this is the man who police say groped a tween at john t. baker middle school last month, 44- year-old john edward epps, jr. the contractor was hired by a temp agency for a company called net com worked on security cameras, the same ones police say caught him touching a 12-year-old girl's buttocks as she walked past him, an act that ended in both assault and sex assault charges. the school waited nearly a month before informing parents and held a meeting today. >> they said it was an isolated indent. how do you know? >> reporter: wusa9 is learning it may not be. today the principal of damascus high school sent a letter out saying one of her students may have been touched inappropriately by epps during a visit to baker. we did a quick search and found epps was arrested for sex offenses and other charges in 2001 and 2010. he pled guilty to a second degree assault charge in 2010. he is not listed on maryland's sex offender registry which would have prohibited him from working in the school according to maryland law. >> just a few minutes ago we got w

colonel john baker, u.s. marine corps, deputy director judge advocate. and mr. william bartoe, army, highly qualified expert attorney advisor. welcome to both of you and i understand we'll start with you, colonel baker. thank you for your presence. >> thank you, ma'am. good morning. as you noted, i'm colonel john baker, deputy director of the jag division for community justice and community development. mr. brartow appear here to discuss 412 and 513 and how they're litigated at article 32 hearings and during article 39a session at courts-martial. to give my comments some perspective i'll note that i've litigated 412 and 513 issues as a trial and as a defense counsel, i've ruled on them as a military judge, i've taught classed to sbord flat trial and defense counsel on how to litigate these issues in court, and most recently i've been dealing with mre 412 and 513 as a policy maker as a member of the joint services committee. where we recently recommended a rescission to rules for courts-martial 405 that would apply the protections of mre 412 and 513 at article 32

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baker. a letter was sent out today. we wanted to know what we could find out about this contractor. this is the man police say groped a tween at john t. baker middle school last month, 44- year-old john edward epps jr., a contractor hired by a temp agency by a company called net com worked on security cameras, police say also the same one that touched a 12-year-old girl's buttocks that ended in charges. today the school held a meeting. >> they said it was an isolated incident. how do you know? >> reporter: wusa9 is learning it may not be. today the principal of damascus high school sent out a letter saying one of her students may have been touched inappropriately by epps during a visit to baker. we did a quick search and found epps was arrested for sex offenses and other charges in 2001 and 2010. he pled guilty to a second degree assault charge in 2010. he is not listed on maryland's sex offender registry which would have prohibited him from working in the school according to maryland law, but with his history, why didn't net com, the temp agency, nor montgomery county public schools know. they say his background check showed no pr

. >> reporter: this is the man police say groped a tween at john t. baker middle school last month, 44-year-old john edward epps, jr., the contractor hired by a temp agency for a company called net com had worked on security cameras, the same ones police say caught him touching a 12- year-old girl's buttocks as she walked past him ending in assault and sex assault charges. the school waited nearly a month before informing parents. today they held a meeting. >> they said it was an isolated incident. how do you know? >> reporter: wusa9 is learning it may not be. today the principal of damascus high school sent out a letter saying one of her students may have been touched inappropriately by epps during a visit to baker. we did a quick search and found epps was arrested for sex offenses and other charges in 2001 and 2010. he pled guilty to a second degree assault charge in 2010. he is not listed on maryland's sex offender registry which would have prohibited him from working in the school according to maryland law. net com says they will do those background che

to the floor, because of his conservative opposition, would nit a way is it possible that when john baker talk uhs about the president plays with matches that maybe in some fashion it does make boehner's case easier to his own members the f the president acts first, takes some action and then boehner can can say now we have to pass legislation to roll it back? that that scuttled any chance of any passage in the bill. basically saying congress needs to deal with this, i have long said congress needs to deal with this. it's been a political football for ten years. he wants to do immigration reform, and he is saying if the president takes unilateral action, as you said, plays with fire, that this will make it impossible to get anything done in the house. now, the president has indicated that he has waited. he has patiently waited and the house hasn't done anything so he feels he needs to move forward on his own. and i i will tell you right after the election results yesterday, i was already getting a lot of emails and press releases from folks who support immigration reform, want the preside

