>> the search is on for two police impersonators and tonight, a man who fell victim to these impersonators telling his story. >> he did every single thing told him to do because he want to die. we are live in southeast washington. >> the two impersonators were in car with flashing lights. they pulled the victim of a right here. found out these were not out to serve and protect. a busy street about 3:00 saturday morning. traffic stops are fairly common. >> flashing lights, police. just trying to be a good citizen. >> two men approached him and ordered him at of his vehicle. he quickly realized he was in trouble and in great danger. >> they had revolvers. d.c. police officers do not any type of revolvers. >> the men told them to put his of this car.top >> he said, you must have been of drug business. >> he complied with everything they asked. >> i do not want to catch it out here. >> four people live along this stretch, they are reacting to night. it troubles residents of the neighborhood. >> when an unmarked vehicle i will be more precautions. losing 400 people -- losing is gladhard, but he

there were high stakes involved, and there was forgery, there was criminal impersonation. that's a fraud on many different levels, but most importantly, against the kids who play by the rules. >> stewart: during the course of your investigation, what did you discover about the process of taking the s.a.t. and the security associated with taking the s.a.t. test? >> rice: how incredibly easy it is to cheat the system. there is absolutely no security in place whatsoever to prevent criminal impersonation like we see here from happening. >> stewart: so if i went up to any of those kids and i say, "do you know what this guy did?" they'd all know? >> eshaghoff: every single person would know who i am and what i do. >> stewart: eshaghoff says paid test-takers were an open secret among students at great neck north. he became the best known, but he says he was not the first. >> eshaghoff: i had heard of it happening successfully at my own high school. >> stewart: so tell me about taking the mental leap from "well, i heard other kids doing it" to "i think i'm going to do this." >> es

. >> there were three impersonators. >> we had three poe toaster wannabes. i appreciate the gesture. we should let it die a peaceful death. anything similar to it is just a cheap imitation no matter what the thought is behind it. >> thank you so much. the tradition has ended. i guess he just decided maybe it was too cold to come out. nadia ramdass reporting. >> thank you. a man is accused of shooting and a car on wednesday on 95. nicholas heider is charged with first-degree assault after allegedly firing three shots. police say the altercation began at the white marsh exit. he was arrested at his home. nobody was hurt. a fire claimed the life of a man. the fire began in the second- floor bedroom of this home on lombard accord. the homeowner was found dead. he died of heart failure. >> police have tracked down the man they said fled the scene after striking a trooper. he's being held on bond after it surrendered himself to troopers. the troopipped er's car. the trooper has yet to return to work. the road to indianapolis will take a detour through massachusett

police impersonators may have been the real deal. police are saying they pulled the victim over in a dark colored chevy impala with lights on the dashboard. this traffic stop happened right around 3:00 this morning in the 4800 block of texas avenue. police say the victim did pull over his vehicle and comply, and that's when he was robbed of $400 in cash. >> they're wearing dark colored vests with the word police on it. they had no other insignia of the police department. no badge. he told him to comply withary demands and they robbed him of money. >> reporter: police are describing the vehicle as a chevy impala, they believe it's a 2004 or 2005 model. anyone with information is asked to call d.c. police, they say they're not aware of any other cases or anyone else being pulled over. if you find yourself suspicious, you can call 9/11. reporting live from northwest. darcy spencer. >>> and now to decision 2012. a major endorsement for rick santorum, a group of 150 influential christian conservative leaders decide to back santorum. the p

an impersonal god, a deterministic universe, disregard of money and material gains. world government, that means proponent of world government, passism and socialism, all of these are generally thought to be un-american and more or less subversive, but einstein believed in the whole lot. that was the way he conducted his life. >> yes. >> and he also believed in -- he wrote that article at the request of the "new york times." he believed in the basis of his religion and fulton was a great preacher in the church made fun of him for that. the only mistake he made was the letter s. this is comic rather than cosmic. >> for einstein be the impersonal god was something he took from spinoza who he admired greatly and god was imminent in the universe he had made and that to discovering of laws of nature, you were getting closer to the old one, as he called them. >> here is a quote from the "new york times" speech. quote, i assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and noblist driving force behind scientific research. he did not believe in a personal god. >>

