between 2004 and 2007and officials say workers loaded up boxes of remains and containers from dover delaware to mortuary. in delaware, the official say workers took the items to incinerateor here in baltimore. >>> democracy 2012 news, newt gingrich tops the field of republican presidential hopefuls and has double digits in states to hold the first contest. tea party movement is contributing to the former house speaker surge among likely republican voters and caucus goers. but the poll suggest this race is far from over. with less than half the people questioned in each state saying they have made up their mind. >>> gray hair and wrinkles come with the job of being president of the united states. they look like they age faster while in office but new research says that only it appears that way. 2/3 of presidents live longer than projected life span and that research found the most presidents with exceptionally long lives. what about wrinkles high level of stress may show on faces even if it doesn't shorten the overall life span. >>> today, take back the capital protesters are heading home. so

. >> body part of troops have been lost on two occasions at its mortuary in dover delaware. officials also say the cremated portions of some remains were sent to a landfill. yesterday, representative rush holt of new jersey and the air force has been stonewalling he says. the families in not giving them the information they need about the practices at the mortuary. >> coming up on 4:35, president obama says he'll put his hawaiian vacation on hold until congress approves an extension of payroll tax cuts and long- term jobless benefits. both measures are set to expire at the end of this month and the president is scheduled to leave for hawaii december 17th. >> the president's decision to delay his vacation came hours after the senate blocked a democratic plan to extend that tax cut. they also blocked a republican proposal. in the house, republicans have a plan which would tie the tax cut to approving construction of an oil pipeline from canada to texas. president beam obama does not support that. if no deal is reached, more than 150 million americans will lose out on the tax b

yesterday air force officials admitted, quote, gross mismanagement and its mortuary in dover, delawarewoman whose husband was killed in 2006 said she was in shock over learning what happened to his remains. >> absolute ly mortified. just i was so angry, and i felt betrayed by my -- by these people down at dover. >> the practice was discontinued in 2008. cremated remains are now given a burial at sea. the air force has opened up a hot line and e-mail account for concerned families and will apologize to families who are involved in this. >>> new surveillance video has surfaced of dominique strauss kahn just minutes after he was alleged to have sexually assaulted a hotel employee. the video was aired on french television that shows strauss kahn leaving the hotel, paying his bill, and hopping into a taxicab. then the accuser, diallo appears to be acting out the attack. there is then a bizarre sequence of two hotel employees hugging and dancing and then going out and reporting the alleged assault to police. strauss kahn's lawyers say this is proof there was a conspiracy to bring him down wh

the air force admits that body parts lost on two occasions at the mortuary in dover delaware. crematied portions of some remains were sent to a landfill. >> the time is 6:47. >>> the wife of accused child molester jerry sandusky says his -- her husband is innocent. she is talking about the charges for the first after lawyers claim she knew her husband was assaulting children in their home. she says her husband's accusers are lying. he is accused of sexually abusing 10 boys over 15 years. >>> police and alexander are looking for who ever tried to sexually assault the woman last night at 9:00 last night on maple street. the woman told police that someone grabbed her and threw her to the ground. >> track work will lead to delays on metro this weekend. trains will be single tracking and parts of the red orange, blue, and green line from 10:00 tonight until closing on sunday. >>> a former assistant principal at greensville elementary school will be sentenced today and child pornography charges. he faces up to 15 years in prison. he was arrested in june after police said they found

take a look at the temperatures across the region to the east, 31 in dover, delaware.a cold 27 degrees. 35 here in wadulles. and 27 in winchester. the cold start to the day. now wins, they were a factor yesterday. not so this morning. they have diminished as expected. only at 3 miles per hour in the district. and most of the area they are actually calm. a look at the satellite radar composite. speaking of calm, nothing to show you out there. you saw the shot of the moon. so mostly clear skies. it is now passing through low level clouds. that is about it. things look good. cloud cover to the north and west. some make their way in here late today during the late afternoon and evening hours. but this precipitation, mostly it's going to evaporate. it's not going to hang together and get through. it's going to pass to the north. so not expecting precipitation today or tonight. the forecast for today, a lot of sunshine. milder than yesterday. looking for a of about 51 degrees. we'll take that. and then tonight another cold night, some cloud build in. mid-30s downtown. some o

