a young life cut short. right now the new details about this crash that shut down the beltway, including what led to it. one cop car came past and then a second and a third and a fourth. >> a story that was breaking here on news 4 last night. shots fired near verizon center sparking a chaotic scene. with another big event tonight will the crowds feel any safer? news 4 at 6:00 s this twisted mess of metal is all that is left of this car after a driver smashed into it on the beltway and now a local high school is mourning the loss

of a young athlete. good evening. i'm chris lawrence. four teenagers were inside the car when they had trouble and pulled over last night in the inner loop of the beltway. they were waiting for help when a woman crashed her jeep into their car. police say she may have been drunk. molette green has more. >> reporter: in the light of day you can see the massive impact of the halloween night crash. the rear left side of this honda accord took the brunt of it. that's where dominique petty of potomac was a passenger. the gonzaga high school senior was pronounced dead at the scene on the beltway near persimmon tree road. maryland state police say the honda was disabled and off the road on the shoulder around 2:00 a.m. when this gray jeep compass hit the car. yo acan see there is heavy damage to the right front side.

police say the driver, 24-year-old margaret baize drifted off the road struc e honda carrying dominique, three other juveniles and the driver. at this point in the investigat there is still a lot we don't know. maryland state police say the driver of the striking vehicle ap impaired at the scene and also had to be taken to the hospital for injuries she to the teen poured on to sociaas news spread. hours later mourners gathered at gonzaga. some of dominic's friends attended saint elizabeth's church where they added his name to the list of names for the mass. no one has been charged in the horrific accident that has a school communi mourning. >> just a few minutes ago the

head master of the high school posted on facebook that another student is in intensive care tonight and the other people in , a few minutes ago the school's football team tweeted today's game played with heavy hearts and in honor of a eagle. this crash happened hours before launches a major drunk driving enforcement campaign. we road along with maryland state police as they were gearing up for it. five sta troopers have been hit recently while conducting traffic stops. starting at 10:00 officers will fan out along the beltway and look for drunk drivers and make sure drivers obey the state's move over law. let's go to storm team 4. if you have looked outside today you know it is damp and cold. chuck bell joins us with an update. >> the clouds are starting to

break up so it is improving weather picture but not an improving weather feel at all. skies are starting to clear out as clouds scatter away from us. a few rain drops across southern st. mary's county, a bulk of where the rain showers that are left. e cti of cold and g forward is wind. temperatures now are in the upper 40s and low 50s. wind chills are back down into the low 40s. saturday n out on the town breezy 46. 44 between 9:00 and 11:00 tonight. there is more cold to come for tomorrow morning. we will talk about how high the wind speeds will be during the day tomorrow and when is the warmup. >> thanks a lot, chuck. the washington wizards take the court in less than an hour. as fans arrive they pass by the spot where three people were shot last night.

what are you hearing out there? >> reporter: as you said in about an hour the wizards will take to the hard wood here. some of the festivities is started outside. i hear a band playing and the crowds are starting to gather, something else you see is a higher police presence, not unusual for a game like this but especially important after what happened last night. there was a heavy police presence around the area friday evening but that didn't stop someone from shootic into a crowd and hitting three people. they all survived. >> police on every corner and up and down the block. >> reporter: the timing was fortunate. the fleet wood mack concert ended a few minutes after the shooting. had me people would have been on the street. >> it happens everywhere. i lived in san francisco for a long time. it is a big city. it is part of living here. it's not a fun part but a part of living in the big city. >> reporter: there will be lots of police around when the

wizards take to the hard wood tonight. shops in the area are confident. >> we kind of grew up with the neighborhood as the transition went on. we are kind of used to a lot of the big events at the verizon center. we are used to a lot of the unfortunate incidents that may happen every now and then. >> reporter: and pole don't want one evening's events to shape perceptions ab of town. >> it is part of living in a big city. you have to get used to the fact that things go on that you don't like to be around. are respect the police chief told us they did recover a weapon from the scene and talked to several people who may have been involved. there was another shooting about an hour after that shooting not far from here. we have no word of any arrests

