>> ryan: the lines are now open. they'll stay open for at least two hours. tomorrow night your top 12 is revealed live on this stage. that's at 8:00 7:00 central. get on the phone vote. who do you like? goodbye. 3 fox 5 all over two big stories at 10:00. out of control. another prius driver claims her car took her for a wild ride. what happened this time. this woman says paramedics refused to take her to the hospital. tonight the fallout and a call for action. good evening, everyone. i'm brian brian. i'mim-- i'm brian bolter. i'm shawn yancey. tonight city leaders are fuming. roby chavez as the fallout from the story you saw first on fox. >> reporter: a number of high profile cases involving d.c. fire and ems is angering city leaders. chief dennis rubin finds himself in the hot seat. the fire department told us there was no complaint involving that woman who had to call 911 twice before she was taken to the hospital. they promised an open investigation following our report. it turns out that was already complete but we didn't get any information. today we got the details. >> i thought i was going to be left in the room to die. >> reporter: it's a heart wrenching story of how d.c. medics allegedly refused to transport kimberly kelsey to the hospital last december. she says medics diagnosed her standing in her doorway and then left without her. >> one of the paramedics told me that you know, there was no need to transport me to the hospital because i don't sound like i'm having shortness of breath. >> reporter: what did you think then? >> i thought how could he diagnose me. he's not a doctor. >> they're kind of like field doctors. it's probably just semantics but they have to treat the symptoms and some people are maybe misinterpreting that as diagnose. >> reporter: after first saying there was no complaint, today a different spin from d.c. fire and ems. >> we did find in fact there was a complaint. >> reporter: two medics have already been disciplined but that information was oly made public after a fox 5 report. >> she provided information to the supervisor. it was immediately followed up on. we considered this to be a closed issue. appropriate disciplinary action has been taken. >> reporter: it's not a closed case for at least two outrained council members. >> it's poor leadership. >> reporter: some are now expressing doubt in fire chief dennis rubin. >> the leadership should be accountable. we're not working as fast as humanly possible to make sure we create an environment in which creates stability in the department. and i think the instability in a department causes lot of confusion. >> these problems shouldn't be occurring. i have reason to suspect that this is just the tip of the iceberg and that the improvements that we thought were occurring with ems have actually slipped backwards. >> reporter: a for kimberly kelsey's call for help, the emts involved continue to say she refused to get in the ambulance. the only problem with that account is that they can't back it up with required paperwork. >> in this case there is no documentation. >> reporter: that's a problem because department protocols obtained by fox 5 dictate that signed releases are necessary for all refusals. >> i believe our personnel believe that she refused and i believe that she believes that they refused to take her. but nonetheless she did get some ca, although it was 56 minutes later when she called again. >> they're lying. i did not receive -- i never --dy not refuse. i never refused when it comes to my respiratory problems. >> reporter: it's not over yet. on friday the public will have their chance to tell the d.c. fire departmentms hoor store. -- horror store. chief dennis rubin will have to answer tough questions about possible lapses in the fire department. we're live in the newsroom, roby chavez, fox 5 news. >> thank you. d.c. police tonight are investigating the death of a 10- month-old girl. a nanny found the baby unconscious in a house on argyle terrace northwest right around the corner from d.c. mayor adrian fenty's home. the nanny took the baby outside and asked an officer on the mayor's security detail for help. >> the officer immediately began rendering cpr in an attempt to save the child's life. they summoned assistance at the same time. they cme up. they transported the child and at about 9:30 last night the child was pronounced dead. >> police have not yet released the baby's name. they are still investigating. another big story we are following tonight. more worry among toyota drivers. a driver in new york claims their prius went out of control. they blame a stuck accelerator. the problems for toyota are popping up coast to coast. the latest complaint, just 24 hours after news of a runaway prius in san diego. fox 5's will thomas following the new developments. will? >> reporter: as you know, toyota is in a public relations nightmare trying to salvage customers and it appears the company is doing it to some extent. north american sales spiked to nearly 50% in the first eight days of this month alone. but now another set of alleged run aweway incidents is raising new safety concerns. >> reporter: a new york suburban outside manhattan. a 56-year-old housekeeper leaving this home drove down the driveway when she says the gas pedal stuck and she careened into this heavy