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charged with killing an unarmed black man. tonight, how a traffic stop turned into a murder scene. take a look at storm team 4 radar. light showers now, but a lot more rain coming up for the morning rush. i'll tell you how it went and what's next for us. news4 at 11:00 starts now. it took six long hours for crews to fix the problem, but tonight the bethesda metro station is back open after a massive power outage. >> that blackout caused major problems across the district and parts of maryland. lights were flickering at the white house, the state department and the u.s. capitol. and it was all because of an equipment failure at a power substation in mechanicsville maryland. jackie bensen is live outside freedom plaza. jackie? >> reporter: doreen some of the agencies and buildings involved are so significant that the mere fact that all of their backup

generators started at roughly the same time rattled nerves in the nation's capital. >> it was unsettling. around noontime lights went out at a briefing inside the highly secure state department headquarters in foggy bottom. the briefing continued by the light of a flashlight app on a smartphone. several blocks away at the warner theater, as oprah winfrey spoke at a ceremony unveiling the maya angelou stamp, the lights also went out. winfrey continued without missing a beat. >> she was a phenomenal woman. >> reporter: moments later, secret service agents quickly escorted first lady michelle obama out of the theater. the lights also went out at several smithsonian museums including the national portrait gallery and visitors were asked to leave. then came word that even the white house had briefly switched to backup generators. fears of a possible cyber attack on the power grid of the nation's capital were calmed

when it was learned a transmission conductor in charles county maryland had broken free from its support structure and fallen to the ground. >> essentially what that did was cause a ripple effect that impacted a number of buildings in the city. the backup systems realized there was a dip in voltage, it switched over to the backup system as it should. so that worked properly. so that's why in some locations people saw what appeared to be a power outage. >> reporter: at a pentagon briefing the head of u.s. northern command talked about the incident. >> are the backup systems that we put in place, do they work? and at the moment what i've kicked in and they're all working. >> reporter: and there was also an extensive power problem related to this at the university of maryland in college park forcing the cancellation of some classes. pepco says that there's an investigation into what caused the original equipment down in charles county to fail and this area downtown d.c. we learned

later today not the only place affected. news4's shomari stone is in bethesda maryland at the metro station. >> reporter: well jackie technicians replaced a speed sensor and a brake on the escalator. it is 31 years old. officials are telling us that a voltage from that massive power outage that you just described is what caused the damage. it was a very stressful day for folks who take the metro out here in bethesda. >> it's frustrating. >> anyone need to get on the metro, you cannot board here! >> a long day. even longer with metro. >> reporter: she's having a stressful evening. she blames metro. >> it's really inconvenient. i didn't expect any of this. and i expected it you know metro to have their stuff together. >> reporter: tonight metro says the widespread power outage across d.c. and maryland caused the escalator outage at the bethesda metro station. the escalator stopped working. the station closed around 3:00

this evening. metro employees told people to use the medical center or friendship heights station. several buses drove people to the medical center station. she told me at the end of the day she's exhausted but says metro does a pretty good job fixing problems. >> these things run pretty quickly. >> reporter: again, the escalator is fixed. if you're wondering about the bethesda station, you can get your free washington app on your smartphone and we'll continue to update what's going on here again, it has reopened. live in bethesda shomari stone, news4. >> thanks shomari. our coverage of the power outage doesn't end here. you can head to nbcwashington.com. looking at our weather now, veronica, some more rain coming our way, huh? >> that's right. i'm tracking some showers right now, even a little bit of fog and definitely cooler air that will be making its way in across

the overnight period. let's take a look and see what's going on on storm team 4 radar. the green, that's where we have showers, nothing too heavy right now. howard counties into areas like eastern montgomery county the weather in prince george's county too, to baltimore. really important to focus on the rain and the cooler air, too, that will be coming in on the north side of this weather front. more rain too, coming through west virginia. that's about six hours away. so all that coming together with this weather system early part of the day on wednesday. we're at 52 baltimore, 65 here. there's the weather front. it's coming in. by tomorrow morning, you will need a jacket. our temperatures today got up to around low 70s. many neighborhoods by tomorrow much cooler. we'll talk about how cool and how wet our day will be. in fact it's looking like a pretty wet week. i'll have the totals coming up in just a couple of minutes. >> thanks veronica. >> developing tonight, a white police officer is being charged with murder in the deadly shooting of a black man in north

charleston south carolina. >> shots fired. subject is down. he grabbed my taser. >> that was the call officer michael slager made after he fired shots after 50-year-old walter scott. he claimed scott took his taser after a routine traffic stop escalated on saturday but video obtained by "the new york times" shows slager shooting scott as scott is running away. just an hour after police were given the video, slager was taken into custody. >> from the beginning, when it happened the first day, all we wanted was the truth. and i think through the process we've received the truth. >> scott died on the scene, slager could face life in prison or even the death penalty if he's convicted. look for much more on this developing story tomorrow on news4 today. new at 11:00 tonight, george

