swing. today romechia simms claims she did not mean for this to happen. >> reporter: wendy, a judge released simms on $50,000 bond and the state's attorney's office asked the judge for no bond pending a mental evaluation and of course, that was denied. we spoke with the toddler's father just days after his death. he tells us he believes that the mother has a mental illness. he also says all of this could have been avoided. for nearly four months charles county deputies have collected evidence and tried to understand what happened to 3-year-old ji'aire lee. >> it got to be that the child was placed in the swing very shortly after they got there and the child was there for about 40 hours. >> tony covington is the state's attorney for charles county. romechia simms was pushing her 3-year-old nsonji air lee at the park for two days and it was

raining and the child didn't have a jacket or shoes. simms told the judge i didn't even mean for this to happen. in the interview days after the toddler's death, his father james lee said there were warning signs. in fact, court documents show he tried to get sole custody of ji'aire because he felt simms was emotionally unstable, but he says a judge denied his request. >> he deemed her at that moment a fit parent, you know? and i'm not saying she isn't, you know, but in this situation he just didn't pay attention to the signs. >> and now simms will soon stand trial for the death of her little boy. >> tragic is a better word all of the way around. >> reporter: a state's attorney for charles county says no one at this point has ordered that simms undergo a mental evaluation. coming up at 6:00, we're learning more information about

what, if any, her mental state could play when she goes to trial in january. jim? >> meagan, thanks so much. >> we continue to follow a story where one person is dead after a collision between an suv and a tour bus. these are pictures from chopper 4 above the scene near the intersection of pennsylvania avenue and route 301 in upper marlboro. firefighters tell us two people were injured and the cause of this crash is still unknown and prince georges county tracee wilkins is live for us. >> on route 50, if you are heading into the district westbound those lanes should be reopening shortly after a brushfire there this afternoon. chopper 4 flying over the area and this is in the landover area. all westbound lane his been closed for more than an hour. no word yet on what may have sparked this brushfire in the first place. right now, police in mississippi are searching for one professor in connection with

shooting and killing another professor. the delta state campus remains on lockdown right now as officers look for shannon lamb. they call him a person of interest in the shooting of dr. ethan schmidt. his body was found this morning and say lamb could have been involved in a homicide in a town 30 miles from campus. hundreds of officers responded to this morning's shooting. no students were injured, though. at the live deck, i'm chris lawrence. three life terms for a man who raped a prince william county mother at gunpoint last year while her two children were nearby. julie carey live in manassas where she last spoke with the victim of that attack. jules? >> reporter: well, this youngoe mother tells me when she found a stranger armed with a gun in her apartment in the middle of the night, her first concern was for her children. she was able to protect them, but she suffered greatly.

finally today, the sentence brings her some relief. the team of detectives and prosecutors that stood by a young mother as she first took the witness stand and then testified at the sentencing hearing for this man, 33-year-old prince perkins. today enormous relief as the judge followed the jury's recommendation and sentenced perkins to three life terms plus 70 years. for the victim, there were tears of happiness. we've agreed to protect her identity. >> relief that he was off the streets, and he couldn't harm me or anyone else. >> reporter: the investigation showed perkins stalked the victim for months before the may 2014 attack, watching her coming and going from her woodbridge apartment. then the day before the attack he broke in and stole her cell phone and spare key. the next night he entered at gunpoint and found the victim, her young son sleeping by her side. she got her son to safety, but then her daughter woke up and

came into the room. >> the worst fear was not so much for myself, but him killing my kids. he pointed a gun at my daughter when she came into the room. so at that point i had to do whatever it was that he told me to do for my kids. >> reporter: she protected her kids that night, but the impact of the attack on her, life changing. >> i don't feel comfortable by myself. i don't drive. it's hard to take my kids out alone. >> but with the support of herr family and this team, the victim decided to push ahead with the case, a decision she hopes will protect other women. >> by me going through this it wasn't easy. it wasn't easy at all, but i had to do this to get him off the

