centered around two missions, continuing to train afghan troops and pursuing counterterrorism operations against al qaeda. new details are emerging about the deadly u.s. bombing at an afghan hospital. the associated press reports u.s. special operations new the hospital s protected status. is not clear if american commanders had that intelligence for work. 22 people died in the attack which doctors without borders has condemned as a war crime. president obama has apologized, calling the attack a mistake. that a bethesda soldier tackle the suicide bomber in afghanistan is being awarded the medal of honor. president obama will present the highest honor to retired captain groberg, he saw a suspicious man your dignitaries he was protecting. when he pushed a man away he realized he was wearing a suicide best so he tackled the man, causing the best to explode. a second bomber then detonated nearby. .the action save more than a dozen lives we talked to the captain when he returned h
21-year-old deandre smith from montgomery village. there is a dumpster and a signed tilted on its side. the gunfiree happened. a witness said he saw the whole thing while he was cowering in his car parked nearby. ries of anguish at this gaithersburg shopping center, now a homicide scene. it just happened so fast. it was kind of scary. richard: a witness saw the gunfire at 5:50 thursday night in this back parking lot. he saw the victim surrounded by five teenagers. there was an argument and then one of them pulled a gun. they argued, and it happened so fast. i do not know what they argued for. from the beginning to the shooting took two minutes. richard: the witness heard four to five gunshots. after a medical examination, they determined the person was a man who was badly wounded. they found the victim suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the head. the detectives do not believe this was a random shooting. he died at the hospital. officers searched rooftops, garbage
picked up by the cops. japheth newman and two others charged in connection with the crime. nobody breaks into a house at 3:00 in the morning without thinking that people are inside. they also brought along the tools to implement the crime. reporter: brandon paul and is the mayor of indianhead, and he s the youngest player in the state of maryland. he knows jason newman and he says he s shocked and we ll hear from the mayor coming up at 5:00, now back to you. former house speaker dennis hastert will plead guilty in an apparent hush money case. he s accused of lying to the fbi about bank withdrawals. hester planned to give more than $3 million to a man to hide claims of past misconduct. sources tell nbc news that man was a student at a high school where hastert worked and the misconduct was sexual in nature. it s unclear if hastert s plea deal includes jail time. a woman from virginia is about to face charges on swindling a powerful state senator, but people who donated
alexandria section of fairfax county where police are searching for a hit and run driver who mowed down an elderly man last night it happened in this area of franconia road near brooklyn avenue. not far from edison high school. it happened just before 11:00 p.m. we are about two lights down from the big intersection of franconia and south van dorn. the 69-year-old was crossing and stopped in the unprotected median to wait for passing traffic. that s when he was hit. the driver left the scene. the injured man died. i think this intersection really there s a lot of things to be improved on as far as, you know, the police over here directing traffic to just people aggressive drivers. now, fairfax county police don t have much to go on. all they know is that the striking vehicle may have been a white van, possibly white. not even exactly sure on the color, or some sort of box truck. if you know anything, give fairfax county crime solvers a call. residents have told me in
tonight back on october 3. learning that the u.s. special operations and their analysts, they knew the facility was a hospital, but suspected it was being used to coordinate the taliban activity. the group denies any activity at that hospital. killing 10 patients and 12 workers. rewarded that metal of honor at the white house ceremony next month. their army captain, they will be recognized for his actions in afghanistan. where he attended high school. hey andrea. hey jan. he graduated from walter johnson and the university of maryland. a track and cross country star earning the military s highest honors. reporter: when a suicide bomber approached the captain, his brigade commander and the coalition forces that he was assigned to protect, that he never thought about himself. i ve got to get in that way. i have to get him away from the boss, from everybody. reporter: he shoved that enemy with every ounce of force that he could mustard. he was laying on the ground and