what an employee of a local spa is accused of doing to his clients. breaking news this afternoon, police surround a local apartment building as they try to piece together how a woman died. >> chris is gathering details. >> tracee wilkins just called in with an update but police are still trying to figure out a lot of the details of exactly what happened there. we know officers were called to edwards way in adelphi, maryland around 11:30 this morning to check on a woman. when they got there, they found a woman on the second story of an apartment building with trauma to her upper body but they aren't saying what type of trauma killed her. she was pronounced dead a short time later. police are still trying to find a suspect and establish a motive. they've been telling tracie most of the people in this apartment complex are elderly, that most of the deaths that occur there are people who happen to pass away in their sleep. so this was very unusual. she's been talking to residents an police. she's going to have an update. i'm chris lawrence.

>> thank you. now to the shock for customers at a district nail salon learning their peddie curist is accused of molesting other patrons. >> kristin wright got the documents that spell out exactly what the worker did and how long it's reportedly been going on. >> reporter: three female customers of color nail salon and spa say they were inappropriately touched bay nail tech. it's on p street near dupont circumstance until northwest d.c. court records detail sex abuse charges against hung nguyen known as "tiger" at the salon. one woman says after a pedicure the defendant later began to massage her shoulders, then put his hand inside of her shirt according to charging documents. the suspect then placed his handle inside her pants. the owner of the hair salon downstairs is also one of tiger's customers. >> my reaction would be surprise shocked. i've been going to him to do my

nails and i neve saw that really in him. >> the abuse at the nail salon allegedly happened between november of 2013 and august of 2014. at 5:00 hear what an employee and friend says about the allegations. a trial date is set for april. in northwest, kristin wright news4. first at 4, there are calls now for increased training for d.c. firefighters after yet another smoke incident on metro. you may have seen us break this story online just before 1:00. smoke began to fill the dupont circle metro station. this video is of smoke sent to us by a viewer today. dozens of firefighters responded and found a brake on a metro car caught fire. no one was hurt. it come just three weeks after that smoke incident at l'enphant plaza killed a woman and sent 80 others to the hospital. those incidents are putting increased focus on how well firefighters are trained. a d.c. council hearing yesterday

revealed only 100 d.c. firefighters were trained for a metro incident last year and more than half of all firefighters in the district have never received specialized training. d.c.'s fire chief says he has already ordered an increased training. coming up at 5:00 tonight, the fire union speaks with mark segraves about a tool they say would make that training more effective. from the white house to the pentagon and beyond. u.s. officials say they can't confirm the isis claim that an american female hostage was killed in an air strike in syria today. the family of 26-year-old kayla mueller has given us permission to release her name and use her picture. isis claims she was buried in the rubble of a building hit by jordanian aircraft. that is not confirmed. jordanian officials say they're skeptical of the claim and believe it's isis propaganda. muler is from arizona. she was working for doctors without borders when she was kidnapped by isis in aleppo syria, in august of 2013.

a tow truck had to pull this van from someone's driveway after the driver lost control and hit a home in silver spring. this happened around 11:00 this morning. the house on kinds street off university boulevard east. we're told the driver was backing up hit a parked car, and then crashed into the house near the garage. the driver was checked out on the scene. no one else was injured. the house was not badly damaged, but a county building inspector was notified just in case. right now, students standing together just a couple of days after someone shot two students outside a local high school basketball game. tonight, frederick high school hosts its first game since that shooting. and extra security will be on hand. news4's megan mcgrath was there as students returned to the classroom today for the first time since the gunfire. >> reporter: students returned to class for the first time since the shooting. many of them wearing frederick high school colors gold and black.

