he's been a vocal critic of mayor vince gray and the d.c. couple andar switching to the republican party he is planning to announce his are you for the council from ward seven tomorrow. >>> and some republican leaders are calling for them to lay out a big map. and the district change comes from 6. it used to cover western and northern maryland. now, the new law adds it to district six. that is in an effort to oust bartlet and make it a safe district for democrats. we'll have more this morning. >>> how bad is the economy? so bad this some flu assistant centers are having a hard time keeping up with demand. >> coming up, how one area is surviveing and an update on the efforts this morning. tony. >>> and in just a bit, the latest on the weather forecast and some details for on you that and julie wright is here with more. stay with us, fox 5 morning news will be right back. it's 5:11. state farm. this is jessica. hey, jessica, jerry neumann with a policy question. jerry, how are you doing? fine, i just got a little fender bender. oh, jerry, i'm

vince gray, del ron afternoon son arrested by u.s. marshals in orlando. police say they killed demetrius thompson on alabama avenue southeast last thursday. police got a tip after releasing surveillance video. >>> robby wood has been missing since sunday. he wandered away from his family. he does not speak. he has blond hair, blue eyes and was last seen wearing a red long sleeved t-shirt and blue athletic pants. yesterday, police invited the public to help with the search in hanover county. nearly 900 people showed up. park stretching across 08-acre is not fenced in and police are concerned he may have wandered off the property. >>> police in herndon are looking into whether a man charged with taxing two women may be involved in five other cases. officers say they arrested 31- year-old thomas kim as he tried to attack another woman this week. investigators say he posed as a police officer by flashing a badge. police are urging any other potential victims to come forward. kim is being held without bond. >>> president obama will be in colorado today where h

mayor vince gray signed the order to the cheers of supporters yesterday.say the move merely confirm a long-standing policy. >>> in the race for the white house, a new poll shows americans have not found a republican they prefer over president obama. 30% of republicans want former mismass governor mitt romney as their nominee. 26% named businessman herman cain. 13% picked diamondback governor rick perry. president obama runs about even or slightly ahead of each in a hypothetical match-up. >>> president obama was joined bit first lady on the last stop of his bus tour in virginia. they were at a military facility in hampton talking about his jobs bill and the need to hire veterans. the president and mrs. obama announceed a deal with private companies to hire 25,000 vets. >> it is right thing to do for our veterans and the right thing to do for america. you give smaller companies who may be interested in hiverring but are having a tough time, give them a tax break if they hire a veteran. give them an even bigger tax break if they hired a disabled veteran. >> t

vince gray looked at this company's record, of not hiring one d.c. resident in the two years it had the contract. it decided not to exercise the option, which is his prerogative. >> but on the other but on the other vend this thing -- let's cover this. this is about -- the post alleges it's about political connections that it had a friend, and council member harry thomas, and perhaps that it was reason the maryland company was pushed out and cbi would get the contract. >> adrian fenty did, not mayor gray. adrian fenty divided this up, gave to the cbi one and two, and gave it to lorenz, 3 through eight. the post loves adrian fenty. they ought to be on his case. >> do you think this is all about the post's favoritism, rather than this contract? >> the post liked the fact that vincent gray beat he me. everybody knows that. no secret in town. the editorial board ought to be fair about this. the mayor knows very well that it is our policy to do as much business with the company in the district of columbia that qualifies. we have a certification. >> i have

mayor vince gray's campaign. sulaiman brown said he was promised a job and given cash to help undermine the campaign of adrian fenty. and bruce, this reminds me of an episode of the wire. >> reporter: and a lot of new developments tonight. we don't know for certain that howard brooks, a former key staff in the vincent gray campaign has been grant the immunity, but brooks agreed to wear a wire. others have been approached by prosecutors and have refused the same level of cooperation. they will not wear a wire. now if you follow this story, then you know that sulaiman brown, a former candidate for mayor, testified before a d.c. council committee and produced money orders which he said were given to him by brooks. brown said he was also given cash and the promise of a job if gray won the election. and gray won the election and brown was hired and then fired from a six-figure position. mayor gray today reiterated his position that payments and promises of a job that were made he knew nothing about. he has not been to

