a lot of folks are hoping the ride home will be easier than the ride in. many metro passengers spilled on to streets after a report of smoke between the rosalyn and foggy bottom stations. >> what a mess. caused parts of the orange blue and silver lines to shut down altogether. in the heart of the morning rush hour. #wmat became a worldwide trending topic this morning as people took to twitter to find out what was going on. >> transportation reporter adam tuss is in rosalyn with what caused the mess and what is happening right now. adam? >> reporter: pat, one of those mornings on metro and it happened at the worst possible spot the choke point between virginia and d.c. take a look. the rosalyn station open. orange blue silver line trains running again. this whole thing started around 8:00 this morning when metro got a call about smoke in the tunnel between the rosalyn and foggy bottom stations. this is a long tunnel under the potomac river.

crews had to walk far into that tunnel to the middle in fact before they found the sparking that was causing the smoke and then they had to replace the insulators smoking. by that point, the damage was done leaving riders stranded for hours and some said they weren't given clear directions on what to do. communication, what would you rate? poor? >> zero. a negative zero. like they incompetent. everything is disorganized. it's just -- just hectic. >> reporter: now, coming up at 5:00, can you actually get a refund if you were stuck in that mess? jim, back to you. >> all right. adam thank you. metro sent an apology to riders this afternoon for, quote, significant delays crowding and inconvenience. it went on to say for your safety both tracks were taken out of service while appropriate fire department personnel along with metro response crews investigated and rectified the issue. we established limited shuttle

bus service as an alternative. despite these alternatives we know that many of you experienced extremely long crowded trips. >> and that apology was too little too late for a lot of folks. us from frags frustration boiled over. many tried to push their way on to already packed shuttle buses. >> i can't get near them buses because the people are pushing to get in them. i have bad legs and bad back. i can hardly move there to get to the location. >> some of the folks who couldn't get on to buses walked across the key bridge to get into the city. others turned to uber for rides and found search prices nearly five times the usual fares. breaking news out of rockville, maryland. chopper 4 over a construction site here on south lawn lane where emergency crews are treating people overcome by

carbon monoxide. ambulance already taken at least one person to the hospital. that initial call reported nine people sick. now to a developing story in prince georges county this evening. sheriff's deputies shot and killed a man and were just learning some of the details. the shooting happened overnight on naly ride near fed-ex field. but owe chief tracey wilkins spoke with the family. >> reporter: they're saying at the end of the day it apeerls a domestic dispute that spun completely out of control. let us show you the man shot and killed here last night. 34-year-old lionel young. evidently according to sheriffs and police investigating this incident they say that this man got into an argument with his girlfriend outside of his mother's home. she then evidently drove away from him. he at some point rammed the vehicle according to sheriff's deputies. she called 911 and they told her

to go somewhere safe. she picked a shopping center nearby and what happened was a police chase that went into d.c. landover. they finally cornered this guy at an elementary school middle school here in prince georges county and he tried ramming the sheriff's deputies vehicles according to sheriff's deputies. that led to them firing their weapon and they said that they were dealing with a violent man. >> our people are aware and being communicated that this is a violent confrontation by a lawless individual right from the beginning, you know somebody who would threaten the life of a loved one, our people are aware of this and they're listening to the communications and then their own observations of his behavior at the scene confirmed that in fact he's a violent person. >> reporter: coming up on news 4 at 5:00 we are going to hear from family members of this victim or the man who was shot and killed by sheriff's deputies and what will happen next in the

ongoing investigation. reporting live outside of police headquarters tracey wilkins, back do you in the studio. >> thank you. there's a desperate search under way right now in van, texas, for people missing after a tornado overnight killed two. eight people are still unaccounted for. the storm injured 26 damaged a third of the town and knocked out power to half the town. another tornado left a deadly mark on nashville, arkansas. that storm killed a young couple in their mobile home. the young child survived. two others were critically hurt. i'm wendy reiger. george zimmerman just out of the hospital after being injured in florida today. an attorney for him says the former neighborhood watch volunteer was sprayed with glass when a bullet hit the window of his truck in lake mar are i, fl. injuries are nigh nor. we don't know what led to that shooting. zimmerman you may recall was

