intent to distribute. court documents say more than 100 grams of cocaine were seized in the home about 60 am gras hidden in the toilet. police seized $20,000 cash in a plastic bag. ? sanders worked in the religious affairs office since 2012, prior to muriel bowser taking office. >> i don't know lorenzo sanders and i don't know about an arrest. i'm going to have to check on that. >> does it trouble you the charges against him? >> i don't know what the charges are, so let me find out. anyone that is accused of a crime that works for us, we have some processes that -- that we go through. of course, they're afforded due process, but they also have a high obligation to respect the public interest. >> reporter: sanders' lawyer declined to speak to news 4. now, police say they also arrested dominic sanders. he's the adult son. they say he had -- in temple hills maryland. they say he had eight grams of

cocaine and a pistol and the son said all of the drugs were his. i'm at the d.c. superior count, tom sherwood, news 4. new pictures of a dramatic takedown in virginia. a teenager with a gun made threats on a school bus. the scare for students to shelter in place inside classrooms as deputies moved in nearby with their guns drawn. bureau chief julie carey has details of the teenager's arrest just blocks from the school. the alarming scene around culpeper high school like so many others around the country. frightening parents gathering, jamming the school's driveway to try to get to thr kids, only this time the threat was diffused. a teen suspect in custody, the weapon, a pellet gun that others thought was a 22. the sheriff said it was mid-morning when several students came forward to say a 15-year-old schoolmate had shown the guy on a school bus two mornings in a row and made

threats. >> he claimed it to be a firearm and he has made statements about what he would do with a weapon to shoot other people, multiple people and he gave specific, clear details of how or what he would do with that weapon and it's frightening. >> the three schools on the campus were locked down. security video was determined that the suspect never entered the building this morning. multiple police agencies arrived to help with the massive search for the teen and evidence. once the teen learned he was being sought he made a rangements to meet up with law enforcement at this corner near the high school. these photos released by the sheriff's department captured the moment of arrest. investigators found the pellet gun at a residence. the threat is over. >> these press conferences had been different. this is to report that we solved something before something bad happened. >> reporter: inside culpeper high, students say frightening rumors circulated about possible multiple shooters. >> there were these five rumors

going around and there were five people with guns and there was one with shots fired or something like that. >> his father left school frustrated and after waiting 90 minutes in a line of cars to get his son. he said parents needed more information. >> i wasn't afraid because right away they said they caught the guy and found the weapon. just the disorganization of the information was beyond belief, and this down here was even worse than that. >> reporter: there is still no word at this hour on precisely what charges the teenager will face. in culpeper, i'm julie carey, news 4. >> the man who opened fire at an oregon community college was shot by officers before he took his own life. today a prosecutor gave more details about the rampage at umpqua community college last week. two plain-clothes detectives who weren't wearing bulletproof vests exchanged gun fire.

the gunman was hit and he went inside and shot himself. >> once the suspect engaged the police officers he did not shoot another student. these men saved lives that day. >> nine people were killed that day. president obama plans to go to oregon on friday to visit with the am haves families. >> a sketch, a smart trip card and descriptions from two brave sex assault victims. that's how police tracked down a guy wanted for three attacks in arlington. pat collins has more now. the surprising spot where officers made that arrest. pat? >> reporter: jim, one victim that provided the description of the suspect, that led to this sketch. another victim remembered seeing the suspect on a metro bus. that led to a picture which led to an arrest right here in front of police headquarters. >> this is a sketch of a suspect

wanted in connection with three sex assaults in arlington county. the description provided by one of the victims. now this is a mug shot of 19-year-old melvin bonilla charged today in connection with one of those cases, but police say he confessed to multiple sexual assault attempts. since last summer, women have been assaulted at 15th and scott streets in the 1200 block of north quincy street and the 1900 block of north highland street. police believe these cases are all the work of the same man. >> he used the cover of night to where he could conceal himself and ultimately surprise these women by grabbing them from behind, throwing them to the ground to where he would touch them inappropriately. >> after some painstaking police work, investigators managed to compare a sketch of the suspect to a picture of melvin bonilla on a metro bus. they then tracked his travels on