mayor vince gray declined to talk about whether or not there are talks underway about the redskins returningo any new and improved rfk stadium, which would be not yet on the drawing board. >> no. >> all right. would be nice. >> it would be. now top, this is the kind of weather we've been talking about for the last couple of weeks that we should have had. >> we earned it over the weekend. last weekend that is. and we have a back door front that will go through tonight. the temperatures right now are still pretty nice. in the 60s in the suburbs, but 70 downtown. we go up 270, you get to 70 in rockville. i'm throwing out the 59 in gaithersburg. 67 in great falls. 62 in reston and 64 down in fort belvoir. and 66 as you go up toward baltimore. a back door front tonight, doesn't have any moisture with it. it's going to be chilly again tonight. thursday, it will be chilly. you'll need sunglasses and a little bit milder friday. so we cool off tomorrow, but it gets milder again as early as friday. clear and chilly tonight. lows 56 to 34. once the front sinks to our south and to our west. if you're in

mayor vince gray has proposed a movie tax that would add a 5% sales tax to the price of all concessions. popcorn down to your candy. it would be used to fund the building of a new theater east of anacostia. >>> many annoying drivers that block intersections. been a huge problem around here for a long time. the question is, what do you do about it? well, today the city reported about 1500 blocking the box tickets were written in the last fiscal year. that's a 50% increase from the year before. now, those tickets are $100 a piece and drivers we talked to today said they ought to be part of the solution to the problem. however, aaa mid-atlantic says drivers ought not be penalized for blocking the box because often you can't avoid them. >> we are writing tickets to motorists who at some occasions may be trapped in an intersection but not because of their own fault. too many cars, too many people and not enough officers patrolling and controlling the intersections. >> another popular solution or should i say possible solution could be gridlock cameras that would actually generate tickets aut

mayor vince gray actually promised a job to former mayoral candidate sulaiman brown. lawmakers investigated claims from brown that during the campaign, gray's staff gave him cash and promised him a job if he took verbal jabs at the former mayor adrian fenty. after gray won the election, brown did get the job but was fired after a month. and a federal grand jury is still looking into brown's allegations. gray has denied from the beginning that there was any truth to the allegations. >>> well leading gop presidential candidate herman cain said he is the innocent victim of a witch hunt. at the national press club he responded to a report in politico.com that he sexually harassed two female employees while he headed the national restaurant association back in the 1990s. >> i have never sexually harassed anyone and those accusations are totally false. >> now politico withheld the women's names but did say the restaurant association reached a five-figure settlement with them which prevents the woman about talking what happened. the women ultimately left their jobs. >>> well

. >>> a key staffer in mayor vince gray's office has agreed to go undercover and wear a wire for prosecutorsestigating the campaign. he has been wearing the wire and has recorded at least one conversation. not clear yet what brooks could get in exchange for that level of cooperation. but what we do know is that brooks was named by sulaimon brown as one of the people in the gray campaign who gave him money for the repeated attacks on adrian fenty. now, brown says he was also promised a job which he got and was then fired from. mayor gray says if there were any irregularities in the campaign, they happened without his knowledge. >> i haven't been called for anything at this stage. and we want to cooperate with the investigation as we said we would. and we want to continue to provide whatever witnesses, whatever documentation is requested of us. >> but you're going to be surprised if it turns out that there were irregularities in the campaign. that some of mr. -- >> look, i'm surprised this thing happened in the first place. >> the chairman of the gray campaign has also denied the claims that s

mayor vince gray's administration. >>> the "washington post" is now reporting that a witness in the scandalas been offered immunity. gray's staffer have been under fire allegedly offering brown a job and crash to badger than mayor direct. >>> a new redribbinging plan in maryland is parking debate about minorities. governor martin o'malley officially unveiled the plan on saturday. some leaders in the d.c. suburbs say owe naturally's plan will hurt the current fourth district in montgomery and prince george's counties. they are calling to create another district with a mostly minority population. >>> we could get new insight this week into the thinking of people leading the dulles project. the metropolitan rail authority is promising ways to become more transparent. local leader have claimed that there is no way to comment on action taken by the authority. >>> we've got a new treat for foodies. there is a brand-new program from living social checking off here in d.c. we'll have the details after the break. >>> big changes for the wireless world. the deal reached between sell it may mean for y

