autistic man's ride to nowhere touched a nerve with other transit users who contacted reporter, scott broomoday. and scott has been following up with metro trying to get some answers. >> rory doyle's ride to nowhere happens all the time according to advocates for disabled people who ride metro access. but metro says it has the data to prove that they are all wrong. 21-year-old rory doyle functions at the level of a seven-year-old and uses metro access to get to the programs that help him. >> through a gps tracker. >> on september 22, doyle was taken on a four hour ride to nowhere while his father followed tracking software on rory's phone. >> i became concerned. >> sounded very familiar. >> today, pat spray said it happens all the time to him. >> it is about one out of six coming home in the evening from montgomery county is what we call the ground tour. >> the dispatching software used by metro access and contractors. >> they are not judged by how long they have you on the van. >> metro says spray has it wrong. spokesman dan provided data from march of this year showing that 98.81% of the

with other users who contacted reporter, scott broom today. scott has been following up with metro to get some answers. >> rory doyle's ride to nowhere happens all the time according to advocates for disabled people who ride metro access. but metro says it has the data to prove that they are all wrong. 21-year-old rory doyle functions at the level of a seven-year-old and uses metro access to get to the programs that help him. >> through a gps tracker. >> doyle was taken on a four hour ride to nowhere while his father followed tracking software on rory's phone. >> i was becoming concerned he was being abducted. >> advocate said it happens all the time to him. >> it's about one out of six coming home in the evening from montgomery county is what we call the grand tour. >> the dispatching software used by contractors. >> they are not judged by how long they have you, just if they pick you up on time. >> metro says spray has it wrong. dan provided data showing 98.81% of the time, metro access rides take the same time as the equivalent bus or rail t

scott broom reports that the odds are only about one out of four. but it is clearly worth a shot.n our region alone, they've got 16,000 people who look like they are potentially on their way to foreclosure. all 16,000 were sent mailers to come here to the convention hall at national harbor and to try to work out new terms this week. >> and i was reluctant to come. >> that is jesse ferguson and their wife who noticed right away that boxes of tissues on every desk with all of that here this fall. >> and they had, well, hip replacement. >> reporter: they are trying to save this. the house that he has been paying on since 1970. >> we are taking out loans for kids and everything as you are looking around, refinancing on it. some things that are thrown out there. >> and you can change the interest rate and the extent of the loan. >> reporter: she says that the company is trying to qualify the struggling customers for workout -- for the workouts. they could get payments down to about 36% of the gross that the family has coming in, wells fargo will try to make a deal. >> there is no value

scott broom, 9news now. >> indeed we are happy. scott, thank you so much for that. >>> coming up at 7 p.m. tonight on 9news now. a high school rivalry playing out on twitter. that doesn't sound that unusual but when does a hash tag take things a little too far? that's coming up. 9news now at 7 p.m. >>> still to come in this half hour. is there a backup plan? with the threat of bad weather ahead, we have the answer tonight for the tens of thousands running in this weekend's marine corps marathon. >>> up next, a popular program for all prescription drugs is back to business. the details when we come back. >>> heading into this weekend tomorrow is drug take back day in virginia. that means you can drop off unwanted or expired prescription medications across the commonwealth. sheriff's departments and local state police offices. almost five tons of drugs were turned in at a similar event in april. it is a great way to keep them off the streets. >>> a new study by the food and drug administration finds some newer forms of birth control

scott broom spoke with people today for measure of the local reaction. >> reporter: they use terms in war, today it was most of the blood people were thinking about after the president's announcement. >> reporter: there have been a lot of funerals like this one in our region in the last nine years. >> i don't think we should be fighting wars in other countries. >> reporter: the visitors were in a particularly reflective names. >> you look at the names it is so sobering to see that. you hate to see how many people will be added to that. i would love to see it snowboard i had a. >> i'm shocked. i didn't expect that. >> people want their brothers, sons to come home. it is about time. we have been there ten years now? >> reporter: the cost in the regions, five killed from washington, 77 dead from maryland and 134 lives claimed on iraqi soil from virginia. of course, lots of americans and people from our region are till in iraq. everyone hopeful that there are no additional casualties before everyone is out by the end of the year. in washington, scott broom, 9news now. >> leaders of the tr

