>>> investigators had two problems in the murder of michelle herndon. first, they couldn't understand why their prime suspect, oliver o'quinn, would kill her. and second, o'quinn had fled the united states to ireland in order to avoid prosecution. to smoke him out, investigators contacted the "irish times" newspaper. >> i e-mailed them a picture of michelle, a picture of oliver, and a synopsis of the homicide investigation, and told them he was wanted in the united states. they published it on three separate occasions. >> facing increasing pressure, o'quinn left ireland and flew to the west african country of senegal, where he was immediately turned over to u.s. authorities. once in custody, investigators got a court order to obtain o'quinn's dna sample, which was then compared to the dna found on the syringe cap. it matched. >> to me, i would equate that with getting the suspect's fingerprint off the trigger of the murder weapon. >> oliver made a great many mistakes, thank goodness. >> oliver o'quinn was charged with first-degree murder. the only remai

while they are making progress at herndon high school, down the road, herndon elementary school has not been touched. the effort to dig out, the first-line of defense starts with people like jeff. >> plowing the snow, trying to make it easier to get around. >> this snowplow driver knows that taming the roads is a challenge. >> areas ice underneath the snow. >> he suspects he will be behind the wheel again this winter. >> i don't think it is over yet. i think we will get more. islocale treacherous it outside even at a busy area like tysons, a fairly well traveled road, old courthouse road, covered in snow. underneath that, there is ice. his parking lot is an absolute sheet of ice, something for people to be mindful of in the morning commute tuesday. live in tysons, jay korff, abc 7 news. >> thank you so much, jay. as the weather situation changes, count on us to keep you updated for the rightist -- latest road conditions, school closings. we are starting early tomorrow at 4 a.m. labor trying to leave her house for the hospital. what happened next is terrifying. her story coming up. inif

a flatbed headed to herndon with three concrete slabs, each weighing about 10,000 pounds, ended up in the road when the driver says someone pulled out in front of him. >> when it happened, i tried to see what happened with the guy, he run, he never stop. >> reporter: the driver of the car did not stay, but for the better part of two hours, the concrete slabs used for building construction sat there on route 123 as a crane operator, police, and the driver worked to get it cleaned up. police told me there's a lot of truck traffic in the area, and random inspection showing major issues with safety are concerning. >> just check every day before i left. >> reporter: the load was eventually cleaned up, but not without derailing morning plans. >> yeah, going to work right now, and i'm running late, about 30 minutes, which i have to call and let them know. >> reporter: reporting in lorton, virginia, zachary kiesch, news4. >>> many of you ranked d.c. as one of the worst places for traffic. the average person wastes about 40 hours a year sitting in traffic the study says. that's about the same

. >> he was driving the truck along route 123 on his way to herndon when another car cut in front of him. he slammed on his brakes and several thousand pounds of concrete came crashing down near the intersection. he says the slab used in building construction was change this morning. while crews used cranes to try to clean it up, the traffic continues to back up. the amount of congestion caused frustration for many drivers just one day after tuesday's traffic troubles downtown. i've been driving for almost 45 minutes. >> known was injured and no word on whether any charges will be filed. >> officials at potomac high school lifted a lockdown in place just as a precaution. police say around 9:00 this morning, officers responded to a reported armed robbery in the 1400 block in maryland. police are still on the scene investigating. now to a developing story in montgomery county. security is in place at montgomery counties rockville campus because of vague right there. a graffiti threat in the stairwell of the student stairwell warned school shooting. john has details on how the school is

she is a co-owner of eldon market in herndon and she says she will keep working there and use the money she won to pay off just a couple of bills. in seven months after a life-changing surge ray local college student is back on her feet and able to walk on her own and drive a car. now her journey of healing is taking a new turn thanks to a nationwide contest. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver has her story. >> reporter: she is not very good at hiding her excitement. under that big smile, it is clear that this student is let loving her new ride. >> oops. that was an accident. >> reporter: it is all hers for free. thanks to a nationwide contest for a ford fusion. >> i entered and a couple of months later find out i won. >> my name is justine. i'm 20 years old. justine put together. she mapped out where she was going with the new car. a road trip with her sister to california. then came the announcement. >> because you won. >> thank you so much. >> reporter: those tears aren't just about winning a car. they represent battling physical pain. >> basically when i stood up all of

