face. right now a few showers around the region, but it could turn into heavier rain. i'll show you when that may move in. and i'm steve handelsman live at the united nations. did president obama get outfoxed up here today by russian president vladimir putin? i'll have that story. more questions. first at 4k:00, questions surrounding an arrest in prince georges county. one woman shows a video of an officer using excessive force. we are told back in july a fight broke out in el tapatio restaurant. the woman's attorney says the officer repeatedly punched her, and she spent three days in the hospital. police tell us it was self-defense, that uribe hit a security guard with a beer bottle, punched the officer and spit on him. now to an arrest and a series of incidents that frightened homeowners and workers in

northern virginia. police have charged matthew malac malacarne starting in early august. no one was injured in the shootings. he is being held without bond in the fairfax county jail. ♪ ♪ i'm mark segraves in the district where the mayor has a new plan for ambulances. the next time you call 911 it may not be a d.c. ambulance that shows up. the mayor will announce a plan tomorrow morning that would have private ambulances run some of the low-priority calls around the district. this is because the mayor and the fire department acknowledges they're getting too many calls. they don't have enough staff and the fleet they have is deteriorating. coming up, you'll hear directly from the chief about how this plan will work. about an hour from now president obama and russian president vladimir putin will

meet on the sidelines of the united nations general assembly, and if what we heard from them already today is any indication that meeting will be anything, but cordial. news 4's steve handelsman will be live at the u.n. what are you hearing? >> the headline up here for everybody is a new toot inplan to deal with isis and syria. even though this plan would clearly get a lot more of what russia wants to see accomplished in the middle east and what the u.s. wants to see accomplished in the middle east, president obama said he'd play ball with russia on this. president obama came to the u.n. to find help in the fight against icis that is growing and forcing a tide of refugees to flee syria. >> think of the families leaving everything they've known behind. >> reporter: but the president was outmaneuvered by russian president vladimir putin who came to the u.n. with a deal he made to shut out the u.s. and save syrian dictator bashir

assad, a putin ally. >> translator: we think it is an enormous mistake to refuse to trade with the syrian government and its armed forces while fighting terrorism. >> putin got iran and iraq and the assad government to join together with russia to fight isis by sharing intelligence, a critical function. >> the united states is prepared to work with any nation including russia and iran to resolve the conflict. >> reporter: not, he said, to save assad who helped spawn isis. >> there cannot be, after so much bloodshed, so much carnage, a return to the pre-war status quo. >> reporter: obama, critics say, we told you so. >> we have no strategy to pursue so therefore, we are surprised when vladimir putin exercises what is a very clear strategy. >> reporter: today, president obama meets one-on-one with putin to discuss ukraine and the surprise putin plan for syria.

now putin who invaded ukraine without the u.s. able to stop him and no other nation is grabbing for a much bigger role in the middle east. live from the u.n., i'm steve handelsman, news 4, pat, back to you. >> thanks, steve. a man charged with murder after a hit and run in montgomery county is now being held without bond. news 4's darcy spencer is learning more about what led to the violent confrontation in clarksburg. >> reporter: a germantown man who confessed to intentionally running over another man with his car in clarksburg friday afternoon made his first appearance here in rockville this afternoon. without bond on a first-degree murder charge. he's accused of running over a man he knew, william mcdaniel. both of these men are in their early 20s. police say they'd been involved in a heated argument over some sort of business transaction involving a music recording. salandy's relatives describe him

as a christian rapper and college student pursuing a music career. while they're maintaining his innocence, police say salandy confessed. coming up at 5:00, the reason salandy gave police for committing the crime. in rockville, darcy spencer, news 4. turning to storm team 4 now it's a gray, gloomy monday setting the stage for some unsettled weather this week. chief meteorologist doug kammerer and meteorologist veronica johnson are in the storm center. doug, what's happening out there right now? >> right now tracking just a few showers. some of us saw rain over the weekend and others did not see much at all. today just a few light showers, but tomorrow. >> tomorrow we get a lot of rain and we want a busy week. this is the kind of week where folks need to stay tuned to the forecast and we'll have something of everything this week and the potential is there for some very heavy rain starting with the day tomorrow and just shower activity and storm team 4 radar picking up on

these showers over the fredericksburg area right in through here coming in through the pot sylvania county and he's are for the most part light showers and right along 15 as you come right down from leesburg right on down toward the south. we want to continue to see a few of these showers and there is a ton of moisture just down to the south and toward the carolinas and more moisture down toward tennessee. i do expect to see some heavy rain and i'll show you when that heavy rain moves in and we'll talk about the rest of the week, guys because this could be a very wet week. in some breaking news now coming out of the house of representatives, majority leader kevin mccarthy just announced his candidacy for speaker of the house. he's promising to uphold conservative principles and listen to his fellow lawmakers and voters. outgoing speaker john boehner praised mccarthy when he announced his resignation under pressure from conservatives.

