erika gonzalez joins us in moore with more of their stories. erika?reporter: doreen, i can't tell you how rapidly we have seen things change behind us at the moore medical center. crews overhauling it to try to get as much debris out of the way as possible. the next couple of days, moore and oklahoma city have some pretty serious thunderstorms and showers headed their way, so they need to make as much headway as they possibly can. meanwhile you've got stuff like this. car doors that are just blown all over the place. imagine these people have the frame of mind of, all right, i've got to move on. this is all around me. and then they find small scenarios that are able to breathe new life into them. cars, part of debris being hauled out of moore. >> i had my neighbor, he come over and helped me lift the dresser up. >> reporter: ken osborn was well into the cleaning process when to his surprise he was reunited with miss priss. >> seems like she's pretty comfortable. >> yeah, she don't -- every time i try to put her down, she just tries to claw me and ever

i'm erika gonzalez. i'll have a special report coming up. >>> why dining out >>> the company in charge of the cruise ship that stalled at sea, lost power,ad overflowing bathrooms, that company want the court to throw out all the passenger lawsuits. we learned today carnival corporation argued in court its ticket clearly states passengers cannot file class action suits. lawyers for the passengers say the company let the doomed ship set sail even with a history of mechanical problems. >>> going out to dinner might get more expensive in fairfax county. the board of supervisors there is considering a tax on restaurant meals. the public will get its first chance to weigh in on the issue on tuesday, may 7th. the idea of a meal tax has been suggested in the past. but it would still need to be approved by voters as part of the november ballot. >>> it is a problem getting more and more attention. alcoholism among women. and one local mother's death inspired an area filmmaker to expose what she calls a secret in t

erika gonzalez has the exclusive. >> reporter: this is 33-year-old jermaine jack, the central figure in a human trafficking case in montgomery county. detectives say he used videos like this one to solicit his services as a pimp. >> i want to make a good impression. >> reporter: with a joint in hand, he touts his success. >> i'm truly blessed. >> reporter: here's how it worked. police say jack would take women from vegas and across the country and bring them to montgomery county to sell sex. >> if you want something out of this game, you know what i'm saying? it starts with you. >> reporter: president and founder of prevent human trafficking, christina arnold. >> reporter: last august two women jack brought to the area came forward and he went on the run. >> police posted an ad on back page in the california and nevada areas to let people know that there was a warrant for his arrest. >> reporter: much to the detectives surprise, jermaine jack called him and as prosecutors said in court today taunted police saying they would never catch him. they did catch him and they put him on a le

erika gonzalez was among the hundreds of people who gathered in chantilly, virginia, to see the fairyunfold. >> reporter: if you could be anything for a day, what would you be? for 8-year-old tara stakener, fighting inoperable brain cancer, there can only be one thing. >> she's a little embarrassed because she lost her hair. >> reporter: the chantilly girl wants to be a princess. >> are you surprised? >> yeah. >> reporter: with a horse-drawn carriage and a couple hundred subjects praising her name. >> tara, tara. >> i had no idea. >> it's all about community. >> one little girl brings a heart -- opens up our hearts. >> reporter: meet the prince charming who made it all happen. tattoo tom as he's called lost his daughter to cancer and now heads a foundation, making things like this possible for children with cancer. >> i believe my daughter gave her life and paid the ultimate price to put me in a position to make me the man i am today so i could touch the lives of these children. >> reporter: tara's treatment will last 70 weeks and she's only through week eight, but today's event is su

erika is a preschoolteacher.. she is a coach. she is a physical fitness person. carol, the mother one morning very quietly went by herself and finished the marathon. beautiful. >> it sounds like they support each other. it's part of their strength. >> such a bond. they see it as something that pulled them close together. it was something that happened. they are not going to dwell on anger or living in the past. they are going to move forward. they were so touched by the generosity of the people of boston. >> i'm touched by carol the mom saying you don't want to see your kids hurt. her kids are grown women. i was struck too, they are in the same hospital with the man that tried to kill them. we all knew that but how erie that must have been for them. >> they are facing a lot of rehabilitation. >> a financial burden. >> for a lot of families they set up a foundation to care for the medical end of it. it's something we don't think about. nobody is covering the expenses for them. all these families need long term hel

