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stronger winds are. winds officially reported at the airport of 54 miles an hour as of last hour, so were going to continue to see the heavy winds through the rest of the night tonight. now we took a bit of a tour. we got up early this morning, we heard about some damage just off to the south and east of new orleans, so we drove about 15 miles outside the city, actually about ten miles outside the city. take a look at what we saw. >> our tour took us just east of new orleans. the stree...

bark to you. >> haz-mat crews in prince georges county of cleaning up tonight after a diesel fuel spill that happened when a small train derailed. happened around 3:00 this afternoon around 57th avenue here in bladensburg. authorities tell us a locomotive without any rail cars attached started moving from a side track to the main track. they say a safety device stopped it from moving into the main track dibipartiby partially der. >> its been a strange little date ou there. will the res...

on halloween night raping all three of them behind a shopping center in dale city. it was just a couple weeks ago that police set up a website trying to get information on this man and it was called the east coast rapist website that went up. we did a story about it and we were told there were a number of hits, 44,000 hits within 12 hours of people taking a look at that site. they put billboards up along the highways. now we dont know if the break in this case of fingering that man cam...

ilmar paegle told the judiciary committee last week d.c. police and the attorney generals office are trying to blame the medical examiners office and the manufacturer of breathalyzers for what he claims are years of faulty test results, problems he first discovered when he took over the alcohol testing program as a contractor a little over a year ago. >> of course, the first question a rose to me is what happened here? what procedures were they following? and i discovered almost immedi...

us off. >> this investigation involves nine students in the teachers classroom. police believe they were hit, punched and choked in front of other students. susan burke, a teacher at greencastle elementary school in silver spring was arrested at her home in laurel around 9:00 tuesday morning. police say on january 7th officers got a report of child abuse of a minor. the male student said he had been physically assaulted on numerous occasions by his 1st grade teacher. initial investigat...

>> were very comfortable. thats what our problem was, we were comfortable. >> reporter: secure behind their split rail fence and blooming foliage folks in this annandale neighborhood simply believed crime happened somewhere else, but sometime while the owners of these little feet were tucked safely in their beds thursday night their house was burglarized. >> we didnt notice anything till we actually went outside. stuff was taken from our house and put on one of our cars outside, whatev...

idea. we didnt wake up. >> we havent had any victims who have encountered this man inside their home. as these cases continue to occur, the likelihood of that increases, and our concern is for these residents should they encounter this man inside their home. >> reporter: so far this person has stolen only cash, purses, wallets, things he can gain access to quickly. often disguarding the purse. the person also discovered shed been a victim when she found her purse skewed across the gara...