spon dense in retaliation. as the transcript reflects i offered to take the matter to capitol hill police to open an investigation. today the capitol hill police reached out to me and offered to launch an investigation. and ana, he now says he has accepted an offer for that investigation. and also this morning, sunlen, democratic congressman john conyers of michigan is facing new harassment allegations. what can you tell us about that? that s right. this comes from a former staffer of the congressman, her name is melanie slone, and she says she was verbally abused and harassed by conyers. slone does not think importantly, she was sexually harassed. she thinks the behavior was inappropriate, recalls one instance where he called her into his office and he would then in his underwear in front of her. conyers lawyer says all of in the midst of not only this allegation of harassment but there have been other allegation
it on the fire to put it out. that was very important particularly where you have telecommunication companies benefiting from that great short-term economic impact, but in other areas, they have used this to get through a drought and derek and irrigate their crops, literally and figuratively. it is not so much of the money spent in the short term but how do you harvest from that, what did you take away from that? some areas, they re going to have very super nice broad band networks and they will not do squad. other areas are going to have modernized networks and they re going to do amazing things with it. the challenge going forward is to how to help them do amazing things with this technology. i want to thank everyone on behalf of the hudson institute. this has been an extraordinary discussion. i want to thank larry thompson, greg laudeman, harold furchtgott-roth and the great people at c-span for carrying today s events. thank you very much. [applause] [captioning perfo
and i m not like everyone else. it gave her total confidence. her grades started getting better. she started becoming more outgoing. she started laughing, joking more. reporter: knowing her best friend is always at her side. in gaithersburg, beth parker, fox 5 news. dogs are amazing creatures displz the news keeps coming. will is in for brian on the news edge at 11:00. a disturbing story off the top. a teenager sold into prostitution in a cross-country crime. tonight her accused suspected pims are behind bars. she went back and forth between new york and prince william county before she managed to escape. fox 5 s maureen umeh is in the newsroom to explain how it all went down. reporter: the 17-year-old was being held in a prince william county hotel where police say she was abused and forced to turn tricks but a few days ago she apparently saw her chance to escape and went for it. it was a desperate run for help. shocking. it s just disturbing. reporter: prince