on a disturbing story, the mishandling of remains of fallen troops at the military mortuary in dover, delaware. a house panel, headed by elijah cummings, is from the department on the incident. the in the is asking for records going all the way back to 2002. the deadline to receive those documents is december 9th. >> the defense blames its case. attorneys are trying to prove bob ehrlich's campaign manager didn't break laws, suggesting democrats stay home. derek valcourt explains, the defense already scored a minor victory. >> reporter: these morning, the judge threw out one of the criminal charges, saying the state prosecutor, failed to offer enough evidence to prove it. >> reporter: when the election into election night robocalls began, they said that paul surric intentionally withheld information. but in court today, the judge dismissed the charge, saying prosecutors never offered enough proof. suric still faces charges that he and campaign consultant julius henson, conspired to suppress african american voter turnout, with the robocall that suggested that democrats had already been victorio

yesterday air force officials admitted gross mismanagement at its mortuary in dover, delaware. woman, whose husband was killed in 2006, said the air force admitting the mistake was not enough for her. >> absolutely mortified. just i was so angry, and i felt betrayed by my -- by these people down at dover. >> the practice was discontinued in 2008. cremated remains are now given a burial at sea. the air force has opened up a hot line and e-mail account for concerned families and will apologize to families who were involved in this. >>> d.c. mayor vincent gray tells news 4 that he has not been called before a grand jury investigating his 2010 campaign for mayor. the mayor stopped by our studios for nbc 4's "viewpoint" program, and he told tom sherwood the federal investigation of him and two d.c. council members is a serious distraction. >> of course nobody would want to be embroiled in this kind of stuff, tom, certainly not one, let alone three. but i think one needs to look at where the city is. the city is doing very well at this stage. >> you can watch the rest of the intervie

yesterday air force officials admitted to, quote, gross mismanagement at its mortuary in dover, delawarewoman whose husband was killed in 2006 says she is in shock over learning what happened to her husband's remains. >> absolutely mortified, just i was so angry, and i felt betrayed by my -- by these people down at dover. >> the practice was stopped in 2008. cremated remains are now given a burial at sea. the air force has opened up a hot line and e-mail account for concerned families and will apologize to families who were involved in this incident. >>> federal health officials say an outbreak of listeria in cantaloupe is officially over. the cdc says 30 people died during the second worst outbreak of listeria in the nation's history. that's up from 29 deaths last month. more than 148 people were tainted by the processing and pack geing at jensen farms in colorado. the cantaloupes were originally recalled in september. >>> democrats trying to stop the republicans from getting a majority in the senate. richmond circuit court will hear a lawsuit against lieutenant governor bill bolling. t

in august at a texas air base and as will thomas explains, it was long before the fallout at delaware's dover air force base ore the discovery that some remains were improperly disposed. >> present arms! >> reporter: a sad reality of war. dover air force base where all military personnel killed in action return back to the u.s. these images make this photograph taken at lack land air force base outside of san antonio, texas, even more controversial. fifteen airmen are seen posing with an open casket, one that looks just like the metal caskets or transfer cases used to carry war dead home. another live airman is inside the casket with a noose around his next and chains across his body. at the bottom of of the photo is the phrase, dumped. it sucks to be you. congressman whitman is a member of the house armed services committee with oversight over the air force. the photo surfaces at a time when the air force already suffered a recent black eye over the sloppy handling of remains of u.s. military war dead at dover. >> i think what happened at dover is also unacceptable and we need to get to the

all part of the mismanagement at the motor areaate dover air force base in delaware. crime and punishment. hedge fund manager roger rotnaum sentenced to 11 years in prison, the record for insider trading. >> i would like to say in one sentence, this is the most humble bay day of my life. >> rupert murdoch shuts "news of the world," the paper accused of hacking the phones of celebrities, politicians, and the voice mail of a murdered teenager. murdoch's news corporation parent company of fox news. syracuse university assistant basketball coach bernie fine is fired after men say he molested them as boys. fine said he's innocent and jerry sandusky, the former penn state football coach, charged with sexually abusing a number of boys he said he was mentoring. the head coach joe paterno and other top officials force out for failing to alert police after an assistant said that he told them he believed he saw sandusky molesting a child. stay with fox for the latest on penn state and all of the scandals in 2012. in new york, i'm rick fulbaum, fox news. >> and the news is not ov

