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>> let's join news 4 for a look at how it's all going. john? >> thank you so much. we're here on 11th and eighth street. take a look at this intersection behind me. this is actually one of the worst areas we have found all day. we actually left the station a few hours ago on nebraska avenue near american university. we decided to take massachusetts avenue all the way down, and we didn't run into one bit of traffic at all. we passed through thomas circle. it looked like it was a weekend day. it was nice. you see the traffic cops are out here. they're directing traffic and making sure traffic continues to move smoothly. now, on the time we see a bit of problems is when parts of 11th street gets blocked off. but it's not long. about 10 to 15 minutes as delegates pass through this area smoothly. . but many many people are happy with what's going on. >> how is traffic today? >> very good. for all these people. >> what were you expecting snud. >> i was expecting not to be able to get to work as quickly as i could. >> what did you see this morning? >> it was actually pretty good. i got to work on time. >> as you can see, they're blocking everything off. we don't even know where to catch our buses. it's just chaos everywhere. >> one woman is calling the situation chaotic. if one of your routes is delayed or rerouted, check it out on our website. we have details on the area and how you can get home nice and smoothly. >> that sounds good. thank you, john. >> metro transit has also been impacted by the summit. for security purpose, the mount vernon square metro station is now closed, and as john mentioned, 13 metro bus routes are being detourd. both the train stop and the buses are expected to get back to normal by wednesday morning. many folks prepared for all the closures. some even ventured into downtown just for fun today. >> we were just right in front of the white house. and they started to shut down pennsylvania avenue because of the nuclear summit. we saw the motorcade come through when we were playing frisbee. they had us push back, then when we tried to walk over to this area around the verizon center, we had to take a different route. we had a little idea of our way around the city, but i would rather let the people on the metro get us there. they know a little bit better than we do. >> metro is encouraging riders to add plenty of extra times to their commutes. right now in washington, president obama is greeting leaders from the world delegations who are here for the nuclear summit. these are live pictures. the leaders will be strategizing on ways to keep nuclear arms out of the hands of terrorists. stay with news 4 for continuing coverage of the nuclear summit and its impacts. we'll have much more on the summit ahead on news 4 at 6:00 tonight. and online at nbc washington.com. a 12-year-old is facing weapons charges tonight after police say he brought a handgun to school today. he's a student in dumfries. police say he carried it on to the bus after showing it to other students at his bus stop this morning. they say when he got off the bus at the school, he pulled the gun from his pocket and point the it to his head. a teacher confiscated the gun and the boy was taken into custody by police. we'll have more on the heroic acts of that teacher in a live report in our next half-hour. a school bus crash in d.c. sent five people to the hospital including two children. it happened around 9:30 this morning. the 15-passenger bus collided with three other cars. no one was seriously hurt. police are investigating the accident and to find the cause of it as well. a key witness took the stand today inside d.c. superior court in the case of a deadly shooting in the case of a northeast d.c. woman. police say a man shot her after she and her mother refused to cook him a hamburger. . >> reporter: jim, it's in the hands of the jury now, this case of murder. the victim, an 18-year-old young woman. the key witness is 9 years old. the motive -- a hamburger. for the family a strong of sorrowful days as they follow this murder case here in superior court. will it be hard to go to the courtroom every day? >> it is. it is. >> reporter: do you think about her every day? >> every day. i look at her picture every day. >> reporter: to understand the law, you have to learn a little bit about the victim. she just graduated from high school. she had dreams of opening her own art gallery. she was a member of the book club. she averaged about a book a day. >> as a matter of fact, she read to me her final exam paper for her english class and it was on the subject of "soupman" the book by ntichze, and she got an a on her paper. >> you have to understand the motive for this murder -- a hamburger. they say she was sitting outside her mother's house on the stoop eating a hamburger. a guy comes by and says give me that hamburger. she said no, my mother made this hamburger for me. the guy said go tell your mother to make a hamburger for me. she calls for her mother. her mother comes outside and says i don't fix food for people i don't know. the guy curses and walks away. but he comes back with a gun, he opens fire through the door and one of those bullets, one of those bullets kills staten. >> he made a dumb decision out of anger and it cost my sister her life. and it could have also cost my mother her life. >> reporter: to understand the courage in this case, you have to understand the government's key witness. a 9-year-old boy who was here on his bicycle on the day it happened. he says he knows the shooter. that he saw that gun, that he saw the shots fired into is that house, and he told that story to the police, and he told that story to a jury in superior court. that 9-year-old star witness is in therapy