thanks, doreen. 9:29. >>> still ahead, a local teen is found dead in the middle of the road, apparently killed in a car accident. why authorities are even more stunned with what happened to his friend. >>> and it's one of hollywood's biggest nights. we'll have a sneak peek at some of the favorites to win at tonight's "golden globe" awards. i want a baby. a baby? but we were gonna see the northern lights in alaska. and go spelunking with the guys. yeah, i said it-- spelunking. [ whirring ] and i still haven't built one of those fighting robots. come on. it's pretty awesome. okay. just a few things we need to do first. [ laughs ] [ announcer ] before you make your leap, make a list. then get going in the completely redesigned cr-v. all new, from honda. >>> welcome to "news 4 today." i'm angie goff. >> and i'm chris gordon. right now, 9:32. here's a look at our top stories this morning. the man suspected in a series of home invasions in maryland is behind bars this morning. kevin ray was arrested in kit

doreen gentzler is there live with special athletes. we have great guests all over the place, doreen. >> reporter: we do. one thing really good about the nbc4 health and fitness expo is the opportunity to try some things you might not otherwise have an opportunity to try. this is the booth for the national rehab hospital. our friends from rehab have made it possible for people to come down here and try out wheelchair basketball, whether you're able-bodied or not. you can see, it's a bit of a challenge. these are folks who work for national rehab hospital, who are giving us a demonstration. but you can come down and try it yourself. you can also check out something called the zero gravity treadmill. this is amy davis. you're with national rehab hospital. tell me what people can do if they come and visit you. >> sure. right now, we're showing people wheelchair basketball. you can get in the chair yourself and try it out. we also have a demonstration with the quad rugby team coming down at 1:00. it's a contact sport they're in wheelchairs

doreen? >> that's right. i have a report coming up on what people can expect when they come down here and join us. and vance and doug, i've got some issues with these new card board people they made. obviously they do not realize what a tall, imposing presence i really am. that's coming up. >>> you might have heard that the 19th annual nbc 4 health and fitness expo is almost here kicking off tomorrow morning at the washington convention center. >> doreen gentzler down there with more on what you can expect. what's up, partner? >> it is a little hard to miss the information that we are having the health expo here at the convention center this weekend. but you know, people may not have a sense of exactly what is going to be available this weekend and so that's why we want to share some more information. a whole lot of free medical tests are available. that is the most important thing that happens here this weekend. free testing for high blood pressure and kidney disease, screening for all kinds of things. and a

doreen explains what to watch out for in "news4 your health." >> it's a miserable week, coughing nonstop. just not -- no energy at all. >> feeling horrible, feeling achy, just everything. all the stuff that comes with the season. >> so far this year, doctors say they haven't seen many cases of the flu. at the health system in virginia, physicians say there's been about 15 cases each month since flu season started. >> flu hasn't hit yet. flu, our experience with flu right now is that it's kind of flat. and it's going to tick up shortly. >> reporter: dr. john howell, a physician at the pediatric emergency room said he expects flu cases to spike by the end of january. right now, though, he's seeing lots of kids coming in with bronchialites, an infection in the lungs that typically affects babies age 2 and under. >> the illness lasts usually up to about two weeks. it's cough, a little bit of wheezing, maybe some trouble breathing, runny nose, fever. >> reporter: he said he's seeing 15 cases of bronchialites a day in the pediatric e.r. in adults, doctors are seeing respiratory viruses that ar

doreen gentzler is already down at the convention center getting a sneak peek. >> hey, doreen. what's going on? >> reporter: hey, pat and jim. i'm thinking mrs. obama ought to come down here to the convention center and join us this weekend. we'll have all kinds of dancing and fitness and healthy food information and ways to fight obesity, childhood, and every other kind of obesity. so mrs. obama should be coming on down here to the d.c. convention center to join us. it is almost time. we're -- the building is full of fork lifts and people setting up and getting ready for a very big weekend here. this will be the 19th year for the nbc 4 health and fitness expo and we are excited and hope a lot of people will come and join us. we have a whole lot of different exhibits, a lot of different things for people to do, and over the course of the next -- the 4:00, 5:00, and 6:00 broadcasts i'll give you previews. right now i'm with the folks from children's national medical center. they've been our partners here at the expo since we first began and this is always one of the most popular