already this year, dover air force base in delaware is under the spotlight for sloppy handling of the remains of u.s. military war dead. and now, a photo. a photo you're not going to like. it was taken back in august. 15 airmen are seen posing with an open casket, another live airmen, he is perfectly fine. he is posing standing up in the casket with a noose around his neck. at the bomb toff of the photo, the dump the dumped, sucks to be you. a congressman we spoke to tonight with oversight over the air force is confident the internal investigation will be sufficient. >> i have trust that secretary donald and the air force leadership will take the appropriate action to get those airmen together that were part of this and take appropriate action. and i know that they feel strongly about this. i feel that they look at this as also being unacceptable and appalling. i think they'll take the appropriate action. >> the photo originally started floating around facebook and eventually made its way to the air force times. an investigation is underway at lachland air base where that photo was ta

the photo was snapped back in august long before the fallout at delaware's dover air base over the discovery that some remains were misidentified and improperly disposed of. we're going to go one on one with the journalist who brought the photo to life. but first, we head to capitol hill. >> a sad reality of war. dover air force base where all military personnel killed in action returned back to the u.s. these images make this photograph taken at lackland air force base even more controversial. 15 airmen are seen posing with an open casket. one that looks just like the metal caskets or transfer cases used to carry war dead home. another live airman is inside the casket with a noose around his neck and chains across his body. at the bottom of the photo is the phrase, the dump to dump, sucks to be you. >> it's unacceptable. we owe it to our fallen to make sure we show them the respect and dignity. >> congressman whitman is the member of the house armed services committee with oversight over the air force. the photo surfaces at a time when the air force suffered a black eye over the sloppy hand

it all began at the dover air base in delaware. e "the washington post" first reporting today the military sent the cremated remains of 274 deceased american troops from dover to a private contractor. that contractor then incinerated the remains and sent them to a landfill in king george county, virginia. >> we did not direct the contractor to put any residual material in the contract -- in the landfill, that was not part of the contract. but they were disposing of them -- >> -- sorry. you were aware that it was being put in a landfill. >> that was a common practice at the time. who was assigned or knew that they were going to a landfill, i can't really speak to. that was the common industry practice at the time. >> harris: the air force reports at this point it does not plan to inform the individual families of those deceased troops about what happened. and the chairman and ranking member of the house oversight committee among those calling for more information about how this could happen. newt gingrich pulling away from the pack i

democrat from dover, delaware, good morning. caller: someone mentioned illegal immigration. first of all, president obama is trying to secure our borders. if bush had been incompetent president, he would have to immediately secure our borders dr. 9/11 -- after 9/11. is it corporations were not hiring because they were uncertain about the future. most of the scam from outsourcing and laying off workers. millions of americans are uncertain where their next paycheck will come from. these corporations, like republicans, are not creating jobs or supporting his jobs bill because they want obama to look weak and lose in 2012. host: the specific question, so we will move on to the next caller in tennessee. do you want to comment? guest: talking about the issue of a candid its wealth -- candidate's wealth. there are people with it and without it in public office, but this is a pretty unique situation. mitt romney is one of the wealthiest candidates to run for president. he has enormous wealth, and that is fine. he is choosing not to release his tax returns. considering the business h

all part of the mismanagement at the mortuary at dover air force base in delaware.e and punishment. hedge fund manager roger rt otnan sentenced to 11 years in prison, record for insider trading. >> i would just like to say one sentence. this is the most humble day of my life. >> reporter: a media giant under fire. rupert murdoch shuts his british tabloid news of the world. the paper accused of hacking the phones. school for scandal b 180 teachers and principals in atlanta accused changing answers to hike standardized test scores. investigators say more than 80 educators confessed. and prosecutors charged high schoolers in new york with paying college students to take the s.a.t.s for them. syracuse university assistant basketball coach bernie fine is fired after some men say he molested them as boys. fine says he is innocent. and jerry sandusky, the former penn state assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing a number of boys he says he was mentoring. >> wait for the opportunity to present our side. >> reporter: head coach joe paterno and other top offici

