>> reporter: matthew van dyke, happy to be home where he grew up in south baltimore. but not for long. >> my girlfriend made me commit to three months. and when she said three months, i was thinking that's it. yes, no problem. i got off easy. this is the lock off my prison cell. >> reporter: van dyke was captured by gadhafi's forces a week after arriving in libya to fight with his rebel friends. >> when i went missing, my friend nori, who i had gone to fight with, he had these posters made that he put up. >> reporter: he spent five and a half months in solitary in gadhafi's notorious abu salim prison. >> i heard late at night, sounds of people being violently interrogated. i thought my might was coming so i trimmed down my fingernails and toenails with a piece of broken plastic spoon so they couldn't pull my nails out. >> reporter: his mom desperate to find him. most people were convinced that he was dead at some point. >> it never entered my mind. >> reporter: but when he got out. >> it was a prison break. >> reporter: he went right back to the front. >> i came to th

>> reporter: matthew van dyke, happy to be home where he grew up in south baltimore. but not for long. >> my girlfriend made me commitment to three months and when she said three months, i was thinking that's it. yes, no problem. i got off easy. this is the lock off my prison cell. >> reporter: van dyke was captured by gadhafi's forces a week after arriving in libya to fight with his rebel friends. >> when i went missing, my friend nori, who i had gone to fight with, he these posters made that he put up. >> reporter: he spent five and a half months in solitary in gadhafi's notorious prison. >> i heard late at night, sounds of people being violently interrogated. i thought my might was coming so i trimmed down my fingernails and toenails so they couldn't pull my nails out. >> reporter: his mom desperate to find him. >> most people were convinced that he was dead at some point. >> it never entered my mind. >> reporter: but when he got out. >> it was a prison break. >> reporter: he went right back to the front. >> i came to this country willing to take people for freedom

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after spending months in libyan presence and joining the rebel fight, baltimore native matthew van dyke is coming home. we went to the airport with more on the homecoming. >> his flight is expected to arrive here within the next hour or so. he will be greeted by his mother, girlfriend and close friend who are standing by to welcome him home. he left for libya because he said he wanted to experience the uprisings that were happening in the middle east. he was captured by gaddafi forces and imprisoned in solitary confinement. no one told him what he was accused of. this past august, he managed to escape. he called his mother to tell her that he would be joining the rebel fight, not coming home. his mom says she was nervous about him fighting but supported his decision. now all he is focused on is -- all she is focused on is seeing his smiling face again. >> it is the end of a long journey. it is a happy ending. i am prepared for him to be thinner. he is thin to begin with. i know he has lost weight. i have seen some videos of him. i am prepared for that. no matter how thin, he will still

new details on a journalist, matthew van dyke an when she's due back at home. >>> plus -- get rid of that halloween candy with cash in return. how to do it and when you can do it. details and everything you need to know coming up. >>> as we go too break this morning, a live look at niece, france. this is where president barack obama is right now. air force one on the ground. he's in france for the g-20 summit. we're back in a minute. @ @ >>> gonna need some help getting rid of that halloween candy that your kids brought home. it's a program put on by dentists. you can head from 4:00 to 7:00 this evening. the contact information you see on the screen. they are gonna exchange candy for cash coupons, toothbrushes and they will have other prizes. it will be filling care packages stationed overseas. >>> time for a check of the forecast. you know,dy some research on your -- i did some research on your tie, justin. mine is angel. yours is titled rays. >> rays. >> not ray lewis, just ray. >> there's a bunch of them swimming up toward me on attack mode yes. good morning to you. we have oursel

new information from matthew van dyke's family. >> well, mary, matthew van dyke will be back in maryland this weekend. the 32-year-old writer is returning home, eight months after he departed on a trip to witness the libyan uprising against moammar gadhafi. after six months in prison, he escaped. but he remained in libya to fight alongside the rebels until gadhafi was killed. his mother said he is expected to arrive at bwi airport saturday evening. >> she will certainly be glad to see him. van dyke expects to write a book about his experiences. >>> outrage and calls for change after a nightmare school bus mix-up that leaves a 4-year- old boy wandering the streets by himself. wjz first broke the story. tonight, we stay on the story. mike hellgren investigates how it happened. >> reporter: school administrators promised immediate and decisive action in our report last night. well, we have just learned they have disciplined three employees in connection with the incident. >> reporter: there are calls for action, after a school bus snafu wjz first reported that had baltimore county school le

