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craig melvin, news4. >>> general safety offials voted today to ban all drop side cribbs. those cribs have been very popular because of amovable side rail that allows easy access to babies. but on some cribs, that rail becomes loose, and that could chop a baby's head or neck. over 30 babies ha died in the last ten years. the ban resicts the use of making them. daycare centers have a year to buy new cribs. >>> coming up tonight, mayor berry's car stolen. more trouble for the metrodome. we'll tell you why. a huge fire in downtown baltimore, and michael vick says he wants a new dog. how about sports, dan? going to squash those rumors. none too pleased with his buddy cliff lee who signed with the phillies. plus the capitols p it all on here's to the believers. the risk-takers. the visionaries. the entrepreneurs... who put it all on the line to build and run their own businesses. at at&t, we know something about that. our company started out in a small lab, with not much more than a dream. and today, we know it's small businesses that can create the jobs americneeds. that's why
craig melvin, news4. >>> general safety offials voted today to ban all drop side cribbs. those cribs have been very popular because of amovable side rail that allows easy access to babies. but on some cribs, that rail becomes loose, and that could chop a baby's head or neck. over 30 babies ha died in the last ten years. the ban resicts the use of making them. daycare centers have a year to buy new cribs. >>> coming up tonight, mayor berry's car stolen. more trouble for the...
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news4's craig melvin has their story. >> we're excited. >> reporter: d.c.'s best junior pee wee team returned sunday to show off their new hardware and watch the redskins game together. >> who is out? >> they were still beaming. >> it is amazing to be the first team from washington, d.c. to wi the super bowl. >> reporter: while they won in florida this time, for the 19th straight blowout, this was not the first time that the beale acon house falcons have played in a grand stage. >> we played in the championship. we were thinking about going to florida. >> reporter: parents and coach were just as proud of the chance. >> i'm happy because they committed themselves to this goal and they achieved it. >> reporter: and the coach hopes another lesson came to life. they thanked the washington redskins for the new field they provided. one plar even offered some vice to albert haynesworth. >> i have a little bit like anger issues sometimes. so keep his head in the game. and if he keeps his head in the game and his practice, he might become, might ben the redskin' squa
news4's craig melvin has their story. >> we're excited. >> reporter: d.c.'s best junior pee wee team returned sunday to show off their new hardware and watch the redskins game together. >> who is out? >> they were still beaming. >> it is amazing to be the first team from washington, d.c. to wi the super bowl. >> reporter: while they won in florida this time, for the 19th straight blowout, this was not the first time that the beale acon house falcons have...
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craig melvin has their story from gaithersburg. >> reporter: cortavia and her sister had just fallen asep. when she awoke the next day she had one question? >> where's jasmine. >> reporter: mother angela was in the front seat. she was also in the hospital when her brother came in with the news. >> when he started crying i was like, youe not lying? he said no. she jus closed her eyes. >> reporter: 10-year-old jasmine killed by a drunk driver. 32-year-old michael eaton of fairfax had 17 coronas and 3 shots. then he hopped into his range recovery and headed sth on 270. he was driving somewhere between 88 and 98 miles per hour when he slammed intohe car. eatonpled guilty to vehicular this is and leaving the scene of the accident involving injury. he is serving a prison sentence. now the family wants to punish the bartha served them. lawyers on behalf of the family said the ale house should be held responsible for jasmine's death. andrew bettman admits it's a long shot because maryland is one of ght states that bars and restaurants can't be held civilly liable. >> they will exercise bette
craig melvin has their story from gaithersburg. >> reporter: cortavia and her sister had just fallen asep. when she awoke the next day she had one question? >> where's jasmine. >> reporter: mother angela was in the front seat. she was also in the hospital when her brother came in with the news. >> when he started crying i was like, youe not lying? he said no. she jus closed her eyes. >> reporter: 10-year-old jasmine killed by a drunk driver. 32-year-old michael...
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news4's craig melvin has the story. >> reporter: if you spent any time in downtown d.c., you have seen> t of them are veterans. they worked hard for a long time ask came up on hard times. and they drink too much. and here they are. and it is tough to get out of this oncyou are in it. >> reporter: for many of the roughly 6,000 homeless that live and sleep on the streets of the nation's capital, this is the dinner bell. >> 365 days a year, christmas, thanksgiving, new year's, we are out here feeding them. >> reporter: workers and volunteers set u six times a night, intersections around the city, and the hungry when wait and line up and get nervous when they are late. and the 25 years they have been feedg the salvation army estimates it served about 875,000 meals. that's a lot of food and a lot ofmoney. the program costs about $125,000 a year. major steve morris recalls meeting the man who wanted to help. >> came out and saw it and said i'm shaped by a mother that insisted he share. beyond the simple genuine desire to just do something good, something else fields his work, his ith. hes a
news4's craig melvin has the story. >> reporter: if you spent any time in downtown d.c., you have seen> t of them are veterans. they worked hard for a long time ask came up on hard times. and they drink too much. and here they are. and it is tough to get out of this oncyou are in it. >> reporter: for many of the roughly 6,000 homeless that live and sleep on the streets of the nation's capital, this is the dinner bell. >> 365 days a year, christmas, thanksgiving, new year's,...