today. they say he still has nightmares about what he saw that day. the man charged in this case, 20-year-old terrence jones. his defense -- the 9-year-old is mistaken. he says the police arrested the young man. jim, back to you. >> thank you, pat. barbar barbara. >> we have new details today in the murder of a mother and her 3-year-old in a high rise. news 4 as learned the suspect, 4-year-old simon asfeha previously violated a stay-away order by the court. he was arrested in 2007 for violating the protection order e, but the victim, 27-year-old seble tessema asked for the charge to be dropped saying the two have reconciled. there are other incidents since then and the protection order was still in effect when tessema and her daughter we are killed. asfeha is the father of the child. >> it's always troubling anytime anyone is killed, but the fact that a very young innocent child lost their life is doubly tragic. and so certainly we're going to do everything we can. we're going to spare no resource and leave no stone unturned to bring justice. >> asfeha is facing first degree murder charges. good afternoon. good evening. veronica johnson here in the storm center 4 where our april of warmth continues. yes, temperatures this morning started out in the 50s across a good part of the area from 46 degrees. that was one of the cool spots in haymarket and manslaughter. -- manassas. we've had very few clouds across the area. some high clouds across southern maryland. weather front south of the area, we've had a nearly wind. still plenty of dry air across the area, but this front will move back to the north as a -- as a weather front that's going to be bringing us not only some cloud tomorrow, but also some showers. so these numbers today, low to mid 70s. we're going to be cooling back down to the 50s tomorrow and it's going to be only the second day this month with highs running below average. down to the 50s certainly tonight with more clouds moving in. sunset today at 7:42. more clouds coming in during the overnight. some clouds lowering and continuing to thicken. we've got rain arriving around lunchtime tomorrow. we'll have a look at the seven-day forecast in just a few minutes. back to you. >> thank you. when we come right back, much more ahead. a woman caught in racing waters. we'll take you to the rescue mission. >> plus, find out who brought pepper spray and tear gas to a college block party. >> i'm liz crenshaw. a new federal rule is changing how home renovations are done because of lead paint. wh you need to know when hiring help. my story is co the citizens of poland are in mourning after their president was killed in a plane crash over the week. all night candles burned outside the polish palace for president lech kaczynski. he died along with 95 others when his plane crashed on saturday in western russia. some of the country's top military commanders and economists were also onboard that plane. the president's coffin is expected to be on display to the public tomorrow. president obama ordered flags to fly at half staff in honor of the victims of the mine explosion in west virginia. flags will remain lored until sunday. >> the liberty bell just rang 29 times. >> reporter: the pause marks the time one week ago an explosion killed 29 workers at the upper big branch mine. and governor joe manchin led a wreath laying ceremony in charleston at the capitol. the sad work of recovering bodies continued as federal investigators began their probe into the worst u.s. coal mining accident since 1970. hilly clin rp ton's name came up today as a possible successor for retiring supreme court justice john paul stevens. her name was floated by orrin hatch, the former chairman of the senate judiciary committee. hatch said hes clinton but would not say if he would vote for her. the actual nomination is expected to be weeks away now. time is running out if you don't want a u.s. census taker to come knocking on your door next month, you better get in your form this week. as of today, about a third of households across the country have not returned the ten-question form. most of the people who haven't responded live in big cities and rural areas. >> we would love to avoid sending census takers to large numbers of households around the country. and the easiest ways for those of you who have a form sitting in your house to avoid that is to fill out the form and mail it back. >> the census forms have to be postmarked by friday. some 600,000 census takers will start visiting homes nationwide may 1. >> we're not going to have foom bumps in our work week here in terms of the weather. showers coming tomorrow. that will help get rid of pollen that's out there. let's take a look at current temperature right now. we have highs today, low to mid 70s. 72 degrees wind out of the north. the air dry, relative humidity. we're going to see the dew point temperature go up. moisture in the air and hopefully some rain showers that are going to take down the pollen count. lots of that green, yellowish stuff just covering our vehicles, cars, our decks. everything. and it doesn't take long to be outside. before long, my camera was covered with pollen. what is the pollen count? it was over 4,000. now it's come down from that, but it's still in the high range today at 1486. the big offenders, oak, mulberry, and pine. here's that gorgeous sky, hollywood, maryland. temperature at 69 degrees where those sports right near the water, easterly wind have been a little on the cooler side. richmond is currently at 75 degrees. mostly clear skies across the area. now early this morning we did have a few high clouds across southern maryland. there have been a few cumulus clouds around potomac high lands. but for the most part we're doing okay. south of the area right now is going to