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call police if you have any questions. today opening statements begin in the case of two volunteer firefighters. they re charged with assault and misconduct. prosecutors say in 2015 miller and kelly responded to a house fire in high yates chill. a fight broke out when the volunteers blocked the door to the burning home so members of the career company couldn t go in before the volunteers. the trial is expected to last about four days. heather cook was driving drunk and texting when she hit and killed a bicyclist in 2014. she was supposed to spend seven years in prison. today she ll ask the parole board. they told our baltimore affiliate that they are angry she could be released so early. we re working to shine a light on student trafficking. if you have the internet in your house, your child could be talking to a predator right now. running away, skipping school and having a cell phone that you or your child did not purchase are a few of the warning signs to work ....
route 50 and pointed a gun at them. despite the charges, the police department is standing by the officer. bureau chief tracee wilkins joins us to explain what s going on here. tracee? reporter: this is an officer who is already under investigation for an incident that happened on route 50 last year. now just last month. now he s looking at charges associated with this incident as well. the police department says that this is an officer who worked hard has made arrests here and was once officer of the year. he s actually been very calm and collected in some of the most serious situations. that s why the chief of the station can t imagine that officer travis ala loses control behind the wheel. it was not an officer with disciplinary issues with. complaints of excessive force or things like that. he s in fact to the opposite. today, ala was indiepted by a grand jury and facing charges along with a weapons charge after he allegedly tailgated a family s vehicle ....
include speeding up the hiring of more than 700 officers by this summer. maximizing overtime and adding k-9 teams to help screen people. we will work to bring on more resources to meet the increased demand. but we will keep at our principal job, protection of the american people. congressman john micah who chairs the transportation committee isn t convinced this will keep the line dragging on. they need to staff the traffic. they can t get that right. airlines know how many people are coming in and how many planes. airports do. they manage it. but t.s.a. can t get it right. in addition to overtime and the officers t.s.a. says there is something you can do as well. next time you travel double check carry on item to follow 311 rules to get rid of any prohibited items. it would be nice. i don t think the idea of having to wait in safety nothing bad about having patience. leon: covering metro we have learned the first significant change will come in two weeks. may ....
you ll find lots of scandily clad young women, often in provocative poses and tight shirts. guy morgan runs the office of professional standards. at the fairfax county fire and rescue department, which investigates workplace misconduct. here s the guy placing judgment on us for the inappropriateness of our actions and things we do. and we take a look at the profile page. and you know, it doesn t just doesn t add up. mike molar is the president of the virginia professional firefighters association and has been a fairfax county firefighter for 40 years. he said he told fire chief richard bowers about the picture weeks ago, after the suicide of nicole mitten dover. people who claimed to be firefighters had harassed and slandered mittendorf online. i don t think there is a pervasive sexual harassment. firefighters are upset with guy morgan s pictures. the pictures i saw. and the pictures i showed the fire chief were lewd and lascivious. vulgarity. boswell also ....
it is intoxicating home brew made famous by some rappers and today it sent a dozen middle school students to the hospital after drinking after a a cocktail. we have more outside the francis scott middle school in silver spring to tell us more about this. well, if you are in the hiphop culture, it is probably a good bet you are familiar with this stuff but for the rest of us, if you got a middle schooler, there is something you need to know about, the disruption at the school today, a measure of how nasty this stuff can be. rescuers sent to francis scott middle school at 10:45 this morning. we did evaluated 12 to 15 students and transported six, they had ingested the mixture of alcohol and other things. seen on youtube kids mixing up a it has been pop lied by rappers including 36 mafia. the brew that turned up here was brought from home according to school officials who said that trips to the hospital for six were out of an abundance of caution. that is no good. ....