hughley once played lacrosse at the university of virginia. he's now a convicted murderer. he has one last chance to get that overturned now. his lawyers will take the case to the u.s. supreme court. he was convicted in the death of his girlfriend yeardley love. his lawyers will counsel that he one of his lawyers got sick during the original trial. news4 confirmed that a judge found charles severance competent for trial. his attorneys now want a change of venue to move that trial away from alexandria. police arrested severance last year months after the shooting death of ruthanne lodato. he was then murders. a man has been locked up accused of a deadly shooting near the old walter reed hospital in northwest d.c. police arrested herman odom. investigators say he shot and killed a man last week in an attempted robbery near 13th and

van buren streets. wisconsin avenue is back open in both directions but police are still looking for a man who hit and officer and took off. the officer was off duty. he was working security around the high-end shops near south park avenue. that's the friendship heights area. the officer approached a suspicious car and the driver took off dragging him a short ways. the officer was not badly hurt. investigators don't know why the driver sped off. support is pouring in tonight to replace a fire engine destroyed in a huge fire yesterday. capitol heights lost rescue 33 the truck, yesterday, while fighting a fire at a warehouse. the station set up a go fund me account. it has already raised $1300. there's a long way to go since the department would like to raise $250,000. the rescue engine was insured, but the price to replace the 15-year-old vehicle is more than the insurance will pay. we invite you to

nbcwashington.com on our -- or our app and search for "fire engine" to learn more about that fund-raiser. developing right now, rahm emanuel has won a second term as chicago's mayor in a runoff. emanuel beat jees wous garcia with 50% of the vote. there is confirmation tonight that russia did hack into the white house. reportedly for a look at the president's private schedule. nbc news reported on the incident back in october. but at the time investigators were not sure who was behind the hacking. now they know russian hackers

are to blame. the white house says it is taking action to mitigate the threat of more information being released. new details tonight in the family tragedy that has rocked a small community on the eastern shore. we've learned that the power company removed an illegal meter from rodney todd's home in princess anne maryland a little more than a week and his seven children were found dead inside the home. power was not turned off due to a lack of payment. todd's sister says her brother was just doing what he could to provide for his family. >> people might not understand why he made the decision to put a generator on the inside but when you got kids nothing runs through your mind of what's supposed to be in order or -- you just think about your kids. >> power was disconnected a month before todd and his children moved in. that was about six months ago. but nobody called to have it turned back on at that time. a teenager was killed while visiting old friends, but there

are no answers tonight in terms of who did it or why. luke holt is the victim's name. he was sitting on the steps at an apartment on 37th street northeast last night. a friend said somebody rolled up and just started shooting. today that friend placed flowers and balloons at the murder site. >> when i came to him, he grabbed my leg and he was just gasping for air. then he just slumped over right here and everybody was trying to help him, whatever but they got to him too late. >> holt grew up in that neighborhood but had just moved to northwest d.c. police are working to find a motive for the shooting. police are searching for the vandals responsible for the hateful graffiti on a synagogue in gaithersburg. surveillance video shows two young men running around shaare torah congregation this morning. the pair spray painted 11

swastikas along with hitler and kkk on the building. members of the congregation spent the day trying to power wash the graffiti. police consider the vandalism a hate crime. next at 11:00, a cancer patient kicked off an airplane. >> you're taking me off the airplane? >> tonight the airline's apology and why the flight attendants thought she couldn't fly. when fans attack. the concert chaos that singer adam levine calls terrifying. and we'll tell you why fighter jets might be flying over d.c. tonight.

adam levine is one of the

judges on the show "the voice." he was at a concert last night when a woman jumped up on stage to get close. levine pushed her away then put his arm around her until a security guard got there. he said the whole thing was terrifying. he was injured, a small cut on his ear, he said. an apology from an airline tonight after flight attendants forced a woman with cancer to get off the plane. >> i have multiple miyelomamyeloma. they're taking me off the airplane. >> she recorded the scene on her phone as her husband got the bag. they were flying from hawaii back home to california on alaska airlines. she says she put on a surgical mask and admitted to feeling a little weak yesterday. she called her doctor who said she was fine to fly, but that wasn't good enough to keep her on board the flight. >> i was crying you know? i was missing chemo.

my children were sitting there and we were pull being pulled off an airplane like we were criminals or you know somebody with some contagious disease. >> alaska airlines has apologyized and said it will pick up all extra expenses for the family. it's also promising to work on communication issues with employees. if you live in the dmv, you may hear fighter jets flying over your head tonight. norad will be flying tonight. they're planning to fly between midnight and 2:00 a.m. but if the weather doesn't allow, they might postpone it until tomorrow. >> are we going to hear the roar of jets while we're trying to sleep or not? >> well there's some rain out there right now. i guess it depends on how heavy the rain and under what circumstances they can fly. i'm not expecting anything terribly heavy widespread. so i think they'll probably be out there. in fact over the next couple of days you'll want to stay with