or motive for the shootings. we are live downtown. a long line already forming outside restaurants and bars because arlington county police just tweeted this particular picture as folks dress up for tonight's pub crawl. you remember this scene as things got out of control this summer. one of the pub crawlers stripped to nothing and crashed his car before police caught him. since then arlington enacted new rules that required special permits in the event and reimbursed the county for expenses like extra police officers. the new york city doctor infected with ebola got good news when his condition was upgraded to stable. spencer is showing steady improvement. the doctor started showing symptoms nine days ago after he got back from treating ebola

patients. nina pham has been reunited with her dog, bentley had been in quarantine for 21 days. nina pham contracted the virus at work while taking care of a man who died of ebola. killed on halloween night, now the search is on for the driver who hit someone on a scooter and never stopped. plus, new hope for a lot of folks in our area. why this announcement inside a barbershop may save lives. and you can call it relentless determination. relentless determination. a promise the

after filling out their hogan iquestionaire, aight. hogan was awarded an a- from the nra. but now he refuses to release his responses. the nra opposes comprehensive background checks. they want to weaken maryland's gun safety laws. even support letting suspects on the fbi terror watch list buy guns. on gun safety and terror, the nra is wrong. hogan gets an a- from the nra. on protecting maryland, we just can't trust him.

a driver runs over someone on a moped and then just abandons the car. tonight the man on the moped is dead and police are searching for the driver. alessio diaz was driving his moped when the sedan hit him. police found the car near the crash scene and driver ran off. new at 6:00, richard branson has been pushing to put tourists in space and despite a deadly

setback says he won't stop now. a virgin galactic space craft crashed. branson says the crash won't stop his efforts to send travelers into space. >> we are determined to honor the bravery of the pilots and the teams here by learning from this tragedy, only then can we move forward united behind the collective desire to push the boundaries of human endeavor. >> investigators have arrived on site. it looks like the space craft started breaking apart at 45,000 feet. we know the pilots were testing new engines and a new type of fuel. a developing story playing out tonight. if you had to guess where this heavy snow has been falling i got to tell you this would not be at the top of your list.

you're watching news 4 at 6:00. a lot of very frank personal conversations happen in a barbershop. it gets real. that is especially true in the african-american community. the maryland center for health equity wants local barbers to talk to clients about getting screened for colorectal cancer. the money will help trained stylists educate customers. >> this is where people come in

and have a frank conversation. and he is cutting hair and say did you get screened, that is difft from a politician telling him. >> most new cases are found in the african-american community and african-americans are more likely to die from it. november is off to a messy start tonight. down in south carolina it is beginning to look a lot like winter. snow blanketed parts of the state in the earliest snow storm in recorded history. some folks saw two to three inches and others along the north carolina/tennessee border could get up to eight inches of snow. all that plus high winds left thousands of people without power. to show you how quickly things can change, it was 80 degrees in south carolina earlier this week. they are a lot farther south. >> crazy. >> that is a hockey of a lot of

snow. >> snow fl spotted within a bad golf short of augusta. reporting 36 degrees and snow at 8:00 this morning. a little bit of light snow, that will have them talking about it in south carolina. for us no snow flakes at all and none in the offering really. we're going be left dealing with cold and wind starting tonight and going all the way through the second half of your weekend. be ready to do a little bit of bundling. outside we go. skies are starting to clear out a touch here in the washington area. a little bonus sleep. back to standard time we go on your way to bed tonight don't forget to put your clock back. this is a weekend reminder to change the battery in your smoke detector. sun is down at 6:08 tonight. here is the worst thing of all. sun down tomorrow at 5:07. right now it is partly to mostly cloudy skies in place. 54 in washington. northwest wind at 16 miles per

hour. so temperatures feel a little colder than they actually are. upper 40s and low 50s around the area right now as you are trying to figure out what to wear on the town tonight. a warm coat and a hat for sure, something to bundle up against the wind because it is awfully breezy. notre dame and navy kicking it off at 8:00. that north wind 20 miles per r for mouch of the game. no matter what you are doing you need to bundle up. in western north nter storm carolina. snow flakes have ended. for us rain drops southern most maryland. those are gone in the next little while. we are already dry in the metro. no more chance for rain or wet snow flake in our area. it will breezy and chilly. skies clear out late tonight so that by tomorrow morning be ready for a nice bright sunrise just after 6:30 in the morning and a cold start. s to near 40. tures tomorrow