>> back here at home, the former kids' hockey coach could go to prison for decades for propositioning boys online. today timothy bodenheimer pleaded built guilty although hr touched a minor. he'll be sentenced in december. i'm melissa ma lay with your first 4 traffic and we have changes on the blue line that go into effect tomorrow on tuesday. the blue line will be the only line to go through trade yum armory station during rush hour and this is an effort to reduce con skwegz on the orange, silver and blue lines here. shuttle busses will be running through stadium armory and minnesota avenue when the orange and silver lines are bypassing stadium armory. have a great day. punishment for the pitcher. we are live at nats park learning about the fallout for this brawl. thousands of local students

did not get properly immunized and why they may be ordered to stop going to school and who is being held responsible. pleading for mercy, a woman who helped two killers escape from prison addresses a judge. >> my husband and my children are my

forecast. oh, my. rain chances are going up, way up this week again and then just in time for the first part of october, some cool conditions will be moving into our area. take a look. here's the latest on storm team 4 radar and the southeast from the northwest and we've seen a few spotty showers around the area and that's about it for this evening and the rain chance

coming tomorrow and the temperatures dip down into the mid-70s by 8:00 and it gets chilly tomorrow. take a look at the rain for tomorrow morning, not much and we're in with heavy rain stepping in and doug will have more on that and what it means for rush hour tomorrow. minutes after she sobbed on the stand, a former corrections worker learned she's heading to prison for helping two murderers make the great escape. >> the judge who sentenced joyce mitchell didn't buy her tears. he handed down a sentence that could keep her in prison for up to seven years although she could earn early release in two. she apologized for giving david sweat and richard matt the tools to break out of prison. >> if i could take it all back i would. i was fearful of mr. matt threatening to kill my husband. >> i just don't find that explanation credible. your husband's life would not have been more endangered by exposing the plot to escape.

>> the state of new york wants well over $100,000 in restitution. that's just a fraction of what it cost to recapture the fugitives and mitchell may have to contribute a share of that. the national league mvp front-runner bryce harper choked in the dugout. we're live at nats park with the new punishment just a nouned for his teammate. director for the prince georges county schools health system has been placed on admin str straightive leave this as thousands of students have not had

i'm scott mcfarland at the live desk for the second time in a week, facebook has an outage and you may be seeing it as you try to get on to the website right now. the second time since september 24th, you've seen this message on facebook. a lot of users, a lot of advertisers relying on facebook this time of day and it is down and the website promising it will be fixed as soon as it can. social media users will have to stay on hold for a while in the meantime. at the live desk, i'm scott mcdonald's farland. >> we know from experience we can't get on facebook. >> only it's a story you will see on news 4, we've learned thousands of students of prince georges county have not been immunized more than a month into the school year. the health director for the county's schools is now on

administrative leave. news 4's tracee wilkins broke the story today. how do the numbers compare to the numbers in other counties? >> reporter: well, 3,000 students actually more than 3,000 students who have not been immunized here in the print georges county school system in montgomery county where they have more students and the larger system in prince georges county, fewer than 200 students have not been immunized there and in charles county, a much smaller system only two kids who haven't been immunized and that goes to show you just how big the numbers are and as you mentioned there we're learning this information as dr. angela wakawia has been put on administrative leave. officials are not connecting two at this time because it is a personnel matter so they won't give us a lot of details on what's happening, but she was brought to the prince georges county school system in 2013. she was hired by ceo kevin maxwell to help lead the health deputy here within the prince