no word yet if van dyke will write about his experiences in libya. four walter bishop will likely die in prison. but he will not be put to death. just hours ago, a sentence for the man convicted of carrying out a murder plot. weijia jiang has details on the sentence and reaction. weijia? >> reporter: denise, not only did a jury decide walter bishop, jr., did not deserve to die. they also say at some point, he should be given another chance to walk as a free man. >> reporter: the same jury that convicted 29-year-old walter bishop, jr., of capital murder, spared his life, rejecting the death penalty prosecutors pushed for. jurors sentenced bishop to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole. his defense attorney sobbed tears of joy in court. >> i think he was just biting his lip. i think he -- you know, we were all very emotional. >> reporter: emotions also ran high for the victim's family, who had hoped for a death sentence. bishop shot and killed towson gas station owner, william ray porter in march 2010, in exchange for a promise of $9,000. >

. >> the van dykes would like to thank everyone who has helped bring matthew home from libya. reporting from b.w.i., wbal-tv 11 news. >> it was also homecoming foremore than a dozen maryland national guard members. they return from a nine-month deployment in iraq. their assignment included support to print and broadcast journalists. their family said they could hardly contain their excitement. >> it made us feel good. it made us understand people missed us and we were happy to be back. >> back to real life, family life again. it is good. we need to be back to being a family again. >> a former welcome home ceremony will be held at a later day. >> dozens gathered at the site of a murder in east baltimore to remember the victims, family, and friends where 52-year-old freddie jones was killed last week. jones was gunned down inside the same carry out where a security guard for the african-american newspaper was killed last year. organizers say it is time to rally together to take control of the neighborhood. >> obviously the crime rate has come down, the murder rate has come down,

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sharon van dyke says her son is coming home this weekend. baltimore-based matthew van dyke was captured by rebel forces. the 32-year-old was in prison for six months before he escaped this summer. he then helped stay to fight rebels against moammar gadhafi woovment elhave more on this -- we'll have more on this developing story coming up at 5:00 and 6:00. >>> men face charges of plotting terror attacks against the u.s. vic is in the newsroom with more on the plan and how they were uncovered. vic? >> the four men wanted to attack u.s. officials. and one of their targets was washington, d.c. the men are part of an alleged militia group until georgia. one of them was recorded by an undercover agent, saying he wanted to make 10 pounds of ricin. one talked about dropping ricin over the air. other targets are newark, new jersey, jacksonville, and atlanta. >> the men are said to have a bucket list of government employees, politicians, corporate leaders and members of the media that needed to be taken out. >>> long lines at security checkpoints at a

and van dyke managed to escape when the jail got bombed and fellow prisoner broke open his cell and he ran to a nearby compound. we're told u.s. officials urged him to come home and he finished the fight. what if you could go shopping without opening your wallet. thousands of people in milwaukee know about it and ben handleman, a fox affiliate, witi has more. >> he when things are tight right now in the economy i don't have much in the way of spending money for myself or my family so this is kind of a fun day for us to go and spend. >> steve marcus is on the the hunt for new stuff after perusing dvd's, shoes. >> are all the shoes in the boxes. >> a purchase is made no need for this, it's a bartter. >> over 7,000 people headed to the milwaukee sports complex trading items from jewelry to a new car. so, can i bartter my cell phone for this golf club? that's not how this works anymore. >> we've created a currency that instead makes it possible for people to offer their services, take the trade dollars and use them for whatever they want in the system. >> the founder of international monet

the family of matthew van dyke says he's expected to arrive at b.w.i. marshall airport on saturday evening. the 32-year-old was captured in march by those loyal to longtime libyan leader, muammar gaddafi. rebels helped free him in august, but he stayed there to find out whether friends made it through the fighting safely. >> our big story this morning -- it was a shooting that raised questions and protests. a city officer was gunned down by fellow officers outside a downtown nightclub. this morning we'll learn from an independent review board has to say about the death of officer william torbit outside the select lounge. 11 news reporter kim dacey live outside the lounge where the january incident took place. good morning, kim. >> mayor stephanie rawlings-blake commissioned the independent panel in february to review police actions that night. >> early morning on january 9, police officer william torbit and 22-year-old sean gamble were shot and killed outside of this lounge in downtown baltimore. three other civilians and an officer were also injured. t