acquitted in the shooting death of trayvon martin in 2013 and arrested twice after his girlfriend accused him of assaulting her. his girlfriend recanted both those times and he was never charged. at the live desk i'm wendy reiger. police say whoever killed a rockville couple may have broken into the window. a family member found dick and jody valarto dead at their home yesterday. they didn't show up for a mother's day get together. still no word won a possible motive or suspects. turning now to the weather, we are using the #hot and humid day. let's get to storm 4 meteorologist veronica johnson tracking thunderstorms. vj? >> we don't like it one bit. and in terms of storm team 4 radar, we are seeing some showers now on radar. any thunderstorms just outside, well outside of our area. let's show you what i'm tracking here.

first a look at ana, what's left of it. remnants leftovers, all kind of sliding up and off the coast. look at that swirl, turning motion. that is ana. you can see the clouds clipping our areas. southern maryland. half of the area in the clouds there's some sunshine. and then off to the west weather front advancing toward our area. it is bringing some showers, even a few isolated thunderstorms to the high spots, to the mountains right now. petersburg west of i-81. any shower activity right now around areas of northern ann arundel area. and the south, maryland and northern neck. temperatures in the 80s. i'll show you when we get a chance to cool off and get back to spring around here. first at 4:00 we are hearing from uber this afternoon after a woman was kidnapped and assaulted by a man with a uber sticker on the car. this is one of the most read

stories today on our facebook page. the assault happened around 2:45 sunday morning near 11th and g streets northeast. the woman said the driver tried to sexually assault her. then refused to let her go. uber is looking into the report and offered to help police. the d.c. firefighter who died while on duty will be laid to resz on friday. lieutenant kevin mccray collapsed here on 7th street northwest. a public viewing is friday followed by the funeral. he'll be buried in brentwood, maryland. he joinled the department back in 1989 and was the 100th district firefighter to die in the line of duty. traffic is moving again along the interloop of the beltway in prince georges county. late this morning, a dump truck spilled a big load of sand on the road between the green belt metro. that backed up traffic for

several miles. the driver was injured. no word yet on what caused that accident. a bumpy landing. first at 4:00 what caused an airplane's wing to come slamming down on to the runway today. and the major road project that just kicked off in northern virginia. a busy evening. we're just getting started.

a nervous emergency landing ended with a united express plane disabled on a runway in

los angeles today. the pilot did get the plane down and stopped it without any of the 43 passengers or crew being injured. no word on what caused the problem with the landing gear. be prepared for road construction driving pretty much anywhere along route 28 in morn virginia. projects kicked off today from loudon county to manassas. route 28 widened through sterling boulevard to the dulles toll road and hot spot improvements will be made there. fairfax county northbound lanes widened from mclaren road to dulles toll road and southbound lanes will be widened from the toll route to route 50. prince william county lynnton hall road to inventory hill road with sidewalks and trails added and the road from four to six lanes from godwin drive -- are you getting all this -- south to manassas city limits. construction will be completed in about two years.

get used to it. two police officers gunned down in mississippi. first at 4:00 new information about what led up to the attack. and the charges just fild against the suspects. plus the catholic nun who's trying to save the boston marathon bomber's life.

right now at 4:15 some major developments in some big stories we are following. >> wendy is at the live desk tracking all three for us. >> let's start in mississippi where four people are charged with gunning down two police officers. they just made their first court appearance. marvin banks and jody galloway are charged with capital murder in the deaths of hattiesburg officers benjamin deen and liquori tate. those officers killed on saturday during a routine traffic stop. two other men have been charged with accessory and obstruction of justice. meanwhile in texas, this evening there's new information about the shooting outside that prophet muhammad cartoon contest last week. a fbi memo with information about one of those eventual shooters elton simpson never made it to the officers protecting that event. the police chief of garland, texas, says having that memo wouldn't have changed the response. that memo didn't contain any