stonewall. the front end of her 2005 prius crushed. >> the car accelerated rapidly and she applied the brake and was unable to stop. >> reporter: but police believe if another car was coming, the results could have been devastating. what caused the car to suddenly accelerate as the driver claimed? investigators have already ruled out the floor mat pinning the gas pedal in the open position. >> the mat had been serviced previously b a toyota dealership. it was being held in police by an additional device. >> reporter: 24 hours earlier on the other side of the u.s., another sudden acceleration incident involving this 2008 prius. investigators say the car sent its owner on a wild ride along a busy san diego interstate. >> when you're doing 94 miles an hour and you're going around curves and you're missing cars, it's not a play thing. >> reporter: james sykes called for help. >> this is 911. do you have an emergency? >> my car, i can't slow it down. >> reporter: his car slowly comcame to a stop with the help of an officer who got in front of it and braked. toyota won't comment on specific incidents and here's why. dozens of class action lawsuits have already been filed. but the automaker says it will investigate all reports of sudden acceleration. >> will thomas tonight. since the fall toyota has recalled 8.5 million vehicles worldwide. more than six million in the u.s. because of gas pedal problems and braking flaws. prince george's county police officers are mourning one of their own tonight. officer thomas jensen, a five- year veteran died last night from injuries after a car accident. his colleagues had hoped wee recover. ten days ago he hit a patch of ice, lost control of his cruiser and hit a pole in college park. he was the son of a prince george's county detective sergeant. >> he graduated from dematha high school. was assigned to hyattsville right out of the academy. he knew the area, knew the challenges. i mean, i member him as an energetic officer. >> jensen had been married for just five months. funeral arrangements are not yet finalized. we're on top of a developing story in maryland tonight. crews in frederick county are trying to recover a body from the dam. two particularrermen saw the body floating in -- fishermen saw the body floating in the water. they were not able to remove the body before dark. they'll try again in the morning. a year-long bust ended with five men under arrest charged with selling drugs at tysons gallery ya. investigators saying they were selling ecstasy and marijuana in the mall parking garage and food court. virginia state police and montgomery county officers worked together to make the bust. imagine being trapped inside your own burning home. it happened to a fredricksburg woman. she called 911 and told dispatchers where to find her but you're going -- but ended up losing her life. this case comes with a twist. you could have just been added to the no fly list. find out why it's more than doubled in the last few months. a couple of warm days. we're keeping an eye on radar because we do have showers down to the south. when will it get in here and will there be hi severe weather that we've been seeing especially in the tennessee valley. lots of tornado watches. i'll let you know what is headed in our direction. the full forecast a bit later. 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[ indiscernible ] >> we have them coming. listen to me, okay. i have them coming. >> a 7-year-old california boy is being called a hero for calling 911 during a home invasion. three men broke into his family's norwalk home. the boy grabbed his little sister. they ran into the bathroom and locked the door and called police. when the men broke into the bathroom and demanded to know who they called, the boy said 911 and then ran off. he's a little hero and dispatchers shared an emotional reunion. >> i still hear is little voice on the phone. to hear him talking in person it kind of brought back the memories of that phone call. >> authorities still have not located the three suspects. another frantic call to 911. this one from a virginia woman trapped inside her burning home. we want to warn you some of her 911 call is hard to listen to. the woman is on the phone with dispatchers as they're telling firefighters where to find her only they don't until it's too late. the woman's mother says she wants people to hear this 911 call because it may help save someone else's life. sherri ly has the story. >> reporter: it started as a small fire in a downstairs hallway. sandy hill is upstair, the second floor filled with smoke and calls 911. >> i think the house is on fire. >> reporter: firefighters arrive within four minutes of her call and began searching the house a minute later. at the same time hill is still on the phone with 911. >> which bedroom are you in? there's a second female trapped upstairs. >> i'm in the back bedroom. >> reporter: two more minutes passed. hill tells the 911 operator she's behind the door up the stairs to the left. firefighters make it upsays but don't find anything. >> we can't see her. >> search the top floor. no luck. >> it's certainly weighing very heavily on the first responders that were in that house that were doing what they felt everything in their power to be able to reach her and have a different outcome. >> reporter: it's about 11 minutes into the search. a few minutes later firefighters rescue a teenager from a first floor bedroom which causes some confusion. dispatchers inform rescuers hill is still upstairs good second floor, no results. we're going to the first floor again. >> she's reported to be in a bedroom by the door if that helps at all. >> we can hear the firemen banging on the door. >> reporter: jacqueline mills who has been inside the house says the second floor is like a mouse maze. >> you didn't know whether to turn left or turn right. i could barely find my way up into the second floor myself in broad daylight. >> reporter: after more than 20 minutes, rescuers finally find hill. she was pronounced dead at the hospital. >> it was very disturbing to me. >> reporter: on the 911 call hill tells the operator she tried to escape through the window but it wouldn't open. the fire some spotsylvania county happened more than a month ago but it was only after the local newspaper, the freelance star, began digging into the case that the fire department announced it would investigate. now two other people inside the house survived. the chief refrained from saying whether firefighters did anything wrong, but said the investigation will help them determine what changes should be made to assure this doesn't happen again. in the newsroom, sherri ly, fox 5 news. police in virginia are looking for this man wearing a hard-hat while robbing a bank. he walked into the bb&t bank in mount vernon on tuesday. he implied he had a weapon, made off with the cash. if you know him, call crime stoppers at the number on your screen. fairfax county police also hoping you can track down a female bank bandit. this woman is believed to be behind three robberies. the most recent along the 5100 block of westfield boulevard in centreville. claudia coffey picks up the story. >> reporter: this woman seen in this bank and then leaving another bank is believed to be behind three bank robberies in fairfax in less than a matter of weeks. people we spoke to were shocked by the string of robberies but even more so that it's a woman. >> oh, my god. that's shocking. you never expect a female to do that. >> it's unbelievable. >> reporter: the woman seen in the surveillance pictures robbed this bank the bb&t bank in centreville as recently as tuesday afternoon. in each robbery the woman wears dark clothes, a scarf to hide her face and sunglasses. she approaches the teller the se way each time. >> she goes in and apparently implies a weapon with a note and then the robbery takes place. >> reporter: she's an african- american woman, heavy set, 5'4" between 160 and 170 pounds. besides the bb&t bank, she's believed to be behind a bank robbery march 2. at northwest federal credit nion and apple federal credit union on february 26. fairfax police say it is unusual to have a female bank robber. >> we don't see a lot of women bank robbers. it happens and sometimes we do see them but certainly it does raise interest sometimes. >> reporter: fairfax county police are working with officers in each of their stations so they know what to keep their eyes on for. >> we have seen an uptick in robberies of banks here in fairfax and across the region if the last couple of months so certainly we're taking a hard look at it. >> reporter: claudia coffey, fox 5 news. >> a closer look at the surveillance pictures, you can go to myfoxdc.com. click on local news. she calls herself jihad jane and she's the latest tool for terrorists across the globe and we're digging into her case coming up. the district handing out a brand new weapon in the fight against h.i.v. we're talking about war and peace, $3 billion, a thousand lives. >> fury on the floor of the house. find out what got representative patrick kennedy so fired up. 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 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before going to the hospital. >> i had lost a bunch of weight. i just thought i was gaining it all back. i was on the pill. having periods every month like i'm supposed to. >> wow. the newborn baby weighed in 6 pounds 15 ounces. he's doing just final. he and his mom are already home from the hospital. women are contracting h.i.v. and here in d.c. 3% of adults and teenagers have it. now the district is trying a new approach to prevent it, the spread of the disease. karen gray houston takes a look at the cutting edge campaign to protect you. >> reporter: the district's female condom campaign comes as the nation marks its own observance aimed at educating women and children on getting tested for h.i.v. and at the national press club, that testing was free. >> if you have unprotected sex and have more than one partner, then you're probably going to have to keep testing every six months. >> reporter: she works for the d.c. health department which while encouraging women to get tested for aids is also pushing the new tee mail -- female condom. >> you can pop it out. the female condom looks like this when you take it out. >> reporter: the community education group in southeast is one of the nonprofits that will be handing them out to barber shops, nail salons and. the female condom has been around for a while. these are new and improved, fda approved. they are more affordable now. d.c. health officials are only hoping women will use them. >> so we said ah, we can afford to add this at a scale to our male condom distribution program to expand options for women. >> reporter: a half million dollar grant will fund the distribution of the half million free female condoms in d.c. they're also available now for purchase at the 56cvs drugstores in the city. alarming new details about the pennsylvania woman accused of helping supporter i.r.s.es across the globe. why the feds think -- helping support terrorists across the globe. why the feds think this could be a dangerous trend. 