sharon van dyke says her son is expected to arrive at b.w.i. marshall airport saturday evening. the 32-year-old writer was captured by gaddafi loyalists after being freed by rebels in august. he took up their cause and aided in the resistance. after four weeks, mayor stephanie rawlings-blake has pulled the plug on the occupy baltimore camp. the move comes amid safety concerns over the tangle of extension cords jerry rigged to provide power. the mayor has said the protesters are welcome to use the square, but not round the clock. protesters say they plan to stay through the winter. >> and that brings us to your answers to our water cooler question of the day. >> we asked, do you think the city should take step steps like cutting the power to disband the demonstrations? >> will writes the movement had a defined mission and an actual list of grievances and demands, i could understand their protests. but they have no leadership and it's simply a campout on the city's dime. >> jim writes, why not leave them alone? without using this to overshadow others, by making this the big issue

matthew van dyke joins me now. good morning, welcome home. >> thank you. good to be home. >> obviously the first question i have to ask is why did you do this? >> i have a lot of experience in the region. i have an educational background in the region, and i have many friends in libya. >> why not tell your family, friends where you're going? >> i didn't want my mother to worry. they knew i was going to libya, they just didn't know why. >> you were captured and imprisoned for 166 days before you were able to escape. tell us about that experience. >> it was horrible. it was solitary confinement, small cells, i was never told if i would ever be released. the guards didn't know who i was. it was as if i didn't exist anymore. >> were there many times you thought that was it? >> i was sure i was never going to get out of prison. i had come to overthrow a regime and i was captured and i was finished. >> what was your family going through during this time? what had they told you? >> they were working very hard to get my story out to the media, the government, tryi

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i'm going to the dick van dyke show. back to you. >> it is like a bucket list. you have to do all these things if you haven't done them. >> it is cool. the movies, like what are great old classics you have haven't seen or never saw. times pop list. >> say hi to rob and laura. >> and jerry and milly. all right. >> good one. >>> before you make plans for the weekend, you have to see veronica's forecast. >>> also, how an elephant was nursed back to good health and is walking again. >>> i'm liz crenshaw. why has the price of peanut >>> it's going to be a cold weekend and we get one extra hour to be out and enjoy it, right? >> right. exactly. i'm ready to get extra sleep. that will be this weekend. we say bye-bye to daylight savings time. turn the clock back one hour saturday night and don't forget to change the batteries on your smoke detectors. by the time we get to monday, jim, the sun will be setting just after 5:00. kind of depressing, right? what's the other thing taking place this weekend? the cold. we are at 58 degrees now. there's no day this weekend that ge

john van dyke credited 50 meals. congregation shalom, 46 meals. 35 from country. that brings our total to 20,237 meals. that is more than double the number of meals we raised last year. great work. thank you so much for your generosity. but don't stop giving. you can reach your local food bank at their phone number. we still need donations. please give. >> thanks. >> up next, a bay area thanksgiving football tradition. >> this time it had a nontraditional ending çkededededd >> join me on channel 13, coming up, 'tis the season for naughty or nice. some airport workers are getting special training right now to get on our good list and make our holiday trips less hectic. and then at 11:00 o'clock here on abc 7, we're live as shoppers get ready for an early black friday. we'll let you know the best deals and the shortest lines. it's all coming up at 9:00 o'clock and 11. >> good luck with that. time for sports. >> nobody is get not guilty line until this game is over. this is exact league what we expected. the 49ers playing in baltimore. jim versus john. the first tim