street. >> reporter: in court again today the defendant chris perkence maintained his innocence. he says he plans to appeal. coming up on news 4 at 6:00, you'll hear from the team that worked on this investigation from the beginning about some key breaks that led to this day. back to you now, jim. >> julie, thanks so much. >> extensive closures, major road delays and a jam-packed ride on metro. we are learning more today about just how tough it will be to get around when the pope arrives in town next week. news 4's transportation reporter adam tuss is live in arlington right now with a closer look at the closures and the detours. adam? >> well, jim, of course, you are being encouraged to take metro and mass transportation when the pope is here, but leaders are telling you quite frankly, if you're going to drive, tack on an extra hour to your commute. d.c.'s good at handling major events, but this is a

multi-day event happening right in the middle of the workweek. take a look at graphics released today and the pink representing closures and you can see extensive restrictions along the national mall and basilica, st. patrick's church by the verizon center and even on massachusetts avenue by the vatican embassy and the vice president's residence. it will be a challenge. it doesn't matter if you're going to the verizon center and the baseball dime and there will be congestion on the streets, the roads and the system. >> people will be -- >> adidas runs simulations of the traffic conditions and no bridges will be closed in the area, but ddot says driving into the city next week should be a left resort. if you do decide to drive tack on an extra hour. >> if you can go to a remote business location, if you can reschedule an appointment around the middle of that week or move

it up or a couple of days we would advise that. >> there will be unscheduled rolling road closures as he moves around and you'll be watching out for emergency vehicles. >> reporter: coming up at 6:00, metro's chief of police says thises is biggest event he's ever had to prepare for and he has a warning for you. wendy, back to you. >> at am tuss. after years of delays, the drou troubled silver string transit center is set to open. metro has ownership of the building and says everything appears to be in working order. the chain link fence surrounding it will start to come down on saturday and the silver spring transit center was $50 million over budget, four years behind schedule. it's going to be a link between busses, taxis, metro, mark trains and the future purple line. district leaders close to a deal now that would bring a new multimillion arena to the city. it will be a practice facility

for the wizards and home toft mystics and it means a big boost to congress heights and mark is live with the news on this deal. hi, mark. >> hi, jim. if all goes according to plan, this congress heights metro station will be what you'll be using when you come to a mystics game in 2018 or if you want to come out to watch the wizards practice. ted leonsis has been watching for some time for a location to build this new facility, and as the washington post reported this afternoon, d.c. is the winner and it will go right here on the east campus of st. elizabeth's. >> reporter: it would build a 5,000-seat venue near congress heights metro station that would then be used as a practice facility for the washington wizards much like the kentler facility in boston that the capitals currently use.

the mystics would play their regular-season games here and officials hope this will spur more economic development throughout aid and they expect it have it up and running by 2018, and they're expected to make the announcement official on wednesday. earlier today d.c. council member jack evans said the facility isn't the most exciting thing about this project. >> this is a development project, a major one that will produce jobs, that will produce activity and everything that we've done in other parts of town. >> reporter: now again, the district would put up $55 million as well as the land to build this facility and that construction could start as early as next year and would take about two years to build. coming up at 6:00, we'll dive into the numbers and i'll tell you what this means for d.c. taxpayers and how much the wizards are going to pay. wendy, back to you. >> mark seagraves, not a great

start for the fomlys in temple hills and investigators in prince georges county are still trying to figure out how this fire started and it was near the roof on saturday night. 30 units in the building are damaged and everyone got out and that includes two little dogs. the red cross is helping those families figure out their next move. a criminal in montgomery county gets a second chance to turn his life around, but we will show you just how he really spent his time. nobody can substitute that speed and scares safeties and corners to death. >> how losing their star receiver changes the redskins' offense. that's coming up. we started off on a very cool note this morning. take a look at those overnight low temperatures. many of you down into the 40s for the first time in quite some time. we'll talk about the cool weather tonight and the extended forecast, as well, in just a minute.

i'm chris lawrence at the live desk where we are following breaking news in maryland and we'll send you straight out to chopper 4 and it is live overhead at the boyds, maryland, rock station and we are being told that an amtrak train hit someone on the tracks there. that person is dead. you're looking there at the train. the body is several hundred yards south of that point. again, this is a rural part of the montgomery county, and west of germantown. again, a person hit on the tracks apparently killed right near that mark station. we are being told that all csx traffic has been stopped in the area and we'll stay on this area and we'll stay on this story and bring you the l

