. >> covering the nation, police executed two search warrants as part of the investigation of yale student. they are looking at an employee at yale as a person of interest. he was taken into cussed toy. police emphasize he has not been arrested nor is he considered a suspect at this point. they will continue to follow every lead in this case. police in california return to the home of the man accused of kidnapping jaycee and holding her for 18 years. he and his wife have pleaded not guilty to 29 charges of kidnapping, rape and false impressonment. >> a baltimore raven plans to open up a one of a kind entertainment plaza. what it will feature and where it will be located. >> checking on a soggy morning commute. looking good, we have a problem in the city because of a >> we have a problem in the city due to a traffic light out. we are hearing all lanes are closed. that's so they can fix the traffic light. for now, you are going to find some delayed in that area. looking good on the rest of the major roadways. not seeing any delayed. all the major roadways leading up to the beltway. a 5:00 ri

this is a nighttime operation, the national police came in and said we ha an ie in the middle of the road. a 1985 station wagon, the national police came in and told the marines, we think there is an itt in that segment, the submarine goes o, we are 200 yards away, i have my camera rolling and you hear mortars being fired from somewhere, can still hear mortars. the sergeant says to heck with this, let's get out of here. different kind of tow. that is going down range. that is secondary from what was inside. a gunfight in downtown iraq, there is the photograph in the book of m standing next to that last december without a jacket and helmet. i've been down that street 90 times, every time with a marine warrant army unit and every time we g shot at i found myself crawling through sewage. the oneaken last dember, standing in front of that, you can sethe bullet holes in the side of it. no jacket, n helmet, just walking down the street because that part of the war has been won. this is not happening in iraq today. that is a sergeant major, that is a company commander, got to tell you a quic

. >> "covering the nation," police officials believe a body discovered inside the wall of a yale university building could be that of a missing graduate student. the body was discovered yesterday inside the very same building where the 24-year-old was last seen five days ago but never seen leaving the building. officials are presuming the remains are lay's but a positive i.d. has not been made yet. lay's family has been notified. the body was found the same day she was scheduled to get married. >> one person is dead, another injured after shots were fired at a high school party in indianapolis. police officials say an unidentified teenager started firing a handgun in the party around midnight, killing an 18-year-old and injuring a 15-year-old. apparently the gunman fired shots following an argument. police have no suspects in the case. >> 5:11. 59 degrees on tv hill. coming up, a look at jay leno's highly anticipated move to prime-time. >> plus great news for disney lovers. massive expansion plans. >> and we're keeping tabs on an early morning accident in howard county. we'll update you on

focus on turning over the responsibility of governance and also security to the afghan forces, both the police, the afghan national police as well as the afghan army. but, especially, the afghan government in terms of their ability to control and govern their own country. so that's, i think that's a fundamental mission. i think we're just at the beginning of it in terms of what general mcchrystal is trying to do, the counterinsurgency part of this, which he's only, i guess, about two to three months into right now. >> when i look at the proposals for what would be needed in terms of afghan security forces, both police and border and military forces in order to really maintain control of that country so that it's not taken over by what we would consider to be insurgent forces that would have the power to project their wishes internationally, it's hundreds of thousands of security forces that we're looking at needing to be sustained in afghanistan. i think about that number next to what i imagine is budget of a country like afghanistan and it seems like there's kind of a mismatch there. how is afghanistan ever going

but some are still out there can now, they say they actually may have help within the nation's policeorce. we'll have more on this story from baghdad. >> 16 prisoners housed in the detention facility in tikit . they are released to al qaeda and held on charges of terrorism and murder and kidnap all are thought to be highly dangerous. iraqi authorities sealed off the area and imposed a curfew. the u.s. military lent a help with the mayhem. they provided surveillance and search dogs. 8 of the 16 have been recapture two were found close to the prison from which they escaped. the iraqi authorities since detained over 100 prison officials and guard and they are questioned on suspension of gross negligence. >> thank you, katy. members of the army national guard heading to war but not without a big sunday - send off. 183 arizona guardsmen are shipping out for a month of training in fort dix in new jersey and then they leave for iraq. the unit served there in the u.s. led invasion back in 2003. the mention is to train vac rack police and military personnel. >> they put their lives on hold for

