she sued the syrian government and named mohamad soueid as one of the defendants. days later she was threatened. >> they told me, "we will kill your family. we will vanishing your daughter if you don't drop this lawsuit." >> reporter: soueid, who briefly appeared in court today, is not charged with causing any deaths, but prosecutors say his actions have clearly put people at risk. now, prosecutors say in late june, soueid traveled at the expense of the syrian government for a face-to-face meeting with damascus with president dash, but the syrian embassy has flatley denied soueid is a spy adding they have no americans on their intelligence payroll. >> pelley: bob, could sow eat have done this spying all alone? >> well, he had a little bit of help, scott. he was working with the people inside the syrian embassy, and furthermore, prosecutors say in the indictment he tried to recruit outsiders to help him do the snooping. no one else has been charged and at the moment they're not looking for any other illegal syrian agents. >> pelley: the so-called underwear bomber ab

agents arrested a 47-year-old mohamad anas haitham soueid, of leesburg, virginia. officials say soueid spied against people rallying against the regime. we are learning more about the violent attack at a target store. video showed that the suspect antoinette starks, was attempting to bribe times yesterday. her credit card was decline and she walked out without paying. later, she allegedly stabbed at 39-year-old woman. the woman is now in stable condition. back in 2005, starks stabbed to go people in a montgomery mall. -- stat two people in montgomery mall. rain is back in the forecast today. adam caskey pass a look at all the wet weather bank. -- wet weather. >> all the way until friday, then improvements for the weekend. we had some showers last night and early this morning, then a break in the action. west of the metro, moderate rain. areas in yellow indicate a moderate rain. it is just light rain, light green, moving north. this is the southern end of the beltway and 66 as well. we will be back in a few minutes to talk about the rainfall total and what you can e

mohamad talked about this, saying, how are we going to restore pride? we have to do it through at job creation. have to do it the right way. everyone has had combined efforts. even the puc, with their money, they know keeping track out of the waterdrainage system, that will all flow in when it is raining, they will be a better performing utilities commission on this. so, they put their money in. everybody has done is the right way. mostly, i am proud of all of the residents here giving up hope that they can have these jobs that are modern jobs. with that come my congratulations to everybody. congratulations to all the department's. -- with that, my congratulations to everybody. all the 175 blocks to bring all level of planning, and a level of civic pride. thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you, mr. maher. he kind of breeze over it, but i do want to note -- when he took office, he was facing a more than $300 million deficit he had to close. building the budget, he was focused on cutting in a way that was responsible. but it was mostly a cutting exe

. >> cnn's embassy in washington denied getting any information from mohamad anas haitham soueid, callingceptable. but there are recent incidents that raised questions. syrian musician claimed that after he played an anti-al-assad song in washington his elderly parents were beaten up by thugges from the regime. >> my wife, they came up and start hitting her. >> the government didn't respond to that allegation. but in the past, has blamed armed gangs for such attacks. former u.s. ambassador to syria says he is not surprised by the algiegss that al-assad's regime has spies in the u.s. >> they are fighting for their lives. this is the regime that believes they are riding a tiger. they majority group. an offshoot of the islam. and 80% of the population are sunni arabs and most of the people detest the regime and want to done with. >> mohamad anas haitham soueid may have had help. prosecutors say he tried to help others in the u.s. to help spy. it is not immediately clear who or how many there are. soueid's attorney denies all allegations. wolf? >> you have heard fascinating testimony both for

. >> reporter: his name is mohamad anas haitham, 47 years old arrested tuesday what i grand jury -- onncluded gun charges. according to the charges soueid has been photographing protesters in the u.s. and handing those materials over to syria's spy agency in an effort to intimidate and squash the protest movement want in u.s. soueid lived in this -- movement in the u.s. soueid lived in this house and police say it was here he designed a spy ring to collect information on people protesting against syria. court documents say from april to june this year soueid e- mailed 20 audio and video recordings of protesters in the united states and he is also charged with giving false addresses on a gun permit for a weapon he purchased at a lorton gun store. the operation's goal was to collect information on protesters who were calling for syrian president bra shier assad to resign and use -- basir assad to resign and use that information to harass the friends and relatives of the protesters. it was agreed with the prosecution's motion to keep soueid behind bars fearing he may try to flee to serbia

the suspect is mohamad soueid. he acted in order to collect information on people protesting the government crackdown. prosecutors say the syrian government paid for him to travel to syria and they say that's where he met with intelligence officials and spoke privately with the syrian president. >>> we have new information on a fatal pedestrian accident near the national zoo. a new report says the sports utility vehicle that hit a 64- year-old woman is registered to the swiss embassy. that accident happened last thursday in the 3100 block of connecticut avenue. rishikoff died the next day. police have educating whether or not the driver -- are investigating whether or not the driver was on the cell phone when the accident happened. >>> and it's been pretty wet out there all day long. off and on anyway. chief meteorologist topper shutt tracking the weather. we're on the radar, weather? >> here's the deal. howard said this earlier. we haven't a. had rain in our or five days and also -- four or five days is also leave