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he videotapes all the action. what do you do with the video if you catch someone? we would submit this to the court. that would be played as evidence. reporter: an undercover transit officer lays the bait, a $3,800 bike. it s out in the open unlocked, an invitation for thieves. sergeant williams rolling on it all. i think he spots that. reporter: last wednesday afternoon police say the bait bike lured in some bad guys. there was two suspects adults and they were acting in concert. they had identified the bike. when they thought everything was clear, one subject looked out and the other one tried to take the bike. reporter: the bike is rigged to malfunction. so catching the thieves doesn t take long. officers arrested both men. me some of the same metro transit officers are routinely riding the rails conducting similar sting operations. officers are serving as decoys, displaying iphones and other electronic equipment to catch criminals who might otherwise be ....
george washington parkway is closed before the memorial bridge for an accident southbound. no one getting through there. back to you. thank you. a close call at the white house. the secret service last night found two bullet lodged in the white house, days after someone opened fire nearby. jummy olabanji is live in north was d.c. with new developments and the latest in the search for the suspected gunman. good morning. two bullets were found on the white house grounds yesterday. one of them was lodged in a window, stopped by bill blass and another was found on the exterior of the white house grounds. they believe it may be connected to an incident of shots fired in this area on friday. while president obama is out of town, secret service and police are trying to track down this man. they say oscar ortega-hernandez of idaho is mentally ill and may have bad intentions. officers believe the 21-year-old man had fired a bullet pepco hit a window at the white house la ....
good morning. i m meteorologist tom kierein. this morning we are starting off with some light rain. just a little bit of sprinkles in the district. we ve got a light northeasterly breeze now. we have light to moderately heavy rain advancing toward us. that area of yellow near fredericksburg between fredericksburg and charlottesville is an area of moderate rain. that s advancing north and east. it will coming to stafford and prince william and another half hour toward fairfax county into charles and southern prince george s. much of that heavier rain is going to pass just south of washington. as the morning progresses, we ll get some more rain. right now it s the 50s through most of the region. 56 reagan national. mid-50s suburbs and rural areas. we ll have rain with us throughout the day. sunrise at 6:51. it actually may get a little heavier this afternoon as highs climb into the mid-60s in the afternoon. we ll have maybe a little thunder and lightning too mid to late ....
the sheriff s office. did you drive while intoxicated to school? no. i don t why were you arrested for public intoxication? i never done the public drinking. reporter: investigators say a breathalyzer test came over the legal limit of .08 if he were driving. no students were impacted by this. reporter: he started teaching physics last year and spent six years at schools in fairfax county. police say you were drinking too much to legally operate a vehicle. is that correct? no comment. no comment? mm hmm. he resigned on mont and claims that the staff micromanaged his teaching and said he was going to school here and teaching to the kids and they didn t understand him. he does plan to fight this charge. i m shomari stone. back to you in the studio. occupy demonstrations flared up across the up country this evening. several people were pepper sprayed in an occupy seattle demonstration. officers used pepper spray to try to break the group up as it ....
elsewhere, just a few scattered light sprinkles on the radar, parts of northern maryland and district of columbia. we re in the mid-50s. sunrise at this hour at 6:51. and we ll stay wet throughout the day. occasional showers. keep the umbrella handy. highs reaching low 60s early afternoon. and maybe even some thunder and lightning late afternoon. more rain likely tonight. a look at the evening planner at 6:11. danella, how s the commute? good news in rockville. rockville pike at old georgetown road. that accident is taking the right lane out of the roadway. bad news southbound gw parkway as you approach the arlington memorial bridge. the accident blocks all lanes. i ll watch this and let you know when you get the lanes back. and traveling northbound at gw parkway at the 14th street bridge. your right lane still blocked because of the accident there. slow down traveling northbound. i m getting reports there is debris on the roadways. if you re making your way uout f da ....