now at 11, back on the street. an update to a news4 exclusive. why the man who attacked six people is not behind bars tonight. losing confidence. what sources are telling us tonight about the chair of metro's board of directors and his response to calls for his

removal. a rescue caught on video. the man who ran to help a truck driver as he tried to escape a ball of fire. >> "news4 at 11" starts now. >> knew tonight, victims of a frightening attack in d.c.'s noman neighborhood are outaged for what happened to their attacker after he got arrested. >> a police report says he randomly assaulted six people. and officers told one victim that the attacker appeared to be high on synthetic drugs. jackie bensen is live with a story we reported first right here at 11. jackie? >> reporter: i got a call this morning from one of the victims of wednesday's attack. she says a friend, who was with her at the time says she thought she saw the man arrested walking in this neighborhood yesterday. it turns out she very likely did see him. the victims of the violent random attack near first and k

streets northeast about 5:00 p.m. wednesday say they are shocked to learn that the man arrested near the cnn loading dock, 24-year-old allen martin of northeast was given a misdemeanor citation for simple assault and released back on the street. a woman described in the police report as victim four says she can't believe the person who punched her in the face so hard she needed treatment from paramedics was back on the within hours. >> one of the things that really shocked me is i guess i never really understood a random act of violence. it's very hard to wrap your head around. but this person just out of the blue hit people in the face. >> reporter: the police report says other victims suffered lacerations and bruises and also needed medical treatment at the scene. victim four says the man's behavior was violent even after he was arrested. >> and after the police officer that apprehended him and brought him over to where we were so that we could identify him, he was in the back of the police truck, and he was just crazy, flailing his arms, screaming.

it seemed like he had no idea why he was in the back of the truck, like he couldn't remember what had happened. >> reporter: tonight we are told that ward 5 councilmember kenyon mcduffie's office is looking into this matter. back to you. >> jackie bensen, thank you. new at 11, plagued by scandals and white house fence breaches, the secret service is preparing to go on a hiring spree. according to reuters, the agency will hire 1100 new officers and agents over the next five years. it would be the biggest increase in staff at the secret service in more than a decade. the secret service says the hiring campaign is in response to anticipated growth and recommendations after a fence jumper made it inside the white house last year. reuters reports the hire willing start with the new fiscal queer in october. there is a fight brewing in alexandria over how the city trains and deploys its firefighters and paramedics. the fire chief wants paramedics to receive certification as firefighters to get more training for advanced life

support. the goal is to increase flexibility with first responders who can fill multiple roles. but a group representing the paramedics says this move is unnecessary. >> it's going to be costly, and it's basically trying to staff more additional firefighters, which we're not against, but it's doing it on the backs of ems and ems degradation. >> phillips says the majority of emergency calls are for medical issues, not fires. and this plan takes highly skilled paramedics out of ambulances. alexandria's fire chief says the system is already being used in neighboring districts like arlington and fairfax. there have now been five attacks against women in arlington in the past phi week, all within a five mile radius. the most recent happened last night about 10:00 on south frederick street near columbia pike. the victim was walking home when a guy grabbed her, dragged her into the woods and demanded she take off her clothes. she screamed and hit him until he ran off. some women in the area say they're changing their routine. >> we've never had anything like

this. i think it's starting to become a serious issue. >> i won't go out at night by myself, no, at all. >> investigators can't say yet whether any of the five attacks are connected. over in loudoun county, a sheriff's deputy has been put on paid leave and charged with simple assault. the department isn't saying much about the incident that got deputy john gregory into trouble, only that it happened while he was arresting someone two months ago, and the person filed a civil complaint in july. gregory is 31 years old and he has been on the force for ten years. the virginia state police are conducting an independent investigation. the man accused of stabbing another man to death along the h street corridor this week will be in court tomorrow. police announced the arrest of 57-year-old hector felix this afternoon. they say he stabbed 40-year-old eric smith in the back at a bus stop on monday. detectives think an argument escalated and triggered that attack. a little boy who accidentally shot his 3-year-old sister got the gun from a teenager who was visiting the

family's home. "the washington post" reports court documents show a 17-year-old handed the 7-year-old a nylon bag which had a 9 millimeter inside. the little boy started playing with the gun and shot his sister, dalis cox. last night we learned the teenager is facing child cruelty charges, and he is due in juvenile court next month. he see slow to react and too laid back. that's what a high-ranking metro source is saying tonight about the chairman of metro's board of directors. mort downey is facing intense scrutiny just days after metro admitted that the agency knew about a track problem for weeks before an empty train derailed. insiders told our adam tuss that downey doesn't a handle on things, that an effective board chair could force change within metro. downey, who is on vacation responded to the criticism by e-mail, telling adam he believes the board needs to be more demanding, assuring that they get timely and correct answer, and that the board should consider having independent engineers work for them.