they feel like that needs to be suppressed as quickly as possible i mean we're seeing wide spread erika's activity all over the world there is a huge movement in greece recently in egypt the black bloc has made an appearance there's a huge erika's presence in russia the russian federation. in europe i mean they're the are ideas gain traction based on the failings of the state and i think it's very difficult at this point for anyone to maybe argument that the state hasn't been failing where jerry is motivations for keeping his silence to you know. i can't really speak for a jury's position i can tell you though it's my understanding is more or less. this is a fairly gross bladet. misuse of the grand jury process in an attempt to essentially strip gerry of his first fourth fifth and sixth amendment rights among others. so jerry's refusal to cooperate is in some ways actually defense of the bill of rights and finally just from your opinion being one of the friends that has been in that courtroom that has been supporting gerry through all of this how does the notion of locking someone up even

legisladores pero para inmigrantes significa tempor >> autoridades cancelan remocion del país a a erikauis resolvio su situación pero esperan que la reforma migratoria sea aprobada para beneficio de la familia >> espero que en el futuro pase y beneficie a las familias como a mi un poco >> congresistas proponen enmiendas a propuesta de reforma migratoria causando retrasos posiblemente en el senado por diferencias de idiologias >> se vuelve pelea y no pasa nada >> es preocupacion de 11 millones de indocumentados que no pase nada >> tienen 15 días otros 20 listos a venir si pasa reforma migratoria cada persona tiene la familia dispuesto a venir >> pero también chay cambios positivos , se aprobó sliberar a los niños capturados por policía fronteriza , además de aprobar ltb , otra noticiaa buena senadora de california diane , pide cambio en fecha para calificar , del 31 de diciembre a 2011 al día que propuesta de reforma migratoria sea aprobado vamos al estudio >> gracias , adelantaba flavio se discutieron hoy 32 de las 300 enmiendas , una de las más contoversiales es incluir a parejas gays

erika brannock. she's battling back at the hospital. she spent more than six years working right there in harford. now they're coming to her aid. the store mr. donate 10% of everything they meet that day it help pay her medical bills. >>> there's a new tool for kids tonight to help them fight bullying in their schools. howard county now has an app for your child's computer or phone and allows them to report bullying. there's no fear of retribution because the bullies won't know how this was reported. >> i think that's been one of the main issues with reporting bullying, people don't know how to help. i think this app that the county is providing today will really help with that. >> the app will be available county wide at the bang of next school year. >> with school almost done you have to start scheduleling all -- scheduling all the fun stops. >> joce sterman joins us to explain. >> reporter: a new study shows huge numbers of kids and up in the o'r each year -- er each year. more than 90,000 kids within the to the er between 1990 and 2

, i love you, erika. >> i'm a pretty harmless guy.riendly type of relationship. the stories told about your families you get the biggest kick out of them. they're really incredible. >> they are good, they're funny. >> they're good. i'll be back in a couple weeks. anything you want, give a yell. >> i'll be here, i promise. >> okay. we'll see you later. >> take it easy, father tom. >> i will. >> the thing with the chaplin, it's an outside person coming in the unit. we want the outside people to come in here and talk to them. it helps keep the violence down. >> serving 26 years for robbery, ernie johnson landed in ad seg for assaulting an officer. >> have you taken a look at that book yet? i don't want it back unless you're finished with it. >> i've read about half way. >> is it okay? >> yeah. it tells about the life and times. i've been in a couple fights. generally influent person and i don't get along well with others. they don't like my religion. they discriminate against me because of that. >> johnson practices an obscure religion c

erika gonzalez is on the ground and found two soldiers who dropped everything to help. >> reporter: you're from michigan and you're from st. louis and you don't have any ties here? >> nope. >> reporter: why come? >> because it's america. this is our land. >> we also want to tell you how you can help with the recovery effort in oklahoma. news4 is teaming up with the red cross. we'll show you some phone numbers right now. we'll be holding a phone drive from 11:00 a.m. until 7:00 a.m. write down this number if you want to call in later today. 202-885-4949. >> 4:33 is your time. let's check in with melissa mollet at the live desk. >> good morning. this is just into the news roro. a car bomb in pakistan has killed several and injured many others. a bomb was in a car parked along a roadway there. it detonated by remote control when a vehicle carrying members of a special police force were passing by. 220 pounds of explosives inside that car. at this point no one has claimed responsibility. at the live desk, melissa mollet, news4. >>> today president obama will lay out what he's doing to fight te

the company plans to reach out to 29-year-old erika brannock. towson preschoolteacher was near the finish line deeing on her mother when the bombs went off. in the days after the bombings doctors amputated her left leg. >>> today the man accused of sending ricinlated letters to the president and other officials could find out if he's going to be released on bond. james dutschke is expected to be in court for a preliminary and detention hearing. authorities say that dutschke acceptability letters to president obama and u.s. senator and a mississippi judge. authorities say items tested in dutschke's home and studio came back as pose sieve for ricin. >>> two years ago today we learned osama bin laden was dead. may 2nd in pakistan when sale team 6 conducted the rail on the compound where bin laden was hiding out. president barack obama broke the news to the nation, that was a moment many of us do remember and of course one other memories you might have would be the celebration that took place outside the white house immediately after it. >> it was u