information about an immediate threat. simpson and a second shooter were killed by officers outside that event. and finally in boston did defense rested in the penalty phase of the boston bombing case. they called more than 40 witnesses hoping to paint tsarnaev as aim presentationible teenager lured into this plot by his radicalized brother. >> ki tryst, family members, teachers testified hoping to save him from the death penalty. at the live desk back to you. >> thank you. we are in the hot and muggies. >> it takes another day or so to be back into spring and we're so cool around here. people wanted it warm. i know what you want. you want the warmth without the humidity. >> that's it! >> yes! and we're going to get back there by midweek. 79 right now. dew point at 68 degrees. we don't talk a lot about the dew point temperature. it is an indicator of the moisture in the air. we have put the what's the point

index up for you and rising that dew point temperature, 55 60 it starts to feel sticky. today, again, between 65 and 70. that dew point temperature so really it feels somewhere between being uncomfortable and oppressive outside and higher temperatures even worse the feel outside and talking about a higher temperature tomorrow but right now look at that. that's the swirl. that's ana, left of it. a cold front coming through. that front will help kick ana off the coast and lower the humidity but not until late tomorrow. right now dealing with the humidity and a few showers moving through the area. rotating through. these really from east to west and these approaching more areas along route 1, i-95 savage columbia. perhaps columbia getting some of the should recalls and on you future weather, the showers start to fade over the overnight period and some cloud cover across the area. overnight, early tomorrow morning, there could be a few showers off to the west around

i-95 with the weather front coming through. so call it a partly sunny day for the most part tomorrow. especially during the afternoon when we get the impact of the sun trying to allow some areas to filter through there. some of that sunshine. and then during the evening hours i think we'll see more clouds clear on out. maybe 20 to maybe 30% chance way to the east and the mountains for tomorrow. the front washes out. 64 to 70. muggy and warm to start your day. real important to know how we'll start your day because if you plan on exercising you really need to hydrate. it's going to be humid even in the early part of the day. upper 70s by 9:00 a.m. and then low to mid-80s by 11:00 a.m. that temperature topping out near 90 degrees. so we're going for 88 right now. right inside the beltway. but down i-95 stafford arlington could get close to 90

degrees tomorrow. 90 charlottesville. 89 culpepper. 89 in manassas too. here's the four-day forecast. the heat where it's really going to feel like july, that comes on strong tomorrow from the beginning to the end of the day. but then after 4:00 5:00 that's when that weather front moves through and when it moves through you're going start to feel the humidity drop and then wind. breezy tomorrow. evening late. the wind carries through to your wednesday. mostly sunny, high 70 degrees and thursday right at 72. two really good days and then the end of the week weekend, hmm, folks already want to know the weekend will be like. i'll have that coming up. >> thanks. another busy night down at the verizon center. the wizards and hawks face off in game four of their series. diana and jason live at the phone booth now. wizards face their fans are still buzzing about that last-second victory on saturday night. that was something. >> it was tremendous. it was, what two days ago and

people are talking about paul pierce hitting that buzzer beater. it was outstanding. it lifted the wizards up 2-1 and tonight they're hoping to make it three. >> the big question tonight, though john wall his status according to head coach is a game-time decision. but let's face it. he hasn't dribbled since the news came down he injured his wrist and hand a few days ago. therefore, wall highly unlikely to suit up and play tonight in game four against the hawks. he was at this morning's shoot around and did not participate. the swelling has gone down in the injured wrist and hand whitman said the recovery is headed in the right direction. wall hasn't played since game one of this series. >> we'll find out some more information as the day goes on and keep you up dated at news 4 at 5:00 and 6:00. we're live at the verizon center. back to you. >> thank you. this is no day at the beach in boston after a fight of two women soon grew to involve

dozens of people. the beach brawl that went

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instagram saying it is deeply saddened by his death and the impact of art on the city of los angeles is to found. he was 69. nine people facing disorderly conduct charges after a mother's day beach brawl. >> this happened in boston and grew from two women to more than 100 people. nbc's justin michaels has our story. >> reporter: mother's day turned into a mess on the beach. >> some crazy people throwing water at cops and everything. >> reporter: the mayor says a fight break out around 6:15 sunday night. it grew to involve between 100 and 200 people. it broke out after two women started fighting the boyfriends joined in their friends joined in and it just kept on growing. >> young kids always trying to think they're tough and bad. >> reporter: there were dozens of police cruisers surrounding the area in the moments after the fight broke and quite a

