a trip he financed with the money from beth. beth holloway is still searching for the same answers about her daughter from the same person she started with on day one. well, beth may have felt like this was her only chance. lately even areuben investigators have been in no hurry to get down there and talk to him because they feel it is unlikely that joran will tell them anything. >> thanks. >>> making a tough turn here, but, you know, sometimes you have to do news that, frankly, has no news value whatsoever. it's friday, why not? take a look. meet puggy. who is having the world's longest doggy tongue. that doesn't do it for you? okay, next, fluffy. at 24 feet this oddly named python is breaking records as the world's longest snake in captivity. >>> then there's anastasia a jack russell whose claim to fame is popping 100 balloons in less than 46 seconds. it's been a long week. a long, long week. that is going to do it for me, i'm chris jansing. alex, what is going on? what is your favorite? do you like anisetasia. >> anyway, we'l

unfortunately, i don't think beth is going to get closure. i think she will go to her grave looking for answers as to what happened to her

beth holloway hearing this has simply had enough. she went to peru, teamed up with the dutch tv crew, got inside that jail and let joran have it. >> i will proceed with every understand of energy i have and i'm not going to stop. >> reporter: that was beth holloway five years ago, her daughter had just disappeared in her high school graduation trip to aruba. today beth has kept her promise. has not stopped. this week headed down to the dusty hills outside lima, peru to castro castro prison, to confront joran face to face. beth with a dutch news crew got inside the lockup where joran is awaiting trial for murder. her attorney says for several minutes, beth holloway did all of the talking, very difficult emotionally for her, telling joran that the united states is still watching him, that whatever happened in peru, he still faces an indictment for extortion here, that if he knows something about what happened to natalee, it's time to tell it now, not ten years down the road, but now. and this, her lawyer says is what inspired beth's ja

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. >> reporter: when the congregation gathers at temple beth am to celebrate rosh hashanah, they will experience what jews have for centuries -- the blast of the shofar -- as a kind of wake-up call. >> tekiah. soun the shofar ] >> it's a reminder. it sends a shiver. we can be better than we are. and how do we approach god but with that strange cry in our ear and perhaps on our lip, and we come before god and we say, "who are we? what are we? remember what we could be and help us along." the glickmans, for three generations, have been our shofar blowers here in this congregation. >> reporter: marshall glickman became temple beth am's ba'al tekiah, or the one who souns the shofar, over 40 years ago. >> they used to time him because he could hold it so long, and they couldn't believe it. [ laughs ] he felt a commitment to his religion and a commitment to his god and to his congregation. he just felt like it was a gift that he was giving to the community and that he was the person through god giving that gift. at his funeral, there were over 800 people. >> when the funeral was over, when

beth haze thanks but no thanks. >> i don't think i'd be adopting that any time soon. >> i would make the same move. >> just gives me the creeps. not good. >>> this may sound good for you. a four-day workweek. >> sounds real good. it could save millions of dollars for virginia but is it really a good deal for state workers and people would rely on state services. >>> also check out myfoxdc.com with all the up to date results from last night's primaries. they are just a click away for you. it is now 5:22. ce >>> a proposal to save money in virginia could be a nice treat for employees. the commission is suggesting a four-day workweek for many state workers. >> that kind of change would have an impact on everybody in virginia, not just the employees. as beth parker shows us, the governor will now decide if this idea is a go. >> reporter: a flick of the switch could save money. virginia governor bob mcdonnell may give state employees a four- day workweek. >> i wish i could do that. >> that is four 10-hour days, fridays off. >> what it is supposed to prove? >> they are saying it would save

