the threat runs until about 10:00 p.m. tonight, after that steady rain across the area. showers right now favoring parts of southern maryland then back up in frederick, washington counties through the panhandle of west virginia. now, as i widen out the radar here on storm team 4 radar, you can see we have a few more batches of rain that will be moving through the area. also i'm keeping a close eye on this heavy rain right here in kentucky. and this will i think bring us steady rain during the overnight hours tonight. so for the rest of the afternoon and the evening hours, again, mainly until 10:00 p.m. tracking the concern for some heavy rain. some downpours. and if we see any downpours developing they could contain some high winds. so for that evening commute, we're dealing with scattered showers and wet roads. temperatures in the mid to upper 60s. pat? >> thanks amelia. now to a deadly shooting in prince george's county that apparently happened during the shooting of a music video. wendy rieger has details from the live desk. >> the arrest was made this morning in the district after the shooting happened on

wednesday night. and police found 21-year-old kewaye ivy of southeast lying dead in a parking lot in southeast. this is ivy in a recent video. police say he died making another video outside a strip mall on eastern avenue. darcy spencer is working to get answers from investigators. new details first at 4 about the charges against virginia parents whose 5-year-old son was found dead in a septic tank. barbara harrison has details on their first court appearance. >> these parents, paul thomas and ashley quite, appeared in court by video today to be arraigned on charges of felony child abuse and neglect. according to the roanoke times, both face a charge of reckless disregard for human life but the mother ashley white, also faces a more serious charge of serious injury to a child. that could land her in prison for up to 15 years if convicted of both charges. the couple asked if the media

not be allowed to watch the proceedings today, but that was denied by the judge. thomas also asked for bond but the judge said that would be determined on a different day. the couple's 5-year-old son noah was found dead a week ago in a septic tank near their home in southwest virginia. noah had been missing for five days. the couple's second child, a 6-month-old girl was taken from their custody the day after noah went missing. we are tracking a new arrest of a suspected terrorist, this time a woman in philadelphia accused of trying to support isis. she uses the social media handle younglioness but her real name is keyana thomas. investigators say she bought a plane ticket to go overseas. she wanted to fight with isis and her social media posting suggests she wanted to die a martyr. yesterday police arrested two women in new york and they've been charged with planning on

setting off homemade bombs in the u.s. a scare for a driver and passenger in arlington this afternoon. check out this picture. the vehicle crashed through the metal fence of a park area and was left hanging over a ledge one story up. it happened at the carlton condo high-rise along four mile run. firefighters hooked a chain between the car and a fire truck to stabilize the vehicle and then they cut through the fence to get the two people out safely. first at 4, an arrest in the murder of a fairfax county man and an update to breaking news that we brought you out of annandale yesterday. the homicide is the fourth in just three weeks in the county. news4's david culvert is live now outside police headquarters. what have you learned today, david? >> reporter: pat, perhaps most disturbing is that today's arrest is the only one made in the past four homicides. three others remain unsolved. let me show you where this is happening here in fairfax county

as we put up this map for you. starting on march 16th police found 22-year-old william levy's body along a wooded path in west herndon. the next day they found a 19-year-old's body along annandale creek. both suffered some sort of trauma to the upper body. a week later police responded to a home in the huntingtown area and found a 64-year-old shot several times. y just yesterday the murder in annandale. a few hours ago julie carey asked the police chief about this string of homicides. >> what level of concern should the public have about that? >> the community of fairfax county should be aware that the majority of these homicides have an aspect of where the victim and the suspect have somewhat of an acquaintance. >> reporter: now, in each of these homicides, there's one similar characteristic and that is that all of the victims are of latino descent. ahead at 5:00, we look at what the messages from police today to the latino community and