. >> reporter: eric and amy both have kids who attend john t baker middle school in damascus. this morning, they came to school not with their kids. instead, for a meeting. >> nothing positive happened in the meeting. they didn't answer any questions. the only thing they did was essentially read the letter that was sent home. >> reporter: today's meeting was in response to an incident at the school on october 6th, where a 12-year-old girl was allegedly groped walking down the hallway. montgomery county police arrested 44-year-old john eps, jr., charged with sex assault and second degree assault. another problem, parents say they weren't notified about the incident until nearly a month later when a letter was sent home. it said the employee in question was not working for the school. instead, he was a temporary employee of a contractor, net com, who was doing work on the building. the background check done by that company was incorrect. eps had a criminal record. we reached out to the school for comment and were given the same statement. >> this is how the administration is dea

a letter was sent home to parents of john t. baker middle school explaining the october h incident. a contractor was arrested after being accused of inappropriately touching a student. the incident was not made public in order to protect the privacy of the student. >>> this morning a man from annapolis is facing federal charges accused of threatening to kill president obama and the first lady. investigators say christopher o'brien sent threatening e-mails to the white house on october 16th. o'brien eventually admitted to sending the e-mail but never intended to carry out the threats. >>> angie goff with new information on a sad story we are following out of newport, oregon. the body of a young boy was found in the bay after a woman told police she tossed her son over a bridge. the 6-year-old body was recovered below the bay bridge, which is 100 feet above the water. as officers searched, the mother told them voices told her to throw him off the bridge. police believe the body is that of the woman's son. right now the mom is in police custody. aaron? >>> angie, thank you. no ordinary

. >> they say it took officials weeks to inform them that john epps junior, a contractor at baker middleused of touching a female student inappropriately. it turned out epps works in nearly 60 county schools. >> when are you actually going to answer the question, why it took you a month to let us know what happened? >> school officials said they did not send out a letter to parents to prevent further embarrassment to the victim. they do not by that logic. >> this should not have been covered up. >> the alleged incident happened october 6th. parents heard about it november story.an abc 7 the principal claims herself for communicating poorly. of theuse [indiscernible] >> they are concerned that the school system is more concerned about face-saving than communicating with parents. >> we messed up >> in another development, parents were shocked to find out at the meeting tonight that right now contracted employees, subcontractors working in montgomery county schools are not required to undergo background checks. the superintendent is concerned about the policy and wants it changed as soon as

john epps was working on school security cameras in baker middle school in damascus and inappropriately touched a 12-year-old girl. according to the letter, there may be more allegations. so far, no charges filed in that incident. >>> a prince george's county man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his ex-girlfriend. a judge sentenced him to life, plus ten years for the murder of amber. investigators say he was depressed over the couple's break up and he snuck in her home and slashed her throat. her family says the jury made the right decision. >> god inserted his wisdom to see through the charades the defense was trying to put up. they saw through all that and came to the only logical conclusion there was. >> he claims he does not remember what happened and denies the charges. he addressed her family saying my deepest condolences to everybody, i love you all. >>> christmas is seven weeks away. we are getting into peak season for package thieves. they are casing homes in the area. we spokeith a couple who saw it firsthand. >>reporter: he was watching tv and within two

now we're going to cut gilbert bakers beautiful ribbon i want to welcome a few additional people lee jones, of course, and the city fester naomi keeling and john ram and this is the guy i've talked about nick who helped us to the design process and john dennis our dpw project manager and thank you, welcome to the neighborhood those are part of our community so lee i want to cut the ribbon. >> i want to send love from gilbert baker he lives in new york i called him and said we need a ribbon she got out her ribbon and sued all weekend long and get it to use it was gilbert's idea to make the robin rainbow the symbol of our movement so he's in new york and as the supervisor do the honors and cut it on the seam (laughter.) >> (clapping) >> yeah. (clapping) yeah. (clapping) well, i live in n this neighborhood i'm so glad this is over oh, my god what a mess okay folks get off my stage matt are you ready now okay. we're going to have wonderful music please welcome matt (clapping.) >> hello people ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ what's going on san francisco hey, i'm here are you ready to distance with me i like or romantic songs now here you go again, you say you need a frie

they shared their frustration at a community meeting at baker middle school in damascus. police arrested 44-year-old johnract employee charged with sex assault, accused of inappropriately touching a student back in october. parents found out several weeks >> when are you actually going to answer the question why it took you a month to let us know what happened? >> that was wrong. that was wrong. that was a mistake. >> in a separate case, a 17-year-old student says epp also inappropriately touched her visited the campus around the same time. another meeting set for november 30th. epps was arrested four years ago in anne arundel county on similar charges. dr. joshua starr is requesting background checks for all contractors. in a letter starr says the school system is reviewing its internal procedures to make sure any allegations like this are appropriately reported, investigated and communicated with the community. >>> today the man convicted of killing chandra levy is back in court. he was sentenced to 60 years in prison after his conviction in 2010. defense lawyers are questioning the testimony of a key