>> reporter: good evening, dore doreen, 5% fare increase on buses and trains. and if you want to park in a met electrolot, that will cost an extra 25 cents. metro needs the extra money to pay for renovations and provide better service. metro riders are concerned that the proposed fair increases will not guarantee better service. >> to ride metro, i don't feel it's as efficient as it needs to be. >> i don't know why they need to increase fares, but i can't afford it. >> reporter: last week a friction ring fell off a train, causing hundreds of cars to undergo safety inspections this weekend. in a separate incident in december. a brake assembly malfunction on a train created a commuter nightmare. metro faces a $116 million deficit. while trying to make safety improvements recommended bit ntsb after the 2009 crash that killed 9 people. the general manager appeared on news 4 today. >> after years of not investing in this system we have to make those investments to provide more service to our customers. >> reporter: the fare increases will be most dramatic to tourist

doreen ginsler has more. >> i was feeling a sense that i never had before.ust couldn't control myself. >> 78-year-old willieascew says it came on quickly. blurriness and weakness. he was urged by the family to go to the hospital. >> i wasn't worried because i was one of those guys that reallily loved the lord. and was trusting him. >> but sure enough, doctors here at providence hospital found very wrong. he was having a stroke. >> strokes on the right side of the brain that deals with motor and sensory that affects the arm and face. hold your hands up like this for me. >> the neurologist at providence hospital says the stroke caused by blocked arteries in his brain, the result of high cholesterol and hypertension, two risk factors that could have been treated early if he'd just been tested. >> anybody over 50 that has family members at risk and, you know, family members with risk factors of these things don't even know about them themselves should be screened for it. tap for me. >> besides high blood pressure and high cholesterol, he says other risk factors

i'm doreen gentzler in for wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly. we begin at 5:00 with the death of a woman right outside a prince george's county elementary school. a van belonging to the school apparently ran her over. it happened late this morning that samuel chase elementary on fisher road in temple hills. pat collins is live on the scene with details. pat? >> jim, sources tell news 4 police are looking into the possibility that the victim here was a woman from the neighborhood. they say when she was hit, she was using a cane. a fatality here in the parking lot of the samuel chase elementary school in temple hills. police say this prince george's county school utility van backed into a woman. they say she was pronounced dead at the scene. mark sanders was across the street at the time. he said he saw three workers trying to push the van but he said he didn't realize there was someone beneath it. >> how unfortunate. a sad accident. here's a laidy and now she is laying on the sidewalk over there deceased and here's three workers who certainly, or

hey, v.j. >> hey, pat and doreen. mix is going to bring us everything from snow to sleet to freezing rain and then eventually rain as the system tapers tomorrow. but for the late part of the night here, latter part of the night we are going to be seeing flurries. in fact i think in the next couple hours some of that moisture will start reaching the ground. that's the white you see just north of washington down to the south more moisture. that's going to be funneling into the system allowing our temperature to rise a bit. we'll see a change over then from snow, a little sleet mixing in and

>> hi, doreen.his is something we're doing for the first time this year in partnership with the march of dimes and the ymca of metro washington. we are going to recognize the first four babies who can finish the 14-foot course or who can get the farthest in three minutes by awarding the parents with $50 gift cards. >> very cool. >> every participant regardless of win or lose will get a goody bag full of healthy sleep sack and other good materials for parents and children. >> and you come to the care first booth and sign your baby up and you'll have the races twice a day? >> that's right. 10:30 and 1:30. fill out the registration form first thing in the morning and we'll see how far they get. >> reporter: okay. i'm just thinking about the video possibilities for parents getting the video of their child in the baby crawling races and we understand that the winners here will go on to the division finals and then on to the national championships of fastest crawling babies. there are a lot of good opport