that's the fbi's warning to the nation's police departments. orities are urged to remain on high alert. >> reporter: these are fbi s.w.a.t. team agents entering the lobby of a co-op at 2:30 yesterday. the february detained, questioned and released a muslim family originally from bosnia because of their alleged association with a man the fbi is watching possibly as a result of this and other raids at two other apartments in flushing, the i and homeland security issued a national alert cautioning police departments to be on the look out for someone trying to build a homemade bomb. it talks about peroxide and the burns, possibility of someone being burned. i think it's more -- it covers more subjects than that. there is no indication that anyone specifically is being looked for. >> kelly added that evidence taken from the three apartments raided is being analyzed. sources say the fbi is watching the man originally from afghanistan who ran a coffee cart in manhattan then moved to denver this year. he recently sent a number of e- mails to people in a

when the president's friend, harvard professor henry louis gates was arrested by a white police officer in his own home, the president accused police of acting stupidly and helped create a national firestorm over racial profiling. he tamped it down by ratcheting down the rhetoric. >> interactions between police officers and the african american community can sometimes be fraught with misunderstanding. >> reporter: and by inviting the two men for beer and conversation in the rose garden. the president's decisive moment

the national police came in and said we have got an ied in the middle of th road. if you lk carefully beneath te lights will see the reflection of 1975 ford fair lane station wagon the police came in and told the marines, we think-- so the marine patrol goes out to me give up to the edge of it in we are 20 ears away. i have got bicameral rolling on it and youan hear mortars being fired from somewhe. this arjun says let's get o of here, let's toe this thing. i'm thinking tell it? a different kind of toe. [laughter] that is secondary from what was inside. this is a gunfight in downtown ramadi, iraq. that is the blue mosque. there's a photograph of me standing next to that mosque last december without a flak jacket or helmut. every time i was with the marine corps and army, and every time i got shot that i found myself calling for sewage. the one taken last december i'm standing in front of the blue mosque and you can still see the bulletoles in thside of the wall around it, no flak jacket, no helmets is walking down the street because that of the-- part of the war ha

. >> covering the nation this morning, police have identified the body found inside of a wall of a university building. is that of the missing student who was to be married last week. and lab technician found the body. it showed signs of defensive wounds. police believe it was a targeted act. they do not have anyone in custody but could make an arrest as early as today. >> an ongoing terrorism investigation by agents of the joint terrorism task force continues. one person was taken in for questioning. many officials say it is unclear who or what may be the target of a possible terror attack. they are ready to use weapons -- the investigation continues. >> still ahead, the age of your home could be taking more money from your pocket with the heating bills. >> starting today, the ipod touch will have some serious competition. details on microsoft device. >> we are still dealing with a problem in union bridge due to some cattle. we will update you on that and tell you about problems in the city ♪ when you take a bigger, thicker slice of the best potatoes, people notice. introducing alexia crunch

the nation. florida police want to question the man about the deaths of six people. the man's wife and her five young children were found dead in an apartment in the city of naples this weekend. police believe the man flew to haiti before the bodies were found. the children ranged in age from 11 months to 9 years old. >>> take a look at this video from wisconsin where a man wasn't about to let a bank robber get away from the crime. he was waiting for his wife when he saw the suspect and literally leaped in the action. he ran up behind the suspect, jumped over the bank ropes, there he is, jumps on the back of him. he held him down until help arrived. why did he do it? he said only that he wasn't going to let that guy hurt anyone. >>> now some home video from atlanta where neighbors could only watch as heavy rain washington away a jeep. you see it there to your right. atlanta was hit with more than 5" of rain this weekend. that flooded streams which flooded neighborhoods and washed away anything that wasn't tied down. that included the jeep which eventually stopped whe

as for solving violent crimes the clearance rate is well above the national average. >>> police in anne arundel county need your help identifying a burglary suspect. authorities say the man pictured here is wanted in connection with a burglary at the odenton sunoco on annapolis road. it happened july 22nd, about 1:40 in the morning. authorities say the man broke in through a garage door and caused extensive damage to the business. if you have any information you're asked to call metro crime stoppers at 1-866-7-lockup. >>> word tonight a caregiver accused of leaving three blind, deaf and developmentally disabled men alone in a car has been fired. med source community services in frederick says it's severed all ties with 47-year-old brian fleming. fleming is accused of leaving the disabled adults in the locked car for about an hour while he ate lunch at a diner. he faces three counts of neglect and abuse of vulnerable adults. >>> a woman killed in a crash on i-795 north past owings mills boulevard today. authorities say her car crossed the median and struck an utz potato chip truck at 10:

