Travelers this holiday season. Today the busiest day this week for airline travel. The lightest day will be Christmas Day and new years eve. Folks traveling on those days, they shouldnt have to deal with too much in terms of crowds. The rule of thumb is to arrive early to make sure you dont have any problems. The suggestion is to arrive two hours early just to make sure you get on that plane. Everything is pretty well booked. If you were to miss your flight, youd have difficulty rebooking. Get there a little early and go to one of the restaurants here at national airport. This is one of my favorite live shot locations because theres so many great amenities, coffee, restaurants. Oh, yeah. Spend all your money. They got doughnuts there. I love those. Thanks so much, megan. Hopefully, it stays nice and quiet and stressfree the rest of the day. Thank you so much. Look, a lot of the way to the airport. But at dulles, united is working to make the experience a little easier. I think this is
Now more than ever. So we want to give you an idea of how police are trained in the use of force tactics. Of course, it varies by department. But we discovered its a pretty complex series of judgment calls. Now, we reached out to a couple of different agencies. Prince georges county police invited Aaron Gilchrist to see how officers get a person under control. Reporter its a training scenario every officer goes through every year, making the call on drawing a gun and firing on a suspect. Officers are taught to consider several other steps before a bullet ever leaves the chamber. To be able to use force to protect citizens, protect themselves, enforce the laws. Reporter the sergeant runs the specialized training unit, the use of force team. He says training starts in the classroom, ethics, constitutional law, and videos of whats right and whats not. In the field, he says an officers professional presence is usually enough to defuse a situation, as the officers showed us. Domestic assaul
House. Groberg received a medal of honor for his actions in 2012. His group was escorting senior military officials when they were approach by a suicide bomber. Another soldier tackled him and the bombers vest detonated. Four americans were killed but the soldiers actions saved the lives of many others. President obama noted groberg said it was the worst day of his life. Thats precisely why we honor heroes like him, because on his very worst day he managed to summon his very best. Im grateful to have been given the opportunity to serve my country. This medal belongs to the true heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice and didnt come home. The medal of honor is the nations highest military honor. It is awarded for valor in battle above and beyond the call of duty. Captain go better invited h r invited his former track coaches and what they saw when they saw he medal of honor. Reporter at bethesda high school, to the high school. He was seriously wounded and four others were killed. His he
Now more than ever. So we want to give you an idea of how police are trained in the use of force tactics. Of course, it varies by department. But we discovered its a pretty complex series of judgment calls. Now, we reached out to a couple of different agencies. Prince georges county police invited Aaron Gilchrist to see how officers get a person under control. Reporter its a training scenario every officer goes through every year, making the call on drawing a gun and firing on a suspect. Officers are taught to consider several other steps before a bullet ever leaves the chamber. To be able to use force to protect citizens, protect themselves, enforce the laws. Reporter the sergeant runs the specialized training unit, the use of force team. He says training starts in the classroom, ethics, constitutional law, and videos of whats right and whats not. In the field, he says an officers professional presence is usually enough to defuse a situation, as the officers showed us. Domestic assaul
Back at that Church Parking lot today, investigators deployed a bloodhound to pick up the trail of that potential suspect. This is the last known sighting of that man and theyre trying to figure out why he brought the stolen car here and what he did after he set fire to it. That was pot collins reporting. And the longtime housekeeper of the family just talked to Megan Fitzgerald about her colleague dying in the home. Megan megans in the newsroom with that part of story. Reporter the woman didnt want to be identified on camera and refer to her as nelly. Nelly has been working for the homeowners for more than two decades. She owns the cleaning company and allowed her friend to work with her at the home so she could make a living. Nelly called her friend vera. Nelly says vera was a close friend of hers and hard working and loved life. Vera came to this country from el salvador to earn money before retiring next year. She said she wanted to work for the family and planned to get off of wor