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we're following in the next 15 minutes. d.c.'s mayor takes a trip to jail after a loss in the season opener, there is a new cut from the redskins roster. and the exclusive interview and the apology from that jail worker who helped those new york convicts escape. but first, a judge gave him a second chance to turn his life around, and now he is facing some serious time in prison. >> after robbing his own family members at gunpoint, news 4's pat collins is live in rockville

where the man was just sentenced. pat? >> reporter: jim, sometimes in the world of crime you get two strikes and you're out. here now, the story of enoch wilson. >> the story begins on castle garden court august 2012, some motor bikes stolen from a home here. they tried to make their getaway near a path by the pond. they didn't get pfar. this is what the 911 call sounded like. >> we went to go see where they were and we seen them pushing the dirt bikes up the street and he pulled out the gun and pointed at one of us and i told him don't start shooting because he would make it a bigger problem than it had to be. >> enoch wilson, arrested and convicted of the motor bike theft and got five years' probation, a chance to turn his life around, but it appears he never made that turn. >> this is an individual that's

obviously a danger to our community at large. >> last december enoch nelson's upset because he lost a pair of air jordans and lebron james sneakers to his half brother gambling on a video game so he and a friend come to this apartment in silver spring and home invasion. >> at gunpoint, nelson gets the sneakers. he gets a wide-screen tv, but he also gets identified by his family members. enoch nelson, back in jail again. >> the moral of the sty, pat o this is you're given a second chance. you've got to straighten out and do the right thing, and if you don't straighten up you're going to get put in jail if you commit another crime which is what he did. >> reporter: so enoch nelson goes from five years' probation to 12 years in jail. coming up at 6:00, dash cam video of the arrest and some interesting thoughts from a

neighbor. jim, back to you. >> pat collins, pat, thank you. 110 homicides in the district this year as the city grapples with a spike in violent crimes today. mayor muriel bouncer announced another part of her plan to reduce crime. she met with prisoners inside the d.c. jail. they're part of a new workforce training program designed to keep those convicted of crimes from becoming repeat offenders. the program provides much-needed skills and it allows inmates charged with misdemeanors to leave the jail and work while they await trial. >> this program gives me depth and something to believe in. it makes me want to go back to society and get a job, work, take care of my family, my grandkids. >> the mayor's plan also includes a program that helps women re-enter the workforce. the women are paired with mentors who have successfully re-entered society themselves. this prompted a massive man

hunt. now the former new york prison worker who helped those two inmates escape says she was depressed at the time and the inmates took advantage of her. joyce mitchell sat down for an exclusive jailhouse interview with nbc's matt lauer. >> i am so sorry for everything that everyone has went through because of me. i never meant for any of this to happen. never. i would take it all back if i could, but i can't, but i'm not the monster that everybody thinks i am. >> mitchell also admitted that she snuck in those tools that the inmates richard matt and david sweat used to escape. she also says she did have sexual contact with richard matt against her will. you can watch matt lauer's full, exclusive interview with her in the nbc washington app. just search joyce mitchell interview. >> the virginia medical

examiner's office says tonight that moses malone died of natural causes from heart disease. the three-time mvp and nba hall of famer died yesterday at a hotel in norfolk. one of malone's friends told the richmond times dispatch that malone had just seen a doctor last week and had a heart monitor. malone was the first player to jump straight from high school to the pros. he played on eight teams including the bullets and the 76ers when they swept the lakers. moses malone was just 60 years old. if the loss yesterday wasn't bad enough for the redskin, the news coming down today about receiver desean jackson has certainly made it worse. jackson, he's out three to four weeks with a left ham ri string injury. the redskins without their top playmaker on offense from a year ago, jackson was hurt on the second offensive series of the game. he pulled his left hamstring trying to chase down this pass from kirk cousins.

his absence leaves a huge void for the skins and he produces the excitement and makes the big-time plays for this offense. >> you hate to lose a star and especially with this speed, we feel good about the receivers that take his ace, but nobody can substitute him for that speed that gets downfield and scares safeties and corners to death. it's a big loss for us and no question about it and we'll ask for them to come in here and play and andre. >> the other big story tonight quarterback, chris culver suspended one game by the nfl for violating the league's personal conduct policy and a cover will miss this week's game against the rams and culver hit a bicyclist with his car. he then fled the scene. culver did plead guilty to two misdemeanor charges. also today, the redskins relief kicker kai forbath from the organization and i'll have more on that at 6:00.

