now at 11:00, panic in washington. a postal worker sparks a lockdown after landing a gyrocopter on the u.s. capitol lawn. we have new details about the pilot and the message he wanted to deliver to congress.

plus metro station closed. the bridge collapse that could cause a lot of headaches on your way to work in the morning. and the search for possible victims after a local police officer is accused of having child pornography. >> "news4 at 11" starts now. >> first at 11:00, a security scare at the center of washington, d.c. a gyrocopter flew into highly restricted airspace and landed right outside the u.s. capitol. >> tonight we're learning more about that pilot. why his landing wasn't exactly a surprise and new details now about his 100-mile journey from gettysburg pennsylvania to the nation's capitol. >> the pilot is a florida mail carrier. he flew here to deliver a message about campaign finance reform. >> news4'she capitol with more on this frightening day. chris? >> reporter: jim, doreen we learned that doug hughes was so passionate about this issue and so public about this plan that he had, secret service agents

came to his house in florida and interviewed him extensively a year and a half ago. it's still a shocking sight. a man flying low over the national mall, headed straight for the u.s. capitol. >> this is not video shows doug hughes had been hatching this plot since 2013. >> i have carefully planned it so that nobody >> reporter: he practiced flying the gyrocopter. >> i'm not suicidal. and i'm not going to commit suicide. and i'm not going to fly into any monuments. >> reporter: and he understood the risks. >> no sane person would do what i'm doing. >> reporter: but hughes trusted the same federal government he was protesting would save him. >> i don't believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60-year-old mailman in a flying bicycle. >> reporter: on friday hughes loaded it on to a trailer in florida and started towing it to pennsylvania the next day. the minute he hit the front lawn of the capitol, police were

waiting. >> move back this way! >> reporter: streets blocked off, the building locked down, and hughes handcuffed. [ siren ] earlier tonight police and federal agents surrounded the airport in gettysburg, confiscating the truck he used to get his aircraft within an hour's flight of the capitol. so again, what we have learned tonight basically is that hughes is locked up here in d.c. and that even though the secret service agents knew of him and of his plan as far back as a year and a half ago, they say they were not alerted that he was on his way here and on his way right here behind me to the u.s. capitol. reporting live on capitol hill chris lawrence news4. back to you. developing tonight, fairfax county police looking for potential victims after arresting their own public information officer on charges of child pornography. officer bud walker is charged tonight with possessing and the

intent to distribute child porn. walker has been a spokesman for fairfax county police for the last six years. investigators were led to walker by a tip from a blogging site. according to police that cite said child porn had been uploaded to its servers from a home in fairfax county. officers determined that home was owned by walker. >> this matter is disappointing to all of us including all of the members of the fairfax county police department who put their lives on the line each and every shift. >> now walker was also a school resource officer at south county high school from 2006 to '09. he is being held tonight without bond. and now emergency work is under way after a pedestrian bridge collapsed right on to some metro tracks. the repairs mean the greenbelt metro station will be closed during tomorrow morning's commute. shomari stone is live in berwyn heights with details. shomari? >> reporter: i must say this has been a mess all evening long.

metro crews are behind me and they are taking the steps to remove this concrete and do their best to fix this situation. let me move right out the way. you can see crews right over there. and what they're doing is lifting up that concrete that is on the tracks. keep in mind the track is also damaged. and right now they're going to have to do what they can to fix it. many riders tell me they're not looking forward to tomorrow morning's commute. sparks fly after a metro mess in berwyn heights, maryland as crews cut through a fence. it was attached to a pedestrian bridge. that's until the bridge collapsed on the tracks below. >> it was a big loud boom. >> reporter: elijah heard the rail crane crash into the bridge around 3:00 this evening. >> i was like wow, that's kind of crazy. >> reporter: the 40 to 50-foot-long concrete collapsed on the green line tracks. the operator works for scanska, a metro contractor. he was working on the new 7,000 series metro test track, lifting rocks out of this container and

dumping them in between the tracks. why did he hit this pedestrian bridge? he had one job? >> we don't have the answer to this yet. the representatives from the contract canner scanska are here. >> reporter: what do you think happened? any idea? have you seen this before? >> i've never seen this before. but we're still try tog figure out exactly what happened. >> free shu greenbelt. >> reporter: free shuttle buses to the greenbelt station on the green line. service is suspended. your commute should take an extra 30 minutes. >> well it's frustrating. >> reporter: while crews work to remove the concrete they're relieved no one was hurt. green line is suspended between college park and greenbelt. and it's important to figure out will this still be a problem tomorrow around afternoon time or even tomorrow morning's evening commute? well that's why the spokesperson for metro is going to give us an update tomorrow morning. live here i'm shomari stone, back to you in the studio. >> thanks. just in a deadly shooting.

