brian betts was the principal of sean middle school. a memorial for sue ann marcum will take place tonight. she was the american university professor killed in her chevy chase home last month. tonight s service starts at 8:00 at bender arena. the man accused of plotting to carry out a terror attack goes before a judge. farooque ahmed will be arraigned in district court. the fbi has accused the 34-year- old of conspiring to aid and support a terrorist organization. federal officials say the plot was intended to be carried out sometime in 2011. metro riders have new concerns over the safety of escalators on the transit system. that s because of a report leaked on a local blog that shows that metro knew of safety issues before an october 80th incident. six were injured at l enfant plaza at the station that day. a report warned of much-needed escalator and elevator repair. metro is inspecting all the facilities. the document warned of old brake pads like the ones believed
recounted to the jury today by his cell mate. on the stand in an orange prison jump suit with his hands in large jail house cuffs. ingmar guandique, gang affiliation ms-13. jail time, ten years for assaulting two women in rock creek park. armando morales. nickname, gangif i wif affiliat jail for drug and gun violations. in 2006, the two were cell mates at the federal penitentiary in kentucky. it was there that morales that guandique told him about the chana levy murder. he told me he spotted her walking in the park that she was alone, that she was wearing pouch. he said he grabbed her from behind. around the neck and pulled her from the trail. she was fighting and struggling. but in the bushes, she stoed struggling. he said he took the waist pouch and ran away he said he dinot know she was dead. he said he didn t tell authorities about the confession until 2008 when he heard on the news that police were getting ready to charge ingmar guanque. the defense attorneys accused mor
moisture in kentucky, tennessee. also a grant through a front through the midwest and those will combine to give us a chance of showers on the and the first half of thursday if not in to thursday afternoon. 30 gaithersburg, 32 haymarket, sterling and reston. columbia is 32. again a frosty morning north and west of town. springfield 38. alexandria 39 and national 49. looking at highs in the mid a 0s. maybe near 60. 59 in manassas. it is 4:31. how s the time saver traffic? overall not so bad. we are taking a wide view of the area. notice a lot of green on the screen. right now, we are dealing with a little boo-boo early on. show you the accident on the outer loop. this is near braddock road. it is taking away part of the right shoulderment. watch for construction and also 50 should be clearing by the 5:00 hour. election day 2010 resulted in quite a change in washington. a big one. the voters handed control of the house of representatives to the republicans. randall pink
discuss the election results. the president called the incoming speaker of the house, john boehner, to congratulate him on the midterm republican gains. rite now, we re looking at a live picture of in the u.s. capitol where the republicans mr. seize control of the house of representatives. at last count the gop picked up 58 seats in the midterm elections and they will hold 235 to 1891 advantage 181 advantage over the democrats. dozens of races, however, are undecided. one of those races is here. the results of the race against connelly and fimian is not official. kristin fisher has the latest from the fairfax county board of elections. i just spoke with a spokesman for connelly s campaign and he says they are now certain that connelly has indeed won this race. the returns are now in from those final two precincts and not only is he aha he has actually increased his lead by 22le votes. so he is now beating fimian by 820 votes district wide. what was the holdup in the reaso
police custody. he s accused of killing 23-year- old chris mater. the victim was returning home from work at a bennigan s restaurant in waldorf when he was gunned down on thanksgiving morning 2004. we have new details about the suspect in federal custody accused of plotting a bombing attack on metro subway systems. investigators say that in 2008, 34-year-old farooque ahmed attempted to buy firearms to fight against u.s. troops overseas. the pakistani-born virginia man did not enter a guilty plea at a brief court appearance. agents raided ahmed s home in ashburn yesterday after he allegedly tried to help people posing as al-qaeda operatives wage an attack on metro subway systems. kristin fisher has more on how this affected riders during this morning s commute. reporter: metro riders at the courthouse rotation in arlington were met with an unpleasant reality check as they made their way to work this morning. how would you feel if you walked to one of the metro stations i