two parents plead guilty to child neglect. this is the room where their kids were kept. it's cleaned up now. i'll show you the conditions that were deplorable.

a vacationing family separate on metro. how the dad took matters into his own hands. plus an abandoned pup is all cleaned up now, but wait till you see how he looked when neighbors found him. >> news4 at 11:00 starts now. well high winds could affect your passover and easter plans this weekend. >> and expect a bit of a chill by tomorrow afternoon, but a storm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal shows us rain is the story right now. hi amelia. >> good evening, doreen. that's exactly right. i'm tracking showers on storm team 4 out ahead of a cold front. this cold front clears our area early tomorrow morning. right now rain is impacting areas of southern maryland including charles county just starting to move into prince george's county. fauquier county showing the steady shower activity areas south of washington along i-95 also dealing with this rain. this continues to move into d.c. over the next 30 to even 45 minutes.

here's what you can expect at midnight. still tracking showers across the area. steady rain comes to an end by 2:00 a.m. after that hit or miss showers. most of the area is dry by 5:00 a.m. everybody is dry by 8:00 a.m. temperatures right now in the 60s and 70s but tomorrow will drop to the 40s and 50s. i'll let you know when the temperature change happens coming up in ten minutes. new and disturbing details tonight on a child neglect case that would infuriate any parent. a spotsylvania couple locked up their children and fed them through a cage. three children. news4's shomari stone goes inside the room of filth that the children called home. >> reporter: take a look at these children living in filth. a roommate sent me these new photos to show you. >> this is first time i've publicly spoken. >> reporter: carrie buchanan decided to share her story about the deploreable conditions. she saw these three children

living inside this room in this home. sheriff's deputies tell us the kids were in here 24 hours a day and fed through a homemade gate. >> it's horrible. it broke my heart. to see them in dirty diapers all the time. i would have to ask them are you going to change their diapers? oh we can't afford diapers. >> reporter: buchanan lived with the kids and their parents, scott suggs and brandy kangas. today they pleaded guilty to three counts of felony child neglect. buchanan and some friends cleaned up the room after deputies arrested the couple back in december. >> there was once when i would estimate approximately three months that i was here pretty much constantly and i didn't hear them get a bath. >> reporter: someone who knows the couple says they had plywood right here that would prevent the kids from getting on the other side. you walk right over here this is a television. they say that this was basically the baby-sitter, it would be on

all the time. and over here was the gate. and the kids were fed like this. deputies found the couple's 17-month-old son and their daughters ages 3 and 4 locked in the room stained with human waste. police received an anonymous tip about child abuse and neglect. deputies rescued the kids and noticed they didn't have social skills. right now investigators are saying the kids are doing better with foster parents, but they're still afraid of closed doors. >> now that their children are in foster care i fully believe that the worst part of their life is over. >> reporter: a judge sentenced suggs and kangas to six years in prison but it was suspended. they have ten years probation. they have to take part in a foster care program. and they're not allowed to get near the children. in fredericksburg shomari stone, news4. to find out how to help those children and others impacted by abuse and neglect

visit the nbc washington app. there you'll find a link where you can donate. there was a severe crash in arlington tonight and a man is dead after he was thrown out of his pickup. all this happened in front of marymount university. police say the pickup driver rear-ended another car at a light, that car was then pushed into the intersection which hit a third car. those drivers suffered minor injuries. the intersection of glee and old dominion drive will be closed for several hours as officers investigate. her husband was shot in the head just steps away from president reagan in 1981 and that day sarah brady's life changed forever. she became a gun control activist and devoted her life to caring for james brady. she died today at the age of 73 from pneumonia. nbc's pete williams has more on her life. >> reporter: for three decades she was the anyways's number one gun control advocate picking up the cause after her husband, white house press secretary james brady, was severely

wounded when president reagan was shot outside a washington hotel. she became the national face for the gun issue, achieving a huge victory in 1993 after a seven-year battle with the passage of the brady bill requiring a waiting period and background check for anyone buying a handgun. three years later at the democratic national convention she appeared with her husband to thank president clinton who signed the bill. >> jim lived, and so did the president, thank god. but our lives would never be quite the same. all it took was one gun, one bullet and one man who should never have owned a gun. >> james brady died last august at age 73 the same age as sarah brady who died today. pete williams nbc news washington. tonight nancy reagan said she was deeply saddened to hear

about sarah brady's passing. developing tonight, there are several reports that police have arrested multiple suspects for a massacre at a college in kenya. one report says five people are in custody in connection to the attack that killed more than 140 people and wounded 100 more. the terror group al shabaab claimed responsibility. witnesses say they specifically targeted christian students. there were warnings as recently as monday that universities in kenya could be targets. tonight the white house is trying to sell congress u.s. allies and the public on a preliminary nuclear agreement with iran. the framework of that deal calls for iran to reduce its stockpile of low enriched uranium by 98% and significantly scale back its installed centrifuges. in exchange the u.s. and the european union would lift sanctions that have crippled iran's economy. only congress can lift those sanctions and some democrats aren't sold on the plan and