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[ male announcer ] right now any pizza at pizza hut is just $10. any pizza, any size, any crust, and any toppings -- for only $10. only at your pizza hut. 3 new questions tonight about an american known as jihad jane. today up on the hill, there were new warnings that the u.s. needs to step up efforts to stop extremists from recruiting. fox 5's tom fitzgerald has the story. >> reporter: she called herself jihad jane but to her philadelphia suburb neighbors, she was more of a mystery. >> a nice, quiet town. you wouldn't expect somebody like that to be living here. >> reporter: federal officials say she recruited terrorists on the web to kill a swedish artist who sparked muslim anger after he drew the prophet mohammad as a dog good she she's accused of getting passports to people to help them evade security to travel more freely around europe and herself traveling to europe to carry out a murder contract. >> reporter: vilks has been under police protection for three years but his drawings grew conchem depend nation from -- drew condemnation. at the senate armed services hearing, antiterrorist experts told lawmakers the u.s. isn't doing enough to cut off islamic radicals' fresh supply of members. >> stop the recruiting. once you stop the recruiting, you stop the insurgency. >> reporter: to do that they need better information on what is being recruited for jihad both inside and outside the u.s. right now that intelligence is lacking. >> you've got to know the pathways that lead these young people to violence so you know how to take them away. >> there's a rising population of youth who are interested in learning, growing, active in the internet. >> reporter: as for colleen larose, federal officials do not believe she was part after larger terror network but the allegations are bringing a fresh focus on internet terror recruitment. according to the federal indictment, larose traveled to europe and would die as a martyr if necessary. official officials go on to say this case should blow away any lingering doubt that officials can identify a terror suspect by appearance alone. the number on the government no fly list has gone way up. nearly doubling since the attempted christmas day bombing near detroit. intelligence officials say the number of suspected terrorists banned from flying on u.s. planes has ballooned from about 400 to 6,000. officials with the f.b.i. and transportation security administration say improving their analysis techniques is key key. >> how you identify and integrate greg men taker information -- greg meant-- fragmentary information. [ indiscernible ] local police departments across virginia getting millions of dollars to fight terrorism. governor bob mcdonnell says nearly $5 million in grants will be given to are 45 departments. the money will be used to buy equipment crucial to fighting crime and deterring terrorist acts. >> we're talking about erik massa, war and peace, $3 billion, a thousand lives and no press. >> that is rhode island congressman patrick kennedy exploding in anger today. it's fury on the house floor was over the war in afghanistan and how the media is covering. >> you want to know why the american public is -- [ indiscernible ] -- they're not seeing their congress doing the work they were sent to do. it's because the press of the united states is not covering the most significant issue of national importance and that's the laying of lives down in the nation for the service of our country. it's despicable, the national press corps right now. >> kennedy says america needs to protect itself but the current strategy in afghanistan is all wrong. house majority leader steny hoyer says it was ethics not politics that led erik massa to resign. congressman hoyer is now accusing republicans of trying to exploit the controversy. he says neither he nor any other democratic leader pressured massa to step aside. massa claims he was pressured to leave because of his opposition to the overhaul health care bill. president obama back on the road pushing his plan for the health care reform. he pushed his plan near st. louis. he says -- he signed legislation today designed to root out abusive spending. >> agencies would hire auditors to scour the books, go through things line by line. auditors are paid based on how many abuses or errors they uncover so it's a win-win. ed auditor, if they do a good job they get a small percentage as a reward and the taxpayer wins by getting huge sums of money that would otherwise be lost. >> republicans say the current health care proposals will add to the deficit and drive up premiums. the white house has set a march 18 deadline for a house vote on the overhaul. call it your own personal stimulus. the government