>> to support the school. it had nothing to do with frederick high i don't think, but it happened on our territory, so just have to support. >> reporter: in the wake of the violence students have taken to social media, urging unity and strength and calling for a large turnout at tonight's varsity basketball game. >> it doesn't define us so i'm just happy to be back and be together as a family with the rest of the school. >> the incident that occurred the other night, it's sad but it doesn't define us as a school and we want to show everyone that we're going to come back stronger than ever. go fred rig high! >> reporter: it was wednesday night during a jv game versus thomas johnson high that shots rang out just outside the gym. two students were hit, and according to the last hospital update one teen is now listed in critical condition. the victims are not from frederick high. police have not identified the person or people who fired the shots. no arrests have been made which

makes some uneasy. others say they feel safe. >> i'm a little nervous to be back. kind of don't even want to be here. >> reporter: why? >> because of all the stuff that's going on just a little nervous about it. >> it's scary in a way, but i'm not nervous. i know it wasn't like a frederick high person shooting anybody, so i feel safe. >> reporter: both the girls and the boys basketball teams have games tonight. a school spokesperson says there will be extra security on hand. in frederick, megan mcgrath news4. early findings from tuesday tuesday -- gathered in new york to rebel len brody, who was driving the vehicle hit by the train. the 49-year-old mother of three daughters was remembered as a beautiful soul who found beauty in others. meanwhile, a preliminary report reveals her suv was inside the railroad crossing gates for

about 30 seconds before the train hit her. five passengers on board the train also died. the first huge rainstorm in months is making its way to california and it's expected to be powerful with strong winds nearly 4 inches of rain. residents are bracing themselves and their homes. the last storm back in december caused massive flooding. some places still recovering. today people are loading up on sandbags and hoping to get ahead head of what's to come. house speaker john boehner just ordered that flags be lowered at the u.s. capitol after the loss of a congressman who passed away following a battle with cancer. alan none alan nunely died today after a struggle with brain cancer. he's represented his home district in washington since 2011. he was diagnosed last may and suffered a stroke recently. he and his family learned last week that medical treatment could no longer help him. noneley was 56 years old. first at 4 today, changes at a daycare after an outbreak of

the measles. we'll tell you how many more children could be at risk as concerns grow about this devastating illness. all new this afternoon and just as many of you get ready to prepare your tax returns, the warning from one of the nation's leading tax companies and the steps it's taking that could delay your refund. into the 30s today but check out the weekend. a taste of spring. temperatures going way up but can we get some more sunshine?

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a daycare center in chicago was mandating staff vaccinations after children came down with the measles. public health officials are investigating a cluster of measles at kinder daycare center.

two kids were diagnosed with the measles yesterday and another ten may have been exposed. all of the children are too young to be vaccinated. now kinlder care is requiring vaccinations for all staff member who is work with kids under 15 months of age. these cases are not linked to california's disneyland outbreak. after years of meeting resistance the soldiers wounded in the deadly attack on ft. hood will receive purple hearts. 13 people were killed and more than 30 wounded in the attack by major nidal hassan. the army previously said the attack didn't meet the criteria for a purple heart, but congress changed the wording this year to include attacks inspired or motivated by a foreign terrorist organization. hassan was convicted by court-martial in 2013 and sentenced to death. it's what a lot of people don't want to hear this time of year one of the country's biggest tax preparers is going to extreme measures to chemoyour money safe. but it could mean a delay in

your refund. family versus family. new concerns this afternoon as the daughter of the late whitney houston fights for her life.

you've no doubt heard of turbotax the makers of the online tax software say they've seen an increase in tax return fraud. >> erika gonzalez is here to explain what this means for

taxpayers and how to keep you and your money safe and secure. >> turbotax has stopped processing the state filings in response to what it call an increase in suspicious filings. criminals who use stolen identity information to file fraudulent state tax returns and then claim tax refunds. intuit says it does not think the fraud is the result of a security breach of its systems. the company says its goal is to resume e-filing in a matter of hours rather than days. and if you suspect any fraud, intuit has identity protection agents that can help and you can find that resource on our website, nbcwashington.com, and just search "taxes." now we're going to an update on that anthem hack. the company says those affected by the hack will hear from the company directly. you're going to get a letter from-in the mail. we're talking snail mail and not e-mail. anthem is warning customers about scam artists sending fraudulent e-mails and phone

calls. remember the company is sending out letters. they're not going to call you ask for personal information, so please be careful with that. then coming up on news 4 at 5:00 tonight we are going to break down the ways that you can protect yourself against health insurance fraud in the wake of this anthem hack. if you've got a story idea for us send us an e-mail. or call us. we'll see you coming up at 5:00. >> look forward to it. thanks erika. atlanta and chicago are battling for bragging rights as busiest airport. atlanta officials just announced that they have the busiest airport in 2014. two weeks ago chicago's o'hare claimed the same title. technically they're both right. that's according to industry experts. if you consider the number of takeoffs and landings o'hare wins. if you look at the total number of passengers atlanta's