there's one apparently that says beth may have been kidnapped by gypsies? >> some of the information that's been released is not -- you know, they've checked out and some they've eliminated. but at the same time, this way leads that were given to us that had never been reported directly to the mipolice. and they're checking those leads, also. >> i know these past 45 years have had to be so difficult. you have a number of sub siblings obviously. how have weatheryou weathered ts not know something. >> you just have to go on with your life. there's soonly so much that you can do. you have a life to live and children to take care of and grandchildren. >> it seems like, though, none of you ever gave up hope of finding her. >> no, we actually didn't. we had no reason to believe that she wasn't out there and if there was anything in our power that we could do to bring her home, we would. >> it must have been a roller coaster ride at least initially with the police involved and wondering if you'd ever see her again. when something like this comes up, a development,

beth parker is live with more on what the president had to say. beth? >> reporter: well, shawn, the president might be washington's most famous parent, but his children don't attend d.c. public schools o. "the today show," a woman from florida asked obama a question getting to the point. she wanted to know if he thought his girls could get as good an education in the d.c. public schools as they get in private school. >> i'll be blunt with you, the answer is no right now. the d.c. public school systems are struggling. now, they have made important strides over the last several years to move in the direction of reform. >> right. >> and there are terrific individual schools in the d.c. system, and that is true, by the way n every city across the country. >> reporter: now, test scores have jumped significantly since 2007, when major reforms began in d.c., even so, less than half of the students in d.c. public schools are reading and doing math at grade level. dcps released a statement saying they're proud of their progress and promise it will continue. the

i'm beth parker, back to you. >> that's awful, beth. at this point what else do we know about this family? >> reporter: neighbors tell us they had, about three months. but at this point we do not know the identity of these victims. beth parker. >> thank you j. a maryland man wanted for killing his ex-wife and setting her apartment on fair is now behind bars. daymon weiss was. doctors release he'd him to the custody of police yesterday. he is now being held without bond. >>> an eviction in d.c. turning into a much bigger job than anyone could have expected. take a look, the woman beg kicked sought a hoarder. and what was inside her home was enough to fill the. sherri ly is live in northwest with what happens next. >> reporter: laura, the city is taking what is left of those be lob 00 omp. all that came out of that second row house over there, and the belongings when taken out, started from the end of the block. it is being loaded into dump trucks ride. >> i've never, never, ever seen anything like this. >> reporter: two city blocks of fu

beth karas, appreciate it. jeff, closing arguments are later in the week. >> friday, presumably a verdict relatively soon next week. and then, if it's guilty, as, you know, it almost certainly will be, the -- then there will be a penalty phase. that's why the gasoline is so significant. because it suggests premeditation. and premeditation is very important part of a death penalty consideration. >> even if they got the death penalty, it would be years before they're executed. >> connecticut has a death penalty on the books but there have hardly been any executions for 20 years. there was e. but -- so this is a beginning of a very long legal process, if the jury even sentences them. >> beth karas, jeff toobin, thanks. >>> up next, one of the men suing pastor eddie long speaking out for the first time. his message for bishop long and why he has no reason to lie. >>> and why gloria estefan climbed out of a window at the miami dolphins game. ♪ client comes in and they have a box. and inside that box is their finan

today beth has kept her promise. has not stopped. this week headed down to the dusty hills outside lima, peru to castro castro prison, to confront joran face to face. beth with a dutch news crew got inside the lockup where joran is awaiting trial for murder. he became her captive audience. her attorney says for several minutes, beth holloway did all of the talking, very difficult emotionally for her, telling joran that the united states is still watching him, that whatever happens in peru, he still faces an indictment for extortion here, that if he knows something about what happened to natalee, it's time to tell it now, not ten years down the road, but now. and this, her lawyer says is what inspired beth's jailhouse visit. joran in an hour-long tv interview behind bars telling a dutch reporter how he's been mistreated. >> people bothering me, lying to me, you name it, anything else. i have a lot of anger because of that also. >> reporter: even admitting to extorting a huge sum of money from beth in exchange for made up information a