we'll compare last year murder rate with this year's. first at 4, two parents in spotsylvania county are paying a price for child neglect. scott suggs and brandy kangas pleaded guilty to keeping their three young children in a locked room 24 hours a day. the room had very little furniture and was stained with urine and feces. the couple is sentenced to six years, which was suspended, along with indefinite supervised probation. the children are now in foster care. in fairfax county a man tried to abduct a woman in broad daylight. she was waiting for a bus in the oak hill road in herndon. the man got out of his pickup truck, started talking to the woman and grabbed her arm and tried to drag her into the truck. she fought him off and he ran and drove away. hillary clinton's official campaign announcement could be next. a building in brooklyn, new york, is expected to become the headquarters for her presidential campaign. msnbc learned clinton team

signed a lease to occupy two floors of the building. it means clinton's official announcement could be just around the corner. under federal election rules, once campaign activities begin, like renting space, a candidate has only 15 days to declare a run for office. one man spent nearly 30 years on death row. >> but this afternoon, he's a free man. up next at 4:00, the emotional reunion with his family and why this man was finally cleared of murder. and a fresh start for amanda knox. what she is now dedicating her life to.

production as a sprawling ge plant in louisville kentucky, is shut down while crews continue to get a handle on a massive fire. >> ge makes appliances there but the fire actually started in the

building that used for offices and storage. firefighters have it under control now, and no one was hurt. partly because today's a company holiday. but there was so much smoke families who live within two miles of there have been ordered to stay inside. investigators are still looking into how it started. after 30 years on death row, anthony hinton is a free man. hinton was convicted of killing two restaurant managers back in 1985. but bullets were the only evidence linking him to the crime, and new tests showed they didn't come from his gun. >> all they had to do was test the gup. but when you think you're above the law, you don't have to answer to nobody. but i got news for you. everybody that played a part in send megato death row, you will answer to god. >> at the time of the murders, hinton's co-workers say he was

on the job 15 miles away. the supreme court granted hipton a new trial last year. two people were forced to jump from a second-story window to escape the smoke and flames from this devastating house fire on new york's long island. one man died. the building was destroyed. investigators say the fire started around 2:30 this morning and may have been caused by an overloaded extension cord. at least a dozen people were left homeless. now that she's been cleared of wrongdoing in her roommate's death, amanda knox is promising to give back. she wrote a letter published in today's "seattle times" saying she wants to work on behalf of the wrongly convicted. knox says she was lucky to have the resources to show the injustices in her case. she wants others to have that same level of support. last week italy's highest court exonerated knox and her former boyfriend on charges that killed knox's former roommate. up next a surprise delivery in the middle of a traffic jam.

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people around the world are observing good friday, the most solemn day on the christian calendar. two catholic congregations in our area took part in a multicultural stations of the crosswalk today. it started at our lady of sorrows in takoma park and ended at st. kamilcamilla's church in silver spring. the stations of the cross re-creates 14 scenes from the end of the life of jesus christ from the moment he was condemned through his crucifixion and death. cardinal theodore mccarrick is back home after spending the night in the hospital. he fainted last night while conducting holy thursday night in bethesda. a spokesperson tells us the cardinal was sitting in a chair towards the end of mass when he briefly lost consciousness. he is the archbishop emeritus of washington. he retired about nine years ago and is 84 years old. president obama's visit to louisville kentucky took an unexpected turn. a pregnant woman gave birth while stuck in traffic caused by the presidential motorcade. natalie martinez has the story.

>> reporter: the presidential visit delivers eager crowds a traffic nightmare, and a baby? >> there was a woman that was in labor in the back seat of her car. they couldn't get through due to the traffic from the motorcade. >> reporter: traffic on i-65 was backed up as the president made his way downtown. the mom about to give birth gets stuck near the fern valley exit. an ems worker and a nurse stuck in traffic, too, helped deliver a baby boy. >> pretty much had to ride the emergency lane all the way down. >> reporter: mom and baby are doing all right and got to the hospital with a happy ending. but for others traffic downtown was a nightmare. >> i have gone maybe two blocks in 50 minutes. >> reporter: it was rush hour and traffic was at a standstill until president obama left for air force one. >> i got to get my baby you know? people got other things to do. i'm late for work.