hartsfield-jackson wins. >> bragging or not, that's a reason for me not to want to fly through there. >> that's what i was going to say. i don't want that title. you take it. >> we have a nice weekend shaping up huh? >> we have a super weekend shaping up and that's the thing that all through the week here we've seen a shift in the forecast and now it's an even bigger change with springlike temperatures the rain holds off, pretty good forecast for the weekend. and, yes, yeah, i wear specs off the air. we'll see if this makes my job any easier while i'm on the air for today. temperatures across the area less wind too, across the area mid-30s around the beltway, even north, 34 gaithersburg around germantown 236, pax river and you folks near st. mary's good afternoon to you. notice those higher temperatures to our south and west. 40s from 42 martinsburg, luray at 41 degrees right now. that is the key to the weekend is that with the southerly flow we're going to see our temperatures really start to warm this weekend. but for tonight, 32 already around freezing by 9:00 and below that 11:00 under a mostly

clear sky. the thing is though, a mostly clear sky throughout the area. here's a look at some of the wind gusts, still gusting around 22 leesburg to cull pepper but really calming down during the overnight period. on the satellite/radar right now off to the west nothing much in the sky. should make for some pretty decent viewing of the international space station that will be making a flyover very high in the sky starting at 6:21 and for about five minutes as you look from the southwest to the east-northeast it should be great viewing. now, it is going to be bright enough. the cool thing about the international space station is you can see it from the city moves very fast like a plane, but thousands of miles faster. so i've got a lot more information on my facebook page. the mission of the international space station. big story for the weekend is the warmth. that warm air coming up from out of the south and going across the mid-atlantic states. we'll have a springlike weekend for us feeling a lot like march. rain now hold off for sunday

until in fact early monday morning. then when the rain comes in just a few showers when that rain does come in. i'm going to talk a little more about how much rain we're expecting a little later in the newscast. look at the high temperature for tomorrow. 52 in d.c. arias like frederick, mt. airy 48 leesburg around areas like falls church 53 degrees for a high temperature again with some early morning clouds afternoon sunshine but warmer conditions certainly than today as we move from the 30s to the low 50s. and on sunday right now, your high temperature close to 60 degrees. in fact i think there will be some neighborhoods just south of d.c. across southern maryland that will top out just above 60 degrees. so we're partly sunny and very springlike coming up for weekend, especially on sunday. again, that rain holds off until early part of next week. showers for monday 60% chance 50s for highs, 40s for lows so yeah even the snow that we were looking at earlier during the

week now looks like just rain showers. all liquid when that system comes in. it's out of here. then we've got a cooler pattern coming up for the midpart of next week, a cold pattern, in fact some extreme cold coming our way. we'll talk about what we can expect toward the end of february maybe eve an look at early march. where is the snow? >> v.j. thanks. you're rocking the red. are you showing off your red? the first friday in february is national wear red to work day to help raise awareness about women's heart health. 1 in 3 women dies from heart disease and stroke every year yet it is 80% preventable. many of any news4 colleagues are wearing red today. you can see photos on our facebook page. send us your pictures too. you can help your heart with a walk through old town fairfax and satisfy your craving for chocolate as well. the annual chocolate lover's festival returns this weekend. the chocolate chip pancake breakfast is back.

so is the chocolate challenge. many downtown businesses are taking part and offering special deals. >> this is an excellent opportunity to tempt all your five senses because not only can you taste the chocolate, there's also other activities so you don't just have to eat chocolate. >> activities take place in several locations by the chocolate express bus running between the sites both days. many events are free but some charge a slight fee. well it's the story you don't want to miss. a local college goes above and beyond to comfort a young girl after a video of her crying goes viral. but first, increased health concerns on trends that millions of people use every day. wait until you hear what kind of shocking diseases lurk on a busy subway system. at the top of the hour we told you about another metro station filling with smoke. have you changed your metro riding habits after recent smoke incidents? >> that's our nbc washington