in montgomery county, beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> and wonder if the weather has anything to do with that. i had a bunk on my car. >> and i had a few in the house and not over run run it. >> and no rain the next few days? >> the weekend is going to be dry. >> yup. >> and for those of you rooting for rain, we have a good chance next week. >> okay. >> and good news, lots to talk about and how hot it is that first full day in autumn. it's still warm out there and there is another hot one, a record breaker and it's really a lovely night. the humidity is not too out of control and the current temperature is 89 degrees. challenging the record of 67 in 1980 and in terms of a number of days at or above 90. it was a record-tieing 93 and 89 degrees at bwi marshal and around the region, still finding monasses at 91. culpeper and fredericksburg, 95; frederick, you're at 90 and winchester at 89. again, the humidity is not out of control and that cooler air close by. new york city, 74; bing hampton, 73 and that did not make it through last night. another one is coming through the west. we had a co

beth holloway twitty sneaked into the peruvian jail. he's there for facing charges ever killing a local girl. we have more. >> reporter: when we heard about this, we thought, what? five years ago when international pt lee holloway disappeared her mother vowed to never give up, to use all of her energy to find ot what happened. she's kept that promise, traveling down to peru where joran van der sloot is held in trial awaiting trial for murdering a woman down there and she confronted him face to face. we recently heard this interview done behind bars with joran in which he tells the dutch reporter life behind bars isn't that bad. he's been teaching the guards english in this private cell and now claims he knows nothing about what happened to natalee. >> beth twitty's attorney said she's had enough hearing this. went down there. teamed up way dutch tv crew. got inside that prison, and let joran have it. telling him the united states has not forgotten about him. whatever happens in peru, he still faces an indictment for extortion here and t

live in fairfax county, beth parker. brian, into you. >>> an ugly two-vehicle the the crash happened just after 11:00. the victim's name hasn't been released. >>> an interesting twist to what might otherwise seem like a typical break-in. the burglar was wearing a shirt and tie. take a look. this is surveillance video of the guy knocking on the door of the house on the 14th. he went around back. >>> we're tracking the radar. isolated storms move through the area producing some hail, gusty winds. let's get freight -- let's get straight to the forecast. suer we in the clear? >> not quite. we had a number of pictures sent in to us with hail ranging from three-quarters of an inch to an inch. so about marble size to quarter size. not very active now, but i've got to tell you we have to continue to watch radar. we are certainly not off the hook. straight to radar. i can show that you this zip deed just isolated, but the cell that we're watching in montgomery county still is dropping some heavy rape. now, we do need to continue

beth holloway's attorney said she had simply had enough hearing this. she went down there, teamed up with a dutch tv crew, got inside that prison and let joran have it. telling him that the united states has not forgotten about him. whatever happens in peru, he still faces an indictment for extortion here and if he knows anything about what happens to natalee, he should say it now. not ten years down the road, but right now. she holds no hate in her soul for him but he couldn't talk to her and gave her the phone number for his attorney. when they realized this was a television event they hustled beth and the television crew out of there. here's what her attorney said on "today" this morning. she was in castro castro and she wasn't arrested, that people are reporting. nothing was taken from her. it was done without violating any laws or breaking any regulations. >> beth may have felt this was her only chance and they have been in no hurry to get down there and interview him as they originally wanted to. now they feel it is unlikely that joran will tell t

beth parker has some answers at the d.c. board of elections. >> reporter: as you know, plenty of voters stayed up past midnight and did not know the outcome of d.c.'s mayoral primary. so here, at -- the man who would be d.c.'s next mayor is not impressed. >> was out and i visited many, many precincts yesterday. i saw the problems existing out there and there is a lot of work to be done. >> reporter: former secretary of the army and of veteran's affairs chairs the d.c. board of elections andeth ache -- ethics, speaking directly to critics and getting choked up. >> i have not encouraged anyone. you have not enhanced the chances of improvement. you have not meant honest and descent civil service. feel good about the jobs they're asked to take on. >> reporter: the board of elections executive director said that the counting fell behind schedule after the postpone in part because worker his trouble shutting down brand- new polling machines and this is the first election in d.c. with early voting and the first with same-day regist

