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here people say it s brought back a flood of memories. in the days after the 9/11 attacks, rockville resident argit singh sodhi s brother was killed and days later lost a second brother. the suspect in both shootings claim they were avenging attacks against america. i lost two brothers. my message is no more hate crime. when the hate crime comes, it s not affecting one person, one family. it affects a whole community. people don t have the understanding of the richness of our faith and how we have been part and parcel of america for the last 100 years. rockville has never been target of a hate crime. however, in light of what happened in wisconsin, leaders at the center say they are considering increasing security. hundreds marched in downtown silver spring this weekend in support of the maryland dream act. this is controversial legislation which allows undocumented immigrants to pay in state tuition at state universities. many ever the demonstrators say the ....
the problem happened along this stretch of u.s. 1. five hotels involved. female officers would post messages on internet websites and then when the johns showed up here, they would get nabbed. they also arrested prostitutes. officers used the more traditional method of having undercover male officers solicit prostitutes. as you said since the sting began on august 1st, 70 people were arrested. let s take a look at some of the pictures that prince george s police posted on their website of folks being arrested. of the 70 arrested, the oldest male customer 64. the youngest prostitute 19. assistant police chief kevin davis says this is a problem that s been going along for years along this stretch of u.s. 1. the prostitutes and the johns aren t going away, which now leads us to a place where we want to engage the hotel business community in more of a responsible business practices to dissuade prostitutes, pimps and johns from doing business in prince george s county. r ....
to dissuade prostitutes, pimps and johns from doing business in prince george s county. reporter: some of the ways that they re suggesting this be done is not taking cash, not renting rooms by the half hour or the hour, making sure they get i.d. from all of the people renting rooms, and checking the license tags on vehicles that are parked on the premises. now, police have not identified the five hotels where these arrests went down. possibly because the sting operation, bruce, is still ongoing. a lot of activity on a saturday night. we ve seen a lot of officers driving up and down this portion of u.s. 1, and it could be in the next few days, more names are added to this list of 70. by the way, we should say that none of the people arrested had any links whatsoever to the university of maryland. reporting live in college park, i m armando trull. thanks, armando. it was fan appreciation day out at redskins park. more than 24,000 turned out to see the home team. ....
supporters in arlington. we re going to celebrate another victory in the commonwealth city. reporter: congressman rallies in reston. we need to balance out southern virginia. it is good to be back in virginia! reporter: some political analysts say mr. obama has to win convincingly in northern virginia. he doesn t need to win northern virginia, he needs to crush romney in northern virginia. reporter: george mason university associate professor jeremy mayer adds there are few paths to victory for romney that doesn t involve taking virginia. and someone who could throw the race off kilter for romney is vir jill goud who spent 12 years in the house. the conservative is gathering signatures to get on the ballot as a third party candidate, he s widely known in the southern part of the state and many argue a vote for him takes away from romney. governor mitt romney s got the right approach to turn this state and this country around. reporter: supporters are c ....
. right now at 10:00, arrested, alexandria police chief charged with driving drunk. the future up in the air tonight. sarah palin now an ex- governor. new tonight, her final speech before stepping aside for a fresh start. the fox 5 storm force tracking the potential for powerful summer showers. did the washington region dodg mother nature s wrath? we re tracking max hd radar in a moment. we begin with the unfolding story in virginia. alexandria s top cop arrested taken into custody by arlington county police. thanks for joining us. i m will thomas. i m sarah simmons in for maureen tonight. the chief is charged with driving drunk with a blood alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit. david baker crashed his vehicle into another last night. the other driver was sent to the hospital and chief baker was sent to jail. reporter: according to the arlington county police, alexandria police chief david baker crashed a city-owned ford explorer into ano ....