>> reporter: as for the crowd, some waited for hours to catch a glimpse of the commander in chief. >> you know, once in a lifetime. how many times you get to happen upon the president? >> reporter: president obama entered through a back door, but for those who waited even seeing him pass by was good enough. >> just being african-american it's important to me in any lifetime that i could actually see him. >> reporter: back to that new baby and his mom, it was nothing but joy, with an added crazy baby story. >> she did say it was a story she would never forget. >> i certainly hope not. we're bracing for some storms here and severe weather has been moving through parts of the midwest as well. last night someone captured this image of a funnel cloud in kansas. it formed southeast of wichita near the border with oklahoma. the same storms dropped pea-psied hail in that area and they're predicting more gusts up to 30 miles an hour today. the storm system also caused flooding and heartache in kentucky. a mother of three was killed overnight when a tree fell on her family's tent at a campground outside of lexington. her husband is in critical

condition. the children are okay. authorities say the campground had flooded and that strong winds caused the tree to tumble on top of them. jeremiah wright's been a soggy day here so far. >> yeah. and more soggy to come? >> yeah. rain is going to continue at times on into the evening and overnight hours and this is really our transition period because it's not going to be train raining tomorrow but it will be noticeably cooler. this system bringing in those cooler temperatures and also windy conditions. so traveling this weekend for the holiday weekend, here are the road conditions you can anticipate. tonight, we are going to be dealing with wet and damp roads. tomorrow dry roads but it will be wip di. so if you drive maybe an suv, maybe be aware of that. sunday roads will be in great shape. storm team 4 radar, tracking this closely tonight, keeping an eye if we see any storms intensify develop into heavier rain or maybe a bit of thunder. i do think thunderstorms are looking unlikely but i can't rule out pockets of heavier rain

until the overnight hours, until about midnight. so here's the latest some scattered showers back in west virginia ambassador some activity down in southern maryland also around the warrenton area leaving luray. we'll continue to deal with rain at times. otherwise cloudy and relatively breezy. you can see a lot of moisture still back to the west and this all moves through overnight tonight. so timing it out with future weather, 5:00 tracking scattered showers on the radar at that point. 5:30, notice pockets of heavier rain developing including areas like leesburg and around the hagerstown area. just after 7:00 notice heavy rain potentially moving through culpeper and parts of faulkier county 8:00 just after, that threat of heavy rain moving through the district. prince george's county montgomery county it then pushes off towards anne arundel county and baltimore. i do think between about 10:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. we'll have steady rain moving through the area. the front moves through very early tomorrow morning. by about 5:30 6:00 a.m. most of the area will be dry, and then remain dry for the

remainder of the day. temperatures right now not bad. fit's not raining, it's comfortable. 65 in washington 70 in manassas and 57 degrees right now in annapolis. the weather will have a low to moderate impact on your day tomorrow although most if not all of the day is going to be dry. it's going to be windy. so if you have outdoor plans you do want to keep that in mind. gusts at times up to 35 even 40 potentially miles an hour. highs tomorrow also noticeably cooler. only in the 50s. washington warms to 58. look at gaithersburg only hits 53 degrees. fredericksburg warms to 59. at least we will have plenty of sunshine. more sunday it's the better of the two weekend days. it's warmer, not as windy and plenty of sunshine. 65 for a high temperature on sunday but it will be a cold start, starting off at 40 degrees. if we are going to have an egg hunt outdoors early in the morning, do want to keep that in mind. nationals home-opener on monday 67 degrees, looking good.

