the fbi has spent the evening and pvcating how a gun filled with metal objects buried near patrick henry drive. the story first broke at 5:00. we are live at the scene. >> police are still on guard. you can see the police take up. cordoned off tonight. was in these woods where at gun and those pvc pipes were found. the fbi worked the scene for hours. agents canvassed the neighborhood near the spot where made thection crew discovery in the morning. this photo shows a member of the bomb squad removing what looks box with the but of an assault style weapon sticking out. >> it is a shock, especially for this neighborhood. >> when the construction workers gun, theyt was a the fed's. pipemebody was making bombs. >> the middle school was locked briefly while investigators determined there were no explosives present. there were trying to determine was buried inse area. they also asked residents military personnel live nearby. >> machine guns, that would be a military weapon. collapse while the investigation in thiss, the people no morehood hope weapons are found. >> i cannot imagine any of my ne

this is near patrick henry drive in arlington. the fbi and the bomb squad quickly determined the items were not hazardous. investigators will be back out to the area today scouring for clues. >>> an american citizen from northern virginia accused of spying for syria. the government says mohammed swai watched anti-syrian protest arers here in the d.c. region and sent video back to the syrian intelligence agency. the leesburg man was arrested tuesday and faces up to 40 years in prison. >>> powerful earthquake rattled indonesia's bali island overnight. it struck just offshore and sent people in the popular resort area running into the streets. so far, the 6.0 quake injured dozens of people but no tsunami warning and no deaths reported. >>> another aftershock near the epicenter of the earthquake that rattled what happened here. this happened in mineral, virginia, a 3.0 in louisa county. >>> portions of a pinnacle damaged during the august earthquake will be remoferred from the national cathedral this morning. the two ton pieces will b

it was found along patrick henry driver into 10th street about an hour ago. no one has been injured. authorities are trying to figure out how it got there. >>> the state department has issued a worldwide travel alert for americans overseas. after yesterday's shocking announcement. the government of iran was behind a plot to assassinate saudi arabia's ambassador to washington. kristin fisher has the latest now from outside the saudi arabian embassy. >> reporter: this is the official complaint from the justice department and it names two defendants. one is already in custody. the other, allegedly a member of the iranian special operations unit is still at large. the man in custody is 56-year- old arbabsiar. he allegedly hired a hitman that he believed worked for a mexican drug cartel but the hitman was actually an informant for the d.e.a. arbabsiar was arrested at jfk airport on september 29th. since then, not only has he confessed but he's also already identified iranian officials. both men were charged yesterday in new york federal court on conspiring to murd

yet when circumstances required it, he debated patrick henry.he debated james monroe and the open air in a snowstorm so bitter he got frostbite on his nose. he won those debates. when he found a political chore, yet so it could not do it. he was not too proud to work with men or women who could. dolly madison was more than a hostess. she was a political wife, america's first. half a campaign type team in austin the better half. likewise, madison worked with washington, profiting from his charisma and judgment and the table 10 profiting from his -- when he was not alarmed by it. he worked with jefferson, visionary philosopher and politician echelon for 40 years. he consented to learn something about money from his younger colleague, albert callison come a swiss immigrant who spoke with a french accent but knew more about america's finances than most natives. madison was a great man who is not afraid of assisting or deferring to other great than, another legacy of his taste in life. he also worked with the less than great. hatchet men and facets,

colonial period and it's really from the lower house is that the legislature you get people like patrick henry and james otis and john adams and samuel adams who came out and attacked what they thought were innovations in the british policy that were oppressing the colonists and if you recall the major slogan was no taxation without representation but it's those delegates that were on the forefront of observing that. they were elected within each colonies of virginia has a legislature, such as its common and hampshire has a legislature and these new houses have delegates that were elected from towns and counties but there was no sense people should have more representative. it was still on the basis of geographic units so one county in virginia but sent two representatives whether it had 1,000 people were 2000 people. what happened when the state's quote their constitution and they did that in the american revolution from 1776 to 1780. some of the states began to experiment with a new form of representation in which representation was a portion of the population. so more people in a certain ar

