it is on emery grove road, a townhouse on emery grove road in gaithersburg. again, this has been under way since 5:00. don't know anything about any negotiations going on with anyone or who is inside or whether all the people involved are inside related, if this is a domestic situation or not. we are told by sources there may be someone who is intoxicated in one of these situations and that may be what's going on at this point. some of the homes close to this have been evacuated at this point. people who live just beyond this barricade here are not being allowed to go home right now until the situation is resolved. so if you are in this general area expect some disruptions and some divers. you will be directed around this situation while it resolves itself. again, a hostage situation started at about 5:00 at a house on emery grove road in gaithersburg. police have set up a perimeter around there and they've evacuated some homes in the immediate area of the house where this is happening. we'll bring you details as they become available. in gaithersburg derrick

this is in the neighborhood along emery grove road.more we'll bring it to you again. assault in progress now, a man with a gun we understand. montgomery county police on the scene. we'll continue to follow this and bring you more as soon as it comes in to us. jim, pat? >> barbara, thank you. >>> a mother who blogged about her son's health condition was convicted today of poisoning him to death. a new york jury found lacy spears guilty of second-degree murder. prosecutors say spears force-fed her 5-year-old son sodium through a stomach tube and that she did it for the attention on facebook where she chronicled her son's illness. doctors found no possible explanation for the little boy's high levels of sodium other than someone deliberately feeding it to him. >>> new information about the upbringing tonight of the isis militant known as jihadi john. he was identified last week as mohammed emwazi a 26-year-old who grew up in london but was born in kuwait. this picture was taken while he worked at computer company there. people who knew hi