the bus and staked out bus stops that he normally used. then this morning after he got off the bus and walked through this parking lot, they arrested him. they arrested him in this parking lot right across the street from police headquarters. >> the community has been on edge for the last couple of months, but again, we have been working around the clock to solve this case and we can rest easier now knowing that bonilla is behind bars. >> reporter: now there's still about a half-dozen open sexual assault cases in arlington, not linked to this guy. police are trying to close those cases, as well. jim, back to you. >> pat collins. thank you, pat. >> this is the second time in a week that police have used a smart trip card to track down a suspect in sex crimes. we told you late last week about a man charged with exposing himself to an underage girl on a

green line metro train. police used his smart trip card to track him back to the greenbelt station. that's where they made the arrest. >> in south carolina, the governor says hundreds of roads and bridges remain closed tonight as a result of the devastating flooding. it is still a mess in so many parts of that state. the death toll is also climbing. at least 17 people have died, but tonight weir also starting to see some early signs of recovery. nbc's jay gray is in columbia, south carolina, with the latest with all of this. >> that recovery will take a while here and we wanted to give you a firsthand look at the power of the water. look at this huge hole. it used to be a roadway and i'll get out of the way and you can see what the water did to the asphalt here, just tearing it away and there is concern tonight that more water could be on the way. sheriffs deputies are going door to door in dozens of communities

on edge right now as rushing waters continue to test bridges and dams already stretched to their limits. >> the water is flowing and as it is flowing we are watching. >> 13 dams have failed. 62 across the state are being monitored. as crews frantically work around the clock to patch those that are starting to give way. >> they have already placed 400-one-ton sandbags in place working to get to 750 one-ton sandbags. >> in other communities, the work is focused now on clearing out and cleaning up. >> families, saving what they can, pulling away the rest, piling up the pieces of their homes and lives ravaged by the storm. many, getting help from volunteers who like the water before them, are now pouring into the hardest-hit areas. >> you don't have to know people. just know they need help. >> karen regal is one of them who need some help. >> she and her husband were rescued by boat as floodwaters

rushed in. >> it's not too heavy. >> now friends and neighbors are helping them move out what's left of their home. >> they're angels. they're angels up here, and i keep saying thank you and they keep saying we're family. family bound together by the storm and their determination to make sure their community comes all of the way back. you know, fema is on the ground helping out, as well and after two days with no rain and people getting out and getting a look at what happened here. the shock is starting to wear off. a lot of people understanding now it's going to take in some of the hardest-hit area, a year or more to clean up and recovery. doreen, it will be a tough go for a while. jay gray, thank you. >> some airmen in maryland are helping with the historic relea release. the images are going to help

emergency crews decide to how to distribute the resources and n manpower over the scene. the coast guard will suspend its search for the crew of the el faro cargo ship. some family members who are still grieving don't think that's such a great idea. they think some members of the crew might still be waiting to be rescued. 28 americans and five polish citizens were onboard when that ship sank near the bahamas last thursday in the middle of hurricane joaquin. the el faro had what's called a voyage recorder, that's similar to a plane's black box. investigators are hoping to find it before its batteries run out in about three weeks, but the problem is that ship has sunk in about 15,000 feet of water. >> the guy with a suspended license is accused of hitting a mother and her 2-year-old child while they were trying to cross the street. patrick lawrence took off after

he hit the woman on dale boulevard in prince william county and virginia. the investigator said the worldcom was in the cross walk and not her child. lawrence will be in court tomorrow. the fbi foils a nuclearing someling plot amid concerns that the material could end up in the hans of terrorists. pete williams joins us next with the development. >> a 17-year-old riding his bike here in this residential neighborhood in waldorf maryland is shot. ahead, his mother thanks the school bus driver who stopped to help him. >> i just want to hug her. she is the only one who stopped. there are new poll numbers in the race for the white house. tonight, the three republicans who are now trailing donald trump in their own home states. it seemed like a pretty nice day, and we have another one tomorrow and then friday. friday, we have some changes