some weapons parts and pipes were found yesterday along patrick henry drive at interstate 66. police say parts of weapons were found inside pvc pipes but no explosives were found. the fbi says a gun, however, was found as well. >>> at naval station norfolk, a somber memorial. the names of the 17 sailors killed in the bombing of the u.s.s. cole were read aloud on the 11th anniversary of that attack. some of the 40 sailors wounded were there and also relatives of those who did not survive. the man accused of carrying out the attack in yemen is finally set for arraignment next month at guantanamo. >>> as many as 18 people were injured when two amtrak trains collided in california this morning. authorities say one train was parked at the station, dropping off passengers when it was hit from behind. federal investigators are looking into what caused this crash. >>> coming up on 9news now at noon, see what you get when you order a $35,000 dessert at a very posh hotel in england! >>> and we'll have more information about the blackberry blackout. it is plaguing millions of users aroun

it is relief from those lower houses of the legislature that you get people like patrick henry and james otis and john adamson, samuel adams to came out and attacked what they thought were innovations in british policy that were pressing the colonists. and if you recall, no taxation without representation, but it does relieve those delegates that were on the forefront of observing that. they were elected within each column. virginia legislature, 67 legislature, new hampshire had a legislature. these lower houses had delegates that were elected from towns and counties. there was no sense that more people should have more representatives. it was all done on the basis of geographic units and territorial units. one county from represent to five. county from virginia would have two representatives. what happens when the state's wrote their first pick constitutions, and they did that during the american revolution from 1776 to 1780 cell of the states began to experiment with a new form of representation in which representation was proportionate to population more people would get representativ

screw found a gun, two weapon parts and some pvc pipes in the woods just off interstate 66 at patrick henry drive in arlington. neighbors say it is a cut- through trail that is often used by kids. investigators determined the kids were not hazardous and are hoping they can trace the weapon. they are going to see the search area again today. >>> antoinette starks accused in a vicious unprovoked stabbing outside a target store in lanham is now being held without bond. she is accused of using knives she had just stolen to attack the shopper standing by her car. >>> police are still looking into a new clue in the disappearance of an alexandria man. a private towing company found lenny harris' car at an apartment complex on livingston road in prince george's county over the weekend. he was last seen leave ago rec cent are in old town september 21st. surveil's video caught a map trying to use his bark guard at an atm on king street later that night. police are also looking for a white dodge caravan spotted near an atm in prince george's county. >>> ever since protesters in syria rose up against t

along patrick henry drive.e school was briefly authoritieswhile sure the items were not explosive. >>> another person in a helicopter that crashed in the city last in new york week and died. died.r-old helen another passenger died shortly after the crash. two other passengers and the pilot survived. the crash is under investigation. president obama is playing host to the south korean the united states for a state visit. aass and ipad dinner at korean barbecue restaurant in tyson's corner. there will be no state dinner held tonight. dinner at a korean barbecue restaurant. obama will be visiting fairfax county. >>> new york city officials are the rising cost of the occupy wall street protests. the new york police department spent more than $2 million the protestsince on september 17. some say that money could. be could. protesters say don't blame them. >> every new york cop should be robbers.or rapists and everyone of them should be serious crimes. >> i would direct a question at police and say why have you much

. >>> a lot patrick henry drive yesterday a pipe with metal pieces in it was found along with a gun and a middle school was locked down temporarily. >>> two amtrak trains collided at an oakland station. the low-speed crash happened around 10:00 pacific time. there's no word right now on how serious any of the injuries are or what caused the accident. >>> a bitter custody battle might have led to a deadly rampage at a california air salon. this happened in c.o.p., south of los angeles. -- seal beach. 42-year-old scott dekraai began shooting. eight people died and others injured. he had several weapons in his car. his ex-wife works at the salon. -->>> metro will vote on service changes to the blue and yellow line, aimed at easing overcrowding on the orange line. some trains which do share some orange line stations will be routed across the yellow line bridge over the potomac. that would add 2600 seatsd to the orange line during peak times. >>> a d.c. council committee will discuss the response to recent emergencies including the august earthquake. traffic was snarled for miles after the q

