bruce leshan, 9news now. >> and a spokesperson for walter reid national military medical center saysatter is under investigation, so she could not comment on it. the good news is, kendall's cancer is in remission right now. >> that is the best news. a health alert tonight about a popular way people find relief from stuffy noses this time of year. the state of louisiana is issuing a warning about netty pots after two people died. people used tap water instead of the recommended distilled water to flush out their sinuses. they then became infected and died. louisiana's health department emphasizes that when used correctly, they are safe. 35 people are being warned to get checked out by a doctor after a student at the george washington university died of meningitis. that unidentified graduate student lived off campus and the student had the bacterial form of the disease. >>> good news and bad news on the government shutdown. the bad news is, congress is not going to get a deal done by tonight's deadline less than an hour away. the good news is, congress says that deadline really doesn't

in one short 15 minute dose, medical workers at walter reid allegedly pumped kendall with more medicine than she was supposed to get over the entire three weeks. >> i was telling her one thing and my heart was saying something else. and i was praying to god that he let me have more time with her. >> it can severely damage your heart muscles even years later. and children particularly vulnerable. >> lobster red color. it looked like she was burning from the inside out. >> over the next few weeks, kendall was back in the hospital repeatedly. >> she had no white blood cells. >> pain so severe, doctors prescribed morphine. >> she wouldn't let me touch her. >> walter reid's pharmacy chief apologized for the error, but kendall's mom says no one has ever explained to her how it could happen. how the hospital will keep it from happening again, or how the military medical system could once again fail the troops. >> he was in iraq for three tours and that is his daughter. so how you treat her is how you are treating him. >> they have filed a claim through military channels, hoping if the worst ha

bruce leshan, 9news now. >> a spokesperson for walter reid national military medical center says this matter is under investigation. so she could not comment on it specifically. here is good news. kendall's cancer is in remission right now. >>> a new york city man has now surrendered after a horrifying crime over the weekend. a woman set on fire in an elevator in brooklyn and it was caught on tape. you see the man with the container of flammable liquid. what you can't see is his helpless victim. a beloved tenant who was burned alive. neighbor heard her screaming. >> i smell smoke. i go back outside. i see smoke pouring out of the elevator. go back in my apartment and call 911. myself and someone on the 6th floor was knocking on doors, telling people there's a fire, get out, get out. >> investigators say the 47- year-old suspect reeked of gasoline when he turned himself in. the 73-year-old victim hired him for odd jobs. she fired him after he allegedly stole from him. >> from one awful caught on tape story to another scary one. a run away stadium cart injures several people after a hig

taking the driver on a wild ride. 23-year-old andrew roberts is the serviceman who live d at th walter reid medical facility. he and a female companion carjacked the taxi driver. they hit another car then got out and went shopping at a target in rockville. surveillance camera helps police find him. he's charged with carjacking, kidnapping and theft. >>> tougher penalties for people who take part in flash mob robberies. teens and young adults break into a store, grab a bunch of items and leave without paying. chris gordon has more. >> reporter: this 7-eleven caught it the night of august 13th. the only clerk on duty watched helplessly. all kinds of snacks and beverages were grabbed and gone. they are concerned it could lead to violence. >> there's no guarantee if he had a gun to try to defend the property. there's no guarantee one of the other kids wouldn't have had a gun or knife. that would have created a huge problem. >> reporter: it happened november 19th. a flash mob robbery in silver spring. some thought a county curfew was needed. that ran into strong opposition. legislation is being

who was fired because of the iraq war, fired a couple of guys over the walter reid scandal?o generals or civilians were ever held accountable for what was possibly the greatest foreign policy disas it every all time so i think keep taking care of the vets but hold the folks in d.c. accountable for their decisions. >> yeah, and that's a critical distinction that we got backwards out of vietnam, holding soldiers to account for policy. we now have an opportunity to help our soldiers heal and welcome you home and listen to you, hear your stories. i would love to hear your stories and ultimately then turn our attention appropriately at the policy making body. john, once again welcome home. matt, it's a pleasure. this conversation is one we'll be continuing for a long time to come, i'm afraid. matt and john. coming up here on "the d.r. show," all we want is a congress that works. new poll slapping the title with the worst congress ever. and they are living up to it yet again today. >>> plus, the sheriff of wall street is in town, ladies and gentlemen. eliot spitzer on the ominous

why didn't the military who are aware of captain hussain silent walter reid passed that information on to the brass at fort hood? where was the disconnect? let me quickly add two other questions so you can quickly ask them. i'm concerned about targets and i know that she may refer to some of these, but the ranking member in the transportation security kameny see our soldiers traveling in airport, train stations, bus stations. some soldiers will come home in their uniform and go into neighborhoods and corners around the nation. what if we become to do to already address the potential of soft target and soldiers who are walking alone in various places in america? and on the idea of databases, one of the recommendations of the independent review is sharing databases. may i yield to you to answer at least two of those questions? >> man, i would like to answer your first question that the activities of major exxon while they were not reported to army leaders. prior to the four-inch advances have express an earlier comment of chairman king, we did not have the right he gave zero indicators a

. >> walter reid in-patient, and i'm in the outpatient housing for all the outpatients here, and i'veugh the normal progression of the prosthetics. i returned to a since of normalcy, but i don't think i will be completely normal until i'm out of the hospital, get a job, and i put all of this behind me. i have an internship with the fbi in the works. once i get discharged, hopefully i'll get a job offer, and ideally, i will be able to become a special agent after getting myself in shape passing physical fitness tests. >> still taking it to the bad guys even though i don't have legs anymore. at the end of the year, i'm attempting a cross country bike trip, and hopefully i'll will able to do that. ♪ ♪ i would like to get into maybe a para olympic sport, maybe rowing, maybe the biathalon. ♪ ♪ >> had to start with the baseline of having a great attitude and just having a solid attitude to start from, but now that all my friends and all my family have seen me with that great attitude, i can't do anything. i can't change that because it would let them down, and every time i ever start to fee

republican congressman tom reid says many of the reasons districts in his state have not been hiring is because of drug abuse. and the vice president and dr. jill biden visited walterare on the ballot there. a huge blow to newt gingrich, who lives in virginia. and he were's what he said outside christmas mass on -- yesterday. >> it was our fault. we hope to larchunch a write-in campaign. we believe virginians ought to have the right to choose and shouldn't be restricted to two people. >> as i understand, the code prohibits that in the primary. z >> it's time for them to change it. >> larry, you know virginia better than anyone here. is there any way that gingrich can challenge this? >> absolutely none. you know, emergency legislation theoretically could be passed by the general assembly which begins meeting in early january and you need an extraordinary marnlts of both houses to pass emergency legislation which would then have to be signed by the government. but practically speaking, no, there's nothing he can do. he was a resident in virginia, voted in virginia for some time. i checked. we haven't had write-in votes in the primaries at least since the 1960s. anyon