>>reporter: he's beingen endorsed by beth police and firefighters union. he says it's very important because voters are concerned about public safety but he's up against an opponent who also has a lot of eeperience in politic and keith ii live tonight at his headquarters in pikesville. keith what is úappening over there? >> e are live at the connecticut here in pikesville and cammus hoping to celebrate a victory here tonight. they are setting up the room now and it does come with experience liie chief opponent. he's 4 term councilman.. picked up endorsement from the baltimore sun who says he's one needed to now begin the ough waters ahead in county government. meeting and greeting voters on the way to the poll. now he started is round of polling -úplaces at forth garrison. once he has been popular with that he served on the council for the 16 years. >> so i just want to kind of start off in my home roots here and work our way around the couldn't anddtouch base with a lot of old friend and new friendss too. people have been very upbeat. very encouraging a

well, beth holloway's attorney said she had simply had enough hearing this. she went down there, teamed up with a dutch tv crew, got inside that prison and let joran have it, telling him that the united states has not forgotten about him, that whatever happens in peru, he still faces an indictment for extortion here and that if he knows anything about what happened to natalee, he should say it now. not ten years down the road, but right now. she also told him that she holds no hate in her soul for him, but he said he couldn't talk to her and gave her the phone number for his attorney. when prison guards realized that this might be part of some type of television event, they hustled beth and the camera crew right out of here. here's what her attorney said on "today" this morning. >> but i do know that she saw him. the substance of the conversation or who said what, i can't share. this was just a mother acting on her instincts not thinking about what the legal repercussions would be, which would be none. >> reporter: beth holloway might have felt like this was

beth parker has more on what is going on. >> reporter: you can read about the new police warning here on your iphone and investigators don't recommend doing that in public. they have seen a string of robberies of iphone owners and one happened here on 19th street and off dupont circle. [ sirens ] >> they had a string of robberies where people's iphones are being taken. >> oh. that is crazy. are you serious? that scares me. >> reporter: even so, you don't have to look very hard to find people doing what police say they probably shouldn't. a lot of people feel comfortable walking around and talking on a cell phone. >> in the middle of the day? yeah, absolutely. [ sirens ] >> and like i want to put my phone away right now. i'm in georgetown, it's daylight. >> reporter: several robberies happened in georgetown mostly at night and others in dupont circle and shaw. in some cases, the criminal grabs the phone and in others, the person strikes up a conversation. >> hey, can i see the phone, do you mind if i make a phone call? and take off running. >> it's an easy target and pretty identifiabl

in maryland, beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> fantastic weather keeps coming. >> the stink bugs, i'm seeing them in my house too and they are crazy looking. >> i've never seen them. >> i've been catching them and throwing them outside. >> the old mouse problem, that's about it. i don't have the newfangled stinkbug yet. >> everything on the move, nights are cold and the days are hot so i think even the animals and insects are confused and we have got both of those in our forecast. but before that i look live outside today because it's a beautiful day, is it not? and more reasons to be excited about tonight not only will it be really comfortable, but if you have been noticing a big bright star in the evening sky, i've got to tell you tonight is the night to get out and really enjoy the planet jupiter because we are going to be at opposition. we will talk about what that means. it means jupiter will be coming up opposite the sun and extremely bright. it's the closest path it's made in a decade. look to the southeast, it's a lot closer than usual. it will be right overhead at midnight. only the

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beth parker is live in northwest with more on the growing danger. beth? >> reporter: you do not have to stand out here along wisconsin avenue for very long before you spot somebody who is driving and talking on a cell phone or driving and texting. each year now in this country more than 5400 people are killed and close to a half million injured in car crashes involving distracted drivers. maryland native heather herd was on her way to meet her wedding planner when a tractor trailer driver slammed into her car. >> she was tempt messages while driving an 80,000-pound tractor- trailer. >> reporter: her parents live in maryland but they are working to spread the message nationwide. they know that texting while driving kills. >> everyone has a person in their life, it could be a grandson or child or husband or wife and someone you love, and to realize that you could lose them forever for something as ridiculous as sending a text message or answering a phone call. >> reporter: herd started the distracted driving summit. ray la hood said texting and driving is a

