we're following a number of developing stories at this hour. hillary clinton getting ready to announce this weekend that she's running for president. the new information that we're learning about her announcement and why she says she's running. good morning. i'm barbara harrison. the census bureau headquarters in suitland is open for business although it is a sad day following the murder of one of their security guards. a live report coming up. i'm molette green at the live desk and an important health alert, a meningitis death in loudoun county. i just received this e-mail from the health department reading over it now and will pass along everything you need to know.

it is a weather alert day. i'm aaron gilchrist in the storm center with meteorologist tom kierein getting people ready for the storm moving into the region. >> a line of thunderstorms tracking all morning long getter closer to the metro area showing up on storm team 4 radar. the storms weakened moving into the mountains. as usually happens, coming into more stable air, all associated with a cold front leading ep of this just about to come into the panhandle of west virginia. southern extent of it now down to just west of roanoke. this northern part of it now coming into frostburg. this is the line here that's just east of elkins. closer to us but still about 2 hours 45 minutes or so away from getting close to the metro area. that's going to be maybe around 2:00 this afternoon. but this other batch that's farther south, that is the one that's likely going to be getting closer in the southern suburbs, still about four hours away. around 3:00 this afternoon. we see the leading edge of that moving on through.

breaking news at the live desk. here is the e-mail once again from the loudoun county health department. we now know that there is a confirmed death from meningitis. the county's health except saying it is still evaluating whether anyone is at risk. increased risk of infection, but says there is no evidence right now of an outbreak in the community. now, in this e-mail dr. david goodfriend does not tell us any information, no specifics, about the person who died. the health department is saying it is putting this information out right now because of recent publicity and an increased number of phone calls getting, it's getting following the death in loudoun. i reported earlier this week on the death of a broad run high school senior but it is torrent to note that we still do not have a cause of death yet in that particular case. right now health facialofficials are warning, asking you to take normal precautions such as

frequent hand washes. that's the latest. back to you, barbara. also developing in our, workers returning to the census bureau after a security guard there was shot and killed. the frightening incident started with a kidnapping ending with a suspect wounded on a terrify inging apprehension on the street. megan, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, barbara. certainly a sad day for many who work here at census board, bureau headquarters here in suitland after he lost a security guard, murdered here. you can see behind me here that the main gate is still closed and that's going remain the case here for a while. now, workers who be in the building and sheltered in place last night when the shooting happened they were given the day off today. the rest of the staff, they came in two hours late. cars were turned away. the main gate to the census bureau headquarters still

closed following last night's deadly shooting. >> it's tough, because you come to work and you are protecting the people here at the bureau and you end up getting shot and i feel so bad for his family. >> reporter: most employees came into work on a two-hour delay this morning. i.d.s checked as they passed through security at the side entrances. while offices are othered, there is a sense of sadness and loss. >> i think it's just very tragic. and -- you know i'm grateful for the security we have. >> reporter: the security guard, 59-year-old lawrence buckner, working last night at the main gate when he saw a man and a woman arguing in a car. police say the man behind the wheel had just kidnapped his wife in d.c. and had a gun. when the security guard approached he was fatally shot. the gunman sped away heading back into the district. and it's still unclear why the suspect drove here. whether it was simply

happenstance or whether he or his wife had a connection to the census bureau. fbi spokespersons are still trying to figure all that out. back to you. >> thank you. after the suspect shot that guard he led police on a chase that ended in the district at 11th and eighth streets in north west washington. h street just reopened a little more than an hour ago. first 4 traffic told you on twitter about h street reopening. the busy corner is where the suspect engaged police in the shoot-out last night. the suspect was shot several times and a d.c. officer hit in the leg. at last check the suspect is in the hospital in stable condition. coming up in about 15 minutes, news 4 zachary kiesch is live on h street with more on the next phase of this investigation. aaron? barbara learning more about the man killed in that violent crime spree. lawrence buckner working security when shot. family members were visibly shaken at the prince george's hospital center. what we know about 34i78.him.