and live in the satellite center, scott broom, 9news now. >> thanks for that. scott, what started out as a few dozen college students appear to be turning into a movement across the entire country. you probably heard about the 700 people arrested over the weekend as the occupied wall street project who entered their third week. and now similar demonstrations, they are spilling on to main streets from boston to l.a. and bruce leshan is live where the potessers have been since -- protesters have been since saturday. >> reporter: hey bruce, you know from wall street and the bankers up here, a couple dozen protesters are gathering here on a kind offed cold blustery day. but this is how the protest started up in new york and there are a lot of people hoping this will be turning into a kind of movement, a kind of liberal counterpoint to the tea party protests over the last few years. three weeks in new york, hundreds of arrests. unemployed veterans, deeply indebted students with few job prospects. all occupying wall street. they called themselves the 99%. and in new y

scott broom joins us now live with the very latest. scott. >> reporter: well police say the suspect fled on foot from here. that was shortly after a neighbor came looking for that honda pilot. he found it right at this intersection still running with that little boy strapped in the backseat. >> she said someone stole her car with a baby in the back. >> the honda had been left running with a child inside while the boy's mom went in the house to pick up more kids to go on an outing. in those few seconds, a thief jumped in and took off. the mom ran after the car, kevin bolted in his huge ford truck while calling 911. from murillo street, they quickly found the honda at leastville honda. just saw the vehicle, parked my truck in the median and walked over to the truck or approached the truck quickly and walked over there and sought saw the baby in the back. the car was running and grabbed the baby and called 911 and let me know where my location was. he was fine. he was smiling. he kept saying mama. i had a police escort back to my house and

scott broom is on the follow- up. >> reporter: 56-year-old an troy net starks charged with -- antoinette charged with attempted murder. she had been conditionally released from the state's perkins hospital center for the criminally insane. where she'd spent nearly six years confined and treated for a similar stabbing attack at montgomery mall. that nearly killed two shoppers in 2005. today, the director of maryland's department of mental hygiene which runs the hospital expressed regret. quote -- he calls the starks aincident an aberration. starks is an incurable paranoid schizophrenic. >> i think this entire area of conditional releases and the circumstances under which we release people who are violent offenders back into the community need to statewide examination. >> reporter: scott broom, 9news now. >>> and coming up tonight at 7:00, talk about your money and wait, virginians may be footing a $263 million bill for folks who are getting medicaid even though they don't qualify. we'll have more on that at 9news now at 7:00. >>> still to come on this newscast, new information in the dead

in rockville, scott broom, 9news now. >> more arrests tonight for some of those occupy protesters right here in washington. can't really understand what they're saying, but the capital police don't need to. they just arrested seven of them after they arrested testimony of leon pinetta. >> we won't stop. >> we want jobs. scores of local activists taking a lesson from the occupy wall street protesters, blocking trucks at the $70000 million center construction site. their argument is too few d.c. residents have been getting jobs there. clark construction insists that 41% of workers there have been d. c. residents. >>> no doubt it has been a couple of days of rough commutes for some metro riders, but today, metro unveiled a plan that could make your ride smoother in the future. delia with more from lafont plaza. >> the changes promise to get you to your destination faster. >> i'm actually partial because i do ride the orange line when i do ride metro and i usually come to lafont, so i'm all for it. >> reporter: and it's welcome news on the heels of major delays, even this attempted suicide,

tonight, scott broom is learning that the investigation has concluded with the suspension of the drivernvolved. >> reporter: the suspension of the cab driver in this case who was working as a subcontractor to metro access comes as metro continues to try to sort out what happened. doyle is a 21-year-old man with autism that functions at a 7- year-old level using metro access to get to and from the programs that will help him. >> it ties you up to a gps tracking software. >> reporter: it alerted his family to a bizarre four-hour ride in a cab, subcontracted to metro access that went from gaithersburg, inexplicitly past his home before finally taking him home. >> the suspension does not mean that the driver did anything wrong necessarily at this point. but it does show that they are investigating this very carefully and they will take appropriate action. >> reporter: they learned that the driver picked up another metro access customer in rockville during his ride and was headed downtown for yet another customer, while rory sat in the back. they have questioned whether or not the software d

