tell me about life in tunisia today. >> oh, it is a good question, how life is in tunisia. i mean, we are feeling we are in this crossroad for one year maybe and after that we will have to choose the right or wrong one. so, we aren't in this country being completely rebuilt, reconstructed -- are in this country completely being rebuilt and we are searching for what tunisia will look like in the future. >> ah, tunisia and led the arab spring, a bit in it, if we can use the phrase in that whole part of the world. >> absolutely. tunisia led the revolution and for me as a tunisia i think barry revolution is not done -- it is done once we reach a real democracy. that real democracy, we are building it now. , but the idea of one country leading to the end, and we of the first country now to draft a constitution, the first country that had elections and we will be the first country that will have another election by march. so, the idea ois to take this energy we had from the revolution and to take it until the day we will reach the real democracy. >> are the people optimistic? the

the father of two kid napd his children during a visit in november and took off for tunisia. shomari stone has more. >> reporter: the three-year-old and six-year-old are not spending summer vacation in fairfax county but in tunisia. the fbi says their father kidnapped them from prince george's county in november. tonight he is a wanted fugitive. >> we have the kidnapping of two children who were taken outside the country. >> reporter: the children's mother said she flew to tunisia to search for the kids. after the couple's divorce proceedings, the father was awarded visitation rights. he picked up the children from their grandparents house and he and the kids boarded a plane and flew to germany and landed in tunisia. he allegedly told their mother he is not bringing them back. a federal judge issued a warrant for his arrest. >> have you seen your children in tunisia. >> i see them at their father's parents home. >> reporter: but the government won't allow her to fly them back to the u.s. >> the decision in our court case that is pending any moment now and i expect everything

the next custody hearing in tunisia is on september 18th. shomari stone, news4. >>> a police officer accused of threatening the first lady is on desk duty and some of his colleagues may be punished. the officer is accused of saying he would take out mrs. obama. another officer told the supervisors. the department could discipline other officers if they heard a remark and did not report it. >>> with president obama heading to richmond, that city fired two police officers for making threats against the first family. investigators won't reveal details, secret service agents decided there was no criminal wrong doing. the two were fired for conduct unbecoming of an officer. >>> despite controversy and calls for him to resign, vincent gray is going about business as usual or tried to. questions continue to circle back to the federal investigation surrounding his 2010 campaign. earlier this week, a long time associate pleaded guilty to helping run a 650,000 shadow campaign to get him elected. today gray declined to answer specifics. >> i kept to my

the border from tunisia there's a lot of turmoil in tunisia but people don't. hold demonstrations they hold rallies they don't shoot each other in the streets and libya has yet to get to that point so as you mentioned as unrest in tunisia we could also go back to the years of iraq or afghanistan of what's going on in in syria. in libya democracy has it because. what it has become in the sense that there is greater freedom to organize and anyone. on the left for example would try to organize during minute gadhafi era was or be really repressed as where the islamists as were anybody who opposed him so at least now you have somewhere over one hundred newspapers you have political parties you have the right to hold rallies people are you know holding strikes for the first time for an independent trade unions to me those are all helpful signs and i think people are very committed to not seen another dictator arrive this western interference is an issue the u.s. and western europe are very interested in maintaining the oil supplies from libya and i think there is evi

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he contacted me and i interviewed him from tunisia. >> in an exclusive interview from tunisia, he told me he will not turn himself into the fbi and he won't bring his kids back to the u.s. the fbi says he's a wanted fugitive. he's accused of kidnapping his 2-year-old daughter and son in november. he was awarded visitation rights. he picked up the kids from their grandparent's house and was supposed to return them two days later. instead he and the kids boarded a plane at dulles and flew to germany and landed in tunisia. the mother flew to tunisia to search for her kids and he says he did nothing wrong. >> i don't have anybody to tell me you are not supposed to take the kids outside the country. nobody told me that. >> now the children's mother is spending time with the kids in tunisia. they're at their grandparents' house. this case has gone to court over there and she hopes that the government will allow her to bring her kids back to our area. the fbi is aware of the interview and they will continue to investigate and special agents are working with the state department and in contact