the winner bought the ticket at the eldin market in herndon. normally in megamillions you only get $1 million. but he chose the megaplier. >> we never hear anyone wins in virginia. we never hear of anybody winning in virginia. so this is awesome. especially in our store. >> wow, what a great story. now the winner has six months to collect the prize, in the extremely rare case that person is you, here's another look at the numbers. 7, 20, 40, 54 and 69. the megaball number was 12. since no one won the jackpot, it keeps growing to $400 million, but the next drawing is set for tuesday. >>> tonight we're waiting to hear whether alexandria decides to add more bike lanes on a major roadway. the city council met this afternoon to discuss the issue and listen to the residents concerns. it would impact a busy stretch of route 7 that leads in and out of old town. we spoke with residents for and against the plan. >> me and my son walk a lot in old town and the streets are very narrow, if we put in a bike lane, we'll have a buffer, it will be easier to wal

jerry connelly will stop by the herndon center and will talk about the -- the neighborhood resource centerarn don. >>> this morning the consumer alert, from the dairy maker who all right issued a recall on cheese. >> the sun, clouds and even a chance of snow, your weekend >>> expanding its recall linked to a wisteria outbreak. the company is recalling cultured sour cream. it's already recalled 16 varieties of cheese. the products were sold in 3 maryland, virginia and the district of columbia. >>> today marks the beginning of a national problem gambling awareness month and the virginia lottery wants to make sure that you're playing responsibly. two psas are about to hit the airwaves again on both television and radio. one encourages you to seek help if you have a gambling problems. >>> mgm developers are at odds over the new casino. some local owners, they're worried that the massive casino will be bad for business and could diminish the national beauty of the several landmarks located nearby. >>> in news for your health this morning, insomnia may not be something you suffer from at night.

herndon was offended by the apotheosis that lincoln underwent after his death.e wanted to read people that lincoln was, in fact, a human being, a man, not a god as he said. so we spent three or four years scouring kentucky, indiana and southern illinois for people have known lincoln in his youth and as a young man. all of this was great, and most of we know about lincoln's life before he got to spent fuel, or certain before you became as a legislator, we know from herndon interviews, so-called informers. unfortunately, he used a lot of us in ways that baffled the lincoln, and irritated them. the lectures and then the articles and openly the biography that he with some others including ward published in late 1860s and early '70s claimed that lincoln, it's impossible to list all of the claims, that he was the son, not the son of thomas lincoln but the son of another man, that he was a so-called illegitimate child and his mother also been born illegitimately as the train went back them. he claimed that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln, the fact that love i

came to regard this episode is the highlight of his career, even if as he freely at me to william herndon, lincoln's law partner turned biographer, that he had come upon the whole thing by lucky chance. he said from my report to see how accidentally i discovered a plot that i was looking for nothing of the kind and had certainly not the slightest idea of it but on his tombstone here and they'll annoy, one finds the following inscription. in the hour of the nation's peril, he conducted in faithfully through the ranks of treason to the scene of his first inauguration as president. i am guessing that many people who come to this story will know that abraham lincoln survived to become president of the united states and soon afterwards the nation was plunged into civil war. i mean, why tell the story? white now? well, there are three reasons. one, the barnburner of the story reads like one of the yellow but adventure novels of the day that pinkerton himself love to read. he's got conspirators to give blood does at midnight. detect is jumping off of trains. you got the president elect of the un

came to regard the episode as the highlight of his career even if, as he freely admitted to william herndon, lincoln's law partner turned biographer, that he had come upon the whole thing by a lucky chance. he said, from my reports you will see how accidentally i discovered the plot. i was looking for nothing of the kind. and had certainly not the slightest idea of it. but on his tombstone here in illinois, one finds the following inscription: in the hour of the nation's peril, he conducted abe hamlin con -- the abraham lincoln safely through the ranks of treason to the scene of his first inauguration as president. now, i'm guessing that many people who come to this story will know that abraham lincoln survived to become president of the united states. and and that soon afterwards the nation was plunged into civil war. i mean, why tell the story, why now? well, there are three reasons. one, it's barn burner of a story. it reads like one of the yellow-backed adventure novels of the day that pinkerton himself loved to read. you've got conspirators taking blood oaths at mud night, you've got d

the second panel on the mad if left is thomas herndon, a phd student at the university of miami. we are going to have 3 inches of snow tonight. the university of massachusetts and the co-author of the influential essay does it consistently stifle economic growth a critique. thomas herndon and michael ash and robert point out a widely faulty economic study whereby underlining the intellectual foundation for austerity programs that slashed budgets at a social studies around the world. so we look forward to hearing from comments on this and finally, we are pleased on the extreme left of the stage it's not on the political spectrum is stephanie herring. she is the weather and climate extreme lead at the national is he a neck and atmospheric administration or noaa. she and her researchers published a groundbreaking report between the human caused climate change and extreme weather events like hurricanes and the herriot we are very pleased to have you join us. so, we are going to start with erica and i have a set of questions you've all had a chance to work with these questions. the re