nearly all the republicans oppose it. tonight police have made an arrest in the fatal shooting of an aspiring d.c. rapper lafonzo iracks was taken into custody this morning. police say he shot keaway lafonz ivy. that shooting happened while the rapper was filming a music video. a retail gun store here in the district. there hasn't been one for decades, but police department cathy lanier told news4 today that the city's relaxed gun laws have not been a problem and she wouldn't object if a well regulated gun store were to open here. she was also surprised at the number of people who have applied for gun permits. >> it's not this surge of people coming in that we're going to see like thousands of concealed carry permits. it's just not happening. >> the district banned handguns back in the 1970s until the supreme court ruled that unconstitutional in 20 thousand 8. last year a federal court said

the city could license but couldn't ban concealed carry weapons. now to a story you'll see only on news4. tonight a family is looking for answers after a 102-year-old woman was found dead in her home. she was huddled next to the radiator and her son says it happened after her gas heat had been turned off. news4's mark seagraves with word that washington gas is now investigating. >> reporter: the forecast was calling for snow. the temperature was in the 30s. paul bowman came to check on his 102-year-old mother. >> she was found in her night clothes, she had taken as many blankets as she could find pillows, rolled herself up and got as close to the hot water radiator as she could, and that's where she was found. >> reporter: the medical examiner has not released the cause of death but bowman says he feels sure it had something to do with the heat being turned off. >> yes, i totally do.

i feel if they had not interrupted her heat in her house, my mother would still be here today. >> reporter: when he found her mother he also found her gas line had been dug up and this card from washington gas on her door but no boxes on the card were checked off to indicate why washington gas was there or what they did. bowman says he's tried to get answers from washington gas. >> i'm just clearly in the dark with washington gas. >> reporter: bowman says washington gas told him exactly what they told news4. 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're saddened to hear of the passing of mrs. harley. d.c. councilman yvette alexander has now gotten involved and washington gas has acknowledged to her that they're also looking for answers as to what happened. i spoke to an official at washington gas who told me he couldn't answer specific questions, but he said they have

started their own investigation. >> what happened? i just want to know what happened here. >> reporter: mark seagraves, news4. new tonight police are looking for the owners of a small dog, although they may not recognize it now. he looked like he had been on the run for quite a while when neighbors in animal control officers caught him. wow, look at that. he was in fairfax along rolling road and delong drive. they took him to the vet for a shave and medical treatment and voila, a completely different dog. he's a bishchon frise. >> take a look at these bald eagles. >> a history making move for the nfl. and the trip to the zoo was fun, but then the metro ride back was anything but.

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a man says his family's trip to d.c. was going great until they jumped on metro. news4's jackie bensen shows us how he got separated from his son. a story you'll see only on 4. >> reporter: kyle says his family's trip to the national zoo yesterday was terrific but the metro ride back to the hotel was hair raising. he was on a red line train with his wife and their four kids on a spring break trip from pennsylvania when at about 5:20 p.m. at the farragut north station there was an announcement that the train was going out of service and everyone should get off. the oldest managed to get off on

to the crowded platform but he said he and his wife with the three younger kids including one in the stroller were not able to do so before the doors closed. >> ultimately i thought the other side door was going to open but i was on the wroong side. >> another rider who had also been unable to get off the train in time pressed the red emergency button. >> they were not helpful at all. basically told him that the doors were not going to open and they had to proceed. >> a metro spokesman told news4 that because it was rush hour the train would most likely have been ordered to advance several stations to ease congestion behind it but neither that family or the other rider knew why the train wasn't stopping. when the train came to a stop at the next station but the doors did not open kyle a former marine took matters into his own hands, literally. >> i went to the doors and started pulling the doors apart. i was able to get the doors open a few inches. i don't know exactly how many and stick my foot in between them so that they were open.

>> reporter: when they finally made it back to farragut north they were reunited with 11-year-old, shocked to find him accompanied by a stranger who luckily turned out to only have good motives. >> yeah glad that stranger stuck around. metro says this time a year with all the tourists coming to town, these kind of incidents happen several times a day, where kids get separated from their parents. good to make a plan in advance because they can't stop the train every time this happens. new at 11:00, a woman is on the verge of breaking barriers a female referee has been hired by the nfl. news 4's jason pugh joins us with the historymaking move. >> today the nfl hired eight new officials and sarah thomas amongst the group brought in by the league over the last few years thomas has worked nfl training camps and preseason games. "the baltimore sun" reporting that thomas indeed has been hired. she's worked the new orleans saints training camp and worked

a number of years at the college level in conference usa. she's actually not the first female nfl official. during the nfl referee lockout shannon easton worked the game for the league. thomas is used to breaking barriers. back in 2007 she became the first female to officiate a college football game. from the newsroom jason pugh. >> football feels a long way off right now. >> it does. >> we haven't even hit opening day yet. >> we're looking forward to a nice weekend. are we going to get one of those? >> sunday. it's going to be very nice on sunday. tomorrow it's windy, it's chilly. temperatures will feel like they're in the 40s during the afternoon when the thermometer is actually reading 50. dealing with periods of rain tonight. no severe weather moving through but the best chance of steady rain is from now till about 2:00 a.m. that will set us up for a windy and chilly day tomorrow. silver lining of tomorrow's forecast plenty of sunshine for most of the day. and although it's chilly