a married man oent 59nly 59 years old, still alive when he was brought there, but he passed away just after 7:00 p.m. from a gunshot wound to the chest. molette green at the live desk. right now new information coming in on an intense manhunt in annapolis. the anne arundel police department says the officer shot is in critical condition. we pushed out this information on the nbc washington app, as soon as news broke this morning. they have canine teams out looking for a suspect. giving us only a limited description. a man in his 20s, to 30s, wearing dark colored pants and now, witnesses say a man was acting suspiciously just after 2:00 a.m. near a convenience store just off route 50 near the cape st. claire area. that's in the 700 block of college parkway. not too far from the bay bridge. police tell us the officer and suspect then got into a scuffle and the officer then chased the

suspect on foot and that's when he was shot. it is unclear what actually led up to the shooting. barbara? >> all right, molette. today a maryland man will learn how long he'll spend behind bars for causing a deadly crash. amman lyle driving drunk on lee highway last year when he slammed into a car at fort myer drive in rosslands. the 24-year-old driver of the chrysler was killed. lyle had just gotten his license back after having it suspended a year following a dwi charge. heading to the cherry blossom festival this weekend, in luck. gorgeous out there. look ak the blossoming buds. in peak bloom tomorrow through tuesday we expect. festival organizers expect big crowds too around the tidal basin and national mall. early morning is probably the best time to beat the big crowds. tweet us pictures or send them to us using snap chat. right now you can buy tickets to the first round of the washington wizards' home

playoff game. tickets just went on sale. you can buy them online or any ticket master location. dates and times of the wizards first games released after the regular season ends. a lot of folks will want toes tickets, they're playing so well right now. a look at today's trending stories including today's

let's look at the stories lighting up social media today. hillary clinton may announce her 2016 presidential campaign as early as this sunday. we're told she will make her announcement where else social media. hitting the trail. one of her first stores iowa. more on that trending story in this hour. walgreen's is closing 200 stores in the u.s. it's haiming to save more than $1 billion in expenses over the next three years. walgreen's once estimated it was opening a new store every 17

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footage of the widespread damage just outside chicago. look at this view from the air, piles of debris that you see after that twister tore through north central illinois in one small town about a quarter of the homes were just leveled. we just heard from the fire department this morning out there, search crews going from house to house looking for victims but the damage is making it very tough for them to do this. at least one person is still unaccounted for. one woman is confirmed dead. pulled from what was left of her home and there you see that truck just blown over by that it twister. two zoo animals, we've learned, were killed about an hour northwest of chicago. that's the latest. back to you. >> yeah that tornado was about a half a mile wide on the ground for about 40 minutes. just devastating. well this is a line along that same cold front that produced that tornado of much weaker showers and thundershowers. no tornadoes. this is tracking northeast. this one batch coming into shenandoah valley winchester

hagerstown another hour passing north of washington a little after that. maybe around 1:00 2:00 this afternoon. finally starting to warm up a little bit. around 50 degrees. going to take a while. look at lore rey at 70 degrees now. the main severe risks on this area in yellow south of washington southern maryland northern frett fredericksburg to charlottesville for the afternoon. >> tom, thanks. facebook and twitter are buzzing this morning about madonna's 1983 throwback. take a look. ♪ took a holiday ♪ took some time to celebrate ♪ >> madonna and jimmy fallon sang "holiday" on last night's "tonight show "using classroom instruments. catchy there. madonna stopped to promote her new album "rebel heart" and sang a new song calmled" can't say the first word something, i'm madonna. starts with a b. fallon called it the best performance on the show ever. >> you caught that. >> yeah.

i -- almost said it. no. yeah. clearly, she's still -- after all of these years still a great worm performer. >> should have seen her outfit. something on her teeth she said i guess her makeup artist put on metal clamps. always ahead of the rest of us i guess i should say. you probably remember those loudoun county students who had their robot stolen? a little while ago, a major announcement about the team's future. we'll tell you what they had to say

we are staying on top of the developing story that began as a shooting at the u.s. census bureau in prince george county ended as a shoot-out with police in d.c. led police on a chase after shooting and killing a guard in suitland. zachary kiesch on h street in d.c. where the case came to a dramatic end and sent two people to the hospital. zachary? >> reporter: i can tell you this all the yellow tape out here this morning is gone. h street blocked off between 11th and 12th street. it all went down as many folk was out here last night having drinks enjoying thursday night out having dinner here. i talked to a number of foebs here early this morning as detectives were out here searching for clues, looking for cameras, having an opportunity to piece this thing together and