mayor vince gray's campaign last year. brown claims mayor gray handed him a list of talking points to use against then mayor fenty. if true, it would show the two worked closely together during the election. but the feds would have to prove mayor gray wrote the points or personally handed the list to brown. mayor gray denies wrong doing here. >>> maryland republican party is calling on the justice department to investigate governor o'malley's new redistricting map. meantime, a maryland man has filed a lawsuit. he says the map dilutes the voting power among those in the agriculture industry in the 6th district. supporters say the map with us approved last week, reflects population changes. it moves a large part of montgomery county into the western maryland district. >>> republicans and democrats on the debt super committee offer alternate plans to cut trillions from the federal budget. a gop package of proposals including $2.2 trillion in steep spending cuts, but no new taxes. it is a counter offer to a $3 trillion democra

that report allegedly concludes that brown and to receive money from people close to mayor vince graynvestigators could not find hard evidence of a job promised to brown once gray went into office. >>> more than 20,000 people braved the chilly weather for the marine corps marathon in d.c. chad ware was the first to cross in two hours, 19 minutes. and congratulation to one of our open, bring bowana, he finished. >> the second marathon he finished. one was not enough for him. he did much better this time around. >> i would have been so claustrophobic at the beginning of that race with 20,000 people there. >>> something else going on yesterday. three straight losses for the redskins. all those hopes we had -- >> it felt like a marathon watching that. >> you're right about that. we had hope. just three weeks ago, atop the division and you're 3-4 going how are they going to win another game let alone the division. >> got some work to do. >> a lot of people said how could you have picked the redskins to win. i i put my faith in the shanahans. he kept saying, look, i see something in john be

vince gray and del ron schiso were picked up yesterday. they are accused of killing demetrius thompson last thursday. police say surveillance video taken on the bus led to the arrests. at this point, investigators don't know the relationship between the victim and the suspects and they are not sure yet why they were in florida. >>> a break in the case of a man posing as a cop and taxing women in the herndon area. police arrested 31-year-old thomas kim of herndon for two attacks back in october 11th. they are not releasing his photo just yet. the first at 3:45 in the afternoon on magnolia street. second at 7:00 that night on eldon street. kim is suspected in five other similar cases. >>> in central virginia, the hunt continues for a missing 9- year-old autistic boy. robby woods has been missing since sunday when he wandered away from his family at the north autopsy abattlefield park. hundreds of of volunteers showed up to help search for him. he doesn't speak and was last seen wearing a red long sleeved t-shirt and blue athletic pants. >>>

mayor vince gray.he mayor will be a quote, unquote celebrity guest bagger at the safeway on the southwest waterfront. the hour-long shift will raise money for breast cancer awareness and prevention. so you might see the mayor down there. >> i hope he packs the bags better than some of those folks. >> oh, come on now. >> i know. >> can you do your own now. >> i know. >> that is not going to happen, is it? >> sometime i do. we have a fine start to the day. we have mild conditions across the region. let's take a look at what is going on out there. we'll start with hd radar not because i'm going to show you rain but because i'm he going to show you fog. here are some of the areas where we're seeing fog. areas in yellow. that is where it is at its most dense. we have some fog out there and visibility reduce tied quarter mile or less in some locations primarily out to our west. not really so much right around the d.c. area. although there is some fog here and there. fog advisory in effect until 9:00 this mor

around 1:00 p.m., dc police called to tell her they arrested two suspects in florida, vince gray and delron atchison, both of dc. >> i can't describe the feeling of this void, to know that these people were still out there not knowing what my son could have done to you for you to shoot him like that. >> reporter: it was thursday, october 20, 12:08:00 a.m. when thompson was fatally shot on a metrobus at alabama avenue southeast. >> the information we have right now is preliminary that this stemmed from some type of argument that happened moments before the actual shooting. >> reporter: police say when the case started, they didn't have a lot to go on so they reached out to the media and other social networks. also, police released surveillance video of two men getting on the bus just moments before the shooting. >> there were subjects, individuals getting on the bus we wanted to identify and we put it out there. needless to say, after we put it out to the media and other social networks out there, we did receive information that led us to ultimately identify who the actual suspects in

report due out today that allegedly concludes that brown and to receive money from people close to vince graytors could not find any hard evidence of a job promise once gray went into office. >>> the lululemon murder trial continues today. on friday, jurors heard testimony from two employees at the apple store next door. they talked about hearing yelling and screaming on the night of the killing. norwood's lawyer admits his client killed murray but said it happened during a fight and was not premeditated. >>> ate man accused of killing a nun in a drunk driving accident last year goes on trial today in prince william county. the 23-year-old is an illegal immigrant. he faces up to 40 years from prison in convicted. bob barnard with more. >> reporter: this case still trust rates an angers prince william county official. they say sister denise mosier, a 66-year-old nun would still be alive today if the man accuse of killing her in a drunk driving collision in august of last year had been deported to his native bolivia. 23-year-old carlos montano was in the u.s. illegally and allegedly driving dru

