tonight, relatives of a woman killed by a cyclist on a

popular bike path want changes to improve vaft. a rock 'n' roll band stepping up efforts to find the killer of a virginia tech student. and candidates in a swing state. we begin with a hit and run accident that sent three people to a hospital. the driver who ran off took a child with him. the accident happened along keniworth avenue in northeast. >> reporter: d.c. police say at 5:00 this evening an elderly woman and two children were hit by a man in another vehicle. that man fled the scene while the three individuals were transported to a hospital in serious condition. one witness tells us she was on the other side of 295 when she heard the commotion and came

running this way and saw a man run through the alley with a child. >> i seen two kids in the suv. one kid was bleeding from the head. an older lady in this car here. >> reporter: police describe the man as a black male at 150 pounds, 5'8" with braids and black sneakers last seen fleeing on the city side. it is unclear tonight what caused an engine problem that led to an emergency landing at dulles airport. a united express flight took off for pennsylvania this afternoon but right after takeoff the pilot noticed vibration in an engine and he shut it down and turned the plane around and went back to dulles. a d.c. woman says her father is alive thanks to the help of a good samaritan and his dog. sawney bell was walking to work when two large dogs got loose

from a towing lot and mauled him. he was left with a broken arm and deep the bash wounds. a man and his bulldog came to bell's aid and chased the dogs off. charges could be forth coming. >> i think the owner needs to own up to what happened and we need to take it from there. >> bell is in the hospital tonight. his daughter says he is having surgery tomorrow. parents are upset after learning a special ed teacher was arrested on child pornography charges. robert fenn was fired from poplar tree elementary school in chantilly. he was arrested yesterday at the school. he lives with his parents in herndon. agents searched that house and took away computers and other

evidence. >> it's something we don't expect in our community especially with a teacher. we don't expect that. >> obviously it's sickening and heart breaking and you never imagine it is going to happen at your children's school. >> police don't believe students at the school were harmed. a family in virginia is trying to solve the murder of a local teenaged girl that has been a cold case 30 years. cindy vanished at the age of 18 from tacoma park, maryland. that was 30 years ago. skeleton remains were found two years later but recent dna testing positively identified the remains as hers. >> our hope now lies with you, our friends, our neighbors and the community. if you know anything at all about cindy's disappearance please come forward and help close cindy's case.

>> police need help identifying this man who was once her boyfriend. he went by the name of mike or michael. the lead singer of metallica is trying to find the killer of a virginia tech student. >> if you have seen the person in this sketch please contact your local police or submit your information online. >> a public service announcement is part of the effort to solve the morgan harrington case. she disappeared after a metallica concert in 2009. her remains were found in a field ten miles from the site of the concert. dna links the attacker to an assault in 2005. metallica is offering a $50,000 reward in the case. president obama and mitt romney heading to ohio for duelling rallies.

the president holds listen event in cleveland. shoiz a key battleground state. they have spent more on ads there than any other state. romney has made the economy his number one focus and blasted the president's record while he was in washington today. >> is it the most anti-investment, anti-business, anti-jobs series of policies in modern american history. >> the latest poll show also president obama with a 2-point lead in ohio but a dead heat nationwide. >> the president awarded the israeli president with a presidential medal of free dam. he has served in the israeli government since 1952. the security of the state of israel, he said, is

nonnegotiable. john edwards is off the hook in court. prosecutors dismissed all remaining criminal charges against him. he was accused of using $1 million in campaign contributions to hide his pregnant mistress in 2008. maryland voters will decide the fate of the dream act. the law can go up for a referendum. lawmakers passed the dream act last year allowing illegal immigrants to pay instate tuition at public colleges and universities. the governor wants the voters to affirm it. the d.c. council has a new chairman. phil mendelson was picked to be the acting chairman. kwame brown resigned after pleading guilty to felony bank

fraud. in november there will be an election to replace brown. the family of an 80-year-old woman killed in an accident wants safety improvements on a popular bike trail. she walked on the trail every day for 15 years before the accident on monday. shomari stone spoke with her relatives tonight. >> hard time to believe it's actually happened. it's like in the -- you know, horrible movie. >> reporter: these two have empty hearts. >> there is a big hole. >> reporter: surrounded by photos of their mother in this exclusive interview. the 80-year-old died in a tragic bicycle crash on monday from her assisted living facility to the four-mile bike trail in virginia. >> she never come home from the stroll in the park. >> reporter: a 62-year-old bicyclist was going down a hill