georges county school system and work on community information and making sure that parents and students were involved and practicing good health. as we can see, there are some issues with that right now. >> tracee, do we know why there are so many kids who haven't gotten their shots this late in the school year? >> that's what the prince georges county school system needs to try to figure out. these are state mandates and if they don't get these kids immunized as of wednesday they'll be asked to no longer come to school until they have proof they've gotten shots. so this is a serious matter. it could be how prince georges county communicate with parents. it could be that they don't have enough clinics. there's no telling what's causing this issue, but school officials want to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible. >> tracee wilkins live in prince georges county. thanks, tracee. when it comes to the weather the way we're starting this week is definitely want the way we're going to end it. so we'll need a few tools, is that right, doug, to get us

through? you'll need the golf umbrella that we talk about and then, well, maybe you need carry around a pen and that's the kind of rain that we're talking about, and it has a chance to come in here. right now we're just seeing light showers and that would be the umbrella that you can fit in the purse or the backpack. no rain downtown and you can see fairly nice conditions with some sky cover here. mostly cloudy skies with a couple of breaks and it's very humid and 81 degrees and winds out of the south at 9 miles an hour under mostly cloudy skies and we'll continue to see the clouds and the chance of showers, too. temperatures above average and 81 in the huntingtown area and 71 in frederick. we're not dealing with a lot of rain and it's shower activity and you can see the radar mostly clear and there are a few spaces toward frederick county and anne arundel county and notice around portions of loudoun county, that's where we're seeing the bulk of the showers and they've made their way through impact around leesburg and we'll continue to watch these move off

to the north and west. there will be more showers this evening and not a washout tonight. here's what's coming, though. as a matter of fact, look at the eastern half of the nation here, just sockeded in with cloud cover, torrential rains down to the south. torrential rains in the carolinas and all of that is going to try to move towards our area during the day tomorrow. tomorrow morning starting off with just some cloud cover. i don't think we'll have to worry about the rush hour tomorrow morning and around noon, starting to see some showers move in and watch what happens around 4:00 and here comes the rain and it gets heavy during the evening hours at 6:00, 7:00, and notice it's heaviest around i-95 and midnight tomorrow night we'll still be dealing with the rain and we could see some locations picking up an inch to an inch of rain pf. 68, cloudy in the morning and some of that will be heavy at times with temperatures at 74 degrees and the next couple of days we have a chance of rain

each day and we're only in the mid-60s on thursday and friday and wait until you see that weekend forecast, guys. veronica's got that later on. >> thanks, scott. >> now to the fallout from that wild dugout scuffle between nationals bryce harper and jonathan papelbon. carol maloney is live outside the park. this is the most the nates have shown in the last four weeks. >> it's a very calm end after yesterday. jonathan papelbon, they announced today he is suspended four games without pay for brawling with bryce harper in the dugout yesterday. harper today out of the lineup for his part and that's according to manager matt williams, it's a disturbing scene in the dugout during yesterday's game and papelbon will actually now miss the rest of the season. he's accepted the three-game suspension issued by the major league baseball for throwing at manny machado last week. that suspension will go from today into wednesday. the nationals suspension they announced today for the harper fight will begin thursday and

last the remainder of the season. so the nationals will be without their closer for the rest of the year. many speculating it will last a lot longer than that. the nats did pick up that $11 million option for next year and we'll hear from the gm rizzo after the game today, but manager matt williams, he spoke before the game today and we'll have that reaction for you and it's coming up on news 4 at 5:00. >> thanks, carol. a lot to that. a lot of information. a wild game tousle at an nfl game and it ends with the arrest of a player's wife. the cost of staples going up. you're watching news 4 at 4:00.

in the race for the white house, we are learning more about what donald trump would do if elected president. the republican contender unveiled his highly anticipated tax plan this morning. it would eliminate income taxes for millions of americans and lower taxes for the rich. trump says under his plan, individuals earning less than $25,000 a year and married couples learning less than 50,000 would pay no federal income taxes.