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. >> impersonal? the world is in personal? >> now, i think the world is governed by impersonal laws, and we are just in that rare part of the world where life is possible and, of course, where else would we be? where else could we have evolved? it's a beautiful day outside today here in austin, and you can easily convince yourself that there must be some kind of the netherlands at work producing this lovely world we live in your but, you know, most of the universe is pretty awful, and there aren't any people there for the good reason that they could not have evolved there. so, i see no signs of benevolence in the world. i think we are the creatures, chance, evolution. and it's probably a good thing for the human race to grow up and realize that. >> and professor weinberg, you have written this book of essays for the non-science person, is that fair to see? >> yes. they were written over the course of a decade and published in various periodicals, many of them in the new york review books. they are for non-science, nonscientist

a rachel maddow impersonator. be right back. >>> this is a wanted poster. wanted poster that was distributed by anti-abortion forces targeting dr. david gun. it lists the office, describes him physically, height, weight, noticeable character sticks, then describes him as responsible for killing children, that two specific addresses in pensacola, florida. after the wanted poster was distributed, dr. david gun was shot and killed by anti-abortion extremist. was in march, 1993. this was a wanted poster about dr. george wayne patterson. medical license number, what kind of car he drives, physical description of him. this doctor, dr. george patterson, owned the clinic where dr. gun had been murdered. dr. patterson himself was murdered five months after dr. gun was killed. dr. patterson's killing is still unsolved. when the new york times reported that year on dr. patterson's killing they got a quote from an activist saying paul hill approving the murder saying "the killing has stopped, so it had the desired result." th

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. >> police have arrested a man they say impersonated a police officer and raped a woman. the man arranged a meeting with a woman at her hotel room under the guise of being a police officer. johnson was arrested on saturday on charges of rape and impersonating a police officer. >> 27-year-old faces first- degree assault charges in connection with a fight. two people got into a fight when one said one person began throwing bleach on her. nearly two dozen people were sent to the hospital. jefferson faces assault charges in the case. two people are now in custody in connection with a robbery and a stabbing on the light rail. terry thomas is already in jail and his announced accomplice has been charged in the stabbing. police believe they have recovered the weapon used in that attack. >> a deadly crash in northwest baltimore claimed the life of a pedestrian. the victim was standing on park heights avenue on tuesday when he was struck by a car. police say they're not expecting to file charges against the driver. >> a delegate is sponsoring legislation that would allow marylande

three impersonators have shown up at the site. they were identified as imitators. we will be out here waiting for the poe toaster to show up. >> if it is the end of a tradition, they get out of the cold. >> that is true. there's still time. the time, 5:36. how a drug used to treat skin cancer can bring on another form of the disease. what medical researchers are saying about the findings. >> don't forget to e-mail us your response to our water cooler question of the day. should the state impose an age limit on tattoos, even if the person has parental consent? you can share your response at wbaltv.com and on our facebook page, or send us an e-mail to watercooler@wbaltv.com. >> two new problems could impact your morning ride. word of an accident on the west side. side. we will check some fire got the everyday value slam, classic burger, build your own chicken wrap, cheese quesadilla, chicken parmesan, all you can eat pancakes, cordon bleu melt, the new cookie skillet a la mode. whew. so many choices, so little airtime. the 2-4-6-8 value menu. only at denny's. >> good

but they're desperately seeking a rick santorum impersonator.gain, this guy right here, reggie brown i believe is his name, obama's impersonator. >> he's good. >> over $450,000 a year he's raking in. >> there is big loot to be a presidential -- >> let me see. santorum? no. >> i don't think it's going to fly. i'm going to sit here and do some calculus and >>> this morning on "world news now," captain's conduct. the man at the helm of a luxury cruise liner that ran into a rock is now in jail. >> what italian investigators, the cruise line, and passengers have to say about a captain who was supposed to be in control when the worst happened. it's monday january 16th. >>> good monday morning. mlk day, everybody. i'm rob nelson. >> did you have a good weekend? >> it was a good weekend. not bad at all. besides that little mishap in san francisco. but other than that it was good. >> all right. well, i'm paula faris. that cruise ship disaster at an italian sea port has claimed at least a half dozen lives. the search for people who are missing continues d

