william o'brien did died 10 days after that incident, according to a medical examiner, the official causef death was blunt force trauma to the head. any questions today about blood thinning medication that o'brien was taking at the time of his death. court resumes in this case tomorrow morning. let's take a look at today's top stories. phyllis transit partners failed areas forf the 20 completion. >> the pentagon is proposing major cuts in the defense budget to save money. chuck hagel is proposing cutting army forces to their lowest level since before world war ii. the odd -- armies already set agile disregard of 490,000 active-duty members. companies target and neiman marcus are still in talks about the data breaches. what our colder is now asking congress -- eric holder is now asking congress. >> even to this day there are target customers that are just now finding out that their credit cards were hacked while they were shopping at target showers -- stores during the holidays. the attorney general made a major push today, asking lawmakers to create a system that would instantly alert cus

leo the catholic church refused comment after the verdict, and so did the family of william o'brien who died as a result of the rage road attack. >> reporter: the jurors decided that what happened between the two was an assault, but not an assault and battery. it cost the 63-year-old o'brien his life. the trouble between the two men last april 16th began as they drove down picket road, and cena says that o'brien was constantly honking at him, and this surveillance video on the washington post website shows what happened next. cena followed o'brien into the mall parking lot saying that he wanted to yell at him, and the scuffle was brief with both men landing a punch. they broke it up. but then o'brien called 911 saying that his head was going to explode and he h died ten days later. and they said that cena's decision to go after o'brien made him guilty of assault and battery. he is going to confront him, and look fo looking for the fight. but the attorney for him said that her client was only acting in self-defense and wanted to vent, and o'brien gave the first p punch. the attorney says

lee sana testified it was righteous indignation not road rage that led him to go after william o'briena told police that o'brien through the first punch and sana hit back in self-defense. o'brien died ten days later. sana said he followed o'brien to the parking lot because o'brien was honking at him. >>> today a judge is set to come up with a retrial date after a key witness recanted his testimony. justin wolfe was convicted for the 2001 murder for hire of a drug supplier. wolfe remains in prison. >>> 4:29 now. we'll learn if d.c. voters will decide if it is legal to have small amounts of marijuana in the district. the d.c. bureau of elections will look at the issue to put on november's ballot. the proposal would break a federal law to ban the district from offering public housing to anyone charged with marijuana offenses. >>> if you have an outstanding warrant in the state of maryland, you may not get your tax return. that's what the state comptroller has expanded statewide. a pilot plan is operating in anne arundel county. today sheriffs across the state will push lawmakers to expand

surveillance video shows lee sena's confrontation with william o'brien in a parking lot last april. sena admitted to following o'brien there because o'brien had been honking his horn at him. sena punched the 63-year-old who died ten days later from blunt force trauma to the head. during an interrogation, sena said o'brien threw the first punch. >>> tonight police are hoping a key witness will come forward after a deadly shooting in woodbridge over the weekend. three men stormed into a grocery jewelry store on friday night and killed the cashier. the victim 21-year-old glenda marisol cocoromera. she moved here from el salvador and just had a baby girl. detectives were able to talk to a customer who was able to hide under the counter during the shooting. the gunman did not make off with any money. >>> tonight there are new concerns about slow response times from d.c. firefighters and emergency dispatchers. this after several high profile cases. wendy reiger is at our live desk with more. wendy? >> reporter: well, in testimony that lasted into this evening, families blasted d.c. fire a

lee cena took the stand and said he was protecting himself when he punched 63-year-old william o'brienn a parking lot. cena says he got angry at o'brien when he repeatedly honked at him as they drove down picket road. and it is cena saying that o'brien threw the first punch. they scuffle d and then parted. hours later, he calle ed for he and died later of injuries. >>> and reed was a school superintendent in the western part p of new york, and a town called climber which happened back in 2012. taglianetti drove there to shoot reed after he discovered that reed and his wife had rekindled a former relationship online. >>> a developing story now involving problems with metro silver line. first broke the story about the delays with the dulles metro project, and now we are learning about specific problems to push the opening back another month. news4 transportation report, adam tuss is in herndon with the latest. adam? >> hey, jim. actually, it could be pushed back more than a month. a month could be an optimistic figure at this point, and we got out of the meeting with silver line leaders

cena punched the victim, 63-year-old william o'brien after he was honking at him. o'brien died ten days later of a head injury. cena is facing up to a year in jail. >>> tonight a new nbc4 poll shows d.c. mayor vincent gray leading in the april 1 democratic primary. the results show he is benefitting from a crowded field of candidates. but he remains vulnerable because of if lingering 2010 campaign scandal. tom sherwood breaks down the findings. >> thank you very much. i appreciate it. >>> first elected in 2010, mayor gray decided only in december to seek reelection. the new maris poll for nbc4 and media partners, wmau radio and the washington informer shows the head to head race this way now. gray has 28% followed by ward 4 councilmember muriel bowser in striking distance at 20%. 13% forward 2 councilmember jack evans. 12% forward 6 councilmember tommy wells, and 12% undecided. all of the other candidates trail in single digits, far behind the leaders. for mayor gray, however, his apparent lead is clouded. the poll shows two-thirds of democrats say it's time to ele

testified it was righteous indignation that led to him to follow william o'brien. the former sunday school teacher said he followed o'brien, because he had been honking at him. surveillance video shows the two fighting last april. o'brien threw the first punch, he says. and o'brien died three days later. >>> a mother was killed almost 24 hours ago now. she was reaching into her minivan in front of knottingham elementary school when a dump truck hit her vehicle and she was killed. news 4 spoke to some drivers who said little falls road can be difficult to drive because it's so narrow and cars park on both sides of it. drivers want to know what will be done to make the roadway safer. >> definitely speed bumps or something to help people slow down because, yeah, you never know what can happen here. i've seen it at the busy times at the end of school. there's a lot of people walking back and forth. there needs to be something to slow people down a little bit. >> the dump truck driver stayed on the scene and is cooperating with police. police are looking into whether or