they were trying to get their vehicle. a lot of them because of how this played out, had to abandon their vehicles. returned back today to get those so that could, of course start their friday. an interesting part of town. a part of town that violence wasn't so rare in years' past. that has since changed. part of a huge push which includes street cars new apartments new grocery stores and not all that far away from union station and it rattled some folks around here that we spoke to last night. reporting live zachary kiesch northeast d.c. back to you in the studio. joshgs molette green at the live desk. this just in. now learning about a hit-and-run in fairfax county and police are asking for your help. they tell us a 38-year-old woman was hit in the crosswalk while jogging on objection road and zion drive last night in braddock. not far from the sovereign grace church. the victim is treated for injuries and is expected to

recover. anyone with information about this is asked to call police. barbara? >> thank you, molette. a developing story now. one child is dead and another one in grave, hurt gravely, we understand. after a car plunged into the ocean in los angeles. witnesses say they saw the car carrying a family of four go straight into the ocean last night. two adults surfaced moments later. rescue crews dove into the water to pull the two kids out of the car. no word on why the car crashed into the water in the first place. aaron? barbara, an internal investigation ordered after video of sheriff's deputies beating a suspect surfaced. a man ran from deputies and stole a horse in san bernardino county. during the chase the man fell off the horse, and that's when deputies subdued him using a stun gun. the deputies seem to begin beating and kicking the man more than two minutes. at one point 13 deputies are surrounding that suspect. new video this morning of the beginning of what would become a deadly traffic stop in

south carolina. the dash camara video shows north charleston officer michael slager pulling over walter scott from because of a broken taillight. the officer returns to his car to check on scott's driver's license. then scott jumps out of the car and starts running. minutes later, cell phone video captured slager shooting scott in the back killing him. what led to that shooting is not on any tape. officer slager is now charged with murder in this shooting. >> one mother to another mother i can understand this. so i just -- i just want them to know i am, i'm sorry that this happened. and that that this has made a change in everybody's life. >> the police department is also coming under fire for their reaction after the shooting. there are discrepancies between the official report and what appears on the cell phone video. the report says officers applied chest compressions and tried to revive scott. the video seems to show scott on

his stomach for the whole time. some good news now. a happy update to a local group of students who was nearly robbed literally of a chance to compete in the world robotics comp competition. they just won a regional competition when the team's suv was stolen with their robot inside. a new robot built and it is ready to go we're told and good luck to them. and even though there's a potential for strong storms today it it shouldn't affect all the cherry blossoms. just the ones that fully bloomed. most of the trees in peak bloom tomorrow through tuesday. the national cherry blossom festival parade starts at 10:00 tomorrow. expecting big crowds around the tidal basin and national mall so plan accordingly. >> because of the festival no weekend track work on metro. rails open two hours early at 5:00 a.m. on sunday. for the cherry blossom ten-mile run. what will the weather be like

for that though? check in with tom. >> looking good. a live view from our city camera overlooking the tidal basin. quite a few people there already. you can see blossoms looking beautiful even under a gray sky. quite a magical scene there. hour-by-hour temperatures cooler than it was looking like earlier this morning. by 1:00 into the 50s. by 3:00 make it into the mid-60s. storms likely coming through then. those blossoms will hang on. late afternoon, low 70s, near 70 by early evening hours as the line of showers and thundershowers moves on through. right now just showers here. no thunder and lightning coming into the shenandoah valley in another hour or so. as they move in they may increase a little and produce some thunder and lightning and a slight risk of severe storms mainly south of the metro area. by late afternoon into early evening. >> tom, thanks. big changes coming to the red line on metro starting monday. your commute will feel different. metro says eight car trains will run on automatic mode. this is the first time metro will use automation since the

deadly accident that killed nine people in 2009. six car trains will still use the manual mode. metro has been testing the automation for some time and given the all-clear by two independent safety advisers. the remaining trains are waiting for a computer upgrade before being automated that will take more than a year. new developments on the

hey, good morning with your cnbc business headlines i'm landon downey. amazon gets the green light again from the faa to test drones to deliver packages. the government approved amazon the prototype last month but the company says the process took so long the device is already obsolete. amazon wraunts to use drones to deliver items within ten miles of its warehouses which would require them to fly ought torn mousily using center ersensors to avoid

colliding with other technology.