while after. >> a family place. they don't care. they don't care at all. we are used to it. >> reporter: police say people pushing and shoving and throwing bottles at each other. between ten and 12 people were arrested. >> people take the kids out. a nice day out. you know? it happens. can't do nothing about it. >> reporter: of those ten to 12 people arrested they're facing disorderly conduct charges. they're all expected to be arraigned in chelsey district court today. i'm justin michaels necn. new this afternoon, the white house pushes back on an explosive new report about the raid that killed osama bin laden four years ago. plus prince harry may have some surprising news about his new niece and why you may know more about her than he does. storm 4's monitoring showers in the area and temperatures that are going to be soaring into the r09d.

now here's a look at the top stories at 4:30. george zimmerman just got out of the after being injured at a shooting in florida today. an attorney for him says the former neighborhood volunteer watch commander was sprayed with glass when a bullet hit the

window of his truck in lake mary florida. he suffered minor injuries. be prepared for road construction if you'll be driving anywhere on or near route 28 in northern virginia. improvement projects kick off today from loudon county all the way through the city of manassas. and i'm wendy rieger. more than eight hours after metro shut down three lines this morning, the transit agency said there could be delays for the ride home because the system is recovering from morning's upheavel. trains are once again running in both directions right now on the orange and blue and silver lines between foggy bottom and clairton. and arlington cemetery. the problem was in the middle of a tunnel that was under the

potomac river and they had to walk in to fix it. but the suspended service forced thousands to find another often more expensive way to get to work. metro did release a statement apologizing for the delays and the ins convenience and said the lines were shut down for the safety of passengers. back to you. this man is wanted coming up in the shooting of a good samaritan yesterday. the victim tried to intervene in an argument of jesse najera and a woman. he shot the man in the arm and leg and took off. this is video from chopper 4 over the scene of a horrible crash in brandywine this afternoon and we have just learned the driver died. it happened on route 301 near shelton hamm veterans cemetery. the driver hit a tree on the side of the road. the virginia woman who promoted islamic state extremism

on facebook is heading to prison soon. a judge sentenced heather caffman to four years in prison. she lied about supporting the group. she posted many messages on facebook and tried to help a man get to syria to train with fighters. prosecutors portrayed her as a serious jihadist. her attorneys say she was just gullible and immature. the police chief in garland, texas, is trying to set the record straight about reports the fbi warned the department that two isis gunmen would target a controversial art exhibit. a week ago sunday two men armed opened fire outside of the exhibit. both gunmen were killed. last week fbi director said his agency sent police a bulletin with a picture of one of the gunmen and information stating that he was interested in the exhibit. >> no one from the fbi, from any

other law enforcement agency had any information to connect anyone to a potential threat to this event here in garland. >> police chief mitch bates said the bulletin is one of many the department receives on a regular basis and made no specific mention of the garland event. a mother's day shooting in cleveland leaves a man dead and a pregnant woman fighting for her life. a total of five people shot last night on cleveland's west side. one victim died at the scene. the rest were rushed to hospitals. all of them in critical condition. there's no word yet on what started that violence. love marriage and babies? prince harry opens up about life after leaving the military. it's a revealing confession. and critics call it a recipe for disaster. first at 4:00 why a business owner says his, quote, white appreciation day, is a misunderstanding. and storm team 4 is tracking some thunderstorms.

>> really some showers showing up on radar still right now. all from ana making the way up the coast. and off the coast. warm and humid but tomorrow hot and humid. we're waiting for an air mass change. i'll show you when it comes and how low the temperatures will drop.

we are tracking reaction to an explosive new allegation regarding the raid that killed osama bin laden four years ago

this month. >> the white house and cia tonight are rejecting a report that claims a massive cover-up involving years of collaboration with the pakistani government. steve handlesman live on capitol hill now. >> reporter: it's a blockbuster if it's true. the question is is it true? it's written by seymour hersh, once one of america's most esteemed investigative journalist. won a pulitzer in 1970. and the decades that have followed he's worked for smaller and smaller publications and come under fire frequently for allegedly using too small a number of unnamed sources, even though the editors for most of the publications say they have done the background work. they have checked hersh out and he's for real on all these stories. now, comes this one which hersh admits he has a single source for. somebody described by hersh as a

