. >> reporter: on a good weather day, the petworth recreation center draws hundreds of kids. but it's steps from this convenience store cited by the d.c. attorney general's office for marketing synthetic marijuana and similar products. chico and his family have lived in this area of georgia and new hampshire avenue for eight years. >> it's four houses away from the park where my daughters play and hundreds of other kids play. and you'll see people smoking the synthetic drugs on the park benches in the drug-free zone. >> reporter: a half dozen stores have been cited in the initial attorney general crackdown. >> my wife informed me they're selling something they call like skube or k-2. i didn't know what that was. i had to look it up. >> reporter: there's a building boom in petworth, but it has deep roots, too. >> some of the neighbors up the street here have been here for 30, 40 50, maybe even 60 years. what i really would like is just to have the drug trafficking stop. >> reporter: several store owners could not be reached for comment. attorney general karl racine who is addr

filing complaints, complaints against the amanuel market on georgia avenue and other markets in the petworth community. city lawyers say they are illegally selling synthetic drugs that can be dangerous, addictive and they are targeting young people. >> i think it's a significant problem. first of all, it's illegal. to the extent we can under law and we think there are good theories there, we'll shut these businesses down. >> reporter: petworth is a rapidly changing neighborhood where longtime and new residents are battling crime and drug issues. >> we've had a lot of problems in the neighborhood actually in general, rising crime rates. it's something we're really worried about in this neighborhood. >> i want to touch on a -- >> reporter: racine is talking to the petworth advisory neighborhood commission tonight at 6:30 to talk about the synthetic sales. >> most of the stores are responsible and they do not want to sell these things to kids. other stores, you know, frankly, are profiting. that's the people who we'll focus our energies on. >> reporter: news4 attempted to contact owners of some

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. >> reporter: i'm tom sherwood in northwest washington the petworth community, where the d.c. attorney general has launched a crackdown on the sell of synthetic drugs. i'll have the story coming up. >>> millionaire real estate heir robert durst will be arraigned tomorrow on two gun charges in new orleans. a grand jury indicted him today. the guns were allegedly found in his hotel room last month. his attorney says the search was illegal. today's indictment will further delay his extradition to los angeles where durst is charged with murder in the death of a longtime friend in 2000. he's also a suspect in two other murders. >>> five inches and the compassion of two police officers. that's all that separated a suicidal woman from certain death in new york city. she was threatening to jump from a bridge that links brooklyn and queens. tonight we're hearing from the officers who saved her. here's nbc's checky bedford. >> reporter: the high-stakes rescue happened high above newtown creek. officers pull a woman from the edge of the bridge after several risky attempts. >> the first t

as we zoom in, we have showers in the beltway headed toward petworth, ledroit, mt. pleasant as well. and the showers and thunderstorms that i'm tracking off to the west right now these will continue making their way, more west-northwest into leesburg hamilton, leave itsville and purcellville. if you go out this evening, what you can expect scattered rains with the heaviest ending around 8:00 or so. 63 to 57 your temperatures, we'll talk more about what's in store for us tomorrow. more rain and how heavy it will be. >>> it was a surprise lesson for students at an alexandria elementary school. an air force helicopter made an emergency landing next to the playing field at ramsey elementally on sanger avenue today. there were no kids on the field at the time. the chopper was on a routine flight when there was a slight mechanical emergency. >> it's one of those emergencies where you want to land as soon as possible so we happened to be right over this field. it looked like a good spot so we landed. >> the chopper was checked out and a short time ago returned safely to th

half a dozen complaints have been filed about stores in the petworth area. d.c. leaders say the stores are not only selling synthetic drugs, but marketing them to the young people. >> four houses away in the park where my daughters play and hundreds of other kids play and you'll see people smoking the synthetic drugs right on the park benches in that drug free zone. >> some stores have stopped selling them. the attorney general says he's going after the others. >>> they were seriously hurt trying to help drivers who crashed on the beltway. take a look at this picture thousand. it shows the aftermath of the crash thatnd la land theed the two emts in the hospital. marshall and schrieber returned to work after recovering. they were helping the victims of a toyota that crashed when a pickup lost control and hit the toyota and injured the emts. two other technicians jumped into action p.. they say the crash has helped them form the bond. >> country want to be just college student. that's boring. i have a passion for helping people. >> i was originally going to medical

half a dozen complaints have already been filed against stores in the petworth area. city officials told news 4 the stores are only selling synthetic drugs and marketing them to young people, as well. they have been illegal since 2012. >>> soon you won't be able to rye cycle plastic bags in rouk. the prince george's county. the county will start trashing them on july 1. a spokesman told the gazette the bags slow down the process by getting caught in machinery. you can still bring your bags back to most grocery stores to be reused. >>> also in maryland we've learned that movies and tv shows will keep getting tax credits to film there. house of cards the most notable example. that show and veep have received tens of millions of dollars in credits over the last four years. under a new amendment, the governor and business department will be in charge of how much is spent on tax credits going forward. >>> veteran cbs news man and face the nation moderator bob schieffer announcing that he will retire this summer. he made that announcement yesterday at a forum at his alma ma