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much like maureen last night -- game today. much like maureen last night and the amir kahn fight. we will show you two key plays that maybe the refs didn't do the redskins any favors. >> the crowd is still enthusiastic even with the poor record. the crowd is still with the team, so one bright spot. >> i will say this. there were some decent. patriot fans today at fedex field. i saw a lot of no. 12 tom brady jerseys. i did. i wasn't saying anything because of what you said. i really did. >>> moving on. a scary story with a shark, this australian surfer and how he's one of the luckiest guys around coming up next. [ female a announcer ]cú at verizonfios.com, you can choose your channel package. ♪ you can choose your own internet speeds. ♪ you can even choose to chat with a live person. ♪ now you can choose to save $35 a month for fios tv, internet and phone for just $79.99 a month, plus get a $300 verizon visa prepaid card with a 2 year agreement. but hurry, offer ends soon only at verizonfios.com. contact the verizon center for customers with disabilities at 800-974-6006 tty
much like maureen last night -- game today. much like maureen last night and the amir kahn fight. we will show you two key plays that maybe the refs didn't do the redskins any favors. >> the crowd is still enthusiastic even with the poor record. the crowd is still with the team, so one bright spot. >> i will say this. there were some decent. patriot fans today at fedex field. i saw a lot of no. 12 tom brady jerseys. i did. i wasn't saying anything because of what you said. i really...
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maureen? >> audrey, thank you. >>> another confrontation police police and occupy protestors, this time in portland, oregon. officers arrested several people after they set up tents in a park and vowed to stay through the winter. an occupy camp had been cleared out three weeks ago after the city order was issued. >>> in denver, demonstrators there slept in snow. lawyers for some of the protestors are fearing up for court fight over what they say is illegal suppression of the demonstrations. they'll ask a judge tomorrow to make police stop harassing protestors and giving tickets to drivers who honk in support. the city attorneys say there are no supporting facts in the lawsuit and the city has done nothing illegal. >>> search will resume tomorrow for a sanitation worker who disappeared friday night. he went out to retrieve a dead deer friday afternoon. his boat returned with the deer inside, but duckett was nowhere to be found. crews from several agencies have been searching the area since frid
maureen? >> audrey, thank you. >>> another confrontation police police and occupy protestors, this time in portland, oregon. officers arrested several people after they set up tents in a park and vowed to stay through the winter. an occupy camp had been cleared out three weeks ago after the city order was issued. >>> in denver, demonstrators there slept in snow. lawyers for some of the protestors are fearing up for court fight over what they say is illegal suppression of...
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fox 5's maureen umeh has the story. >> reporter: montgomery county police officer marvin walker isn't used to a lot of attention. , but when you're being hailed as a hero -- >> i've heard it plenty of times today. >> reporter: -- it's no surprise when lots of calls come pouring in. >> i'm a humble person. >> reporter: it was a call that led to walker's heroism. it came after 2 p.m. friday afternoon from a frantic mother at a silver spring home. >> a lady said she went to wake up her 19-month-old daughter from a nap and she was unresponsive, not breathing, not moving and was blue around the face. >> reporter: when officer walker arrived, he said the mother led him to a back bedroom where he found the baby girl lying on her back. he knew right away had he to act fast to save her life. >> tried to saying this her a little, no response. immediately i just went to life saving mode, started cpr on the child, made sure she wasn't choking and compressions and rescue breathing. >> reporter: the life saving cpr measures went on for what might have been five minutes but he says it felt like fore
fox 5's maureen umeh has the story. >> reporter: montgomery county police officer marvin walker isn't used to a lot of attention. , but when you're being hailed as a hero -- >> i've heard it plenty of times today. >> reporter: -- it's no surprise when lots of calls come pouring in. >> i'm a humble person. >> reporter: it was a call that led to walker's heroism. it came after 2 p.m. friday afternoon from a frantic mother at a silver spring home. >> a lady said...
