And investigators want to know if pilots were customers. News 4s chief Investigative Reporter broke the story on nbc new york. Com and our camera was the only one in court. Reporter dea agents say this doctor was a major oxycodone supplier for years, writing prescription after prescription, 100 a pop. No questions asked. Dr. Gerald sirio led into court in handcuffs, accused of turning his jfk airport medical practice into an illegal pillpushing mill. Investigators say they have him on tape. The videos show no discussions of legitimate medical treatment. But instead, show the doctor negotiating the price, quantity and type of drug to prescribe. Reporter dea agents searched his officers at jfk where in one year alone, hes accused of writing over 1200 bogus iprescriptions. Its at that medical office where he screened pilots for signs of mental illness, medical problems, and addiction issues before certifying them as being fit to fly. Dr. Surya made media appearances. Those can be indicati
Heroic acts. Breaking news in oklahoma. This has been a significant tornado outbreak. And it may not be over yet. Interstates closed schools locked down an airport evacuated twice. How long the tornado threat could stretch into the night. News4 at 11 00 starts now. A veteran d. C. Firefighter among the first to the top of a highrise with flafrom the windows. Lieutenant kevin mcrae made it all the way out before he suddenly collapsed and died this morning. One woman says his last act saved her sisters life. Our Jackie Benson at engine 6 in northwest d. C. Now jackie . Reporter jim, she told me that she wants to make sure his children know he is a hero. When d. C. Fire engine 6 approached the highrise building they saw this deadly flames bursting from the windows on the top two floors. From his 24 years of experience, fire lieutenant kevin mcrae knew the building. He knew there were especially Vulnerable People up there, seniors and disabled people some of them in wheelchair some possibl
Term fixes as they kick the can down the road. And thats what the mark set expecting. Further moves down the road rather than a deal. Right. You wont get the big deal. I dont think you will get that grand bargain, bob. We may get some kind of deal that avoid the worst consequence he of the sequester. I think that likely to happen. Always the eternal optimist. Ty, back to you. Sue, thank you very much. Shop until you drop. At least for the month of january. Big name retailers reporting strong january sales after offering new merchandise. This despite consumers taking a hit to take home pay to higher payroll taxes which is part of the fiscal cliff resolution. Courtney reagan here on the retail beat. Hi, courtney. Welcome back from dallas. January an interesting month. It is promotional. Make way for full price spring merchandise. But that means many goods sold are sold at rock bottom prices that replaces it. Of the 18 drugstore retailers, Thompson Reuters has a gain of 5. 8 , year over y
Off here. Traffic is not being allowed. It has not been allowed to enter this, you know, fourblock radius of west florissant for the past, oh, id say, 14 hours or so now. Its been blocked off. Were told its blocked off because it is still being considered a crime scene. This is, of course, where last night gunshots rang out. There were a number of the stores were looted here. One, two, three four were set on fire as well. In fact, behind me, we just saw in the past ten minutes or so, we just saw some workers arrive to set up some fencing around whats left of that Public Storage facility. We are expecting more protests tonight. In fact, weve already seen a handful of organized protests so far today. There was one over in clayton. Nothing like what we saw last night. Largely peaceful. Much smaller as well. Again, expecting to see more of that over the course of the afternoon and evening. More than 80 people arrested. 15 buildings set on fire. Dozens more than that vandalized and looted.
Pledges about creating thousands of manufacturing jobs may all be crumbling tonight. Plus, a wild account about how some trump aide os heard a pitch before they actually did. We will get to that. We begin with breaking news. [ music playing ] a new filing from bob mueller is shaking things up tonight right now. And this has new allegations against russian operatives who are trying to gain the u. S. Legal system, mislead the American Public and even undermine the Mueller Probe. Now, were reporting this right now because mueller put it out right now. The allegations that lawyers and representatives of an indicted Russian Internet company are now taking information that they gleaned, specifically from the Mueller Probe, altering it and trying to disseminate it throughout america. Now, weve all heard the cliche before americas enemies try to use americas strengths against us. Like youve heard leaders say terrorists exploit our open society or propagandaists use the freedom of speech to unc