is some good news for metro riders tonight. the new 7,000 series railcars will start rolling on the green line on monday. the blue, red, and orange lines already have these new cars in service. all told, metro plans to buy 748 of them. but so far only 52 have been delivered. it's been a busy night in presidential politics. hillary clinton just wrapped a speech defending herself in a couple of scandals, one involving private e-mail, the other about benghazi. she called them partisan games. but a recent slip in polls has a lot of democrats looking for a backup plan. nbc's kurt gregory has the latest. >> reporter: candidates for president are a big draw at the iowa fair. drawn here themselves to flip burger, shake hands, and woo voters. >> i think that people are hungry for an alternative. the phrases i hear all the time are that we need new leadership and an ability to get things

done. >> reporter: republican jeb bush dropped a corn kernel in his own jar. >> we'll find out later. this is a long haul, man. >> reporter: and hammered hillary. >> mrs. clinton seems not to be able to have integrity and to tell the truth. and if she is not done anything wrong, then just be honest about it and show. >> reporter: clintons in iowa too, with pressure mounting from even democratic voters. >> if somebody told me six months ago that i wouldn't be supporting hillary now, i would never have believed them. >> what concerns you about hillary clinton? >> there is always something. >> reporter: that something another story of classified information on the private server she had used as secretary of state. and the rise of bernie sanders. a new hampshire poll showing him in the lead. leaving some democrats to push for a run from joe biden or al gore. >> well, gore, i was excited to hear that. i'm sorry to hear that that may be just a rumor. >> i don't see how she can run. i think she has much bigger problems than running for office. >> reporter: donald trump, who

is leading polls among the republicans, will head to iowa saturday. kirk gregory, nbc news. some breaking news now. the death toll tonight in china has seen a significant spike. 85 people are now confirmed dead from those explosions in the port city of tianjin. at least 21 of them are firefighters. and we just got this incredible picture of the site of that blast. look at that. you can see a crater in the ground where the explosion was centered and charred shipping containers, buildings and cars for blocks around. there is still work to be done that was the message today from secretary of state john kerry as history was made in cuba after 54 years, mariners raised the american flag over the u.s. embassy, part of the warming of relations between our two countries. but some animosity remains. cuban leaders want to be repaid for damages caused by the american embargo, and the u.s. wants money for american property that was seized when castro took over. talks over those issues will

begin in september. the office of personnel management is getting hit with another class action lawsuit over that massive data breach. a former federal worker filed the suit today and wants to open it up to the 20 million people who may have had their information stolen. this suit accuses obm of negligence and violating the privacy of current, former and perspective employees. the suit is seeking at least $5 million in damages. just a week before first year students arrive at the university of virginia, the school says it's been targeted by hackers. uva says federal investigators tipped them off to the attack and said it originated in china. the university says no personal information was taken. the it department is already starting a security upgrade that will last through the weekend that means multiple university systems will be down, including e-mail. commuters are a step closer to getting a faster, safer way to get in and out of the district. the south capital street corridor project just passed a federal environmental review.