foreign investment into it that tunisia has ever seen it's a ten billion euro project are it's also talk about the technology just for a second it's not actually solar panels from what i understand but it reflective mirror surfaces are pointing toward water the water boils and it turns a turbine basically correct that's right max we're using a technology called c.s.p. solar thermal and basically they're fields of mirrors that concentrate the sunlight to a solar tower to the point of a tower where as you describe it boils water make steam and then that steam generates electricity just like a nuclear power plants but instead of using nuclear fuel we're using the sun and fuel and then we also and this is the big difference then with the solar panels we're able to store the heat at night and so we can continue generating power after the sun goes down so how does this compare with let's say another new technology that's out there fracking which is geological fracturing where mine are standing is it's an enter energy negative technology and it's very short lived and there's an environmental ca

all right this is a really interesting story you have a massive solar project and newly liberated tunisia tells about the project when did it start how much will be invested in what is a start producing energy is a lot there but well i guess we started back in two thousand and nine it was still before the air well before the arab spring and i guess what will start producing electricity and two thousand and sixteen it's still a few few years away but we're delivering that electricity to europe through a summering cable to italy and so huge. actually to be the largest single foreign investment intent that tunisia has ever seen it's a ten billion euro project or it's also talked about the technology just for a second and it's not actually solar panels from what i understand but it reflective mirror surfaces are pointing toward water the water boils and it turns a turbine basically correct that's right max we're using a technology called c s p solar thermal and basically they're fields of mirrors that concentrate the sunlight to a solar tower to the point of a tower where as you describe it b

instead they boarded a plane at adults, flew to germany, then lavined in tunisia.y told adina he's not bringing them back. a federal judge issued a warrant for his arrest. >> have you seen your children. >> i am able to see them almost daily together at their fares's parents home. >> but the tunisian government won't let me fly them home. >> i expect everybody to be in our favor. >> reporter: the fbi has launched an international manhunt. >> she says she hasn't seen him, now investigators are working with the state department and in contact with tunisian authorities. >> we will find you and bring you back to the united states. >> reporter: i'm shomari stone, news4. >>> now at 5:00, d.c.'s mayor facing increasing pressure to step down. tonight at 5:00, d.c. mayor is fighting back and officials call for his resignation. >>> plus a highly anticipated report is out now on penn state's handling of the child sex abuse scandal. >>> needed-out residents are evacuated nearly two weeks after the big derecho storm. good evening, i'm in for jim handly. >> i'm wendy rieger. >>>

nobody paid attention to tunisia. anybody who knew about it thought it was just the place for star wars was filmed. it suddenly came on the radar. i started taking the techniques used in tunisia and expanded upon them, until it got to the point where my twitter followers essentially became my newsroom. rather than being in the studio with producers and researchers and somebody talking into my earpiece, i was sitting on a park bench with my phone having dozens of twittered followers doing all this for me. i could essentially to anchor coverage of these revolutions and fact-checked and is coming out of it. >> some of it has become more low-tech. participating in journalism is now easier than ever. >> is also rather old school. the basic principles i applied to this, they are the types of things that anybody who is studying journalism, it makes sense to them. if i only have one source on twitter, that is not good enough. but it can people are all saying they are getting shot at and i know some of them do not know each ot

i was recently in egypt and tunisia and in both of these countries, it was the military siding with the people that allowed "the revolution" to proceed. assad seems to have much better hold over his military than the leaderships of the other countries had. so i don't know what would cause that to tip. i suspect though that military would have to perceive that assad wasn't going to win. >> we saw an incident in bulgaria, a bus bombing, five israeli tourist, in bulgaria, and bus driver were all killed. russia is blaming iran as they have many times in recent months in incidents. this is a dangerous time. how realistic is it that iran may be putting on these kind of incidents, these terrorist attacks? and what should be done about it? >> yeah. i saw that attack as an indicator of what i see as the era that we're in. i've been calling it for years an era of persistent conflict.

