investigators say is a svetlana indicated that her husband was the one who beat her. guggenheim was then barred from her hospital room for weeks. is a svetlana has a traumatic brain injury and is unable to talk because of a tracheotomy tube. family members say she does not remember implicating guggenheim and has since made statements clearing her husband. >> my daughter videotaped her last week, signing a statement to that effect. and then interviewing my daughter interviewed her. >> interviewed her how, if she can't communicate? >> through nods and shaking of the head. you know, did your husband do this to you. yes or no? and i emailed that information, the statement and the videotape to the d.a. and to the hospital. >> reporter: but guggenheim is apparently still under suspicion. he said he returned home last night to find police searching his apartment. guggenheim is now allowed to visit list wife. but for weeks, he was forced to stay away by police. >> this was inhumane, to allow is a svetlana to be waking up from this sort of injury, isolated from the people she

but neither svetlana nor david guggenheim knew promising to help each other in sickness and health would mean dealing with this. >> she's incredibly frail. she's lost so much weight, she can't eat solid food. >> reporter: svetlana was brutally attacked in their d.c. apartment back in april, found wearing only a blouse, her face swollen, her hair covered in dry blood. out of town in philadelphia, david rushed back to be by her side at the hospital. for the past month, he's been banned from seeing his wife in the hospital because he says he is now considered by police to be the lead suspect. his wife supposedly telling a nurse that he was behind the horrific attack. >> svetlana has no recollection of talking to a nurse or anybody and saying anything like that. so i firmly believe affected her recovery and certainly has affected our emotional state as a family. >> reporter: court documents obtained by abc news show d.c. police stating ms. guggenheim herself has directed the hospital that she does not wish to have contact with the plaintiff. so the marine biologist took the police to court,

guggenheim, is there a history in your relationship with svetlana of domestic violence?never. >> is there a reason why police would be looking at you more closely? >> no. absolutely nothing. nothing like that. our relationship has never been violent, it's a peaceful home. and why they would bar both me and svetlana's daughter, my stepdaughter, anna, from seeing her for weeks, i -- i -- is unfathomable. i mean, this was unhumane to allow svetlana to be waking up from this sort of injury isolated from the people she needs the most around her, her husband and her daughter. >> just quickly, is there any kind of surveillance camera at your home where the beating took place that might show who went in and out of that apartment during this time period? >> there are two surveillance cameras in our building. and presumably the police have looked at that. but, i don't know. >> and the reason you're speaking out this morning is just so that you can in some way clear your name in this? >> actually not. i -- i'm very confident about my name in this. i'm speaking out because of the wa

the woman, svetlana guggenheim, who lies in the hospital from a brutal beating.arine biologist featured on "60 minutes." detectives confiscated his phone, computer hard drive, internet router at his home late tuesday. in this interview with cnn, he insists he had nothing to do with her assault. >> reporter: did you have anything to do with it? could you have harmed your wife? >> i would never. there is no history of that. i would never hit her or anyone else. we have a very peaceful marriage. >> reporter: svetlana returned home on april 4th and sent him this text message thanking him for keeping the house clean. her daughter spoke to him on apr april 5th. he showed us the frantic text messages he sent her over the next two days. worried, he cut his trip short and came back to his apartment and what he found was his wife, lying on the blouse, her head and face badly beaten. >> there was a lot of dried blood on the floor and dried blood on the floor. she had a black eye, she was shaking and semiconscious. >> reporter: svetlana was rushed to the hospital. david rema

and the nurse claims that svetlana originally said her husband did it and later recanted. go agoen time went on the today show to clear his name and place blame on metropolitan police. >> and they have seemed accurately disinterested with anything showing that i was out of up to. the receipts are one example. >> and he was told he could not visit his wife and is allowed back in the hospital and feels like a person of interest in the case. the police have not commented. >>> there is a 104-year-old military veteran living in our area. not a man but a woman with a lot of spunk and a major honor coming her way. we'll meet her coming up. >>> the white house gave away too much information about a classified mission. and what is up in sports, dave. >>> bryce harper has some history with the phillies halladay. he's a good piper. bryce is a good hitter and rookie. they will hook up again tonight and we'll show you how bryce harper plans to tackle them. and so far, doing good against him. coming up. coming up. . >>> if you have a story idea, call the tipline. shoot an e-mail to fox5