your umbrellas handy because there's going to be showers moving through from time to time. the rest of the forecast all week long. howard county right now down into northern prince george's and anne arundel county all that green, showers, and areas of yellow dark green where we're seeing pockets of even moderate rain even advancing eastward right along areas of route 1 towards savage. then we have rain out of west virginia that's headed this way. but this rain here just up to the north and east, that's associated with a weather front that's sagging southward. there it is. the next little batch that will be moving in just in time for the morning rush. and that means roads will be wet but not terribly slick. 50 degrees the temperature for early tomorrow morning. we're seeing the temperatures already come down on the north side of that weather front. damp roads to are your afternoon. 55 degrees. that's it for a high temperature tomorrow. at the bus stop of course kids will need a jacket. it will be much cooler. by recess still could be wet and even dismissal time there's a

chance for a shower. i think we're really front loaded with most of our rain prior to noontime tomorrow the best chance. let me show you what we're talking about. here we are at 6:00 a.m. gatorsberg down towards fredericksburg maybe some heavier cells coming through. by 11:00 a.m. the bulk of it done. then we'll go into this quiet pocket for a while until we get to the evening hours, 6:00 7:00 thursday will be a dreary drizzly kind of day with a little less rain than what we see on wednesday. here's a look at the impact forecast for tomorrow. maybe you'll hit the courts again. best time after lunchtime 11:00 a.m. tomorrow. 55 going up to a high of around 55. 56 degrees to are your afternoon. so much cooler but still ok to get out and exercise. even thursday. you notice the moisture in the air. in terms of an umbrella nothing too heavy but make sure you have it handy. then it gets downright stormy on

friday. look at this. the high temperature 79 close to 80 degrees as we move from more scattered to numerous storms. 79 close to 80 that will make it the highest temperature that we've had for the year so far and could be looking at again severe weather across the area. of course storm team 4, we'll be keeping you updated. 69 on saturday. 67 on sunday. but a gorgeous weekend we've got on tap as we go into next week another chance of rain on tuesday. >> okay. something to look forward to though. we've got sports coming up. you something to look forward to there.

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this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. i liked your tease because i have no idea what you're talking about, about the hoyas. >> we bring you the news. hoyas fans and jim vance breathe a sigh of relief. a week after it was announced that devaunt es smith- rivera led the hoyas in scoring with just over 16 points a game. he will be a senior. all right, to the women's side. notre dame taking on uconn in the national championship game. a repeat of last year. first half huskies up four. mariah jefferson, the best point guard in the country comes up with the steal. she takes it all the way to the bucket. 15 for her. dad loving that. later in the half back to a four-point game. brianna stewart, the best player

in the country knocks down the jumper. eight points for her. second half notre dame only down six. jill lloyd's shot off the mark. huskies on the run. kick over to lewis. the best three-point scorer to ever play the game of college women's basketball. third national title. tenth title for geno auriemma tying him with the legendary john wooden. can anybody beat that? please. three years in a row for the uconn huskies. >> they're just awesome. >> you have to wonder if there's coaches that want to get in touch with geno and find out what he's doing right. he knows something. >> you could ask that same question of krzyzewski couldn't you? because he's doing pretty good himself. >> he's a five. >> that's not shabby. what are you talking about? >> i'll take ten, though. the nats will be back at nats park to take the mets and

hopefully score more runs tomorrow. on opening day despite great pitching the nats score just one run on three hits. jordan zimmermann will be on the hill for the nats. chris davis back in the lineup for the orioles, first time since september 10th. he was suspended 25 games for using adderall without a waiver. tees off on this one. deep to left. two-run shot. two homers in two games. o's take a 6-0 lead. bottom sixth now, rays on the board. he crushes this one to center. jones watches it sail over the fence here. two-run shot. this is going to get the rays within one. so bottom nine zach bringing on a close for the birds. and not wasting time. gets him swinging. orioles 2-0 to start the season. they win it 6-5. and in case you need a

double-take while walking or driving downtown today. there he is alex ovechkin on a double decker bus. the latest celeb to join the ride of fame. ovb recognized for his on and off the ice accomplishments. that seat right there, you can't see it there, it's dedicated to ovi and you can sit there and feel like ovi for the day. >> actually it's pretty cool. i think it's good for the city good for the town good for fans and a good time for the organization. it's a good picture. you know celebrate the goals. see emotions. you know. it's nice. >> all right. >> caps play the bruins tomorrow. i thought that ovi photo was perfect. no teeth. >> what must it be like to feel like ovi? we can't imagine what it feels like to be ovi. >> you can ride o

here's something you don't see every day. which is probably just as well. it's a raccoon. >> aw! >> up in the air in the middle of downtown philadelphia as a matter of fact. happened today. the coon got stuck up on top of a pole. some people stopped along the sidewalk to take photographs of the stranded scavenger. people take photographs of everything these day, don't they? some cars even slowed down to check him out. >> poor guy. >> they needed to get a picture.

nobody seems to know how that coon got up there, but it took -- more than three hours for animal control to come and get him down. >> poor guy. >> they're so cute when they're not in your garbage.

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