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they found hundreds of different types of bacteria on subways including a few linked to illnesses like bubonic plague and meningitis. the majority of the samples were harmless and pose no public health ris sock no need to panic. more worries for the family of bobbi kristina brown today. two members of her family were involved in a nasty fight last night in atlanta. police say it happened around midnight during a birthday party for her father at a downtown hotel. singer brown was spotted yesterday outside the hospital where his daughter bobbi kristina, is still fighting for her life. she was found saturday face down in the bathtub at her georgia home. can you tell me why you're cry ing? cr? >> aw.

that's little ava lane whose mother had to break the news to her 5-year-old daughter that george washington lived more than 200 years ago. the video has gotten more than 500,000 views. as jason pew reports, george washington university came to the rescue. >> it's time for ava lane to meet her favorite president. george washington. >> ava, look! >> ava was sitting in on her brother's class and we were discussing presidents and we were discussing symbols of the united states and talking about the white house, which she asked if george washington lived there. and when we nched her that unfortunately george washington was no longer alive, she became very sad. >> reporter: so sad that her mother gina had to capture the moment. >> maybe we can see our current president, president barack obama.

>> when you found out george washington wasn't around anymore, how did you feel? >> sad. >> reporter: why? >> because i wanted to meet him. >> reporter: what did you think you liked about him? what was so cool that you wanted to meet him? >> because he had a cool place. >> reporter: it may not be the real george washington but for ava, this one will do just fine. jason pew, news4 sports. >> hopefully ava will be watching tonight as gw plays a nationally televised game at home against dayton. first at 4, a change of plans inside the courtroom when the man at the center of two investigations will now face a judge. and why there was such a sudden change. caught on camera -- a firefighter finds himself in danger in a way he never expected. hey! guess what day it is?? >>hump day! hummmp daaay! it's hump day! >>yeah! >>hey mike! mike mike mike mike mike! >>mike mike mike mike mike. hey! he knows! hey! guess what day

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and spa in dupont circle. questions abound after isis claims one of its hostages an american woman, has died. senator john mccain is asking all americans to pray for kayla mueller. isis claims she was killed today in a jordanian air strike. the terror group offered no proof. jordan is slamming the claim, calling it sick propaganda. nbc's kooer similar montsmons is in iran. >> reporter: they point out this is a group that has ruthlessly beheaded innocent hostages that burned alive a jordanian pilot that isis captured. so they say how can you trust anything that isis says? and they point out that it would be in that group's advantage to be able to claim not only that female american hostage had been kaled but killed by jordanian air strikes, which have been

launched in advanceing numbers in the last few days and hugely supported by the public here. >> we do not at the present have any evidence to corroborate isil's claims. >> reporter: there have been thousands on the streets. now it looks as if isis thinks this might swing the public back towards its favor, but the simple reality is that they the claim by isis cannot be confirmed, has not been confirmed b nbc news. back to you. secretary of state john kerry is chuck todd's guest on "meet the press" this week. you can watch that sunday morning at 10:30. the january jobs report is out today and it shows employers hired at a stellar pace last month. the economy gained 257,000 jobs. hourly wages made their biggest gains since september of 2008. average pay jumped 12 cents to $24.75 an hour. but the unemployment rate actually ticked up a little to 5.7% from 5.6%.

even that's not all bad. analysts say more americans began looking for work job hunting suggests they are more confident about their prospects. commuters who use virginia railway express could be facing a fare hike. vre is proposing a 4% hike. it would take effect in july. there will be seven public hearings on the proposal later this month and in march. to find out where and when, visit our home page and search vre. a delay in the fairfax county assault trial for jesse matthew. matthew's lawyers convinced the judge they need more time to analyze the dna evidence. prosecutors did not object. matthew is accused in a 2005 sexual assault in fairfax. he's also charged with abducting university of virginia student hannah graham. the new fairfax trial date is likely to be in june or july. a field trip this afternoon in the murder trial of aaron hernandez. jurors were on a bus ride visiting several key sites in this case. the former nfl player is akutzed

of the 2013 killing of odin lloyd, who was dating his fiance's sister. jurors are seeing the boston street here where lloyd lived and the industrial park where his body was found. they're getting a tour of hernandez's home as well and seeing several cell phone towers that picked up data investigators used to build their case. hernandez is not on the tour but lawyers for both sides and the judge are attending. people are using flowers and notes in the university of south carolina professor killed in a murder/suicide. he taught anatomy and physiology. so far no word on the shooter's identity or their relationship. but authorities believe the two had a, quote, history together. classes resumed today and the university is providing counseling. proof of just how tough it is to be a firefighter. they don't stop battling a blaze even if it's the firefighter who is on fire.