none. and no business regardless of size would pay more than 15% in taxes. >> i think this is a common-sense, well-thought-out tax proposal that's going to trigger the economy and going to make everybody go back and really want to work. it will create tremendous numbers of jobs. >> his plan would help the economy grow as much as 5% or 6% a year, a rate most economists say is unrealistic. >> mr. trump and dr. ben carson are running neck and neck. the wall street journal poll has trump leading carson by one percentage point. carly fiorina is third. hillary clinton still tops the list, and it's close about 42% of voters support her compared to 35% for bernie sanders. clinton's numbers have dropped in the past few months and 60% back in june. vice president joe biden is at 17% and he hasn't even decided

if he's running. there may be a handful of new sports in the 2020 olympic games. the games will be played in tokyo that summer. the city recommended five sports just this morning. baseball and softball count as one. karate, surfing, skateboarding and sport climbing were all recommended and bowling, squash and washu, similar to kung fu failed to make the cut. we'll get the final decision from the olympic committee next year. a sports radio talk show host and the wife of a miami dolphins player was arrested outside of sun life stadium. [ bleep ]. >> get off my [ bleep ]! >> youtube video shows a disstraut mico grimes as she's being detained by police in a parking lot after the game yesterday. >> according to the police report grimes attempted to walk through a restricted area without proper i.d. authorities say she didn't respond to verbal warnings not

to enter the area and she resisted officers' attempts to subdue her. >> the pope is back at the vatican and he's talking about the cities he visited. what the pope thinks about washington. and lessons in forgiveness. and lessons in forgiveness. vandals leave a nasty

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is back at home. pope francis returned to the vatican this morning and now he is opening up about his first trip to the u.s. what he had to say about meeting you and millions of other americans. the pope canonized junipero serra and there is more proof this week that people are not happy about it. what mission leaders are saying to those who vandalized the statue of the new stant. an indiana mother is grieving and demanding answers about what happened to her son. he died in police custody after complaining he could aren't breathe. what police are saying about this case coming up. but first, you need to get ready for delays on metro that could last months. they could be especially bad if you ride through one particular part of town starting tomorrow. news 4's derek ward breaks down the orange, blue and silver line riders. >> reporter: one week ago this metrotrans former fire disrupted morning rush hour service on the orange, blue and silver lines. those disruptions continued into that afternoon.

that transformer provided power to the tracks. as a work around metro has patched in what power they can from other transformers, but they've had to have trains slowing or stopping as they approach the station to lessen the load. it's a temporary fix. a permanent one will hold more changes for riders on the orange, silver and blue line starting tuesday. during rush hours, blue line trains will be the only trains stopping at stadium armory. it will go through the station, but they won't stop and that will complicate some commuters' travel. >> at this point, they can take either of the three. the trains that do stop here will do so less frequently. metro says it will ease congestion and it is hard for some to take. >> i'm so furious. >> it is the anc commissioner for the year that includes the armory station. >> not only am i going to have to figure out how to get back and forth to work, but students will have to figure out how to get to school. we have eastern high school elle, elliott high middle school. the kids take the metro.

>> reporter: metro says they will put longer trains on the orange and blue lines to help compensate, but there's no other way around the problem until the substation that burned can be fixed they can only run one train through stadium armory at a time. >> the work around that they're using now has the system stretched pretty much to its limits and anything less and they could have another shutdown. this will be in place for six months and that's how long it will take to replace that substation. at stadium armory, derrick ward, news 4. in loudoun county this afternoon it is. democrat brian almond is challenging republican sheriff mike chapman. almond sent a controversial letter to sean dikeman, president of the loud oub chapter of the virginia police benevolent association. in the letter he called the sheriff's office a joke and said if he's elected he'll get rid of a majority of the deputies who are there now. a short time ago in an email to

news 4, dikeman said a terrifying and unfortunate part of being a deputy is you can be fired without recourse, something his group has been fighting. today not much rain, but get ready. we could see a lot of rain in some places by the end of the week and by the end of the weekend. we've got a couple of storms to talk about. right now first out there right now, we do have some showers or headlines to talk about a spotty evening shower and an unsettled week for us and boy, is it going to get cool by the end of the week and on storm watch for the weekend which we'll talk about later. your showers are coming through the area and fredericksburg, and i can see those here and those are burning toward culpeper and right now by tomorrow morning and more of the mist and fog to start out and it will be a warm start for us and our temperatures in the 60s. look at this, by afternoon the weather will have a moderate impact on our area because we're

