girl. we are uncovering new details about the suspect's past and his ties to a local school district. first tonight the faa told u.s. airlines not to fly in or out of the airport in tel aviv israel after concern about rocket fire near the airport there. >> european airlines are also staying away. within the last hour so is canada. wendy rieger jones us with the developments. >> this is a major disruption. at the height of the tourist season for israel and one the country had been lobbying hard to avoid. this began after a rocket landed about a mile from the airport and that forced a flight from new york to be diverted to france. delta and united airlines suspended flights indefinitely. the federal aviation administration halted all u.s. flights going into israel for the next 24 hours. at least three european airlines have followed suit.

now air canada doing the same and israel fearing the shut down will hurt it economically. the airlines are wary of flying into conflict zones after the shooting down last week of the malaysian airliner over ukraine. so far the two week old conflict in gaza has led to 600 palestinian deaths. the u.s. is estimating 75% of those deaths are civilian. diplomatic efforts to end this fighting is intensifying. >> we are here working because we have seen too much blood shed on all sides including the death of two american citizens. >> secretary of state john kerry who arrived in cairo to push for a cease fire between both sides. egypt has proposed a cease fire that is supported by the united states and israel but has been rejected by the palestinian group hamas. back to you. new intelligence now in the

crash of malaysia airlines flight 17. three senior u.s. intelligence officials have just briefed reporters. they say they have no evidence of direct russian government involvement in the fact of the plane being shot down. they say the most likely explanation is that russian separatists shot the plane down by mistake. on the ground in eastern ukraine some progress after five days investigators are actually on the scene now. steve handelsman live on capitol hill with the latest. >> reporter: investigators getting out in the fields looking at the wreckage. this is considered by the white house good news for a change from ukraine and it is what president obama has been demanding. at the netherlands embassy president obama penned condolences to the dutch and promised to push a full investigation of flight 17. >> we are all heart broken. >> reporter: he got good news. russian president vladimir putin

said today he told ukrainian separatists to cooperate and investigators got access to the site. in the wreckage they are finding the kind of punctures made by a missile set to explode just before impact. pro russian rebels turned over black boxes expected to indicate a shoot down. u.s. intelligence officials said they tracked a missile headed towards flight 17 from rebel controlled territory but said the u.s. has no proof of direct russian involvement. still some on capitol hill today demanded tougher action aimed at moscow. >> you want to see debilitating sanctions? we are not going to give the kind of missiles that can close down airports or be aimed at planes. >> reporter: despite the plane down france still plans to sell at least one warship to russia. despite president obama urging no sale. back in ukraine the train

carrying 200 sets of remains made it outside the war zone. the bodies will be identified in amsterdam. >> all families and friends can say good bye to them, to their loved ones. >> reporter: relief today along with anger and sadness in the dutch nation that lost 189 people. next door in belgium today urged on by the united states european nations considered tougher sanctions against russia. despite the finding by u.s. intelligence that the russians weren't directly involved in the shoot down but continued accusation from here in washington that they are responsible for creating the conditions that led to the tragedy. the europeans put off action again. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. >> thank you, steve. now to a developing story in maryland, a man shot inside a bank while people were waiting inside and a ps the one who opened fire. it happened around lunch time in the tacoma park shopping center.

just moments ago the man was identified. pat collins is at the scene. >> reporter: moments ago police identified the man killed here at 54-year-old donovan dayton of silver spring. this is how police tell the story. the scene, this capital one bank in the tacoma park shopping center. it was just before noon. police say a man was acting erratically inside the bank, that bank employees called for help. when officers got to the bank they say the man had a knife in his hand and an officer felt threatened and fired off a shot. the suspect ended up dead. >> the subject immediately produced a weapon, would not comply with the officers and the officers were forced to use their service weapon and shoot the subject. >> reporter: police say there was no indication that the man was trying to rob the bank.