take a look at this. at the scene of a fire down in texas, flames from melting shingles dripped onto the firefighter as he was up on a ladder. several spots on his back caught fire. a fellow firefighter beat the flames out with his hand. he wasn't hurt. and he even stayed to finish dousing the flames. the house, though is a total loss. consider yourself warned. crews will be shutting down lanes on one of our region's most congested roads. first 4 traffic's melissa mollet tells us what to look out for. a traffic alert if you travel i-66. there will be some major roadwork overnight. this work was supposed to happen last night but high winds delayed the project. around midnight tonight, crews will shut down all eastbound lanes of 66 between route 29 and centreville and sully road. crews are installing overhead signs to give you extra information on the roelds. the road should reopen by 5:00

a.m. saturday. you may have to leave your selfie stick at home if ear heading to some museums on the national mall. a spokesman tells us they banned selfie sticks to protect the artwork and visitors from potential arm. now the smithsonian is working on a selfie stick policy that would affect all of their museums. tripods and camera stands are already not allowed. are you ready? valentine's day is now just a bit more than a week away. but it's easier than ever to ruin the surprise. we'll tell you how to avoid the heartbreak. a boy snatched off the street but the people behind the crime are not who you would ex. and storm team 4 keeping a close eye on your weekend. >> it starts with this evening. a lot of folks going out. if you are going out this weekend or starting this evening, temperatures drop to around freezing but almost double temperatures this weekend.

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spriptd is moving quickly to fill some of the space left by radioshack's demise. a day after radioshack filed for bankruptcy sprint announced plans to open many store in more

than 1,700 defunct radioshack stores. the cell carrier plans to take up about a third of the retail space in each store selling mobile devices and sprint data plans. have you thought about what gift you'll get your significant other for valentine's day? chances are you'll buy it online. but if you share a twice with your loved one, you could ruin the whole surprise. mark barger has this spoiler alert. >> reporter: whenever you shop online companies are watching and tracking every click. >> it's a pretty simple technology, a cookie not something you eat. it's a little file. it stores who you are and know where is you've be. >> reporter: privacy concerns. if you find that perfect valentine's gift it may find you op other websites. >> you don't have to click on anything. all you have to do is go to a webpage. >> reporter: simply viewing that page can trigger an onslaught of

ads. >> if you share a device with your partner, these retargeting ads could ruin the surprise of your valentine's day gift. >> if you share a tablet or compute we are that special someone, try using an alternative browser. >> if you usually use google chrome maybe go to fire fox and do your shopping. >> reporter: you can also go into browser settings and clear the cookies and the search history. >> the other thing you can do is go into incognito mode. >> a private setting most browsers have to avoid tracking activity. also be careful with web pages linked to your store accounts. they'll often suggest items or show recent product views. >> if you buy on a site like amazon just make sure you don't go back to that site while your significant other is anywhere nearby. >> reporter: or just skip the tech all together for some old-fashioned, in-person, in-store browsing. mark barger nbc news. it's getting a lot of reaction on the nbc washington facebook page. local doctors work to unlock the

secret behind near death experiences. and a story of survival. meet the skier who was buried in an avalanche for days. what it took for him to finally

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woman says she remembers the moment she died on a local trail. it's called a near-death experience. >> doreen gentzler joins us now with more on how researchers are explaining what can happen to anyone. doreen? >> hi pat and jim. ever wonder what happens when we die? researchers, including some at the universities of virginia and maryland, are trying to find answers to that question. and people who have had near-death experiences have a loot to tell them. >> feeling it was surreal, it was, obviously, but it was not humanly relatable. i don't even know how to tell you how it was exponentially comfortable. >> reporter: 48-year-old kristin di domenico remembers the experience vifd i.d.ry a visit from her father who passed away years ago. >> she said i love you, and i'm