senior intelligence officer who hersh reports says that pakistanis were not in the dark about osama bin laden hanging out for years and they knew and they worked with the americans to take him out. to stare embarrassment knowing that this could be a raid for s.e.a.l. team 6 or something like that they got president obama allegedly to agree that he would report that bin laden had been killed in a drone strike so it wouldn't be revealed that u.s. soldiers were on the ground if pakistan. and according to the hersh story when the helicopter went bad, the s.e.a.l. team 6 had to destroy it. it was a stealth new model helicopter. didn't want in it hostile hands. it became obvious to everyone that american forces had been on the ground in pakistan. that president obama broke another alleged part of the agreement to wait a week and came out the motive says hersh's sources to make himself look

good the pthd and reveal it and say it was a u.s. operation 100%. today, the reaction is what the president said this month in 2011 is exactly true then and now. that it was an entirely secret u.s. operation pulled off the way president obama described it. jim and pat, back to you. >> steve. they are the people who do your manicures and pedicures. a recent report in "the new york times" says they're some of the most exploited workers in the nation. in new york, governor cuomo is creating a special task force to investigate. among the concern, workers forced to work long hours and low wages and exposed to toxic chemicals at work. the owner of a colorado barbecue joint is feeling the heat today after offering a discount to white customers only.

edgar antolin planned a white appreciation day back in june. he is originally from mexico and says all americans need to be honored and supposed to happen next month. white customers would get a 10% discount off the meal. the promotion went viral thrust thrusting him into the national spotlight and folks outraged. now and he says everyone will get that discount. here's what he told reporters before and after the online firestorm. >> i wouldn't get a discount. even if i came in i wouldn't get a discount. we are not backtracking or clarifying anything. this was the intention from the beginning. >> civil rights leaders in the area called the discount absurd. one state agency says if someone believes the discount is discriminatory they can file a complaint with state's civil rights division. prince harry is wrapping up his military career and in a new interview he says he's at a cross roads. harry is currently on an

official tour of new zealand. in june he'll leave the british army n. an interview of sky newses, he says he is not sure what's next career-wise. as far as love and marriage are concerned, he says those things can't be forced and will happen when they're supposed to happen. he did say he'd love to have children. he also said he has not seen any news coverage of the birth of his his niece arriving after he left for a month-long military exchange in australia. >> two photos one before everyone else which was nice and then another one with her back with george at home. so i'm so looking forward to seeing her, to meeting her and holding her. she was a little bit late and so i missed her. so she'll have to work on that. apart from that no fantastic news for both of them so i'm thrilled. >> he charmed students and staff at a remote school in new zealand. a student asked what he calls queen elizabeth. he said i call her granny.

he said i don't own a crown. flood, hail and a line of tornadoes, a weekend of severe weather leaves behind a trail of destruction. we're live from one of the hardest hit spots. and the verdict is just in. is starbucks responsible for a police officer's hot

right now in our newsroom working to learn more details

about a person struck and killed by a freight train today when the mark train station here in college park. hey, at this point, police have not released the victim's name or said what they may have been doing on the tracks. and in just a couple of hours, the baltimore orioles will host a reopening day of sorts as the team kicks off nine home games in a row. tonight's game will be the first that fans can attend since last month's riots. they are still searching for the missing in van, texas, where deadly tornado tore up at least one third of the small town overnight. >> it's just the latest in a string of violent storms that have ripped across the nation's heartland in the past week. leaving people to cope be wind and flood damage. nbc's jay gray live now in van with the latest for us. jay? >> reporter: hey there. we have learned from the national weather service, the tornado that ripped through this small town an ef-3. winds of 135 to 140 miles per hour. what's that do?

let's show you. twisted metal. here you can find the shingles all over the place. splintered wood. fractured glass. it stretches for miles here and the kind of debris to find across tornado alley right now after six days of violent storms. this time the winds and water targeted north texas. >> it was all of a sudden. i mean there was nothing you could do even if you saw it coming. it was in a matter of minutes. >> reporter: just minutes for the violent storms to strike leaving behind a path of destruction that's changed lives here forever. at least two people are dead, more than 40 injured and several are still unaccounted for after a tornado ripped through the small town of van. >> approximately 30% of the city of van suffered damages. >> reporter: trees and power lines snapped, homes and businesses splintered some completely wiped away. >> it's -- this is something you only see in movies. where these homes stood and not there anymore.