even war has rules. that's the rallying cry tonight from doctors without borders. the human an tearian group is deunderstand maing an investigation into the deadly u.s. airstrikes that killed 12 aid workers and 12 patients in a hospital in afghanistan on saturday. this was not just an attack on

our hospital. it was an attack of jeb overa conventions. these conventions were established to protect civilians in conflict. they're the difference between life and death for medical teams on the front line. >> president obama called the international precedent of doctors without borders to personally apologize. white house officials said he assured her the investigation currently under way would provide an objective accounting of all of the facts and after the group renewed its call for an independent investigation. to reports of a recent sting operation that's aimed at guys who are trying to smuggle nuclear arms. >> fbi agents worked with police in muldova to foil attempts by russian-linked smalling luggler to terror groups. >> we get a look inside something we almost never see and these are the operations the fbi has been involved in for the

past two decade with police in european countries especially countries of the former soviet union claiming that can sell radioactive material where you blow the material up with a high explosive and spread hazardous material around. a big terror concern. the nightmare scenario, in a sense, these pictures were obtained by the a.p. from the mull dove an police who are eager to show their success. in one in february a man claimed that he could sell material like this to isis. he thought he was dealing with a buyer representing isis, but that buyer was actually an undercover operative in a sting operation. there was no actual isis connection, but nonetheless, it's still a subject of great concern and one the u.s. spends a lot of energy on. >> and a lot of money. i am told we spend a couple billion a year and are others participating with us? >> they're trying to get other

countries to be more serious about it. in fact, a number of these smuggling cases peaked in the '90s after the soviet union broke up and they've been declining, but the customers for this have changed over time. we didn't hear about al qaeda and now we do more and shifting to other terror groups and others on the black market and that's the concern. they want to make sure that even though some of these sellers claim to have material that they probably can't get access to and it doesn't get into the wrong hands. >> it raises questions about where these smugglers get their hands on this stuff and do they have access to enough material to be dangerous? >> that is the big question, of course. some of this is material like cesium that's available in hospitals, but there are all those nuclear weapons that were in control of the soviet union that are now in the countries of the former soviet union. that's the concern. could they fall into the wrong hands or could terror groups get their hands on perhaps not as something as radioactive as plutonium and uranium that could

form the basis of a radioactive dirty bomb. if there's good news, years ago that one of the national laboratories tried to see how easy it is to build a dirty bomb and fortunately, it's not so easy. >> that's a bit of good news in a troubling story. >> pete williams, thank you. and pete will report nbc nightly news with lester holt after this broadcast. >> there is intrigue in the presidential race tonight. >> there say new poll out that puts donald trump ahead in two swing states with florida and ohio. what that means is three men running for the republican nomination are now trailing trump in their home states. steve handelsman is following all of this in capitol hill. >> jim, thanks. to political insiders these are more proof that trump can be the republican nominee. donald trump in iowa exuberant and talking tough on undocumented immigrants. >> if i win and i become president they are going back. they're going back.

they're going back. >> reporter: the billionaire leads in iowa and got good news in two big swing states that vote in march. in florida, trump is at 28% in today's quinnipiac poll leading ben carson and two floridians running leading marco rubio and jeb bush. in ohio he is ten points ahead of john kasich. jeb bush admits he's in trouble. >> if the election was held in the first week of october i would say uh-oh. >> reporter: democrat hillary clinton is in iowa. >> look, the economy does better when we have a democrat in the white house. that's just a fact. >> reporter: she is getting a boost back in washington where the likely next house speaker kevin mccarthy admitted the gop committee investigated clinton's emails in benghazi are being used to kill her campaign. want true said the committee chair today. >> kevin screwed up. >> reporter: mccarthy today backtracked. >> let's be very clear. ben gassy is not political.