shepard: federalese are on the scene there, the national police, if you will. re getting conflicting reports from passages. passengers are the ones we hear speaking in spanish in the background on this broadcast, but the first passenger with whom they spoke said they never even knew. there was someone standing up, but they did not realize they and high-tech. we know the cockpit new, but another freed passenger paints a completely different picture. he has just said that everybody was stressed, that uncertainty build the plane, especially once they got to the ground and realized that there were police of the ground periods -- there were police on the ground. another report that the president is still in his residence, and no matter what his office is saying, and jonathan, it was established in the early going that the mexican president would not participate here, right? >> sorry, i was just on the phone with mexico city. were you talking to be? shepard: what did you learn? >> i just found out that the president himself was not in mexico city at the time, but he i

find out if the nationals can stav >>> police say a teenager arrested for dealing drugs. the students use text messages to set up drug deals. the 18-year-old was arrested yesterday. officers say they found marijuana, ecstasy and $1200 cash in his suv. he's a former walter johnson student. police put him under surveillance after getting a call from security. they suspected he was dealing drugs during the school day. >>> a teenager suspected of making homemade bombs plead guilty today. they found it in july of last year. they alleged the 19-year-old had a fake cia id and a map of camp david. the bomb making chemicals belong ed to a russian immigrant. >> when you are in possession of something, you are in possession of it. it doesn't matter who they belong to or who purchased them. it's an event he participated in by the mere fact he possessed them. >> he'll be back in court for sentencing january 7. he's facing up to ten years in prison. >>> an international hunt for the criminals who pulled off a robbery in europe. two masked robbers dropped from a helicopter on to the roof

the nation. lawmakers say police officers will have to make the call based on what they witness. do you think it will result in safer roads? e-mail your response. >> state police think financial problems may have led a mount airy man to kill his family and then himself. the family put their house up you on the market twice but could not find a buyer. sometime between thursday and friday evening, charles dalton sr. killed his wife, two children and the family dog. the psychologist we spoke to explains why financial problems are linked to what is now known as milicide. >> as people get more and more desperate, more pressure on them, more legal aspects happening, people do desperate things when they're overstressed and overwhelmed. >> on average, there are four to six of these cases in the u.s. each year. in the last two and a half years, however, there have been six cases in the state of maryland alone. baltimore county baltimore county police continue to search for the person who killed an elderly man in rosedale. police were called to the 1200 block of hilldale road friday night

captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >>> the police in new haven, conn., they may never know the motive for the murder of the yale graduate student. raymond clark remains behind bars after pleading not guilty to killing annie le. they both worked at the lab together. her body was found hidden behind a wall at the lab. the police say dna evidence has linked the man to murder. >>> delonte west is facing weapons charges following an incident in upper marlboro. they say he was pulled over because he was speaking on his motorcycle and he was also carrying two pistols on his body and a shotgun and a guitar case on his back. all of the weapons were loaded. he remains free on his own recognizance. >>> a judge has thrown out a wrongful termination suit against bob barker. the city were no issues for the trial to resolve. a woman said she was improperly fired from "the price is right." she claimed she was let go and retaliation after she testified in and other employees wrong for termination suit. >>> matt damon like you have never seen him before, jennifer anniston

the magic dragon." indonesia's national police chief says the wanted militants noordin top was killed and an overnight raid. he is believed have masterminded string of bombings, including a tax on the two jakarta hotel in july. this must be seen as a real coup for security services. >> it is being seen as a particularly significant development for indonesian security forces who have been hunting for noordin top of what the police chief said today in the press conference, at least nine years. rather proudly to a packed room of journalists indonesia's's police chief told journalists they have managed to catch the man they have been hunting for. they believe one of the men killed in overnight raids is noordin top, based on evidence from fingerprints they had ofn -- noordin top in the database. the also talked about how they managed to seize weapons, surveillance equipment, laptops from the house whether raid took place as well as the fact that noordin top, the man they believe is him, actually was not killed as a result of a suicide bombing but, in fact, was killed as a result of a shoot out between the polic