>> reporter: that's right, doreen. imts a big detour and happens in about 15 minutes. the decision to reroute motorists trying to get to i-95. the major north-south traffic artery on the east coast even for a few hours is not taken lightly by virginia transportation officials. >> part of the 495 express lanes, tonight's activity in this area will be the hanging of a sign across the roadway. we have to get it up. >> reporter: in addition the inner loop of the beltway is affected from 9:00 p.m. to midnight, the left lane of-94 west before the springfield interchange will be closed. after md night all lanes will also be closed. all lanes will be re-opened by 5:00 a.m. wednesday. drivers we spoke to say they're learning to live with it. >> i usually look at my phone to see where the construction is, and i avoid it all the time. >> it's so hard to get through. for now if i want to go through for a seven corner, i have to go to 395 and go around instead of 495. >> reporter: the detours are wellma well-marked, but it would add about half an hour for the trip through here toni

>> reporter: doreen, an em bar r raszing day for our government. a councilmember indicted on felony charges. there's calls for his resignation, talk of jail time, weeks of whispers and rumors. today, they became a reality. at the wilson building today, the main topic of debate, the plight of harry thomas jr., charged today with felony theft of federal funds. from mayor vincent gray, this statement, given today's filing by the u.s. attorney's office, i urge councilmember thomas to resign and focus time and efforts on defending himself in court. that resignation would likely be tendered to council chairman kwame brown. do you think he should resign? >> i have not yet received his resignation. i expect to receive it. >> reporter: should he leave office? it could have dire consequences for his staff. this is what it was like in his office today. what is your reaction to this? >> i don't really have a reaction. >> don't have one. >> it's a regular day. >> reporter: if he leaves office, what happens to you? >> not quite sure yet. >> reporter: upsetting,

>> reporter: hi, doreen. if president obama isn't officially in campaign mode, this will do fine for now. president obama hit the road with his state of the union message, a blueprint for what he calls an economy built to last. >> it is an economy built on american manufacturing with more good jobs and more products made right here in the united states of america. >> reporter: iowa was stop one in a five-state, three-day tour, stressing jobs, energy, education and changing a tax system that gives breaks to millionaires. >> if you make more than $1 million a year, you should pay a tax rate of at least 30%. >> reporter: he is giving the gop presidential hopefuls a whole new set of talking points. >> the president last night proposed doubling the tax on capital gains, which is the engine which drives job creation in the united states. >> reporter: with the florida primary just six days away, newt gingrich and the mitt romney are polling neck in neck. >> this is a president who talks about deregulation even as he

wendy, doreen, back to you. >> all right. thank you, steve. >>> two veteran metro employees have been accused of stealing thousands of dollars in coins from fare machines. investigators say they then took the money and tried their luck with lottery tickets. we're near the metro yard in alexandria with details on what led to their arrest. >> reporter: we're at the yard where you might say this is the other end of the coin slot. when you put your money in the machine eventually it will end up in a facility like this to be counted and deposited. what got the investigation going was a merchant who became suspicious what he regular customer showed up buying lottery tickets with bags of coins. while sochlt peopme of the peop center of the scheme hit the lottery several times with each winning it turns out the luck was running out. it was december 13th according to court documents and metro revenue techniques horace mcdade and police officer john hale made a call on the fare card machines here at the do yupont station and collected

doreen?anks, veronica. >>> regulations regarding student school lockers in prince william county schools is nothing new but tonight, the school board there will vote on a new policy that gives parents access to their children's lockers. the proposed policy would apply to students younger than 18, give access at reasonable times to their children's locker. if passed, the superintendent will implement the policy countywide. >> this is a situation where we want the parents to know that safety of students is a very, very high priority for us and that the parents have a role to play. >> tonight's school board meeting and vote getting under way in about half an hour. >>> we have an update to a story we told but yesterday. doctors believe they have a diagnosis for a bizarre illness that is plaguing 12 teenaged girls at the same tie school. the girls all attend le roy high in upstate new york. all of them suddenly began suffering from uncontrollable body movements, tics and verbal outbursts. one of t

boy, we have got everything going on down there and doreen gentzler is once again shepherding the bignient. you got any plans this weekend? >> just a few. >> a few? >> lots of maps this weekend. i don't know how many of us made a new year's resolution to get more fit? yeah. >> always. >> you want to find a different way to do that, 'cause the same old thing gets boring, right? >> stop eating the christmas stuff, that was my resolution. >> that's right. well, we are going to build on that wendy, the expo is a great place to learn about jump starting a new fitness regiment. new this year, going to make it fun and says to get your workout started, having the first ever zumba extravaganza. >> oh, my. >> yeah. yeah. yeah. >> going to be leading that? >> i think not. zumba is a latin-inspired dance workout that uses moves based in dance like salsa and meringue, hip-hop. enthusiasts say the classes are so much fun, down the realize you are working up a sweat and burping a lot of calories. recently, i had a chance to talk to a instructor at fitness first and she gave us the scoop on the craze