in maryland beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> speaking of crops, now deal with the weather, harvest season for the vineyards throughout in virginia and maryland. nice and hot. it's been a good summer. >> it's good for them. last year they had too much rain in the fall and we're very dry now. i'm sure the farmers are saying come on, we need something. we have a couple chances for rain but it's not enough. it's just hit or miss showers, maybe a couple thunderstorms around the area but not tomorrow. it is a beautiful evening and tell you what, if you thought today was nice, tomorrow is even nicer. so i think it's got some of september's best weather on tap for us. meanwhile our weather headlines tonight, we're talking about a crisp evening, but then we are really going to bring on some of the best that september has to offer and that is your tuesday forecast. mid-week we'll get hot and maybe even a little humid and we're talking temperatures near 90 beginning wednesday and thursday as well as friday before we cool it off a little bit. what's ironic is fall begins wednesday night at 11:09 on o

martha: on so many levels, it is kind of hard to understand what it must be like, for beth holloway and to never have had any satisfaction from the young man, and, now, you know, there was money ex-changed and some of the money is believed to be the holloways that led to him, joran van der sloot going down there to peru and, ostensibly committing the murder. what do you thing of her sneaking in there to see him? >> look, i could never minimize the parents' desperation of losing a child and if it was me i'd be in a fetal position under my bed and not able to move. i can understand how reaching out to try to get answers, try to get answers, but, this guy, doesn't have any answers and if i found out if she went there to spit en his face i wouldn't have a problem, you know what you did to my daughter and you will not fess up to it but you did it to someone else and now you're caught and will go to jail forever, rot in hell, you sob... martha: this is like a knife being twisted to find out your money may have paid for a trip for this guy, to go there and then, you know, of all horrific thing

beth holloway went in to with a dutch journalist and spoke to van der sloot for a few minutes. she told van der sloot she had no hate for him. van der sloot then gave her his attorney's business card and he was removed because she didn't have permission to be there in the first place. on the "today" show, twit ti's lawyer says she did not consult with him before going to that prison. >> beth knows i'm very measure and cautious and if she asked me what i thought, she might not like the response or i'd ask her to think about it a little more. >> you would have advised her not to do it? >> not necessarily. i think she made up her mind and didn't want to hear anything to the contrary. >> van der sloot is being held in connection with the death of a peruvian woman, 21-year-old stephany flores. he remains the only suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway in aroo ba. >>> in florida, a case of school bullying ended badly with the parent of the child being bullied in trouble. this is video from the bus where kids were ride taken two weeks ago. it shows the father of a girl board

. >> beth hol istill in peru, according to the attorney. she said she heard enough of his stories in prison. she teamed up with a beth holloway twitty entered the prison, and told joran van der sloot saying she had no hate in her heart for him. >> he is held in connection with the death of stepny flores. her death was decided on the five-year anniversary of the disappearance of natalee holloway in arub a he was the main person in that case, never convicted. he is charged with extorting money from natalee holloway's family for inrmation. >> i took advantage of the situation. >> she did most of the talking, when she was finished, joran said he couldn't talk and handed her his attorney's business card. they removed her once they deterned she didn't have permission to talk to him. >> this is what, she is focused and motivated. she is being driven from hurt right now. >> reporter: van der sloot's attorney said she is being used by the media to create a tv speci special. >>> an alleged threat on pope benedt. there was no immediate word on the sus

in northwest tease, beth parker, fox 5 news -- while they're eating dinner so it can be happen in an instant. in northwest d.c., beth parker, fox 5 news. >>> it is just pre-season but it is never too early to drop the gloves. we've got caps highlights coming up.  hey stainbusters, my son loves pizza but this was a first - grease on his back ! i totally missed it, another shirt ruined. good thing the expertise of spray n' wash is combined with the power of resolve in our new in wash stain remover. only resolve has stainseekers. just treat the stains you see and add to the wash for the ones you miss. the stainseekers will find, penetrate and lift away the toughest stains. trust resolve. forget stains. >>> would says the preseason doesn't moon a thing. caps and bruins went toe to toe last night and fist to fist in this case where dy king shows he is in mid-season form pummeling shawn thornton. game tied at one here and caps go on to beat boston 3-6789. >>> skin new quarterback with plenty of incentive this week. the skins will play this week. don haven't mcnabb still

