. >>> let's get over to aaron gilchrist at the live desk. >> we're just getting video in from a pretty bad accident in potomac, maryland, that happened earlier this morning. we can show you chopper 4 flying over the scene after a car slammed into what police say was a garage attached to this house. this is in the 1100 block of gai gainsboro road. we'reo the driver of that vehicle we believe was an elderly man, was taken to the hospital with pretty serious injuries. you can see some of the bricks knocked off of the edge of that house. this was a two-lane road the car came off of, came across a good stretch of grass before hitting the house. we're waiting to hear from police exactly what may have happened to the man driving that vehicle that may have caused this accident and what condition he's in at this point this morning. that's the latest now from the live desk. >>> take a look at this, this caused a big traffic headache. chopper hour along redland road and briardale road. several trees fell there and brought down some utility poles and power lines. redland road was closed for a whil

news4 aaron gilchrist explains how a shorátm@ of black mental health professionals may bh making theblem worse. >> walks with his head held high today. he gets help with his depression and bipolar disorder. but it hasn't been easy. >> it's a lonely feel. >> he grew up depressed anin 2012 try to killvúw himself by overdose. after years of being ostracized by his family and church. and some even encouraged suicide. >> culture can play a significant part in healing or even making mental illness worse. >> his nigerian family said there were demons in him. communities of color often see mental illness as a weakness or character flaw. but that is just part of the problem. lack of cultural understanding, inadequate treatment and misdiagnosis are among the reasons that blacks don't historically seek mental health care. national alliance on mental illness. finding cultural understanding can be hard too. african americans make up only 2% of psychologists and psychiatrists in this country. and 4% of social workers. >> when you start to throw in ethnicity and culp;kwyou start to say well, hmm. l

the driver robert gilchrist was legally blind and driving on a license that was suspended 14 years agobeen eating a bowl of macaroni at the time of the crash. >> the driver may have been eating and we learned that the driver didn't have a license. >> gilchrist has been arraigned on vehicular manslaughter and driving without a license. >>> now to san francisco. chow was in court on suspended leyland yee. he pled not guilty to racketeering. the indictment allege that he laundered money. but chow's attorney said that chow has gone straight. >> when he was arrested he had 4 to $700 to his name. he lived with his girlfriend free of the he took a vow of poverty and served the community. >> his attorney say chow will fight the charges rather than accept the deal. yee will enter a plea tomorrow. >>> parking enforcement officers giving out tickets they shouldn't. for drivers fighting back it's tougher than expected. there's a way to fight the tickets but navigating the bureaucracy is next to impossible. what you need to know to fight the system and an app that can help. >> if you want the park

. >>> good afternoon i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm pat lawson muse. a victory for gays and lesbians in virginia. a panel struck down the state's same sex marriage ban. >> the panel in richmond is the second one to strike down a state ban making it more likely stat u.s. supreme court will settle the issue. the panel voted 2-1 that the gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry. is in the decision the court wrote denying the choice prohibits from participating. gay and lesbians in the state still can't get married until the case is resolved. virginia now has 21 days to decide if it wants to appeal the case. the state's attorney general has already said he won't defend the ban. he just spoke at a press conference. >> today is yet another victory for the principle of equality that is so central to the american experience and i am proud that the commonwealth of virginia is leading on one of the most important civil rights issues of our day. >> he believes it will be decided by the supreme court. a federal circuit court made a similar ruling in

aaron gilchrist splaeexplains h works. >> it started with a science fair entry and now the 17-year-old inventor is ready to get to work saving lives. so far 18 children across the country have died in hot cars. this device called the hot seat is a censor. it is designed to sound an alarm if it is left in the car and the key chain gets more than 40 feet away. >> loud enough to grab people's attention around the vehicle as well as remind the parent on the key fob or cell phones. >> the inventor says she is ready to build a prototype of the hot seat to show retailers and started a fundraising campaign and passed her goal there. we are waiting to hear when she takes her next step which is production of the prototype. i'm aaron gilchrist, news 4. >>> he is an accused child molester but what happened after police caught up with him that shocked people in a neighborhood and sent officers to the hospital. >> reporter: tonight meet a woman who is turning 100 years old. find out why that is not the >>> the pilot of a small plane that crash landed on a beach in florida and killed a father and dau