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fox 5's maureen umeh has the story from prince william county. reporter: police are calling this one of the biggest prescription drug busts they've ever had. they say the accused doctor was putting out thousands and thousands of pills on the streets weekly to an untold number of addicts. a disgraced dr. alex yadao led away in handcuffs from his triangle virginia office thursday night. prince william county police arrested the 73-year-old charging him in an illegal prescription drug bust. neighbors who noticed an unusually high amount of activity tipped off police. eva buffalo lives across the street from the doctor's office. she says she knew something wasn't right. >> every day i mean and i don't know. like it was on doctor's day they'd line up. the cars would line up. i mean the lines were like -- nuisance. reporter: police say yadao had been selling oxycontin, morphine and other pain medication to patients without a medical reason. it had gone on for years. the transactions were done in cash without insurance claims. a search warrant at the do
fox 5's maureen umeh has the story from prince william county. reporter: police are calling this one of the biggest prescription drug busts they've ever had. they say the accused doctor was putting out thousands and thousands of pills on the streets weekly to an untold number of addicts. a disgraced dr. alex yadao led away in handcuffs from his triangle virginia office thursday night. prince william county police arrested the 73-year-old charging him in an illegal prescription drug bust....
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fox 5's maureen umeh has their story. >> reporter: it's not just a day of styling for these girls at bella bethesda salon. >> you guys scared? >> yeah. >> no. >> reporter: every brush, bundle and snip. >> this is her hair. >> reporter: is making the difference. >> oh, my goodness. >> they were cutting my hair and i was thinking about miss truax while the like time. >> reporter: kate truax is the girls beloved literature teacher at our lady of lourdes catholic school in bethesda. >> she's more than a teacher. she's like a best friend who you can go for help with homework. she's really. >> reporter: truax has been in a battle against cancer and lost her hair but never lost her faith or fight. now 25 of her girls are cutting off at least 10 inches of their hair in support and donating it to locks of love in truax's honor. >> i feel like it's from truax because she has no hair. i feel like cutting off a lot of my hair isn't going to affect my life that much. it's going to be a change. >> their hair will go to girls who are 18 and under who are in chemo. so that was so much more important
fox 5's maureen umeh has their story. >> reporter: it's not just a day of styling for these girls at bella bethesda salon. >> you guys scared? >> yeah. >> no. >> reporter: every brush, bundle and snip. >> this is her hair. >> reporter: is making the difference. >> oh, my goodness. >> they were cutting my hair and i was thinking about miss truax while the like time. >> reporter: kate truax is the girls beloved literature teacher at our...
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. >> i'm maureen umeh. the family of a disabled man said he got on an amtrak train in union station 10 days ago heading home to alabama, but never made it and no one has seen him since. roz plater is in the newsroom with more. >> this family learned two new clues, one from a virginia woman on that train, the other from a charlotte detective, but they don't know where he is and it's frustrating. mitchell malik smith is blind, has been missing for 10 days now and his family is plenty worried. >> not knowing anything, you want to know where, what, if he's okay and as i say, that's what's so surprising to me. if he is okay, why hasn't he called? reporter: relatives say they dropped him off at union station the evening of december 16th. he had a ticket to birmingham, a route he'd taken many times before. they turned him over to amtrak red caps who usually escort him to the train. >> in order for him to get on the train, he has to have assistance. for him to get off the train, he has to have assistance and we ass
. >> i'm maureen umeh. the family of a disabled man said he got on an amtrak train in union station 10 days ago heading home to alabama, but never made it and no one has seen him since. roz plater is in the newsroom with more. >> this family learned two new clues, one from a virginia woman on that train, the other from a charlotte detective, but they don't know where he is and it's frustrating. mitchell malik smith is blind, has been missing for 10 days now and his family is plenty...
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. >> maureen umeh tonight. thousands of people gathered at the drill field on virginia tech catch us tonight for a candle light -- campus tonight for a candlelight vigil there to remember officer crouse and his family. students said they appreciated his sacrifice. >>> the hunt is on in baltimore for the person who shot and killed a 22-year-old morgan state university student. brandon hudson is originally from clinton, maryland, and was found dead in his apartment in the charles village section of baltimore last night. he was a senior at morgan state majoring in business. police there say there was no sign of forced entry, so hudson may have known his killer. his friends say they're stunned. >> he was a lively person. he's one if you were having a bad day, he's bound to say something that lifted your spirits. he was full of positive energy. he never was that type of person to want to put somebody down. he was always about everybody is big enough, everybody else trying to progress and do positive things in life.