be making its way back over us. that's going to provide clouds for us. a chance for shower starting about noontime tomorrow. across the rest of the nation, hooer's what's going on. big weather out west. big east over the nation's midsection. that's really where it's going to stay this week. nation's mid section. then that little dip we have now, the jet stream across the east, we're going to see that this week with a big ridge of high pressure. that will take us back into the 70s on thursday. tomorrow it's going to be only the second coolest day out of the month. there's your showers at noontime. they stick around for tuesday night and probably aren't going to leave the area until wednesday morning when the sun comes up. but by wednesday noontime, we should be back in the sunshine. clearing skies across most of the area. feeling like late march. for the evening, at least, still pleasantly mild. chilly start tomorrow, 46 to 51 degrees. about five to eight degrees cooler across the area tomorrow morning. rain develops about lunchtime tomorrow. the high, again, 58 degrees. we should get into the mid 60 business midweek. sunshine, then some nice clear skies. then 75 with rain returning late friday. the weekend is definitely not a washout. this little rain event we're going to get starting tomorrow should only deliver anywhere between 1/10 or maybe a quarter inch of rain. not a big rain producer for us. >> while many people are headed home, we'll tell you where gilbert arenas is tonight, facing the realities of a felony gun charge. 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in a georgetown antique store one time. it's the result of 850 interviews. kelly claims it reveals hidden secrets of a public person with a very private life. >> i mean, i can't think of a better life story. really, she gave me a gift. she has a fabulous life story. and when you finish reading it, no matter what's inside, you come away being inspired. >> oprah, a biography" hits store shelves tomorrow. another big book is hitting the shelves as the markets begin to give some hope the economy may be inching toward recovery. cnbc's maria bartiromo joins us now to talk about that and her own success. she's got a new book all about what it takes to find prosperity, even in a dismal economic climate. first of all, congratulations. let's get to the stocks. maria, the dow and the s&p hit some big benchmarks today. tell us what happened today. >> it was a pretty exciting day. this was the beginning of the first quarter earnings season. we've been looking at the dow 11,000 mark and today we reached it. the market was up fractionally, but it did close above 11,000 for the dow industrials. a lot of people believe that's basically reflect i of the sentiment that things are improving. and i would confer. i would say that things definitely feel better in the economy, but it's not across the board. we still have unemployment, which is a major issue. and it does appear that unemployment will persist for some time. we're not out of the woods just yet. >> all right, let's look to your book maria,'s called "the ten laws of enduring success." what inspired you to write this? >> well, i would say that i was, like all of us, in 2008, watching so many successful people lose their jobs. and it was a very tough environment. the recession, the financial system was tested. and i started to think about whether there was a place that we can get to where we would be successful, and we would survive and even thrive. even as the world around us is falling apart. and so i reached out to some of the very successful people that i have been able to interview over the years for cnbc. people like jack welch or gary kasparov or bill gates. i asked them to take me back to the beginning of their career. how did they do it, what is important in terms of reaching and achieving success and how do you hold on to it? that's how i came up with these ten laws. i also felt like it was a departure for me, because i normally talk about business and the economy. and here i did bring my own story into it, because a lot of tools that they talked to me about it, i agreed with. so it's a little autobiographic autobiographical. i wanted it to be my perspective on success. so i came away with things like self-knowledge, knowing yourself, knowing what you're good at. knowing where the fire in your belly is. because everybody i interviewed for this book said the only way you can truly be successful is if you love what you do. and so you really need to know yourself. so one of the other very important qualities to success that's in the book is adaptability. gary kasparov, the chess champion from russia said when he's strategizing across the chess board from other competitors. he thinks about adapting to the board. and he said it's critical right now to adapt to the changes in the economy. i agree. because everything is changing. financial services is changing with the financial regulatory reform coming down the pike. health care is changing with reform there. we all know the media business has changed dramatically because of the digital revolution. we all need to look inside at our own skill sets and try to figure out where are the wholes, what do we need? 