starbig-name hollywood acting muscled by impersonating a man in her latest film. arch campbell has the first look whether glenn close can pull it off. >> albert. >> glenn close got an oscar .omination this week she plays a woman posing as a living in 19th century ireland. the story has an unexpected twist. don't you think the guy looks like glenn close? have a nice weekend, everybody. that.nk you for was talking about we had four days in one today. >> we started out with spring fever, then we went to march, we in november. >> crazy. there.autiful skies out lot of washington got this shot of the venus and the men. able to see it again tomorrow. -- and the moon. he will be able to see it again tomorrow. is the anniversary of the famous washington and jefferson snowstorm. each of them recorded 3 feet of snow. after a high temperature of 63 degrees, by the way, pollen today was 14. look at the temperatures around the country. is our temperature. at the high temperatures in mid part of the country. dallas, 67 degrees. every spots in the united states the lower 48 way a

. >> it's very impersonal. >> reporter: the president of melody records says he's not sure what's nextm, but he'll miss the customers the most. >> we wanted to leave on a good note. >> reporter: derrick ward, news 4. >> chuck is here now. >> we have a song lyric that sums up the day today. the sky won't snow and the sun won't shine. cloudy skies.óé!2g ongtoday. an ugly day to be outside. temperatures barely we had yesterday slowly starting to disappear across the area. that's a little dusting there. that's gleeb road. right now in washington, it's cloudy and cold and it's miserable to be outside. temperatures still holding on to 30 degrees. temperature has not moved more than war/- com oury we're aii!zing nows. problemkzç that's way. how close? petersburg, west virginia,&i the the problem is, that moisture-laiden warm air is trying to rain down into the sub there's a freezing rain advisory in all the bright-shaded counties here. that's through the overnight hours. ngmor that's welcome news. overnight tonight as the flow runs into the wil changeu) air. it's going to ring out mist and dr

. >> this year, just like the last, at least one impersonator visited.edgar allan poe died in 1849. the poe house curator plans to pay tribute and they hope the readings will turn into a new ritual. >>> the washington monument -- even though the cracks look minor repairing them is, extremely exexpensive. that's where philanthropist david rubenstein comes in. he is donating $7 1/2 million toward the repair efforts. >> i come from modest circumstances. i'm fortunate to have achieved -- wealth. i have the pleasure to giving it away to things. >> officials plan to award a contract to make the repairs by this august. they expect it will take 10 months to complete them. >>> what would you do if you saw a tiger on sop of a roof? some houston drivers called the local fire department. how they managed to get the beast down without injury. >>> facebook is making changes. will you like them or too many changes too fast? i remember the days before copd. my son and i never missed opening day. but with copd making it hard to breathe, i thought those days might be over

the world's youngest elvis impersonator. bruno. >> talking to my special guest, bruno mars.ar-old doing your elvis impression. you were a good little elvis, weren't you? >> man, i see those. i don't remember that. i can't remember doing that. i don't even think i knew what i was doing, that i was actually impersonating somebody else. >> i've seen your parents say that unlike the other kids in the family who were quite shy when it actually came to performing on stage, you loved it. >> i was a ham bone. >> you wanted to be there. you wanted to be little elvis running around. is that true? do you remember that part of it? >> yeah. i remember one night i had 100 some odd fever, i was 5 years old, 6 years old, something like that. my mother wouldn't let me perform. i was bawling all night up in the room. i had to call in sick that night and i couldn't get to put my jumpsuit on. i was crying. that's the one thing i remember. >> what was early life for you and the family in hawaii. >> you know, hawaii is a special place, and because when i think about my childhood i think about my

. >> the best clip from this show is that i want to see him do the impersonation?n he has the aaron neville bullhorn. >> breaking news for you nick. >> breaking news. >> it's really cold in canada. >> especially kingston ontario, canada, so cold you can ice-skate on the street. you think this guy has rollerblades on, no, ice skates. >> doesn't look like there's ice on the road. >> apparently they had freezing rain and it put a sheet of ice on the street. the guy said perfect time to put on the skates and go for a spin in front of the house. >> no wonder these canadians are so good at hockey. it's all over, all around. >> when he turns the corner here. >> a stop sign number one. >> two-minute penalty for blowing through the stop sign. >> yes. >> i don't know what that is. >> i'm not sure either. >> i'm not really sure. >>> i know you play a lot of volleyball. >> i do. >> for that reason, i think you will appreciate the beauty of this breathtaking exchange. we saw this on chinese television. this is a game of professional women's volleyball teams. they have won eight