a new report shows ten people able to sneak past office and guards at our local airports in the last decade. dulles the most. total of eight. one each has been reported at reagan national and bwi marshall. part of the report that details 268 airport breaches logged nationwide. none was terror-related, though. showers now rolling across west virginia getting closer to us. we have a weather alert day under way because of our first round of severe weather likely moving in later this afternoon. right now just showers coming into the shenandoah valley in another hour or so. by 1:00 beginning to cross the blue ridge. new timing as tracking farther east and may break up a bit. a few isolated thunderstorms popping up to the south around 3:00 p.m. then through southern maryland

charles, calvert, st. mary's around 4:00 to 5:00 tracking east and most done by 5:00 p.m. quick moving but could produce damaging winds south of the metro area. >> all right, tom. thanks. the virginia railway express, vre, soon begins studying whether to extend its commuter lines. that means that the line would extend from manassas out to hey haymarket. moving ahead with the extension, it could be five years before passengers can buy the first tickets. the manassas line currently ends at the broad run station in bristow. and right now a massive effort underway to save nearly 150 beached dolphins in japan. some are still alive but are extremely weak. the coast guard, the police and workers at an aquarium are working to rescue the animals. this is the largest dolphin standing stranding that is on this beach in 15 years. it is all over social media. hillary clinton trending because we now know she's going

to run for president. a look at

right now census bureau employees returning to work after a guard is shot and killed. reaction from workers and a look at where the investigation stands in 15 minutes. big news from hillary clinton. sources tell nbc news that she will run for president. the official announcement expected to come sunday.

tracie potts has more on the unique way clinton plans to make that announcement. first, a nasty day out there. weatherwise, that is. you can make it a good one. huh, tom? >> yeah. between now and around 3:00 we're fine. after that we get thunderstorms coming on through. right now the storm team 4 radar showing these showers now in west virginia advancing to the north and east. most of these are going to be passing just north and west of the metro area in another couple hours. then another round passing south around 3:00 4:00 5:00. between now and then upper 70s in southern maryland northern neck eastern shore, metro area may only make it up to 7 this afternoon. tonight, cloudy skies clearing late tonight. 40s tomorrow morning. beautiful day tomorrow sunshine upper 60s. breezy. sunday sunny, beautiful day. high around 70. monday another gorgeous day. back to work and school partly cloudy. highs low 70s. chance of light rain tuesday. after that near 70 again

wednesday, thursday, with the sunshine back. >> tom, thanks. at least 17 structures have been totally destroyed in fairdale illinois. 50 more badly damped. the weather channel meteorologist mike bettes has more from the scene. >> reporter: well the day after shedding a lot of light on the tornado that swept through in northern illinois in the town of fairdale. a town of roughly 200 people and every single building in town just seven square blocks was damaged. one of the more interesting things we found a cinder block washington pushed off to the west. torn right off the mortar foundation here. this building behind us apartment up above and a storage unit down below. most of the roof structure taken off. you can actually see right down into it. now, the city is still cordoned off. the sheriff's office isn't allowing anyone in. still doing search and rescue. ongoing at this time but we know at least 11 injured treated for

injuries. one fatality, a ished in her home. could have been multiple tornadoes pap few crews out to assess the length width and eventually wind speed of the tornado all based on damp. but extensive damage with this and this is just the outskirts of town. homes wipe out of their foundation into town. we see the aerial pictures truly a heartbreaking scene in this rural, tight-knit community of just 200 people. the latest in fairdale illinois. mike bettes for nbc news. >> thank you. breaking news. loudoun county health department, evaluateing whether anyone is at risk for a confirmed meningitis death. no evidence of an outbreak. just being cautious. no information about the victim has been released. i'm tracie potts with a