russian players are involved in action on day one the two thousand and nine women's singles champion svetlana kuznetsova is already through to the second round following an easy victory over me on a look at juve croatia six one six three how that one finished in favor of the twenty six eight one in the men's draw unseated on break because nets off faces a tough challenge in the form of fifth seeded frenchman john wilford tsonga. to the hardwood now and the n.b.a. boston the through to the eastern conference finals following the now a four three win in the semifinal series with philadelphia the celtics won game seven eighty five points to seventy five at home for rajon rondo and kevin garnett was joint top scorers with eighteen points h they now face miami in the eastern finals which starts on monday and they'll be looking to put last year's semi final defeat to the hate behind them. no lashes in the past. you know this year you know we have a totally different team. we feel we can be in miami i was there we got to this point there's no down on mine and we can so we're going to go down and tak

there our professor natasha and svetlana put an extraordinary amount of effort into teaching us russian. through their teaching, i quickly became able to express myself. my host mom was delighted when i asked her about her day and told her about the poem i was reading all in russian. my new russian friends, professors, and host family inspired me. after returning from russia, i was confident not only that i wanted to study russian in college, but also that i wanted to pursue a career involving russia and international relations. in 2014, i will graduate from smith college with a double major, economics and russian civilization. i hope to work in public service for either the u.s. department of state, a sector of the federal government, or a nonprofit organization. by pursuing a career involving public service and russia, i know that i will be working in a field that i am passionate about. and it is through nsliy that i discovered my passion for russian studies. thank you, mr. chairman for this opportunity and i'd be happy to answer any questions. >> thank you very much. mr. wood, please

ten his first were it's so far so good for svetlana kuznetsova following they kick off all the second grand slam of the year the russian easing past mariano advance into the second round longer ross twenty six seed of finding her groove in the opening set hammering the crow at six one the two thousand and nine champion not taking her foot all for gas in the second neither seating at six one six three victory. australian sense those were also with an easy outing on the day barely breaking sweat against get a ball to britain's highest ranked player though looking solid in the first set but still sort of held the ground to eventually secure the clash six four six love that's what it said a runner up now aiming to go one better this year on the red clay. on the second day over longer ross world number one victoria azarenka will try to continue her french open title hopes in a game with alberts are reality brushes and ideas that patrol face events have been ness of all from czech republic to trouble as compared trade and world number eleven in there as viola will play to me bob boss and yo

but svetlana and guggenheim, didn't know helping each other in sickness and health would mean dealingthis. >> she's frail. she can't eat solid food. >> reporter: she was attacked in their apartment. out of town in philadelphia, david said he rushed back to be by her side at the hospital. but for the past month he's been banned from seeing his wife in the hospital, because he says he's now considered by police to be the lead suspect. his wife, supposedly telling a nurse, that he was behind the horrific attack. >> svetlana has no recollection of talking to a nurse or anybody and saying anything like that. i firmly believe affected her recovery and certainly has affected our emotional state as a family. >> reporter: court documents obtained by abc news, show d.c. police stating, ms. guggenheim herself has directed the hospital she does not want to have contact with the plaintiff. so, the marine biologist took the police to court. >> let's say the police have a reason to suspect me. they deprived her of her own daughter being able to visit. >> reporter: while d.c. police tell abc news, th

washington from several days of travel in early april after family members became concerned that his wife svetlana was not answering phone calls. >> i took the next train home in the morning and came home and found her lying on the bedroom floor. a lot of dried blood. she had been there a while. a horrible black eye in her left eye. she was shaking. and incoherent. and it was horrible. >> reporter: david googlenheim is a prominent marine biologist. the ocean doctor, he calls himself, appearing recently on 60 minutes to dramatize threats to underwater life. >> critically endangered. pretty much the highest level of endangerment. >> reporter: he was a go-to expert in tweb's bp disaster in the gulf. >> this spill will move with the currents in the gulf of mexico. >> reporter: but now he is fighting for the right to stay with his wife as she recovers from the brutal attack that left her with a blood clot serious enough to require brain surgery. at first, he was by her hospital bedside almost constantly. but then he says washington, d.c. police suddenly block him from her room. local prosecutors claime