coming up on news4 mrks they remember a beloved handyman and a search for hit and run driver who killed him.s4 >> n at 11:00 begins with breaking news. >>> we begin with breaking news tonight regarding judge bret kavanaugh. i'm care ca gonzales. nbc news confirmed in the last hour that the woman accusing him of sexual assault has tentatively agreed to testify xt thursday. nbc's chris pallone has more on the latest development. >> reporter: attorneys for a california college professor say she hasccepted an invitation to testify before the senate judiciary committee next week. but tensee negotiations continu over the detailsike when and where it will take place and what the format will be. the attorneys sayti chr blasey ford will provide what they call firsthand knowledge of bret kavanaugh's sexual du misc. ford claims when they were teens in the 1980s, he groped her and tried to remove her clothes at party. he categorically denies the allegation. >> what is your response to the allegations? >> reporter: the judge was seen today leaving his maryland home and has said he will defend his in

on top of have you ever tried to call a handyman in this town?iculously difficult to get hold of those kinds of workers to come do work. >> reporter: in fact, said the defense, the only thing the state had tying george to the murder was noel stevens's word. >> without noel stevens's statement to the police, george is an innocent man. >> reporter: and how could the jury believe stevens, said the defense, when even his own friend, the tipster big will said -- in court -- that the man was an habitual liar. >> honesty, i would put him at a scale of 1 to 10, i would put him at a scale of maybe 1 1/2. >> ten being very honest and -- >> 1 1/2, not honest at all. that's correct. >> reporter: george's attorney was itching to cross-examine the habitual liar who'd condemned his client. which presented the prosecutors with a dilemma -- the man at the center of their case against george might just destroy it. he could be a real problem. >> he could be a real problem. and there was a substantial amount of discussion between pam and i over whether or not we're

a handyman home repair business.ha owe farrell is her part-time bookkeeper. >> citi bin sells a trash can storage product she developed at checklists. >> have a lot of clients that needed custom carpentry projects and they were increasing asking for trash enclosures. >> liz saw an opportunity in all those trash can enclosure requests. after careful market research, she founded citi bin to make and sell these high end storage products. >> we decided to make it its own business. we had a lot of experience. >> nevertheless, switching from an hourly home repair service to a manufactured product business turned out to be a way bigger leap than either of them anticipated. >> i did not anticipate how the difference in cash flow would just impact the business. >> with the service business, the cash flow was simple and predictable. and there were low startup costs and easy financials. >> the cost related to running the business got covered as the business runs. >> whereas the hardware store purchase maybe cost $50, the invent

she went from handyman to running a storage business. >>> the very dynamic karen sideman becker share as what she learned when taking airport security clearance clear out of bankruptcy, plus the #hashtag how to see her movement. when it comes to running your business, we have your back. that's all coming up next on this special edition of "your business." ♪ >>> hi, everyone. i'm j.j. ramberg and welcome to "your business," a show dedicated to helping your growing business. when we first started this business 12 years ago, there was not a lot of attention paid to female founders. the fact is there are less of them than male founders. they're starting to get the attention that they, we all deserve. today we're dedicating the whole program to women in business and we kick it off with one owner here in new york. she started a service business and then decided to spen off a second product-based company. she was shocked to discover how different running those two wering but figured out a way to make it all work. >> the handyman tasha is healthy in a good way. she's not a tie ramt. >> this b

a day later he called and claimed a handyman killed her. he was charged with murder. he disappeared after posting bail. the podcast is already lead to go new tips. >> before the podcast we were not getting calls from the public. and now we are. and all it takes is one good tip for us to be able to find peter chadwick. >> it is called count young to capture. the first three of six episodes are out now. >> a new law by governor brown will require garage doors work during a fire. any automatic garage doors that you will buy would have to include a backup battery that kicks in during power outages. at least furing the wildfires because they could not open their garage doors to drive to safety. >>> compared to the last time last year, people are paying more at the pump. the average price fell to $2.90. that is still 28 cents higher than last year. they estimate prices will continue to fall. no surprise the highes average price for the u.s. is right here in the bay area at $3.69. the lowest is in jackson, mississippi where drivers pay $2.50 for a gallon. >>> i bought it fri

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what i do here pretty much is remodeling homes and handyman work fixing other people's mistakes and other people's problems mostly for homeowners residential it keeps me real busy. i bill out usually about sixty hours a week i can easily put in a twelve hour day no promise you have to run you know my go to bank post office go see clients check on supplies orders stuff a lot of running around to do i love to work how i am a workaholic there's no doubt about it the money's nice but i like to work just the way my family is. these are some of the old cattle pens in corrals here some of the fallen apart completely but this is where they bring in the cattle to brando and have the calves i have the vets work on them and stuff but now i can see it i don't use it anymore . it was kind of a tough life i mean you lose cattle they die and the winners and so on the hot summers and you know drought you just don't know what's going to happen gamble every year they never made a lot of money doing it most are ranchers and farmers but they really don't want to do that anymore because they've got the palms