worried about you. >> reporter: last october kristin was running a race here at lake fairfax park in reston when she suddenly collapsed on the trail out there in the woods. doctors say she went into sudden cardiac arrest and died here that day. >> so i ventured off -- just a little bit off the trail and dropped. >> reporter: kristin believes that when her heart stopped beating she had a near-death experience, a phenomenon s s happens to thousands of people around the world. president of the international association for near death studies. >> we're all c near-deaexperiences. >> reporte she said near-death experiences or ndes typically occur during times of crisis including near drownings, surgery, or severe illness. but no matter the circumstances,

some of the same elements are usually present, things like having a sense of being lifted out of your body feeling at peace and seeing deceased relatives. >> all people have them of all ages all genders about half-and-half. all religions. >> reporter: he believes ndes occur when a person's conscious or awareness sepo intense, so intense that that is causeded when you're in your body the physical part of the brain kind of damps down your consciousness. when you're suddenly free of that there is this freedom and hyperreal perceptions, clarity

of thought. >> the freedom that came from really let gog was amaze, was undescribable. now it's really hard being back in life. >> reporter: how has this whole experience affected or changed your life? >> a sense of awareness that i want to do the right thing here. i don't want to -- because i saw where i might be able to go and, i don't know -- >> you don't want to mess up? >> i don't want to mess that up. >> reporter: researchers also tell us people who have near-death experiences often have aftereffects. they may become more altruistic. their priorities can sometimes change dramatically. there could also be physiological effects, things like new allergies and new sense tich ti to light and noise. interesting to interview kristin and surprising to me pat and jim, the people who study this they believe that a lot of people have -- will have a near-death experience in their lifetime maybe as many as 30%

of us. >> fascinating story, doreen. thanks so much for sharing it. >> yep. veronica, what's the night going to be like for us? >> the night's going to be cold all right? so we go from a cold night to a weekend that i think is going to be much easier to take and best of all it's during the weekend. so start making that list now throughout the newscast, what you're going to get out and do outdoors this weekend. take a look. 7:00 this evening, your temperature at 33. we drop below freezing by 10:00, 11:00, most neighborhoods here doreen 11:00 for tomorrow your impact forecast light winds, a few clouds especially early in the day. most of the afternoon, sunshine throughout the yair. exercise impact sun and clouds mild is the word for saturday and also sunday. 29 degrees at 7:00 a.m. hit the mid-30s by 9:00 a.m. so i say wait till about 10:00

a.m. 11:00 a.m. to get outdoors and once we hit that 42-degree mark again, mild throughout the afternoon and until sun sets 42 more days left until spring. and well, you know what while the temperatures will be going up this weekend, they're going to be going right back down. here's a look at the weekend and early part of next week. mild conditions with your average temperature at 45 degrees right now. so next week midpart especially the end of next week the midpart of february even the latter part of february we get back to this the cold stuff. looking ahead to that pattern and what you can expect is meteorologist doug kammerer in the storm center. >> as warm as we'll get this weekend it could be some of the coldest air we've seen so far this winter coming in this time next week. let's talk more about that pattern. that's making its way in here right now. we have cold air established in the great lakes and up toward the northeast. we're part of that cold air, mild air just to the south. this next storm system that will come through will bring us just

rain allow that mild air to come up towards our area tomorrow into the day on sunday and even monday. that's why this next storm looks like all rain for us even though buffalo or rather boston could p another 8 to 12 inches of snow over the weekend. the cold air, it's here but after this storm leaves the cold air really begins to come in especially late next week. and we're talking about a very cold pattern that's going to set up and with this last cold snap last night into yesterday and today, only one or two days. this next one could last a lot longer. veronica? >> as we take a look at the early part of next week we've been tracking that storm system that earlier this week looked like we might have a little bit of snow especially as the storm system exits. right now, nothing but rain moving into the area on monday. even then not a lot of rain maybe only a tenth of an inch we'll see move through the area. again, the cold hits midpart of next week. here's a look at your storm team seven-day forecast. showers on m dry conditions the rest of the week. boy, it will be cold and we've

got to get ready all over again. i'm chris lawrence at the live desk. prince george's county police are trying to figure out how a woman died in adelphi. we know she was found at an apartment on edwards way just before noon. she had trauma to her upper body and died a short time later. but there's still a lot more to learn about how this happened. police are looking into it. news4's tracee wilkins is there on the scene. she's been talking not only to the police but the folk who is live there as well. she's going to have a lot more new information about what they said coming up in just a few minutes on news 4 at 5:00. at the live desk chris lawrence. thank you, chris. now some stories we're working on in our newsroom right now. he's one of the nba's biggest names on the court. now he's facing some heat for what he said about a woman right in the middle of a game. plus one year later, it's the crime that stunned a northern virginia community. now the living legacy of a music teacher who was gunned down in her own home. police say it's one of the most horrifying cases they've ever seen.