. >>> i'm scott broom in capitol heights. coming up, are the banks going far enough trying to help people prevent foreclosures? when i come back, we'll get a glimpse on one of the biggest mortgage companies in this region. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue. [ male announcer ] get to a better state. text save to 7-8836. >>> they want to modify as many loans as they can for people in trouble. scott broom reports that the odds are only about one in four if it will work out and that it is clearly worth the shot. >> wells fargo handles one out of six mortgages in the united states, in o

. >>> i'm scott broom at the state house in annapolis. coming up, governor martin o'malley reveals some of his ideas about putting unemployment marylanders back to work and the taxes he will consider, to pay for it. we are back now with breaking news in silver spring where a young boy has fallen out of an apartment window. what happened? >> reporter: we have to give you good news first. this little boy is going to be okay. that is remarkable, because we are told he fell nearly 30 feet from a third floor window. here's what a family friend told me happened. it was around 3:00. the boy and his dad were moving into a new apartment at the tangle wood apartment building in silver spring. when, i'm told, the four-year-old was running up and down the stairs, apparently getting in the way of the move. that is when the friend picks up the rest of the story from there. >> when we came down the step, at the same time he have to pick this boy from the school. he told me he was going to get the boy from the school and i was getting the stuff from the

scott broom is in frederick county tonight, and how bad is it? >> snow in october. snow before halloween. it is mind-bending tonight. and take a look at this. annie was talking about the freeze warnings. it is starting to freeze right now. this used to be gushy wet snow. and it is frozen. quite hard. and here along 270 in frederick. and that's the recipe of course with some ret r-wet roads for some -- with some wet roads. we know there are a number of accidents to unfold around the region as bridges freeze because of this effect. and all of that crunchy snow is up in trees that still have leaves on them. that is the big problem with the power outages. a lot of people are coping with that tonight. in boons broe maryland tonight -- >> i can't remember the last time something like this happened. >> david miers is shoveling heavy wet snow with a head lamp on, because there is no electricity otherwise. >> of course, with the leaves still on the trees, i knew this was trouble. >> everywhere you look, there are broken tree limbs, and people with flashlights. like douglasba

scott broom spent the day investigating exactly what happened. scott. >> rory doyle is the man we're talking about and his family probably never would have known about this except that he carried a cell phone with him. a cell phone he didn't know how to use, but had gps tracking software and he keeps in a backpack. back when all this happened on september 22. >> through a gps tracker. >> bernie doyle has it all on his laptop. a four hour detour to nowhere for rory doyle. a disabled young man who functions at the level of a five to seven-year-old. >> rory attends programs for disabled adults and uses metro access. on this day, metro ac access called a regency ran cab to cover the route. >> probably 30 miles out of the day. >> rory's tracking software shows a trip that went from gaithersburg all the way around the beltway to andrew's air force base, then down to lafont plaza and four hours later did the driver take rory home. >> i considered dialing 911 and having police arrest the cab driver. >> more much of the trip, he was on the phone with metro

andrea mckaren and scott broom. scott. >> i'm here at montgomery county police headquarters. we are expecting a detailed briefing at 5:30 on this case. we'll be bringing that to you live. in the meantime, here's what we know. the man who was arrested in north carolina according to law enforcement sources is jane mcquain, the victim's estranged husband. his name is curtis maurice lopez. he's a suspect now in custody in charlotte, north carolina. mcquain's car was also recovered in charlotte earlier today. so far, there has been no sign of the 11-year-old missing child, william mcquain. he's an 11-year-old student at martin luther king middle school in germantown who loves football and baseball. a boy who has not been seen since september 30, according to montgomery county police. then yesterday afternoon, his mom, 51-year-old jane mcquain was found dead in her condo on briar cliff terrace in germantown. >> later in the evening, detectives came to her resident. they were able to climb into the balcony section, come in the sliding glass door. that's where they found her deceased

