. >> corey and melissa's brother, william allen, is also serving time at the house of correction.s been sentenced for a year and a half for assault and battery. >> my sister said to me one day, it must be a family curse. it must be. i mean, hard time has fallen on us all. well, i had a white band and yellow band. these are symbolic to my family, my sister, and my brother, corey and lisa. i wear them to keep them close to my heart and let them know that i'm thinking about them every day. >> he loves his family. even if you're doing bad or doing good, he put his family first. >> they're the first thing on my mind when i wake up, and the last thing on my mind when i go to sleep at night. nobody failed. we just found 10,000 ways that didn't work. basically, that's all it is. it's just we're destined for greatness, but something is stopping us from reaching who we are. maybe we're here for a reason and we haven't missed our blessing. we haven't. >> all three allen siblings have battled drug and alcohol abuse. but the pain of addiction has been a source of inspiration for william, who w

. >> at 23 years old, john allen muhammad, then named john williams, meets mildred green. >> my impression of john was for the first time i met a man, because he said what he meant and he meant what he said. he was charming. he was a strong man. i knew i needed to be with him. we got married march 10th, 1988. i was feeling really good about my life with him. i knew that we would be together forever, i just knew that it would be a till death do us part. >> on the surface, john seems like the perfect husband. their family begins to grow. >> we promised each other, because neither one of us grew up with a father, that our children would have a mother and a father in the home and we would be there to raise them together. and he felt confident enough to take the test to go into active duty, ft. louis, washington, was his first station. >> in march of 1991 he was deployed to saudi arabia. though he spends less than a year abroad, the experience changes him forever. >> when i saw him, totally different man. he was reserved, quiet, small, sad. and when we got home, he just went and sat in a chair

. >>> a man who once thought about challenging george allen for a senate seat has decided to endorse him instead. prince williamounty board chairman corey stewart says allen is a leader who will restore fiscal sanity in washington. but that's a far different assessment than one he gave earlier this year. julie carey has more. s >> corey stewart hasn't shied away there controversial statements, but he's now changed his mind about the man he once called a mediocre senator. >> i hearby endorse and give my full support to governor george al for the united states senate in 2012. >>> it's a major political turn about, an effort to present a unified republican front just the week before voters cast ballots in important state legislative races. but earlier this year -- >> i think when it got to the senate, washington changed him more than he changed washington. i think his base has moved on. i think that he's got some political liabilities. >> and this is what stewart had to say about allen in late february after he decided to focus on seeking a second term as chairman rather than running for senate. >> it was the trut

. >>> allison and allen did call prince william police and they sent an officer over to investigate buthe police tell us there was no evidence of a crime and that both the woman who picked up the dog and the vet appeared to be doing what they thought was right for the dog. >>> you're planning on cooking a big thanksgiving dinner in the next couple weeks? if so you might want to get ready to shell out a few more bucks than you did last year for the turkey and all the trimming. 13% more this year than last year. a dinner for 10 will run about 49.20. now, the group says the jump is because of increased costs for everybody from the farmers down to the grocers. >> a lot of our local food banks are looking for all the trimmings for their folks and if you've got a couple of days left you can join in and help them out. they need food and other items like the ones you have been looking at us behind us for the past few weeks and we have teamed up with the boy scouts to make donating easy. last week they handed out more than 800,000 bags all across maryland and virginia and if you've got one fill

. >> reporter: winning prince william county is key to anyone seeking statewide office and allen says stewart's endorsement is critical. >> we're working together and it is really invigorate to go have cory executive art. >> reporter: allen is seeking the gop nomination against several challengers including this tea party leader. her assessment has not changed. she calls allen a terrible candidate for the republican party in 2012. tim kaine is the democrat's candidate. >> they've had a love-hate relationship. corey stewart has blamed george allen for the problems in washington. so this this is clearly a marriage of political convenience recognizing the importance of prince william county to statewide election. >> reporter: but the county could be equally important in the 2011 elections next week. four state senate races are close and their outcome could determine whether democrats keep control that chamber or whether republicans succeed in their bid to take over both the house and the senate. julie carey, news about 4. >>> democrats hold a four seat majority in the senate. republica r

