odds-on favorite hillary clinton can maintain her lead or if bernie sanders or someone else can turn the table. news 4's steve handelsman is in las vegas for the big debate. he joins us now. steve. >> reporter: blue sky, 93 degrees in las vegas. i talked to ordinary folks and a lot of them will tell you they're happy to have the focus now on candidates who are not named donald trump. hillary clinton went to nevada where crews are getting ready for the debate at the wynn hotel that's advertising vegas style. hillary clinton versus bernie sanders and the other three democrats, face-to-face on the same stage for the first time. >> the one that everyone is going to be watching is bernie sanders. >> people will have to contrast my consistency and my willingness to stand up to wall street corporations and big corporations with the secretary. >> sanders leads in iowa and new hampshire, but trails clinton in more diverse states later like nevada. on the vegas strip today people

from across the nation say they'll watch the debate. >> i care about what they have to say. i care about where the country is going. >> all they can think about is trump. trump isn't in the debate. >> for the lesser known candidates, martin o'malley, jim webb and lincoln chafee, it's a chance to be heard. o'malley today. >> it's a wonderful idea, isn't it? both parties having debates? >> for clinton to move past her email controversy. now she gets to make her case directly to the american people without the gossip columnists. >> the benghazi real role was to kill her candidacy. it's a damn lie. >> the committee's chair today firing back. >> now in a race that's been dominated by donald trump, it's the democrats' turn. so will it be fiery? will there be finger-pointing a la you know who, the guessing is no and joe biden won't be here.

the vice president is still deciding. live from las vegas, steve handelsman, news 4. >> thank you, steve. a woman thought she was getting into an uber, but instead she got into another car and a man sexually assaulted her. it's a reminder to check that uber ride before you get in. we have some tips on the nbc washington app. the sex assault happened this weekend on mccomb street northwest. darcy spencer has more on what happened. >> reporter: i'm darcy spencer along mccomb street in northwest washington. this is where a young woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint early saturday morning. from what we've been told by d.c. police, the woman had gotten into a car that she mistook for an uber car and once she got into the four-door silver car, that's when the driver pulled a knife and sexually assaulted her. >> fortunately, she was able to get away from that driver, but

according to this police report, she left behind some items in that car. that includes her driver's license, a debit card, her house key and her smart trip metro card. now d.c. police are saying that they're still investigating this case. no arrest has been made. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, i'll tell you what she did after the attack and how she got help here in this neighborhood. darcy spencer, news 4. right now things are back to normal for passengers taking southwest airlines after technical glitches led to hundreds of delays over the weekend. yesterday's problem impacted the airline's website, the app and phone centers delaying 500 flights at hubs like lax. today they told customers to arrive two hours early just in case. >> the mobile website said that we still have to get a printed pass today and we were able to check in and get our seat

assignments. >> and we just got up earlier and got to the airport and we were to our gate in maybe 20 minutes. >> southwest says it has fixed the application that caused the problems and that there are no indications the airline has been hacked. temps dropped into the 30s for some of us over the weekend and we can see that across the region over the next couple of days and let's get the latest from our chief meteorologist doug kammerer. >> a really chilly weekend out there and a chilly start to the weekend. as a matter of fact, some areas saturday night into sunday morning and into the 30s for the first time and there are more of those to go and even on the cold side and dulles coming in at 39 this morning and 39 manassas and 39 in culpeper and 50 toward annapolis. look at fort meade coming in at 37 degrees. so a very cold start to the week, and i think it gets a lot colder next week. nice weather is here for today and maybe for tomorrow, but then very dhchilly comes in and almo

winterlike as far as the pattern goes and what does that mean for temperatures. well, much cooler toward the end of the week and we're talking about high temperatures for those of you and downright schilly aschil chilly and the first freeze for some, and some of us could be close to freezing by early saturday and sunday morning and we'll talk much more about the cool weather moving in over the next couple of days. some of you have been asking for and others say keep it away and it looks like it's coming just in time for the weekend. ♪ i'm tracee wilkins in buoy where just a little bit more than an hour ago the phipps family held a press conference concerning their dad who was found dead just yesterday. this after he'd been missing some three weeks. he went missing while on a trip, a field trip with the woodmore house assisted living facility where he'd been for five years and he suffered from dementia

and was 80 years old. the family has a lot of questions. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, why they are calling his death a homicide. in buoy, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. columbus day means a welcome three-day weekend in the washington area. hundreds marked the day by taking part in a colorful annual ceremony that also had its share of critics. news 4's tom sherwood takes us there. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: the united states marine corps band helping to kick off the annual columbus day ceremony held each year at the 1912 columbus statue that stands just outside of union station. today's, venevents included the pomp and ceremony by the knights of columbus, a catholic social group that has supported recognition of columbus. the italian embassy honored the