i'm going to have more on tonight's rain potential coming up in a little bit, chris and pat. >> thanks amelia. it's america's mascot, the bald eagle, and it is thriving here in the nation's capital. here are new pictures of three confirmed bald eagle nests. they are located in secluded areas of the national arboretum, the d.c. police training facility and on the campus of st. elizabeth's. experts say they're active nests with the adults appearing to be incubating or caring for hatchlings. in one case a male eagle was seen delivering a fish to a female in the nest. she stood up pulled the fish into small pieces and seemed to feed it to the young. we just posted more adorable pictures on our nbc washington facebook page. go there during the break and share those. they're pretty cool. sure are. coming up next an out-of-control crash caught on camera. what caused this car to go barreling into a video game store? and why a maryland waitress took hooters to court over the

look out. that's a car crashing into a video game store in portland and it nearly hit a worker. the car jumped the curb and smashed into the store just a few feet away from the front counter. police were chasing the driver at the time. after the crash he got out and tried to run but didn't get far. and the officer called him and

hauled him to jail. a former hooters waitress has been awarded $250,000 in a discrimination case against the restaurant. she worked in baltimore's inner harbor and says she was fired for wearing blond highlights in her hair. the arbitrator said the termination violated federal and civil state civil rights laws. the national zoo is implementing bigger security measures for the expected bigger crowds. you may remember last april someone got shot right outside the zoo. community leaders have been talking to some of the young people act avoiding violence and wrapping their appeal around the anniversary of dr. martin luther king jr.'s assassination. a philadelphia woman is in custody right now accused of supporting isis. why investigators say she was willing to die for the group. and black boxes reveal what

a pilot did just moments before crashing an

police have made an arrest in a deadly shooting that took place yesterday in seat pleasant. kewaye ivory was shot making a

video. the parents of a virginia boy found dead in a septic tank have been charged. "the roanoke times" is reporting paul thomas and ashley white both face a charge of reckless disregard for human life. their son was 5 years old and he was found dead a week ago in a septic tank near their home in west virginia. he'd been missing for five days but it's unclear how he died. an effort to prevent terrorism in the homeland. >> for the second day in a row the woman has been arrested on terror charges. today was philadelphia. yesterday new york. nbc justice correspondent pete williams joins us with the latest. >> pete was what does this tell us about women's role in terrorism especially as it relates to near the united states? >> in the year or so there have been about two dozen arrests of these people that have been wants to go overseas to support isis and there have been only a few cases of women there, with three young girls, but this woman today, the one you're looking at, appeared in court.

that's her making a brief court appearance. it appears the fbi got on to her through her postings on social media. about two years ago she posted a picture of a young boy holding ammunition and a gun and she said "ask yourselves while this young man is holding magazines for the islamic state, what are you doing for it?" the fbi says she ultimately was in touch with three jihadists around the world including one man in syria who said i bet you'd like to join me in jihad and martyrdom and she apparently responded, "a girl can only wish." she was arrested after her house was search. she's been held pending a detention hearing next week. >> talk about the role of social media in recruitment for these groups. >> well it's a two-edged sword because it certainly is a powerful recruiting tool for these groups and american officials have said especially that isis is perhaps uniquely persuasive in tailoring its messages to disaffected young people. on the other hand when they do

communicate online it's also a trip wire for the fbi, and that appears to be another example of how they caught this young woman. >> a way for the fbi to track some of this communication. >> exactly. >> thanks a lot, pete. a national sting targeting sexual predators led to an arrest at a burger king in northern virginia. donald campbell jr. of dumfries thought he was meeting a 12-year-old boy on wednesday, but the child was really an undercover officer who had placed an ad on craigslist. the arrest is part of a month-long crackdown called "operation broken heart." new details about a dead city li stabbing at an apartment in fairfax county. ubaldo jimenez is charged with murdering a man he knew in annandale yesterday afternoon. misthink the two had been squatting in a vacant apartment. this murder is one of four in fairfax county in the past three weeks.

northern virginia bureau reporter david culvert takes a closer look on news4 at 5:00. new evidence is mounting against the germanwings co-pilot thought to have deliberately crashed flight 95 ta 25 into the french alps. a report from colon, germany, about the new piece of the puzzle french investigators have recovered. >> reporter: as flight 9525 dove through sky, french investigators now say andreas lubitz repeatedly accelerated, pushing the plane faster and faster toward the mountainside according to information recovered from the flight data recorder. all while the cockpit voice recorder reportedly captured the metallic bangs of the captain trying to get in and the screams of passengers. the second black box was recovered at the crash site thursday. found in a ravine and so badly burned the normally orange casing was black. meanwhile, in dusseldorf german investigators revealed more details of what they were able to find on lubitz's personal tablet computer. between march 16th and march