. >>> doreen, thomas stole money intended for children. he is gone but some are asking shouldn't there be more outrage? even the d.c. government directory shows no sign of harry thomas jr. or his ward 5 office. and the d.c. elections board meets wednesday to set a replacement special election in may. thomas left federal court friday a convicted felon for stealing more than $350,000 in city funds intended for youth organizations and tax evasion. he'll be sentenced in may to as much as four years in prison. mayor gray who for months urged citizens to await the judicial process did call for thomas to resign but declined to comment on his crimes. news 4 monday first showed gray the 21-page court document detailing thomas's many thefts from children's programs. >> i think we are trying to figure out how to move fron this. >> are you personally also outraged? >> oh, yeah. >> knowing him and his whole family? >> i know tommy and his family well and i have a lot of compassion for them in this situation but at the same time this is something that n

doreen gentzler is here with details. >> reporter: this was new to me. is coming up this weekend offering lots of free medical screenings. one of them is testing for hypertension. but if you're a woman who is being screened there is recently a new risk factor identified, a common condition that could double your chances of developing high blood pressure. >> my hands and my feet started to swell. again, i had shortness of breath. i couldn't really walk far. >> reporter: about three months before she was due to give birth, 29-year-old michelle fenwick developed pregnancy induced hypertension, a condition that put her at risk for major complications including premature delivery. >> i was extremely scared. i didn't want anything to happen. i was close to the end. >> reporter: doctors say it's a common condition about 6% to 8% of all pregnant women will develop hypertension. typically it goes away once the baby is born. but now studies are showing that it's actually a risk factor for developing high blood pressure later in life. dr. susan bennett is a cardiol

>> reporter: doreen, a while ago when he was popular, he won the election. a third of the votes, run ining against ten other candidates. then the general election came, he won with a landslide. now, today, some of the voters say it's time for him to move on. >> i would like to see, you know, a better quality of leadership in the district. >> reporter: ward 5 residents are frustrated but getting used to the idea of city leaders being investigated and charged for violating the law. we showed a copy of the charges accusing harry thomas jr. with embezzlement and not paying taxes. it's a setment echoed by many here. they hoped thomas would help their neighborhoods. it's become a distract. >> it's the same situation. you vote people into office and they abuse your trust. it's very sad. i think he should step down. >> reporter: nearly everyone says it no longer matters if he's innocent or guilty, they want a special election to elect someone else with a clean slate. >> in hope, maybe we can get something done and get something better. >> reporter: it is important t

. >>> doreen, we have a full boat coming up, the capitals going without green. ravens rookie and a veteran offer different playoff perspectives. >>> the fail from javale. more on the wizards dunk drama. >>> five more bodies were recovered today from the sunken cruise ship in italy. that brings the death toll to 11. the captain is facing manslaughter charges. >> reporter: it was a day full of activity, there seems to be an army of searchers here on this tiny island. using explosionives, they were able to punch a hole into the hull so they can get better access to kwabens they were searching. unfortunately, there was no sign of life on board. they found four men, one woman believed to be in their 50s and 60s. the captain was in port faces the charging against him of manslaughter. he's now under house arrest. most shocking, i think to people following these developments is this leaked audio recording, a phone conversation between the captain and the port authority around three hours after he decided to take the ship off court, hitting a rock. repeatedly the port au

