That led him to take the action that, unfortunately, resulted in this friendly fire death. Reporter colson was an undercover drug officers who was off duty and in plainclothes when he arrived at the district 3 station to find a shootout in progress. Police i was say he engaged michael ford in an exchange of gunfire before he was shot by krauss. Krauss, a district 3 police officer, was once officer of the month. What the ford brothers precipitated was a tragedy involving some of the very finest Police Officers on the Prince Georges County police department. Reporter for First Time Since their arrest, all three ford brothers appeared this court for a preliminary hearing. It was ruled the men will remain in jail while the states attorney prepares to indict them on seconddegree murder and assault charges. And we intend to take as much time as we need. Reporter the ford defense team maintained michael ford wanted police to shoot at him and his gunfire, more than 20 rounds, never hit police.
Reporter two main reasons for the closing. Business was not what they hoped and two community safety. It took two notes for noahs firearms to know this was not a sure move. The manager says it was about business, a lack of it and partly about safety. There was a rash of burglaries in the area and a lot of firearms being stolen. And that coupled with damage to the store during a storm. A couple of our windows got knocked out and brought into question the security of the that building. And he said this was the worst case scenarios. Nobody wants us. We dont want firearms stolen. We have retired Police Officers and a couple of us are active firefighters and emt. We are in the gun industry but about the project of the community. The firearms had some welcoming but despite campaign to put them out. Despite a protest they met. I dont need guns. For tim heckles of hole in the wall books. It was not an issue with would was being sold outside the store but what was pictured outside. It made me t
Well. The hour by hour warming for the day ahead. Aaron . Traffic moving in both directions on the George Washington parkway. A small section near windy run is still closed. Yesterday they had to shut down 23 and spout run parkway. They finished fixing a big sinkhole last night. Lets go to melissa mollet. Happy to see that is almost out of the way. Something else to be aware of this morning in bethesda. East west highway had a single car crash into a pole here. Traffic slowing. Again, its move. So thats good of course. 66 and 95. 66 right here heading into town. 36 Miles Per Hour through manassas. Virginia, 95, slowest spot again will be dale city. A little bit of volume in the 6 00 hour. Otherwise rolling along nicely all across town. Well see you then, melissa. Thank you. Later this morning, the rights of pregnant women in the workplace will be in focus at the nations highest court. The case centers around a virginia woman who says she was fired because she was pregnant. Richard jord
Muchneeded reforms for this program that last year supported almost 11 million americans with 137 billion of american taxpayer money. I have closed with one remark. If you work somewhere in the federal government today, i would hope if youre seeing fraud, if youre seeing manipulation, if youre seeing things that are not right, that you will follow the lead of these four courageous women in bringing it to the attention of senator levins subcommittee, permanent subcommittee on investigations or my office. With that, senator carper, i thank you. Thank you so much. Im going to go out of order to ask senator levin who chairs the subcommittee under which this investigation has taken place and ask him just to make a statement. I will make a short statement after that. Then well turn to our witnesses. Senator levin . Thank you very much, senator carper and first let me commend senator coburn for his leadership and his and his staffs hard work in uncovering the abuses that are the subject of to
Francisco and over in oakland. The storm is causing problems all over the bay area. Reporter brian, you know, it is the sunday before the christmas holiday. That mean ace lot of people are out this doing lastminute shopping and going to holiday parties. But, the weather has not made it easy for drivers out this on the road. They are looking at the conditions from earlier. The standing water is hurting traffic and slowmoving drivers. And Wind Warnings on the bridges. This powerful storm even brought down trees on panoramic highway. And people had to detour adding hours to their trip. Listen to this guy. They are saying that there is no power. The Fire Department told me the road is closed because they need to clear the tree. That was 21 2 hours. That is how long to cheer the trees. Four hours clear the trees four hours ago and nobody is cutting the tree and they now say you can not pass in 12 hours. Now, these trees weigh at least a ton and will take hours to cheer. Back live, we are wa