>> erika, certainly let me just say that i'm, obviously, so sorry.t our views are, for what you have been through and i think ultimately when we look at what happened in sandy hook, i understand that is what drove this whole discussion. all of us want to make sure that that doesn't happen again. i took a lot of heat. i will say from even members of my own party that didn't like the fact that i voted to actually go to debate on this issue because i do -- we can have strong disagreements but, ultimately, everything should be debated and discussed. >> after the senator's answer, erica walked out of the room telling reporters afterwards, she had had enough. awkward and difficult moment. i believe erica is going to be on the show. no? okay. she's not going to be on but she was. she had a lot of guts to do what she did. obviously, you all know inside of this. i stand on this so i'll be careful because kelly ayotte is definitely having a rough time. having said that, i have a feeling members of her staff, when they were advising her on which way she should

mother erika is an english teacher at elkins high school.ine months pregnant. >> i told her i feel faint, and i put my head down and i essentially just passed out. >> erika's husband is a teacher at the same school and was only two classrooms away when his pregnant wife. >> i opened the door and erika was lying on the floor. >> she says an undetected heart defect caused her heart to stop. >> i had hydro tropic cardiomyopathy. 9 times out of 10 most people die from the first initial collapse. >>. >> co-workers used cpr and a defibrillator until paramedics arrived. >> it was like a ticking time bomb and just happened when i was 36 weeks. >> erika was rushed to the hospital and within minutes doctors delivered her baby by an emergency c-section. >> there were two lives that were hanging in the balance the whole time. >> doctors told the family it was a post mortem birth because her heart stopped beating in the delivery room. thanks to the physicians and her co-workers she and her baby have beaten the odds. >> i am extremely lucky. i don't even

erika's secret overseas a prison's. one zero and liftoff. and a welcome in space or three new crew members arrive at the international space station our day was among them seeing them all from by canoe cosmodrome.

. >> reporter: erika felix, coming home after working illegally for nine years in the united states, hiding in the shadows. >> you're always in fear, you know? >> reporter: a surprising trend so strong, yet often lost in the border security debate. now, migration between the u.s. and mexico is at net zero. about 1.4 million mexicans each year into the united states, and the same number out. some lured by an improving economy at home. soon the streets of these villages could be filled with its citizens again. >> reporter: might as well live in mexico -- >> yeah. >> reporter: -- where you're a full citizen. >> yeah. you have more rights, more freedom, you know, you're not hiding. >> reporter: all of this begging the question for advocates of immigration reform of whether or not too much money is being spent on border security. some $12 billion a year. this at exactly the same time those against immigration reform say more money should be spent. diane? >> with the president, jim avila, reporting in from mexico tonight. >>> we turn now to an american citizen from washington state, who ha

. -- erika is a battling the disease after years of being misdiagnosed. to talk with her via skype, she was hospitalized with her husband doing the top for her. >> she has been an out of -- doing the talk for her. >> she has been in and out of hospitals. [indiscernible] could never pinpoint it. >> she is going through treatment now. but most insurance companies do not cover the long-term care and the bills are adding up. that is the issue these downtown demonstrators are trying to tackle. better cdc guidelines for a disease that seems to be growing by the day. >> we are trying to advocate for prevention, education, and legislation. we want to change all that and make sure that nobody else has to suffer like i have or other people that are suffering that i know of now. disease is considered one of the fastest growing infectious diseases in the u.s.. here in illinois, the number of cases is growing every year. in 2010, there were 130 five official new cases. in 2011, it jumped up to 194. the numbers for 2012 are not in yet, but you can expect the trend to c