i'm jason pugh, news 4. a car caused gridlock. >> but check to see if things are better no you and what it could mean for your commute tomorrow. >> protesters could be gearing up in fairfax after video was released of an inmate who died in custody. new proof

forecast. playing a little golf, that's what you want to do in weather like this, fantastic, fantastic weather. just beautiful. plenty of sunshine across the area today. take a look at the numbers and what we're dealing with right now across our region. temperatures in the upper 70s and 79 degrees, d.c. and plenty of sunshine and winds out of the

west at 10 miles per hour. i told you this before, my perfect day, 80, low humidity and plenty of sun. that's pretty much what we have. what is your perfect day? facebook.com/doug kammerer. so far everyone is a 10 or 20. 75 in gaithersburg and 75 in culpeper and 76 in mart insburg and very night right on through the evening hours and no rain to talk about. we really need to see some rain. unfortunately, it doesn't look like we're going to get any for at least the next week or so and this is why. we have an area of high pressure just sitting on top of us, chicago to atlanta and raleigh toward d.c. and not a cloud in the sky and those will get out of there and they'll be seeing beautiful weather, too. the low temperatures tonight are the only thing to think about as far as what we need to be wearing tomorrow morning and 50 degrees in mart iinsburg and 59n

culpeper. it will be cool, but by recease no problem, we will warm quickly with plenty of sun and high temperature, in d.c., and 82 in leesburg. so we do get warmer, but even with that warm up we're going to be -- we're still going to be quite nice with the low humidity and that impact is not much of an impact at all. cool start, and what a gorgeous afternoon. >> there it is, high pressure means sunshine all across the area tuesday, wednesday, thursday and friday. the next chance of rain does come during the weekend. tom kieran will have more on that at 5:45. we hit the town today to find out what's hot. our pat collins is on the hunt for the best pope memorabil memorabilia,and boy, did he find it. this looks familiar. a terrible accident, a deadly one could be impacting your commute if you are heading

to southern maryland. we have a live report in

first at 5:30, first at the live desk, we are updating you on breaking news in maryland that could have a major impact for a lot of commuters heading home. we'll take you out now live, chopper 4 is overhead the boyd's maryland mark station where a

person was hit and killed by an amtrak train. we have new information for you right now, all westbound brunswick line trains are being held at the germantown station. so officials are saying you can expect severe delays and they're encouraging people to make alternate travel arrangements. in fact, anyone who can use metro's red line and metro will be honoring all of the marketicets and someone was hit and killed on the tracks and impacting all of the train trafficked hadded toward brunswick. at the news desk, i'm chris lawrence. we want to take you back to the development of of a deadly crash that led to a traffic backup in prince georges county. >> tracee wilkins is live where an suv slammed into a tour bus. what do you know about the victims? >> they are starting to put that suv on to the back of the tow truck and moving it out of the roadway. we still don't know who the victim was other than that it was a male.

let me show you the pattern that his vehicle took. according to the troopers, it looks like he possibly started to lose track way up the road there on the northbound side, came over to the southbound side and then traveled down the southbound side before striking the bus all of the way down that way. let me show you what it looked like earlier. now, we are told that there were no southeasteigns of any brakin road and that leads troopers to believe the driver may have had a medical emergency and that is something they cannot determine here on the scene and that's something that they'll figure out later, possibly after an autopsy, but there were witnesses out here and folks who saw what happened, and people who were filing their reports of what they saw to the police that they were investigating. for folks who use this roadway, we can tell you that they now have the right hand lane, the shoulder open so that folks can get by. it was closed periodically throughout the afternoon when

they had to remove the body of the person who was killed in that vehicle. no people were on that bus, when all of this happened, just the driver. there was another vehicle also involved and the driver of that vehicle was walking around just fine. no one else suffering any serious injuries here. reporting live, i'm tracee wilkins, back to you all in the studio. >> three men shot in an empty parking lot and one of them killed and police investigating prince william county's third murder this year and this incident began with a fight and it was early saturday morning at old linden hall road in gainesville and police say there was some kind of physical altercation between three victim space fourth plan and shots were fired. claude jackson of the gainesville was killed and police got away in a loot-colored suv. jury selection continues tomorrow in the murder trial of a man accused of killing his police detective stepfather in an argument over yardwork.