expecting not just some moderate rain, but potentially some heavy rain and we're not done with just that storm and there could be another one to follow. doug kammerer has a look at the tropical system that could impact our first fall weekend. first at 4:00, we've learned a mother and her 11-year-old son died in the house fire this morning. anne arundel firefighters say pauline naylor and her son died. firefighters found both of them in a bedroom near the front of the house and they're still looking into how they started. pope francis is enjoying being home at the vatican after his week-long trip to cuba and the u.s. ann thompson got the pope's impression during his return flight to the vatican. >> reporter: pope francis is now back at the vatican after six days in the united states, and he really seemed to enjoy his time there. he said he was genuinely surprised by the warmth and the

piety of the american people. >> we've been waiting my whole life for this. he's bringing me back to the church which i think the whole point of all of this. >> the whole day, the whole week has been emotional. >> he's a man that exudes love for everybody. it was just great. very heartwarming. >> he had a description of each of the three cities he visited. he said washington, he found formal, but warm. new york city which had that huge standing ovation after his mass at madison square garden. [ applause ] >> he said new york city was exuberant and philadelphia where 800,000 people went to mass with him on sunday, the final event in his u.s. tour, philadelphia was very demonstrative. the pope addressed the issue of sexual abuse defending his comments to bishops in washington when he offered them words of compassion. he said he wasn't trying to downplay sexual abuse.

he said any priest commits sacrilege. as for his own star power, the pope isn't very impressed, he says. that's just fleeting. what lasts is being a servant to god. i'm ann thompson in rome. now back to you. >> pope francis canonized a new saint here in d.c. and it's already bringing a lesson in forgiveness out west. look at what vandals did to a statue of junipero serra. someone threw green paint and wrote saint of genocide. church leaders credit serra for spreading the gospel in california during the 18th century and critics say he forged a brutal system that cut off native americans from their culture. >> being made a saint doesn't mean the person is perfect. we all have our flaws. we all have our defects, you know? and so it was with serra. >> volunteers gathered this morning to clean up some of the damage which fortunately mission

leaders say is not permanent. a potential plea deal is in the works for a former house speaker dennis hastert accused in a cover-up scandal. his lawyers for talks with prosecutors and they didn't release details after a court hearing. an indictment handed down in may accuses of hastert of skirting banking lous in order to pay an unnamed person more than $3 million. the pages were made through claims of sexual misconduct decades ago when hastert was a teacher and high school wrestling coach in suburban chicago. defense attorneys have taken steps to keep details of those allegations under wraps. some of the scientists and amateur scientists are just geeking out on social media this afternoon and what today's announcement means future astronauts. >> a major grocery store says it is cutting thousands of jobs.

talking about papelbon there. i'll bet that guy is not on the team next year, that's for sure. cloud cover and shower activity and storm team 4 radar tracking showers around the fredericksburg area and more in

western loudoun county, but again, not a lot of rain today. tomorrow, a much better chance of rain and then this weekend we'll be tracking something and we have a lot of cloud cover around the region and a lot of rain and we're watching tropical depression number 11. it is expected to become tropical storm joaquin potentially by around 5:00 with the latest advisory. the track of this storm with winds right now at 35 miles an hour actually brings it north by thursday at 40 mile-an-hour tropical storm and then to the north by friday just off the coast. now i'm waiting for the latest official model here to come out and the latest official track with the national hurricane center and i'll have more coming up at 5:00, but it could affect our weekend and i'll be talking about that and veronica has a look at seven-day forecast and the super moon eclipse pictures. pretty amazing this past weekend. >> can't wait to see that. thanks, doug. hopefuls are taking a drastic step to keep up with its competitors. whole foods is laying off 1500

employees over the next eight weeks. that's nearly 2% of the workforce. grocery chain says it anticipates many of those workers will apply for 2,000 positions now open across the country. it's not clear if any stores in our area will be affected by the layoffs. >> you may recognize a local actor on tonight's episode of "blind spot." juan pablo mess went to anne arundel high school. for the past several years he's been featured in a number of television shows and movies. tonight he's going to play a father trying to get his daughter back. "blind spot" airs tonight at 10:00 on nbc 4 just after "the voice." there is lots of talk today on facebook about the red planet. why today's announcement boosts hope of putting man on mars one day.

