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picketing the funerals of soldiers. tomorrow on veterans day they re bringing their controversial messages to george washington university, but they won t get a warm welcome. hundreds of students plan to hold a counter protest. fox 5 s bob barnard is focusing on the upcoming face-off. shawn, you ll hear from the leader of that controversial kansas church in a few moments. first we take you to gw where student leaders organizing that counter-protest say west borrow pap test will westboro baptist will get a faithful tomorrow. we found most students well aware of the dueling protests. i think the church is a prominent organization that affected a lot of people and they re equal opportunity haters. reporter: calling all gw students god hating heathens. a heathen wouldn t really be the word i don t think to describe me. i think that s a little harsh. there are a lot of kids in our school that totally believe in god. how are they going to judge us when they don ....
national transportation safety board indicates weather may have played a factor. based on early details, the four men who managed to survive the plane crash were on the ground at least 12 hours in tough conditions before being air lifted to safety. craig melvin, news 4 today. the today show will broadcast live in alaska this morning coming up at 7:00 a.m. right after news 4 today. there s no escaping this extreme heat we ve been dealing with 90 degree temperatures all summer long and today is no different, even the high heat didn t keep these people off the national wall yesterday. people were looking for any way possible to keep cool. it is a little easier for these kids who found a fountain to run through. they might want to try the same thing again today. tom joins us now live with how hot it s going to get today and yesterday was hot enough. our 50th day to getting 90 or higher. today will be day 51. it s going to be in the mid-90s by mid afternoon. it s i ....
change for the 14th street bridge. the lanes: to the left and went to the right. the far right lane of traffic coming off the george washington parkway where they have a dedicated line, so that is helping them. but there is no help on the northbound side of 395 with delays growing already from the pentagon. we will have more on this in a little while. back to you. thank you. our top story this morning, the aftermath of a deadly plane crash in the mountains of alaska. former senator ted stevens and four members of a fishing trip died when a small plane went down in bad weather irredentists beef is trying to determine what went wrong. almost half the passengers on the plane have local ties, including former nasa administrator sean o keefe and two other survivors. we re learning more about those survivors and victims from family members. pamela brown joins us in a satellite center with mixed emotions. that s right. two families directly impacted by that plane cras ....
montgomery county as well. phillips had served on the staff of former alaska senator ted stevens who was killed in the crash. four passengers on the plane from our area survived. 54-year-old sean o keefe sr. and his son kevin. o keefe is the current ceo of a company. today, a helicopter from the military district of washington, the eads chief operating officer acknowledged that they understand the rigors, about what it was like to get to the plane crash victims. to be the individuals like you are. who risk your lives to go in to places that other americans never see. reporter: jim morhard survived the crash. today his sister-in-law will us by phone from virginia how she reacted when she heard he was in the crash. horrified. i mean, immediately, not shock that he was there or involved. just so scared that we would lose him. i guess that s it. the more i thought about it, i was praying for him because i was finding out what he had been through during the crash and a ....
in the predawn hours. four of his five deadly stabbing victims in flint, michigan, occurred between midnight and 6:00 a.m. the suspect who is believed to be to have last attacked in ohio may be on the run, so they are expanding the manhunt nationwide. we have received a lot of national attention as a result of this whole investigation. and to include america s most wanted and we really welcome it because i think getting the word out and casting that net as far as we possibly can is greatly appreciated. reporter: police believe the suspect is targeting black men, all but two of his 20 victims are african-american. here in leesberg his first victim is recovering at home. the 15-year-old was stabbed jogging last tuesday night. he ran to a nearby gas station for help. 9 news now is the only station who spoke to the man who helped save his life. the guy was just bleeding a lot. a customer came in and he said he was in the army and he knew how to deal with things like ....