1892 explorer to a land that he neither knew or understood. >> let's remember the founder of our nation and the founder of the new world christopher columbus. >> present arms! >> a few protesters were on hand today to say columbus exploited more than explored. ♪ ♪ ♪ land that i love >> participants said they were honoring the exploration by columbus, not the whole of human events that followed. >> some people say what happens afterwards. we cannot judge today with what was done in 1892. you open the book -- >> only about half of the states recognized federal columbus day as a state holiday and some jurisdictions have changed it in honor of native americans.

in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. coming up in our next hour, a closer look at why people think columbus day is no longer politically correct. >> smoke in the cabin. we'll tell you what unusual item is to blame for an emergency landing on the east coast. have you gotten your flu shot yet? well, it's now or never. why doctors are urging people to get vaccinated and why some say this season could be one of the worst yet.

i'm jackie bensen in northwest washington. a disturbing scene behind me. a d.c. police car was involved in what we are told is a

collision with a bicyclist on connecticut avenue and l street in northwest washington, and you can see d.c. police are on the scene here investigating and trying to figure out exactly what happened. l street does have a bike lane, but right now we have absolutely no information about the cause of this collision. we don't know what led to it, but you can tell from looking at the police vehicle that obviously there was a lot of force involved in the vehicle's collision when it finally hit the median there. we are told that the cyclist, we do not know if it is a man or woman, is in critical condition in a local hospital and we are also told the police officer who was driving that vehicle was also transported to the hospital and his injuries are described as nonlife threatening and investigators are here on the scene trying to figure out exactly what happened when a d.c. police vehicle, an suv and

a bicyclist collided at 20th and l street a short time ago. back to you. >> thank you, jackie. an alaska airlines flight had to make an emergency landing in buffalo. the reason is a bit odd. the plane was heading from new jersey to seattle with 180 people onboard. it seemed someone put a credit card reader in a trash can in the plane's rear galley. it started to smoke, possibly from melting battery. the crew had a fire extinguisher and people are trying to determine who put it there. >> it may feel early, but doctors say they're already treating people for the flu and the cdc says now is typically when the virus starts to spread. according to the centers with disease control, last year's vaccine was only 20% effective with the virus that made people so sick. this year there's a quad vaccine that can protect against four different strains. >> the vaccine is formulated new at the end of every flu season

and the scientists do the best they can to predict and estimate what vaccine strains are going to be around for the next flu season. >> while you can get the vaccine at any point, doctors say the earlier, the better and the cdc says when you do get that vaccine it will still take a couple of weeks for your system to build up those antibodies. >> the flooding, devastation, the damage, shocking. ahead on news 4, local heroes that help south carolinians get that help south carolinians get out of the floodwaters sdwloo a

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right now a cyclist is in critical condition after being hit by a d.c. police suv. it happened just before 2:00 on connecticut avenue on l street. connecticut is shut down right now between l and m and the officer was also taken to the hospital, but he will be okay. first at 4:00, actor randy quaid and his wife are in custody on half a million dollars bail in vermont after they escaped to canada to avoid felony vandalism charges. police arrested the pair at the canadian border after they tried to re-enter the states. the cup hell been deported and they'd been fugitives since 2010 for allegedly squatting in a california home. >> rain-swollen rivers in eastern south carolina are

starting to recede, but there's still major flooding to deal with. a stretch of i-95 reopened today and it was shut down for more than a week because of the flooding. the governor announced that the state is shifting from emergency mode to recovery mode. >> local members of the civil air patrol are back home this afternoon after helping track south carolina's floodwaters from the sky. >> northern virginia bureau reporter caught up with the group from the civil air patrol in leesburg. >> over the past several days we've shown you some of the incredible images out of south carolina. the storm systems that rolled through bringing a lot of damage. water's rising quickly. this group right here members of the civil air patrol, some of them just back from south carolina. they flew ten missions over the course of four days and 18 hours in the air, but it wasn't all about capturing the devastation left behind. >> for an actual predictor of what will happen next is the levels that will go up and down that give the officials enough