. >> charlie baker. >> john kasich won in ohio partly because he supported the president's medicaid expansion. people are saying what are you going to do for me. i spent a lot of time in focus groups this last season and people are so angry. they're so angry at both sides, they just want something to get done. there were some voters said i don't even watch it any more. i have to keep my life going. >> there's a disconnect not only with the politicians, there's a disconnect between voters and the media. when you go around and work an election, which so many of us are blessed to do, they say i don't care what you talk about with the who's going to win and who's going to this guy is mad. i'm dying here, i don't know what my country is about, we're in a war all of a sudden, you don't even talk about that? i wonder if that will change with the new change in control. they just want things to get done and think that is what you see in the governors' races because the governors can get things done in their states. can you put ballot items on, they can pass. we saw progress that way. >> they're they.

they shared their frustration at a community meeting at baker middle school in damascus. police arrested 44-year-old johnontract employee charged with sex assault, accused of inappropriately touching a student back in october. parents found out several weeks later. >>> congress is back at work for the first time since the midterm elections. topping the ambitious agenda, lawmakers will hold a hearing on the government's handling of the ebola crisis. cdc director is set to testify before the senate appropriations committee. this is the first case in the senate since the first ebola case was diagnosed in dallas. nurses at providence hospital will hit the picket lines. the hospital will remain open despite the strike. it is a national day of action to bring attention to what the nurses union call lack of ebola preparedness. providence said it is disappointed with the strike. they will hire temporary nurse toss fill in. >>> heads-up if you work for the city of alexandria and you want chips or soda for lunch. all vending machines are being filled with healthy options, including fresh truth and vegetables. trac

consists of calvin soholl iii, the president of the business roundtable john engler, the president of the airline pilots association, mark baker, president and ceo of the aircraft and rand policy association, the president and ceo of airlines for america and carl renault, president of the national air traffic control association. thank you for being here. and before i let you start mr. larsen wants to be recognized. >> thank you. i want to enter into the record a letter from clark wrote regarding issues she has around la guardia. >> so ordered. with that, we recognize first general skoboll for an opening statement. >> members of the committee, thank you for inviting me to testify on efforts to modernize the national aerospace system. faa has undergone considerable change after congress granted several important reform of stories. faa is also in the midst of a multibillion-dollar effort to improve the efficiency of its aircraft system. my testimony today will highlight several challenges we have identified through ongoing and recently completed audits as it tries to meet its modernization and reform goals. first faa has institu

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sitting next to me is baker, former cia operative and current president of diligent. maker of diligence long johnsnd diligence phones and tapioca. for all of your needs, think diligence. diligence, it killed more people than you kissed. and tls tv -- and it is tv's levey. where diligence fails, and we succeed. the stuff we do makes diligence look like a bunch of snowden loving pansies. they don't even know it. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> that's the edge of the a block. >> way don't even have anymore stories. let a sit here and stair at the audience. why don't you entertain me? are we less free than nz? when it comes to liberty the u.s. is lacking while new zealand, whatever that is, is number one. this could happen. the study from an institute in london found americans feel their personal freedom has declined sharp lea under obama. the scores are based on people's satisfaction with their country's handling of civil liberties, freedom of choice and other junk. new swrea land -- new zealand topped the list followed by norway and australia. america was a lowly 21st behind germany

john d. rockefeller used undue means to gain control. suddenly the country says we've got to do something about standard oil, around ray baker writes about railroad abuses, sinclair writes about meat packing plant. makes it much easier for roosevelt. >> in a book full of cautionary tales, another one may be for the media, when you t up these issues for the tub lick to care about, they vote and to be active in all of that, when you stop doing that, as many media organizations sadly has done, the public goes gray on this stuff, right? >> right. the other thing connected too, during teddy's time they passed a law. that's what citizens united. >> citizens united actually overturned the existing order back in -- >> that's right. >> back in roosevelt's day, the book has incredible resonances for the contemporary scene and the situation we all see ourselves in. >> somewhere somebody has to do something about money and politics. it's the.in the system right now, sam mcclure said at one point, there's no one left but all of us. we can't deal with these characters in washington anymore. they're not doing anything. how do you mobilize the public to