scott broom, thanks. back to you guys. >>> by the end of the night, we should know who will replace lesli johnson. county voters went to the polls today to choose between derek davis, the democratic primary winner and day gardner. gardner ran unopposed. lesli johnson pleaded guilty in june to destroying evidence in a federal corruption investigation. she is scheduled to be sentenced on december 9. >>> celebrations underway across israel and gaza after a prison swap freed hundreds of jailed palestinians. >>> also ahead, police are interviewing potential witnesses outside the philadelphia home where four mentally abled adults were held captive in the basement. >>> but first, the president continues his job pitch out on the road. up next, why republicans say he is wasting his time. stay with us. >>> president obama's bus tour. you are looking live at greensville high where the president is going to press his ideas. the president says that three- day bus tour through virginia and north carolina is all about j

scott broom, interesting findings.ank you for that. >>> jurors in the trial of michael jackson's former doctor are hearing from an addiction expert today. a doctor testified he has treated many celebrities with substance abuse problems and insomnia is one of the symptoms of withdrawal. dr. conrad murray prescribed a powerful anaesthetic propofol to help jackson sleep. waldman examined medical records from a dermatologist that was treating jackson with injections of demerol. >> 200 milligrams over 30 minutes is a large dose. >> look at benzo diazapines. >> dr. murray is not listed as a defense witness but the judge reminded him he does have the right if he wishes to take the stand. >>> well, a woodridge man now behind bars accused of placing a video camera in a shower stall for women. he was arrested on tuesday after a woman discovered the camera at the healing hearts counselling center. rodriguez was a custodian at that facility. >>> a pledge today to say no to bullying. >> i pledge -- >> i pledge -- >> to take a stand

scott broom, 9news now. >> on the beginning of a verying long story ahead. we appreciate it. >>> for now check out this video. it is a massive fire at a texas chemical plant. the flames and the thick smoke at the plant could be seen for miles. good news, nobody hurt. a school and an apartment building and nearby industrial sites had to be evacuated, however. investigators are trying to find out what caused all this. and it produces a chemical for a variety of industries, including oil, agriculture, pets, and animal feces. >>> causing a big scare at the social security administration building outside of baltimore. and that building went locked down late this morning after a man was shot in the woods just behind the complex on wood lawn. the man is expected to be okay, the suspect got away. the lockdown was lifted earlier this afternoon. 12,000 people work in that complex. >>> all eight of the transit system underground stations were shut down after a report of a gas odor. no serious illnesses are reported, but firefighters continued to monitor the air quality

in downtown washington, scott broom, 9news now. >>> and our other top stories, prosecutors say it might be the largest government bribery kick back case in american history and it is unfolding right in our backyard. plus, the search for an attacker who tried to rape a woman in her own kitchen in silver spring. also, why a sixth grader has been banned from wearing her necklace to school. first, here is topper with a look at the ever improving forecast. >> after our weekend streak finally ended. let's talk about temperatures. we are looking at temperatures on the cool side, but a vast improvement. already down to 59 in gaithersburg and 61 in leesburg. 64 in fredericksburg. for tonight, clear to partly cloudy. it will be chilly. lows 46 to 54 downtown and winds northwest at about 10 to 15. we will come back. we will talk about how long we can keep this streak going and look ahead to the weekend forecast as well. >> thank you topper. tonight, police are looking for a would be rapist who attacked a woman in her silver spring home. this is a computer generated picture of the suspect. he is de

scott broom spent the day with the county council. he is here now with more. scott, curfew, no curfew, what's on the table? >> there's a big concern with the curfew that it could lead to racial profiling, for instance, so we have two council members today who said they have come up with a better idea. council members phil andrews and george proposed a different bill today that would prohibit loitering and prowling regardless of age or time of day. andrews told me there's a big difference between loitering and a curfew. >> and it shouldn't be based primarily on age. it should be based on behavior. and that's what the executive says he's trying to get at. this is a much better way to get at it. enter supporters of the curfew blasted the loitering law. a spokesman saying quote, for those concerned about profiling, this bill, loitering bill, is practically an invitation to profiling. a loitering law gives police too much power to charge anyone they want for just about any reason. his police chief are standing by the curfew idea, especially since prince georges coun

