three of those arrested live here in the washington area and held secret meetings on street corners and hotels and restaurants. i m jim vance. i m doreen gentzler. court documents detailing the secret multiyear-long investigation read like a modern-day spy novel, videotaped meetings, drop locations, encrypted messages on public websites. it s not clear how successful the suspected deep cover agents were. what we do know is some of the surveillance on them goes back six years. and the arrests today come just days after presidents barack obama and dmitry medvedev met at the white house. jackie bensen begins our reporting in arlington tonight. jackie? reporter: doreen, three of the defendants were arrested here at river house in arlington, accused of spying in the d.c. area. according to court documents, accused spy mikhail sat on a bench in this park on saturday evening and was handed a newspaper folded around an envelope containing $5,000 by a man he thought was a represen
afternoon and leaving behind a big change in our record breaking heat. a husband and father goes out to run an errand and never comes home. instead he s found shot to death in his own car. tonight his family is making an emotional plea. but we begin tonight with alleged secret agents busted right in our backyard. thanks for joining us, everyone. i m laura evans in for brian. i m shawn yancy. fake birth cert cat, cover names, just some of the international espionage unfolding in the quiet suburbs of virginia. roby chavez has more on how the government made the big bust. reporter: court documents indicate they were masters at secret inclan december teen meetings. they live in arlington while others lived what appeared to be normal lives in new york and boston. two of the alleged spies lived here in arlington in this no frills apartment complex as husband and wife. neighbors say they had children and were shocked to hear spies may be living among them here in the suburbs
river. no problems as you make your way up from braddock to 66. everything is moving well. outer loop is the same. 95 in virginia, we are not seeing any issues there as drivers make their way from dumfries. you start to slow down as you make your way all the way to lorton from prince william parkway. that s a ten-minute drive and 7100 to 644 and finally finish up with our graphic. metro no problems there. vre, everything is on time. one train on the marc line that is running late. beyond? right now loudoun county police are looking for a missing 12-year-old girl. she s been missing since 8 listen hundred last night. this is a picture of her. she lives along cottonham court in sterling, virginia. she was last seen in a blue t- shirt and blue da spree style jeans. she has black hair in a pony tail. if you have seen her call the loudoun county sheriffs office. it sounds like a cold war tale. the fbi says it busted a ring of russian spies here in the u.s. some of them lived in
that left passengers stranded again. four teenagers killed on the roads in days. the message from two survivors as two brothers are remembered. captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org we began with a story you would expect to see in a movie. nearly a dozen people are under arrest for spying for russia. the fbi arrested 10 people in four stage. in four states. they were trying to john gonzales has more on this story. we understand the group used cold war tactics like morse code. 10 russian spies, three of which were reined in alexandria today. they would conduct their meetings everywhere from restaurants to random d.c. street corners. this person is shocked to learn and she has been living next to a couple that had false identities. neighbors know them as they russian parents. i talked to them and it sounded like they had a russian accent. they believe they were running undercover assignments to obtain the permission on nuclear assignments.
video store. reporter: an an arson dog was found in. but investigators will pull in surveillance video for the possibility the fire was set. my neighbor s stores are burned. reporter: and he owns the jewelry business farthest from the fire. the building has to be rewired and there may be structural damage. the fire department said the roof trusses over the effected part are bowing. reporter: investigators may determine the cause of the fire by tomorrow. i mel ex trevino where a dead plant could be the blame for a fire. rosemary dire found her deck damaged. the plant holder was a material that catches fire very quickly. reporter: frederick county fire marshall said her rectangular plant holder resembled this one. the dry grass-like material inside ignited. excessive heat and it s believe the straw type material heated up enough it was ignited. its plant was dried because we were on vacation for a week and when i came back the plant was dry and hanging and