. >> maureen umeh tonight. thousands of people gathered at the drill field on virginia tech catch us tonight for a candle light -- campus tonight for a candlelight vigil there to remember officer crouse and his family. students said they appreciated his sacrifice. >>> the hunt is on in baltimore for the person who shot and killed a 22-year-old morgan state university student. brandon hudson is originally from clinton, maryland, and was found dead in his apartment in the charles...
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. >> i'm maureen umeh. off of the top tonight, chevy chase police want to catch a thief who have chosen the holiest of places to steal from. >> he's targeting churches. at one, it was caught on camera. audrey barnes has a closer look at the crimes and the videotape. >> reporter: while parents were dropping off their children for preschool outside of the all saints church on friday morning, surveillance cameras captured pictures of this man prowling around inside looking for things to steal in desk drawers and purses. >> there is ultimately -- he stole cash and a metro fair card from purses belonging to two employees of the preschool. >> reporter: the chevy chase police said the man got into the building after requesting information about the priest school. a ruse he used at other churches on the same day. >> his routine seems to be gaping the confidence by going to the place under the ruse that he's a parent and allowed in at a busy time of the day and uses their distraction to take things. >> reporter: the
. >> i'm maureen umeh. off of the top tonight, chevy chase police want to catch a thief who have chosen the holiest of places to steal from. >> he's targeting churches. at one, it was caught on camera. audrey barnes has a closer look at the crimes and the videotape. >> reporter: while parents were dropping off their children for preschool outside of the all saints church on friday morning, surveillance cameras captured pictures of this man prowling around inside looking for...
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i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm shawn yancy. fox 5's wisdom martin is working the story for us tonight. >> the judge ordered the lead -- awarded the lead attorney $62,000 for more than 1,500 hours worth of work on this case at $420 per hour. five other attorneys were also compensated in the case. that may sound like a lot of money, but it's only a fraction of what heller's team is looking for. for years gun rights advocate dick heller has been in and out of court fighting d.c. gun laws. so when the courts decided his attorneys would only get $1 million in legal fees, he said he was surprised. >> that takes nothing into consideration for the heart, muscle and man hours and the stress and trauma and drama that the whole legal team, the bill of rights foundation and the heller foundation went through. reporter: in 2003 heller sued the district over its ban on handgun ownership. the u.s. supreme court overturned the ban in 2008 saying it violated the second amendment. heller's attorneys wanted the city to pay more than $3 million in
i'm maureen umeh. >> and i'm shawn yancy. fox 5's wisdom martin is working the story for us tonight. >> the judge ordered the lead -- awarded the lead attorney $62,000 for more than 1,500 hours worth of work on this case at $420 per hour. five other attorneys were also compensated in the case. that may sound like a lot of money, but it's only a fraction of what heller's team is looking for. for years gun rights advocate dick heller has been in and out of court fighting d.c. gun...
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hyattsville, maureen umeh, fox 5 news. >>> tonight he is out of jail and going before a tv camera. gary giordano, the gaithersburg man suspected in the disappearance of a local woman in aruba, is talking for the first time since being released from jail. fox 5's laura evans is here with the story. >> aruban authorities still consider giordano the prime suspect in the disappearance and presumed death of robyn gardner. he says that she was swept to sea while they were pork ling in august. her body was not -- snorkeling in august. her body was never found, but he demanded today on good morning america that he had nothing to do with her disappear. with his attorney jose baez by his side and his three sons behind him gary giordano spoke out for the first time since his release tuesday from an aruban jail. the 50-year-old employment services company owner from gaithersburg was at times defiant in his answers saying he had nothing to do with gardner's disappearance. throughout the 11 minute interview he tried to explain actions some called suspicious including why he took out a $1.5 milli
hyattsville, maureen umeh, fox 5 news. >>> tonight he is out of jail and going before a tv camera. gary giordano, the gaithersburg man suspected in the disappearance of a local woman in aruba, is talking for the first time since being released from jail. fox 5's laura evans is here with the story. >> aruban authorities still consider giordano the prime suspect in the disappearance and presumed death of robyn gardner. he says that she was swept to sea while they were pork ling in...