they say he was acting erratically. juan hernandez was inside the bank when it happened. he described what he saw through his cousin who acted as an interpreter. hernandez said he saw the suspect in an office with a man who appeared to be the manager. >> when he saw the two police men walking in and they were telling the guy to stay, freeze, put his hands up or something. the teller told him to go out of the bank, leave the bank. when he was leaving the bank that is when he heard the gun shot. >> reporter: there were people on the way to use the bank when all of this happened. they were most surprised by what they saw. >> i was on my way to the bank to get some cash and then to go to the giant and spend it. >> i come here every day almost. >> reporter: what do you make of something like this? >> it is scary, very scary. >> we don't usually have people getting shot here. >> you never know when you get up how your day is going to end.

>> reporter: police are reviewing security camera video, talking to witnesses, trying to figure out how this all came about. live in montgomery county, pat collins, news 4. >> and there is a search underway in a silver spring community for a bank robber who struck this afternoon. chopper 4 show police outside the bank of america branch at university boulevard. nobody was hurt in this robbery. two parents have been charged with keeping their autistic sons locked up at night in a dark, dirty basement and they alleged to have been doing that for years. we are learning now that it was another crime investigation that led police to uncover the alleged abuse. chris gordon has our report now. >> reporter: good evening. this began as a drug investigation which led to the discovery of autistic twins being locked away in dungeon-like conditions.

most neighbors didn't know what was going on at this house at 1602 crawford drive in rockville. >> we had seen the police come there frequently. we don't know for what reason. >> reporter: last friday morning at 5:00 a.m. police came here for a marijuana drug investigation. they ended up arresting john and janice land after discovering their twin autistic sons locked in the basement with no furniture and no light except for a small window. >> the stinch of urine in the room was nearly overwhelming for the officers. >> reporter: john and janice land told police the autistic twins lived this way for six years. how could police and social workers have been unaware of these deplorable conditions? >> it does not appear that police or hhs missed anything, that this is just not going on at the time they observed. >> reporter: john and janice

land told police they kept their sons locked in the basement because they had no other alternative to keep them from running away. montgomery county police have an officer who heads a special outreach program and offers alternatives. >> any citizen of montgomery county can reach out to me via e-mail or phone call. i'm more than happy to go to your house and discuss safety options with you. >> reporter: now, the easiest way to request her help is to call 911. as far as the autistic twins they were taken to a local hospital and examined and tonight they are in the custody of montgomery county's adult protective services. that is the latest live. chris gordon news 4. three separate crime scenes and a murder mystery in maryland tonight. a man's body was discovered behind the shopping center on huron avenue last night. a witness says he saw the victim get into a fight with several people. just down the road two more

crime scenes. police tell us they are connected but they are not saying how. the victim's family wants answers. >> i have no words for this. whoever killed my cousin i want them to find whoever killed my cousin. >> police have identified the victim there. montgomery county school board members employees may lose taxpayer funded credit cards after a series of controversial expenses by board members and administrators. pricey meals including lobster, fillet and sea bass and at least two used cards for d.c. hotel rooms that are just a metro ride away from headquarters. a proposal set to eliminate credit cards. you can watch the original

i-team reports by logging on to nbcwashington.com and clicking on investigations. yet another problem with ignition switches has created a massive recall, this time by the chrysler company recalling nearly 800,000 older jeeps. engineers say if the ignition switch is accidently knocked out of the run position it could shut the engine off. no one has been injured so far and so far the problem is only -- the result of the problem has only been one accident. the recall covers the 2005 to 2007 grand cherokees and the 2006 to 2007 commanders. a stunning security breach. the new questions after somebody sneaked up on to the brooklyn bridge and put up mystery flags without being noticed. growing concerns about terrorists. we will tell you what experts say is the single most important threat to national security. they were inches away from death. what people inside the home are demanding from the county after

a suspected drunk driver rammed through the bedroom. i have been taking a look at the weather maps and our potential for storms fairly high for tomorrow unlike the last two days where we have had clouds and not much going on. different story tomorrow. they will fire as early as 2 p.m. talking about the risk to severe weather. i'll show you where.

