i'm hakim dermish.e a great day. >> george mason left. >> i know. >> still drinking out of the mug, though. >> you're representing. >> well, next up is reporter's notebook, a stories affecting our community. >> but first reporter's notebook. here's pat lawson muse. >>> we begin this morning with the occupy protests. thursday marked the second month anniversary of the occupy wall street protest. occupy d.c. protested in washington. as police raids disrupted camp sites in other cities, d.c. city council said she should be allowed to stay put here in the nation's capital. welcome liz of the washington examiner and jerry phillips and dave mcconnell, our regular panelists. public safety and sanitation have become big issues in these other cities. like oakland and new york where we have seen violence and a lot of problems. are those issues here or are they going to be issues here? even more importantly, does washington handle protests such as these better than other cities? liz, why don't you start. you cover

i'm hakim dermish.a great day. >>> lsu remaybins undefeated. >> the much anticipated game went down to the wire. the much hyped matchup between the number 1 and number 2 teams in college football was a defensive showdown. in fact, neither team was able to get into the end zone all night. however, alabama missed four field goals, including a critical one in overtime as lsu escaped with a 9-6 win. >>> and we're going to check in with chuck bell and your oklahoma sooners. took down a end but you actually lost a really key player. acl, man. that's not good. >> yeah, not good at all. ryan broils our number one receiver for oklahoma, yeah, down with an acl. you hate to see that for anybody in any situation. but somebody comes back for a senior year. just doing their best and has something like that happen. unfortunate. but we're here to talk about for now anyway is your weekend forecast. as much as i'm sure you would love for me to talk about oklahoma. outside on your sunday morning we have a cloud deck hangi

have a great day. >> thank you, hakim. >>> it is 6:26 right now still ahead this hour, cabbies on alert you can do to help police nab the violent criminals targeting them. >>> and the search for a possible serial killer. how police say a simple job search may have led to the murders. >>> you're watching nbc 4, washington's news leader. now live in h.d. this is news 4 today. >>> welcome to news 4 today. >>> it is saturday, november 26th. we'll have a look at the day's top stories in just a minute. first, let's check on your weekend forecast. >> how are you two doing today? >> i saw people in short sleeves yesterday. >> when people play golf yesterday there was across the lake, there's no frost? >> not as late as 8:45 on yesterday morning that would have surprised me. golfers -- i know a lot of golfers. they have an excuse for anything and anything as to why the ball didn't end up on the hole. and frost on the grass sounds like a good one. it slipped. it was on the way. outside on a beautiful saturday morning good looking way to get your weekend started out there. not a whole lot of frost

i'm hakim dermish.e a great day. >>> a hockey game produced an unlikely and heart warming family reunion. before the sabres/bruins game darryl and lori were ready to drop the ceremonial first puck in honors of veterans day. they got a huge surprise as their son showed up center ice. look at them crying. jacobs has been in afghanistan for the past seven months but was recently granted leave. they dropped the ceremonial first puck together. i can't think of a better way to spend your veterans day. thank you to all the servicemen and women out there. can't say it enough. i know you said that. you had a great tweet this weekend. it was very inspirational. >> i said there may not be peace everywhere in the world but there is peace at arlington cemetery where i was running and taking great fall photographs. it's just so important. so important. my dad served in the navy. it's an important thing to shake a hand and remember these are people doing an awful lot for us. >> and we have had great weather. veterans

. >>> hakim is here to answer the question how the caps did. >> they did not get a win in new york.rolling and islanders are reeling. washington is the highest-scoring team in the nhl. new york is the lowest scoring team in the nhl. but not tonight on long island. the islanders outscored the caps. here's how it went down. believe it. ovechkin, playing back-to-back road games. four on four. backstrom to ovechkin. he rips it much caps take a 2-0 lead. second period it's a 2-1 game. islanders on the offensive. brian rollston fires one. game tied at 2-2. watch this kid here. islanders score. third period on the power play. top shelf. mama hides the cookies. his second goal of the season. we're tied at 3-3. less than two minutes to go. former cap with a shot from the top. can't corral the puck. scores on the rebound. islanders would add an empty neither they beat the caps 5-3. finally the sweet taste of victory, new york snaps a six game losing streak. caps back at home on tuesday against dallas. college football now. randy edsall's first season is a losing season. today against the cava

penalty although the government did appeal a prosecution but in the end we also if you know because al hakim it was a it was a miscarriage of justice. because we were not allowed to present any information and any evidence that we had gathered from experts about the role of function of because we were doing that it was not for the defense of australia and we were not going to bring that information into the court room and so in the end we were acquitted of those charges that's what i want to ask you then i mean why australia i mean the us does seem to have bases just about everywhere around the world but if you think of countries that the us has no problem with at all australia would be one of them so there's got to be a reason why this is the location of this highly secretive sophisticated. well this is two reasons one of them is that it's a convenient location in terms of the functioning of those taps satellite bases so it's in the middle of a straight does it and has a cleave you know of the earth the space in the satellite systems that it needs to have access to so we just tickly it's a

of total offense 56 yds to willie clark first quarter and in the third the next goal has a big to hakim about to go 7-3. penn state model of success with honor words that become more hollow with each passing hour and while joe paterno no had any exploded sexual abuse scandal lack of diligence in following through on allegations against former assistant to jerry sandusky very well cost them the rest of his career, penn state planning for joe paterno church from the school part of the group's that had knowledge of sandusky crime but did not do anything to stop them. surprised if joe paterno said to the weekend and 43 nba players including all but one of the player representatives met in new york emphatically rejected the latest honors proposal which they will pull off the table at 5:00 tomorrow owners or should said the players agreed to 50-50 revenue split if other systematic changes made i do not think that is going to happen and certainly not by 5:00 eastern time tomorrow afternoon this is how bad it is getting players say they are going to refuse to where michael jordan shoes because