right now at 4:45. news 4 working several developing stories. fairfax police are investigatoring whether a police officer used a stun gun. video shows a man stunning a man in the alexandria area last week. he says the victim has cerebral palsy. an interview with the victim is new at 5:00. the family of a suspect in a deadly hit and run is talking to news 4. ryan salandy is charged with first-degree murder. police say he intentionally ran over another man in clarksburg

on friday. find out what detectives say triggered that incident in 15 minutes. >> nats closer jonathan papelbon now suspended for the rest of the season following this ugly incide incident in the dugout. we have new reaction from nats manager matt williams straight ahead. now to some truly dramatic developments in the world of space exploration. researchers have discovered water on mars. >> pretty exciting discovery. the discovery is once again fueling speculation about life on the red planet. >> reporter: for generations, mars has been a planet steeped in mystery. today nasa scientists revealed the planet's biggest secret yet. under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on mars. >> images from a high resolution camera on reconnaissance orbiter

revealed dark streaks come and go as the seasons change. >> they're formed by liquid water on pressen-day mars. >> using an instrument that identifies types of molecules by which colors of light they absorb, scientists found evidence of hydrated salt on mars. >> the existence of liquid water, even if it's super salty, briny water gives the possibility that if there's life on mars that we have a way to describe how it might survive. >> reporter: after multiple spacecraft and many years of observation, mars is coming interest clear focus, fielding speculation about human survival on the surface. >> the exciting thing si think we will send humans in the near future to mars. >> a planet once thought to be out of our reach now closer than ever. dave wagner, nbc news. >> pretty thrilling. folks who live in one part of coastal mississippi say they haven't seen this type of flooding since hurricane katrina.

sunday's heavy rain soaked the streets and triggered flash flooding in pascagoula. the water was four-feet deep in some spots, but it should start to recede in the next few days. >> now your storm team 4 forecast. oh, my goodness, did you see? we lucked out and we saw the clouds part and the super lunar eclipse last night. if you missed it or didn't know about it, i'm not sure how because all you had to do was download the nbc washington app. check out this image from david abboud and stafford, virginia, and it was amazing and some of the best images came from 9:30, 10:00 and carlos enriquez sending in this one and just download the nbc washington app and search super moon. we have super rains headed our way. not this evening and just light showers and the rain chances go way up tomorrow and they're rather high on wednesday and way up again this weekend and it could be both days this weekend and it was not just rain and

also some wind. as we look at our future weather over the next couple of hours we'll take you through tuesday here and we'll start out with the mist, light showers and fog across the area and definitely the low cloud, and a warm start to the day and here's lunchtime tomorrow and still doesn't look like a lot going on, but watch what happens after 2:00, 3:00 tomorrow and you can see spotty showers and isolated thunderstorms and pockets of more moderate to heavy rain and after 5:00 and after 9:00 some as late as 11:00 and the areas that will be impacted with some of these heavier rains coming through and it will be up to the north around hagerstown and frederick, maryland through northern and central areas of maryland tomorrow. so between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. the bulk of it comes through and even when it leaves the area it could be breezy and windy. here is a recap, baltimore, frederick, high-impact area with the moderate and heavy rain coming up tomorrow. that means 72 and 70 could be during the evening rush that

could be impacted and the temperatures drop to the 70s by then. so out and about, exercising and travel, weather will have a moderate impact to heavy impact late, i think on our area. in terms of temperatures coming up over the next couple of days again, it is going to be cool and check out friday. 64 degrees and cooler than that the upcoming weekend and we'll have a look at your weekend weather forecast coming up on news 4 at 5:00. right now students at a new jersey high school are wrapping up what's been a difficult day, and a star quarterback at warren hills regional high died over the weekend. he was injured during taking a hit after monday night's game and he collapsed after making it to the side line. there is an autopsy being done right now. grief counselors were at the school today and his funeral will take place later this week. talk about a good samaritan. a mother was trying to help when she fell to her death. jessica smith saw a pickup truck on the side of the road on saturday morning. it had been in a crash.