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a scary ride for student when their school bus collided with a tractor-trailer truck and a police car.

this saep played out in kentucky this morning. 20 students take on the hospital but no life-threatening injuries. a 19-year-old boy is recovering in the hospital after he was trapped waist deep in snow for 48 hours. he was skiing in the swiss alps and got caught in a snowstorm on sunday falling more than 100 feet into a freezing ravine. tuesday he was finally able to climb out. he spent nearly five hours yelling for help and eventually alerted some passing skiers. >> when they first answered me that was incredible just to have someone respond after not talking to anyone or having anyone hear me for almost, you know 2 navidehs. that was definitely phenomenal. >> he's now recovering from only a mild case of hypothermia. the mother of a 6-year-old boy wanted to teach him a lesson about stranger dang sore she conspired with other family members and staged a fake

kidnapping. christina coleman explains why police say this was torte for a boy who was considered to be too nice. >> reporter: cindy and alan williams live near the home of the suspects arrested for kidnapping the young boy. >> they didn't talk didn't wave didn't -- like we wasn't even here. >> reporter: but the williams say they never imagined their neighbors would be facing kidnapping charges. investigators say the boy's mother 25-year-old elizabeth hupp hiss grovm, rose brewer and his aunt denise kroutil, plotted to kidnap the boy. depp sis tay denise kroutil asked her co-worker, nathan firoved, to kidnap her nephew because he was too nice to him. >> can you do this as a family favor, our son is too nice too polite too open. >> reporter: they lured the boy in swoo his pickup truck after he left the school bus. >> he told the victim he wasn't going to see his family anymore,

that he was going to be nailed to a shed and he'll never go home. >> reporter: investigators say the boy cried so he was tied up with trash bags covered his head with a jacket and eventually took the boy to the boy's own basement. deputies say the child's aunt took off his pants. >> and being told at the same time that he's going to the sex slavery trade. the family members felt they had done nothing wrong and continue to feel they have done nothing wrong. >> i'm so glad that our kids did do not go over there. >> in the 11 years i've been in law enforcement i've never seen anything like this. when this is okay to terrorize a child, to tell them they're gor suspects face felony kidnapping abuse, and neglect charges. the boy is now staying with other relatives. now at 5:00 a woman found dead in prince george's county. jim, wendy? >> someone killed a woman, there's no motive there is no suspect.

this has an entire community in fear and waiting for answers from police. >> prince george's county police say they found a woman after a call for help late this morning in adelphi. she was found in an apartment building on the 9200 block of edwards way. >> that's where we find county bureau chief tracee wilkins. what are you hearing? >> reporter: prince george's county police are still here on the scene. they're still working on the second floor to try and figure out exactly what happened here. they were called to check on this person's condition and when they got here they found this woman was dead, again, on the second floor. they're still allowing residents to come in and out of this building as they continue this investigation, but they are questioning everyone on the floor where this woman's body was found. at this point, no information about her age, no information in terms of exactly what happened to cause this death, the manner of death. they're only calling it blunt force trauma to the upper body.

this is still, again, under investigation. we spoke with prince george's county police earlier. this is what they had to say. >> we would definitely encourage anybody with any information on this to call our crimestoppers hotline. they can remain anonymous. >> reporter: again, this was a check on welfare call that got prince george's county police out here around 11:30 this morning. still investigating to try and figure out exactly what has happened here. people who live here say it's a quiet build, they were surprised to see police out here, that most of the folks who live here are elderly people and they don't see these kinds of situations here. on news 4 at 6:00 more reaction from neighbors as they deal with what has now become a murder scene. reporting live at adelphi, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. new trouble tonight on the tracks. smoke blows into the dupont circle and cleveland