when the president's friend, harvard professor henry louis gates was arrested by a white police officer in his own home, the president accused police of acting stupidly and helped create a national firestorm over racial profiling. he tamped it down by ratcheting down the rhetoric. >> interactions between police officers and the african american community can sometimes be fraught with misunderstanding. >> reporter: and by inviting the two men for beer and conversation in the rose garden. the president's decisive moment on race, though, came last year when his former preacher stirred up racial anger. after at first resisting, the president confronted it head on with a speech some insiders believe saved his campaign. >> working together we can move beyond some of our old racial wounds and that, in fact, we have no choice. >> reporter: with the issue of race heating up again, some political analysts say it won't be long before the president has no choice now confront it directly once more. katie? >> couric: chip reid at the white house tonight. now the latest on that terror investigation that set off a nationwide warning to police about a possible plot involving hydrogen peroxide bo

smith also says the number of solved violent cases is well above the national average thanks to the hard work of county police officers. >>> our officers achieved a 75.9% clearance rate for violent crimes which is about 31% higher than the national clearance rate, as of the end of 2008. this includes an almost 89% clearance rate for murder investigations. >> smith says traditional community policing practices combined with technology helps keep the crime down. >>> an anne arundel county man was found dead at a virginia motel after being thought of as a murder suspect in his girlfriend's death. it started in clinton, massachusetts, where investigators found the body of 23-year-old gisele rodriguez. police say her on again off again boyfriend, alexander skowran, a pasadena native, was the main suspect. he was found dead in a virginia hotel. he apparently shot himself. police call it a tragic case of domestic violence. neighbors are shocked. >> it's craziness, you know? that's the worst kind i think, of anything, domestic, it's sad that somebody is supposed to love somebody, could hurt them like that, you know?

years after 9/11, we get an exclusive look at the new york police department's elite anti-terror unit. how one city is stepping up to protect the entire nation. >>> without a trace. police search for clues to explain the disappearance of a yale med student, just days before her wedding. was it cold feet? or foul play? an exclusive interview with a friend of the missing bride. ♪ rescue me >>> and animal airlift. the pilot on a cross-country mission to rescue neglected dogs from death row. mission to rescue neglected dogs from death row. ♪ can't you see that i'm loney captions paid for by abc, inc. >>> good morning, america. >> good morning. 5,000 dogs and other animals they're going to try to airlift over the course of a week. and by air, to get them to new homes. it's a really amazing story. that's coming up a little later. >> yeah. these little pooches don't know how close they came to their demise. there they are. we'll talk to the pilot. >>> and annie le is the name of that med student who went missing days before her wedding. no one from her family, none of her fellow students, have been talking about her disappearance. but this morning,

the terror probe that is centered in new york city. three are under arrest, two in colorado, one in queens. all this happens as homeland security is sending bullet used to police departments across the nationty is sending them up -- homeland security is sending memos to police departments across the nation to be on alert. at least one report suggested that there were 12 terrorists involved in a plot, and now three are under arrest. we do not have confirmation, but it is one scenario that authorities are looking into. bill: president obama made his pledge to close the present at guantanamo bay, cuba. here is the clip explaining the decision in february. >> we must be vigilant in upholding the values that our troops defend. there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of america, and that is why i have ordered the closing of guantanamo bay and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists. because living our values does not make us weaker, it makes us safer and stronger. bill: that was back in february. as of today, there are still 200 detainees @ gitmo -- at gitmo. catherine herridge is live there today. where does that decision stand today? >> what is clear l

standing beside me was the head of the dea assistance and support team that is your operating with an afghan national army and the afghan national police the u.s. special operations command. the helicopter behind us provided the support for the raid that took place. early this morning. -- that took place very early this morning. >> is comprised of dea special agents. this sort of like a foreign swat team. >> and obviously very confident from what we saw today. >> we would like to think so. >> one of the things that carson and his team does with the afghans is to make sure that they cannot get the benefits of the opium trade. if we found some out there today. >> that is correct. we seized 15 kilograms of opium and 40 kilograms of heroin. >> is anybody would like to say hi to? >> my wife, my daughter, and my two sons. >> this man does very dangerous things in very difficult places. they do a very well. >> i feel a lot safer here at home have been met carson pirie he looks like he is up to the task. tell him we are so grateful to his service. >> will do. martha: they are doing some very tough work over there. cutting off the supply of her