he admitted to following 63-year-old william o'brien into a mall parking lot last april say saying hengry because o'briened ha been honking his horn at him, and then cena punched o'brien, and he later died ten days later, but then cena says that he threw the first punch. we will have more on cena in a live report at 5:00. >>> it is a technology that is supposed to keep you safe, but as the i-team reports, there is concern that the pharmacy robots could make mistakes worse. tisha thompson has the warning. >> reporter: next time you go to the pharmacy, peek behind the counter, and there is a machine tucked behind the counter, and that is a pharmacy robot, but we will show you how that one machine can compound one mistake into another. this is the board of torard pre the board of pharmacy. in this sales from a prominent robot maker, you can see how the technician types it into the computer, and the robotic arm places the pills into the bottle and then stamps them. >> i think that can helped with the dispensing, and the error rate is significantly lower if you have technicians or pharmaci

assault, but not battery in the deadly road rage incident that led to the death of 63-year-old william o'brien. that is the jury's decision after four hours of deliberations in the case. c cena's attorney argued that he only wanted to gyell at him aftr he followed him into a parking lot as he had been constantly pa honking at him down the bridge road. this is the brief scuffle here on video when he followed him into the parking lot and k confronted him, but he says that o'brien threw the first punch, and he then punched back. now the two separated after witnesses told them to break it up. but two hours later when o'brien got home, he called 911 complaining to his head was about to the explode. and when the emergency crews got to the house, he was unresponsive and died ten years later. we heard the medical examiner say on the stand yesterday that he died after complications of blunt force trauma. cena's attorneys said it is a tragedy, but not a crime, and that mr. cena acted in self-defense. but the jury seeing it differently finding him guilty of assault for causing fear to mr. o'brien, but no

facing misdemeanor assault and battery charges after getting into this fistfight with 63-year-old william o'brienbecause cena said o'brien honked at him too many times. prosecutors say the fight resulted in o'brien's death. >> i wanted to yell at him, okay, and vent. and he attacked me. >> reporter: the fight lasted less than one minute and both parties walked away, but hours later o'brien called 911 telling the dispatcher, quote, i have a headache that is about to make my head blow off. then ten days later o'brien, a father of two, died from a brain injury made worse by a blood-thinning medication he had been taking. cena was arrested after o'brien died. >> he was brought back to the station, interviewed and subsequently charged. >> reporter: this recently released video of his interrogation is shedding new light on the confrontation, showing the moment cena, a former sunday school teacher, first learns o'brien has been hospitalized because of the fight. >> from me hitting him? >> yes. >> you're kidding me. >> reporter: cena admits following o'brien into the parking lot but says it was only to c

arm of prince george's county firefighter william alexander after it was severed in an accident on the beltway. while we don't know what sort of treatment o'brien is looking for, we do know worldwide 85 people received upper limb transplants. so it could happen for him. >>> attorney general eric holder is out of the hospital tonight after he experienced faintness and shortness of breath this morning. they rushed him to medstar washington lot center as a precaution. holder said he started feeling faint during a staff meeting this morning. never lost consciousness and was just joke -- he never lost consciousness and was joking with the paramedics on the way to the hospital. >>> more now on the remarkable life of a 91-year-old holocaust survive killed yesterday trying to cross 11 lanes of traffic on columbia pike in silver spring. scott broom is at that intersection by columbia pike and tech road tonight where elijah meranski was hit by a school bus. >> reporter: it is remarkable, a 91-year-old man trying to cross 11 lanes of traffic here. elijah meranski is a survivor of the nazi invasion of poland, imimmigranted to israeli and he died here tryin

the former sunday schoolteacher testified it was righteous indignation that led him to confront william o'brien in the fairfax parking lot last april. surveillance video obtained by "the washington post" shows the two fighting. sana told police o'brien through the first punch and sana hit back in self-defense. o'brien died ten days later. he told police he followed o'brien because he was honking at him. >>> also the d.c. board of elections could decide if voters have a say in whether marijuana is legal in the district. the board is considering an initiative to make it legal to carry as much as 2 ounces of pot. supporters want to put that on november's ballot. this is different than a bill the d.c. council is considering to decriminalize small amounts of marijuana. >>> 5:15 now. right now the manhunt is underway for the ousted president of the nt train ride, too, right? >> that wouldn't hurt >>> 5:21. time for weather and traffic on the ones. a live look outside right now, a cold start to your day. and, man, winter will not go away. tom? >> yeah, winter doesn't want to give it up. chuck bell is

lee sana says he followed william o'brien to a parking lot to yell at him for honking at him. surveillance video obtained by "the washington post" shows the two fighting last april. sana said o'brien threw the first punch and he hit back in self-defense. o'brien died ten days later. >>> arlington neighbors are pushing to make a road safer after a mother of three was killed there. this was generjennifer lawson. yesterday she was reaching into her minivan when a dump truck slammed into her. she was waiting for her son at the elementary school when this happened. the road is narrow and cars park on either side making it difficult to drive. now drivers want to know what will be done to make the roadway safer. >> definitely speed bumps to help people slow down, because yeah, you never know what can happen here. i've seen it at the busy time at the end of school with a lot of people walking back and forth. so there needs to be something to slow people down a bit. >> the tow truck driver stayed on the scene and is cooperating with speed. >>> d.c. voters will decide if it's legal to h