>> reporter: in iowa trump played the set-up outsider. >> excuse me, who would be better at this me or them, huh? >> on the iran deal, he says and everything else. >> reporter: trump is planning his campaign's next phase which would include television ads for the first time because he told the washington post he now believes that the gop nomination is within his grasp and finally a bit of breaking news and hillary clinton looking for ways to distinguish herself from president obama says today she probably cannot support the obama controversial pacific trade deal. i'm steve handelsman, news 4. doreen? >> thank you, steve. trespassing on the tracks and putting themselves at risk. several months later an arrest as a woman strikes yoga poses and snaps pictures of the stunt. disturbing details after a man died following a scuffle with security outside a hospital. a young athlete at the top of her game, but she was hiding a secret. tonight olympic swimmer allison

schmitt shares her story in hopes of changing minds. i was on the pool dock, and i just started crying and i said i do

now your storm team 4 forecast. >> there's thunder every time the storm team 4 comes on, and i hope we can have birds chirping. no thunderstorms to talk about

at least want for the next 24 hours and coming up on friday, well, that could be a different story. take a look outside from the reston live camera looking down wisconsin avenue at 3:55 all of the way down toward the bethesda area sxrpgs it will be a nice night, and i love this shot, too, as the sun makes its way down. a very nice night and temperatures still on the mild side and 72 in culpeper and down toward pawtuxet river. we'll see a chance of storms on friday, but until then we're on the clear side. clear skies means very good news for something that will happen tonight and that is a rocket launch that takes place in the southern portion of the delmarva peninsula. this will launch between 7:00 and 9:00 tonight. as it does so it will make its way into a mostly clear sky and then it's going to eject some --

veronica. >> bearrian -- it will eject vey cool stuff that makes light possible. i have to look this up. barium and strantium and will make for multi-colored clouds. look to the southwest tonight and this is where it will launch from, right in here and you can see the clouds as we move on through. there is a live picture of that rocket and not a very big rocket and a small rocket, and it will go high enough in the atmosphere right on up and release that between 7:00 and 9:00. take a look at my twitter page and my facebook page and i will keep you abreast of what time that will lafrn. >> back to the water because this is what we have coming and that's going to be a cold front that will bring rain in, not tomorrow and here's tonight, future weather at 5:00 and as we move on through the day on

friday and your early morning commute should be fine and we start to see the clouds and the showers and nothing too strong and i'm not anticipating severe weather. the good news is it's through by 8:00 and then you can get rid of it as you move through the evening. hour by hour, 76 degrees by 4:00 in the afternoon and thursday's looking good. friday, high temperature of 82 ahead of that front and right back down to 65 on saturday and we'll be right back with the rest of that seven day. >> here at the live desk that opening statements in the charles severance case will start tomorrow. he is the accused serial killer going on trial in virginia and our own julie carey just let us know a jury has been seated and sworn in. severance is accused of killing

three murders that have rocked the alexandria community over a 10-year span. it is being held in fairfax because of the amount of publicity this case has

now at 6:30, a mother's heartfelt message to the school bus driver who saved her son

after he was robbed and shot. >> i just want to hug her. >> a woman caught doing yoga after this video you saw on news 4. >> a change coming for new moms at the smithsonian museums after a complaint by the aclu. >> tonight, her secret battle with depression. >> i didn't really understand why i was going through that. >> reporter: and how michael phelps came to her rescue. trayvon cole was apparently minding his own business yesterday when two guys robbed him and then one of them shot him. >> fortunately for jayvon there was a school bus driver not far away who did everything she could to help him. jayvon's mother is feeling grateful to the bus driver and said the woman may have saved her son's life and she can't help, but wonder why those two thugs attacked her son in the first place. chris gordon is live outside

prince george's county. >> the 17-year-old was wounded and managed to flag down the passing school bus driver. she not only stopped, but she took the teenager on to the empty bus and put pressure his wounds and called for emergency medical help and she waited with him until it arrived. she probably saved his life. after st. charles high school let out yesterday afternoon 17-year-old jayvon cole went home and then rode his bmx bike into this waldorf maryland neighborhood to visit a friend. the charles county sheriff says two men robbed him and one pulled a gun and shot jayvon in the leg. he was medevac'd here to prince george's hospital center. >> he has a blood clot that they're trying to treat. the injury is still there. did the doctors tell you how long it will to recover and if it will be a full recovery. >> it will be a full recovery,

but it will be a couple of weeks at least. >> a woman stopped. >> she was the only one that stopped and she was the only one and put herself in danger not knowing what was going on. i mean, she just reacted with that reaction and i really just want to thank her so much. i really do. >> she said she'd like to let the school bus driver know that she not only saved jayvon's life, but also his dream of serving in the u.s. army. >> i just want to thank her and just hug her. that's my oldest son. i just want to hug her and just thank her and just welcome her interest my family now, so -- >> reporter: today i spoke with charles county public schools and they are very proud of that school bus driver. listen to this, just by coincidence, charles county sets aside a week every october and they encourage students to express their appreciation to their school bus drivers, just a coincidence, but this time isn't the timing perfect?