because of the weather, scott broom is live. he joins us now by phone with the update. scott. >> thomas major, the police chief just gave us a briefing; announcing the number one priority for this police department is find this 11-year- old boy. they have arrested jane mcquain's estranged husband in north carolina. he was in an econolodge this morning with mcquain's car, which had also been reported missing. she was found dead in her apartment yesterday. her 11-year-old boy has not been seen for going on two weeks. here's what the chief had to say a few moments ago. >> this is -- these are pictures of william. our priority, our focus right now is to locate william mcquain. we were hoping that we would find him with mr. lopez and we did not. so we are asking for the public's help in locating 11- year-old william mcquain. >> all right, that's chief thomas major talking about william mcquain and the arrest of curtis lopez, the estranged husband of jane mcquain. her body again found last night in her condominium. they are not sure how long she has been dead, but they're look

scott broom, 9news now. >> what a story. well, metro access provides 1.5 million rides a year. >>> tributes are pouring in around the world tonight for the man who changed the way that we interact with our world. we are live outside apple's headquarters in honor of steve jobs. the company found died yesterday after the lengthy battle with a rare type of pancreatic cancer. he is credited with not only founding apple, but being the master mind for some of the revolutionary products including the ipad, the iphone, and the ipod. >> how we take pictures on the world, and how the world moves forward. >> he's just the greatest thinker i ever knew, the greatest leader in common sense. >> the makeshift memorials are all popping outside the apple stores around the globe. steve jobs was 56. >>> the governor of maryland, they want to make the state the silicone valley of cyber security. martin o'malley today kicked off what is called national cyber security awareness month in maryland. he says that the state is poised to take a leading

today he was at arlington basking in all this new found attention including from reporters like scott broom. what did you think? >> i was certainly trying to figure out what the attraction is and it is apparent from talking to people he has got that straight shooter kind of tea party style that the republican base seems to favor it right now. they are not getting it from mitt romney. so they like him. cain made news with an appeal to sarah palin supporters to get on board now that she has officially declined to get into the race. >> why don't some of the sarah palin take a look at herman cain and his campaign many would see a lot of similarities. >> he is kind of like her. he says it like it is and means what he says. >> seems like a lot of straight forward stuff. >> northern virginia is a tough crowd but i think that once people get to know him and educate themselves, read the book, learn more about him i think they will be just as excited as i am. >> even republican pundits are dismissing his stunning rise just as a bump in the polls after republicans quickie affair with rick perry was ru

scott broom is here with more on this unsettling mystery. what happened? >> it is unsettling. this gentleman had just taped an unreleased segment of who wants to be a millionaire before he died. another weird fact in a very weird case. by all accounts, 37-year-old beniot, a highly regarded phd biochemist was an incredibly successful, untroubled man with a zest for friends and life, his buddy said. >> very outgoing, caring individual, smart as a whip. >> he was a quiz show whiz in his offtime that taped an episode of who wants to be a millionaire. so how benoit ended up dead on the metro tracks north of rockville at 3:00 a.m. october 1 mysteriously short of his stop at shady grove is gnawing at his friends. >> adding more anxiety to the whole situation. we want to know what happened and just there was no foul play involved. >> so far, metro investigators have said there is no reason to believe what happened to him is anything more than an accident. >> metro told me today they do have video of chocco on the train platform in the middle of the night in rockville. the video doesn'

. >> reporter: in capitol heights, i'm scott broom, 9news now. >>> a food bank in dumfries put out a call for help last night. >> 9news now is happy that we were able to help a little bit with this. our peggy fox is back out there live tonight with an update on the situation. though shelves are looking better, peggy. >> yes, it's been very exciting as they are getting ready to restock a lot of things there. the activity back there, the kids are restocking the shelves. we've got a lot of volunteers today. and take a look at why they closed in the first place because of the shelves. there was a 50% increase in demand and they simply did not have the food to give out. it was a heartbreaking decision to close and they decided that they had to stay closed until november 1 to get their supplies replenished. but when people heard the news, we started reporting this information and people started coming in, and with bags and bags of food. and it has been very exciting today. but they need more than just the shelves filled. >> yeah, we go through this much in half a day. i mean, these boxes h