beth park he has more. >> reporter: a florida woman appearing on nbc's today show hit the president with the toughest and simplest question of the day. >> i wanted to know whether or not you think that malia and sasha would get the same high- quality rigorous education at a public school as at the school they are attending. >> i'll be blunt with you right now. the answer is no right now. they have made important strides to move in the direction reform. >> reporter: over the past three years, at d.c. secondary schools, math profishnessies jumped from 27% to 43% and reading from 29 to 43%. the obama children attend sidwell friends a private school where tuition is $31,000 this year. >> in a public school, you may have that they're studdying at home n private school setting, you may have students who are well fed, whose parents are very invested in their education. you just have a different set of circumstances. >> reporter: dcps released the following statement. we appreciate at that time president recognizes the important steps to reform that have been taken at d.c. public schools. we are

beth parker, fox 5 news. >> a spokesman for the agency that handles parole in d.c. told fox 5 today it is not clear why pittman wasn't being monitored. the judge ordered him held in jail until his next hearing on october 1st. >>> more charges coming for the serial stabbing suspect and murder is expected to be added to the list. police say abulazam is responsible for a series of attacks a doctors ohio and michigan and virginia. right now -- across ohio and michigan and virginia. right now he's only charged with one attack. >>> now a stunning confession from the washington state woman who claimed a stranger threw acid on her face burning her badly. she now admits she did it to herself. fox 5 laura evans in our newsroom with the story. >> she went to the cops two weeks ago with a story everyone including her parents believed. donations started to pour in. the search for a suspect was underway. then the cops started to realize the story just didn't add up. well, tonight for the first time her parents are speaking out. >> nancy and i are deeply sorry. we're going through

beth holloway's said she had enough of hearing this. she teamed up with a dutch tv crew, got inside the prison and let him have it. telling him the united states has not forgotten about him. whatever happens in peru, he still faces an indictment for extortion here. and if he knows anything, he should say it now, not ten years down the road, but right now. she also told him she holds no hate in her soul for him, but he said he couldn't talk to her and gave her the phone number for his attorney. when prison guards realized this may be part of some kind of television event, they hustled beth and the camera crew out of there. here's what her attorney said on "today" this morning. >> this was a mother acting on her instikts, not thinking of the legal repurr cushions. she's determined, motivated very focused. she loved her daughter dearly. she's been driven from the heart now. god bless her. >> beth may have felt like this was her only chance. lately even investigators have been no no real hurry to talk to him. they feel it's very unlikely th

beth holloway reportedly told joran van der sloot that she had no hate for him in her soul, but she does want to bring natalee home. van der sloot is charged with murdering a second woman. holloway's attorney says his client did not violate any laws by visiting him. >>> a washington woman who claimed a stranger threw acid in her face is now admitting she did it to herself. bethany storro faces multiple charges. now, her story drew worldwide sympathy and attention last month when she told the public a woman in the park threw acid at her leaving her face disfigured. police in oregon say the parts of her story didn't add up. after a search of her house, she admitted the attack was self-inflicted. >>> the big question in the big apple this morning, coming up, did new york get hit with something really twisted? and it's the end of the world as far as soap operas are concerned. the new show you are going to see in the time slot. >>> our weather has been a little topsy-turvy lately. they say it's summer be it hasn't felt like it. and as we move into fall, so do the chances of rain showers. i ha

the area and we are off to a nice start. 95 southbound, and 45 minutes from the white march to the beth way. no problems as you are heading to the beltway. >> friday night, night out, a freshman with friends tries to cross the street in bel air, and he doesn't make it. >> he had so much to look forward to. a new school year, he made the high school football team, but that ended when he was hit by a car, joey