jim, back to you. >> indeed it is. thanks, chris. >> tonight, we are beginning to learn more about how how a man died after he was taken down by security guards outside the washington hospital center. a police report says guards used hand controls to restrain 74-year-old james mcbride. his family members say he was a loving father and a devoted husband. he tried to leave the hospital without signing out last week. the washington post reports now that mcbride had a broken vertebrae near his neck, but they did not say how that injury occurred. >> a virginia woman caught on camera practicing yoga on metro tracks is scheduled to appear in fairfax court later this month. metrotransity police say they've arrested this woman for trespassing, a misdemeanor charge. news 4 i-team obtained video of the incident from back in april.

you can see the woman lower herself from the platform in the station and you can see her partner lowering himself, too. he's seen taking picture us of the woman and transit police say deliberately trespassing on the tracks is dangerous especially because of the highly charged third rail. >> metro will add another layer of safety during its mrjemergen intercomes. if nobody picks up the call from emergency intercoms then the calls will be transferred to metro police. a rider tried to use the intercom after the cats game sunday night and he was with his 3-year-old child. he was trying to report that he'd lost his phone. nobody answered, though. his concern quickly grew to one of safety when he couldn't find the transit manager. >> i want to feel safe and know that if there is an emergency i have a safe place to go and know that someone is around.

nobody was around. >> the manager office a bathroom break when the rider was looking for help. the call box in question has been tested and it is now working. motorists continue to push back amid plans to add tolls to part of i-66. the state of virginia has been holding public meetings this week. i-66 inside the beltway would become high-occupancy toll lanes during the morning and afternoon rush. officials say it would help reduce traffic and it would allow for a quicker commute, but most drivers we spoke with are not happy about the price tag. tolls could go as high as $17 a day. there is another meeting on that issue tonight at 7:00. a rocket launch is scheduled at wallops' island and nasa is

testing the drive for other technologies. the rocket won't face orbit, but that's expected now to happen between 7:07 and 7:31 this evening, weather rer pitted and it will be the first launch since the ridiculouset sailed last october, and it was full of surprises for the international space station. most of the work was just completed. >> coming up, an unusual arrest as a guy was naked in broad daylight outside the library of congress. >> new fallout after a nursing mother asks for a private place to pump her breast milk. tonight a closer look at the controversy at dulles and how other local airports compare. >> we've got a storm system moving in during the day on friday and it could give us thunderstorm activity and then make things cooler as we head into the weekend and i've got that forec

u.s. capitol police arrested a guy today who was naked in a fountain outside the library of congress. he might have been bathing there, we are told. it happened in broad daylight during a busy time of day for both tourists and workers. the news 4 i-team broke that story on twitter today. see what you missed if you don't twee the capitol police say the man was fully exposed in the neptune fountain last thursday just after 9:00 in the morning. that fountain include s statues of naked figure, that is. the man is facing charges of indecent exposure. now to a story that's getting a lot of attention. the aclu sent a letter to the smithsonian secretary claiming the institution was violating federal law.

the letter claimed nursing mothers were forced to use restrooms and other rooms that were not private. the smithsonian tells us they will make sure each building has a private space for employees. new mothers may soon have nursing and pumping areas at dulles international airport, too. dulles says it's working on the new dedicated spot after a united airlines employee recently told a mother to pump breast milk in an indoor pet relief area. united says it will apologize to the woman. we checked with the other two airports in our area. reagan national has a nursing lounge in terminal a. they tell us they're working on adding more private spaces and bwi marshall has two designated areas for pumping. they are in the foyer area of the women's restrooms in concourse c and they say they're also working on adding more spaces. olman won gold at the olympics, but her world changed when she got home.

tonight allison schmitt opens up about her battle with depression and what prompted

swimmer allison schmitt has won five olympic medals in her career so far, three of them gold. you'd think she'd be on top of the world, but instead she's been facing a very private battle with depression. tonight she's taking about it in an effort to start changing minds about mental health.