landfill with families never knowing, all part of the mismanagement at the mortuary at dover air force base in delawareime and punishment. hedge fund managerred sentenced to 11 years in prison, the record, for insider trading. >> i would like to say: this is the most humble day of my life. >> a media giant under fire, murdoch shuts his british tabloid after being accused of hanging phones of celebrities and politicians and the voice mail of a murdered teenager. and bernie fine is fired after men say he poe lefted them as boys. he says who is innocent. and jerry sandusky charged with sexually abusing a number of boys he said he was mentoring, and head coach paterno forced out for failing to alert police after an assistant says he told them he believed he was sandusky molesting a child. stay with fox or the latest on the scandals in 2012, in new york, for fox news. >>trace: did you know that it is mega monday in stores across the country, and with all the christmas exists unwrapped and just leftovers in the refrigerator many predict todaying be the third busiest shopping dave the year with lots of day af

"the washington post" reports the bodies were sent from dover air force base in delaware to the kingeorge county landfill in virginia. the families of fallen americans were not told what happened to the remains of their loved ones. the air force tells "the washington post" there are no plans to tell those families now. >> this morning, there seems to be a new tactic for some of the occupy protestors here in washington. some are going on a hunger strike. surae chinn is live at mcpherson square and surae, the protestors are taking on issue with this hunger strike. good morning. >> good morning, mike. yes, the plan is for three of these protestors to launch this hunger strike, refusing any food and drink, only water until d.c. getsity full voting rights and full control of its budget. well, yesterday, it was a different cause where our d.c. and occupy d.c. protestors joined together and marched through the streets of the district and they were calling then for the end to corporate greed and for the creation of new jobs. but yes, they went through the streets of d.c. they went to capital

service members arrived at dover air force base in delaware were sent to the king george county landfill's far more than the military initially acknowledged. the families of the fallen soldiers had authorized the military to dispose of the remains respectfully. they were apparently unaware of the landfill dumping. >>> a heads up for those that live near the pentagon. this weekend, officials are conducting a live fire exercise on sunday between 6:00 a.m. and noon. it's all part of a test to determine gunfire detection systems are working correctly. the deaths will take place in the pentagon's south parking lot. >>> montgomery county police are attempting to shoot deer at a local golf course to help control the population. police had shoot the deer. the course will be closed from 5:30 p.m. to sunrise in january, february and marceau officers can reduce the deer population. park officials say this is in response to more accidents involving deer and to help prevent the spread of lyme disease. >>> new from overnationwide, standard & poors issued a new warning that it may downgrade the aa a ra

group is organizing a memorial for the mishandled remains of fallen service members at dover air force base in delaware. records show the cremated partial remains in dumped in a landfill in king george county in virginia. families of those service members asked not to be notified if the partial remains were ever recovered. american legion post 89 in king george county set up a donation account. it wants to hold a memorial service for the service membersfmembers. the group also wants to create a permanent memorial. >>> a vienna father is facing charges in his 2-month-old daughter's death. police arrested and charged 21-year-old francis reed with murder. his daughter amber was taken to the hospital and treated for injuries on saturday. she died on monday. authorities would not discuss the nature of the alleged abuse. amber's mother has not been charged in the case. >>> a dupont circle restaurant is reopening after a deadly incident right outside its doors. heritage india closed last month after a fight at a late night party spilled outside to connecticut avenue. three people were shot. 34-year-old jhonte

washington post" report that incinerated partial remains of 274 troops had been taken from dover air rce base in delaware and disposed of in a landfill in virginia. this afternoon, the air force said that the practice was stopped three years ago. >> prior to 2008 we took the unidentified -- torsoes under military escort in a dignified manner to a local funeral home and they were cremated. the remains were then turned over to a contractor as was the industry standard. if there was residual mat ter was handle in accordance with the-- the process at the time. in 2008, our own inspection, not driven by any outside force took a look at the process and said we can do better than that. here's a better way to provide dignity and honor to these families and our fallen heroes and we developed the retirement at sea process using a sea solid unfor our loved ones. >> joining us is craig whit lock from "the washington post". he broke the story last month and wrote today's followup. craig so, much bigger than recently known when you first reported thon a month ago. what has happened in that time? >> well, jeff, what ha