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what was he going to do? >> at this time, it is believed that the student intended to commit suicide on school grounds. >> reporter: what didn't he know about the gun? >> that the weapon was unloaded. >> reporter: the 12-year-old boy now facing a charge of bringing a weapon on to school property. this man who has two relatives at the school says he heard about the students as soon as the boys came home from school today. >> they came into the house, they told me that somebody brought a gun to school. and it was a surprise to me. i was just laying down. crazy. >> reporter: this student says she's impressed with the quick affecting teacher involved, identified by school officials as a young male staffer. >> the teacher was there at that time and it's like amazing they did that. they had the ability to do that and the strength to, you know, pull the gun out of the kid's hand, not be afraid. it was really surprising. >> this sent home by the principal congratulates the staff for their response. but it also asks parents to remind their kids any sighting of a weapon must be reported immediately. police say the 12-year-old boy brought the gun from home. while they credit his family of keeping it there unloaded, they also remind that guns and ammunition should always be lock aid way from kids. >> julie, thank you. . 19-year-old carter is charged with murder in the march 2 killing of jorman dan howe. the next day carter's brother orlando was shot. then on march 30, gunmen sprayed bullets into a crowd of people who had just attended howe's funeral, killing four people. the judge said there's enough evidence for the case to proceed and ordered carter to remain in jail. the maryland general assembly still has a lot of work to do in the final day of its four-month legislative session. dozens of bills hang in the balance. some won't even come up for a vote late this evening. chris gordon has more now from the news room. >> good evening. according to their custom, they adjourn sine die, meaning there's no date for their return. there are still dozens of bills to consider. one of the most important was prompted by last year's killing of 11-year-old sara haley foxwell on the eastern shore. the suspect arrested in her death was a known sexual predator. the case raised questions about the way the justice system handles sex offenders. they continue monitoring to protect the community long after the offender is released from prison. it means individuals who commit serious sexual crimes will be subject to what's called lifetime supervision, even after they serve what will probably be a lengthy sentence, and on are on parole. even after parole they will be subject to supervision by parole and probation for an extended period of time. >> other important bills are pending before maryland's midnight deadline. it appears the legislation will order the first increase in child support in 25 years. it could take affect october 1. it requires first offenders convicted of drunk driving to use an ignition interlock sbe vice that won't allow their car to start if alcohol is detected on their breath. and there is a showdown over a bill to legalize las vegas-style card game, such as poker and black jack at rosekroft raceway in an effort to save the financially strapped racetrack. now, tomorrow morning, governor martin o'malley will sign the first batch of bills into law that were passed this legislative session. is that's the latest from the news room. back to you now in the studio. barbara? >> thank you. starting today, all you sneed a cell phone to pay for some parking spots in the district. ddot is testing their pay by phone system. the program works by attaching a credit card and cell phone number to an online account. when you need a space, there's a toll free number to call. just enter the location of the parking spot and the amount of time you need. pay by phone parking is available in union circle, dupont station and northwest at the 900 block of new york avenue. coming up, it's a deadly mistake that can happen to any family, but tonight a celebrity wants to make sure it won't happen to your family. find out what dennis quaid had to say about a child medical mistake. >> and enjoy the weather while you can because changes are enroute. veronika returns with a look at your seven d here's to the believers. the risk-takers. the visionaries. the entrepreneurs... who put it all on the line to build and run their own businesses. at at&t, we know something about that. our company started out in a small lab, with not much more than a dream. and today, we know it's small businesses that can create the jobs america needs. that's why at&t is investing billions to upgrade and build out our wired and wireless networks. making them faster, smarter, and more secure. connecting small businesses to markets across the country, and around the world. we invest now, because we know it will pay off... with new jobs, new growth, from a new generation, putting their belief in the future on the line. now is the time for investment and innovation. the future is waiting. and the future has always the future is waiting. and the future has always been our business. at&t. a car crash ended with a water rescue in california. it happened near oakland. three people were in the car when it flipped into the creek. rescuers hoisted one woman to safety by helicopter. she was unconscious when taken to the hospital. a second person died after being trapped in the car. crews are still searching for a third victim now. >> wow. we have rain heading in our direction. let's talk to veronica about that. >> we're going to swap our sunglasses for umbrellas tomorrow. this time tomorrow, i do think there will be some light showers across the area. it's going to be a lot cooler than what we've seen highs get up to today. in the low to mid 70s today, let's take a look at temperatures across the area. montgomery county, 70. olney, 70 degrees. and vienna is also at 70. so by tomorrow morning, it will be a bit of a chilly start across the area. yesterday, or this morning we started out at 56. tomorrow morning we'll be starting out between 44 and 49 degrees. partly cloudy sky, first thing early tomorrow morning. there's your sunrise at 6:5. cool spots around prince william at 43 degrees. high temperature