>> allison schmitt will pick up her first individual -- >> july 2012, a pivotal moment in her career. >> allison schmitt is 3 for 3. >> allison schmitt broke the olympic record and left the london summer games with a total of four medals. >> i love knowing that everyone back home was watching and cheering, and i definitely felt that when i was over there racing. >> but it was that very support that became overwhelming for the then 21-year-old. she said she became an overnight celebrity and it was all too much for her. >> i wasn't expecting people to come up and say are you allison schmitt? are you allison schmitt? i was still expecting to be a person walking down the street with their dog and have no idea who they are. >> allison says she thinks the attention triggered something dark inside of her. she started sleeping all of the time. she isolated herself from friends and family and lost some of the inspiration that had

helped her find so much success in the olympics. she knew she needed some help, but she was too embarrassed to ask. >> i love everything about my life, so i didn't really understand why i was going through that or why i was feeling those feelings. >> when you have someone that had an olympics like she did, like, it wasn't just up to our expectations. it surpassed our best expectations so you immediately think, well, what could be wrong with that? and i just don't think she was ready for the way her life would change. >> months passed and allison thought she'd been hiding it well, but it was a star olympic teammate, michael phelps, a close friend and training partner who finally said something. >> as far as i can tell in the past few weeks, you're not acting yourself. something needs weird. if you need help, just let me know, i've been through it and there are other people that i can have help you. >> talked to her about going to see a therapist. people do it. it's not that big of a deal.

just go and talk. >> i was in the pool last night and i started crying and i said i do need help and that was a turning point. >> allison started seeing a therapist and she realized she had been battling depression and she still didn't feel comfortable being open about it, though, and then there was another dark moment. she learned that her 17-year-old cousin april had taken her own life and that's when allison really understood that mental illness is something people need to talk about. >> it's all right to feel that way, but it's also right to ask for help and not keep it all in and think that you're battling it alone because there are so many people out there that love you. >> today allison says she's dock really well. she's also back on track in her swimming and she has high hopes to make the 2016 olympics in rio. telling allison's story is one way that nbc 4 is joining in the

discussion about mental health. as part of our changing minds campaign, we have a lot of resources to share on our website. also, i invite you to join me this saturday for an out of the darkness walk. i'm going to join representatives from the american federation of suicide prevention. we'll be at the sylvan theater on the national mall starting at 4:30. that is on saturday. >> good for allison. >> uh-huh. okay. halloween is on the way, and you know that for sure when neiman-marcus releases its annual christmas book. it is the 89th version coming out. it includes the annual assortment of what might be commonly called and properly so, fantasy gifts because there's one in a million who can afford them. this year, includes a balloon ride to the edge of space that will cost you $90,000. another bargain? there is a rare bourbon collection that costs only

$125,000, but this is what grabbed our attention this year. it's the first offering from the new arch motorcycle company, not camel. the company was so co-founded by the actor keanu reeves. he's a biker and been one for a while. he helped design this model, we're told. it's only going to cost you $150,000, but what it includes is a two-day ride along the california coast, probably, the pacific coast highway route 1 with reeves. we posted the full list of gifts on our nbc washington app if you want to get one for your next of kin. >> 150,000. >> let me tell you something about that, i have done that run so i don't need to tell you again. >> keanu should pay to ride to do it with you. >> i wouldn't say that. what was that woman that was in the bus ride. >> sandra bullock would go. >> speed, i might look into that. >> i would go in with it.