police found a man with multiple gunshot wounds near central avenue. he was pronounced dead on the scene. police tell us this doesn't appear to be a random act of violence. right now detectives are trying to identify the suspects. new security changes coming to the white house. the plans are expected to get under way tomorrow. news4 i-team scott macfarlane broke the story on twitter. this is in response to a frightening incident where a man made it over the fence and into the white house before he was stopped. plans call for half-inch steel spikes to be added to the top of the fence. the commission of fine arts has to sign off on the changes. that's expected to happen tomorrow. a former secret service agent says extra line of defense is crucial. >> the defense is clearly inadequate. it's too easy. we had a 40-year-old iraq war veteran with bad legs bad knees make it over and make it into the east room. if that's not a wake-up call. >> a national capital planning

commission is expected to approve the plan next month. a check on our weather now. doug says we need to get our umbrellas out again. what? doug? >> maybe not just yet. but you're going to need them over the next couple of days, that's for sure. a little bit of an unsettled weather pattern making its way through. you saw the cloud cover today. the rain stayed down to the south. take a look at the high temperatures across the region. 68 degrees today in d.c. 65 camp springs. 64 in leesburg. those are around the average high temperatures for this time of year. and i think we have a very similar day during the day tomorrow. look at the rain. just down to our south. we have high pressure to the north. keeping that rain to the south. but over the next couple of day that rain does try to come in here really by the next 24 hours. i'll show you hen the rain moves in how many of the next couple of days actually have the rain and when will you need that umbrella plus the best day we've seen in seven months? got that forecast too, coming up. >> all right, thank you, doug. new at 11:00 tonight, disturbing claims on the anthrax attacks that gripped our region and the entire country. a former director of the fbi's

anthrax investigation is accusing the agency now of concealing evidence on who was really responsible. army scientist bruce ivins killed himself in 2008 as prosecutors prepared to charge him with murder. anthrax-filled letters killed five people and made 17 others sick in 2001. richard lampert has filed a civil lawsuit saying the fbi is hiding evidence that casts doubt on whether ivins sent the letters. the fbi says it does not comment on pending litigation. a man convicted of preying on other men he met at beer pong tournaments will live out his life in jail. joey poindexter was sentenced to 150 years in prison today. e men over the past decade. but prosecutors believe there may be as many as 20 other victims. based on video and photos poindexter recorded of the attacks. tonight a montgomery county teenager is apologizing after

admitting he spray painted a swastika on a synagogue. sebastian espinoza-carranza was one of several masked people caught on camera here painting "hitler" and "kkk" on the building last week. he says he is not racist and this was just a stupid joke. members of the shaare torah in gaithersburg were disturbed by this vandalism. the rabbi there says he plans to speak with the 18-year-old at some point. >> i want to really apologize to the jewish community and to everybody. because even my friends are probably disappointed from what i've done. >> carranza is charged with property damage to a religious institution. he is already under investigation for how he spent campaign funds. now a former illinois congressman is facing a lawsuit from a former supporter. chicago lawyer howard foster is suing aaron schock to force him to repay millions in campaign contributions. foster only donated $500 but says thousands of others donated

much more. believing shock was a, quote, breath of fresh air. shock resigned after coming under fire for how he financed travel and for a renovation of his capitol hill office that was very pricey. well the caps begin their quest for a stanley cup on a sour thought tonight, dropping their opening game in the first round of play-offs. news4's carol maloney at the verizon center life. so carol, what went wrong tonight? >> so many things jim weft don't have time this segment. we'll talk about it a little later coming up in sports. but we do want to talk about how everyone was left feeling disappointed. maybe that's not even strong enough a word. frustrate, sickened, high hopes again, and they were shattered. of course we are to remember that it is a best of seven series. take a look at the play of the game. so much talk before the game about these two guys john and alex ovechkin. it was tavares with the game's big play-off the face-off. he had found ryan strom.