the brooklyn bridge is one of the most secure in the entire country. tonight police in new york are trying to figure out how somebody got on top of it to plant two white flags. investigators say they appear to be bleached american flags. surveillance video caught a group of people walking on to the bridge early this morning and about half an hour later the lights that illuminate the flags went out. so far police do not believe that this incident is related to terrorism or even politics. the u.s. is better equipped to fight terrorism but the threats are more pronounced than ever before. that is the assessment in a new report done by the members of the 9/11 commission. jay gray has more on what they believe is the biggest threat. >> reporter: ten years after the initial report there is a new and serious warning for the 9/11 commission on terrorism. >> the threat continues and is urgent.

>> reporter: gathering now is private citizens. the group pointed out there has been no successful terror plot carried out in the last decade. they warn threats and avenues for a potential attack are growing. >> al qaeda in the arabian peninsula possesses advanced bombs making skills which have now been passed to extremists in syria and iraq. >> reporter: and one of the most dangerous battlefields according to the new study is online. >> the vulnerability of our cyber systems and the most vast stealing of intellectual property over the internet pose a huge national security challenge. >> reporter: they worry that the public has become complacent and that congressional red tape crippled our nation's ability to protect against an attack. >> surely our political leaders can forego their political polarization to better protect

the united states and all americans. >> reporter: against a threat that they stress isn't going away. jay gray, nbc news. there are 300,000 words in the affordable care act but four of them could mean a difference of hundreds or thousands of dollars to those who are enrolled. those words are established by the state. today the d.c. court of appeals ruled that phrase in the law prohibits the government from providing tax breaks to people who signed up for health care by way of federal exchange. that could mean premium hikes for more than half of the 8 million obamacare enrollees. the white house disagrees with the ruling and so does a federal appeals court in virginia. also today that appeals court issued a separate ruling that upholds the legality of the subsidies.

a look at our weather. hello again summer time. it was humid out there. >> not too fun doing anything outside today. even the early morning walk was a bit sticky and uncomfortable. we are talking about the threat of storms for tomorrow around this time is when we are really going to start to have to begin watching them on radar because it is kind of through the dinner hour tomorrow. outside right now clouds parting a bit. we have a mostly sunny to partly sunny sky. a little on the sticky side that humidity not much showing up on storm team 4 doppler. you can see the scan going around the area. we are tracking right now a few showers, thunder showers well off to the west and around the mountains these are the high spots here. what happens is the air rises as it hits the mountains and we see typical afternoon showers and thunder showers so when the sun sets they are gone. 86 degrees your temperature. partly sunny right now. we have taken out threat of seeing an isolated shower. the humidity for sure sticks

around. if you are going to go out and try to do outdoor dining 80 degrees at 9:00. 77 partly cloudy. still plenty warm. as i take you through the next 48 hours watch what happens. here is 7:00 this evening. our threat of showers or storms pretty much die when we lose the heating of the day. 11:00 p.m. quiet and mostly clear to partly cloudy and a few clouds for tomorrow morning and plenty warm. by tomorrow afternoon i think starting fairly early around 2:00 we really have to watch the spots west around hagerstown and even perhaps around warrenton. for the threat of showers and thunderstorms blowing up. 5:00 not much happening. by 7:00 look at the line coming into areas of d.c. so around 8:00, 9:00, 10:00, 11:00 p.m. tomorrow evening late the threat of thunderstorms that could produce high winds. thursday morning could be a sloppy morning rush as we get

more thunderstorms moving through with the weather front and should be out by early afternoon. i don't think we see flooding tomorrow but could have high winds that produce damage and maybe isolated power outages and small hail tomorrow. all of that with another hot and sticky day. 93 leesburg. 95 d.c. waldorf at 93 for a high temperature. just like today it will feel hotter than that. 94 degrees tomorrow. we drop by ten on thursday. again, fairly overcast even when the front moves through during the afternoon. 86 on friday. 90 degrees on saturday. at least for the weekend early start for the weekend it will be feeling nice. we take a look at the rest of the weekend in a couple minutes. an elderly woman trapped in a truck for five hours and a son ditches his wheelchair bound mom. video of the store hours before a high profile murder. what we are learning about the link between this man and the

death of a popular local store owner. commuter from d.c. to northern virginia, a daily challenge. can the new silver line save you money in travel time?