embedded thunderstorms that goes from philadelphia all of the way down through dover down into parts of southern delaware and just about ready to move into salisbury, maryland. friends out at ocean city, that line of showers and storms is headed their way. it will be there in about the next 30 to 40 minutes. closer to town, not much going on the immediate metropolitan washington area. sprinkles along interstate 66 toward the west of manassas east of marshall area. further down south and west, light rain coming into southern end of the shenandoah valley. a couple raindrops may live long enough to give us sprinkles between now and midnight but after that this big area of low pressure now centered over central pennsylvania, that's racing into new york and new england and it will take the rain out of here now and it will allow a big push of much colder air to ride a strong west to northwesterly wind in here for tomorrow so you need to be ready for a breezy to blustery day on your wednesday. current temperatures, 30s to the north and west. still near 60 in southern maryland out on the eastern shore. lows toni

dump -- partial remains and dumping ashes inland fill with families never knowing at dover airforce base and delaware>> hedge fund manager sentenced to 11 years in prison the record for insider trading. >>> i would just like to say one sentence, this is the most humble day of my life. >> a media giant under fire, rupert murdoch shuts news of the wormed, the paper accused of hacking -- world the paper accused of hacking the voice mail of a murdered teenager. murdoch news corporation is the parent company of fox news. schools for scandal, 180 teachers and principals in at happen at that accused of change -- atlanta, accused of changing answers, more than 8 to educators con -- 80 educators confessed. high schoolers in new york were charged with paying college students to take sats for them. bernie fine is fired after some men say he molested them as boys. fine says he is innocent. >> jerry sandusky the former penn state assistant football coach charged with sexually abusing a number of boys he said he was mentoring. >> joe paterno and other top officials forced out after failing to alert police after an

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folks may know, if you look at the delaware flag, there is the date, december 7, 1787, and that's the day 13 elected delegates gathered in the golden fleece tavern in dover and voted unanimously to make delaware the first state to ratify the u.s. constitution. that's why our state moniker is -- mr. carper: the first state. small wonder. the guys who were there that day, 30 of them, had been there for three days. i like to say they were drinking hot chocolate at the golden fleece tavern. i'm not sure what they were drinking. the outcome was a good one. for one whole week after that, delaware was the entire united states of america. it opened it up. who did we let in next? was it pennsylvania? i think pennsylvania, maybe new jersey. then the rest followed. i think for the most part, it turned out pretty well. mr. coons: well, senator, one of the things i have always been struck by is that it was 11 years before that that delaware actually on separation day, on june 15 of 1776, acted both to declare its independence from pennsylvania and its independence from the king of england, and by doing so acted in an incredibly risky way because had the continental c

dover air force base mortuary. most of america's fallen troops pass through the delaware base as they prepare for burial. remains were mishandled and body parts incinerated and dumped in a landfill. >>> there's news about another hazing investigation involving the florida a and m marching 100 band. three band members were arrested yesterday in connection with an incident that allegedly occurred weeks before the death of drum major robert champion. police say the suspects attacked hunter on october 31st and november 1st, breaking her leg and causing blood clots. so far police are not linking the suspects to the alleged hazing death of champion three weeks later. >>> just how far can a state go in its crackdown on i am legal immigrants and does arizona go too far? as the u.s. supreme court is prepared to take up the case, i'll ask one of the toughest anti-immigration in the nation, sheriff arpaio joins any next. first, meet aaron wright, the brave 6-year-old met his mother after her car flew down a 60-foot snow covered em bankment. he managed to escape and find a man who called 911. he's too shy to adds me

delaware. wilmington which has about, i don't know, maybe 75,000 or so people. we have dover, in the central part of our state we have about 30,000 people. if you take 8,000 people, that's about as many people as live in any of the rest of our -- well, newark has about 30,000 people with the university of delaware, but other than that, we don't have a lot of large towns. for us, 8,000 people is -- could be the fourth or fifth largest town in my state, just about everybody there. that's a lot of people. that's a lot of people. and at the end of the day, we're not going to say even if these rules go ahead and are fully implemented, we're not going to save those 8,000 people. a lot of those lives will be saved in the coming years, and we need to do that. we need to let this process go forward and do our dead level best. the e.p.a. has tried to be responsive to concerns that have been raised. do our dead level best to provide for a cleaner environment and not to dampen our economic recovery. the last word i would add, i think the idea that we have to choose one over the other i b