tomorrow, only at 58. tomorrow is going to be the second chilliest day out of the month. we'll see a high temperature again, right shy of that 60 degrees degree mark. showers about noon to sunrise on wednesday. but back behind the system, we should get, again, some sunshine in here and a chance to rise back into the mid 60s. then into the 70s for thursday and friday. right now, our weekend is looking pretty decent, too. back to you guys. all right, veronica, thank you. >> conan o'brien has found a new home on tbs. he will host a late night talk show starting in november. before george lopez's late-night show. the president of turner entertainment which owns tbs says he'll be a great fit there. he says tbs already has a strong lineup of comedy geared for a young, diverse audience. and coming up, fights and arrests on a virginia campus. find out what went wrong at a college block party. >> in sports, the caps just aren't powered by their superstars. up next, meet a role player who does more than his fair share. >> i'm liz crenshaw. lead paint is still potentially harmful to you and your family. that's why the feds are changing the way home renovations and the way home renovations and projects are done. somewhere in america... there's a home by the sea powered by the wind on the plains. there's a hospital where technology has a healing touch. there's a factory giving old industries new life. and there's a train that got a whole city moving again. somewhere in america, the toughest questions are answered every day. because somewhere in america, more than sixty thousand people spend every day answering them. siemens. answers. new federal rule will change the way you do home renovations requiring contractors to become lead safe certified. >> and it will likely cost you more. liz crenshaw with the latest on that. liz? >> a price worth taking to protect your family, epa believes. we've known for a long time the daners of lead paint, especially its impact on children. lead paint is known to cause neurological and behavioral disorders. now the environmental protection agency is issuing regulators for contractors to contain lead paint found in older heem hoems and lead buildings. >> when we moved into this house, i wasn't really aware of the lead problems. >> amy daveys is having her bathroom renovated. her home is built in 1936. it falls under a new rule issued by the environmental protection agency. starting april 2, any home or child care facility made before 1978 will require a contractor be e.p.a. lead safe certified before starting renovations. because older homes can contain lead paint. >> lead-based paint is now the number one cause of childhood lead poisoning in the country. we have evidence that renovat n renovations that have not been done correctly have resulted in children having elevated blood lead levels. >> so this is the containment area? >> this is the containment area. and now we are in the project area. this is the master bathroom. >> the problem -- this window trim. below many layers, lead pain >> we scraped away a little bit of paint on the trim and used a test swab. and we do have an indication that lead paint is present in the trim. >> so that means containment. david marek went through the eight-hour training class designed to teach contractors how to contain and de dispose of lead dust safely. >> the training that we've gone through has taught us a lot of different techniques and it's really a performance standard. we have to keep the dust in here not out there. we'll do that by sealing ourselves in with this nice little zipper. what we've done is create a work area outside of the bathroom. >> reporter: once the demolition is under way, this machine will exhaust air to the outside through a cleansing filter. another differencer -- workers will have to suit up. the remodeling industry is making sure its members are properly trained. >> ask potential candidates if they are lead certified ren ovae tor and then ask to see their certificate. >> it will have the seal and the number. with the proper certification, renovations will take longer and cost more. >> so in the course of this project, we've probably added six to eight hours worth of work, which might equate to $800 on a $26,000 project. >> reporter: do you feel safer now that this rule has taken place or do you feel it's a burden on you? >> hmm, a little bit of both. >> reporter: now the epa expects more than 100,000 contractors to become lead safe certified by the april 22 deadline. so we've known about lead paint for a long time, but now it's coming home, and yeah, the renovations are going to have to be done a little bit differently. >> a riot near james madison university has the school's president calling it an embarrassment to the university. this video was posted to youtube after the riot broke out saturday during the university of spring fest block party. you can see clouds of tear gas spreading among some of the 8,000 or so people who were there. officers used tear gas after fights started breaking out during the event. police also say some of the partygoers threw rocks and bottles at the officers. more than 30 people were arrested. wow. and it's time far look at sports. >> get ready. >> i'm ready. >> it is going to be so much fun. it's going to last two months. hopefully the last two months. this hockey madness. capitals start what they hope is a stanley cup playoff run against montreal. game one of their playoff series thursday night at verizon center. numerous players have had career years. a league high seven players scored at least 20 goals. one of those career years belongs to eric fair, a quiet and gritty forward who picked a great time to bust out of his shell. lindsay czarniak has more. capitals eric fair says one of his great song is "every