>> you would ride, too. >> yeah. i would ride with you for that one. >> now we know. now we know. >> beautiful day out there today and beautiful day out there today and it should be a beautiful night coming up in 20 to 30 minutes and i looked it up because last time i forgot and a really cool thing will happen tonight and approximately six minutes after launch this rocket will deploy four sub payloads. all of that means to you and i is it will make a beautiful cloud of blue, green and red in the sky. it will be nice. i don't want to forget the barium and stronthium. i don't know what number that is on the periodic table, but it is probably out there. >> if you are thinking about heading out. 75 degrees and look down to the southeast of you. that's where it is down to the southeast and 71 at 7:00 and down to 64 degrees at 11:00 and it will be cool, but not cold at

all and won't be nearly as cool. 71 in reston, and no rain to talk about. no clouds and that's why that rocket should have no problem getting out of there. >> sun and cloud, a great afternoon and 72 to 77 degrees and friday is the day to watch. we are going to see a front come through. we'll be at 82 degrees before that front and the front comes through with a chance of showers or storms right around the evening commute, i think. out of here by most likely early saturday and i think saturday is dry and we kept it in just to be sure and we could see rather breezy conditions and all of next week looks just as good as this past week. here at the live desk we're watching a developing situation in the third street tunnel that is affecting hundreds of commuters right now. let's take you right out to a live look. this is a traffic camera. this is fourth street and new york avenue. there was a cement spill in the third street tunnel.

a wtop are telling people if they're in the tunnel before magsev, get out, if they're on after massachusetts avenue it looks like you are stuck. right now workers are trying to wash that cement down to get it out of there and reopen the tunnel, but again, avoid the northbound third street tunnel and it is fully blocked because of that cement spill and people are stopped in that tunnel and we have seen some getting out of their cars figuring out what's going on. >> we have a crew

>> this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity. your home for the most live sports. carol was in our football team's locker room today. she said it was exciting and what else was it? >> it was lively and energetic. >> you're bringing the lively energy to these locker room, carol. >> seriously, they're making fun of me because i am a little bit positive sometimes, most times. there were more reporters, microphones and cameras in this locker room than we've seen all season. why is that you wonder? it probably has something to do with the eagles and have they beat them and now they're tied for the division lead. will that be the big question with the high-flying falcons with much uncertainty for this one as the status of the skins' top two weapons and desean jackson supposed to be the

number one threat. he was very limited in practice today, but at least he was out there so that is the good news. hasn't been on the field since week one as he recovers from his hamstring injury and jay gruden asks about desean's chances for playing this weekend. >> we know how much he means to our offense and it would definitely help, but it's also something that we have to see, you know. it's something that we can't rush them back because we don't want this thing to be a reoccurring incident and we'll have to see tomorrow what he can do. tight end jordan reed, as well, his status is uncertain because he's under the league's concussion protocol. it's the fourth concussion since college and he has a sprained acl. if he cannot go the skins will rely on derrick caek carrier. number 89 is ready and waiting.

jordan is a great player and that goes without question and we're hoping he'll be out there on sunday, but at the end of the day we have to prepare as though he's not out there and we just have to be read. >> does it get your juices flowing that it's your time to shine? >> a little bit. i try not to get too high and too low. i try to stay even keel. you know, i don't try to go out there and make plays and when the ball is in my court try to make the most of the opportunity. derek carrier. carron butler's new book titled "tough juice" details his journey from the streets to the nba, but he spent several pages on the locker room gun incident that tore them apart. butler says it began on a team playing with gilbert a re arena. arenas was at his locker with more guns and challenged

crittenton to pick one. oh, no, you don't need to shoot me with one of those, turning around like a gun i slinger in the northwest, i've got one right here. he pulled out his own gun, already loaded, cocked and pointed it at gilbert. jahvar jahvaris, and arenas is now out of the league and butler is going strong any about to begin his 14th season and he's with the kings. arenas is in california and he's still getting paid by the wizards and then they tanked and drafted wall. so a little bit of a light at the end of the tunnel. >> butler is a good read and there was a story in the post when he was playing with us and it's a wonderful story of not redemption of a guy overcoming all manner of things and it's a fine, fine read and the fact that he's still in the league speaks well for him in so many ways. they picked up carrier. >> yeah. >> what about coolly? >> coolly's name is still there.

>> he wants to play and he's ready to play. >> he would love to play some ball. >> that's our broadcast for now. nightly is coming up next. >> we'

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