developing story on the 2016 presidential campaign. what a lot of people have been calming the worst kept secret in washington. question expect it out this weekend. telling nbc that hillary clinton will officially announce her candidacy for president as early as sunday. and that the announcement won't necessarily come in a big rally as we often see but that it will initially come on social media. we know she's been active on twitter. then from there we understand she's going to be heading to iowa big caucus state, first caucus state, where we've seen a lot of other candidates recently too. so the big news look ot for it on sunday. it looks like hillary clinton is making it official. barbara? >> all right, tracie. another developing story going on now. a manhunt under way in annapolis for the gunman who shot an anne arundel police officer. the shooting happened around 2:00 a.m. around a 7-eleven convenience store. someone inside said a man standing outside seemed

suspicious. after confronting the man the two fought when the suspect shot the police officer. he's listed in critical condition at a baltimore hospital right now. the suspect is considered armed and dangerous. the university of virginia fraternity whose members accused of rape in a "rolling stone" article will not seek -- the piece later retracted. virginia's student-run honor code system prohibits lying, cheating and stealing. students found guilty face expulsion. it's not known whether the accuser is actually still enrolled in the university. right now you can buy tickets to the first round of the wizards home playoff games. tickets just went on sale. you can buy them online or at any ticketmaster location. dates and times of the wizards first-round games released after the regular season ends. a look at some of the big

here are some of the stories

grabbing your attention on social media. sad news as a young basketball player loses her fight against cancer. lauren hill touched a nation with her desire to play for mount st. joseph's women's basketball team. even as she battled an inoperable brain tumor. raised more than $1 million to help cancer research. her battle with cancer ended today. she was only 19 years olds. apple fans are out in force today catching a glimpse of the new smart watch. you can now order the watch online. landen doudly have more on that trending story later in the hour and you're also following the shooting of a guard at the u.s. headquarters in suitland. the string of events lighting up facebook and a man from last night's news kidnap add woman fatally shot a census bureau guard and led police on a car chase through maryland and washington. stay with news 4 news. a report bringing us the latest. and we're back in

today a somber event in texas. more than five years after the shooting rampage at fort hood those wounded or killed there receive the purple heart. former major nidal hasan convicted and sentenced to death for the shooting. 13 killed another 32 wounded. today is opening day at camden yards despite the weather, the baltimore orioles take on the blue jays at 3:05 this afternoon. gates open at noon today. hall of fame pitcher jim palmer throws the first pitch. governor larry hogan at at the game. what kind of weather will they have? >> maybe some interruptions with thousanders and ersers ersers thousanders -- showers and thundershowers. hagerstown 1:00 or so coming through. passing washington by around 2:00. the zone where there could be severe weather. this area in yellow, southern

charles county calvert, st. mary's northern neck and west richmond charlottesville, the zone where there could be some damaging winds. a very small risk of any tornadoes, but a little higher risk of high winds that may cause wind damage also some hail as well as some heavy rain in that yellow zone just south of the metro area. so the severe weather likely not going to be impacting the metro area much as we get into the afternoon hours, the main threat is south of the area later this afternoon. >> tom, thanks. facebook and twitter buzzing this morning about madonna's appearance on jimmy fallon last night. she even got to live out one of her dreams on the show becoming a stand-up comedian. have a listen. >> the other day at breakfast with my son rocco thinking um i haven't had a dmat a couple of weeks and i looked at my son without thinking and i said do you have any friends you could introduce me to?

>> she sang two numbers on last night's "tonight show" including the 1983 hit "holiday" using own classroom instruments. look at them. funny. pretty catchy too. madonna stopped by to promote her new album. "rebel heart." the energy she has. >> and always fun. you never see her do anything or go anywhere talk to anyone without having a really good time. all of these years. >> and dancing and still the younger generation's really like her. >> into it. right. >> amazing. one child's touching tribute to a lost

workers returning to the census bureau this morning after a security guard was shot and killed there. starting with a kidnapping and ending wit suspect wounded in a shoot-out with police on h street in d.c. news 4 megan mcgrath talking to census bureau staffers in suitland as they arrived at work and has this report. >> reporter: you can see behind me here that the main gate to the census headquarters building is still closed although the rest of the campus is open for business. but it is a sad day for many who work here. in the middle of the crime spree, the suspect drove here to the main gate and that's where the security guard, 59-year-old lawrence buckner, was fatally shot. employees who sheltered in place in their offices when the shooting happened last night, well they were given the day off today. the rest of the staff came in two hours late.