. >> the best clip from this show is i want him to do the impersonation?ter has the aaron neville -- >>> next time on "right this minute" -- >> this is what you want in a proposal video, your fiancee to be lifting up his dress to pull out the ring. >> you think that's the craziest part of the video, huh? that's next time on "right this minute." >>> the longest hike you've done? >> two feet. >> we have nothing on this guy. he hikes and hikes and documented it all along the way. find out just how far he went for adventure. >>> and they say till death do you part, right? well, this wedding tale goes a little differently. >> not sure if it's going to make you go -- >> see the ceremony and decide for ss >>> what's the longest hike you've ever done? >> two feet. >> couple miles. >> couple miles, yeah. >> colby kirk, his nickname is condor, colby hiked 1700 miles, the length of the pacific crest trail from british columbia, canada, all the way to the mexican border. he took a picture of himself every day to kind of document his entire trip. >> i feel like in his

and impersonating a cop.s sewell is the deputy district attorney in the courtroom who requests that trent be put into custody. >> the reason somebody would go into custody is if we deemed them a danger to the community or a flight risk, not to show up to court again. >> it turns out that posing as a police officer is nothing new for the defendant. in 2001, wayne trent, then wayne skein, breaks into the multnomah county sheriff's office. he takes a uniform, badge and cop car. trent is convicted of burglary and criminal impersonation, but the judge deems him insane and trent is taken to an oregon hospital for treatment. two years later, doctors release him. in 2007, trent is back in court and he's got one trick left up his sleeve. just as the judge orders trent into custody on $250,000 bail, he makes a run for it. >> he put his hands behind his back like he was going to comply, and then he took a short glance at the door and that split second, i thought, this is the one that's going to run. >> a local tv statio

polls are so impersonal. to get the pulse of the voters, you need to be on the ground. so this past monday i participated in a town hall in myrtle beach, south carolina, sponsored by cafe mom, a social networking and blog site with a member base of over 1.7 million milfgs -- mothers i'd like the to focus group. the day was being moderated by political wordsmith and avid indoorsman fran luntz. i did some good old-fashioned retail politicking, just a roomful of voters and me up close and personal in a two-minute prerecorded video message, in which i introduced myself and talked about the issues that concern me, and then frank took the temperature of the room. let's see how i did. >> how many of you want him to run? applaud. [scattered applause] how many of you don't want him to run. applause. [stronger applause] >> stephen: okay. [laughter] okay. okay. okay. i've got some work to do. but, you know, who cares about getting approval from mom. [audience reacts patients come on, they must have had something nice to say about me. >> give me a word or phrase to describe stephen

and we go inside the san jose mixed martial arts impersonator who tracks his unique days of sailing theld. >>> good evening. i'm laurence scott. we have been talking for months about a new format here on sports sunday, a focus on feature stories. you've seen all the game gh

and this year's designated krooj, rhode island governor and part time steve doocy impersonator... (laughter). lincoln chafee. a couple of weeks ago chafee had the audacity to invite americans to a "tree lighting." or, judging by the reaction, a jesus tipping. >> it's a christmas tree. keep christ in christmas. >> for folks who are watching right now and thinking that's cray shirks i should call the governor. we've got his phone number. >> it has lights and ornaments and a decoration on top, it's a christmas tree. >> for the past eight years before this governor, your former governor in fact did call it a christmas tree, right? >> he did, gretchen. >> jon: yes, and while that's not true... (laughter). who cares? it makes them angry. see, the previous republican governor's 2009 invitation to this very same ceremony also uses the offending phrase "holiday tree lighting!" i mean, somehow that not akin to wiping your ass with the shroud of turin? i mean, really. (laughter) that's a rhetorical question, obviously. now, who cares if the story is true or what it actually means? the import

