. >> in the car are tonya and her husband emark. he is just -- she is just back from afghanistan and surprising her family. >> it was the first time we have seen them and i am so glad to have had the opportunity. >> over there was an army surgical hospital, and she was a surgical nurse who treated military and civilian patients. she is now home for good. >> there are a lot of new outlooks on life. >> the first stop is to surprise her family who doesn't know she is back. with the help of the restaurant staff and her dad, she showed up at a pre planned family lunch. >> oh my gosh. >> all but her father thought she was in afghanistan. >> we were waiting for the call. she walked in the front door. it was great. >> ton you -- tonya's mother shared some happy tears and she welcomed the surprise. while the family is celebrating their daughter's return, there are still thousands of troops celebrating the holidays far from home. in kabul, afghanistan, troops had a huge holiday feast served up by several cheerful santas. while many would love

i appreciated serving with commissioner tonya peterson and we will miss her intelligence and kindness thoughtfulness. she really cared about the law and let the law guide her decision making. i was fortunate enough to work with her on rewriting the rules last year. and serve as vice president when she was president along with director gold seen -- goldstein and the deputy city attorney, we rewrote the rules together and it was a great experience for me. we were successful in our attempts to make them more fair and protect the due process. i just want to say commissioner peterson will be sorely missed. vice president garcia: i would agree. i will not make a big speech about it because i hope someday she will come back. so that we can properly honor her. anyone who is watching the meetings is properly familiar with the skills she had up here. she could analyze issues that were relatively complex and could concisely state what her points of view were about that. all that is self-evident to what i would want to talk about. i was always impressed that she would come here after a long day a

i want to extend a thank you to the front office -- rich, tonya and ashley for providing their support and want to thank rick and mark and ed and pete and roy and reggie and gina and of course matthew for helping me in filling my responsibilities during my absence and keeping it all together. thank you for your continued focus, support, willness and desire to serve during my absence. happy holidays. >>> the maryland lottery is always looking for new ways to let yourself play. now it may be turning to the internet to boost ticket sales. don harrison talked to leaders to see if online ticket sales are a sure bet in maryland. >> reporter: waiting in long lines to buy a lottery ticket may become a thing of the past. the maryland state lottery wants the legislature to allow online lottery pay. the agency said in other states online tickets have improved seams up to 18%. the agency said habits of consumers have choppinged. 53% of the players get their results online. >> i'm not in favor of purchasing a whole lot of things online and that would be one of them. >> reporter: bonnie plays once i

please join me in congratulating tonya. [applause] >> this is not the moment i was looking for. this is my 10th year of teaching, so this is quite a big moment for me. this year is what i have actually changed a lot of my teaching. to be very effective, especially with those english language learners. i just want to eradicate the achievement gap, and this is giving me the inputs to proceed, but i cannot do this by myself. it has taken a lot of people to get here. my road started with a teacher. one day i hope for her to be recognized because she has inspired many teachers in this school district. you need to wait because you are the one that made this happen. [applause] i just went in to volunteer in her classroom. i wanted to be a children's writer, and here i am. i want to thank also my school community. i had a wonderful principal who gave me the freedom to make the mistakes i needed to be a teacher i am now. also, i moved to monroe elementary, which is the school my heart is in right now. now, this amazing principal who had a vision for every student to achieve. i do not kno

tonya, what should people know about children with down's syndrome?know that they're very loving and caring people. and you cannot always jump to conclusions with them because you never know what's in their minds. and, you know, you can't really joke with them like you would be able to with you or i. you have to really tell things straight forward with them. and they can be very stubborn people. >> sure. we've got a quotation from the schools superintendent. they say he, your son, grabbed her around her waist like a bear hug and then he gets on top of her and moves in a sexual motion indicating a sexual act. >> i mean, isn't it a fact that there's an independent witness, another home health aide, on the bus who says that's just not true? >> correct. but first of all, i would like to say that if you were to go on to the school bus and look at a school bus, there is no possible way that he could have laid on her or she could have laid. if they would have laid in the aisle which the aisle is only about two feet in width, she would have been -- they would