warning town to tell the people downstream you need to be prepared to get out and you may have stopped rain, but the actual danger is still approaching. >> just ahead on news 4 at 5:00, you will hear some of the good and the bad that they encountered while on that mission. in leesburg, i'm david culver, news 4. >> we couldn't have had a prettier day today. let's keep this up. hi, doug. wouldn't it be great if we had this all week long? >> i think so. >> what if we had this and we dropped the temperature ten degrees. >> i think people are excited about what we have coming over the next few days and a lot of you continue to ask me, you love this nice weather, keep it coming. here is the reston live camera toward reston town center and you can see what we're dealing with. not a cloud in the sky and another great shot and here's the white house right here and still a lot of green on those trees and starting to see some color here in partses of the region and that's something we'll continue to see over the

next few weeks. >> winds out of the south at 20 miles per hour and the southerly wind continuing toen coup us above average and average high temperature, tomorrow is down to 69 for an average high. where where we are across the region. 77 and 76 in fredericksburg and gorgeous out there on our monday, but we have changes coming in and no chance tonight and it will be high and dry, but look what's going on around our area and no clouds here and clouds down toward the carolinas. look at this storm, a strong-looking, strong storm that's not a lot of rain with it and this is a classic storm system making its way out of cam da and into the great lakes and you can see showers and it will produce thunderstorms that will rotate around our region. we're not going to see storms here and by the time it gets here tomorrow we're not talking much in the way of rain. notice the cloud cover around the area and even around the 9:00, 10:00 hour, maybe a shower

and most of the area remaining dry and each around noon, we start to see some clearing and then the front moves through and we see a chance of of a shower in the afternoon at 3:00, 4:00, but take the umbrella. you will probably not need it and most of us will remain on the dry side. as we move on through the next couple of days and 79 tomorrow and then behind it, temperatures at or below average and 68 and rather breeze owe saturday and 67 on friday and we are in for some very cold, overnight temperatures and some of you may see your first freeze this weekend and veronica has more on that coming up. >> all right, doug, thanks. next on news 4 at 4:00, "saturday night live" known for being controversial and funny at the same time. this saturday was no exception. >> thank you. oh, my gosh! i am so happy to be here. i'm hosting "saturday night live

guns -- >> you like it? >> i love it! >> guns are there. ♪ ♪ >> little ones and big ones. >> a lot of people are still talking about snl's fake psa-style commercial mocking america's love for guns. the sketch comes just a week after the deadly mass shooting in oregon. host amy schumer has tackled the

gun issue before on her show and earlier this year called for reform after a man shot and killed two people during a screening of her film "trainwreck." that's not all that has social media buzzing today. schumer's words for the kardashians provoking some response. billy bush joins us live. she took on the kardashian family, but khloe felt the need to respond. >> you can connect it. khloe, who knows you don't have to tear other people down to build yourself up and some people are connecting it to amy schumer who opened the saturday night live monologue and took a shot at the family. what kind of role model is this for girls where the whole family takes the face they were born with as a suggestion as to what to look like, and from there she just kept going. i think it was light hearted and funny and people are wondering, can the kardashians laugh about that? are the zeros in the bank

account? khloe kardashian will get inside her velvet-covered range rover and head to her $500 an hour trainer and i don't know, i think they're all smart enough to realize that this is part of the brand and that controversy and that question that is constantly asked and the drama in this family that continues to unfold and now, i mean, last night the season finale maybe kim has gestational diabetes! oh, there goes another one! there's always something. i don't think khloe is that mad and if she is, take a look at your account and your house that you live in by yourself. >> kourtney made some news, as well with a date with justin bieber the other night. >> i'm calling this last call disi disick, scott disick who has been running around with a young girl and has left her. she decided to go out with bieber. we've all been talking about bieber lately for a reason that -- i am -- we'll just say

this. i have not seen that thing, and i am not looking. >> she went out with bieber and they hit a club where you can get a bottle of vodka for $700 and maybe this is the last call. come home now. if he doesn't come home after seeing her out with bieber, he airnt coming home. >> billy, what's on access tonight? >> tonight on "access hollywo hollywood," we're out with gwyneth paltrow and she'll comment about this instagram she put out there of herself in what's called an infrared sauna. i don't know what that is either, but we'll find out and nick carter, we sit down with nick carter, the backstreet boy that's on "dancing with the stars" how the guys in the band saved him from a very dysfunctional childhood. it's sweet and it's emotional. >> we'll watch it tonight. a city councilman near houston says he still doesn't understand why a police officer tased him. the moment -- >> i'm telling you one more time, man.