at an undetermined rate of speed and saw eda ahead and yelled to your left. >> eda stepped to her left and the bicyclist hid her head on. she fell backwards and hit her head on the pavement. >> this thing is not supposed to happen. >> reporter: the bicyclist stayed on the scene and someone called 911. police invested and say they won't charge him, saying this was an accident. want bicyclists to slow down. bikers want walkers and joggers to pay attention. >> i don't want to hit anybody or hurt anybody. >> we voiced our concerns. >> reporter: they want the county to take steps to make the trail safer. >> we suggest they divide the bike path. >> we just, you know, pray, it won't happen to you. in arlington, virginia, i'm shomari stone, news4.

coming up tonight a meltdown by a pilot could cost an airline a lot of money. an effort to prevent concussions will mean big changes for the biggest youth football organization in the country. an unexpected sand storm made for anything but a pleasant day at the beach. we had a pleasant day here. plenty of sunshine today but ♪

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an inmate trying to escape from a courthouse holding cell wound up running through the wrong door. he went right into a courtroom and there was a trial in session. this was monday louisville, kentucky and video shows the man pushing a guard through the door right into that courtroom. court officers in there tackled him and so did an attorney. jetblue is facing a lawsuit over a midair meltdown by a pilot back in march. the pilot was locked out of the cockpit and the situation triggered an emergency landing in texas. he started yelling about things related to terrorism during the flight. the passengers had to help restrain him. nine passengers filed a civil suit claiming that jetblue was negligent for trusting him to

fly the plane. jamie dimon was in the hot seat today answering to a $2 billion trading loss that he disclosed last month and whether any of the consequences will fall on taxpayers. >> reporter: jpmorgan chase ceo jamie dimon is the hero for keeping his bank in good shape. but their huge loss this year brought dimon to a senate hearing. >> this guy should be going to prison. >> stop foreclosure now. >> reporter: dimon admitted the minimum loss is $2 billion. >> we will lose money but no client, customer or taxpayer money was impacted by this event. >> reporter: dimon testified the crisis came when the staffers in london tried to reduce risk, a hedge. >> isn't that gambling? >> i don't believe so.

>> russian roulette. >> reporter: dimon admitted on cnbc he got a warning memo. >> that is going to come out. i paid virtually no attention to it. >> reporter: he called the news reports a tempest in a teapot. >> it was a small thing and i obviously believed it and was wrong. >> reporter: critics say here we go again. >> we have the same too big to fail wall street banks involved in the high risk investment and trading that risks another failure and bailout by the american taxpayers. that's not acceptable. >> reporter: but dimon argued against regulation. >> we have the wide et cetera, deepest and best capital markets in the world. it would be a shame to shed that out of anger. >> reporter: there is anger but also fear as a top banker describes billions in sudden losses again. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news,

capitol hill. lance armstrong is dismissing charges that accuse him of using performance-enhancing drugs. the u.s. anti-doping agency says that blood samples from armstrong from 2009 and 2010 are consistent with something called blood manipulation. armstrong is a seven-time winner of the tour de france. this could strip him of victories. in a statement he said i have never doped and unlike many of my accusers i have competed adds an endurance athlete for 25 years with no spike in performance, passed more than 500 drug tests and never failed one. protecting children from concussions will mean new rules for the nation's largest youth football program. pop warner football's guidelines include limits contact drills to a third of the practice time.

and head to head hits are now banned. those rules affect more than 400,000 players. tomorrow, the child actor known as little darth vader will undergo open heart surgery. you know him from the super bowl commercial that made max paige famous. the 7-year-old was born with a rare heart condition and he uses a pacemaker. tomorrow he will have a heart valve replacement in los angeles. max said he cannot wait to have more energy. >> i'm looking forward to it. because i love baseball. my dad says i'm going to be a first-round draft pick. and i don't know. but i -- i'm just going with that. and i just want to try to get through this with a good attitude. so -- >> looks like he's got one. max has previously visited capitol hill to lobby against

cuts to children's hospitals. is it not a safety concern that have the flying wallendas worried about a stunt. they're concerned about money. nik wallenda will walk a tight rope over niagara falls on monday. they are way over budget and none of the local businesses are chipping in. it will be the first time in more than a century that someone will attempt to walk a tight rope over the falls. let's go to barcelona where high winds ruined a day at the beach in spain. that's what it looks like today there. you can see people trying to shield themselves after wind gusts clocked 35 miles per hour. at some point the visibility was reduced to near zero. that's got to hurt to be in the middle of that. >> that's not fun. >> no. >> all that sand blowing on you.