23rd, the week leading up to the crash, german prosecutors say he studied medical treatments various ways of possible methods of committing suicide, and cockpit doors and their security measures. inside the second black box and the computer evidence of how he did it but why still a mystery. french officials say they've been able to gather dna for 150 people. still no identifications yet. they're waiting to match that dna with family members. they say they're not going to release any bodies or body parts until they've finished the investigation. katie tur, nbc news cologne, germany. kenyan authorities have imposed a dusk to dawn tight security in garisa. now the focus is on helping the dozens of victims who were injured. at least four islamic militants stormed the school just before dawn thursday.

witnesses say they methodically targeted christian students and went directly to a lecture hall where those students were praying. today pope francis joined a list of world leaders in condemning that attack. market watchers hope this morning's weak job report can just be blamed on cold weather. the u.s. added 126,000 jobs in march, which is the fewest since december 2013 almost a year and a half ago. salaries are only up about 2% compared to last year. now, march was cold than usual around the country, and while gas prices are low, that's not leading to a big jump in spending. it asks you a lot of personal questions, but the survey you may get in the mail soon is not a scam. who it's from and why you need to fill it out. plus he spent 60 days lost at sea. tonight how he survived and the emotional reunion.

it seems to be happening more frequently than ever. we're talking about scams.

how do you tell the difference between fraudulent mail and the real thing? >> great question. consumer reporter erika gonzalez is here with one mailing you don't want to throw away. >> that's right. you don't. look at this stack of papers i have. it's not just a piece of junk mail and it's definitely not a scam. there is a government survey going around you are required by law to take. have you ever seen the american community survey? >> never. >> reporter: at a time where it seems like we're warning you about a new scam every week we want to show you what isn't a scam. this is a legit survey that asks questions about your ethnicity, how much you spend on housing, and whether or not you're a citizen of the united states. it's called the american community survey. and it's part of the census. >> it gives us current, up-to-date accurate information about communities of all sizes everywhere as opposed to only having that information every ten years. >> reporter: it goes out to 1 in 40 households and it's mailed

out every month. >> that allows us to have the very detailed information we need to plan where schools need to go where fire departments need to go how to help us alleviate traffic concerns. >> reporter: should you receive it it is a mandatory survey and can be completed in the language of your choice by mail phone, or even online. like the more commonly known census with this too, someone with can show up at your door. the folks at the census know some people may be weary so they won't be asking anything that could lead to identity theft. >> the census bureau will never ask you for things like your mother's mauden name bank account information, social security number. we provide all the tools and resources with our information so we can help you verify that it's legit. >> reporter: while it's not a name you see or hear of every day -- have you ever seen the american community survey? >> no. >> reporter: -- the american community survey is not a scam. don't justs to it away. as a matter of fact i posted a

link to the department of commerce website on my consumer watch facebook page. if you want to go there, get more information about it so you know it is legit. >> what happens if you don't? >> well so it is -- it's mandatory that you fill it out. and you can be fined although in recent history it's, you know probably -- >> say i never got that. >> probably not heard of they've actually fined somebody. i think they have about a 97% return rate. just fill it out. >> it's a great piece because i never would have thought of that as something official from the government that i had to do. >> right. because people are not familiar with the name. we're always looking for great story ideas. pass them along to us via e-mail or phone as well. have a great weekend, everybody. >> thank you. lost at sea for 60 days. >> a sailing trip turned into a mission for survival until an incredible stroke of luck. >> they saw me on the front, standing out there, waving my

arms. >> up next, the dramatic rescue and the reunion that played out in virginia.

