she is just a nice person. >> reporter: in rockville, matt jablo, 9news now. >> one of the e employees accused of collecting the unemployment checks while still on the job in the city is out of the job tonight. the source tells our own bruce johnson that the d.c. council member filed that staff for wednesday. it was earlier this week that 130 current and former city government workers were collecting the jobless benefits, the benefits while they still had jobs. and the scam cost the city at least $840,000 over the three- year period. >>> today, the attorney generals from all over the country announced a $26 billion settlement with the big banks to help out homeowners on the verge of being foreclosed upon. we asked scott broom to explain how the money might get to you. >> reporter: the settlement provides a first for people that have been foreclosed upon. maybe they have a dispute with the deal. the banks might offer as much as a $2,000 compensation to those who have already lost their homes. more importantly, folks who are under water here in this home and that is common. perhaps they

. >> reporter: i'm matt jablo where police say that these yellow postcards are helping to prevent the car break ins and robberies. the captain of the metro transit police department spends a good deal of his time scanning metro parking lots and garages, trying to see things before they are stolen. things like coins, gps devices, cell phones that have been left in cars and clearly visible. now when he finds them, he'll take down the cars and their license plate numbers. he finds the owner's addresses and then mails them a postcard, telling them what he saw. and asking them to secure their personal property in their cars where they cannot be seen. a new crime prevention program that has been started late last year by metro. >> we have passed in a huge success. >> reporter: according to metro, there are now only two parking lots for every 1 million metro passengers. and a seemly impressive stat that metro says could be attributed to better policing, better awareness by the metro customers. recently to these yellow postcards as well. matt jablo, 9news now. >>> and now to a heads up event

. >> reporter: in rockville, matt jablo, 9news now. >> the virginia state senate passed a bill allowing private agencies to discriminate against couples hoping to adopt. under the bill, adoption agencies could reject couples if they disapprove of the religious or moral beliefs. the house of delegates have passed the bill. the governor is on record saying he will sign it into law. >>> now, at the uva murder trial today, gruesome videos of george hughley choking yardly love accused of months before kill -- yeardley love, accused of killing her. >> yeah, i think some of the testimony that was most damaging today here to the defense came from another lacrosse player, a guy name mike burned who said he was at a par -- burns who said he heard a woman screaming, help me, help me. he burst into a room where he saw george hughley with his arms wrapped around yeardley love's neck in a choke hold cutting off her breathing. mike burns actually wrapped his arm around the prosecutor's neck to try to show the jurors what he saw. and he says that yeardley love was struggling to free herself, but that h

matt jablo is here with me on more on what we found out -- is here with me with more on what we found out. >> reporter: according to metro, there was a 30% drop last year in crime at parking lots. the last quarter of 2011, there was an 86% decline of thefts in so-called motor vehicle accessories. the reason for all these good numbers, metro says that these yellow postcards, they are partly responsible. >> reporter: the captain warren donald of the metro police station have spent a lot of time tracking down garages. >> most of these are crimes of opportunity. >> reporter: things like coins, gps devices, and cell phones that are left in cars and clearly visible. when he finds them, they take down the car's license plate numbers. they find the owner's address and then mails them a postcard. telling them what they saw, asking them to secure their personal property in their cars where they can't be seen. >> we started doing this back in october. >> reporter: it's a new crime prevention program started late last year by metro. so far they have sent out a few hundred of these yellow postcard

matt jablo is at the fire house where right now they are gathering. matt? >> reporter: bruce, four of the injured firefighters from friday's blaze, they came from the riverdale area. all four of those injured firefighters from the riverdale firefighter have now been released from the hospital. two of them were back in the fire house today. we caught up with them, just a few minutes ago. >> everybody got out. we went to the left. big mike and myself and the other fireman here, they know kevin on the ground. we grabbed him. we were about five feet, maybe more, and we grabbed him out, we made sure that he was on outside and we made sure that the rest of my crew made it outside and then we noticed that everybody was starting to complain about the burns. and then, you know, we went out there. >> we were inside, i remember from down there and you know, the breathing view, that crust my chest. >> what incredible stories that the firefighters have to tell. and we will tell their stories tonight in-depth at 11:00. bruce? >> thanks, matt. we would like to hear that.

matt jablo, 9news now. >>> the start of two trials resulting from the 2009 crash on metro's red line have been delayed now both wrongful death cases were scheduled to begin next month. yesterday, however, a judge overseeing those cases delayed one trial until the end of october. the other one until the end of november. metro and several companies involved in the lawsuits rutting from that crash -- resulting from that crash have settled with the families seven out of the nine people killed. >>> the virginia state senate has passed a bill which would require a woman to undergo an abdominal ultrasound before seeking an abortion. as you recall governor bob mcdonnell urged lawmakers to do away with a part of the bill that would have mandated an invasive form of ultrasound. he is expected to sign this new version. virginia would become the eighth state to require women have ultrasounds before abortions and be offered descriptions of the fetus. >>> a race for -- a raise for county employees and your water bill may be going up. the plan includes almost $2 billion for schools, $3.5 million fo

new at 11, matt jablo joins us from the web isn'ter with more. >> reporter: a this a, the susan g. komen organization as you well know the host of races for the cure all across country gave about $700,000 last year to 19 planned parenthood affiliates for breast cancer screenings and related services. they gave about 600,000 the year before. however, a few hours ago it was made public that susan g. komen will not be giving any money to planned parenthood for the foreseeable future. the breast cancer charity says it made the decision in the way congress is investigating the way planned parenthood spends the federal dollars received. the vents it gaze was launched a few months ago. a spokeswoman said the organization recently adopted a policy not to give money to groups under local, state or federal investigation. for their part, however, planned parenthood directors furious about the cutback in funding say susan g. komen is giving into pressure from anti- abortion groups. our calls to planned parent hood and susan g. komen were not answered. we hope to have a lot more on the story to

. >> matt jablo, 9 news now. >> should you have any information about pam butler's disappearance, d.c. police would like to hear a call from you. 202-727-9099. >>> blindsided and violently knocked to the ground causing a brain injury. a local man says that is the treatment he suffered at the hands of a lowden county sheriffs deputy and the whole thing is caught on tape. as our ken molestina reports, that man is now fighting back. >> reporter: take a good look at this police video posted on youtube. the man in the dark shirt in front of the officer with his hands up is carlos garcia. the lowden county deputy running into the shot is terry daniel. >> terry daniel runs up to carlos, never sees him coming, has his back to him and pounds him on the head and drops carlos to the ground. >> victor glassberg is representing garcia. they claim deputy daniel abused his power back in november last year when he viciously knocked garcia to the ground leaving him with permanent injuries. garcia, his friends and family were leaving a bar in sterling getting into a cab when this all began. his defense

her parents are hoping the driver will be behind bars, as matt jablo reports. >> reporter: tami hollandter, taisha williams was an incredible young daughter with a 1-year-old son, a loving family. >> she was very family oriented. >> reporter: and a future as bright as her smile. >> she wanted to do hair. >> reporter: her future is no more. >> that was my baby. >> reporter: it happened right around 1:30 saturday morning. that's when the suv that she wasriding in with three friends slammed into a tree in prince george's county. she was pronounced dead at a local hospital while the two other passengers suffered only minor injuries. the driver took off immediately after the accident. tonight police are still looking for him. police have not released the driver's name. her parents say they know him only as d.j. her parents also say whatever the circumstances that led to the accident, they're hoping the driver will soon do the right thing by her and turn himself in. >> he shouldn't have left her there to die. life is tough without her, but i know we have to move forward, but i still would lik