quick strike score and puts the islanders up 2-1. and that's all they would need. caps unable to get much going on offense, and they would drop game one of the series 4-1. the best part about play-off hockey though you get to move on and you get to do it in a hurry. the caps are going to have to regroup when they come back here on friday for game two. we'll have the reaction coming up a little later on in sports. go on the list jim, about everything that went wrong. >> all right. thanks carol. >> thanks carol. still ahead, it's a new crime fighting tool and d.c. police could soon take to the skies with them. only on news4, the drones that could soon preserve crime scenes in the district. plus, a virginia mother's outrage after she learned a teacher's aide hit her autistic son. and listen up terps. why you could soon buy beer at bird stadium. we're just getting started. four yirs 4 traffic. 94 south right lane shu

d.c. police are considering using drones to preserve crime scenes before they're contaminated. law enforcement officials from across the country visited d.c.'s forensic science office in southwest today. the group watched a drone that can create 3-d, 360-degree images. this device costs about $65,000. the drone could also be used by security officers to map out routes like inaugural parades and public gatherings looking for security weak spots. a former teacher's aide from virginia is in trouble tonight, accused of hitting special needs

students on the school bus. peggy jordan is charged now with two counts of assault and battery. she worked for colonial heights public schools, which is near petersburg. one mother who didn't want her face on camera said the teachers aide struck her 7-year-old son who is severely autistic. >> to strike a child who does not have the ability to communicate should never be the reaction. >> jordan no longer works for the school system, and the district tells us it's now reviewing its policy. you might be able to buy a beer at a maryland football game this fall. the university is considering selling alcohol at athletic events starting with the fall sports season. the idea stemmed from a student proposal. there would be limits. only a certain number of drinks could be purchased at one time. and sales would be stopped before the end of the game. the proposal has to be approved by the president first.

some of you are ready for a day off tomorrow in honor of emancipation day in the district. it celebrates the day slavery bake illegal in d.c. it's a city government holiday. that means some bars will remain open until 4:00 tomorrow morning since this is a recognized holiday. and tomorrow thousands of people will celebrate with a parade down pennsylvania avenue. the emancipation day parade kicks off at freedom plaza at 11:00 a.m. the festivities continue with a concert from 4:30 to 8:30 in the evening. a fireworks display will cap off the events at 8:45. so the night is young right now. >> with all that going on tomorrow is the weather going to cooperate? >> yeah, i think so. we're looking at a dry day. we're going to see a lot of cloud cover. but just like today. if you enjoy today, temperatures around the average for this time of year 67 68. some cloud cover. i think we'll get that tomorrow. with the clouds i think the fireworks display could be that much better. kind of cool. take a look out there right now. also kind of cool. we are still lit up down there

in pink as we continue across our region. take a look at the numbers across our area. actually it's purple for autism. 60 degrees. the winds are calm. we have mostly cloudy skies. and we continue to see those clouds streaming on in across our region. 52 degrees in leesburg. already down to 48 in frederick. 48 down towards pawtuxet river. a rather cool night tonight. it's going to stay on the cool side through tomorrow morning. no rain no thunderstorms, no snow around the region. i think we can say goodbye for good to the snow. the thunderstorms, though they're next. but not too close. satellite radar showing the rain down to the south. and watch what happened here earlier today. we had rain moving towards our area. and start to shift back to the south. that's because of an area of high pressure off to the north, driving in some dryer air. and that really helped to shut that moisture down to the south. area of low pressure though remains down here. so we will continue to watch that moisture being pumped in. that's why i think we'll see cloud cover tomorrow. future weather, depicts cloud cover across the region as i

mentioned. that's 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. here is 5:00 tomorrow afternoon. and we still have the clouds. but we're dry. and i think we'll stay dry through the overnight period. we will see a few showers overnight tonight, in towards friday. notice friday morning, we're dry for the most part. but then we see a chance of showers developing during the afternoon. if we get some sunshine on friday one, we could really warm up. two, we could see some of these showers become a little bit stronger. look around 6:00 7:00. the showers entering the region. you may need the umbrella on friday. not anticipating a lot of rain. and if you do see a shower it's going to be a quick mover. tomorrow impact travel looking good exercise great all day. good for that if you're heading to the festivities downtown. everybody on the green sigh. high temperatures tomorrow 66 in gaithersburg. 70 in fredericksburg. 67 up towards frederick. a nice mild afternoon. i think we'll see a little more sun than we saw out there on our wednesday. on friday mostly cloudy a 40% chance of showers. we've got a high of 73 during the day on friday. saturday is the day, a great