. >>> after spending nearly a year deployed in iraq, the virginia national guard military police unit returned to manassas tonight. digital correspondent james hash has more on their home coming. >> reporter: it was 12 months. but just after 9:00 p.m. members of the virginia national guard finally came home to waiting families. for sergeant first class michael wilson, it was only the second time he's seen his daughter. >> the first time i saw her was when we first got immobilized. she grew quite a bit. >> i couldn't be anymore proud of my son. >> reporter: for him welcoming his own son back is like history repeating. the vietnam memories of his own are still fresh in his mind. >> our home comings were not anything like this but we were glad to be back with our family. we couldn't ask for anything better sna and support from -- >> reporter: and support from home when it helped ease with family members helping them to stay in contact on a daily basis. >> the availability for phones and internet in combat these days is absolutely amazing. you can have daily contact with your loved ones.

the united nations. on top of that, the police department spends about $15 million every year on united nations security,ficial tells us that the first two weeks of the general assembly last year cost the city $20 million. rick: unbelievable. where are gaddafi and ahmadenij ad staying? >> ahmadenijad is staying in midtown. gaddafi has been turned down by every hotel in the city and also refused permission to pitch a tent in central manhattan. he is going to stay at the libyan embassy, steps away from the united nations. he will have nypd production. -- protection. rick: the details of a bizarre case her life may have chillingly imitated art. rick: it is the bottom of the hour. here are the stories we're watching for you. a california rapper who sings about mutilation is now charged with the killing of a pastor. president obama has asked the governor of new york not to run for reelection next year. the governor's response, and why he is still in the race. and here from a man who pulled up a daring rescue. that is still ahead, here on "studio b." first, chilling details in the case of three men arrested in

around the nation -- new haven, connecticut police say they will issue an arrest warrant for anyone whose matches evidence from the crime scene where a yale grad student was found dead earlier this week. right now they are awaiting dna tests to be finished on evidence collected from raymond clark iii, a lab tech on campus. investigators are also watching a hotel room where clark stayed. at this point he's the only person of interest. >>> four hofstra university students accused of gang raping an 18-year-old woman are off the hook this morning. police say the woman recanted her story. that story sent shock waves through campus earlier this week when first reported but the nassau county district attorney said last night the woman admitted the sex was consensual. the charges against the men have been dismissed. >>> peter, paul and mary are remembering their bandmate, mary travers, the woman who lived her life honest, complete, you a thebtally. >> she had been battling leukemia for several years. passed away at a connecticut hospital. they gave us hits like "if i had a hammer," "leaving on a

the training of afghan security forces and police forces. can you give us a sense of their readiness to provide stability in the region? guest: the national police have been one of the most neglected sectors of the reconstruction in afghanistan. the army needs a little more help, especially from the u.s. government. they are extremely under resourced. it has been increasing, but so has the violence and the insurgency. host: is this a manpower problem, or is this a weapons problem, or is a combination of several factors? guest: i think it is a combination of several factors. there has been no regular army in this country for many years. everything is being built from scratch. they're short of resources in terms of equipment as well. the major problem is also in the military strategy. that has become an extremely under question over the past few months. general mcchrystal has provided his review to washington on what he thinks is the best way forward. host: what is the current strategy? what could be improved upon given the general report? guest: we do not have the details of the general's report. general mcchrystal has been stressing not t

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this will ensure that the afghan army and police will have the equipment and support to secure their own nation for a long time, manufacture us have urged the establishment of troops and 160,000 afghan police by 2013. i believe it is both possible and essential to advance those goals by a year to the year 2012. to do that, we'll need more trainers. large number of young iraqis switched over and became the other side. he said most of the fighters we see in afghanistan are afghans. what we don't see are politically motivated. when we visited the village. when we asked him how long should american forces stay here. they said "until the moment that you make our securitys forces self sufficient. then you will be welcome to visit us not as soldiers but as guests." we need a surge of afghan security forces. we have not done that enough to put that in motion. our support will show our success that we will do so without creating a bigger military foot print. >> senator, if you are talking about not adding anymore u.s. troops there, would you suggest those already on the ground complete their mission? an

that, i think, is a larger concern about the afghan elections is that police are so important, yet police have ally lagged behind the training of the afghan national army, which i tnk everye would agree is a success. i think most people would say the afghan national police training has not been a success. so you'd have areas where you had maybe 50 police officers. it's not a surprise in those areas you had taliban running roughshod which seriously affected the ability of people to turn out. another interesting thing we stumbled across was that the afghans had really delayed recruiting female security agents. the women that will pat you down before you go down to vote. and is should have been anticipated to be a problem because outside of the capital it's difficult to recruit women period for security jobs. even more so once you leave the capital. in some cases, this task was left to about two weeks before election day. so that seems to have been a fairly large but ultimately preventable oversight. anotr interesting thing that we heard a lot about before the election, but it was definitely the dog that didn't bark. and that was what could be a humo