now the project includes building a new six-lane frederick douglass memorial bridge which 70,000 drivers and pedestrians cross every day. it expands south capital street and now d-dot can move ahead maybe by next year. mayor muriel bowser has committed more than $500 million to the project over the next six years. next at 11, he was hauling oxygen tanks and other medical supplies when his truck went up in flames. tonight we hear from the other drivers who came to help him as he escaped. he broke down one of the last barriers in the nfl. but tonight michael sam explains why he is step away from football. and if you don't see this, you can't see the pope in d.c. next month. maybe you can catch him this month instead. veroni veronica? >> another wave of heat moving into our area this weekend. i've got the latest data to show you when it will

a massive tractor-trailer crash brought the new jersey turnpike to a stand still. but a couple from australia helped keep it from turning deadly. jackie and anthony nelson were visiting relatives here in the state, and had just left d.c. they were heading norton turnpike wednesday when they saw one of the rigs burning. the driver jumped out and ran across the road on fire, and the wilsons did not hesitate to help him. >> he sort of ran towards me, and he ran towards me. and i told him to get down. and he wouldn't get down. >> he was holding my hands, and he was obviously in shock. he was saying i had nowhere to go. i couldn't go anywhere, because

he was trapped. >> the truck driver they say was well enough to talk today. he said he didn't think dropping to the ground would do any good. so he and the wilsons pulled off his burning clothes, and they stayed with him until an ambulance got there. right now the simi valley area of southern california, a brushfire is burning, and already 150 acres have been scorched. about 500 homes are threatened. and authorities have warned residents to be ready to evacuate in a hurry tonight. more than 100 firefighters are trying to put this fire out. a thunderstorm rumbled through wisconsin today and stopped play at the pga championship. tens of thousands of fans had to seek shelter, because winds were gusting up to 40 miles per hour. the storm knocked down the leaderboard and shredded some of the tents on the course. play will resume tomorrow. in just a few minutes, carol maloney will show what's happened before the wind blew in. the first openly gay man to be drafted by an nfl team is leaving the game altogether. michael sam announced his

decision on twitter today. he said the last 12 months have been so difficult that he has been concerned about his mental health. sam has been playing for the montreal allouettes. he left training camp earlier this summer for personal reasons, but did play in a game last week. sam was drafted by the st. louis rams in 2014, but was later cut. he also played briefly on the practice squad for the dallas cowboys. we've been telling you about this all week. and tomorrow is the big day. you can help nbc4 clear the shelters. we're partnering with shelters in d.c., maryland, and virginia to get every dog and cat adopted into a new home. a lot of the shelter arrest cutting their adoption fees or waving them altogether. wendy rigger will be live from one site. a lot of information including the list of the participating shelters. we hope a lot of people are going to join in, and you should go on facebook. >> you were part of that too. i saw you.

>> nemo 18 years ago from a kill shelter. so i'll be watching. >> pretty special. won't it be wonderful if we can clear the shelters tomorrow. >> gosh, i hope so. >> and no reason the weather is not going to interfere, right? >> that's right. the weather is going to cooperate. because it's going to be dry. yes, a little bit of heat. but make sure the poochies have some water to drink. meanwhile, as we look forward, wednesday we're going to get a whole lot of heat and humidity. maybe a whole lot of rain. here we are today with pleasant conditions. we're going to move on up to the sticky for tomorrow. it will get a little sticky during the afternoon hours, and then uncomfort canable by sunday afternoon. here is the reason why. we have a big bubble of heat sitting over the nation's midsection. the temperatures from earlier today, mid-90s all the way up to the north. and it's that bubble of heat that will continue building eastward monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday of next week. that's when this latest heatwave is going to break. now it's all about the heat and humidity factored together. what it will feel like.

by sunday, we push it up to 96. and monday, 99. that's when it will start getting oppressive around here. tomorrow morning a touch of humidity. 63 to 69. not too bad at all. you can see the temperatures across the area in the 50s. a few pockets around frederick to 60 degrees around leesburg. but tomorrow afternoon, yeah, starting at around lunchtime, we'll be in the low 80s. then upper 80s by 1:00 p.m. topping out on 90 degrees. the high side of the 90s for the first time in quite some time. since about a week and a half ago. mild morning, but hot for late in the day, with a few clouds that will be coming through just a wispy clouds. more clouds right here around the mountains. that's that southerly flow building on the windward side of the mountains. so some pop-up showers or thunderstorms for winchester around front royal, maybe around lure ray and harrisonburg. i'll stop here. this is sunday afternoon. it looks a lot like saturday afternoon. the same deal for saturday and