now to the sailor who says he spent two months adrift in the atlantic. nbc's tom costello caught up with him in norfolk after yesterday's dramatic coast guard rescue. now, this story's generating a lot of skepticism on our

facebook page but see what you think. >> reporter: lewis jordan walked from a coast guard chopper under his own power and into a norfolk hospital on thursday to an emotional reunion with his father after 66 days at sea. >> it seemed like a lot longer. >> reporter: friends and family knew he'd gone sailing january 23rd aboard his 35-foot sail boat "angel," but no one heard from him for more than two months. his parents were frantic. what have the last two months been like? >> it's been terrible. you live moment to moment, and those moments turn into days. >> reporter: had you given up hope? >> many times. >> reporter: what no one knew is lewis drifted into the atlantic his mast and rudder broken his boat capsized three times. >> and i was flying through the air, somersaulting, and everything was upside down and backwards. >> reporter: for two months he rationed his food and ate raw fish he pulled out of the ocean, capturing rain water to survive. then thursday morning an

incredible stroke of luck. his small sailboat was spotted by "the houston express," a massive german container ship 200 miles off the carolina coast. >> they saw me on the front of the boat standing up there, waving my arms and they turned that huge skyscraper around. >> reporter: a coast guard chopper lifted him from the deck of "the houston express" flying him back to norfolk. >> thanks for your help. >> reporter: louis is thinner and a bit shaggier before his ordeal but happy to be home. are you ever going to sail again? >> i really don't know. >> reporter: will you ever let him get out on that boat again? >> i don't know. not in the ocean. >> reporter: i asked him how did you pass the time? two months on the ocean, hour after hour adrift. he said he read the bible cover to cover and he became very spiritual during the past two months. and when i asked him what kind of food did you miss the most it wasn't pizza. it wasn't soda. he said he missed barbecue and

organic ice cream. back to you. >> it's the little things tom, i guess. jordan told tom no matter what container he used to collect rainwater it all tasted just like coconut milk. in case you missed it, first lady stopped by "the tonight show." michelle obama and jimmy fallon reminisced about the first time they met. take a look. >> 4th of july. >> yeah. you wore a suit and it was so hot. >> i wore a three-piece hot. >> and barak was, like where are you going, man? >> i'm sweating. i'm, like hello, mr. president. he goes didn't you get the memo it? 's a barbecue. i go yeah. >> that was your barack obama? >> yeah. >> that was -- >> was it good? >> no. of course not. >> they didn't just sit around and talk about that. they got out of their seats to perform part two of the evolution of mom dancing. fallon and the first lady shook it to classic mom movies like

trying to start a conga line the one move behind the zumba class. and the barack obama. they had a good time. >> oh my gosh. >> tourists are headed to the tidal basin but still too early to see the cherry blossoms. >> peak bloom predictions fall between april 11th and 14th. this weekend there will be a variety of festival activities such as music and fireworks on the southwest waterfront. we want to see your cherry blossom photos so follow us on snap chat send us your pics. let's take a look at the weather and how much rain we'll get. >> we'll continue to track rain at times on into the overnight hours and lit come to an end very early tomorrow morning. the cherry blossoms blooming late this year very similar peak bloom last year as well. they were also late last year. here are your weather headlines. you're heading out tonight or early tomorrow morning grab the umbrella keep it handy. we'll continue to track rain at times.

potentially heavier rain. it's going to be windy tomorrow. really noticing the winds throughout the entire day. and overall out of the next seven days a lot more warmth than cold on the seven-day forecast. here's the latest on storm team 4 radar. i'm tracking scattered showers across the entire area. i'm also keeping a close eye on this batch of rain in parts of loudoun, fairfax, prince william, and faulkier counties. this is quickly moving toward the beltway and will be impacting the district and parts of prince george's county within the next hour or so. so on-and-off rain showers, like i said some of which could be heavy overnight tonight, back into kentucky where there's even some heavier rain indicated by the yellows, oranges, and reds. this all moves into our area ahead of a cold front and that cold front, just like the name suggests brings colder temperatures for tomorrow. current winds gusting to near 30 miles an hour right now even gaithersburg registers gusts at about 35 miles an hour so it's breezy to windy this evening, windy late tonight and