faical chebbi is accused of taking his kids to tunisia after his divorce. the mother has been in tunisia since january and spoke with abc 7 by phone about the fight to get them back. >> they are staying at their father's parents' house. i am able to bring one child at a time home with me to my apartment here because they are afraid -- >> he is wanted for international parental kidnapping. maryland senators are helping bring her children back to the united states. what's the controversial court ruling surrounding the pit bulls appears to be not in effect yet. the law is on hold according to the attorney general pending a decision on the highest court to reconsider the decision. it holds that the pit bull owners are liable for bites even if they showed no history of being dangerous. >> we are learning more about the college hazing case that now has cost the university president his job. >> the president of florida a&m university resigned due to the hazing scandal that cost the students his life. >> florida and then president has resigned the same day the pare

>> well, the carter center has monitored already the election in tunisia and we are looking at egypt. i don't think either one of those revolutionary successes would have been possible without the modern technology of the cell phones and that sort of thing to let people in widely separated communities within libya and within tunisia and within egypt and so forth to gather together with a common purpose and the point i made earlier about my grand children, i think in the future we are going to see children not only in china and japan, maybe even in north korea, the hamas and also fata and the palestinian community and they and the israelis and egyptians, those children are going to be able to talk to each other and communicate with another because it's almost instant translation. so i think what has happened within egypt, say or tunisia is very likely to happen in the future among children of different nations. and once they see they have something in common, that is of benefits of peace and the benefits of prosperity and the benefits of education and the benefits of environmental qual

. >>> a fugitive father accused of kidnapping his kids from their grandmothers and fleeing to tunisia. now he is out of hiding and sharing his story on news 4. we have the exclusive interview. >> really, i'm free. >> in an exclusive interview from tunisia, he told me he will not bring his kids back to the u.s., but the fbi says he kidnapped them and he is a wa wanted fugitive. >> are you going to surrender to the fbi? >> hell no. how can someone surrender himself from freedom to jail. >> he got visitation rights after he and his wife got divorced last october. then he picked them up from their grandmother's house. he was supposed to return them two days later, instead he flew to germany, and then landed in tunisia. >> why don't you allow your kids to come back? >> i'm not going to bring the kids back as i told to their mother -- >> fbi officials have been made aware of this report, special agents are now in contact with tunisian shorts. >>> we have more on the story on nbcwashington.com. and team usa uniforms were made in china. >>> and where you might see some of the biggest names in

with the kids unless the courts in tunisia recognize the terms of her u.s. divorce and grant her guardianship. >> what a mess. >> we hope that gets worked out. >> the fbi and international police are watching to see if he tries to travel anywhere. >> he would be arrested immediately. fbi says they would extradite him back to the u.s. >>> they lost just about everything two weeks ago during a powerful storm and now the familiar list on the way to recovery. >> he is not doing it for a pat on the back. he is doing it for the goodness of his heart. >> details of how one good samaritan stepped up in a huge way. stay with us. we'll be right back.  >>> here is a look at 395 north at green bay road. traffic moving along pretty well there. >>> at massive storm two weeks ago that knocked out power to hundreds of thousands people also disrupted 911 service in northern virginia for several days. fairfax county board of supervisors chairman has asked the count sill of government -- the council of governments to investigate what went wrong. she joined us on the