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and then you have to be your own handyman looking for solutions to all the little problems. the house cost eleven for. thousand euros to build he paid half unself the rest came from his family he's been living in the tiny house for ten months the utility goes on though he pays just forty two year as a month for electricity and the insulation is would find its environmentally friendly and keeps the interior cool in summer. practice what i've found is totally practical about my house is that my fridge is just two steps away step to the stove one and a half back to the sofa for lazy people like me it's incredibly practical. so practice the telly house concept originated in the united states nearly a century ago people started building little houses on wheels to be more mobile now the tiny house movement has spread around the world its fans reduce their material needs to the minimum making a personal philosophy of efficient use of space. what i see is beneficial about the tiny house movement is that it creates a general awareness for the issues that are behind it those being sus

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for ct re-eleion in a state president trump won handily in 2016.gh >>> to neighbors of a beloved handyman are pleading for the hit and run driver who killed him to comerw d. a prince william county police officer saw the man lying in thd mi of rte 1 here last night. before that officer could check on him, a blueehicle ran the man over. the driver stopped to check for damage, then drove off. today, alvin smith's loved ones brought flowers to the spot where he die >> that's somebody's son. somebody's father. just left him there like he was n'nobody, like he d have anybody. >> reporter: police say it's possible the driver of the blue vehicle didn't know he hit a person. it i't clear w smith was lying in the road before he was run over. >>> dozens of police cruisers swarmed a montgomery county apartment building tonight. chopper 4 zooming in on an officer by a dumpsterhi pointin riving towards the building. police say the call came out as shots fired on l stewarte in white oak. officers staked the please oace but eventually learned the caller was mistaken. >>> dum truck overturned and scatter

." > now to a community's search for answers after a popular handyman was killed in a hit-and-run. happened tuesday night on route 1. loved ones held a vigil forvi smith. amy cho has their emotional plea for closure. >> those who knew al vvin smith said he would drop everything to help you. >> this is what a community is about. >> a communitydi h candles to honor a life well lived. al van smithnown by his nickname a-1. he was always out about about in dumfries doing work and picking up trash. >> he's going to be missed. you don't find many young men like that that has respect. >> amonghe crowd, angela dawkins who says smith is like a son to her. >> he would alw say "how's mama doing?" because he looked a at me like a mother. >> police say a park ranger spotted him lying on route 1 tuesday gh when the ranger went to help he saw a vehicle run smith riover. ther took off. policeay s an autopsy say smith may ha been hit by another car, too. what will you miss most? >> his smile, his kindness and my dly hug. >> reporter: and friends have a essage to the hit-and-ru drivers. >> be a man o

." >>> now to a community's search for answers after a popular handyman was killed in a hit-and-run.ash happened tuesday night on route 1 in dumb grise. -- dumfries. amy cho has the family's emotional plea for closure. >> those who new alvin smith say no mter what you were doing, he would drop everything if you need his friends and family gathered to pay their respects. >> this is what family is about. this is what a community is abr:t. >> repor community holding candles to honor a life well lived. alvin smith known by his nickname a-1. sriends say he was out and about in dumfr picking up trash and doing handiwork. >> he's going to be missed because you don't find many young men like that that's well respected, that has respect. >> reporter: among the crowd, angela dawkins who says smith was like a son to her. >> he would say, how's mama doing? because h looked at me like a mother. >> reporter: police say a park ranger spotted smith is lying on route 1. when he went to hawp he sve a cle run smith over. the driver stopped then took off. police say an autopsy revealed smith may have be

a day later police say the real estate investor called 911 claiming a handyman killed her and then kidnapped point. >> they killed her yesterday. >> reporter: the six episodes of the "countdown to capture" podcast going into details about the case including chadwick's arrest. >> given the blood on his hands, the scratches and bite marks on his body and the holes in his story, perhaps it should come as no surprise. >> reporter: charged with murder and pleading not guilty, he posted $1.5 million bail. his passport seized by police. then in 2015 investigators say chadwick emptied his bank accounts and vanished. >> he does have money. so he's able to do some things that other fugitives can't. >> reporter: authorities say he could be anywhere in the world, but with the podcast already leading to new tips, police are hopeful chadwick's days on the run could be numbered. >> before the podcast we were not getting calls from the public and now we are. all it takes is one good tip for us to be able to find peter chadwick. >> reporter: the father of three is on the u.s. marshal's most wanted fugitive l

on the handyman we shared, my wife and i shared an overnight train ride from munich to amsterdam. i had my travel show on public travel and untrained travel and i wanted a private compartment on my honeymoon. our show is being underwritten by a real pass from white plains, new york and as a wedding present they gave us as many overnight train rides as he wanted. great way to save money if you're on a budget. the last leg of our trip we cannot get a private compartment the matter how hard i try. i drove my white crazy because every time at the train station i said has there been a cancellation. we ended up going and then at oktoberfest i learned the hard way that everyone was right. much stronger in germany. ... dreading we would have miserable compartment mates and i turned tout to be a lovely brother and sister from georgia, and i we have a shared love of book >> we have a shared level of books and shared my which. the sister was a huge lever books and we spent almost the entire night talking about books. i had told her sure fans of my tv show and they love to travel when i got v