. >> reporter: what gilchrist couldn't see was the future. as the movement grew, inciting violence led to its down fall. in 2010 he pulled the last outpost at the border. >> it ended up with that national movement with members with nazi swasticas. that's where this was always headed. >> reporter: moving the immigration debate from the border to the beltway. while the minutemen movement may be gone there are still lone types who patrol the desert. >> they're very dangerous and heavily armed. >> reporter: that's joel smith with you main borders in arizona, an aid organization that mans water tanks. >> reporter: for those trying to cross the harsh arizona desert especially on a day like today when temperatures are well into the 90s these water stations may be their own chance for survival. >> over the years i've had the barrel shot. i've had barrels stabbed. >> back in california we met dan russell. he comes three times a week to fix this old bas barb wire fence. >> you do what you can do. >> gilchrist said he's committed, too, but the future is

that's powerful. >>> i'm aaron gilchrist at the live desk. we are just learning the obama administration has approved the use of sonic cannons to explore for oil and gas off the east coast, essentially in the atlantic ocean from florida all the way up to delaware. energy companies would eventually we able to buy gas and oil leases to start drilling in that area if they were able to find profitable sections of the ocean in this area. there were some guidelines put in place as well to protect whales, other sea animals from loud noises, a lot more traffic in the waters in that area. still, the government's environmental impact study says more than 100,000 sea creatures could be hurt by this process. that's the latest from the live desk, barbara. >>> and we're following breaking news in the middle east. today members of the united nations security council will hold an emergency meeting on the israel-gaza conflict. israel launched a ground operation late last night in cease-fire talks broke down. it also says one of its soldiers was the country's

news 4 aaron gilchrists has his story. >> the floor was uneven so i was walking back and forth in the water jumping over the waves. >> reporter: july 2012, parker went to ocean city with his mother and little brother. he had been playing in the water for about an hour when he dove over a wave head first. >> it was shallower than i thought it was and i hit a sand bar right away on my head and in the blink of an eye couldn't move, couldn't feel. >> reporter: parker was under water, fully conscious, being tossed around on the waves. he couldn't feel being rescued. >> when the life guards lifted my left arm and lifted it in front of me and i see my arm but my arm feels like it's over here because everything feels numb. that was the first shocking thing. >> reporter: parker smashed two vertebrae. after his first surgery doctors gave him a 4% chance of having movement below his shoulders again. >> in the first week i asked my mom when are they going to get me walking again. are we going to go home soon. >> reporter: parker's injury isn't unique. there were 226 major medical injuries at ocea

wayne gilchrist, former representative from virginia, argues for a market-based approach to reducing carbon pollution. here's what he said. "we could slash our debt by making power plants and oil refineries pay for the carbon emissions that endanger our health and environment." "this policy," they write, "would strengthen our economy, lessen our dependence on foreign oil, keep our skies clean, and raise a lot of revenue." top advisors to former republican presidents have joined the chorus. william d. ruckelshaus, liam thomas, william k. reilly and christine todd whitman, all headed the environmental protection agency during republican administrations. they all recently testified before the environment and public works committee that it's time to get serious about climate change. here's how they put it in a "new york times" op-ed: "as administrators of the e.p.a. under presidents richard nixon, ronald reagan, george bush, and george w. bush, we held fast to commonsense conservative principles. protecting the health of the american people, working with the best technology available, an

as we pursue diplomacy, we're andy gilchrist that the amazing iron dome, researched and funded jointly by israel and america, stands watch over israel's cities. during my most recent visit to israel in may, i saw first hand the technology at palm heen air force base, met the young israelis who operate the system. dedicated men and women who work now around the clock. in recent weeks, over 100 rockets a day have been fired at israel. iron dome has literally meant the difference between life and death. and i'm deeply proud that president obama helped make it possible, and i'm proud that with his enthusiastic support, the united states will more than double our investment in iron dome in 2015. [ applause ] >> the president also instructed the secretary of defense to inform congress last week that we support an additional $225 million to accelerate the production of iron dome components in israel in israel this year and maintain israel's stockpile of interceptor missiles. now -- [ applause ] thank you. now congress has a critical opportunity this week, to fund the president's supplemental