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craig melvin, news4. wendy, back to you. >> thank you, craig. >>> still ahead in our broadcast, firefighters dive into a freezing pondto save a woman stuck in an suv. >>> a professional driver clips one car after another and another and another and another on the way to dulles airrt. and a winter blast proves too much for rescuers in the midwest. wendy, what you got? >>> they reported losing, the redskins down right disgusted. also the coach will pay a heavy price for [ mom ] my son only wanted one toy this year. i want a robosan 4000. [ mom ] the one no one could get. toy stor are reporting long lines and empty shelves. a robosan 4000. [ mom ] and i mean no one. so i did mosof my holiday shopping on citi specials. with the money i saved, i bid online -and got exactly what he wanted. -a robosan 4000! [ television ] introducing the new robosan 5000. [ mom ] at leasfor now. [ male announcer ] make your happy holiday stors come true with citi specials. what's your story? citi can help you write it. come cele
craig melvin, news4. wendy, back to you. >> thank you, craig. >>> still ahead in our broadcast, firefighters dive into a freezing pondto save a woman stuck in an suv. >>> a professional driver clips one car after another and another and another and another on the way to dulles airrt. and a winter blast proves too much for rescuers in the midwest. wendy, what you got? >>> they reported losing, the redskins down right disgusted. also the coach will pay a heavy...
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craig melvin, news 4. >>> a virginia doctor is is accused of molesting two of his patients. the doctor's name is mohammed nizar ussein. police say he touch a woman inappropriately in this woodbridge, virginia, office. he's also accused of kiss ago 54-year-old patient in his office back in october. hussein was arrested on charges of sexual battery and assault. he's been released on h own reing so nizance. a court date is set for january. >>> investigators now say they know where last week's massive fire in downtown baltimore started. now they're looking for who started it. atf agents say the five-alarm fire in the city's adult entertainment district was set by a person. they say it started in a video boh inside an adult bookstore. investigators aren't sure if the person who set the fire was trying to cause harm or just trying to stay warm. two strip clubs and that bookstore were destroyed. several city offices were also damaged. >>> former british prime minister tony blair is in d.c. today to speak on how america and other countrie can help countries in africa. blair will spe
craig melvin, news 4. >>> a virginia doctor is is accused of molesting two of his patients. the doctor's name is mohammed nizar ussein. police say he touch a woman inappropriately in this woodbridge, virginia, office. he's also accused of kiss ago 54-year-old patient in his office back in october. hussein was arrested on charges of sexual battery and assault. he's been released on h own reing so nizance. a court date is set for january. >>> investigators now say they know...
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good sunday, everyone, i'm craig melvin. temperatures continue to drop tonight which could create major hazards on the highways. and tonight's only the beginning of another cold snap. we have team coverage for you. we start with chuck bell. he's standing by theeather center with more of what's in store. hi, chuck. >> yes, indeed. the cold air ison the other side of the appalachian mountains. it will start to move over the area later onight. still not terribly coldn downtown right now, 43 degrees in washington, 37 culpepper, 37 in winchester but 26 in elkins and 19 degrees out in eastern kentucky. windchills are heading down into the single digits out there with light snow showers a flying. cold and breezy, flurries, 25 to 30 for the kids at the bus stop in the morning. wine chills in the teens. that's just the binning more on how much colder it will get coming up. >> while crews are busy preparing the roads for the icy ather, some in our area have already faced major travel headaches thanks to the weather out west. darcy spe
good sunday, everyone, i'm craig melvin. temperatures continue to drop tonight which could create major hazards on the highways. and tonight's only the beginning of another cold snap. we have team coverage for you. we start with chuck bell. he's standing by theeather center with more of what's in store. hi, chuck. >> yes, indeed. the cold air ison the other side of the appalachian mountains. it will start to move over the area later onight. still not terribly coldn downtown right now, 43...
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craig melvin has the details on what happened at the hearing. >> reporter: a few days ago, there was talk that attorneys for george huguely, yeardley love's on again, off again boyfriend, might be close to reaching a dl with prosecutors. those same attorneys asked for yeardley love's medical records. the defense team hopes to prove that huuely's actions, while trauma, did t cause her death. at a hearing today in charlottesville, the attorneys called a former examiner testified that yeardley love had an abnormal heart condition and because of that, she likely died from a lack of okay generxygen brain. the doctors said that love's medical records could answer several questions including, did she suffer from chronic shortness of breath? did she have frequent chest pain? was she chronically tired? was she on medicine that might have caused an abnormal heartbeat? meanwhile, the current medical examine here performed the autopsy on love's body conclud she died from blunt force trauma to the head. prosecutors are calling the defense's request a fishing expedition but the chlottesville judge
craig melvin has the details on what happened at the hearing. >> reporter: a few days ago, there was talk that attorneys for george huguely, yeardley love's on again, off again boyfriend, might be close to reaching a dl with prosecutors. those same attorneys asked for yeardley love's medical records. the defense team hopes to prove that huuely's actions, while trauma, did t cause her death. at a hearing today in charlottesville, the attorneys called a former examiner testified that...
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news four's craig melvin reports. >> reporter: a few days ago there was actually talk that attorneysonagain off again boyfriend were close to reaching a deal. today those same attorneys asked the judge for yeardley love's medical records. the defense team hopes to prove that huguely's actions, while traumatic, did not cause her death. at a hearing in charlottesville, huguely's attorneys called a former chief medical examiner who testified that yeardley love had an abnormaheartbeat and because of that condition she likely died from a lack of oxygen to the brain. the examiner who testified had access to e autopsy results, including some detailed photographs. the doctor said that love's medical records could answer several questions. among them, did she suffer from chronic shortness of breath. did she have frequent chest pain? was she chronically tired? was she on medicines that might cause an abnormal heartbeat? meanwhile, the current chief medical examiner who performed the autopsy on love's body concluded that she died from blunt force trauma to the head. prosecutors are calling the
news four's craig melvin reports. >> reporter: a few days ago there was actually talk that attorneysonagain off again boyfriend were close to reaching a deal. today those same attorneys asked the judge for yeardley love's medical records. the defense team hopes to prove that huguely's actions, while traumatic, did not cause her death. at a hearing in charlottesville, huguely's attorneys called a former chief medical examiner who testified that yeardley love had an abnormaheartbeat and...