faces tunisia this afternoon. >> i'm predicting a close game with tunisia. >> yeah.ha. >> within 40 points. >>> here at home, today marks major league baseball's trading deadline. >> as for action on the field, we get last night's highlights now from espn. >> cassidy hubbarth with your "sportscenter" update. we start with the reds that are looking to build on their winning streak. taking on the padres. top seven. padres down 3-0. fleiss out to right field. cameron maybin, to right. appears to be hurt after the play. would stay in the game. the padres, down 3-2. top third, padres up by three. bases loaded. will vennible, to left field. padres increase their lead, 8-3. later in the inning, the 1-0 pitch to case headily. doesn't like the call. fairchild gives him the boot. after the ejection, he yells as fairchild insurlts him. given everything he can. padres go on to win 11-5. >>> a.l. battle between the angels and rangers. mike trout, back after missing a game with a knee injury. didn't appear to be hurt in this one. trout with a two-run shot to right. his 17th of the

they have a network and that is a significant factor. >> when you see tunisia and egypt, people lookwith great hope, and then came the kind of cynicism, despondent, oh, it is not going to work out. what's the reality? did you feel optimism? >> i did come away heartened. especially with egypt and tunisia with what is going on and other parts of the middle east like syria. they have difficult days ahead of them as they try to come to grips with at least two fund manically different views for the future direction of both those countries. but the good news is, if i could, is they are working it through the political and judicial process. >> so there's a democratic system that's working? >> no, i wouldn't say that. they are building a democratic system over time. >> let's turn to one final matter. since you retired, you are involved in helping veterans. very disturbing statistic about the instance of suicide in the military. suicide spiked to average of one a day american servicemen and women killing themselves, the highest rate of a decade in afghan and iran. >> this is an issue that we

syria how do you define that because they're making mistaken analogies with places like egypt and tunisia where you can just sideline the president and then kind of the system can continue in a different way in syria it's a radically different situation if bashar assad leaves tomorrow another person will step in there is a much wider circle that has this power interests so ultimately even if you're talking about the higher echelons of there is actually leaving you're going to have to i arrive at a political kind of solution that allows that transition to happen and laws like the ilo a community the christian minority is all of these people are not to feel threatened by whatever is coming so that the idea that we keep the pressure and then one day bashar al assad will just leave that's not going to happen in syria there's a much more different power structure in there and what we really need to look at is what is the political solution and here is the failure of what has become the de facto representative political representative of the syrian uprising the syrian national. that's to be hap

the latest installment of the dream treem plays tomorrow against tunisia. look at all those hugs.aty chris paul. she goes right in for the real thing. not worried about any of that sweat getting on her shirt there. great performance out of the first lady. even james harden's beard gets a hug there. >>> it's not just the athletes feeling the pressure at these summer games. family members of the olympians are also hanging on every dive, sprint and vault. one prime example, the parents of aly raisman who suffered through all 48 seconds of their daughter's preliminary competition on the uneven bars. >> come on, aly. come on, aly, you got it. let's go. let's go, aly. let's go. let's go. let's go. let's go. let's go. let's go. let's go. come on. handstand. let's go. come on, aly. come on. come on. come on. come on. catch it! nice. come on. come on. catch. let's go. let's go. catch it! >> stick it, please. >> stick it! stick it! >> yeah! ah! >> that's how i talk to the buffalo bills every sunday. >>> still ahead on "way too early," why are you awake? your perfect ten, tweets, texts and e

erupted in and tunisia and egypt this plea at some sort of inspired action to the many people but have not created the new demand only people that demands with their hundred years that well known ninety years ago specifically so this is this is the theme that they want to. has. seen that this is. not part of the going well unlike a lot of the countries that were part of the arab spring tunisia egypt not so much coverage are seeing on bahrain nevertheless there are reports of continuing mass arrests and torture tell us how widespread is this now months i might add after the government itself admitted and promised to put a halt to them during the last year of the. massive. hundreds of thousands and after the march to. known and to the nth monch last year the security and the aadmi thought what the engagement. they thought they would. know march this year. but this does massive but this does get to this week with hundreds or thousands and eighteen march hundreds so close and. and. you might not see the hundreds or thousands but i can assure you that all of that although there will be had