. >> the man police say killed a yale grad student spends his first night in jail. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> live and in hd, this is "good morning washington," on ur side. >>> good friday morning. i'm doug mcelway. >> and i'm alison starling. good morning, everybody. we have made it to the end of the week. your traffic and weather together every 10 minutes. >> let's start off with brian to find out what is on tap for today. >> it feels pretty comfortable this morning. there is some clouds -- there are some clouds around. we will go partly sunny. the numbers range from the upper 50's to 63 in springfield. fairly comfortable. your forecast, becoming partly sunny, warmer than yesterday. today, upper 70's. we will check in with adam caskey in 10 minutes. let's check in on the commute. >> the commute so far is so good. we're looking at things on the tell us greenway and the toll road. things moving smoothly. pretty good on the springfield trip as you head north on 95. just the growing volume as you head up from dale city. pretty good shape as you make yo

information, which according to acorn he passed on to his cousin who is a detective with the national city policeeased by an acorn worker in philadelphia. she says she reported the couple to the police. >> it appears mr. o kooef lied to get his appointment. not dressed like egs on the internet. when we got suspicious about the questions he was asking, we called the police and filed this report. >> reporter: there are other cases where acorn workers say the videos didn't show the full story. this worker seen on one video claiming to have killed her ex-husband in self-defense. >> then i picked up the gun and said [ bleep ] and i shot him and he died right there. >> reporter: but theresa tells cnn she was just playing games. her ex-husband is just fine. >> he's alive and well. >> reporter: and local police confirm that. >> coming on top of earlier tapes which show acorn workers bending over backwards, questions about whether the tapes were taken legally, doctored or even deliberately misleading seem to have been drown out in the clammer. cnn, atlanta. >>> the fall out could affect more than just aco

the register as well as sh.loyees' police describe the suspect as african-american male with light complexion. 25 yrs d,ixol s feet tall and weighs about 150 pounds. >>> now the safety at the national zoo. last spring four zoo police officers came to news4 complaining a manpower shortage meant the public was not adequately protected. at the time the head of security for the smithsonian does what is safe but promises a strengthening of the police force by labor day. >> reporter: on a fall day as many as 20,000 adults ask children walk through the open gates of the national zoo. there's no check-in, no metal detectors. with five to seven officers on patrol to keep peace. ahead of security for the entire smithsonian constitution, j.j. mclaughlin says he hired ten new zoo officers in the last four months. >> i feel very good about it. i think we have met our goal that we talked to about earlier. >> reporter: are these officers street ready? >> yes. they all have police experience. >> reporter: a few new police officers continue to raise concerns. this time about officer readiness. >> they are not street ready. >> reporter: officers talked to news4, two identities hidden and one that sa

the white house listening to the president and then know governors have to get the national guard and mayorwill put police on overtime they will come back to me ansay we need money to do that. i get it. i would have said the same thinthsecretary defense who is planning on responding full force military into afghanistan, i mentioned a couple of times in the conversation tt was casual but this is not a high priority per car went to secretary of the army, ge got the army and d't think anybodyould conclude anhing hpen without donald rumsfeld selling it. that is not a criticism. he had other priorities i just figured out a way to do it. >> why yr secretary, a terrorist attacks we're stopped; brac i think the president said several and i will leave it at that. >> what you think the president chose you as the first secrety of homeland security? >> i don't know. i can conjecture in my own mind. i had been and continue to be a great friend to the president i think she is a principled man we have said interesting idea to go into iraq the only reason he is commander in chief his because he concluded it would make am

with reports by the national media of a suspicious boat and shots fired, all within a two-mile radius of the pentagon and the white house, d.c. policend federal agents swarmed the area. as a he precaution, the f.a.a. put flights at nearby reagan national airport on hold. not the white house, not home hand security, not the secret service, nor the f.b.i.'s washington field office were notified in advance of the exercise. not a mistake, says the coast guard. >> this is a low-profile normal training exercise that goes on every day as we train our people to handle the boats shall, handle the security protocol. there was no reason for specific agency notification. >> but what was supposed to be a routine training exercise morphed into a media controversy when scanner traffic was picked up and reported on cnn as fact that shots had been fired on a suspicious vessel, but in a real incident, the coast guard says it does not use an open or public frequency. >> if we're involved in a natural operation with secret service or other federal agencies, we go encrypted on the radio, so it cannot be intercepted. >> given the push after 9/11 to do a