the discovery was made at 11:00 on patrick henry drive near the swanson middle school. early reports were that pcv piping, which can be piping to make bombs was found. so far, only the gun has been found. investigators are still searching the area for more clues. >>> district leaders said the city is prepared for the crowds that come with an extra busy weekend downtown. the occupy d.c. protesters are sticking around. the martin luther king jr. memorial happens this weekend. city leaders will hold a march for voting rights on saturday. the police chief says occupy police protesters have not been a problem for the city so far. >> they have been very cooperative for us. we only become concerned when they have roadblockages that prevent challenges to ambulances and police responding to calls for help. metro will adjust operations for that event. they will open at 5:00 a.m. on sunday, two hours earlier than normal. metro is cancelling track work for the day and putting extra train cars into service. >>> metro services is looking at how they handled a situation. a man was hit

. >>> and then the discovery of a gun was made around 11:00 yesterday on patrick henry drive, and that's near swanson middle school. a vdot contractor found the gun and alerted police. >>> and then last night there was a nightmare commute after a mechanical failure caused a power outage. a switch at the rosslyn plant. escalators shut off at rosslyn under the weight of riders just exiting the station. >>> coming up, a high profile white house welcome for this morning. >>> bring out the welcome morning for the south korean president and his wife. president obama was outside in the rain to greet the two that arrived at about 9:00 this morning. first lady michelle obama and korea's first lady will spend part of their day at a school. they plan to visit the high school this morning as part of her u.s. welcome tour. the fairfax county school is home to a large korean american population. the president's staff planned this visit. obama's tradition is extending the reach of state visits beyond the white house, and that's what she is doing today. >>> tonight's state dinner with the first family w

yesterday on patrick henry drive. a vdot contractor found the gun and called police. >>> new overnight, police this the district are investigating a stabbing in northwest washington. this happened near the intersection of 14th street and meridian police. they found a man stabbed in the back there. there's no word this morning on his condition or whether police are looking for anyone in connection crime. >>> a popular resort island in indonesia was hit with an earthquake last night. at least 50 people were injured, three of them critically. the walls of the temples of some homes crumbled. the roofs collapsed. the quake could be found on the island of javi a hundred miles away. indonesia is broken to earthquakes and volume containic activity. >>> and residents in the northwest may have felt a bit of a rumble overnight. there was an earthquake off the southern coast of oregon. people have reported feeling the quake from as far north as portland to areas near san francisco. experts say there's no threat of a tsunami there

. >> reporter: it was in this wooded area just off i-56 at patrick henry drive that construction crewsesday morning and called for help. >> next thing we knew was there was 12 arlington county police cars, arlington county bomb squad and more wagons which i figured was either fbi or the secret service. >> reporter: turns out, it was the fbi and that agency confirms what the workers found was a gun, two weapons parts and some pvc pipes. investigators brought in the bomb squad and portable x-ray machine and quickly determined the items were not hazardous, but it was enough to put neighbors here on edge. >> it's just very alarming. we're learning they're finding buried weapons across from where we live. there's a middle school right down not street, lots of kids around all -- down the street, lots of kid around all the time. >> reporter: that area neighbors say is a cut-through trail often used by kids. >> if you go through there, there's a playground. that's my concern is there's guns on ground used by middle schoolers. >> reporter: neighbors say investigatorred asked pretty pointed ques