>> reporter: in krum north of dallas driving rains, in some areas more than four inches an hour. too much too fast. in neighborhoods quickly swallowed by flash floods. >> it is a very eerie feeling completely out of control. you could stand there and watch everything being just taken away. >> reporter: texas national guard choppers pulled a half dozen residents to higher ground including melissa and her 5-month-old baby girl. >> i was scared but i knew she was going to be okay. >> reporter: safe on solid ground and like so many in the strike zone now dealing with the mess mother nature left behind. and, you know there's concern, more severe weather could be at the way. at the very least heavy rain expected here. that's the latest here in van, texas. back to you. >> thank you. meanwhile, for us veronica we have the heat. >> yeah. looking forward to some cooler air which is going to be making the way into our area midweek.

until then we have got get the sticky and pretty high heat and one of the warmest days this year coming up. that's tomorrow. storm team 4 radar with showers along i-95. through areas of prince georges county and anne arundel county and even eastern howard county making the way toward the west toward i-95 and route 1 and another area down here with a weather front right along i-95. bridgewater. stanton. severe thunderstorm warning until 5:15. these are making the way toward the south and east at only 10 miles per hour so pretty slow. putting down heavy rain, lightning and could produce high winds. for your evening, we could see a an occasional shower here and warm and humid. muggy conditions continue. upper 70s by 9:00 and heading down below the 80-degree mark. 72 degrees at 11:00. even early tomorrow morning, plenty muggy. look our sun rise starts before

6:00 starting tomorrow. so that's i don't know good newses right? you feel like you're making most of the day. mid-60s to 70 degrees early in the day. what kind of day will it be? heat impact forecast it's uncomfortable but on the other side of that uncomfortable and quite sticky. feeling like july. storm 4 team telling you a good day to hydrate and sport the short leaves and the short pants for the kids heading off to school and we'll need our sunglasses today, because we'll get breaks in the cloud cover i think and even more tomorrow. keeping it cool kind of day coming our way for tomorrow. wednesday, look at this high pressure moves back in. sunshine nice conditions returning to the area. very few clouds making way through the area. for wednesday, low humidity. breezy sunshine and in fact i think one of the best days out of the work week at 70 degrees for a high temperature and puts us around average, same thing on thursday. still sunny, delightful conditions hit midweek at the end of the week talking about a little bit of a chance of rain

returning to the area. here's the four-day forecast. high heat tomorrow. feeling like july. two great days coming up midweek. 70 75 degrees. at the end of the week on friday we have a chance for a shower posted as a 40% chance. the high 77. not too bad in terms of the heat and humidity. but the muggies will be returning this weekend. in fact both days will be a bit on the unsettled side. lots of clouds with showers even likely i think both days 83. 87 for our saturday as well as your sunday. and then 85. so we get a little bit of a cool off and lower humidity midweek and the front, though, of course what's left of ana up the coast and more on that coming up at 5:00. >> thank you. people in the philippines are cleaning up today after a powerful typhoon lipped through the fild. made landfall sunday packing 115-mile-a-hour winds. two men electrocuted trying to strap down a tin roof. thousands of people spent the weekend in shelters. two years ago a massive cat 5

typhoon struck the philippines killing more than 8,000 people. you could say jury poured cold water on a hot coffee lawsuit in north carolina today. a raleigh police officer sued starbucks after spilled hot coffee burned the lap and leg. in january of 2012. the officer said it aggravated the kroens disease. they ruled in favor of starbucks. lawyers produced medical records showing the officer's disease giving him problems before that coffee spill. at the live desk the medical examiner has confirmed that the death of that rockville couple is a homicide. dick and jody vallarto found dead after they didn't show up for a get together. police saying whoever killed them may have broken in through a window but investigators believe the window may have been unlocked. no suspect and no word of a

