anthony was a star play or the pg chargers football team. his mother the team mom. even though their opponents didn t show up, the chargers held practice anyway in anthony s honor. they say that is what he would want them to do that had the the they hit the field without number 55. the 11-year-old anthony and his two-year-old brother were killed in a fiery crash on route 50. they were passengers in their mom s car when it was rear ended spec nighted. trapping and killing then. i can t think of a day in the last six months i didn t see them. to think they would never see them again is extremely difficult. reporter: like they do any time a player is injured, anthony s teammates took a knee to honor him and to pray for his mother who was also a teen mom. they heard her every day. my heart goes out to her. a great mother like that to lose both of her kids in an accident. i can t explain to you how she facility this morning. she didn t know and that is what hurts the most.
the clothes hagar, assailant cutting the pants. those pats were shown to the jury by the officer who testified about collecting them at the hospital. o brien noticed a cut on norwood s hander a cut thee thought could have come from a cut he thought could have come from a knife sliding whole they were using it of the the officer admitted in his report the cut appeared to be a defensive wound. the officer told the court i let my empathy formis norwood overwhelm me as the prosecution laid the case, they called a nurse to the stand who cared for her in the hospital. the laceration to the head was a scratch. she had scratches on her legs as well prosecutors believe the injuries norwooded she sustained inside the store were self-inflict. hager testified there were a lot of things odd. she said she was laying on her back for hours waiting to die but the blood ran down the front of her face. bob barnard was in the courtroom for the afternoon testimony. what happened? reporter:
flipped for rehearsal of the midnight ball drop in times square thursday. it took a small army of plows to clear the snow from a massive snowstorm. times square is finally ready and security for tonight s fess difts will bely tight. whit johnson is in times square with more. whit, good morning to you. terrell, good morning to you. happy new year. the new year s eve bash in times square has happened every year for more than a century and despite all the people crammed into just a few blocks, it s been a very safe event in recent years and new york city police say they are doing everything they can to keep it that way. nearly a million people are expected to pack new york s times square tonight. along with plenty of security. the cia, the fbi, all sorts of homeland security operatives will be here. reporter: no reported threats against the city so far, officials aren t taking any chances. thousands of extra police, bomb-sniffing dogs and even radiation detectors will be o
off the top, a developing story. months in the making. live pictures right now from the house floor on capitol hill. the working weekend, the landmark healthcare legislation is up for an historic vote. fox 5 is monitoring the debate all day. the vote could come at about any minute. they voting on an amendment. thank you for joining us. i m will thomas. i m murine u me. does the 1 fortunate $2 trillion package have $1.2 trillion package have enough votes to pass? matt has more. reporter: the debate has been happening all day long, and we re hearing from some experts there could be a vote within an hour. the number that nancy pelosi and most democrats are looking for tonight is 218 or more. that will pass this bill and send it on to the senate. running backs have been trying to go republicans have been trying to go after the democrats on the fence. if they re successful and vote the bill down, it could be months before another house bill is introduced, say house experts
by the feds and the local dealers who are still waiting on the governme for their cut of the deal. and the only person convicted in pan am flight attack is released. and hurricane bill probably won t hit the u.s. but it could impact your weekend at the beach. we are talking 20-foot waves in some places. fox 5 morning news starts right now. it is friday morning, august 21st, 2009. we are glad you re with us on this friday morning. and good morning to you. i m steve chenevey. and i m allison seymour. and we ll talk about some of those dangerous spots, ocean city might have some dangerous conditions because of bill. we ll see about that. and looking ahead, students of prince george s county schools head back to school on monday and we ll be joined by superintendent william hite later on. and coming up, the power of one comes hetfrom the power of two. we ll meet a local rabbi and a mom sharing the faith. and you ve probably seen her in knocked up, p ject gene s proj