. >> doreen has more on the screenings weil be offering this year. >> testing for kidney disease. and that's especially important here in washington because d.c. hassed highest rate of kidney disease in the country. tonight we'll meet one woman who's been suffering from this condition for a long time. she tells us why prevention is so important to fighting this devastating disease. >> for me, dialysis is three and a half hours on the machine. by the time you get here, set up, come back off and everything else, you're spending four and a half to five hours here. >> three days a week, 63-year-old edye comes to this dialysis center in bethesda. each time she's connected to this machine which cleans her blood. it's because she has kidney disease and those organs no longer function. >> i'm tethered. the ability to roam around and do what i want when i want, it doesn't exist any more. >> reporter: she's not alone with this struggle. not by any means, 25 million americans are suffering in chronic kidney disease. the only cure is a kidney transplant but there just aren't enough kidneys to

hey, doreen. >>> coming up tonight at 6:00, a councilmember pushing a new bill that protects victimsdetails on that. plus, more trouble for the occupy protesters. why health inspectors are called to the encampments at freedom plaza and mcfear son square. >>> a new study about sleep. most of us prefer to sleep on a certain side of the bed. what it means about your personality. >> we'll stay up for that. thanks. >>> still ahead, four people killed including a navy pilot from maryland. authorities think they figured out what happened. >>> follow us online, search >>> four people are dead after a murder suicide near san diego on new year's day. police say a navy pilot from our area was the trigger man. >> john robert reeves is from prince frederic, maryland. he killed three people including a fellow navy pilot before turning the gun on himself. >> george lewis has the story. >> reporter: two of the dead were a navy pilot and his 24-year-old sister, karen. a former volleyball player who work worked at a supermarket and coached high schoolers. >> exactly what i wanted my daughters to be ar

>> reporter: doreen, harry thomas jr., he treated d.c. taxpayers like they were his own personal piggy bank. some things harry thomas jr. bought with your money. a victory motorcycle, $23,745. an audi suv, $58,575. airline tickets, $19,000. there were clothes and restaurants, well, you get the idea. >> time and time again, mr. thomas used for his personal gain taxpayer funds that were intended to benefit the city's most important resource, its children. >> reporter: there was no holding back today. in strong words, members of the justice community denounced harry thomas jr. as a common crook who stole from the children of the city and betrayed the trust of the people who live here. >> the victim is the whole of district of columbia, including its youth. the offender, who is a different kind of opportunist, one who was elected, stole tens of thousands of dollars at a time. >> reporter: harry thomas jr., he took office as the councilman back in january, 2007. they say before the paint on his office door was dry, he was stealing. >> almost i

jim, doreen? >> thank you. >>> 2011 was a rebound year for the economy. were created in the month of december. the unemployment dipped to 8.5%, the lowest it's been in nearly three years. nearly 2 million jobs were created in 2011. it's a significant increase over 2010. while it's good news, the recovery is still sluggish. underemployment level that looks at people with part time and low paying jobs is still high at 15%. >>> in decision 2012, the republican presidential candidates were quick to react to today's unemployment numbers. they were not giving credit to president obama for the drop in the jobless rate. >> unemployment numbers are a good indicator we have a long way away from a healthy economy. >> there might be optimism that republicans are going to take the white house and maybe that's spurring people to take risks. >> when pressed about it later, santorum said he was joking. in other news, polls show mitt romney has the lead in new hampshire and south carolina as well. his lead has evaporated. he's in third place behind romney and santorum. >>

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i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm jim vance. deplorable, reprehensible, and unacceptable.d to describe a video that appears to show four u.s. marines desecrating the corpses of taliban terrorists. steve handelsman is on capitol hill now with where investigators have already identified two of them. >> reporter: that only helps part of the way. you put something out on the internet it's out there forever. so even if the u.s. marine corps now has some or all of the so-called low level perps in this ugly case what they did is still being done.

