Action News Delaware valleys leading news program. With rick williams, sara bloomquist, and meteorologist, david murphy. Good afternoon we begin with breaking news in Montgomery County, a firefighter is in cust after he allegedly held four other firefighters hostage in elkins park. Chopper 6 hd was over head when that firefighter was taken into custody. Police responded there just before 11 00 this morning and a man came up with his hands up about an hour later. Vernon odom just arrived on the scene. Reporter i am live at willow and penrose can you look up the street and see it now the situation is relaxing now, the one suspect has been arrested according to Police Reports at 10 40 this morning a gunman got into the building and took four firefighters hostage and held them there for some time. We watched this drama play out here this morning, Cheltenham Police guns drawn and s. W. A. T. Team at one point they enterred through the garage door, they brought the first person out we believ
Cell phone to make threatening calls. That led police to his tv appearances. Police also found video of cole on one of the buses that was the target of his threats. It was earlier this month when kidd cole was caught getting on a bus without paying that police asked him about the point, he confessed. Today as he was en route to jail he said that he had chest pains. He was transported to the hospital immediately. Subsequently he was release asked were following up with another interview and it will be going to court tomorrow. Reporter now there is no indication police say that these threats had anything to do with this mtv reality show. Any way a punt stunt last year id can cole was arrest in the virginia for defrauding the university for a concert he was paid to promote but never came off. Back to you. Thanks. Developing tonight, nbc news has learned that live samples of the deadly anthrax bacteria have accidentally been shipped to Research Labs in several states including maryland and
We are going to tell a story out of school that predates 9 11. Thats getting involved with the fbi and it is a neonazi was wanted for murder in germany was hiding out at the compound in west virginia. The marshals that decided and went into the town disguised the good boys for the trip and at the same time a group of fbi agents looking quite official came into the town. They have been in former. This fbi agent kept leaving his file around about the informant and mike being mike tried very hard to find a Common Ground and the agents apparently were not that interested in it and they said wait a second, we have to talk this out. They left the room and they left this file sitting on the desk and they came back and ended the fbi agent started talking about how this was an fbi operation and they had a secret inside that no one could talk about. They took it out of the water and said do you mean this guy cracks. Its just you have that on the case and you try your best to work it out mutually
Allowing for the inevitable exaggeration from hollywood, what do you think the authenticity is . I know who the Technical Advisor is and i also know there is a story in the book by the deputy that did the case that has been reenacted on the tv show so you have that part of it. Told them that case. It was not long ago where the character goes and he is going after this guy to arrest him and he jumps out of a window and gets away. This actually happened in los angeles to a group of deputy marshals i think on the fourth floor of an apartment and they were not worried about him getting out the back of the peacock out of the back because there was a tree. He put on the leg and took off. There are those. I was at a function last night and my wife was with me. What is her name . I dont remember. Ive watched one episode. [inaudible] the story of mike told that was unjustified this year about the computer genius who threw his leg down out of the window and shut me down the deputies started to r
As Angela Bassett and Robert De Niro will drobing congressman john less which obviously having a very pivotal role in the civil rights movement, the first president of an organization when he was a very young man. He was very instrumental in helping to get that legislation passed in 2003 when president george w. Bush would will also be speak being momentary try to sign that legislation to make and release funding for that new africanamerican museum there at the smithsonian. When that happens well dip into it. Meantime its 11 00 eastern hour. Were live here from Hofstra University, site of the first president ial debate just two days away now. Im Fredricka Whitfield. Newsroom starts right now. All right. This breaking news we continue to monitor the developments out in Washington State. Well of course get back to politics here but first i want to update you on the breaking news that weve been following since late last night. At any moment we expect to hear from police who are in the mid