in washington, scott broom, 9 news now. >>> today u.s. officials confirmed an american predator drone took part in the air strike that stopped the convoy carrying moammar gadhafi in libya. and today nato agreed to wind down its operations in that country by october 31. >>> a final decision about whether to end all operations in that theater will be made next week. >>> it's time to update you on our breaking news from a little earlier. the not guilty verdict in the trial of a former montgomery county teacher. we are live outside the montgomery county courthouse to tell us more. >> reporter: it took just an hour and a half for this jury to come to a decision not guilty on all seven counts of second-degree assault. the jurors telling me that they did in fact have a reasonable doubt and could not convict this former teacher. >> justice was served today. >> a victorious surson burke smiles. the former first grade teacher found not guilty of choking four of her students at green castle elementary school in silver springs. the children testified

in washington, scott broom, 9 news now. >>> and tonight two huge trials in the news right now. out in prince william county, it did not take a judge long to rule on a case of an illegal immigrant charged with killing a nun. but we begin tonight in montgomery county where testimony entered its fourth day in the lulu lemon murder trial. >> reporter: i'm and ria mccarran in rockville with the latest from the brittany norwood trial. late this afternoon a montgomery county police detective testified that on the night of the murder, apple store surveillance video showed two men all dressed in black wearing masks. that lent credibility to norwood's story. it seemed like a movie. they threw norwood on her body and they told her it was all her fault. also revealed was the most gruesome photo of the day. significantly more subdued until the very much, showing jayna murray's head completely unrecognizable. and we learned that despite norwood saying she had not had sex recently, semen was found inside her body. the prosecution implied that she was so cunning that may have been part of her

as scott broom tells us, there are a lot of concerns that both ideas are an invitation for racial profilinglaw proposal is the latest response that would give police the power to stop incidents like this, a late night flash mob of teens in germantown organized on twitter that overwelmed a convenience store clerk as kids cleaned the place out. >> the police need a better tool. they

he contacted 9news now with his story and scott broom spent all day investigating what happened. >> rory never would have known what happened to him if it wasn't for gps tracking system. bernie dial has it all on his lapt

our own scott broom is in the newsroom. a lot of folks calling this one a miracle. >> reporter: the sheriff clearly thinks it is a miracle. 8-year-old robert wood jr. was found about 2 p.m. this afternoon by a searcher scouring a creek bed next to the martin marietta quarry. about a mile from where he went missing. the child was in a fetal position and in serious medical condition but alert. here are a few of the thoughts the sheriff shared with us. >> robert wood jr. has been found and reunited with his family. it appeared to be a creek bed next to the quarry property and he was found down in somewhat of a gully. we searched that area before. it has been a challenge dealing with a child with special needs who is lost. i think you have all been made aware of those challenges. i can't tell you that he was there. i don't think we walked past him. we are just thankful that he was located. no one on the team ever gave up and i have to say that there was some times that you just had to reach down and find that faith that you wer

reporting live in north springfield, scott broom, 9news now. >> incredible story. thank you. >> jury selection has begun in the trial of accused killer, brittany norwood. >> she is charged in the murder of her coworker, jayna murray. she joins us live and there are details of an unusual day, andrea. >> very unusual. it has been a pain staking day of jury selection. 300 prospective jurors reported for duty here at the circuit courthouse in montgomery county this morning. we know of only six who have gone home for the rest of this trial. joining me now is jim shallock who is a defense attorney and best known as a prosecutor in new york. thank you so much for being with us. it is indeed an extraordinary day in your experience as well. >> pain staking is a perfect word. this is the most important part of the case. to make sure the defendant and the people of maryland get a fair jury and judge greenburgh is to be congratulated. each juror in his chambers that responded to certain questions that he was concerned about. >> and just to clarify, the jury pool was broken --