day, a high of 76. and the best weekend day we've seen since the end of september. so we're talking a long time. 76 on saturday looks great. sunday we're watching too. 65 degrees on sunday. could see falling temperatures with rain moving in late sunday into the day on monday. and we could be seeing a lot of rain on sunday night into monday. maybe over an inch in some locations. just like we saw during the day yesterday. so heads up for that. we are looking at better conditions though next week. and the one thing we're not seeing, there is no more 30s out there. there is no more highs in the 40s. >> well, there is something to be happy about. >> finally. >> thank you, doug. up next tonight, the reaction from the caps' locker ro

this is the xfinity sports desk brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. >> tough and frustrating game one. carol? >> such high hopes. >> i got my list ready. >> all right. break it to us. >> how much time do i get? >> we don't want that much time. >> i will break it down. so they were outhustled outshot, they were outplayed. and honestly, it was the islanders' speed that shocked them made them a little nervous to start the game. they did hand out these rally towels. everyone in the arena had them. they were waving them for the comeback. now they have a use for them after because they were a little bit sad. and they're sweating out the series. game one, islanders and caps. rocking the red. they wanted that caps victory. first period they fall behind

1-0. but brooks good hustle play. he rips a shot past jaroslav. tied at one and the home crowd on their feet, waving those towels. but second period off the face-off trouble for the caps. ryan strome high heat to beat brayden holtby. if you blinked, you probably missed it. islanders take a 2-1 lead. the islanders, they were applying some pressure. holtby with a good save. but the second effort by josh bailey gets it over the line. take another look. it's now 3-1 after that. heartbreaking. caps give up an empty netter and they lose it 4-1. already putting this behind them though and looking forward to game two. >> it's how you respond after a disappointment. that's to me that shows a lot of about your team. so we've generally all year responded with good efforts when we haven't had our best effort. >> we didn't play well. we need to play better. that's it. park this one.

get back to practice tomorrow, and come with a better effort next game. >> we can't afford to fall down 2-0, especially going into their building. we have to have a good effort in game two. we have to prepare, watch a little bit of video tomorrow, make our adjustments and be ready for game two. >> game two less than 48 hours away right here at verizon center on friday night. nba. the bulls won tonight. and why that's important to us is that means that the wizards are in the play-offs. and they're going to play the toronto raptors on saturday. that will be their game one. tonight they're closing out the regular season versus the cleveland cavaliers. and they were anything but cavalier about this one. even though it was a meaningless game, they were playing for pride. and they wanted momentum as they prep for the play-offs. randy whitman must be happy with the effort. late fourth quarter, wiz down 2. sends the game to overtime. but in ot down by three, martel webster, pass intercepted by shawn marion, going the other

way, finishes with authority. cleveland wins the meaningless game 113-108. to the diamond. nats and red sox. nats taking part in a moment of silence for boston marathon bombing victims. the theme at fenway park was boston strong. but it was the nats showing some muscle finally. top three, wilson ramos breaking the game open. bases loaded for him. and he rips the pitch into the left field corner. goes all the way to the wall. and three runs would score. part of a six-run, third ining for the nats. they go on to win it. did they need it. the nats 3-6 on the season. to camden yards. baseball's other big tribute today, honoring jackie robinson for breaking the game's color barrier. bottom six, tied at three. delmon young at the plate. he is going to pull the pitch into left field. run is coming home and so is the throw. but it's not even close. o's go up 3-4. next batter davis. going to rip into it the left

center field gap. part of a five-run ining for the birds. they go on to win it by a final score of 7-5. so the o's, they head to boston for their series starts on friday. nats back at home tomorrow. they're going to host the phillies. caps have to regroup by also friday night. it's going to be rocking here again. and they believe they can get bag on track. from verizon center, carol maloney. back to you guy. >> thank you, carol. >> people have a time to destroy

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