we are counting down to the opening of the new silver line on metro. a lot of people with long, painful congested commutes are

looking forward to ditching their cars and hopping on metro. we wanted to see how different it would be for them once the silver line opens up. northern virginia reporter david culver joins us with the story of one commuter who hopes to get relief come monday morning. >> what better way to understand the pain of a commute than to sit with someone who goes through it every day. so we did that. if only nadia's daily commute from d.c. to tyson was this easy. >> i made it. >> reporter: her trek from her home in northwest took more than onhour. we timed it. her route brings her over the key bridge to 66 and route 7. nadia is used to seeing a lot of red. >> reporter: does this frustrate you or is it part of what you are used to? >> i'm used to it. >> reporter: that doesn't mean she is not eager for another way.

>> the thing with metro you can sit down and relax. driving you can't really do that. >> reporter: i joined nadia with her drive. at first all looked smooth. >> i might be lucky today. there is almost no traffic. >> reporter: that changed and we sat and down. >> it is frustrating when you are not moving and you sit still for ten minutes. >> reporter: which is why come monday nadia wants her view to change from this to this, a look from on board the new silver line. she is willing to test it out. he tells me her commute will look like taking a bus to columbia heights and switching to the silver line and riding it out to tyson. back to our road trip. after 43 minutes we finally made it to route 7 getting closer to nadia's work place. >> finally. >> reporter: alas she makes it to work. >> does it feel good when you come to this point? >> yes, it does. >> only to have to work for several more hours. >> the biggest question is will

it save nadia and ultimately you time and money? we ran the numbers. it seems by riding the new silver line nadia will save a few minutes. she will pay about $1 more but ultimately we won't know until she tests it out monday. it opens saturday but monday is when commuters will be using it. >> she will be reading or doing something instead of stuck in traffic. >> she will probably have a camera in front of her monday, too. >> i wonder if she is looking forward to that. thank you. metro has not opened a new line in more than 20 years. it will be a busy week leading up to saturday's opening. we will have it covered here on news 4 and on nbcwashington.com. a d.c. police officer on the wrong side of the law tonight. the new developments in court as he goes on trial for trying to kill his wife. >> reporter: in prince william county where a woman who describes herself as a former

friend is speaking out about a man recently charged with child sex abuse. the red flag she is waving about his past employment. and there is controversy in plans to enforce

now at 6:30 a probation officer under arrest and accused

of sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl. >> i trusted him personally. and i can't believe i did. >> reporter: tonight we have learned the suspect also has ties to a local school. a police officer facing attempted murder charges for allegedly attacking his wife with a metal lamp post. new details that we have learned in court. hot and helpless. the discovery inside a car at a maryland casino that has this man facing charges. we'll tell you who he abandoned. we are uncovering new details about the probation officer accused of child abuse. turns out he once worked for the alexandria school system as a substitute teacher. >> tonight a woman who knows the suspect says she feels betrayed by the allegations. she spoke to julie carey who is outside the prince william county courthouse with more cht. >> reporter: that manassas woman speaking out knows both the suspect and the 10-year-old girl. she says marco silva was a

highly respected figure in the community but in the wake of the sexual assault charges she wants to draw attention to his prior jobs, jobs working with kids. marco silva spent much of his career working with troubled youth and as a probation officer with people freed from prison. now he is in trouble. the 40-year-old was arrested on july 9 after they were called to investigate a report that he sexually assaulted a child. this woman we'll call nicole knows both silva and the victim. we are concealing her identity because of the sensitive nature of the case. >> i was totally floored, shocked. i mean, i actually had to hear it a few times before i actually even processed it and then when i saw the mug shot it was real. >> reporter: nicole is quick to make clear she believes the