sunday, but with the higher heat and humidity. not much of a chance of rain, even tuesday of next week. around midweek and thursday, it does look like that cold front will come into our area. very strong cold front. because that's what is going to help to break the heat. so that right now is looking like our best chance of rain coming up over the next couple of days. 91 on saturday. 94 on sunday. 95 on monday. the heat is going to peak the early part of next week. we continue with a couple of day there's in the low and mid-90s as we make our way through midweek. again, some showers, some thunderstorms on thursday. so we are looking at a bit of a dry pattern here over the next couple of days. but certainly a hot pattern. this the last heatwave that we're going see this summer? is it? >> i don't think so at all. but it is what i think is probably the longest stretch of heat. >> still got over a month left of summer. >> we still could get two, three back-to-back days in the 90s easily. >> all right. >> have a good weekend. coming up in sports, we're going to take you up to the bay area, because max has a pretty

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this is the xfinity sports desk, brought to you by xfinity, your home for the most live sports. >> well, we know the mets lost earlier tonight. >> did you hear the cheer? >> yeah. >> the nats got a chance to make up a little ground here. >> and matt williams promised tonight some lineup changes. he delivered because he had

werth, rendon and wilson ramos. they're collectively .184 in august. they needed some rest. after scoring only one run in the last three games, the nats get one on the board in the second tonight. but what is going on with max scherzer? that's the question now. scherzer just one win in his last four starts after a bryce harper flag. max gives it right back. bottom one. that's a solo homer from matt duffy. not exactly a great rebound for scherzer who gave up just three home runs in his last start against colorado. bottom second, we have olney native justin maxwell at the dish for san fran, and the former terp and nat coming through. smacks one into right. that's just fair. the rbi double plays brandon crawford. the giants score four runs in the second inning off scherzer. right now san francisco has a 6-1 lead in the fourth. >> ouch. >> they might waste this opportunity with the mets losing. up in baltimore, melvin mora

and gary renicky throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. the former o's starts inducted into the hall of fame tonight. khris davis at the plate. facing fernando abad and crushes davis, a bad man. it is friday night. orioles up 6-4. top nine, zach britton on to close. already one run given up in the inning. and uh-oh, danny valencia gets one just past scope. billy burns ties the game at six. we are going to extras. you guys, right now it is tied at 6 in the 12th inning. so free baseball for those in charm city. this weekend will be the last chance to check out to the skins in richmond. tomorrow is fan appreciation day. and open practices sunday and monday. before they close down camp and come back to ashburn. the one to watch right now, number 31, matt jones. the rookie turned a lot of heads

last night. the third round draft pick carried the ball five advertisements for 38 yards and caught one pass for 11 yards. most impressive, the big bruiser averaged almost eight yards a carry. so how did the rookie feel after his first nfl game? >> i'm prepared and practiced. my mind-set was just to come out here and help the team and showcase what i can do a little bit, stuff like that. once you make a play, your comfort always grows. that's been a player, being a aruba when you make a play too. so you get steamrolling. i definitely feel the confidence. >> got the size and the speed. now to the shores of lake michigan. whistling straits. pga championship, round 2. tiger woods 3 over in round one today. struggles again. third shot on hole number 4. called sand in your face shot. the ball doesn't go very far. he would double bogey the hole. the cut is 2 over. meanwhile, john daly, his moments courtesy of john daly.

>> whoa. >> hovering on the cut line. but on the par 3 7th, even better than the pants. oh, he finds the water. he would drop and do it again. and then this is the third straight in the lake. and then the fourth time, the fourth time he drop and go. now he stays inbounds. but watch. he is so frustrated, goodbye! one man's trash is another man's treasure. this boy has himself quite a souvenir. play was suspended due to weather. they'll tee off at 7:00 a.m. to finish the round. right now jason day and matt jones are your leaders at 9 under. calling all interns. going to clean up the course in morning and holding some scoreboards. >> john dale slay blessing to any course he plays. let me tell you. >> i hold my breath every time i see him. >> i feel bad. he was hovering on the cut line. he could have made the cut. >> he and tiger both happy to see that storm blow in.

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well, did you hear pope francis is already in town and making appearances across d.c. every week? he popped in chinatown today. it was part of the first francis friday, put on by the archdiocese of washington. the archdiocese is taking a life-sized cutoff of the pontiff to different parts of the city to get people excited about the pope's visit next month. you can follow the travels of the pontiff's cardboard doppelganger on twit were the #francisfriday.

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