bomber wearing a suicide vest was an afghan national army officer who walked inside the base gym and blew himself up. it s believed this is the deadliest single attack on u.s. intelligence personal in the war. a deadly day two for the canadian military. four soldiers and a journalist were killed by a roadside bo. the soldiers were conducting a community security patrol in order to gather information on the pattern of life and maintain security in the area. reporter: the was the bloodiest attack in all of 2009. 34-year-old michelle lang, the reporter, is the first canadian journalist to die in afghanistan. u.s. officials say they have no independent confirmation that the suicide bomber who killed the americans was a member of the afghan military. annvesgation is under way as to how he got past security at the post, which serves as an operations and surveillance center for the cia. but the u.s. has hired about 200 afghans to help with security at that base. again, according
are next with news4 at 6:00. a man convicted of setting an 83-year-old woman on fire to cover-up check fraud got his sentence today. the d.c. council considering tough, new rules to ensure that wild animals found in people s homes are treated compassionately rather than killed. a catholic bishop says he asked congressman patrick kennedy to stop receiving communion because of the lawmaker s stance on abortion. home sales surged for the second month in a row in october climbing to the highest level in 2 1/2 years. good evening. i m doreen gentzler. and i m jim vance. that increase in sales came as first-time buyers rushed to take advantage of an expiring tax credit. despite those new numbers there s still plenty of rough economic news out there. president obama s having to deal with it as he heads into the holiday season. steve handelsman on capitol hill now with more on this. steve? reporter: jim, thanks. it is pretty grim economic news today especially on jobs but
a burning body, investiga r investigators make a disturbing find. plus a final good-bye for a soldier killed in the massacre at ft. hood. and an expert set to give her opinion on the new mammograms guidelines. on this monday, it s the 23rd day of november, 2009. let s take a live look outside right now. we have clouds forming above up. 48 degrees here in the nation s capital. and meteorologist tom curon is here with a look at today s forecast. did you have a good weekend? i did. i had a great time. i looked over and bob ryan was there, too. hey, what are you doing here? it was great. i had a good time and i hope you had a great weekend. it s 48 in washington. 40s all around the region now. as we look at the view from space and the radar, you can see the color moving rain. now moving in from virginia, southern west virginia. low pressure is going to be tracking along the atlantic coast and giving us occasional showers from late morning off and on into the afternoon.
the red skings never as you the end zone in dallas and this was actually the cowboys only touchdown. but, it was the only one they needed to down a redskin squad that led nearly the entire game. good sunday. i m craig melvin. it was never all that pretty but after all the redskins anticipation chronic problems and their inability to put pointds on the board continues to be the team s incurable cancer. tough to win profootball games with goals. keith is with hakim is with us. blow ousts are stuff into it s against the dallas cowboys and it s a hated rival. it just hurts for the redskins and for most of the game the redskins looked like the better team. but you know how that works. looks can be deceiving. it gets worse. ladell torn his mcl which will likely sideline him for the rest of the season. this news after clinton portis was ruled out for next week. dallas squeaks by, 7-6. skins up 6-0 with a chance to make it 9-0. shaun is up and it s no good. his second missed fiel
this morning on early today, hospital takeover. the obama administration will seize considered too big to fail. twin car bombings rock the iraqi capital leaving 150 dead. lost in translation. dallas police wrongly ticket drivers for not speaking dallas police wrongly ticket drivers for not speaking english. captions paid for by nbc-universal television hello and good morning, everyone. i m dan kloeffler. today we begin with the harder they fall. the government ask set to tackle one of the most complicated and precare yois aspects of the nation s financial system. the massive firms and companies that have become too big to fail. backed by the treasury department, barney frank will introduce a measure for companies to hold more cash reserves and make it harder for them to borrow too heavily against their assets, all part of an effort to limit the risk taking that not too long ago nearly crippled the u.s. economy. according to the times, the measure would make it easie