california, president obama called romney out of touch on economics. for pushing the same less tax, less regulation plan of george w. bush. most good business people i know if something doesn t work they do something different. so he must either think that there s going to be a different result or he s hoping you don t remember what happened the last time we tried it his way. reporter: romney promises a difference from president obama. in his new ad day one, ending the obama era of big government. helping secure our kids futures. reporter: 166 days until the election. most of those days, campaigning will be in the battleground states where today s nbc news/maris poll shows that this contest is getting closer. steve handelsman, news4. a second former aide to d.c. mayor vicinity gray pleaded guilty an hour ago. howard brooks was arrested yesterday. news4 s tom sherwood joins from us d.c. superior court with the details of the plea. tom? reporter: the u.s. attorne
a local woman describes the experience. the feds say they break up a major drug ring and charge one defendant with distributing drugs to a local high school. this is 9news now. the most terrifying 15 seconds of his life. that s how one man describes the turbulence on board a flight today from miami to reagan national. that incident sent about a half dozen people to the hospital and forced that plane to land in has been following the story. he is live with reagan national with the scary details. reporter: the plane passengers included a group of students from bethesda chevy chase high school. little did they know the trip home would turn into the ride of their lives. american airlines flight 734 left miami around 4:00 this afternoon on its way to reagan national. but just a few minutes into the flight, as the plane was passing above the georgia-florida border, it encountered severe turbulence leading to what passengers are calling an extremely frightening experience.
what did we learn on the show tonight, craig? [meow] [laughter] craig: we didn t learn that much i guess. i think the glittery ball thing needs a little bit of work. [laughter] and so does that. [laughter] i ve run over now, haven t i? that s what i wanted to do. good night, everybody. good night. . right now, passengers on a flight to dc are recovering some terrifying turbulence that foshsed an emergency landing. forced an emergency landing. we ll update the injuries. also tonight, when you have small kids, the last thing you want to see in your back yard is a four foot tall bear. a local woman describes the experience. the feds say they break up a major drug ring and charge one defendant with distributing drugs to a local high school. this is 9news now. the most terrifying 15 seconds of his life. that s how one man describes the turbulence on board a flight today from miami to reagan national. that incident sent about a half dozen people to the hospital an