so the nursing assistant got out of her vehicle to check on that victim. he'd been thrown out of his truck and had fall own the road below. witnesses say jessica heard the man yelling on the road and the coroner thinks she went over the edge and misjudged how far the drop was and fell to her death. family says jessica was doing what she always did was helping others. >> that was god's plan to have her there at that moment so that someone could find that man and in the process she lay down her life for somebody else. >> jessica had a 9-year-old son. her sister says they will take him in and make him a part of their family. volkswagen's stock is down more than 8% as german prosecutors opened an investigation against the company's former ceo. they plan to establish martin wint wintergarns role with millions of diesel cars with software that allow millions to cheat on

u.s. air pollution tests. >> d.c.'s attorney general will try to help you spot bad contractors and shady house flippers. the attorney general's forum runs from 6:30 to 8:00 at the banning library in northeast. earlier this year his office filed a lawsuit accusing a virginia couple of selling improperly and illegally renovated houses in the district. >> well, you may be one of the 13 million people with a new iphone. apple says that many, 6 and 6plus units over the weekend setting a new record for early sales and last year it moved 10 million phones in the weekend. this year apple included china in the new phone launch and the new models will be available by the end of the next week and the cheapest version will set you back about $650. people aren't buying as much cold cereal as they used to, but have you noticed, prices are still going up. shoppers will spend nearly $10

billion on cold cereal this year. it may not sound like a lot, but at 7% less than we paid in 20 twefrl and at the same time prices are rising. today you'll have to spend nearly $3. some higher-end cereals now cost more than a steak. a new week, yet another deadly incident involving police. why a teenager's mother says she's not getting answers about

seattle's ride the duck tours have been put on hold with no word on when they're coming back. this is coming after another victim from thursday's crash has died and there are new revelations from a federal investigation. the national transportation safety board says the duck boat involved in that crash did not get a recommended axle repair two years ago. >> we will not return any of the fleet to service until we can demonstrate that our fleet is well maintained, road worthy and safe. >> five people have now died from thursday's crash. >> the death of a young suspect in police custody is raising a lot of new questions today. >> he died saturday in the back of an ambulance after twice telling officers he was having trouble breathing. >> he received the highest level

of care. >> he had no asthma. he didn't have no history of anything. >> so how is it that her 18-year-old son is dead after being arrested, suspected of shoplifting. all she's been told is that her son told police she couldn't breathe and then died. >> he told them that he couldn't breathe and they called the ambulance. >> according to police an ambulance came and an ems crew examined the team and said he was okay to go to jail and left, but before officers could take him downtown, he complained again he couldn't breathe only this time his condition went downhill fast. a second ambulance was called, but dave died in the back of it with an ems crew working to save him. >> i want answers to why they didn't send him to the hospital when he said he was hurting the first time. why did they leave and had to come back. >> despite what police say led to their arrest, a skew isn't convinced her son was shoplifting or had a gun.

she says he had a job at taco bell and was finishing school. >> he could have went to jail and they could have did anything they wanted to do as long as they took him alive. this mother says that could have happened. >> don't just determine that nothing was wrong with him because obviously there was something wrong with him, and they ignored it. >> ems officials in indianapolis say they've launched an internal investigation. >> for their part police say they're still waiting on word from the county coroner's office. news 4 at 5:00 starts now with jim and wendy. now at 5:00, i'm mark segraves in the district where the mayor wants to use private ambulances to run some 911 calls. i'll tell you what it will mean for the next time you have to call for help. i'm pat collins. a cop with a closed fist hits a woman in the face several times. he knocks her out. how did that happen?

>> bryce harper out today, jonathan papelbon gone for the year and the fallout from the dugout continues and the manager's reaction coming up. storm team 4 radar showing rain across portions of the area and it gets heavier in the forecast. i'll show you when. >> but first at 5k clo, new video of a police takedown. >> and the victim says she was just trying to protect her sister, but police have a different story to tell tonight. news 4 obtained the video and it shows police taking a woman into custody after an altercation in a restaurant. so did this arrest go too far? one officer explains he was the been assaulted by the woman. news 4's pat collins joins us to explain both sides of this story. pat? >> jim, it happened over there, a cop with a closed fist hits a woman in the face a number of times. he knocked her out. nobody's disputing that. why he did it, well, there are

two versions of that story. >> this is what 29-year-old lynna uribe looks like today. this is what she looked like july 12th after she said a cop punched her a number of times in the face. she was knocked out, taken to the hospital where she was treated for three days. >> the scene, the el tapatio bar. it was about 2:30 in the morning and miss uribe says inside four women were attacking her younger sister. she said she went to protect her sister and some bouncers brought her out of the bar to the cop in the parking lot. >> miss uribe's attorneys produced this blotchy surveillance video which they say shows the cop throwing her to the ground and punching her in the head. >> miss uribe spoke today through an interpreter. >> translator: when he twisted my arm to the back he