motive at this point. see you in a few minutes. a team of investigators out in rockville all day searching for clues in a double murder. here's news 4's pat collins. >> reporter: this is where it happened. this house on ridge drive in rockville. this is the place where dick and jody valarto were found murdered on mother's day. they were supposed to go to a family gathering in the morning but when they didn't show up and they didn't answer their phone, one of their children came to the house, they found dick dead outside. his wife murdered inside. now, police have been in the house all day long searching for evidence searching for clues. more details about the investigation coming up on news 4. her story famous in "dead man walking." >> a nun is doing what she can to save a convicted killer's

life. what the sister said on the stand that could spare tsarn

dramatic video from china's showing a stage collapsing with 80 people on it. this choir was rehearsing far competition on saturday when the floor suddenly gave way beneath them. they were singing for about 20

seconds when they fell. nearly 15 feet. eight people were injured and everyone survived. in the video, you can hear people screaming and running to the stage to help. an oregon mother says she and her family were kicked off a flight because of her autistic daughter. this is video of the incident. the doctor says her 15-year-old daughter became agitated during the flight because she was hungry. attendants gave the teen some food and she calmed down but a short while later the pilot announced an emergency landing. officers then escorted the family off the plane n. a statement, united airlines said the crew made the best decision for the safety and comfort of its passengers. the doctor filed a lawsuit against united. defense attorneys for the boston marathon bomber used hail mary to close out their case to save his life today. they put a well-known catholic nun on the stand in a move meant to sway jurors who are expected to begin deliberating on wednesday. here's reporter john maroney

with her testimony. >> reporter: about a dozen death penalty opponents were outside federal court while attorneys for dzhokhar tsarnaev were inside wrapping up the case trying to convince the jury to spare the life of the convicted marathon bomber. >> i hope they listen to their consciences and listen to the idea thou shall not kill. >> reporter: a leading opponent sister helen testified on behalf of the defense. she said she met with the 21-year-old tsarnaev five times at the request of his attorneys. she says tsarnaev expressed sincere remorse about the victims. she was the last witness for the defense. >> establishing to some extent the remorsefulness and a way by somebody who was extraordinarily sympathetic who has a religious background certainly is something that would likely touch the jurors. >> reporter: tsarnaev is convicted of 30 federal charges. for two years, the defense tried

to humanize aimhim and blame his brother. prosecutors have tried to convince the jury that the younger tsarnaev was a willing participant in the deadly attacked who has shown no remorse. >> we're the only industrialized country to still have capital punishment. i think that state murder is still murder. >> reporter: jurors also heard from law enforcement officials about the super max prison in colorado where dzhokhar tsarnaev were sent if not put to death. news 4 at 5:00 starts with jim and wendy. right now at 5:00 metro service just now recovering after smoke in a tunnel shuts down three different lines. confused commuters spilling out on to the streets. we sent out a breaking alert from the nbc washington app as soon as that incident began to unfold. >> and here's why things were so bad so fast. that problem area is under the to that mock river and that meant the crews had to walk

about a half a mile to get to the problem area. leading to a service shut down for more than three hours. >> our team coverage for you tonight includes megan fitzgerald who spoke with travelers and starting with transportation reporter adam tuss live at the rosslyn station. adam. >> reporter: not a great morning to start the monday morning commute. certainly not a good way to do that. the rosslyn station is up and running. normal service once again on the orange blue and silver lines but this morning, oh man, what a mess. electrical sparking like the kind even we saw here on the tracks is the reason behind the shut downs and aggravations. >> i'm just like -- >> reporter: frustrated? >> that's not even a descriptive word for what i am right now. >> reporter: specifically here's what happened. around 8:00 this morning metro got a call about smoke in the

tunnel between rosslyn and foggy bottom. that meant the orange blue and sill veer lines had to be shut down at the height of the morning rush while crews investigated. a crippling scenario for metro. >> the train came in. sat between each station 15 to 20 minutes. kicked us off at foggy bottom. >> reporter: metro saytells 4 they had to walk before they found the problem. then equipment had to be brought over from maryland to make a fix. all which took time led to this scene playing out. >> this bus is going to foggy bottom. >> two hours later, i'm still on the ground. i don't have cell phone service. >> reporter: metro said it made a fix and talking about a refund to call the customer service center. now we posted the phone number. if you want a refund on our