antwan james there is charged with killing joseph newell two years ago. prosecutors tell us james shot newell multiple times after they argued about mowing the lawn at their house in upper marlboro. newell was a veteran of the d.c. police department. he was just 46 years old. here is a theft you don't hear about every day. d.c. police are looking for two capitol tour busses stolen from a private lot along chillelm place. they have capitol tours on s s maroon and gold lettering. it's not clear why they were stolen and anyone with information should call police. news on halprin. the new recommendation is aimed at people in their 50s and 60s. there is good evidence now that a daily, low dose of aspirin could help prevent those already at risk for heart disease from future heart attacks, stroke, and even colon cancer.

that's a cccording to the u.s. preventive service's task force. >> baby aspirin makes it sound very safe, doesn't it, but even an baby aspirin that's an 81-milligram aspirin has risks of kauding bleeding and we have to be careful when we use it. the american cancer society says aspirin can protect against throat and stomach cancers, and cardiologists and stress, they need to talk to their doctors to see if aspirin would help more than it would harm. >> boy, can he draw a crowd and in just a couple of hours, bernie sanders will be holding a rally here in our area and we'll find out where voters are gearing up for a big night with presidential candidates. i'm jackie bensen in fairfax county. there is a meeting here tonight on police reform and there will on police reform and there will be people protesting the

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right now, president obama at a high school in des moines, iowa, in the middle of a town hall on education, part of his plan to let aspiring college student apply for federal financial aid three months earlier. this trip to iowa marks the president's 18th time to that important state during his presidency. now to the race for the white house and possible trouble for the hillary clinton camp. the latest cbs news poll out today shows senator bernie sanders outpacing clinton in both iowa and new hampshire by double digits. in iowa, there is a ten-point margin, but in new hampshire, sanders is leading clinton by more than 20 points, despite that about three-quarters of democrats polled in both states show clinton's email server she

used as secretary of state does not matter to them. sanders will be in our area tonight. the gates are about to open at the prince william county fairgrounds where he will host a rally. that rally kicks off at 8:00 tonight with the gates opening up at the top of the hour. earlier today sanders spoke to students at the conservative christian liberty university down in lynchberg. he told the crowd while they likely differ on social issues it's important for all to be able to engage in civil discourse. remaining defiant, but rowan county clerk kim davis is back at work. she says she is no hero. she's just sticking to her beliefs. the kentucky clerk shot into the national spotlight after refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses on grounds that it violates her religious beliefs and she did spend six days in jail for con temp of court. even though davis is back on the job she will not issue same-sex licenses. davis says she will not take action against her clerks who do

issue those licenses and who are issuing those licenses. >> the growing issue is becoming more tense tonight and we have more from lester holt who is there with more on why new restrictions are making the situation even more dire. >> did you know the pope is coming to our town? he's going to be right here. want a souvenir t-shirt? it's got his picture on it. it's one of a kind, actually, it's one in 5,000. let the souveniring begin. and you will be needing some of those t-shirts, feeling summer like over the next several days and a look at the next chance for much-needed rain. that's coming up in just a few minutes.

a crisis in california tonight. now at 5:00, in the next 15 minutes we have a report from the ground as the wildfire spread right now. plus military moms make a strong statement on facebook today with one simple post. new details tonight on that mark train accident.