saying it wants to give away more than a billion dollars to regular citizens. there's a catch. she's done the music and the movies. now the material girl is getting into material literally. find out where you will be able to get a piece of her new clothing line coming up. a 12-year-old south carolina boy is way healed of his time. he scored a perfect 800 on the math sporgs of his s.a.t. remember, i said he was 12. most students in the 7th grade d't take the college glance exam till high school but he and a few others at his school gave it a try a few years early. >> i was really excited because it's not that common and i started jumping up and down. >> he's 12 in the 7th grade. he plans to go to m.i.t. and work in the field of nano robotics. the average score for south carolina students on the math exam is 515. >> how old is he? >> 12. is there a problem with bias in textbooks? a fight is coming to a head in texas over that very issue. but why do school books in texas matter here? as fox 5's brian wilson explains, what happens in texas doesn't stay in texas. >> reporter: a packed room as the texas state board education continued the process of establishing standards for the social study textbooks that will be used by 4.7 million texas students. because texas buys so many textbook, the standards adopted by texas influence what ends up in textbooks used in many other states. there are many people across the ideological spectrum who have an interest in what is being taught in the classroom and before starting the tedious process of hashing out what should and should not be in the books. the board spent hours listening to many of them. conservatives in the state believe too much liberal slant has ended up in textbooks and there should be an acknowledgement of what they see is the christian underpinnings of our government. >> efforts to remove what makes america great and remove our judea christian values that have had an impact on our social studies and our history and founding of our government is a form of bigotry and intolerance that the state board of education should reject. >> reporter: liberals fear there won't be adequate conts -- representations of the contributions made by minorities. >> i found it very frustrating to try to comprehend how we got here. >> reporter: but one conservative board member who is also a teach every says the problem is deciding what must be taught during limited instructional time. >> we can't have a 4000-page curriculum or textbook and expect a teacher to get through it in a year. we have to pick out those events that impacted and make us an exceptional nation. >> reporter: there is also a recognition here that people are watching the actions of the board far beyond the state's borders so some members of the board are trying to downplay talk of a fractious process. >> we have diverse groups here that want to say you know, for me with my district, it really comes down to accurate history. >> we would start teaching as there's only one america -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: they'll continue to work on this process through thursday. a final vote is scheduled on wednesday. in austin, texas, brian wilson, fox news. >> this could make things fun. forget going to the theater for the 3-d block busters. we're checking out new technology that will allow you to watch from your couch at home. the greatest generation geting a big thanks from a grateful nation, but this story comes with a little twist. we're getting a little april-like twist with our temperature, shawn. once again today into the mid- 60s that's more typical for the middle of next month but some showers are heading into the forecast. i'll let you know when to expect them. we'll start looking ahead to the weekend when fox 5 news at 10:00 continues. host: could switching to geico really save you 15% or more on car insurce? 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[ indiscernible ] the entry price of getting all this at home may put people off initially at least. is not just the tv you'll have to upgrade. you'll also need a new blu-ray player and a special pair of glasses at a hundred pounds per pair. it won't be long before prices fall and 3-d -- [ indiscernible ] >> a hundred pounds, what would that be here, shawn? >> i don't know. the dollar is you know -- you being funny there? we'll be having some rain coming in the next few days. >> we are. we're going to hang on to the 60s. i'm happy about that. there's not a lot of snow to be found anymore but we found some. i want to thank-- >> is that the snowball renna? >> this is 6-year-old emily. they were sledding yesterday in the snow. i just love that. she looks like she's dressed for a ballet class in her spring outfit and still taking advantage of the few snow piles that are still left. thank yu, harold from silver spring for sending that in. it is a fun picture. we're going to be hard-pressed to find even those piles around in the next few days as we continue with not only temperatures in the low 60s and mid-60s during the day but very warm temperatures at night, too. we got up to 65 degrees today and dulles hit 67. there were places that touched 70 degrees today and really with limited unshine. bwi marshall 60 degrees. we will keep some temperatures in the 60s going but we are going to showers into the forecast picture tomorrow. 