matthew van dyke traveled to that country eight months ago to document the uprising. after six months in prison he escaped and took up arms with rebel fighters, now that gadhafi is dead his mother tells us he will fly home this saturday need. >>> christmas is still another 51 days away but the washington monument is almost ready. workers spent yesterday stringing more than 1600 lights from the top of the landmark to the bottom. you can see the display when the player flips the switch on illumination night. >>> we have this report in sports. >> he is a threat and he is someone to be reckoned with. >> jimmy smith will also be in be the line up. he is coming back from an injury. >> i am ready. i got to be honest with you, this is going to be a great great week, i am sorry i was kind of -- normally i would be on the edge of my chair listening to after word about a raven story. our coffee with guest is jewel, jewel kilter. just -- take a look at her internet. i just clicked on the sight and start reading about her. she is my new hero. do you know about her live story. >> i

van dyke recovers at the 16- yard line to set up the touchdown. 23f24-7 at halftime. ponder through two touchdowns in theport, percy harvin request with the touchdown. heyward-bey is kneed in the back on this play and he is carted off. after the game coach hue jackson said darrius told him he would be okay. raiders hold on, and they are 6-4 and vikings 2-le for the first time 19 1962. next sunday raiders play their second straight nfc north team, that is chicago. today those same bears helped oakland's cause. bears hosted another afc west team, san diego, two teams going in different depression. chicago's jay cutler to knox, knox makes the right move for the td. bears win their fifth straight while the chargers lose their fifth in a row. 31-20 is your final. also today atlanta takes down tennessee, 23-17. baltimore hosted cincinnati and ravens for the first time in 5 games, linebacker ray lewis missed the start. flacco with what turned out to be the game-winning touchdown to torrey smith. baltimore 7-3 and host the harbaugh bowl on thursday. bengals fall 6-4 and cleve

van dyke was greeted by his mother. he went to libya to help with the fight against gadhafi and spent the last few weeks on the front line. he spent months in a libyan prison after he was captured. he couldn't sit back and watch libyans fight for their freedom without trying to help. good story there. >> well, let's check in with meteorologist chuck bell. looks like we have cold but sunshine out there. >> just on the whole a bit of a cloud deck out there. mid-50s. 5 to 6 degrees cooler than average. city camera panning over the skies of washington. you can see the low to mid-level cloud deck hanging overhead. temperatures are climbing slow but steadily into the 40s for most of everybody. a few spots in the 30s towards martinsburg, winchester, stanton, charlottesville. 40s around town. anything you want to do outside today, for the final ongoing stan swras for the year, rake something leaves, although there are still plenty on the trees around town, whatever you're going to do outside today, the weather will cooperate. n

we had jerry van dyke and marsha mason who will be back at thanksgiving. we have a great time. >> jimmy: and ray romano. >> he was on the opening episode. >> jimmy: was that odd for you? >> it was a little time warpy, you know. i think we broke some time reponse con tim youm rules. >> jimmy: did you feel like you were cheating on him? because i did. >> you did? well, i felt that way when i watched "men of a certain age," his great show. and he had, like, bedroom sex scenes with people which, on nine years of random, we never got there. >> jimmy: a lot of bedroom sc e scenes -- >> no naked stuff. i was like, those women were naked on that set with you. i was like pissed off about it. >> jimmy: i don't blame you. you have the thanksgiving episode on real thanksgiving. do you make the real turkey, do you do the traditional things? >> you know, when i was young and idealistic and a new mom, i did, i would get up and spend the whole day and then they'd koim to the table for five minutes and then they would leave and leave me the dishes and everything. so then i

matthew van dyke returned to baltimore last night. he told reporters he went to libya to hp with the fight against gadhafi and spent the last few weeks on the front lines. he also says he spent months in a libyan prison after he was captured with rebel forces. van dyke said he couldn't sit back and watch libyans fight for their freedom without trying to help. >>> and it looks like we can look forward to a nice sunny day today. it's going to be a little cool today. chuck bell is in the weather center with today's forecast. >> good morning. yeah, off to a very chilly start today, especially for our friends and neighbors out in the western suburbs towards the blue ridge and the shenandoah valley. off to a very subfreezing cold start in many spots. right here in washington where you're looking live over the city right now. still waiting on the sun which is only six minutes away from getting up in our eastern sky. we do have extra cloud cover today compared to yesterday. this is going to be the story for much of the afternoon. so unlike ye