>> reporter: doreen, we're told this apparently happened while a man was trying to move a heavy piece of furniture into the building. residents of the upper floors of the garden apartment complex leaned out the windows and watched as firefighters assessed the damage to the stairwell. it collapsed very suddenly about 7:00 p.m. francis carson was among those stuck inside. >> actually, i just heard one of the residents fall. i assume that maybe he had just fell down the steps. it wasn't until later on that i was on my way to work that i realized that the bottom landing had actually fell through. >> reporter: neighbors say the collapse happened as a man was delivering a large piece of furniture. he was seriously injured and taken to a local hospital by ambulance. firefighters decided the stairwell could be temporarily shored up from the base, allowing residents to exit the building until more permanent repairs could be made. a building inspector is scheduled to be here tomorrow morning. reporting live in southwest washington, jackie bensen, news 4. >> thank you, jackie. >>> emergency team

. >> news4's doreen againstler -- doreen genzler will be hosting. >>> park police stop bid mcpherson square to talk to occupy protesters and the police told the protesters they must take down their tents hanging over the statue on the square. the move comes after u.s. park police said that they will start enforcing the no-camping rule almost that 24 hours ago. news4's tracee wilkins is following these developments and joins us live now from mcpherson square. what's the mood out there now? >> reporter: well, good morning. we have been here all morning long. of course expectation is u.s. park police entered the cam and would be doing so to tell the protesters they had to leave. but that wasn't the message they came with. as u.s. park police entered the mcpherson square occupy camp, occupiers checked tents to make sure no one was sleeping. the u.s. park police started enforcing the no camping rules at the sites monday and are threatening to ray rest anyone found sleeping. occupiers have been waiting for the park police to try to evict the en masse but when police entered the camp this m

>> doreen, no sleeping, no cooking, no camping. the park service is acting after high level complaints that it has been too soft on the protesters. >>> occupy protesters have since october camped out mostly peacefully on federal parkland but that's about to end. park service rangers and park police descended on both camp sites friday attaching bright green notices to any tent or structure in sight. the notice warns that the federal park service will begin enforcing no camping rules as of monday, noon. no tent stakes in the ground. no cooking. no sleeping. and any tent must always have one flap open for officers to see inside at any time. >> i need a definition of camping. >> reporter: the tougher government response comes just days after members of congress complained that park service officials were allowing illegal camping and demanded action. >> it's another signal that we are pushing hard enough for a change that we are getting some resistance or pushback. >> the loosely organized protesters friday suggested some are ready to r

i'm doreen gentzler. >> i'm wendy rieger. jim vance has the night off.

. >>> and news4's doreen gentzler and aaron gilchrist will be watching the results from florida come in and hosting a live web chat at the same time. you can join the conversation on nbcwashington.com. >>> 6:04. breaking news. at least 11 al qaeda militants were killed in an overnight air strike in yemen. witnesses say a drone targeted a caravan just east of the city of lawdar in southern yemen. at least four of the militants were local al qaeda leaders. no civilians were hurt. al qaeda is attempting to use political unrest in yemen to gain influence among the people and the government there. >>> today secretary of state hillary clinton will meet with united nations security council to talk about syria. clinton says she will support a plan that condemns the syrian president's regime, demands the regime stop cracking down on its citizens, and implements an arab league peace plan. the measure calls for the syrian president to transfer his power to his vice president and allow elections. the u.n. says the regime has killed more than 5,400 people since the uprising began in march. >>> 6:

doreen lawrence has given them a long, hard look. nothing from the defendants. gary dobson and david norris have left the dock quietly. yesterday he said, "you convicted an innocent man." both have been sent down. norris blew a kiss to the public gallery, which he has done several times as this has gone on. we have the two sentences. dobson, a minimum of 15 years and two months. norris, 14 years and three months. let's go to mr mansfield -- let's go to mr. mansfield. your reaction? >> first, i obviously want to emphasize the fact that this has been conducted as an extremely fair trial from start to finish, concentrating, as it should on the issues that the jury had to consider. the judge has been extraordinarily careful in elaborating the factors that he is taking into account. he has made it very clear. i also want to say -- it was an inquest jury that started this. they were the ones that came back all those years ago and said this was an unprovoked racist attack. >> michael mansfield giving his reaction to the sentencing of those two men, gary dobson and davi