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erika shirley from southern california will be sentenced in martinez. document cans say she broke into her son's home in knightson in may of 2011 and took her baby granddaughter. she took a cab to her home where she was arrested the next day. >>> also, in court today, a preliminary hearing begins for an alleged serial car thief wanted in six bay area counties. he has pleaded not guilty. he was arrested in berkeley earlier this month after running from police officers. we are certainly watching the weather. not as well as christina. we had some really beautiful live looks outside. this coming from the east bay. christina has a look at our forecast for today and beyond. >>> it is an important one. specially when we have rain showers coming in on memorial day. >>> barbecues interrupted. we will get to that in just one minute. 6:47. good morning to you, marla, laura. good morning to you at home. you made it to friday. congratulations. 6:47 now. taking ai live look here. this is san bruno. i want to show you, we have some low clouds out there, not a whole lo

the report and what we can do to protect our children from corporate negligence we will be joined by erikaschrader the science director at the washington toxics coalition in just a moment the the some the study summary is pretty startling and what's really quite remarkable about all this is that you know washington seems to be the only state where they have a chemical disclosure law where the legislators actually got together and said you know a parent have a right to know what's in their children's toys for example so and to this is pretty amazing a that it's happened in washington given how our constitutional monarchy or supreme court monarchs that have given so much political power and giant corporations to poison us and i that from is that even one state has come out and said no no no you can't hide that we're going to we're going told told people but then secondly this is the this report comes out and what they are finding is that there are hormone disruptors in some of these toys these products that kids play with things that you know mimic estrogen as soon. occurs that change the wa

janelle monet and erika badu, along with a fantastic new single that is not the new theme song, but wewesome. >> we're still waiting for the winner of this new massive powerball jackpot to come forward. the $590 million ticket was bought in zephyrhills. and kerry sanders joining us now. i should remember zephyr hills because prior to this they were famous for their bottled water. oh, you have one. look at this. >> they're known for this for those people wondering zephyrhills, florida, just south gainsville. population about 13,000. yes, we are all anxiously waiting durious, who is the person? who is the winner and just a couple of moments ago i got an email from the florida lottery officials say i know you are all eagerly awaiting the powerball winner to come forward. we are, too. no one has claimed the $590.5 million prize. so as you can imagine, in a town of this size knowing that the ticket was bought right over there, it is the talk of the town. >> i'm glad because there's a lot of seniors here that buy them. so i'm glad it was someone from around here. >> i wish it was me. i'm her

. >>> good morning, erika. still looking at a pretty good ride around the bay.ke a look at the bay bridge commute. no metering lights. and still incident free on the upper deck. over at 92 the san mateo bridge smooth conditions here with no delays for the westbound ride. for the southbound 101 commute the golden gate bridge it looks like the camera there is a little slow. let's head to the traffic maps for a look at your ride on highway 80 in the westbound direction. that commute at 14 minutes from hercules to berkeley. through the san ramon valley a 16 minute drive time coming out of walnut creek. southbound freeways look good no delays here yet. the north bay ride is still good from nova toe down to the golden gate bridge. >>> it's a case that captured national headlines on wednesday jodi arias was found guilty for the brutal murder of her boyfriend. in an interview she explains why she is hoping now to be given the death penalty when sentenced. >> the worst outcome for me would be life. i would much rather die than live for a long time. i said years ago i wou

>>fue un sol demasiado fuerte y grande, aun hoy me levando y no puedo digerirlo >>eisa gonzalez, erikauestos, piden dos años de cárcel, ay, anita,con el fisco no se juega. (cantando) >>ayer fue el dia del niño en méxico, los famosos pusieron fotografias en perfil twitter de cuando eran capullitos de alelí. y nosotros no nos quedamos atrás. reportó para ustedes jessi soto, beto anaya y el chimuelo tacher, ay, qué bonitos somos. >>ay, si bien lindos. >>que paso? >>tenia pelo, beto >>te veías bien. >>bueno, ahí esta, el revoltillo. >>festejando a los niños hermosos. >>y lo de ana torroja. >>está fuerte eso. >>tú le mandaste... >>es un dineral >>hay que pagar al tío sam >>y ni siquiera a veces el artista no se entera de esto, porque esto lo lleva el contador >>traigo carta >>pero esta abierta >>es que para ahorrar tiempo dice querida karla martinez, te pido que anuncies mi producto, y así agarras por ahí un pedido, te mando las cremas para arrugas y antiguedad, para tacher salma hayek. >>ay, que me mande la cremita ,a ver si estoy como ella >>aquí lo dice. >>no la abra la próxima, >>y la c