the chp says cindy tran was strangled to beth by the suspect. investigators say the chase started in pleasant hill. officers spotted the car in an apartment complex. investigators say the suspect efren valdemoro strangled tran with a nylon scored. autopsy shows she was killed that beginning of the pursuit. also connected, police resumed their search for a missing man whose body investigators could be at a land fill. frederick sales has been missing more more than a week. his father was found det an august 28. police also believe that efren valdemoro killed both frederick sales and his father. police started searching the land fill on friday. stay with kron 4 news as the case continues to develop. our continuing coverage is also online, head to www.kron.com. >>> it was cool out there today, as we head into tomorrow we will see warmer temperatures on the way. tonight we are expecting some low clouds. that will start to clear by the afternoon. temperatures warming just a little bit. inland getting back up into the upper 70s. details on that coming

in virginia, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> the news tonight is far from over. >> the news edge at 11 starts right now. [ music ] >>> this is fox 5 news edge at 11. >> the news edge on two disaster relief missions in our area tonight. we are talking about animals rescued from horrible conditions and brought to our area to be nursed back to health. thanks for staying up with us. i'm will thomas. >> and i'm maureen umeh. one was taken from animal testing medical lab and the others from a dog fighting ring. >> reporter: this is undercover video taken by peta in a lab at gates county, north carolina. watch for yourself. peta says the video shows workers mistreating cats, dogs, even rabbits. after this video was released the department of agriculture launched an investigation and the lab released the animals. some of them were brought to the washington animal rescue league. >> this is the case of about 200 animals in north eastern and north carolina and just a horrific medical research lab. >> reporter: saturday they looked over the rescued animals. the first goal is to nurse them back to health.

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beth holloway twitty said she had no hate in her soul, but joran van der sloot did not talk. she gave him a business card for his lawyer. >>> the fbi is investigating a bomb square on a flight to hawaii from los angeles. the plane was searched and passengers were rescreened. >>> a hefty fine for pg&e for the death of an employee. 26-year-old max martinez was electrocuted in march while working on an underground vault. part of the investigation from osha revealed a lack of safety inspection for employees. the you -- utility has 15 days to decide to appeal. >>> let's go back to sal for the latest on traffic. >> the traffic on the bay bridge is backing up. there is a bug on our lens as well. that is besides the point. traffic is backing up. moving along and taking a look at 880 north and south in oakland. foggy there. if you are driving in livermore valley, not a big back up. a bit of slowing coming in at 580 and 238 with a crash there. watch for slowing in that area. 238 especially. let's go to steve. >>> thank you. lots of fog as you saw there. local drizzle and drizzle will b

. >> let's talk about the natalee holloway case, more like a beth holloway twitty case. this young girl missing so long now. the mother decides to go to peru, meet face-to-face with the man she is convinced, joran van der sloot is responsible for the death of her child. in what we might she have jeopardized the on going investigation of the whereabouts of natalee holloway. >> certainly we can all feel for beth holloway at this appoint. her daughter has been missing for five years. we all know joran van der sloot is the prime suspect in her disappearance as well as the death of the girl in peru. no attorney would have advised her to go into the prison without warning and confront the main suspect -- >> she went with a dutch film crew, so they may have misrepresented herself. >> yes, exactly. i will say, i don't think it's going to have any bearing on the case, any bearing on the investigation. >> okay. >> i think we can all agree that any mother whose child is missing five years is going to get rather desperate. >> let's talk about another case. talk about misrepresenting