construction crew found a gun, two weapons parts and some pvc pipe in the woods just off interstate 66 at patrick henryngton. neighbors say it is a cut- through trail often used by kids. investigators determined the items were not hazardous and are hoping they can trace the weapons. they are going to search the area again today. >>> a warning meanwhile for falls church home owners. burglars have hit 10 homes in the past month. the thieves seem to be going after electronics like computers and smart phone and it is not enough to just lock your doors. some doors have even been kicked in. some neighbors believe the suspects are taking their loot right to the falls church metro stop and riding away with it. metro transit police are helping in the investigate as well. >>> let's check in with tony once again. kind of a mess out there. >> it is messy. i want to mention that our friend in cull ander, there is a flood warning -- in cull culpeper, there is a flood warning in effect until this evening for minor flooding that could occur in that area. this is down around the culpeper region. let's talk about what i

some weapons parts and pipes were found yesterday along patrick henry drive at interstate 66. police say parts of weapons were found inside the pvc pipes but no explosives were found. the fbi says a gun was found as well. >>> virginia's senate delegation wants to give tax incentives for communities and developers to rehabilitate substandard school buildings. democrats jim webb and mark warner are behind the plan to use the federal rehabilitation tax credit to spruce up schools. two powerful republicans house majority leader eric kantor and governor bob mcdonnell both of virginia think is a great idea. in the past, communities were reluctant to use the money because of legal hurdles. >>> a two ton piece of the national cathedral pinnacle damaged by the august earthquake will be moved later this morning. moving the chunk of stone will make area damaged more stable until the stone work can be repaired. the cathedral will eventually get an inspection from the same team of rappelling engineers who inspected the washington monument. >>> now, listen to this. the city of harrisburg, p

marshall added that nobody could have captured the torrent of words from patrick henry, although i have to say i thought reportson did rather well. if you read his accounts, you can, i think, sense both the power of henry's oratory and its incohesionsive, and that's a good trick, wonderful trick so my hat is off to david robertson, if it wasn't for his heroic effort, the story, the marvelous story, the moving story, of the heroic meeting of minds at richmond in the summer of 1788 would be totally lost to us. we know also how well he did by one day he didn't go there. you should see the gibberish that his newspaper published that day. couldn't make sense of it. only by what robertson recorded later could you somehow read back because people alluded to what was said on that rather important day when he was absent. but i can reconstruct soming things about what was said on the day he one there. god bless the man. but now factor in the documentary history of the ratification of the constitution. hudson said that these books -- his point was quite simple. if you wanted to recover the origina

rhode island, like patrick henry of virginia is not iraq, didn't want to have anything to do with it.from the very beginning, when the 55 delegates determined that the articles could not be saved and made the decision to supplant them with entirely new constitution and the argument can be mutated in a sanctioned to do so. it was an illegal action from the beginning. couldn't do it. they did it anyway, but they couldn't do it. thomas jefferson learned from his post as u.s. minister in france. a lot of people think thomas jefferson was fair, but he wasn't. he was across the water in france and he claimed to like much in principle the general idea of framing a government, which should go on in itself peaceably without needing, as the article state, continually recurrence to the state legislatures with all those state legislators had to agree on just about anything, whether it was coming to a tree, taxes, anything they all had to agree and it was just a mess. even so, that is what they agreed to have. they wanted a highly decentralized government after what they have to encounter with the

liked jefferson, jefferson was governor, and he liked jefferson and got along pretty well with patrick henry. but they may have been the exceptions. i came across one petition that mason wrote in the fall of 1781. now, he might have been celebrating the american victory at yorktown, but it was mason's habit to, you know, celebrate excessively. and he writes this petition complaining about, um, some of the executive branch officials. he's particularly complaining about their use of the power of impressment, that they're seizing private property for the military and not paying for it even though he thinks cash is available to pay willing sellers. and he targets thomas nielsen who was governor for abusing the power of impressment. and he also attacks nielsen for acting without approval of the council of state. there's that council of state again. the virginia constitution required governor's actions to be approved by the council of state. well, nielsen had been at yorktown commanding the virginia militia and was having to act without approval of the council of state. and mason says in his, in h