that perhaps this could be interpreted as obama abandoning strong american allies, particularly in tunisia and egypt and that the recent elections of islamic-based political parties in those two countries, in the representative bodies, may, in fact, lead to anti-american policies in the region and abroad. do you think that romney will attempt to make that argument? and if so, do you think it will resonate with the american public? >> excellent question from a former student. obviously learned a lot. so, i think on the mubarak issue, which i think what you're talking about, i think those americans who feel that united states can somehow impose its will and get the desired effect it wants on every international issue might find that argument to be, to resonate. those folks are probably voting for romney already. if we're talking about swing voters, i think there's a recognition, what really were we possibly supposed to do? were we going to support egyptian tanks rolling in to cairo to suppress popular unarmed protesters? i think that really is preposterous. so if somebody's going to try to s

. >> no one paid attention to tunisia. for anybody who knew about it they thought about it as the place where "star wars" was filmed, but it suddenly became on the radar, and protests began getting planned in different countries, and so i -- i started taking the techniques i used in tunisia and just expanded on them and improved upon them until it got to the point where my twitter followers essentially became my newsroom, so rather than being in a studio as an anchor would, you know, with producers left and right and researchers and an ear piece and someone talking into it and give me the latest wire information or a laptop telling me that, a pundit here and an eyewitness there, i was sitting on a park bench with my phone having dozens of twitter followers doing all of those roles for me so i could essentially do rolling anchor coverage of these revolutions and fact check and debunk a bunch of things coming out of it. >> watch this whole event as part of our july 4th primetime and it also includes a discussion on the histo

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especially when you compare with what's going on in egypt and tunisia to other areas like syria.head of them they're trying to come to grips with two views of the directions of both of those countries. but the good news is, if i could, is they're working it through the political and judicial process. >> so there's a democratic system that is working. >> i wouldn't say that. they're building a democratic system that will work over time. >> let's turn to one final thing. since you were retired you've been involved in helping veterans. suicide on average one a day american service men and women killing themselves. the highest rate in the whole decade. why is this happening and what can be done about it? >> this is an issue that we in the military have been working very hard for years. we've studied it. we've started a $50 million study with the national institute of mental health, we've increased the number of mental health advicers. we've d an significant program since 2007 to reduce the stigma of getting mental health treatment when you have a problem. but when you come right down

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were in libya, tunisia and egypt. you sort of went through north africa, into the middle east and really tried to assess what has happened. >> it was a gat experience. 2700 miles was our estimate of the travel that we took. i found a number of things. you mentioned morsi, the new president of egypt, making this demand for the release of a terrorist. that's one of the things you find throughout these countries, islamists making demands that seem to us really kind of irrelevant given the trouble these countries face. they're arguing over alcohol in tunisia, arguing over terrorists in egypt. you find some of the more liberal forces are pro-western forces in these countries, seeming quite downcast, depressed. i think that's a fair term. yet at the same time, as i traveled, i could not help but see the potential of each of these countries. each one could be a vibrant economy. each one could have a lot going for it. i haven't really given up on any of these countries yet. >> i think there's a good news story here which is t

could you will believe that saudi arabia is helping the revolution whether in egypt or in syria or in tunisia or in lebanon or in palestine or anywhere nobody can believe so i guess this i would be is the last three she would have the right to talk about such thing and i guess the third one stopped in saudi arabia and the people who want to stop there they got this regime out of saudi arabia political analysts most on salary from beirut thank you very much indeed for your thoughts thanks for being with us live here and thank you. police in central russia continue to collect evidence for the gruesome discovery earlier this week of almost two hundred fifty human fetuses dumped in a forest thought to have been used in scientific research by a woman who worked at a local medical university before being fired last year but all teas sean thomas found out some experts think they could even be the product of cloning. right now the investigation is focused on two parts first how did these four plastic containers containing two hundred forty eight fetuses end up in the woods about seventy kilometers no