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a success he was speaking ofw' as a presidential candidates.s allen recognize there was a big obstacle to his running for president. william jennings bryan who had been the democraticwood nominee for president and who woodrow had insulted publicly years before so she range to have a very intimate dinner with bright and and sure enough woodrow found that he liked brian and they spoke from the same platform after that.im she did as she had done beforeke continue to see mary as a family friend. woodrow began to traveler of the country making speeches following the progress very closely sending telegrams and at one. point* said stop saying you are not running for president and makes you foolish and he stopped. sure enough he became the democratic nominee in june of 1912 with the help of brian but that summer when the republicans held there convention, william howard taft was opposed by former president roosevelt taft won and roosevelt was so bitter that he formed a third party, the progressive for bull moose party and was seen as a bigger competitor to wilson and was so popular. one of roosevelt's adviserspopu said we managed

prince william, cory stewart has endorsed republican george allen in u.s. senate race.rt had been a george allen critic, calling him a mediocre senator, charging washington changed him more than he changed washington. last week stewart changed his tune. he retracted and now said allen had a good senate record. why the about-face and how important is this endorsement? >> well, it's very good. my indicating reports it's very, very good for allen. here's one of his chief critics getting on board. guy who wanted to run for the job himself and against him. now he's saying he's gone from mediocre to being my guy. so it's helpful to george allen. why did he change? he may have looked at the calculus and said he couldn't win. why muddy things up? let's let him have a free run if he has a shot at it. >> there's pressure on making this a gop block for virginia. but this whole thrust of republicanism in virginia and cory stewart of course, yes, he changed. but something tells me in the back of my thinking that he might be trying to position himself with some type of, say, job in t

fox in prince william county where a couple is grieving tonight at their dog was euthanized without their permission. >> we would have liked to have been there. >> reporter: the last time allenolmes saw his dog was when he took this picture. 15 minutes later she was gone. the next day they found her cremated remains at the fairfax county animal shelter. the dog has euthanized just a couple of hours after she had been missing. a woman thought she was a stray and brought her in. >> to give us no opportunity to claim this dog was horrifyingly wrong. i'm devastated by this. >> reporter: the vet found the dog had a number of health problems though still responsive and alert. >> she was a baby. she was just a little helpless dog. >> reporter: peggy fox, 9news now. >>> now to a story you saw first on 9 back in 2004. that's when we first showed you the conditions if he district world war i memorial along the national mall. >> it is a real outrage for the residents of the district of columbia who served disproportionately to become a second class memorial. >> seven years ago d.c. elegant eleanor holmes norton told us it had not been maintained in three decades. we saw the evidence wi

allen. good to have you. >>guest: folks fired up. i've been to the polls in prince williamrfax counties and i am optimistic that republicans will get a majority in the state nat and win a lot of local races, as well. >>neil: how many seats would it take? >>guest: two to tie, three to take out right control. what i am hearing from people, they are frustrated, and upset and worried about the future and they see this administration in washington, and president obama and his allies are putting our country in the wrong direction and today in virginia, where virginians i have heard from the coal fields, the energy to power america, president obama said no, to virginia in shoulding down our eastern seaboard and our coast from producing safe oil and natural gas and that, whether it is coal, oil, natural gas, those are good paying jobs and we keep our money and our country and he said yes to the state owned oil company of brazil and lending them $2 billion for them to explore off their coast. >>neil: do you think that is resonating with virginia and they ticked off and if the electi

williams and fenty reported private conversations between the city and the redskins about returning to play in washington at a new team stadium. mayor gray acknowledged that again but declined to offer statements about it. bruce allenedskins from tampa and praised the training facilities there. the city would make rfk and surrounding land available to the team which would be responsible for building any new facilities. no surprise, no one will comment on the story. the redskins haven't returned phone calls. >> was this official? if so, what did it cost taxpayers? >> i think it was official. they say they paid their own way down there. it was not on the record. the mayor said he had meetings and work at the wilson building. >> he doesn't like leaks, does he? >> he doesn't. he's furious this one leaked out. >> there you go again. >> we'll talk with him about it tomorrow. we'll be after him. >> thank you. >> we'll depend on that. >> maybe the redskins will win and people won't care whether they play or not. >> thank you tom sherwood. >>> coming up, more league trouble for the founder of wikileaks website. >>> a mother and son from germantown murdered. the man accused of the crime is here to face charges. >>> extensive

william police to investigate but filed no charges. it appears both the woman who picked up the dog and the vet were both doing what they thought to be the right thing. >> wow. >> but allen and allison really issue they had been there. this was their dog for 17 years. >> that's very, very heartbreaking situation. very sad. all right. let's go back to you in the newsroom. >> all right, derek. republican presidential candidate rick perry says this is not the day for quitting the race for the white house. danielle nottingham reports the texas governor is vowing to stay in the campaign despite a majorly embarrassing flub in last night's debate. >> sure it impacts you, but the fact is one error is not going to make or break a campaign. >> the republican white house hopeful spent the day on damage control after this embarrassing flub at wednesday's g.o.p. debate. >> it is three agents of government that are gone when i get there. commerce, education. and what's the third one there? commerce. and let's see. i can't. sorry. oops. >> reporter: perry was reaching for the department of energy. he is trying to slug off the laughs as a minor mistake. >> reporter: for now perry's brai