baker hughes and hall are gone. you're a mist or oil. how about john in kentucky, please. john? >> jim, you there? help you. a kentucky boo-yah to you. and throw a couple stocks at you here. we're looking at celgene, apple, alibaba, and yahoo!. doesn't appear to be diversified. >> you're right. but celgene, we've got some coming out soon that will employee your socks off. yahoo! that's that alibaba derivative. we've got apple, a tech machine, and boeing, which is air space. we're going to keep yahoo! believe it or not. we're going to sell alibaba, because they're two of the same, and i like the fact that it's valued at nil. and we can't put bristol-myers in there, so we're going to retreat. can't put honeywell in, because we have boeing. let's add -- you know what, let's add dow chemical. let's get a little industrial going in there with a good yield and a solid buyback in the place of alibaba. and then i'm going to tolerate the fact that apple and yahoo! are together. one's internet and one's tech. brian in michigan. brian? >> boo-yah, jim. >> boo-yah. >> caller: jim, a second-time caller this ye

kissinger, the therable james baker, honorable madeleine albright, the honorable colin powell, the honorable hillary rodham clinton, accompanied by kerry.ry of state, john and elizabeth bagley. [applause] >> good afternoon. it is my great pleasure to welcome everyone here today for forgroundbreaking ceremony the new united states diplomacy center. we are celebrating the start of the center, af state-of-the-art museum and an that willl resource illustrate the department of state's 225-year history of nation's national security efforts. forndersecretary of state management, my office has long supported this effort. i might be the only member of kerry's leadership team who has actually worked for secretary in attendance, beginning with secretary kissinger. career state department employee, i have the privilege multitudesting the of civil and foreign service employees who who have carried out the vitally important work of diplomacy in our country. they have done this essential work with skill, dedication, energy and creativity and in many cases, uncommon bravery. of those held in tehran crisis,he iran hostage ambassadors here with us today. bruce was the hi

earlier this week, we learned a private contract at baker middle school in damascus was accused of inappropriately touching a 12-year-old girl. 44-year-old john atkins is charged with sexual assault. the incident was caught on surveillance video. in bot cases, it took the schools weeks to notify the parents. >>> we've learned this morning a fourth student from that school shooting incident in washington state high school has died. 15-year-old andrew fryberg passed away last night. he had been in icu in critical condition since the shooting on october 24th. his death brings the toll in the marysville high school shooting to five. three other 14-year-olds died in that lunchroom shooting. his cusp wousin was the shooter. >>> in the day ahead, family and friends will say a final farewell to a senior at gonzaga high school. 17-year-old daniel petty was killed. they pulled over because the car ran out of gas. a 24-year-old woman crashed into that car. the viewing begins at 9:30 this morning, followed by the funeral. >>> d.c. police say they have found the man responsible for murdering two parents while their young children were home. 22-year-old ty

afternoon, the honorable james baker, the honorable madeleine albright, the honorable colin powell, the honorable hillary rodham clinton accompanied by secretary of state john kerry, ambassador -- [inaudible] [applause] >> good afternoon. it is my great pleasure to welcome everyone here today for the groundbreakinger is mopeny for the new united states diplomacy center. we are celebrating the start of construction of the center, a state of the art museum and educational resource that will ill straight the department of state's 225-year history of supporting our nation's national security efforts. as undersecretary of state for management, my office has long supported this project. i also suspect that i was asked to officiate today because i might be the only member of secretary kerry's leadership team who has actually worked for every single secretary of state in attendance, beginning with secretary kissinger. [applause] as a career state department employee, i have the privilege of representing the multitudes of civil and foreign service employees, americans and host nationals, who have carried out the vitally important work of diplomacy for our country. t

>>> a contractor accused of groping a baker middle school student in damascus, maryland a month ago may have had inappropriate contact with a second student. john epps is accused of groping a 12-year-old girl in hallway of the school. police say the alleged groping was caught on a security camera. he is charged with fourth degree assault. police have not released many details on a second case. they say it involves a damascus high school student volunteering at the middle school. >>> eric hoppedder has referred to loretta lynch as a top prosecutor. she started her career back in 1990. in 1999 she helped prosecute the police brutality case and helped investigate citigroup over mortgage securities frauds. if chosen she would be the first black woman to headed justice department. >>> a new report says a number of safety seats meet the mark when it comes to keeping your child safe. >> getting into your hotel room will soon be as easy as point and click from your mobile device. wusa9 is back right after this. >>> 6:008 this thursday morning a. yellow alert day -- 6:08 this thursday morning. a yellow alert day. we have rain the next couple of hours. t

