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the man, an american from massachusetts, was determined to wage war on american soil. bob orr has been talking to his sources and has learned details of the plot and the sting. bob. >> reporter: scott, u.s. officials tell us the suspect was deadly serious about his plans to attack the u.s. capitol and the pentagon with remote- controlled airplanes filled with explosives, but the plot had no chance of succeeding. 26-year-old rezwan ferdaus went by the name of bollywood when he played in...

400,000 since april. that is too high. economists say to make a dent in the unemployment rate. federal authorities have charged a young massachusetts physics grad in a terror plot. agents say rezwan ferdaus planned to use remote control airlines to hit the u.s. capitol and the pentagon. they would have been filled with a plastic explosive. the fbi says that they arrested him, hes an american citizen, after a lengthy undercover operation. john mccain leading a delegation of republic...

credibility to these stories or the twitter feeds u.s. capitol police are currently investigating the reporting. >> put something on -- in the public like that, you dont know its going to be perceived many different ways. its not the forum i think to joke about peoples lives and hostages. >> reporter: but the fake hostage posts continued all day. online the onion expands the story adding a photo shopped picture of house speaker john boehner pointing a gun at a childs head, one with a d...

very very humid and uncomfortable that change is coming too. first we deal with this morning and fog across the region we have a dense fog advisory for many counties, out to the west that you see here on our map. dense fog advisory in effect until 9:00 a.m. visibility down to a quarter mile some locations fog advisory includes fairfax county, louden county, prince william county, and in maryland, montgomery county frederick county, caroll county places like that. all right here is your...

powerful allegations about murrays actions and inaction. lets go to ted rollins in los angeles. whats the latest, ted? >> well, joe, it was a compelling day in court so far. it continues this afternoon here in los angeles. all day, it has been alberto alvarez, the director of lodgistics for michael jackson and he has taken the jury inside the jackson house during those critical moments of chaos while jackson was lying on his bed. he describes the scenario where he gets a call, rushes i...

is basically a tie. the big surprise. herman cain, the one with the 999 economic plan is third. now after a few favorable debate appearances and a victory at the florida straw poll, cain has 17%. perry has 19% which is 10 points worse than a month ago. gingrich is up, bachmann is way down to 3% from 8% a month ago. even though perry lost a lot of support, hes doing better against president obama. but thats 2% better than he was doing back in july. romney makes the closer race with pres...

coming in from baltimore through laurel, youll be ok down to this point at new hampshire avenue and then on the outer loop, all the way to 270, youre fine. no problems on 270 in from frederick. lets zoom into the west side of town. 66, you may find it a tiny bit slow around the beltway. see the red car under the sign. thats because of construction and there was some at nutley street as well. lets wind a live look at the american legion bridge. otherwise, no concerns, crossing the bridg...

no, just kidding. he was tired yesterday. we start with this. he was bent on jihad and he is no dummy. thats what the feds are saying after they arrested a man in an alleged plot to dive bomb the pentagon with remote controlled planes like these. the planes would be packed with explosi explosives. the suspect is an american muslim with a physics degree. brian todd with more on how his plot was foiled. >> federal authorities arrest ad 26-year-old man from ashland, massachusetts. in an a...

In operation cross check and were length who those illegals are and what they were doing in the u.s. also a guy who eluded law enforcement for four decades after hijacking a plane to algeria. his name is george wright, a convicted killer. even if you dont remember his name, he probably changed your life, if you fly anywhere. changed the way were all screened for security at the airports. this incredible international crime tale and how the feds finally nailed him. so dont let odor stop you. gi...

Hes proved responsible for the massacre in 1995 and hes at the hague facing genocide charges. getting him meant there was one more fugitive wanted for bosnian war crimes. at one point there were 161 of these guys jut standing. by may of this year one was left wanted on the list. in july they got him, too. goren . he apparently ran out of money. after seven years on the lam. they caught him when he was trying to sell a stolen painting. this one. portrait of a man. if that wasnt enough, this summe...