mile a memory." it describes his journey pretty well. for eric fehr, this year taking the team picture is more special than ever. finally he's healthy. he's had a career season and that is a relief. >> definitely feel like it's time to start producing and become a regular in the nhl. it feels good to get my confidence back for scoring and being able to make plays and feel a lot more comfortable on the ice. >> reporter: the caps saw his potential quickly with the hershey bears. he wowed them with plays like this. the overtime game-winning goal to send the bears to the calder cup finals, the year they took it all in 2006. but celebrations would become fewer as injuries mounted. the next few seasons, he fought for an nhl spot, but he battled a back problem that eventually kept him on the ice for months. even during last year's playoffs, another injury became too much to bear. >> i injured my shoulder a couple of times during the season in different games. the end of the season, i went to see the doctor. when he told me i needed to get them both done, i was really surprised and shocked. >> the doctor said we'll do one this summer and one the next summer. he said we can't lose two summers. he said can you do them both at the same time? the doctor said i've never done both before. is there someone who can take care of you? i said yeah, i can take care of you. >> reporter: ironically, rachel is a nurse. eric faced a huge challenge. not able to pick up anything heavier than a laptop. it was gruelling, even the simplest tasks became difficult. >> i had top sleep on a recliner. when my pillow moved, i couldn't get my pillow back. i had to wake rachel up to get me my pillow so i could get back to sleep. >> i would hear rach, i would say what? my pillow fell. it was frustrating but it was probably more frustrating for him because i think he would lie there in a few minutes. okay, just fall back asleep. and then he couldn't. it was okay. >> rachel fehr had the couple's wedding date tattooed. after helping and watching eric endure endless hours of rehab, she's able to now watch him get back to the game he loves. now eric fehr wants to channel the determination he used to recover on hockey's biggest stage. >> now that i'm back playing, my goals are to help this team win the stanley cup. and hopely i'll be able to do it. >> eric fehr was one of the capitals' brightest stars and one of the most hopeful for the franchise and now also the most promising season for him. lindsay czarniak, news 4 sports. >> eric fehr has his personal best season in history, and a lot of other players are the same way. they had career highs. >> and two more months. how many games would that be if they go to the end? >> if every game is a seven-game series, that would be 28 games. probably won't happen that way. the first series is against montreal. some say that's kind of a tough matchup for the capitals. others say they'll win four straight. it's going to be fun. >> thank you. >> and coming up, find out why young women who regularly drink alcohol may be increasing the chances they'll develop a condition that leads to breast cancer. and we'll tell you about the actor turned activist that came to washington on a mission. another hazard of underaged drinking. a new study finds that girls and young women who drink alcohol may be raising their risk of breast cancer. harvard university researchers followed a group of girls ages 16 to 23. they looked at their alcohol consumption, then did a health care two years later. researchers found those who drank almost err day per 50% more likely than other girls to develop benign lumps in their breasts. experts believe it's all linked to growing evidence that alcohol interferes with the brain and breast tissue development. >> he's the celebrity face for patient safety. actor dennis quaid was in washington to call attention to preventible medical mistakes. in 2007, quaid's newborn twins nearly died after mistiningly being given a massive overdose of a blood thinning drug. >> please welcome dennis quaid. >> reporter: dennis quaid was all smiles as he addressed a friendly crowd at the national press club. a medical mistake nearly cost the lives of his newborn twins. it happened in a los angeles hospital right before quaid's unsuspecting eyes. >> when my wife and i were in the room, a nurse unintentionally gave our children 1,000 times the dosage of a dangerous flood thinner. we had no way of knowing that the potentially lethal quantity of heprin in their tiny bodies with was turning their blood into a consistency of water. >> reporter: the twins recovered but quaid and his wife were never the same. the actor has become an activist, speaking out, he say, not to criticize the health care industry, but to make it better. >> my mission today is to drive awareness. awareness of the shocking amount of harm that we can, that we can prevent. and my message is a call to action. >> quaid maintains in order to eliminate medical mistakes and improve patient care, health care professals need to speak out. the actor believes that investing in tech nolgs will serve as a safety net. >> technologies like bar code systems, smart influgs pumps, electronic medical records, automated infection tracking, bedside bar coding and cpoe all require investment and safe adoption. but they can have a huge impact. >> quaid says medical mistakes kill roughly 100,000 people a year. not because of bad people, he say, but bad systems. jane watrel, news. >> now dennis quaid has a new documentary aimed at preventing medical mistakes. it's called winning the war on health care harm. it will air on discovery on april 24. that does it for news 4 at 5:00. we thank you for watching. what's the real nuclear terror threat? 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