the fbi today issued a serious warning to police departments across the nation after yesterday's reportedross new york city. the fbi and nypd searched several residences in queens, related to a man believed to be affiliated with al qaeda. now, homeland security is on the lookout for evidence of homemade bombs. stuff like foul odors coming from rooms or buildings, as well as people with burn marks around their body and face. there is a call for extending three controversial patriot act provisions. in a letter to congress, the justice department indicated supports expanding governmental authority to access the business records, conduct roving wiretaps, and monitor so-called loan

some of the protesters responded by throwing rocks or rolling metal trash bins down toward the police officers. the summit is under heavy security tonight along with police and the nationaluard, a series of tall fences and concrete barriers are surrounding the area. and just into fox news, kadafi has his tent back. we're just getting word that the libyan leader's betiwin style tent is up one day after a town north of manhattan forced his people to take it down. jonathan hunt has been following this story. he is live in the newsroom. jonathan? >> trace, this is the tent that colonel kadafi's entourage tried to erect on an estate of donald trump in 40 miles north of manhattan. it went up on tuesday first of all. there was a local outcry there. yesterday, while we were there, the local officials moved in and forced the libyans who were there to take down that tent. well, we now hear from the town supervisor that they got a call from the state department department this afternoon saying the libyans wanted to put the tent back up. at 5 p.m. this afternoon that's exactly what happened. they put the tent back. the building inspector from bedford and local cops we understand are

four people were injured after gun fire erupted at the nation's busiest border crossing. police say it began with human smuggling. at the border between san diego and tijuana. officers say a total of 74 people were crammed inside three vans. they say one of the vans tried to barrel past inspectors, and that's when customs agents opened fire. three people in the vans were hit by the bullets. one of them is in critical condition. police arrested everyone in the vans. >>> winds are expected to pick up and fuel wildfires burning in southern california. the raging flames are threatening about 1,000 homes. 8,500 acres of brush are burning right now. authities say the combustion of a manure pile may have sparked the blaze. firefighters are guarding ranches and agricultural proper. the winds also fanned smaller fires east of los angeles. >>> heavy rain and storms continue to pound the south eastern part of the u.s. today. in tennessee, rushing water blanketed roads. flooding has forced schools to close. the rain is part of a cluster of storms that have moved through the southeast over t

census worker whose body was found september 12 hanging from a tree in the daniel boone national forest. police in the two weeks since have only been able to confirm the cause of death, asphyxiation, but they have not been toward classify this death, saying it can be one of three things. a homicide, suicide, or an accident. authorities are not confirming any of the details that have been publicly reported here in the local press, saying that his hands and feet were bound, and that the word "fed" was sprawl or written on the man's chest. police are waiting for the toxicology results themselves should be back in a week or two. but until such time as they are, the police are baffled. >> all right. ron mott, thank you for that. >>> still ahead, president obama's news conference from the g-20 conference. and we'll have it anchored by our very own ed schultz. ♪ every day you're put to the test. that's why secret created clinical strength... with odor-absorbing capsules... and prescription strength wetness protection. so effective it stops wetness better than the leading invisible solid. even at 100 d

the nation to be vigilant. next at 5:45. the new list of places the fbi says could be targets of terrorists. >>> a warning to police across the country. stair rifts are threating. it's unspecific. the nation ask on alert. news4's tracee wilkins joins us live from the verizon center with more on how authorities are responding. tracee? >> reporter: because we were attacked on 9/11 every sentity in washington has i its own system for protecting itself. they have been doing these things since 9/11. even with the higher alert they'll continue with the same line of ings they've been doing before. we have everything that's on this list, from high-end hotels to sports arenas, to railway transportation. from sports stadiums to entertainment complexes to hotels and the railways. counterterrorism officials are warning to be on the alert. the ever-expanding warning follows the arrests of three suspected terrorists who officials believe they have been planning an attack in new york using backpack bombs. fbi officials say there could be other possible terrorists connected to the group. unidentified official sources have leaked that if ther