beth parker explains what's going on. >> reporter: you can read about the warning on your iphone but investigators don't recommend doing that in public. they've seen a string of robberies of iphone owners. one of them happened right here on 19th street just off dupont circle. [siren] >> they've had a string of robberies where people's iphones are being taken. >> oh that's crazy. are you serious? that scares me. >> reporter: even though you don't have to look very hard to find people doing what police say they probably shouldn't. a lot of people feel comfortable walking around and talking on a cell phone. >> sure, in the middle of the day? yeah, absolutely. >> like i want to put my phone away right now, but i'm in georgetown, it's daylight. >> reporter: several of these robberies happened in georgetown, mostly at night, others in dupont circle and shaw. in some cases, the criminal just grabs the phone. in others, the person strikes up a conversation. >> hey, can i see the phone? do you mind if i make a phone call and take off running. it is an easy target. it's pretty identifiable fro

and beth parker is live with ri more on the answer. beth? >> reporter: perhaps president e obama ruffled a few filters today. the -- feathers today toand thet resellity is that he said something speople knew already a reflorida woman appearing on nbcs "today show" hit the president t with the toughest a simplest question of the day. >> i wanted to know whether or not you think that melia and a sasha would get the same high-h quality, rigorous education in a d.c. public n school as compared to their very elite private academy itthat they're r attending now? >> i'll be blunt with you. g the answer yois no right now. the nod.c. public school system are struggling. li now, they have made important rt strides over the last several years to move in the evdirectio of reform. >> reporter: over the ctorpast three years, the d.c. secondary schools, ndmath proficiency jumped iefrom 27 to 43% and reading proficiency from an29 t 43%. the obama children go to 43a private school about where he tuition is $31,000 this year, a different situation for many ur

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joran van der sloot's lawyer is calling beth twitty's surprise jailhouse visit an ambush. we'll have the latest on that. >>> this is a story that touched a nerve with our viewers. lit up the message board. you saw the video of a father storming on to a school bus and threatening the kids he thinks is bullying his daughter. a lot of people weighed in on this. we'll be talking more about what parents should do in these sorts of circumstances. >> he's apparently looking at jail time. >> yeah, he is. he came out and apologized. but there's a lot more to this story, as well. >>> you heard about overnight, big news from hollywood. lindsay lohan, the struggling starlet admitted she failed a drug test. that means she could be going back to jail. r out.s on twitter all night, we'll tell you what she has to say about that. >>> we begin with pol3-ayes n io it's eato bki a but sarah palin is stirring speculation that she white house in her sis. she fired up the crowd at a fund-raiser. and in washington, another gop rising star was drawing comparisons to palin at a conservative summit.

right along with torrey pines in san diego and beth page in new york. both of which have hosted the u.s. open. when we opened or the newly renovated harding we all thought we had a gem of a public golf course on our hands but i don't think we expected it too become the international tax breaks while it is. while kemper, our current manager of the golf course has done an excellent job managing the facility the past seven years we've learned some lessons along the way with the help of the board's budget analyst and several community members about -- that have helped us shape the agreement before you today. we think that the agreement that you have before you is in many ways a significant improvement over the existing agreement. and we've tried to actually learn and benefit from the golf course that we have which is one of the reasons that we decided not to extend a contractual option to continue kemper but rather to put the course out for bid to see how much better we could do. and we think we've done a lot better. first and foremost in partnering with th

virginia, beth parker, fox 5 news. >> -- . >> days passed. >> yeah. >> and the high was 84 degrees and we'll full quickly. and shocking when you go outside. >> i know. >> and hate to see it slipping away and on a cool night, it's see enjoyable and that will be another real comfortable night as mainly clear skies and had a deck of clouds and a blowoff from some of the storms that they had and in the kept city area, may be you saw that last night and we could use the rain here and that is not in the cars for us and we'll have another cool evening. and wednesday looks delightful, september is delivering for us and we have a new storm and we have igor, julia and carl. we have a chance of a few showers in the forecast and looks like friday morning and not looking as good as yesterday and we need some rain and terribly dry around here. cooler than yesterday. dulles, 81; bwi marshal, 80 and mostly in the 70s at this hour and frederick is hanging in there at 81. fredericksburg, 82; d.c., 77; cooler near the water and baltimore at 76 degrees and good voting water, for sure and hope you got out