reporter: la tonya harris was driving her car this morning when she witnessed a marked mpd vehicle enter the circle from seventh street northwest and strike a bicyclist hard. the police vehicle was marked s.o.d. for special operations division. >> the s.o.d. coming around the corner flying and hit the citizen and knocked him to the ground. reporter: describe the hit. >> it was a boom. it was a boom. reporter: what happened to the bicyclist? >> the bicycle flew. the person flew and people just started running to give him service to get him help. reporter: she estimates both the bike and cyclist flew in the air 20 feet from the point of compact. she said the uniformed policeman stopped, got out -- of impact. they said the uniformed policeman stopped, got out and reported on a cell phone or radio that an accident occurred. an ambulance arrived. the police vehicle apparently had driven through a yield sign. now the yield sign for cars approaching the traffic circle from seventh street is a bit bent over, but as you can see, it's visible. our witness also says there were two teenage children

tonya pane knew her son was being treated for impulse control issues. what she didn't know was that his teachers were making him wear the belt every day. pane signed a waiver for the occupational therapist to use sensory strategies but had no idea it would mean this. >>> it doesn't say anything about a miracle belt. as a mother i was upset. >>> 9news couldn't find another school in the area that used weighted vests. >>> 5:51. another rough outing for the redskins. this week the loss courtesy of the new york jets. >>> but there is even more disappointment fred davis and trent williams. the two are done for the rest of the season after failing multiple drug tests. >>> i'm here with redskins insider dave el fin. we started to hear this story right before kickoff. fred davis, trent williams not available for the rest of the year. violation of the nfl's drug policy. >> remember it broke two weeks ago when they were playing in miami. apparently they are going to be suspended tomorrow for four games. three strikes and you are out and the third one was during t

tonya knows that too, so she uses crest-pro health clinical gum protection toothpaste.hel hps eliminate plaque at the gum line. helpinlpg prevent gingivitis. it's even clinically proven to help reverse it in jinust four weeks. and anit protects these other areas dentists check most. healhethy smiles are built on healthy gums. crest prt o-health clinical gum protection. >>> time for the technology corner. with beth and steven. >> my favorite corner. >> okay, so when you're using your ipad, if you hold it long enough, your hands you know start falling asleep and you get a crick in your neck. >> why do my hands get so tired? >> i have a solution for you. this is from kick-starter.com and it's called the flote. it's like a little pole that you can adjust any way that you want. up, down, sideways. and it holds the ipad directly in front of you so you can, you know, play your fantasy football game, while you're watching the television. and you don't have to hold it. you just -- boop boop boop boop. you think you could find a use for that? >> when i'm borrowing your ipad? yeah

>> bill: here now body language tonya reiman.hat did you think. >> the young boy how he puts his head down and hands on his head. >> bill: he didn't want to say it? >> as he goes forward, michele bachmann grabs him and pulls him to her. as she does, this he kind of pulls his hands up and pulls his head back and it's so amazing even at this age you will see it in a second. people already recognize that personal space. she invades him. put his hands up and pull his face back. >> bill: she is not familiar to him. that would be the reaction to any child. >> that's what i find interesting. this is instinctive. >> bill: he did not want to do this. >> he becomes uncomfortable. he looks away and pulls his face. >> bill: from the jump. he doesn't become from the jump. is he not comfortable at all in any of this. >> but no 8-year-old is comfortable talking to a stranger especially about a situation like this. i agree. this is the point i was making here how he like pulls his hands up now and he goes that's a little too close. it was very i

serious of rejecting lloyd's to proceed and tonya, the political possibilities opening up that people born in the depression could not even see. here they are, breaking open possibilities you don't even know yet. but there will also be divisions that are problems. latest violence is a a ticket for a single hardest thing. athena also lotze the sure we ever really need to teach our children about oppression. begin three dual does find out. some will find out earlier. some will find a letter. until about history, our stories of distance and prepare them so when it happens it will be painful but not surprising. a marriage or the we have to convince them that oppression is coming beaches near monopoly the the flow of leo would say is a see this low level hearing of african-americans to grow with some measure privilege and really find the realities of american rice in them hard in their late teens and lewd will cease. so often it is simply go to school without losing girls until experience and in pitiless events and you and make it through college with. then they get to the work force, and