is a popular hangout for tech students, about 15 miles from campus in the jefferson national forest sometime in the evening. policeeen 8:30 at night on wednesday and 8:00 a.m. the next morning they were shot and killed by an unknown assailant or assailants. they don't know yet whether there's one suspect or multiple suspects. >> joining me right now, two very special guests, dr. keith metzler. he is the father of david metzler, one of the teens, and sergeant donald childs, the father of heidi childs. gentlemen, thank you for being with us. to you, dr. metzler, please tell me about your son. >> david was just a laid back, just tender-hearted loving kid that liked to have fun. he deeply loved his friends and his family, and most of all he was deeply committed to christ and wanted to share that with his friends and lead them to a saving knowledge of jesus christ. >> sergeant childs, what can you tell me about your daughter? >> she was a wonderful girl. loved life. full of life. she walked the walk and talked the talk. she had just a wonderful attitude about life in general, was always smiling. she loved her family. s

the 266th are warriors. they are military police officers part of the virginia national guard many with hometown careers in lawnforcement. >> i know they're happy to be home. thank you. >>> a prison break in iraq, 16 inmates in tikrit escape by crawling out of a bathroom window. five have links to al qaeda and were on death row. the iraqi prison system is crowded with thousands of new prisoners that used to be guarded by u.s. troops. they were turned over urmd the agreement to give iraqis more responsibility for their own security. >>> the treasury department taking a closer look at how the government oversees acorn's affiliate. acorn workers caught on camera giving advice on starting a brothel with underage prostitutes. acorn itself is not tax exempt but many of the affiliates that get money from acorn are. republican members of the senate finance committee are accusing acorn of using charitable funds from those affiliates for lobbying and political activities. acorn says the charges are all politically motivated. >>> tonight we know who will take over the late ted kennedy's senate seat. massachusetts governo

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the country. how are the police, louisiana's law enforcement, doing in terms of trying to control that city, and do they need to bring back the national guard? >> i do think they need help. i spent a couple of days down there over the weekend talking to a lot of the police who have been under a lot of strain because of the pressure put on them because of the high crime rate. most attribute the high crime rate to the flow of drugs through new orleans and i think we do need a state and federal effort to help seal that city off to stop the drugs from flowing in, which is attributed to most of the murders that's happening in the city. >> would you say that's the national guard? >> well, there's the national guard. we've got a lot of federal capability that probably could do some more work there and we need some more police on the streets of new orleans, whether it's the national guard, that national guard brigade from the louisiana national guard is getting ready to go back to iraq, suzanne, in january. >> i want to you take a listen, we heard from president obama over the weekend, his radio address, saying that he would make a pledge to

which means pittsburgh has to magnify a giant security force, including the national guard, state troopers and city police. >> reporter: streets are blocked and police have been ready for trouble for days. >> we have a beautiful city. but it's all boarded up. >> reporter: the real work will go on here, at the city's convention center. president obama wants tougher rules for financial institutions. but the europeans are putting bankrupt bonuses at the top of their list. and want the white house to agree to a salary cap. >> hopefully they can accomplish them things. but i'm not really optimistic about a whole lot. >> reporter: the official hope is tonight at pittsburgh's botanical gardens. the obamas will greet their guests and then sit down for a working dinner. in pittsburgh, teri okita, wjz eyewitness news. >> there is no estimate at how many people are expected to be in pittsburgh for the summit. >>> a potential breakthrough in the worldwide battle against a.i.d.s. for the first time ever, an experimental vaccine has prevented infection from the a.i.d.s. virus. the vaccine cut the risk of becoming infec

get information which according to acorn he passed onto his cousin who is a detective with the national city policeartment. now this video released by an acorn worker in philadelphia. she said she reported the couple to the police. >> it appears he lied to get his appointment. he was not dressed like on the internet. when we got suspicious about the questions he was asking, we called the police and filed this report. >> reporter: there are other cases where acorn workers say the videos didn't show the full story. this acorn worker claiming to have killed her ex-husband in self-defense. >> i shot him. he died right there. >> reporter: but she tells cnn she was just playing games. her ex-husband is just fine. >> he's alive and well. >> reporter: local police confirm that. >> reporter: coming on top of earlier tapes which clearly show ache orns bending over backwards to help the couple, tapes that may be misleading or drowned out in the clamor. >> more information about acorn. the group says it's the nati nationenation's largest community organization. it has more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters. the