workers we spoke to praised the security staff here. they say they do an excellent job. and they are saddened by the loss. >> it's tough, because you come to work and you are protecting the people here at the bureau and you end up getting shot and i feel so bad for his family. >> reporter: the fbi still trying to figure out why the gunman drove here. was it by happenstance or did he or his wife have some kind of a connection to the kren iscensus bureau? in suitland, megan mthcgrak, news 4. we've learned nover night the suspect had surgery in stable condition. p happening now h street is open. take a walk with me. check out this corridor eighth street between 11th and 12th north d.c., where it all went down last night. a shooting suspect, a kiss napd be suspect, that chases in front of a taylor sandwich shop that

rattled this community includeing some of the local business owners. i talked to one right here at madison cleaners. >> somebody shooting seeing the car, something like that. oh my goodness. i'm very scared. >> reporter: it wasn't that long ago this part of town was known for a little violence but things changed, of course. this street car line runs through here. not far away from union station, known as kind of a hipster part of down now. lots of places to hang out, have drinkses grab dinner. certainly what happened last night shook up folks in this part of town. reporting for news 4, zachary kiesch. >> we will follow the developments on this story throughout the day. we've been sending you alerts throughout this situation as well and will continue to push out updates from our nbc washington app. and right now we have just low clouds around temperatures that are near 50 degrees. showers advancing east. don't have any thunder or lightning with them now but later in the day we may.

50 as reagan national. lorre, 72. warm air shenandoah east of the mountains, low clouds keeping it from warming much. fredericksburg at 54. 46 around baltimore. new times showing a few isolated thundershowers by 2:00 p.m. north and west of the metro area. then a few popping up to our south around 3:00 or 4:00 in southern maryland could get strong storms. charles county calvert, st. mary's and the northern neck. this is as of 4:00 p.m. after that they quickly move off to the eastern shore. still pretty strong storm there's. most of it done in the metro area by around 5:00. minimal impact moving through and a beautiful weekend to follow. near 70 saturday and sunday with sunshine. that's wait it looks. >> all right. we have a happy update on a local group of students who were nearly robbed literally, of a chance to compete in the world robotics competition. the team had just won a regional competition in tennessee when the school suv was stolen with

the robot and equipment inside. the team now tells us a new robot has been built, and is ready to go. so they'll get to compete after all. and today, a first is about to open in montgomery county and you might enjoy it if you want to switch up your workout. rockin' jump is what it's called a trampoline park that opens in gaithersburg today. ideal for gymnasts skate boarders and snowboarders too, they say. also basketball courts are there. a balance beam maybe a couple of them, and an air bag, too, and parents waiting to pick up their kids there are massage chairs for you. doors om at 3:00 on woodfield road. >> i like the massage chairs. ever had a pet especially as a little child a toddler, you know they're more than just a pet. it's hard to say good-bye. one little boy decided to hold a funeral for a very special fish.

>> what are you going to do with him? >> this video viral of this toddler having to flush his pet goldfish after the boy says good-bye to his friend he gets really emotional. sort of starts not sort of. look at that. >> so sad. >> started crying until his mom gave him a hug. this clip viewed more than 400,000 times on youtube. >> did that ever happen to you? >> i had a fish in third grade. >> flushed it when it died? same thing. >> a hard day. i remember that. >> funny. we've all been through that. from birthdays to divorces a gift registry for just about everything these days. after the break, taking a look at why those

good morning with your cnbc business headlines i'm landon doupdy. the first time you can go to the