tomorrow overall the next seven days a lot more warmer weather than cooler weather. so i'll be pointing those days out to you on the seven-day. tracking this rain moving through the area. this cold front clears us very early tomorrow morning. once that happens our temperatures quickly drop. right now, can you believe this? look at the temperatures. upper 60s, low 70s, washington coming in at 69 degrees. but look at the hourly temperature forecast. 3:00 a.m. we're still at a balmy 68 then it starts to go literally downhill from there. a temperature of 61 by 6:00 a.m. temperature of about 54 degrees and also the winds increase from breezy to windy. the current wind speed anywhere from 5 to 20 across the area. windy tomorrow what does that mean? if you have trash cans outdoor, they'll get blown over. are we talking about wind damage? no but that nuisance kind of wind. you'll need a jacket sweatshirt

or windbreaker. want to head down to the tidal basin, i would recommend going sunday if you can. showing you the sky conditions. notice plenty of clouds. suburbs in the upper 40s. washington around 54 degrees. 8:00 a.m. similar temperatures but we start to see more sunshine. skies quickly become mostly sunny. noon full-on sun but it's windy. suburbs at 50. washington at 54. and once we hit 4:00, that's our high in d.c. 58 degrees. the suburbs in the low to mid-50s. you'll need the sunglasses but a windy day from start to finish. only a little bit breezy on sunday with the high temperature of 65 degrees. but that's a cold start. sunday's the epitome of a spring day where it's very chilly. if you have that easter egg hunt keep that in mind. by noon we've already warmed 20 degrees to around 60. 7:00 it's nice with a temperature of 63. monday it's spectacular outside. a high temperature of 67

degrees. if you have plans to go to the nationals home opener weather is looking fabulous. tuesday there's the chance of showers, a high of 66. like i said the temperature's not bad if you look at them on the seven-day, but a very april-like forecast tuesday through friday with a chance of showers pretty much every day. it won't be a washout. it won't be rainy at every point, but i have to put them in there. that's my job. wednesday 62 mid-60s, then 70 on friday. >> sunday and monday sounding really good. for the first time in 70 years bald eagles have returned to d.c. the birds in three nests were first spotted a few months ago at the national arboretum. now it looks like the hatchlings have arrived. cleaning up the anacostia river brought the national bird back home. earlier tonight news4 learned several pairs of eagles are nesting on marine corps base quantico. >> so fun to see those pictures. career night for john wall.

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this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. the knicks scored ten points in the first quarter. you had a feeling -- >> yeah. >> not going to be their night. >> can we play the knicks in the first round of the playoffs? earlier this week head coach randy wittman said he would have to balance resting players before the postseason and making sure his team is playing well down the stretch. translation -- if you're old, you can rest. if you're young, get out there and play.

veterans paul pierce and nene had the night off while players like otto porter jr., he took advantage of the extra minutes. bradley beal and john wall looking for the season sweep against the knicks tonight. the wiz came out extremely hot. first quarter john wall doing whatever he wanted to do. behind the back pass here to marcin gortat. that's just a playground move. big game for wall and gortat. he had 19 points the polish hammer did. wizards up 8. otto porter jr. with the steal and finish. how about that? the wizards take a ten-point lead. more from otto in the second. this is wall running the break. a little hesitation step right there, the reverse layup is good. 13 points in first half for otto porter jr. third quarter, more from the wizards and more from porter. he had 17 points in the game. big night for john wall. he's had a career high with 18 assists. he also had 6 points.

wizards sweep the season series. they beat the new york knicks. your final score 101-89. now of the final six games remaining on the schedule for the wizards, just one of those coming at home. tomorrow they start a three game road trip in memphis. let's move on to baseball now for a moment. tomorrow the nationals back at national park. an exhibition game against the yankees. before that happens one last spring training game in sunny florida today. they face new york in tampa. first inning. big time matchup, harper versus cc sabathia. and harper wins this battle. he had three home runs this spring. eight rbi. give the kid a triple right there. the nationals, they score three in the inning and they take a 3-0 lead after one. mike carp one of the young nationals trying to make this roster for opening day. that will help his cause. a three-run shot.

nats win 8-2. stephen strasburg struck out six. these two teams back at it tomorrow in the nation's capital at 1:00. last spring training game for the orioles taking on the braves. ubaldo jimenez, five strike outs and four innings of work. in the fifth inning this -- a little fan trying to start the wave here. he shows him how to get the fans on their feet smacking some ball deep to left center. a solo home run for deaza. the os win it 3-2. the next one is for real opening the season on the road against tampa bay. let's head to the pitch. d.c. united making their first visit to orlando. first mls season for orlando. united with the free kick. silva gets the goal. and this is the call.

go-o-o-o-al. >> you got to love the soccer announcers. he went on for like two minutes it felt like. ridiculous. an unbleebable call. >> you can't do that?

only in texas. a buffalo broke out of its closure in round rock texas, today. after he jumped some fences the owner called police who chased it down. the

>> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- ricky gervais, jordana brewster musical guest, elle king