young victim. this is a look at his linked in page where he spot lights his role as an arlington county police officer. >> you should be able to trust someone you meet at church who is a probation officer. >> reporter: arlington county officials tell news 4 silva has been placed on administrative leave without pay. nicole is speaking out to draw attention to silva's earlier jobs with children saying he worked for alexandria court services for troubled youth and before that was a substitute teacher working with learning disabled. alexandria school officials tell me they just learned of silva's arrest from media reports and will later hear to learn whether the investigation into marco

silva deepens. marco silva hired a new attorney. i called and e-mailed him to try to get his comment but i have not heard back. police are exploring a new lead in the search for information about the july 4 murder of a popular d.c. store owner. take a look at this video released today. investigators are not calling him a suspect but are asking for help in identifying this man. they say he was in the store on colorado avenue northwest two hours before two masked men came in and robbed the place. the owner died after being hit in the head. his wife was also attacked but she survived. the robbers are still on the loose. a woman in maryland says her husband tried to kill her. she says he came enraged for some reason while trying to hang a tv on the wall. her husband who is a d.c. police officer is on trial for attempted murder.

tracee wilkins reports what the couple's daughter said in court today. >> reporter: there were a lot of heartbreaking moments in court but the hardest had to be the 17-year-old girl walking into court, identifying her father as the defendant and then testifying against him. betty lawrence left the prince george's county court today after an evening of grueling testimony. her husband 23 year d.c. police veteran facing the possibility of life behind bars for allegedly brutally beating her. it happened november 24 of last year inside their home. according to testimony an argument over installing a projection tv escalated to him spraying his wife's face with lysol, pushing her down steps and hitting her with a pendant lamp, choking her and holding knives t her neck. she escaped to a neighbor's house who testified she had blood coming from her head, glass in her hair.

the state prosecutor asked the 17-year-old daughter if she heard anything. the daughter started to cry saying i could hear spray being sprayed and i could hear my grandmother saying stop to my father. her 911 call was also played in court where she told the operator my father is beating my mother. i need you to come now. betty lawrence needed five staples in the back of her head and wore a cast on her arm for some time after the incident. he is facing attempted first and second degree murder and assault charges. we heard the 911 call from the neighbor's house. you could hear the wife in the background crying and saying i want my dad as the neighbor was attempting to get in contact with her parents. it was a very difficult trial. it gets back underway tomorrow morning at 9:00 a.m. the first person expected to be

the police officer's mother who was there. the family whose house was rammed by a suspected drunk driver has not been allowed to return to their home tonight. police say the driver slammed into the house in manassas sunday morning coming inches from a couple and their daughter sleeping downstairs. the homeowner met with inspectors today and plans to talk to county officials to see if anything can be done to help prevent future crashes. she said this is the second time a car hit the house since she has lived there. a dramatic end to a police chase. a change at the top. who has been tapped as the new president of howard university and how he could help revamp the school. a milestone for a prince. new pictures released as the royal family celeb in line

to the throne. a man arrested for his actions before he went inside to gamble. we will report what police found in his car that got him locked up. why latinos are more likely to suffer in silence we have done just that for

tomorrow. so we are kind of taking a look at everything and seeing where storms could hit. i have put together this map for you showing you where i think the storms could fire tomorrow. the area shaded in yellow here is where i think tomorrow late afternoon the storms could be fairly fierce with high winds and hail and anywhere in and around the area. that would include winchester to leesburg around frederick, maryland, martinsburg. the evening rush. areas in and around there. gaithersburg, same thing down south. the storms start to fire as early as 2 p.m. here is your afternoon storms. hagerstown, east of the mountains around 5:00 during the late afternoon evening hours right in this area for columbia, for sandy spring and d.c., alexandria, arlington into buy

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