62 degrees on thursday. showers will hold off till late in the day. friday off and on showers. pretty much the whole day 60 degrees. probably the wettest day and maybe friday night into saturday 61 degrees. we start cooling off just a little bit on sunday, 58 degrees. another reminder daylight saving time begins this weekend so make sure you set those clocks forward. we're springing forward. meanwhile look at the tree pollen. today it is in the high category thanks to sue over at walter reed for letting usknow that. maple trees in particular but birch coming o. perhaps the showers will help out those of you who are suffering with tree pollen allergies. it's really coming on strong now. mild now. 53 degrees in d.c. 52 manassas. fredricksburg hanging in there at 50. it will be mild overnight with the clouds and lighter winds. temperatures will only drop to about 48 degrees for the low in fredricksburg. 45 for leonardtown and bowie 44 degrees. i think those showers are going to hold off tonight. so we're going to say just cloudy skies, still mild, 47 degrees in the district. tomorrow most of the day really more clouds than sun. i think the showers are going to hold off until afternoon. there might be something very light and spotty in the afternoon but most of these probably holding off till later in the day. 62 degrees for us during the day tomorrow. max hd satellite and radar, you may have seen a couple of sprinkles or spotty showers. we're seeing a few down to our south but that batch down to our south is really going to have a tough time moving in here. we've had some pretty big squall lines we've en watching. these have been moving across alabama and into georgia. a lot of heavy rain reported here. more in the gulf and the severe weather coming out of this line here. there were a couple of tornadoes reported in arkansas. one we think was especially damaging just northeast of little rock. nine homes damaged and some injuries. so this is a real impressive and dangerous squall line. we have tornado watches flying from missouri, alabama and mississippi through the rest -- for the next several hours, that's for sure. oustorm system is right here. it's a slow move but it is going to start spreading waves of precipitation toward us. we're going to have that in the forecast for the next several days. 8:00 in the morning 52 degrees. no wetness i don't think for your drive n. by noon mostly cloudy and 58. by 5:00 we'll say spotty showers. not a lot going on there but max hd futurecast we'll show you when to expect the rain. most of the day dry. spotty showers around 6:00 or so. a frontal system to the south, i think we start getting it in here in the overnight hours thursday into friday. and we keep these rainy periods going for the next several days. here is your five-day forecast. temperature wise still in good shape for tomorrow at 62 degrees. but the rain comes in late in the day. rain for friday. rain for saturday. yes, even as we're springing forward on saturday or sunday we're still looking at some showers. so once it gets started it will be hard to get out of here and flood watches have already been posted in the mountains because they're worried about rapidly melt snow on maybe -- melting snow on maybe some rain. >> thank you, sue. they made history by flying planes during world war ii at a time in america when many thought a woman's place was at home. we'll be right back. it's definitely expensive having a growing family and it's something that you think about. we try to be conscious 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greatest generation of men t. decorated a group of aging veterans with that nation's highest award. fox 5's bob barnard takes us there. >> reporter: they're honored during a ceremony at the french embassy. 23 soldiers who fought in europe during the second world war. >> you were young men. >> reporter: that was more than 60 years ago. >> but all of you were there in gallantry and domination to help free us from the tyranny of foreign occupation. >> reporter: one by one they stood, some not so easily anymore. >> in the name of france, allow me to confer upon you -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: robert williams is 89, from southern virginia. >> i think it's a blessing to be here. >> reporter: williams landed at normandy the day before his daughter jean's second birthday. >> my dad's very quiet. he doesn't talk about it much. >> [ indiscernible ] they put me in the kitchen cooking. >> reporter: bill butler is a fragile 85 now. during the war he fought in the battle of the bulge. >> they honor for our service. i for the like -- [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: butler lost an eye during the war and suffered frostbite on his hands. >> i wasn't ready to die. i was only 20 years old. >> reporter: it's only been the last few years that our own government has recognized the greatest generation with its own memorial on the mall. world war ii veterans now dying at the rate of a thousand a day. >> we know the days are numbered but still we treasure each one he has. >> reporter: this generation's courageous service not lost on their families. >> taught us values and not complaining and accepting things and moving on. >> reporter: w they're accepting the thanks