wendy? >> in just a couple of hours we could see protesters outside of a meeting about police tactics in fairfax county. this public hearing was scheduled weeks ago, but with the video that shows the moments that led to natasha mckenna's death now public, the tone could be a little different. jackie wens are benson is live outside the middle school where that will be held. >> reporter: wendy, this is the first meeting of this group since the commonwealth attorney ruled last week that there was no criminal involvement in the death of natasha mckenna in february. now mckenna who is 37 was an inmate at the fairfax county jail in february when she was tasered while she was being restrained in an effort to remove her from the jail. now she suffered from schizophrenia and had been in the jail for several days. they were trying to transfer her to alexandria where she was facing charges of assault on a

police officer. now mckenna died three days after the incident at the jail, died at fairfax county hospital with the protesters here tonight will be talking about what they feel could have been done for her to keep her out of the system, divert mentally ill patients from the system. they say that that video was terribly disturbing to them in that it showed a person who was very obviously suffering from mental illness being treated this way. they feel there could have been a better way. back to you. the mayor of baltimore wants her interim commission tore take the role of the city's top cop permanently. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake says she wants kevin davis to take the helm of the city's police department. davis has been interim commissioner since the mayor fired actually bat in july. he had been a deputy commissioner in baltimore since january and before that he served as chief of an arundel county and assistant chief in

prince georges county. and we are following a developing story out in california. we have learned that 23,000 people have been displaced by two wildfires torching the state. one person has been killed, hundreds of structures have been destroyed and nbc's miguel almaguer shows us the damage there. >> reporter: this is what's left of the valley fire and a trail of destruction that stretches all throughout this community. what makes this fire unique and makes it different from so many of the other blazes that we have covered here is the speed at which it covered. it plowed right through this neighborhood, taking down this apartment complex in a matter of minutes. its emblematic of the fire conditions crews here face and these extreme drought conditions and it was raining embers in this area and take a look at this roof here and the fire ripped right through it and leaving behind the steady, sturdy metal pilings that are all across this area and fire

officials say this blaze was so intense there was nothing they could do. there were no homes they could save. again, 400 homes here lost and firefighters say they've never seen a blaze move this quickly and destroy this much property so fast. it's a major blaze here that is still burning. we'll have more updates throughout the day. and the california fire season is just beginning and miguel will have an update on nbc "nightly news" coming up later this evening starting at 7:00. school bus forecast for tomorrow morning. we will have our temperatures by dawn tomorrow right around the upper 50s. so students at the bus stop, and it will be a cool start with bright sunshine between 7:00 to 8:00 and 9:00. we'll be getting into the 60s with lots of sun help low humidity and another gorgeous day under way beginning tomorrow. what to wear, well, you can go with light jacket in the morning with the temperatures in the 50s and you'll be comfortable in short sleeves during the afternoon and you won't need the

umbrella and no showers around and storm team 4 and afternoon highs reaching low to mid-80s and low humidity. then feeling summerlike as we get into midweek wednesday and thursday and both days into the mid to upper 80s and morning lows in the 60s and still not very humid and rather hot on friday afternoon into the upper 80s and don't put away your summer clothes. we'll have temperatures in the upper 80s by friday afternoon and two with increasing clouds and that's beginning our next chance of rain and we'll have a front come through and it may stall out for a couple of days on sunday and again on monday and both of those days, a chance of a passing shower and a bit cooler high on sunday around 80 degrees and in the upper 70s on monday. that's the way it looks right now around the region. we've got the bright sunshine and as you head out the door, watch for the low sun angle this time of year and the low sun angle causes a glare on the road

and you definitely see the sunglasses and tomorrow morning we'll have the sun coming up later and we're getting our shorter and shorter daylight hours and we've got the solstice, and the overall change in the pattern coming up here for the weekend, and we'll have it beginning to show a chance of some showers moving on through which is certainly going to be welcome. back to you. >> thank you, tom. >> ahead of the pope's visit next week, the gift shop at the national shrine is rolling out a whole line of papal swag. you'll find the pontiff on just about anything you can think of. news 4's pat collins, who else, stopped by to check it all out and found t-shirts, mugs, key chains and one particularly interesting item. >> at the shrine of the immaculate conception, through the large wooden ground floor doors, the souvenir center for pope francis. let the sales begin. >> we have t-shirts with the

image of pope francis and the national shrine for $20. they're available in both english and spanish. >> big pope, medium pope, little pope. $180 pope, $60 pope, $20 pope. for the catholic church, this is almost like the super bowl. >> it doesn't get any bigger than this. >> thirsty? what an official pope mug in english and in spanish. salud. >> they have pope rosaries, pope holy water bottles, pope prayer cards. if it's got the pope's picture on it. people will purchase it. >> he's absolutely a rock star. people love him. they love what he stands for. >> $3 coins. heads and tails. pope on one side, shrine on the other. >> think you've seen it all? how about a popemobile?