>> hey, doreen. rafael nidal, roger federer putting on a show at the aussie open. a two-time all star takes the trip down i-95 to sign with the nationals. and hear what maryland's head coach has to say about his team's loss to duke last night. not necessarily a bad thing either. >>> people are still talking about the tense exchange on the tarmac yesterday in phoenix. arizona governor jan brewer handed president obama a note asking for a meeting but he fired back saying the last time they met she wrote an unflattering account in her memoir. she was asked whether she thinks a photo snapped of her on the tarmac shows her being disrespectful to the president. >> you know, i probably have better photographs of me than that but i hope people will take it into context that i was talking and i talk with my hands and i was trying to explain to him of course why i believe that i wrote the book the way that i did because it was factual and it was truthful and we were just going to have to disagree. >> governor brewer wrote in her memoir that in her first meeting with the pres

>> i would like to nominate doreen woo ho. >> seconded. >> are there any other nominations for port commissionpresident? are there any other nominations for port commission president? are there any other nominations for port commission president? [laughter] seeing no one, the board closes the nomination. all in favor? >> aye. >> any opposed? i would like to congratulate commissioner woo ho, and pass the gavel. [laughter] [applause] >> i guess my first order of business, i would like to say a few opening comments and call for nominations, opening the floor, for the port commission vice-president. i would like to move to not make kimberly brandon for the vice president of the commission. are there any other nominations for the vice president of the commission? are there any other nominations for the vice president of the commission? seeing no one, shall be closed the nomination process for vice president? -- shall we closed the nomination process for vice president? -- shall we close the nomination process for vice president? all in favor? congratulations, kim. [applause] i wanted to open with a

. >> reporter: doreen, witnesses explain the scene as chaotic, and the police officer shot the dog. this man describes how he was waiting at the bus stop when two dogs rushed at him. he said one was a german shepherd and the other a small white dog. when he ran across the street, they ran after him. witnesses say that at one point the german shepherd ran toward a day care center and bit a man in a wheelchair. neighbors say they could hear children and adults streaming from a block away. >> officers got flagged down, and he noticed he had a victim that was bitten a few times by the day care center, and he notes the dog a block away and had to intervene with the dog who continued to attack other people. >> reporter: police say three people were taken away to the hospital by ambulance. the dog's owner did come to the scene, and she was upset, and it's a very unfortunate situation. back to you. >> thank you. >>> now we go to italy where tonight there's word the captain of a sunken cruise ship may get out of jail and be put on house arrest. as we learn more about why he made that turn cl

>> reporter: they are indeed, doreen. here at the scene earlier, alexandria police detectives investigating the disappearance of community activist lenny harris. investigators brought in portable lights and set up lights to protect evidence at a scene where a bodiy was found i a well. police received an anonymous phone call. removing the body from a 20-foot deep well will be a process. >> we have to excavate around the well. it requires a lot of equipment and manpower. there is is a potential for a well collapse. >> reporter: also called to the scene, alexandria police detectives. they're investigating the disappearance of community activist lenny harris. his wallet was found on this bridge a few miles away. his stolen credit card was used in prince georges county. neighbors on old fort road say the discovery leaves them concerned. >> i just have to be positive. i just buy the house a couple of months ago. you know, i can just wish, you know, it doesn't happen again, you know. >> reporter: one long-time neighbor told me t

. >>> and as results from florida come in, news4's doreen gentzler and aaron gilchrist will host a web chat. go to nbcwashington.com. >>> breaking news now. at least 1 al qaeda militants are dead after an overnight air strike in yemen. a drone targeted forces in lawdar, south of yemen. at least four were al qaeda leaders. no civilians were injured. al qaeda has attempted to use political unrest in yemen to gain influence among the people and government there. >>> today, secretary of state hillary clinton will meet with the united nations security council to talk about syria. clinton says that she will support a plan that condemns the syrian president's regime, demands the regime stop cracking down on its citizens, and implements an arab league peace plan. the measure calls for the syrian president to transfer his power to the vice president and to allow elections. the u.n. says the regime has kilned more than 5 -- killed more than 5,400 people since the uprising began in march. >>> former prince george's county executive jack johnson will remain out of prison for two more weeks. johnso

