More like december tonight, but we may soon see another round of warm weather. Well begin with a disturbing discovery at a high school in fairfax. Thanks for joining us tonight. Im brian bolter. Im shawn yancy. Administrators found a loaded gun in robinson secondary school. Fox 5s Audrey Barnes has the latest from the newsroom. Fairfax county schools have an email alert system called keep in touch. Thats how parents found out about a gun found at secondary school at robinson. School officials immediately le rachel shrineman has three kids at the school and was instantly concerned when she received an email alert about the discovery. I have a 7th grader who didnt really know what had happened. My 10th grader had heard, but it was dealt with so quickly that i think the kids felt very safe and i havent seen my 12th grader yet today. Reporter investigators say there was an ammunition magazine in the weapon, but they didnt release any other details about what led them to the locker. Of cour
Countrys Credit Rating in the new year. Each day toward the fiscal cliff is also another day closer to the country maxing out on its borrowing limit. President obama talked to Business Leaders today. The only thing that the debt ceiling is good for as a weapon is to destroy your Credit Rating. Reporter hes worried republicans may re newsto raise the countrys debt ceiling to get their way on spending cuts and risk defaulting on the countrys loans. That is a bad strategy for america. Its a bad strategy for your businesses. And it is not a game that i will play. Reporter republicans are pushing back. Hes the president , not the emperorer. Reporter fiscal cliff negotiations have been at a stand still since monday when republicans proposed raising revenue by closing tax loopholes, not by raising rates on the rich as the president has insisted. Were not insisting rates just out of spite, but rather because we need to raise a certain amount of revenue. We cant just keep borrowing money, raisi
And the hearing on the First Responders. Its only a matter of hours before we know why firefighters failed to help a dying man who was just steps away from their station. News4 will be at a hearing regarding the questions of the breakdown of communication between d. C. Emergency responders. Tommy wells is leading the oversight hearing which starts at 2 00. The focus, the five firefighters who failed to help 77yearold medrick mills who died from a heart attack outside of their station. In addition to hearing from mills son, the mom of a man who died in a similar situation four years ago will also testify today. Stay with news4 and nbcwashington. Com for the very latest developments to come out of this hearing. Barbara . Thank you, angie. Another controversy surrounding ambulance response times may also come up at that meeting. Its a story you saw first on news4 at 11 00. Sources tell us a fire truck had to take a toddler to a hospital because an ambulance wasnt nearby. The toddler was h
Deals with Sexual Assault. A comes after a day of tense debate that is dividing even strong allies. Rebecca cooper is in the newsroom with the latest. President obama has not weighed in but other Top Democrats have and they are sharply divided. Harry reid supports the bill. The Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman carl levin strongly opposes it. Today as the debate laid out on the senate for, we talked to a victim who fought back and is teaming up with senate advocates to try to change the system. The initiald was whistleblower in the tailhook scandal. I was attacked in a Hotel Hallway by probably several hundred naval aviators. She was a navy the tenant and was the first courageous enough to speak out. What happened to me in that assault was shocking and i was completely unprepared for that kind of behavior. Criminal behavior. Even worse is what happened when i described the attack and the event to my boss and he said that is what you get. He blamed her for choosing to be a woman
Workers who like pham had had contact with Thomas Eric Duncan before his death. Of those 76 individuals, all will be monitored for fever or symptoms on a daily basis. Reporter part of the fight to save phams life and prevent the spread of the deadly virus. And one of those being monitored is a friend of phams who had contact with the nurse, and now has been protectively moved into the Isolation Unit here. Jay gray, nbc news, dallas. The increased awareness about ebola is leading to a number of false alarms. And that includes a brief scare in virginia. A patient at Vcu Medical Center in richmond tested negative for ebola. The woman was placed in isolation last night because she had a fever and recently returned from liberia. A man taken to Holy Cross Hospital in germantown in maryland does not have ebola. He recently traveled to africa and then developed aches and a fever. He was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. They say it was out of an abundance of caution yesterday. The hospital