wind chills below freezing. what to expect tomorrow, plenty of wind, plenty of sunshine. air temperatures tomorrow will be close to 50 but wind chills during the course of the day will stay in the 30s. so plenty of sunshine tomorrow but wind with sunshine at that. you will need to plan an a chilly day to be on the outside. here is how strong the winds will be tomorrow. wind speeds in miles per hour 30 to 35 miles per hour winds all the way through the course of the day light hours tomorrow. monday morning a really cold start, freeze in the close by western suburbs early monday morning. here is your seven day forecast now. sunshine plenty tomorrow but cold sunshine at that. things get better on monday after a cold start and we get back to 60 monday afternoon. great weather for election day tuesday. next chance of rain on thursday. i have always wondered what it would feel like to drive

through a damp day like this in a maserati. there was a parade in d.c. toda 100 maseratis celebrating 100 years of the luxury car. ma ma owners came to showcase their cars. the parade ended with a small private celebration italian embassy. those are some good looking cars. coming up jason pugh live at verizon center for the wizards home opener. a not so

this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home e most live sports. >> jason pugh warm and cozy on the inside of verizon center. >> reporter: huge game tonight for the wizards. their home opener taking on the milwaukee bucs. after last season's success everyone is excited for this year's wizard squad trying to build off the second round playoff performance from a year ago. if they are going to do that

they have to protect home court. that starts tonight. last season they did not perform well here at the verizon center. they went 1-4 in their five post season games. not exactly what you call a home court advantage. this year with the help of their fans the wizards are hoping to change that starting tonight against milwaukee. >> we can't take anything for granted just because we play in front of our own fs and our crowd we have to be sure we perform the same way we perform on the road. we have to make sure we win games at home. >> that is one of our goals this year is to maintain where you were from being a good road team to being a good home team. that's how you become better than what you were the year before. >> reporte tip off tonight for wiz at 7:00. you can watch on comcast sportsnet.

let's move to college football. earlier this week their head coach said that their game between penn state was not a rivalry because it has been so lop sided over the years for e lions. today that changed at beaver dam stadium. james franklin was the smallest part of the story line today. the teams ran out and players got into it right away. digs made contact with an official here. he could have be ejec for this but received only a penalty. this one was on fire before the game started. pick it up in the fourth quarter penn state up six returning a kick off. grant haley fumbles the ball. alex twain recovers, huge play for maryland and they are back in it. a few plays later wes brown punches it in from one yard out. maryland up 17-16. after a field goal penn state

nd kicker. lead. brad cradick, 19 straight field goals, 20 would give the terps the lead with 1:00 to go. maryland is on top 20-19. fourth and one, last chance for pennd to move the chains. they can't do it. maryland, they become bowl eligible with the win. they ignite a new big ten rivalry. >> our kids just hung in there. they played their tails off, gave it everything they have. i am so proud for the state of maryland and for all of the players that came so close. to come here and win for the first time it doesn't get any better than this. sfwl we are going to enjoy this ride home and let the rivalry begin. >> michael brewer and virginia tech hos boston college down 13 points entering the fourth quarter.

third and goal brewer to hodges and the 6'6" freshman comes down with it and he is not done. they take a 24-23 lead. it would not last long. three minutes to go, boston college up two. it is going to be more. tyler murphy calling his own number rushing 57 yards for the score. boston college wins it 33-31. uva hoping georgia tech would off. you know that has to hurt. don't know what that mascot was thinking there. virginia, they weren't going away quietly. second and eight at the tech 13. he gets the cavs on the board. they are down 14-7 at this point. the yellow jackets strike

quickly. ensuing drive just three plays in. thomas up top to waller. he hauls in the 11-yard touchdown. right now georgia tech is on top 35-10. this game is in the fourth quarter. before we get out of here we want to gi you a few more scores. west virginia on top of tcu 30-21. that game is in the fourth quarter. also howard defeated delaware state 17-10. that was a great game. na

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