construction workers found a gun, weapons parts and pvc pipe buried in the ground off i-66 near patrick henryn. the fbi and bomb squad quickly determined the items were not hazardous. investigators will be back out in that area today looking for clues. >>> engineers removing parts of the pin cal from the -- pinnacle from the national cathedral. they're trying to make the pinnacle in the central tower more stable. >>> another after shock from the earthquake that rattled the east in august. the aftershock hit yesterday afternoon, about 6 miles southwest of mineral, virginia. there have been 42 aftershocks since the original quake, including two 4.0 or higher. >>> let's check in with tony perkins. >> time for the cuteness factor of the day. >> we got it, we need it. it's a three for. a rare three for. boy, look at this. >> wow. >> check it out. >> they're ready for halloween. their family says they are overly excited for halloween. >> did you try your costumes on ahead of time or did you wait for the big night? >> when i was a kid, i remember trying them on ahead of time. when i was a kid, i'm d

one of the early points in the book says that thomas jefferson and patrick henry and some others decided that it would engage in fasting in support of their compatriots in massachusetts who were protesting the taea tax. the idea with this mass movement is really a deep part of our history. it is calling attention to the gaps that a been created by people who of made a lot of money, whether on wall street or this economy. it has been at the expense of working people and the expense of young people who do not have the ability to see their dreams. host: michael is a republican in atlanta, georgia. caller: good morning. calling from generations of farmers, i was felt simple solutions work best. do you feel that -- this can be found in a government program? if everyone was working that most of our problems would be eliminated, if americans built superior products, everybody america.nt midamericmade in guest: what a great question. thanks to our farmers. it is true that i think you can find ways in just about anything. i work in the private sector and i have worked for nonprofits. none of us w

in virginia patrick henry said give me liberty or give me death. that was the first governor of virginia. jefferson and henry and mcdonnell. they are the ones i like to talk about. new hampshire is live free or die. we are glad mr. jefferson gave that understanding of liberty. you love nascar. tony stewart fans feeling good about race in virginia. you guys know how to create jobs. there is nothing more important in america but you have the lowest unemployment rate east of the mississippi. we are a little behind you at 6%. you understand what it takes to get people to work and have access to the american dream because with the leadership of speaker o'brien you are pushing to make new hampshire a right to work state like the commonwealth of virginia. [applause] and we have something else in common. we are both realizing we made a big mistake in 2008 because both our states went for president obama. i hope you are ready to fix that problem next year in new hampshire. [applause] let me give you one other goal which is how important it is to win the gov

a biography of thomas jefferson points out that thomas jefferson and patrick henry and some others decided that they would engage in fasting in support of their compatriots in massachusetts who were protesting the tea tax. this idea that we have this mass movement from wall street all across the country and all across the world is a deep part of our history. i think it is calling attention to the gaps in poverty and income and opportunity that have been created by a set of people who made an awful lot of money, whether it is on wall street and this economy, but it has been at the expense of working people and young people who do not have the ability to see their dreams because they have been snatched away from them. host: michael in atlanta, georgia, good morning. your on c-span. caller: coming from generations of performers, i have always felt that simple solutions work best. my two-part question is this. number one, do you feel that 10% waste can be found in any government program? no. 2, if everyone was working, most of our problems would be eliminated. if america built superior product

have a special picture to show you this is the newest member of our cnn newsroom family this is henry patrickn our team. we wanted to take this time to wish him the best. baby henry all the best. they're not going to get a lot of sleep. when we interviewed president jimmy carter, carter suggested a name for the kid. he gave him that name henry. >> really? >> jimmy carter has something to do with this. >> that's awesome. most newborn babies aren't that attractive, but this baby is really cute. >> this one is really cute. >> ed will be back with us in a little bit. he should stay home and help. >> no. he should stay home and wait on his wife hand and foot. i agree. thanks, we'll see you in a little bit. >>> a stroke of the pen from president obama is preventing the government from shutting down. that is for now. the latest on where things stand the latest on where things stand in our political ticker update.. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus liquid gels fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your stuffy nose. [ deep breath ] thank you! that's the cold truth! when an inves