in columbia, scott broom, 9news now. >> what an individual. randy died in '08. his book has been on the new york times best seller list ever since. >>> in charlottesville, virginia, a court hearing is taking place at this hour in a murder case. a former university of virginia lacrosse player is accused of murder. they now want love's medical records unsealed. the lawyers claim love died from an irregular heart beat caused partly from taking a drug and drinking alcohol. the trial will start in february. derek? >>> an outbreak of mold in two dorms have forced hundreds of students at an area college to move off campus. this happened at st. mary's college in st. mary's city and as kristin fisher reports the school is known for its creative solution. >> this is where we have mold issues above the ceiling. >> reporter: it is hard to see the mold but you can sure smell it. >> we have water pumps that run above the ceiling and you can see the grey on them that has mold on it. >> reporter: the mold has infested two dorms on campus. several students are sick. and 350 were

in the newsroom, scott broom, 9news now. >> all right scotty, thanks for that. >>> still unclear tonight just how the united states is going to respond to the alleged iranian plot to assassinate the saudi ambassador and potentially kill other people right here in washington, d.c.. >> iran is furiously denying the accusation. it says the u.s. is just trying to distract us from our economic troubles. bruce leshan is here with the latest on this. >> reporter: anita and derek, if true this is a big time, big time escalation for iran. a plot right here on american soil. at the saudi ambassador's favorite georgetown restaurant, anger and disbelief. >> it's an awful attempt and i'm glad that the saudi ambassador is safe. >> reporter: prosecutors say this man, iranian american manssor arbabsiar blotted with a -- plotted to take out saudi ambassador adel al-jubeir with c 4 explosive. they want the job done he allegedly told an informant if 100 go with them. expletive them. the bombing was allegedly planned for a washington restaurant and while prosecutors declined to say which one, al-jubeir eats

now, scott broom was out there with the candidate today and he says it is not just that they don't like romney. he thinks he is the man now. >> but it is a big hurdle for him because we have this dramatic rise and fall of rick perry, michele bachmann. cain says he is not another flash in the pan. this one is going to stick. >> reporter: a month ago you couldn't get a news crew to chase herman cain. today in arlington he was mobbed. >> i have offered specific solutions. >> reporter: a day after his dramatic leap to front runner status, 20 points ahead of mitt romney, the former pizza company executive promised this is for real. >> one of the things we have learned about cain supporters they don't defect because we have a lot of substance to go with the message. >> reporter: critics calling it little more than a book tour but cain has rapidly filled the voids after republicans quickie affair with rick perry by trashing occupy wall street protestors saying if you're unemployed blame yourself and calling the tax code 21st century slavery and today he called on northern virginia sarah palin

. >> i'm scott broom along the river. coming up, an on going david versus golioth battle.where finally, the little guy scored a couple points. >>> but first, a special van helping special kids in need. we go inside the mobile help van from children's national center where there are heros made every day. that's next. >>> residents in southeast washington are able to get healthcare for the children by visiting a mobile van. each tuesday, children's national medical center sees patients in ward 8. recently, jc hayward got a chance to meet some of the patients and doctors. >> good. let's take a listen to your tummy. >> this mobile medical unit has offered physicals and checkups, dental care, and the diagnosis and treatment of illnesses for almost twenty years. southeast residents, like michelle say they can't imagine being without the van. >> my middle daughter, she had asthma real bad. i came to the mobile and they prescribed medicine for her and wala. she is doing wonderful now. >> the van visits 11 sites weekly. most near public housing. the staff provides care and referral

. >> i'm scott broom at suburban hospital in bethesda. coming up, a big disaster drill reveals some interesting new technology. when i come back, i'll explain what the ups man and first responders will soon have in common. >>> a theater and music group from cuba brings down the house one day after these children were called a threat to national security. i'm brittany morehouse and i'll explain on 9news now at 6:00. >>> up next, despite what you may see on wall street, we're in the money and we'll explain why. 9news now continues after the break. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm so sorry. i would love to help but remember, you dropped us last month. yeah, you know it's funny. it only took 15 minutes to sign up for that new auto insurance company but it's taken a lot longer to hear back. is your car up a pole again? [ crying ] i miss you, jessica! jerry, are you crying? no, i just, i bit my tongue. [ male announc