and came through the area, and our temperatures fell today and they are still falling out there, doreen. the mercury now at 21 degrees in frederick. a lot of locations at 21. and germantown, 21 degrees right now. as you might imagine, the mercury is going to continue to drop. there will be quite a few locations north of us that will start out in the teens by tomorrow morning. around eldersburg, and brunswick and damascus, and it's mid-january, and how about a little winter snow? details on that coming up in just a few. >>> a man was found dead in the woods behind an apartment complex in hyattsville tonight. somebody called 911 after seeing a body on the banks of a small canal here that runs behind the queens town apartment. the identity of the victim has not been released. >>> and then an attack, a teenager beaten so badly he had to go to the hospital. it happened just after 1:00 this afternoon behind glass manor elementary school. >>> and now investigators say arson is to blame at the home of a federal judge. the judge's homes here on massachusetts avenue and mcclain. a teen was home a

now we have to suspend rules for a technical but not important reason that doreen would be glad to tell us about if we wanted to but we need to suspend the rules and vote. >> actually, commissioners, in the notice for this, it's described there that there's a rule that references a noticing provision that's been superseded by other administrative co-provisions so we're asking you to suspend that rule and it notes that newspaper and web notice was published according to the current procedures. >> so, we need a motion to suspend the rules. >> to suspend rule number 10. >> rule number 10. not all the rules. i have a motion, i'm sorry. >> second. >> and a second. any discussion? all those in favor. opposed? that carries. now we are clear to vote on the item as amended. do i have a motion? >> move it. >> second. >> and a second. any discussion? any public comment? all those in favor? opposed, none. the motion carries. thank you, folks. >> commissioners, the next item would be the close session item. if you could allow me to briefly read through them and if the president could entertain a mot

and as a results from florida come in, doreen gentzler will give us updates. >>> mitt romney met with nbc after they asked him to stop running a clip from 1997 featuring then-anchor tom brokaw. romney said his campaign would consider pulling the ad but argued the footage was not from a secret file. >>> the republican presidential candidates may not be spending money at levels in 2008, but new political action committees are making up for it. according to "usa today," so far super pacs have spent more than $44 million this primary season, compared to nearly $11 million at this point in the 2008 race. presidential candidates will report their own fundraising and spending today. >>> breaking news. at least 11 al qaeda militants are dead in an overnight air strike in yemen. residents say a drone targeted a caravan east of the city of lawdar in yemen. at least four militants were al qaeda leaders. no civilians were injured. al qaeda has attempted to use political unrest in yemen to gain influence among the people and government there. >>> today president obama will send a proposal to congr

>> doreen, a local veteran we talked to says that the marines you see in the video do not represent the marine corps values. the youtube video has been shown around the world, u.s. marines standing over what appears to be dead afghans and urinating on their corpses. we're showing you a still image and blurring out offensive parts. >> you can't justify. it's just wrong. >> reporter: richard is is a u.s. marine who fought at vietnam. he said it appears the ma roons in the photograph are not under attack and there's no excuse for their behavior. >> once the fight is won, it's time to stop. >> condemning the deplorable behavior. >> secretary of state hillary clinton. >> it is absolutely inconsistent with american be values. >> pentagon officials say they know who is in the video, marines from camp lejeune. now the white house describes the video in three words. >> deplorable, reprehensible and unacceptable. >> the video comes at a bad time when parties are stepping up efforts to establish a peace agreement. >> any time something like that happens, you always get a little tarnish. >> pentago

>> we could see a lot more coming our way this weekend, doreen and jim. to the west, some snow. a little bit of light snow around western maryland, potomac highlands. i'm wuching flurries around thurmornt, around middleburg and hagerstown. this is going to last a few more hours, but we're talking about a bigger system that's going to be moving in for friday night and saturday morning. already concerns of icing and some problems on area roads so there's a winter storm watch for right now. washington county, areas of jefferson and morgan in west virginia. and we could have more concerns saturday morning. more details on that coming up. back to you. >> tlanhanks. >>> neighbors in d.c.'s ward 5 came together to remember an infant who died after being abandoned in the cold. the baby girl was found sunday night on the steps of a home on channing street wrapped only in a thin towel. tonight's vigil was aimed at preventing another tragedy. some say they empathize with the mother. >> i don't know why. i don't know what they're going through. i don't know what made them do that. but i ima