sandra: dish network chairman charlie herndon contacted directv ceo mike white to discuss a merger butu listening to fox business you would have known about this potential deal last month. listen to this. >> a lot of people think about directv as this gets approved, you could see that deal. sandra: direct response? >> liz claman had the ceo of the dish on at one point. sandra: he said at the time this was a possibility. >> doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the banking clients paid that cover the space. when you have comcast, time warner combined to make this mega company, this is a $200 million market cap combined company and you have a lot of small players those small players will look for synergies and combined and will we have here. and they have us. they are being merged with comcast and that is where you will see a lot of consolidation. there are a lot of deals in this space. for charlie oregon to do this seems like a layup. some of for us play the waiting game with comcast, if you presupposes that connaught and bother the administration. and sec approvals, and if that

our second panelist seated to the immediate left is thomas herndon. thomas is a ph.d.udent at the university of miami -- university of -- you wish it were miami i guess. [laughter] >> oh, yeah. [laughter] >> we're going to have three inches of snow tonight just -- >> there we go. >> so the university of massachusetts at amherst and the co-author of the influential essay, "does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth?" in this essay herndon and co-authors michael ash and robert poland point out errors in reinhart and rogoff's widely-cited economic study, thereby undermining the the intellectual foundation for austerity programs that slash budgets and social spending around the world. so we look forward to hearing from thomas on this. and finally we're very pleased on the extreme left of the stage here, if not on the political spectrum is stephanie herring. [laughter] stephanie is weather and climate extremes project lead at the national oceanic and atmospheric association or noaa. she published a ground breaking report that sought to explain the connection

herndon was offended by the kind of apotheosis that we can underwent. he wanted to remind people that lincoln was a human being, man cannot god. he spent three or four years of cellaring kentucky, indiana, and southern illinois for people who had known lincoln in his youth and as a young man. all of this was great and most of what we know about his life before he got to springfield were certainly before he became a state legislator we know from his interviews of so-called informants. unfortunately he use a lot of this in ways that baffled and irritated the lincoln family. the articles published claimed that lincoln -- it is impossible to list all the claims, that he was the sun -- not the son of thomas lincoln but the son of another man, that he was a so-called illegitimate child and his mother had been born illegitimately. the claim that lincoln had never loved mary todd lincoln and the love of his life had been a young woman named in the wreckage to have died when lincoln was off in springfield or at the old state capital for his first term in the leg

our second panelist seated to the immediate left is thomas herndon. thomas is a ph.d student at the university of the if you wish you were miami. we're going to three inches of snow tonight, just to make you feel at home here. the university of massachusetts at amherst, and the co-author of the influential essay does high public debt consistently stifle economic growth, a critique of reinhart and rogoff. in this essay earned an and co-authors point out errors that reinhart and rogoff widely cited economic study, thereby undermining the intellectual foundation for austerity program to slash budget and social standing around the world. so we look forward hearing from thomas on this. and, finally, we are very pleased, on the extreme left of the stage, not on the political spectrum is stephanie herring, stephanie is weather and climate extreme project lead at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, or noaa. she published a groundbreaking report that sought to explain the connection between human caused climate change and extreme weather event

host: next call is from john in herndon, virginia. democrats like.er: thanks for taking my call. a long time ago, few people used to know what was going on in other countries. now everything is out there. every president, whatever they do, the media is going. ,ne thing i don't understand is they don't go to china to demand things. ve giveused it to ha and take with respect to each other. they are so arrogant. they don't respect other countries. i have a lot of respect for john mccain. putin friends, it's not going to help the situation. it will lead to more chaos. the president can do nothing when you have our leaders insulting other presidents he has to work with. guest: i really wish it were true that we were reporting everything and had access to everything. i really wish that we could get a transcript of these phone calls. in terms of bygone civility, i tend to be skeptical and that human nature has not changed all that much. they went to china as a power-play. it was a relatively cordial visit. we shouldn't lose track of the motivation there. ca

on friday a store in herndon sold a $3 million ticket included a mega player. i'll take that. >> i think i would need a defibrillator if someone threw $200 million at me. >>> we are learning more about the man that may be connected to three murders in alexandria. >> what former neighbors of george severance are telling news4 about his behavior as he's locked up in west virginia. >>> plus, honored for their service. the special medal ceremony decades in the making. >>> and we are watching for patchy eyes on the roads as we deal with another day of freezing temperatures. the potential ice we could see with weather and traffic on the 1s coming up at 5:31. >>> don't forget to stay connected with us when online c shoulder, as tom was saying, this could possibly be ice so heads-up traveling in the area. lookout for anything shiny, slow down. >>> 5:54 is your time now. a maryland nonprofit group says if identified a hacker who has stolen information on thousands of its clients say someone stole essential security and medical information. the service coordination provi