. >> reporter: congressman jim moran said his comments at a community appearance are being distorte moranhe has not questioning patrick's military sense but instead, his lack of community involvement. republican congressional candidate patrick murray is a 24-year army combat veteran who retired from active duty last week to seek the seat of congressman jim moran. he said moran is questioning his qualifications to run. >> when jim moran, who is the congressman in the district that has the most hallowed ground in the country, arlington national cemetery, says tt military service is not community service, i think that's highly objectionable and he should apologize to the veterans in this country and their family members. >> reporter: veterans supporting patrick murray include tom hadden who was a prisoner of war in vietnam. >> it means my military service unqual fuse any veteran for being a member of congress to represent our district. >> reporter: this video posted on youtube of congressman moran at a community forum has gotten more than 23,000 hits. >> what they do is theyfind candidates.

they headed for jim moran. the woman was able to report the abduction. man vondaered when a maryland state trooper pulled him over saturday night. >>> a bridge county police academy instructor accused of helping cadets cheat has been transferred. authorities say he was moved from teaching to the police department sex offender registration unit. that move comes after last week's alleged cheating scandal. instructor recorded perfect scores on several tests because he was too lazy to right write down the actual grades. an investigation is still under way. >>> democratic governor martin o'malley and republican bob ehrlich will go head to head in a series of debates. the two candidates will hold their first debate today in baltimore. both camps have confirmed that the two will face off on larry young's radio show on wolb on october 21 and on wtop on october 22nd. >>> it could be just a matter of days before the 33 men trapped in a chilean mine are freed. crews celebrated as he put the finishing touches on the tunnel oft weekend. they are expected to pull the

. >> congressman jim moran joined other leaders for a groundbreaking today. it will stand 390 feet tall, the highest height that the faa will allow in the area. it will create 300 jobs and is expected to be the first certified environmentally friendly building. >> earlier in the district we had the third street tunnel closed in both directions. you will still see some residual delays in dc. this is because the third street tunnel at one point was closed. things are starting to ease up. just seeing some residual delays in this city from the year earlier closure. >> maryland looks as though you will see some bad delays because of a series of earlier crashes. there was a crash in college park about two hours ago. back to leon and caroline. >> coming up, a warning about some popular osteoporosis drugs. >> a group of users with guns in the new, the bread. i have a preview coming up. -- the new comedy, reared. i have a preview coming up. >> and you sti gecko: good news sir, i just got an email from the office and word is people really love our claims service. gecko

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jim moran youould think is in solid. there are republicans who believe if certain things happen that there's a surge out there, people are discontent. they may do strange things. if that applies to the erlich/o'malley race, o'malley has to keep his fingers crossed. the question is what kind of surge ght there be? what would provoke it and how serious is it really, but there is concern in the democratic camp about just such a thing. >> and that's covering all bases because they don't want to take anything for granted. that's what you're saying. >> yeah. >> they don't want to take things for granted so you bring the big guns in, especially in maryland where maryland was considered like a blue state. you bring the big guns in -- >> it is a blue state. >> very much so. >> so, therefore, you bring the guns in and that solidifies the chance you will win. >> the telltale aspe is the republican governor's association is taking some of the funds out and that's probably to shift it to tighter races elsewhere that ey think are prob

alpert you are on the republican line per complaint to mark warner or jim moran, your congressman who voted for this bill. every expansion of federal power takes place for good reasons. every time the power of the government is expanded, it later will be used for things you don't like so much. i am not quite sure how you equate liberty to everybody having health care. liberty is the avoidance of government intrusion into our lives to the extent that can be maintained while keeping everybody else safe and free to do the same themselves. what you are talking about our policy questions. they could have achieved the goals of this bill constitutionally, but they chose one of the few routes in exercising government power that was not constitutional. they could have made this a tax bill and taxed folks come taking the money in, like to do for other health programs, taking the money into government, and spent it to achieve the health care bills they wanted to achieve. why didn't they do that? they were afraid to vote on a tax bill. that is why the president said this is not a tax when the bil