rogin tweeted criticism about nainan's jokes. according to witnesses and police reports, nainan punched rogin. he said he was just standing up for the amateur performers. >> a reporter was sending out all these tweets about these others. you know, you pick on me, that's one thing. why are you picking on these poor people? >> d.c. police gave nainan a citation. rogin declined to comment. >>> a former nfl player says hundreds of people may soon face charges are for trashing his vacation home. police just arrested six people they say broke into brian holloway's home near albany, new york, and lieu a massive labor day party. one of the people charged was a young man he took care of when he was homeless. he claims that guy organized the party. holloway posted pictures of the young people on social media sites and that angered some of the teens' parents. >>> right now crews are trying to restore power to it a busy park of new york's rail system. even though it won't do much good for this morning's commute. a busy stretch has mostly bee

that's when nainan punched rogin several times.t's really taking off on twitter thanks to rogin tweeting the blow by blow as it happened. dan nainan just punched me in the face. no joke. he then said they were calling the police. and then that nainan had been arrested for assault. finally rogin thanked his twitter followers for their support saying he was physically fine just not used to getting attacked over his tweets. >>> today we'll be watching for developments on capitol hill. lawmakers going back and forth about what to do to pass a budget and avoid a government shutdown. in the meantime one of the biggest issues will be the focus of a speech president obama will give today in prince george's county. he's expect ed to give a very frank outline of his health care reform law. megan mcgrath is at prince george's community college with more on what we're getting about what the president will say today. megan? >> reporter: aaron, early this morning the white house released some details regarding the president's speech which is goi

he punched rogin several times. police arrested the comedian. he says he was defending himself and rogin swung first. >>> seven police officers involved in a deadly shooting are back on the job. >> the officers connected with the case have been cleared of wrong doing. >> mark segraves reports there's video showing sellers pointed a gun before they opened fire. >> reporter: this is the spot where alexandria police shot and killed taft sellers. they were responding to a 911 call. they tried to talk him out of using his gun. when they pointed at him, they fired. 39 times in a matter of seconds. the alexandria police chief is sorry for the family's loss. the officers did everything they could to avoid deadly force. >> they feared for their lives and the lives of their colleagues. they continued to shoot until he was no longer a perceived threat. >> a witness that shows sellers pointing his gun at police. >> the point that mr. sellers pointed his gun at one of my office officers, the others responded. >> reporter: some officers fired because they hea

that's when witnesses say nainan punched rogin several times.ogin tweeted it saying dan nainan punched me in the face and that he had been arrested. >>> the prince george's county man who killed a mother and daughter in their largo home will never get out of jail. jason scott accepted a plea deal. he'll serve two life terms in the 2009 murders of delores and ebony dewitt. scott is already in jail for a series of home invasions. he tracked his victims through computers at ups where he worked. they believe he would have killed again if he wasn't caught. >>> the name of the woman killed yesterday in this apartment high-rise for seniors. deborah lee died when flames ripped through the ninth floor of the leisure world complex. it's not clear how the fire started. damage is estimated around $150,000. prince george's county school administrators are learning a hard lesson. miss a deadline and pay the price. the county has to return $1.4 million to the state because it didn't approve school construction contracts on time. the money was supposed to pay f

according to witnesses, he was confronted and punch, rogin.e tweeted dan nainan punched me in the face. he spoke to nainan by phone. >> the other journalists. >> reporter: nainan says he was infuriated about the amateur performers. >> if you pick on me, that's one thing. why are you picking on these poor people? >> reporter: nainan was given a citation. one thing that complicated this for investigators and everyone involved is the fact there were a lot of journalists, people with twitter accounts, familiar with what happened. in northwest washington, jackie bens bensen, news 4. >>> extensive damage to a home in bethesda after a fire spread through the second floor and on to the roof. the people inside got out before firefighters arrived. this is on kingswood road. medics took one firefighter to the hospital for treatment of a minor injury. the cause of the blaze, still under investigation. >>> the search is on for a man who robbed a bank in prince george's county. it happened before noon near oxford drive in temple hills. a man wearing medical

rogin said he was funny until he dusted off his 2005 jokes in a gwb impression. a few minutes later he said his umteenth joke about how asians can't distinguish between the letters l and r. election, erection, we get it. after the rogin tweet, i was just punched in the face. not a joke. he hit him three times. he was arrested for assault and also for a really bad act, i guess. >> allegedly. >> joe, isn't it sad that a comedian is checking his tweets? >> i am writing the election, erection joke. >> this is a tough one. >> tough one is a fellow comic. >> you know what is great about this? he punched somebody on twitter. how many people would like to do that? >> somebody writes you suck and the guy is right over there and punches you in the face. >> then you are justifying if somebody doesn't like the joke. that's not the way mature people handle things. i think when he did tweet you could put not a joke after anything involving him. i can't have this platform and not advise everyone. it should be between him and the comedian. google him and google the name of anoth

journalist josh rogin was live tweeting during the show. as dan nainan took the stage, he said the jokes weren't funny. news 4 spoke the nainan and he was trying to stand-up for the amateur comedians performing for charity. rogin declined to comment to news 4. >>> when the affordable care act takes effect, smokers are going to have to make a tough decision, kick the habit or pay a smoking surcharge that takes effect on tuesday. it could increase health care by 50%. chris gordon explains why smokers are being singled out. >> reporter: they can develop health problems like lung cancer, heart attack and stroke. their medical treatment adds to the cost of health care. george washington university law professor has argued since the 1980s people who engage in dangerous health activities like smoking should pay more for health insurance. >> i think the 50% surcharge is the most effective way to get them to quit. those who refuse, it's high time they pay the costs rather than the majority of us who are nonsmokers. >> reporter: there's disagreement

. >> seth rogin didn't finish high school because it wasn't covered in gravy. >> i like the jokes about his weight going up and down. that is almost as amazing as the back and forth of sydney's boobs. >> were those used? >> those two were not used. >> we get the good stuff. those were good. andy, was obama's nose whistling? >> i just skipped you because i figured you were too busy. by the way your joke spilled it. sending weapons inspectors to syria is incredibly dangerous which is why i signed you up. >> i guess that makes me a patriot. i think the pinprick comment for kerry to stop with the botox. he is scaring the people he is supposed to be convincing. it is a little with a wall and a talking mouth. the more he is confusing the people he is convincing. >> i thought it was botox, but i think he may have something else. i don't know. >> i don't know either. i do know one thing. if i am found guilty of murdering people, the court finds you guilty of shooting these people and we sentence you to taking your gun. >> makes no sense. and we will end on that. >> chemical weapons don't kill p

national security network, former state department speechwriter under president bill clinton, josh roginly beast," former diplomat and official under george w. bush now at american university. so heather, start with you, i send it up there before the segment. everybody has iraq on their minds in some way. the experience and example of iraq. i know we can say there's a lot of distinctions between what is proposed, what's on the table here. is the vote that congress took on iraq after the 9/11 attack was the culmination of almost a decade of efforts to push us into war with iraq exactly, by the way, because the '91 war was limited. so in iraq, by the time we get to the place that the american people and the british people are quite rightly thinking about, there had been a lot of groundwork laid and a lot of back and forth in american politics and a lot of really land mines laid in american politics, whereas with syria, what's happening right now is i'm afraid just the beginning of what's going to be a much longer story as the u.s. struggles with the chemical weapons, the humanitarian, the