reasons why he s facing the felony. this is the second time this has happened, charged once before, you may remember in kill kim and plead guilty. and in california and plead guilty. we know he plead guilty on december 21st. first, it was because he wanted to get them away from the house and away from the children. after the story broke he had the guns in the locker room, he changed the story, saying he used the guns in an effort to play a joke on a teammate and apologized for the behavior and publicly joked about it, famously caught by a photographer, using his fingers as guns and acting as if he was shooting his teammates before a game in philadelphia. the next day, he was suspended indefinitely without pay. behind the scenes, the attorney was trying to negotiate a plea deal while the grand jury investigated. there is a development on another part of the story and that is about crittenton. police began look into this claim, the player arenas was attempting to play a joke
captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org live and hd, this is abc 7 news, on your side. the temperatures shows it is below freezing and it actually feels even colder. good afternoon and thank you for joining us. i am alison starling. 2010 is starting of bitterly cold and there is more to come. brian van de graaff is caught tracking all of this in our first forecast. we are ready for a warm-up but it could be worse. there are places in the nation that are in the grips of winter. up in buffalo, they have received 52 inches of snow and it continues to fall. most of our snow is gone but there are little patches left in the parking lot. we had some snow flurries that rolled through earlier today this is down toward southeastern virginia and south and west of central pennsylvania. along the lakes, they are getting pounded. pulte are working their way across the bridge and there is ice on the potomac. temperatures are in the 30 s but when you factor in
good morning, america, on this friday, september 25th. and this morning, home-grown terror. new details about plots to strike an office tower and a federal building. as another man is charged with trying to turn beauty products into bombs. protests in pittsburgh. as world leaders meet. and breaking this morning, the white house is set to accuse iran of building a secret nuclear plant. marathon survival. a long-distance runner, stranded without water in a california forest for four days. she joins us to tell us how she made it out alive. and bye-bye pandas? a wildlife expert says it costs too much to protect pandas. and he believes they should not be saved. we re all fired up about that last one. good morning, everyone. alongside chris cuomo. i m robin roberts. diane is on assignment. we ll get to the breaking news in a moment, about president obama new accusations about iran s nuclear program. but we re alerted more about proposed terrorist plots. there s more detai
of a d.c. councilman s chief of staff after he s arrested and charged with accepting bribes. hello, everybody. welcome to news4 at 4:00. i m jim handly. i m pat lawson muse. he is one of the top advisors to jim graham. ted loza has been with the councilman since 1998. this morning, he was taken into custody at his home by federal agents who then searched his office in the wilson building. an indictment unsealed today alleges loza took at least $1,500 in cash to help influence taxi cab legislation. graham is the head of the committee that oversees taxi cab issues. there is no evidence graham did anything wrong, and he tells news4 that he is not involved in any illegal activity. tom sherwood will have much more coming up here on news4 at 5:00. a breakthrough in aids prevention. for the first time an experimental vaccine prevented infection with the aids virus. it is a watershed event in the fight against the deadly epidemic, and it is a surprising result. brian moar rep
the offices of d.c. ward one council member jim graham searching for any evidence and work materials involving ted loza, graham s chief of staff and close confidante. he was arrested thursday morning at his home by the fbi. when i arrived at the office i went to mr. loza s office and said to the fbi agents, is there anything i can do to help? please assume our complete cooperation. reporter: as graham met with the staff, court documents showed loza was charged with two counts of bribery for accepting cash, vehicles and trips from someone trying to influence taxi cab legislation in graham s office. the person or company attempting to bribe loza was not identified in court papers. graham who rushed from a metro board meeting told reporters he personally had done nothing improper and knew of no wrong doing by loza or any staff members. can you say categorically whatever mr. loza was doing, he was not doing it on your behalf? absolutely. i had no engagement in any illegao