to me, he was much more of a kind of a dick van dyke character. i mean, he just... he saw things as being funny a lot of the time, and then... he also knew that he was funny. he also knew that he was comical. so, that's the person i knew. >> narrator: but the fbi believed they had uncovered a darker side of bruce ivins. montooth and his agents dug into ivins' insurance records and thousands of his emails. >> the subpoena of emails from usamriid was quite massive. it was, like, 30 terabytes of material. >> narrator: they were looking for unstable behavior. they turned it all over to a forensic psychiatrist. >> it was a mountain of records, ten years of medical insurance information and pharmaceutical records. >> narrator: they found a history of psychiatric problems- - some of it in emails... >> "there is some sinister monster waiting inside me for the right chance to escape." "there are some things that are eating away that i feel i can't tell anyone!" "i get incredible paranoid, delusional thoughts at times." >> the emails revealed two sides of d

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we had jerry van dyke and marsha mason who will be back at thanksgiving. we have a great time. >> jimmy: and ray romano. >> he was on the opening episode. >> jimmy: was that odd for you? >> it was a little time warpy, you know. i think we broke some time reponse con tim youm rules. >> jimmy: did you feel like you were cheating on him? because i did. >> you did? well, i felt that way when i watched "men of a certain age," his great show. and he had like bedroom sex scenes with people which, on nine years of random we never got there. >> jimmy: a lot of bedroom scene scenes -- >> no naked stuff. i was like those women were naked on that set with you. i was like pissed off about it. >> jimmy: i don't blame you. you have the thanksgiving episode on real thanksgiving. do you make the real turkey do you do the traditional things? >> you know when i was young and idealistic and a new mom, i did, i would get up and spend the whole day and then they'd koim to the table for five minutes and then they would leave and leave me the dishes and everything. so then i went

dyke. >> he sang actually a rap song. he's 84 years old. he's just totally cool. >> reporter: flea spent his down time at school as a teacher. he founded and at first largely financed the silver lake conservatory of music in los angeles. it provides lessons for 700 students a week who might not otherwise be able to study music. >> now beethoven, mozart, bach, they're just killing me. >> reporter: and then flea became a student himself, studying classical music at the university of southern california. >> i was like running across the campus holding a big backpack of books. i'm late to class. i'm late. i'm going to be in trouble. i'm like what am i doing? i could be on the beach in the bahamas right now eating a papaya. >> reporter: the two-year break also included some unexpected misfortune. guitarist john frusciante who had helped write some of the peppers' biggest hits announced he wasn't coming back. while others may have thought the chili peppers were finished, the rest of the band had no intention of calling it quits

matthew van dyke arrived at b w i saturday night. he disappeared saturday in march he says he went to libya to thatrt the revolution ousted longtime dictator moammar khaddafi. >>> a feud between a fairfax a drivingrch and range could be headed to court. officials said they have counted than 2600 call balls that property during recent year. one ball hit the youth director in the head. thus check on traffic. will beubled times in our favor now. , not only across the american across 270.e but is traffic on the beltway at colesville road. bridge, we will light and 95 out of dale city to springfield looks like that is improving. here is a broken down vehicle at the beltway. metro rail is a normal service. some thick fog across region especially up in frederick. normally you would see some here and especially water ofer but you cannot see any that. area of fog north metro area.the a dense fog advisory is still in some areas. 43 degrees downtown, on our way to a low 60's and sunny. >> thanks for watching and we will be back at noon. "live w

for quick headlines, an american man who went missing in laibya is now back on americn soil, matthew van dyke was captured while fighting alongside libyan rebels and spent five months in a prison before being freed by the rebels and kim kardashian divorce report... tmz saying that kim plans to buy her wedding ring, from her soon to be ex-husband, chris humphries. the ring, her engagement ring, just a modest 20.5 carats, and, also reportedly worth about $2 million. a steal. >> dave: i don't think he paid full price for that, do you. >> clayton: something tells me he didn't. there is an invasion of humpback whales in santa cruz, california, recently and it attracted strains of curious people and a surfer got more than she bargained for, sitting a quarter mile from shore, and watch this: >> dave: amazing video. shot by barbara roetggert, and he was filming, while kayaking with a friend and joins us on the phone from palo alto, california. good morning to you, barbara. thanks for being with us. >> caller: you're welcome. >> dave: a lot of people are seeing the video and say it cannot be real