash. if your trash pickup is missed or if you

. >> reporter: this is chris gordon at the shady grove processing facilities and transfer station in duralwood, maryland. this is where trucks come to dump trash and recycled materials after they leave your neighborhood. >> what do we want? [ chanting ] >> they demonstrated in laurel maryland this morning. they've been on strike since last friday. the union says that negotiations over their first contract have stalled. meanwhile, replacement workers on the unity trucks making pickups of trash and recycled materials at 20,000 households in howard county and 12,000 residents in m. the timing is challenging, because the holiday season always has the heaviest amount of trash, but officials with the montgomery county division of solid waste say they are getting it all picked up with minimal delays. >> we got our trucks out on time this morning. all drivers have trucks and drivers and helpers, so we expect other than the usual, because this is the heaviest week of the year trucking will probably be running a bit later because of that but we don't expect there to be any unusual delays. >> r

this is chris gordon with reaction from the community, ahead. >>> a motorcade going by on gw parkway.ctures there. that's the motorcade that is snarling traffic in a lot of areas tonight. >>> today marks ten years since brian williams took over as anchor and manager of editing at "nbc nightly news." only two anchors have sat behind the desk in the past 60 years. before williams it was tom brokaw. millions will thank him for decades of support during the broadcast and stay tuned for a surprise from jimmy fallon. >>> more evidence of a shift in the hopping holiday landscape. walmart is calling the five-day period between thanksgiving and cybermonday the new black friday. the retail giant says customers viewed more than 1.5 billion pages on its site over those five days. and get this, a whopping 70% of that traffic came from mobile devices. cybermonday alone was walmart.com's biggest sales day in history. overall, yesterday was the nation's busiest online shopping day of the year with sales up about 8% from last year. >>> four teenagers are in jail charged with hitting a bus driver with

played and the way they bottled up melvin gordon, who is a heisman front runner, along with marcus mariota, i think they made a very strong impression tonight. >> chris: if you're right, and i think many would agree you'd have four different conferences represented, four different conference champions, tcu and became lorre considering themselves conference champions. there is no doubt in the acc. the dr. pepper acc championship once again belongs to florida state. you the want to be tuned in tomorrow at 12:30 eastern time when the bracket is announced over on espn. for kirk and heather and our entire production team all season long, chris fowler, so long from charlotte. here's chris cotter and the ford wrapup. the. >>> thank you, chris. ford wrapup show, chris cotter here in bristol. championship saturday. what a day it was. where do begin? well, we got to begin somewhere. so, let's start with the big ten. ohio state, wisconsin. ohio state down to their third string quarterback. urban meyer, confident in cardale jones and why not? here he is, second quarter, finding devin smith. 44 yards for the score. ohio state up at that point, 24-0. time winding

chris reason there with some of the sights in that cafe. well, joining me now from our newsroom is our security correspondent gordon carrera. what information do you have about who this gunman could be? it seems that from monitoring, there isn't huge amounts of traction on the jihadi websites. >> that's right. we do think he's known to police and media in australia. he may be someone with an established track record in some way of some kind of unusual behavior. but it's interesting that neither the police nor the media are saying much about that, and that reflects a wider decision i think not to give him too much publicity at this moment to try and control the situation, to give those who are doing the negotiating as much leverage as possible in terms of the way they talk to him. we know, for instance, there have also been demands made by the hostage-taker and videos that he's put out, and he's tried to get in contact and put those out to the media directly, and the police have asked for those not to be broadcast at this point. it's, again, part of the police and the authorities trying to control the situation as much as po