throughout the entire day tomorrow. temperature right now 65 degrees. scattered rain continues at 7:00 p.m. potentially heavy until about 10:00, 11:00 p.m. and then after that i think we'll have a period of some steady rain steady showers, until about 2:00 a.m. and a temperature at 11:00 p.m. of 65 degrees. now, skycast 4 walking you throughout the day tomorrow this is actually forecasting exactly what the sky's going to look like. i also have the temperatures here. so washington at 6:00 a.m. at 54 degrees, the suburbs in the upper 40s. once we hit 8:00, the threat of rain is gone and we quickly see skies becoming mostly sunny. notice the suburbs right on into noon are still in the 40s for the most part. washington at 54. it's not until about 1:00 when the suburbs start to warm into the low 50s. so it is chilly out there tomorrow especially when you factor in the wind. 4:00 temperatures across the area in the 50s with beautiful sunshine. tomorrow night it's cold so if you have plans for pass of you want to keep that in mind. sunday it's warmer temperatures

will be in the low to mid-60s, washington warms to a high temperature of 65 degrees. but that's after a very cold start on your sunday morning. washington at 40 degrees at about 8:00 a.m. the suburbs will be in the mid to upper 30s. so if you're doing the easter egg hunt early, keep that in mind. make sure the kids have on a warmer jacket over their easter clothing. 10:00 a.m. temperature of 52 so we warm up quickly by 11:00 a.m. it's nice temperatures near 60 degrees. on monday the nationals' home-opener, beautiful day, a high temperature of 65. coming up in the 5:00 hour i'll have a closer look at the travel weather for the weekend. four homicides in just three weeks right here in fairfax county. two of the victims found in wooded areas just like this. what's behind these seemingly suspicious deaths? we look at that at 5:00. i'm wendy rieger at the live

desk. more questions than answers tonight in the death of a 102-year-old fwhom the district. beatrice carly found wrapped in a blanket found lying next to a radiator last month during a cold winter day. her heat had been turned off but that bill was paid. coming up mark segraves looking for answers and is finding very few from a local utility. it's a problem we deal with every single year. huge potholes that in some cases can ruin your car. but right now there's one state that isn't paying a penny for damages. >> reporter: the heroin crisis is hitting more and more northern virginia families and now law enforcement officials are redoubling their attack. coming up i'll tell you about the new hot team.

in eastern china, a man was crossing a story on an electric bike wednesday when a container truck hit him. the truck overturned and fell on top of the man. people started running over the help. after 2:30 that group was able to lift the truck off of him. just as miraculous the guy went to the hospital and only had a broken bone. >> amazing. after the winter we had, we all know someone who's hit a pothole np in pennsylvania drivers can file claims for reimbursement for their car repairs. >> that's right.

but as nbc discovered every single claim filed this year has been denied. >> it's so strong, shook the hole car. >> reporter: brian hit a pothole on his way home from a flyers game. >> i'm sure there are thousands of people in the same situation i am. >> reporter: the pothole on the pennsylvania turnpike bent his rims. it was so deep you can still see where the underside of his car hit the pavement. >> it wasn't my fault. i couldn't avoid it. i couldn't do anything to miss this hole. >> reporter: but for brian and the thousands of drivers like him who hit pennsylvania potholes they will have to pay for the damage out of their own pockets. this year alone the state bureau of risk management has received 621 pothole damage claims. >> those claims are denied. >> reporter: richard kirkpatrick is penndot's spokesman. penndot and others are immune from paying for property damage caused by potholes. it's the state law. >> our roads are in terrible

condition. absolutely terrible condition. >> reporter: state representative scott petri is from bucks county. the lawmaker says the pothole law is meant to protect taxpayers. >> can you imagine the cost to the commonwealth and its municipalities if somebody could bring a small claims court and they had to send a lawyer to every pothole case? it would probably bankrupt some of our municipalities. >> reporter: he says he's looking at ways to help drivers way for pothole damage through what he calls a pothole fund. >> we would have to have enough of a fund that it's only -- it wouldn't just be the first hundred people that got there, and, oh, no more money. that would frustrate people more. >> reporter: the nbc 10 investigators looked at the pothole liability law across the delaware valley. in delaware, the state is obligated to fix potholes but like pennsylvania doesn't have to pay for property damage caused by them. in new jersey drivers can sue the state for pothole-related damage but it has to be documented and submitted within 90 days.