baker middle school in damascus. the victim, a 12-year-old girl. they say she was walking down the hallway when she was touched inappropriately. charged in the case, 44-year-old john edward epps. epps is described as a contractor who was doing work in the school. >> it's conceivable the cameras he was working on were the same cameras that took the picture of this alleged assault? >> that possible. >> reporter: according to court documents the school security footage clearly shows epps reaching beyond his normal arm motion to couch -- touch the juvenile. in a sent out by the school they say there's allegati allegations epps may have inappropriately touched a 17-year-old high school student when she was here for a school activity. no charges yet but police are investigating. parents of students of baker middle, they're most upset. do you have confidence in the principal at that school? >> no. no. >> absolutely not. >> reporter: do you think the principal should be removed? >> absolutely. >> reporter: the parents say they didn't learn about the sex assault here until weeks after it happened. they have a lot to say and we're all ears coming up at 6:00, live in damascu

dean baker from policy research and the american enterprise institute. our fast money trader johning us in a moment. i promise not to ask you about those guys right away. we really want to talk about washington, david. >> you don't want to talk about gap? a lot happening this week in washington. can you help us understand the most important things to be -- what is the takeaway from everything that we're seeing? >> i think this is the first stage. >> trying to show bill clinton that he is still relevant. he is going to do this executive order. he knows they're going to react negatively. but i think he promised his base that he would do it. and i think that he thinks that the only way to get republicans to do an immigration bill is to threaten to do something on his own and the republicans are sounding like they're going to use this as an excuse to start another fistfight with the president. >> right and your reaction here james? do you see everything wrong in what he's doing? everything right? is the whole approach wrong? is the policy itself wrong? just what do you make of the who

john carl with abc news, who is the chief white house correspondent since december of 2012, and has covered congress, foreign policies, state department, and politics. and peter baker of the "new york times," who has covered three white houses -- the obama white house, bush white house, app clinton white house and was moscow bureau chief and recently wrote a book about bush and cheney, which everyone should read. and steven collinson, who is a white house correspondent emeritus. he recently left us for cnn but covered the white house for asp for a number of years and also did a number of stints overseas in asia and europe. so i'm delighted to have all of you here. you're definitely among my favorite white house correspondents. selfishly, i decided to start the panel off by one of the things that i am most interested in as a white house correspondent, particularly given all of the access limitations that our previous panel talked about. i'd like to know how these guys get their stories and where do you get that information from and how does it all come together? i've asked them to each talk about some of the -- the one big standout story they've done on the beat and

john chambers. so much to talk about. "after the bell," stay tuned. we're coming right back. don't h go away. liz: the breaking news that happened just i don't know, 11, nine minutes ago, david. bakeron. david: perfect time. oil down to levels we haven't seen in four years. this is the time to make a deal. that is what is going on. liz: nicole right at the post. that is exciting. baker house was halted and then opened. as we go into the close, we have baker hughes jumping 14%. >> is a huge move especially for energy stocks that have been so beaten down. this sector is losing sector of 2014. unbelievable move by boeing baker hughes and halliburton on this potential deal. david: it has come down a little bit. it was, baker hughes. what has come down tremendously and it is oil itself. that is affecting other energy stocks, right? >> without a doubt. oil is at a four-year low. energy stocks are out of favor. meantime the transportation index hits highs because the truckers, shippers, airlines love lower price. liz: love lower price but oil stocks overall are very interesting. what did well, blackberry, soaring and hitting a 52-week high. >> this is on a new deal. [closing bell ringing]

baker hughes, shares reopened in time to close basically, closed just shy of that $59 mark. get to it with today's panel. herb greenberg is here. so is lee gallagher from fortune magazine and john najarian. dragged him into this, brian kelly joins the fray now as well. welcome one and all. herb, we are saying this deal came out of nowhere. >> out of left field. >> when you see something like this, you may, my goodness, everyone wants to know immediately, what happens next? who's next, if this one doesn't get challenged, even if it gets challenged, you have reignited, perhaps hysterical about the drop in oil prices, it has been an astonishing move since the summer here. we saw big pressure on those su burnt deal potential. what happens now to the names across the space? >> there are so many people from noble energy. there are so many that have the potential. dry as well as deep-water rigs. what are you going to go for and shale plays? this can be a dramatic turn here financials that give the market a leg up. energy such a large component in the s & p 500. >> what is your perspective? >> i would look at the shale story, surprising stories of the past decade. i would keep an eye t