. >>> authorities are looking for it to be a police that impersonators who robbed a motorist. two men and a chevy pulled a car over on texas avenue, robbed the driver, and fled. the police say that both suspects were wearing tactical vests with the word "please" on them. >>> track work on three different metro lines is causing delays. new switches are being installed on the blue and orange line. federal center and capitol south stations are closed. shuttle buses are operating between lunch and plaza and eastern market. there is a single tracking through much of the red line. normal service will return tuesday, monday being the holiday. >>> looking at the weather, a very chilly evening and the temperatures will keep dropping. for more on this, we're joined by steve rudin. >> a definite chill in the air the low pressure off the south and west, reinforcing shot of cold air for the day tomorrow. then a warm-up. 31 degrees at this hour at reagan national. winchester culpeper, also dulles airport 28 degrees. this is what it looks like on the map the snow showers and during southwest

. >> the best clip from this show is i want him to do the impersonation?ter has the aaron neville -- >>> next time on "right this minute" -- >> this is what you want in a proposal video, your fiancee to be lifting up his dress to pull out the ring. >> you think that's the craziest part of the video, huh? that's next time on "right this minute." >>> the longest hike you've done? >> two feet. >> we have nothing on this guy. he hikes and hikes and documented it all along the way. find out just how far he went for adventure. >>> and they say till death do you part, right? well, this wedding tale goes a little differently. >> not sure if it's going to make you go -- >> see the ceremony and decide for yourself. honey...? [ mom ] yes. honey, i can't find my internet cord. oh, i'll borrow hailey's. you're downloading movies. fast! from here? where is her cord?! we switched to at&t high speed internet and got wireless access. no more cords. wireless, okay, honestly, can i just get a cord, please? dad, the cord's invisible. [ female announcer ] call at&t today to ge

they're not too happy about him impersonating their duties. >> oh my gosh!> he doesn't get too far. running in that costume is not so easy. he pulls him over. these guy's videos are super-popular, he has more than four million fans on his facebook account. he got in some trouble here, but i think he'll live on to see another day and make us another really funny video. >>> there's a new man in space and nasa had nothing to do with it. this is a lego-naut. put up into space by two canadian teenagers. they decided to build their own helium balloon and send their lego man up into space, 80,000 feet. it took them about four months of saturdays, working on this, they met while they were in middle school. before assad muhammed even knew english. his family had emigrated from pakistan. they got to befriend each other and look what they've accomplished. with no more than 400 u.s. dollars, they were able to send lego-naut up into the air. and recover him. >> whoa. >> they recovered him? >> you bet. >> how? >> they had a gps locater on board. they said the flight laste

. >> maybe they got a voice impersonator. this is not the first time that he's done this.ember doing the iowa campaign. he was accused of, you know, about the super pac ads. i've never seen those ads. they describe what was right about them. he's done this before. my theory, chris, is that he thinks he's a stand-up guy. he does everything right. he was raised well. he's a gentleman. when his campaign does this other stuff, he creates some psychological distance between himself and what is going on in his name. so i could not have done that. oh, maybe i did. >> it doesn't seem like me. here's another one. here again is mitt romney last night in what was a good overall performance, we thought. listen closely to his answer. once again, he steps into the weeds of, well, dishonesty. >> governor romney owns shares of both fannie mae and freddie mac. governor romney made $1 million off selling some of that. >> my investments are not made by me. they've been to blind trusts managed by a trustee. >> first, a lot of voters may have trouble sympathizing with anybody so wealthy as to

20120103_1_police-officer-handcuffs-assault">story] of baltimore has been rafted police say he impersonated an officer. a woman arranged a meeting with johnson in her hotel room at microte-ll inn and suites and later he showed up with handcuffs at the door of another woman she refused to let him in and called police. >>> man was killed while trying to cross the street hit by a car before 3:30. it happened at park heights and hilldale avenues. the driver stopped but investigators have not decided whether charges will be filed. there are crosswalks in that intersection. >>> cold weather has farmers in florida worried. up next, the efforts to save their crop and they are getting creative. >>> also as we get closer to superbowl 46 advertisers lining up but is it too late to get their spot in the big game? you are watching "good morning maryland" what's new now and next on this january 4th and as we go to break a. live look at atlanta, georgia. Ã [ female announcer ] back to school means back to busy mornings. that's why i got them pillsbury toaster strudel. warm flaky pastry with delicious swee

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