a popemobile of your very own ♪ hallelujah ♪ >> and it even plays the hallelujah chorus. ♪ >> in northeast, pat collins, news 4. you know pat wants one of those. hey, if you don't have it already download our nbc washington app. we'll have a whole section dedicated to the papal visit next week with everything you'll need to know about where he'll be and how to get around when pope francis is in our town. >> the pedestrians struck by that train in maryland, that is now a fatality. that involved an amtrak train and a teenaged male on the tracks. csx has notified mark train that there is police activity still there with boyd's and because of this accident all brunswick line trains are being held at the

germantown station. severe delays are to be expected. one of thousands of comments described it as a beautiful display of what women give to their country and their families. it's a photo of ten military moms in uniform going viral on facebook. more than 9,000 people have shared this moment. it shows the soldiers breast-feeding their babies at fort bliss in texas. this was last week. the photographer took it to display in a room at fort bliss that was created for active duty moms so they can pump and breast-feed. the massive migrant crisis is growing more and more tense tonight. our nbc news nightly anchor, lester holt is on the ground in hungary this week. he shows us what's happening with people trying to get somewhere safe. i'm tom sherwood in potomac, maryland. it's her winning video about the pope's visit next week that she really wants to talk abou

razor wire fences, troops on the borders, tough new security measures in effect in the european union countries that are struggling to deal with the influx of migrants. as a record number of people arrived in hungary hoping to head elsewhere. nbc's nightly news anchor lester holt reports. >> migrants pour into hungary

threatening to seal its border and this morning for the first time, helmeted troops patrolling the razor fence. >> on monday this little girl collapsing in sickness had to be carried across by a volunteer. >> where will you take her? >> this afghan teenager was separated from his family during the night. he has no money, only two eggs. two miles away, a squalid, overrun and unofficial relief camp where there is food, water and medical aid. police are also there to take the migrants to government detention camps for processing. for yousef, the alternative, returning his son to syria is too much to bear. >> the syrian war has completely -- >> reporter: the timing of hungary's crackdown on illegal crossers will largely depend on how quickly they can complete

this border fence. once they do that this may be the end of the road. >> what's your prediction? >> they're not going to stop just because they reached a fence like this. they will find another way into europe. >> a way to a cut and at a breaking point and a place many now see as the promise land. european interior ministers have been meeting today trying to decide the issue of quotas for eu countries. there is resistance, though, about some of those quotas especially here in eastern europe and the migrants want to go to western europe and the more prosperous countries looking for opportunity and right now the folks we talk to have no idea where they will end up or how they'll get there. this is lester holt near the syrian-hungary border. >> lester holt will have more and catch that here on nbc "nightly news" and it's just after news 4 at 6:00. news 4 at begins with

breaking news. first in mare hand, where an amtrak train struck and killed a teenage boy and all westbound brunswick line trains and held at germantown station and authorities are looking for other ways to get home and if you're able to use the washington red line. metro says it will honor all marketicets and the recent review by the i-team finds 70 people killed by trains since january of 2014. >> and in prince georges county tonight, traffic slowly moving again along route 50 heading into the district and a small brushfire forcing crews to close off all westbound lanes of the highway and upon choer 4 flew over the scene south of landover road in the cheverly area and no word on what may have sparked that brushfire. also tonight, justice for a mother of two who was raped at gunpoint while her children were nearby. >> the victim thanked police for

helping her through the ordeal. this attack happened at a woodbridge apartment complex and her attacker was sentenced to three life terms plus 70 years. bureau chief julie carey spoke with the victim after the sentence. julie? >> reporter: when the victim first met with police and prosecutors right after that attack, she says she was terrified and not sure she could ever testify and with her encouragement she has taken the witness stand at every phase of this case and today she got the outcome she hoped for. 33-year-old pins% ins headed to prison for the rest of his life. this is the team that stood by a young mother who was raped at gunpoint. her kids in the house. today she cried tears of happiness as the judge followed the jury's recommendation and imposed three life terms. we've agreed to conceal the victim's identity. >> it wasn't easy at all, but i had to do this to get him