>> you don't want to see anything hitting you in the face. this is what happens. out there right now let's look and show you what is going on around our area. a beautiful night tonight. today one of the nicest days we have seen in a long time. a lot of people giving this a ten across the area today. and i think we in for a couple more nines or tens in the next couple days. high temperature, 82 degrees and a low of 69. the record was 98 setback in 1994. i don't see any real heat coming any time soon. the current temperature is 71 with winds out of the north at the 12 miles per hour. the winds have calmed down and will continue to calm down throughout the evening. but we will see breezy conditions tomorrow. only 63 in winchester. we are going to cool off back toward the west. waking up tomorrow morning you are going to wake up to fairly cool numbers, considering where

we have been. you may need a light jacket tomorrow morning. but probably won't need much of one at all. no rain in our region and not much happening in the east. and thunderstorm activity in dallas, texas. two storms that developed. this guy right here. any time you see the purples or the white that shows you hail. this moved right through dallas and to the south. let's look at video from the hail. many areas saw at least golf-ball-sized hail and there were reports of baseball and softball-sized hail. that will put a lot of damage out there. you can see the windshields taken right out of the cars as the baseball-sized hail came down earlier. for our weather we have a low pressure to the east. that comes through tomorrow. it will give us a little bit of moisture. most likely just cloud cover.

a slight chance of a shower but a nice day and most of us should remain dry. on friday nice weather with plenty of sunshine. tomorrow morning seasonably cool. a few clouds. temperatures in the 50s in the suburbs. low to mid-60s in the city. tomorrow afternoon a few clouds. isolated shower in southern maryland and the eastern shore. the beach forecast looks very, very good friday, saturday and sunday. temperatures in the 70s with plenty of sun each day. 80 on friday, 81 on saturday, 82 on sunday. does not get much better than that. heat possibly next weekend. we got sports coming up next. ♪

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let her rip. >> did you know the nationals are playing good baseball? >> there is a rumor of that. >> 38-23. off to the best start in franchise history. this afternoon, steven straussberg and tyler moore led them to a win over the blue jace and swept back to back series for the first time in 24 years. top of the second, tyler moore facing kyle drabek. two on. this into left center field. a bounce over the wall. it gives him his first career rbi. nats have a 2-0 lead. top of the fourth. moore at the plate. one on.

not for long. this is gone. over the fence, his first major league home run. >> save that ball. >> moore went 3 for 4, two rbis. straussberg strikes out rasmus here. eight strikeouts and nats sweep their second straight series 6-2 is the final. in baltimore, o's and pirates. chris davis is batting for the o's. he will muscle the pitch the other way off the top of the wall. j.j. hardy flying around the bases, he's booking. he's going to make it too. davis on second with an rbi double. jake arietta on the mound in the top of the fifth. he gets mccutcheon swinging. seven innings and seven strikeouts. o's beat the pirates.

redskins wrapped up the practice part of their mandatory mini-camp today. the last round of offseason workouts until training camp in july. offensive coordinator kyle shanahan says he's surprised with the speed that rg3 has picked up the offense. >> it's too hard of a position. to me it's one of the hardest positions in the world. it's a lot. 32 people in the planet who can do it and according to most people ten of those guys are what people want. he needs reps and needs to let his body go through it. but from a mental standpoint it has been very good. finally, we're talking about bryce harper again because his legend is growing. he is a monster. following that awesome home run in toronto, yesterday he is talking to a tv reporter after the game and his response to the

question how he planned to celebrate is making waves all over the world. check this out. >> bryce, you know, of course in canada are legal drinking age. a celeb tour canadian beer would make sense -- >> it's illegal in the states to drink -- >> i'm not answering that. >> it's a clown question, bro. >> that's a clown question, bro. it went viral. it's already inspired a t-shirt. that reporter who asked that question ought to be ashamed of himself

>> jay: terry bradshaw and his beautiful daughter, rachel, are singing on the show tonight. sounds like they're rehearsing. ♪ scared to death knowing what's coming down the line ♪ >> jay: they're good. ♪ you'll never hear me say those words stuck in my throat ♪