back on pennsylvania state roads, penndot has spent $47 million since january pouring 80,000 tons of pothole patching material. >> nobody likes potholes. we don't feel them. >> reporter: brian feels the same way. >> that night cost me over a thousand dollars to go see a flyers game. >> reporter: did they win? >> they lost. right now at 5:00, storm team 4 tracking a dreary start to your holiday weekend. rain winds, eve an threat of lightning. amelia segal is updating her forecast right now. >> a local aspiring rapper killed while making a news video. news4's darcy spencer uncovering new information about what appears to be a freak accident with deadly consequences. here's the latest on storm team 4 radar, tracking areas of rain moving through the region. and we'll continue to have rain at times for the remainder of

the evening hours. as we take you around the radar, this activity around washington county and the panhandle of west virginia southern maryland as well and now tracking rain inside of the beltway moving through washington. it's also impacting areas like gaithersburg bethesda leaving the fairfax area. moving toward bowie and continuing on toward annapolis. if you are heading out tonight, grab the umbrella and know you'll be dealing with rain. all of this moisture will be moving through the area all the way back into kentucky and apartments of ohio as well as indiana. now, the weather concerns for this evening, can't rule out some high wind already breezy to windy outside, and some heavy rain is possible. but the threat of hail is very low tonight. again, the biggest concern is looking like the potential for some strong winds. so the commuter forecast 6:00 scattered showers, temperatures in the mid-60s by 7:00 wet roads continue across the area. coming up i'll let you know when this rain comes to an end and the massive temperature change it brings for the holiday

weekend. new tonight, a 102-year-old woman found dead in her home but she was wrapped in blankets lying next to her heater. her family says her heat had been turned off in her home in southeast d.c. and they're having a hard time getting some answers. mark segraves with a story tonight you will only see on news4. >> i want to find out what happened. >> reporter: paul bowman and his family can't believe his mother is dead. >> my mother was 102. she was very spry. she painted. she's raised kids all her life and she was a god-fearing woman. >> reporter: last month when the temperature was in the 30s bowman called his mom. >> they was calling for snow bad weather on friday and i wanted to make sure she had enough stuff just in case we did get a snow. >> reporter: when she didn't answer bowman came to her home. >> i went in the house immediately when i opened the door the house was ice cold. >> reporter: he says the heat

had been turned off. they found the 102-year-old wrapped in a pile of blan celts huddled against this radiator. she was dead. paramedics had to break down the bedroom door. her gas line excavated and this card left behind with no indication what work had been done or the status of her service. bowman called washington gas trying to find out what happened. >> no response. no concern. no-care attitude from washington gas. >> reporter: washington gas refused to answer our questions as well including basic questions about what their policies and procedures are for when they do work like this. "the district of columbia municipal privacy regulations prohibit washington gas or any other utility from disclosing information that reveals the status of any individual's account. we are saddened to hear of the passing of mrs. marharley." bowman's gone to council member

yvette alexander for help. she also has lots of questions. >> what work were they doing, did they turn the gas off, you know, what was happening here? >> reporter: while the medical examiner has not determined the cause of death, bowman feels sure the lack of heat played a role. >> yes, i totally do. i believe that they had not interrupted her heat in her house my mother would still be here today. now to an arrest in the shooting death of an aspiring local rapper who died while filming a music video. news4's darcy spencer just spoke to a victim's friend. she's live now in seat pleasant with the story. darcy? >> reporter: yeah, well, that shooting happened here wednesday night right here in the parking lot of this discount store. as you say, i just spoke to several friends of the victim and they all tell me they believe that this was a horrible accident. let's go to the mug shot of the suspect. he is 21 years old, lafonzo