mayor vince gray to take another look at a city law that jails drivers with expired license plates.e a letter to the mayor saying there is, quote, absolutely no justification for jailing citizens for the offense. aaa tells us that maryland and virginia do not arrest drivers with expired tags and it is a waste of time for police. one driver who asked not to be identified said he had to spend the night in lock-up just because his license plates were expired. >> i asked him to cut me a break. we were heading home, i would get it fixed the next day, it would be top of my priority list. he said well, we're just going to take you in to process you for about three hours, standard procedure. >> we have homeland security threats. we have the chief saying she needs to have all hands on deck to deal with it. and they've got time to armours with their babies in the back seat for having expired tags? excuse me. >> a police spokeswoman says officers are sworn to enforce the laws on the books and concerns should be addressed to city leaders. >>> virginia drivers, if you have to go to the dmv, you

mayoral candidate suleiman brown and vince gray. brown told federal prosecutors that gray handed him talking points during the 2010 campaign to use against then mayor adrian fenty. brown has already publicly accused campaign of giving him money and promised to give him a job as long as he stayed in the race and continued to attack fenty. >>> a northern virginia man is in jill accused of secretly videotaping a woman in a shower. he is a custodian at the healing arts center in occoquan. a staff member says she found a video camera hidden in the shower area. police say the suspect placed the camera there and videotaped the victim three times. imes. >>> it is being called possibly the most thrilling game in world series history. st. louis cardinals down to their final strike on the brink of elimination come back not once but twice. >> this is pretty amazing. dave ross is here live with that and more. dave, how cool was that? >> it was -- steve's right. i think i saw the '86 mets, that game six. this is right up there with it. apples and

mayor vince gray still under investigation by the fbi.e spoke at the mlk dedication yesterday and marched on saturday but can't seem to shake the scandal. investigators are moving forward with the probe into allegations made by suleiman brown that he was paid off by gray's people. >> reporter: it is still a mustery. many months after suleiman brown dipped bombshell, we still don't know if the allegations against mayor gray and his campaign are true. brown claims he was offered a job and cash to verbally attack former mayor adrian fenty. mayor gray has said from the start the allegations are not true. it all began in march when brown was fired from his brand- new city job. that is when he approached the media and federal authorities. >> they left me no choice but to come and set the record straight. >> reporter: brown claims he was handed envelopes stuffed with cash by mayor gray's campaign worker howard brooks. brown says he turned those envelopes over to federal officials. according to "washington post" sources, federal investigators hav

authorities have made two arrests in the case. 21-year-old vince gray and 22-year-old delron at ruson are charged in the death of thompson. he was shot while standing outside a bus stop. a father of three and just gotten his commercial driver's li license. they are being detained in florida until they can be ext extradited in this area. >>> police have charged a man with impersonating a police officer and sexually assaulting two women within hours of each other. 31-year-old thomas kim of herndon is being held without  bond. two weeks ago he approached a 17-year-old girl claiming he was a police officer. he then sexually assaulted the girl on the 1200 block of magnolia lane and then drove off. about four hours later, kim allegedly targeted another woman at the herndon shopping center. he, once again, claimed he was a police officer before he forced the victim into his car and sexually assaulted her. >>> a driver is facing charges opportunities after his pickup truck was lifted out of the canal earlier today. authorities tell us the man was driving along a canal tow path last night wh

mayor vince gray asking for a federal disaster declaration. he's requesting $15 million.hedral was damaged in the east coast earthquake in august. it's due to reopen november 12th, but repairs could take more than two years. he says he'll seek $7 million for government buildings damaged during the quake. >>> the epicenter of the quake was in virginia, and fema has rejected virginia's request for aid for people there. >>> couple small earthquakes jolted san francisco yesterday. one of them a 4.0, it hit the berkeley area yesterday afternoon. then a 3 .8 aftershock struck about six hours later. no reports of damage or injuries. some delays on the bart transit system. >>> if you want to judge the character of high school seniors, look no further than this school. >> reporter: it's thursday night lights with the hawks playing host to frederick high school. part of spirit week here. [cheers] >> reporter: more than a homecoming game, this night was a celebration of a special classmate. [chanting] >> reporter: and a school spirit worth saluting. >> they saw a student in their cl