apple store and try out the apple watch but can't walk out with one, only preorders online expecting strong demand when the watch goes on sale april 24th. fortune recording nearly all sports models sold out none available to ship before june. spending $38 million on tv ads for the watch since first shown off last month. a little less than it spent on the iphone 6 over the past five months. back to you. >> thank you. are you suffering from registry resentment? feel pressured into buying gifts? if you hear the word registry you may think of a wedding, baby shower but now it seems the online wish list is expanding to just about any occasion. websites such as my registry.com allows users to create a list for any occasion from birthdays to divorces. now etiquette experts are saying this may be causing rechsty resentment. >> one should never include that information on the invitation. those occasions are to celebrate

with friends and they're about the friends and the guests and not about the gifts. >> they say it's proper etiquette to bring a gift to a celebration, but it's up to you what you bring. >> rechsgistry is like you're begging every time you have an event. >> and wonder if people notice? if they've asked for five plates and you give them one does it mean anything? sure it does but -- you don't feel like it's so special. >> i wonder. the fallout over a violent arrest in california involving a horse. next.

disturbing. that is how california officials are describing this video showing a violent arrest. deputies caught on camera repeatedly kick and punching a suspect. nbc's tony shinn has more on the internal investigation into whether this is police brutality. 's. >> reporter: news chopper 4 caught up with francis pusok after deputies say he stole a horse from a group of people to try and get away.

>> a deputy chasing him. deputy fell down. >> reporter: once on the ground you can see a deputy fire his taser. pusok is lying face down. you see him put his hands behind his back. another deputy arrives and both deputies punch and kick him. the 30-year-old apple valley man continues to get punched and kicked as more deputies gets to the scene. we count the a total of 11 deputies and during the two-minute-long beating it appears pusok was punched 37 times. kicked 17 times. and struck with a baton 4 times. 13 of those blows were to his head. >> obviously it's disturbing. >> reporter: the sheriff told us he only saw part of the nbc 4 video, but it was enough tore to take immediate action launching internal and criminal investigations. >> i'm not sure if there was a struggle going on with the suspect. appears there was in the early parts of the video. what happens afterwards i'm not

sure of but we will investigate it thoroughly. >> reporter: two deputies treated for dehydration and another injured after being kicked by a horse during the pursuit. >> main focus on deputies who were dehydrated. >> the sheriff comes out makes comments oh my god, dehydrated. from what? running out of steam beating the man? this is outrageous. >> reporter: still, sheriff mcmahon says if any deputies went too far in this arrest they will be held accountable. >> and if there's any misconduct on the behalf or part of our deputy sheriffs we will deal with that appropriately. >> tony shinn reporting. now to something we're working on here at news 4. feeling like spring and you may be tempted to open the windows and let a little cool air in posing an overlooked afrd. hows of children fall out of windows resulting in serious if not deadly outcomes. tonight on "new4 at 5:00," consumer reporter erika gonzalez giving parents two options for an inexpensive fix giving peace

of mind and also could save your child's life. puts a kibosh on severe weather here but still a chance to the south. getting showers now coming into west virginia advancing off to the east. but into areas just south of us where the temperatures may reach the low to mid-70s here on the metro area upper 60s near 70. maybe an isolated thundershower coming through bought greater chance of some storms severe in kurn maryland northern neck towards fredericksburg and charlottes ville late afternoon. overnight tonight, clearing out. tomorrow beautiful day with sunshine in upper 60s. gorgeous day sunday. a little wind on saturday. lighter wind sunday. great into next week. maybe a little shower around on tuesday. have a great weekend. >> nice. ready for the weekend? >> i so am ready. you have no idea. >> i guess you are. that is "news4 midday." >> news at 4:00 5:00 and 6:00 this afternoon news throughout the weekend and don't forget to join us monday morning at 11:00 a.m. with "news4 midday." have a drafk day and you have a

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. the club forwarded me a call a little while ago. it's from the florida bureau of investigation and it appears they were looking for a guy by the name of kevin reynolds. now, the description sounded an awful lot like you. okay, so why did they talk to you about it and not sonny? he's the manager. yeah, well, after what happened at the benefit last night, i wanted to give sonny some space so i just--i told the staff to notify me with any problems. i mean, do youant to know what i told them, or...? so i said that i've been away and that i'm not involved with the business anymore and that there was absolutely nothing i could do to help them. are you saying you lied for me? the only good thing about you leaving the force is i finally won the football pool. what--