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tonya saying a stranger paid off all my student loans. i was able to finish college debt-free. changed my life. another one from arod, not the arod i assume -- i plan to surprise somebody. he's a homeless man who lives behind a target store in central florida. he's always on the move. another saying we're having a holiday toy drive. all the gifts will go to a children hospital on christmas children hospital on christmas morning. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> we are just crossing the top of the hour, 7:00 a.m. in atlanta, georgia. at least 180 dead in the philippines after a tropical storm slammed the country a desperate rescue effort under way now. >>> congress reaching a deal to stop the government from taking more out of your paycheck. however, this is only a temporary fix. we are headed live to d.c. >>> a showdown between two of our cnn contributors. we asked them what people should and shouldn't buy. would you believe their lists are the same. they are going to justify here what you should buy this holiday season. the other one is going to tell you why you shoul

to door offering free inspections for hail damage and cash for new jersey homeowners like jeff and tonyagns on their lawns. >> that was worth $500 if you put the sign. >> put the sign out as advertisement for them. >> the williams hadn't noticed any hail damage, but figured, why not get a free inspection? >> you really did not go through an area that did not have a precision sign on at least every other lawn. >> not precision and two of its workers have been charged with insurance fraud. the new jersey attorney general says they inflected the supposed hail damage themselves to collect the insurance money. they've pleaded not guilty. investigators say storm chaser scams have exploded. last year alone, there were nearly 1,200 cases. this is under cover video shot by insurance investigators in illinois. the contractor isn't inspecting the house. he's allegedly denting the roof to make it look like hail damage. watch how hard he's working at it. outside chicago, this contractor was arrested after our station, wbbm, spotted him appearing to use his thumb to fake hail damage in siding. >> why

tonya out the cold temperatures it is finally out of the '20s and santa rosa was still sitting in freezingratures and 32 degrees. we have 39 in napa, to 36 in fairfield. we have upper thirties right now and los gatos, the afternoon will bring the low sixties for the south bay, 67 degrees expect for antioch, 69 float and hayward as well as redwood city. heading up to the north bay, it looks like we only have 60 degrees for temperatures in santa rosa. upper 50s to the rest of the north bay, and 57 and expected in sansom's is up. let us talk about the weather changes, the high pressure system has been in place of a patent that has been keeping things clear, mild and dry. it is pushing its way into the rockies. now we see an increasing cloud coverage. the feature cast is set for 9:00 a.m.. we're working to light sprinkles and by 3:00 p.m. you can see that it will move to the peninsula. the colors will bring in some might showers so it certainly will not be a washout. it will push southward by 8:00 p.m.. we could be dealing with some left over lingering said showers in the south bay. your exten

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>>justine: i have found a perfect thing for you to do on new year's eve, stay home, tonya t d--and turn watch new year's live. this is your vip pass to all the biggest and best parties in town. it all starts at 11:30 p.m. on new year's eve you should definitely check it out, we will be right back. >>reporter: a passenger car was trying to make a left turn the train was will passengers. that is the driver right there keeping the driver of the train did appear to be fine. the traffic is backed open. this is the second time in this only happened 1 mi. away from the first incident. >> george: in just to confirm it looks like the intersection is completely open and they have restored train service east bound. >>reporter: that is right it looked like the trains are going. this is winding ready to go across the intersection. it appears that everything is back to normal here and luckily there is no damage to the tracks. >> george: here is a quick bridge check for you the bay bridge ride is nice and easy with no problems or delayed. you commute to the san mateo bridge has no place to trafficked