go over there before you go to jail. >> the moment an officer used an electric shock women on a city official caught on camera next on news 4 at 4:00. >> a local family in mourning wanting the rest of us to learn from their tragedy. i'm mark segraves. coming up, the lesson we can all learn from this f

>> right now at 4:30, police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman over the

weekend in northwest. police say the woman thought she was getting into an uber car on mccomb street, but instead she got into another car and was assaulted at knifepoint. she was able to escape after the attack. darcy spencer explains how she got help coming up in 30 minutes. >> right now crews in las vegas are getting everything ready for tomorrow night's democratic presidential debate. it's the first time all of the candidates will be together in front of a prime time audience and for those struggling in the polls this could be a make or break moment. >> here is a reason to be thankful if you live and work in this area. there is a good chance you were off work today. d.c. mayor in virginia are among three states that make columbus day a paid holiday. some mark it by other name, native americans day and discoverer's day and they celebrate the friday after thanksgiving. >> let's check in with veronica. what's going on with our temperatures out there?

still on the warm side? >> still on the mild side and some folks are taking advantage of today's weather especially if they're running in the marine corps marathon. it doesn't get much better than this. lots of sunshine across the area and as you mentioned, pretty mild and your runner's impact forecast, 6:00, 7:00 and temperatures mid to upper 60s. just perfect and you want to get into the feel of cool weather that we'll be having in another two weeks. by early tomorrow morning, a few showers and you might want to grab the umbrella and light showers will be scattered and our temps in the 50s to the mid-70s and it will be another mild one tomorrow and rain intensity again, just a few showers expected very, very light and we're not expecting anything heavy or moderate for the morning and for tomorrow afternoon. big story in our forecast is just how much the temperatures are going to take a plunge from a couple of chilly overnights and starts to our day to

downright cold by the weekend. the angelo is 52 degrees. so we're close to that this week and each day starting out, but look at saturday, sunday, look at the start to next week. and just a couple of minutes to the seven-day forecast. >> thanks, veronica. passengers on southwest airlines can rest easier this afternoon and flights are back to normal after a weekend computer glitch caused a nationwide problem. tom costello has the latest from reagan national. a good day from reagan national airport in washington. southwest airlines says its computers appear to be back up and operating normally today and all systems appear to be operating normally today after a very difficult day yesterday. we had significant delays at major airports across the country. at las vegas, at phoenix and los angeles, for example, because our computer systems went down at southwest airlines. it affected their mobile apps and it affected their computer check availability.

their lines in some cases lasted and stretched for several hours. in total, 500 flights delayed yesterday. that means you had several thousand people affected and today they're playing catch-up. they say that all systems are operating normally today and the delays from this morning appear to be minimal and appear to have dissipat dissipated. they have the computer systems up and operating normally, but it could be a full day of catching up and making sure that bags that might have gotten lost get to their rightful owners and those people who maybe missed a flight yesterday are rebooked today. i'm tom costello at reagan national airport in washington for nbc news. i'm mark segraves in bethesda. 52-year-old gary seward loved hads family and he loved his motorcycle. sunday afternoon he was coming home from a ride that tragically ended here along old georgetown road. montgomery county police are still investigating.

they questioned the driver of the car that was involved in an accident and no one yet has been charged. coming up at 5:00, you'll hear from his family as they tell you why they and our community have lost a hero. a lawmaker in the houston area says he's still trying to figure out why a police officer used a stun gun on him. police body cams and a cell phone captured the moment when police approached a group of people outside jn than mionathas home in prairie view, texas. one of the officers told him to step back and told him he was interfering. miller told him he lived in the home and had done nothing wrong. >> i didn't fight him, and i asked him to keep his hands off me, please, and i stepped back. i got out of the way. i wasn't talking to them anymore, and i left it alone and i felt like i was out of the way and i wasn't interfering. miller is charged with interfering and resisting

arrest. the officers are still on duty and the police chief says the case is under review. right now protesters are getting ready to fight a war for montgomery county police chief for an award comes major will beat a peacemaker of the year award. an online petition for chip has more than 200,000 signatures. officer gil wanted to keep the dog, but the department won't tell him where the dog is. they told news 4, chip is with a k-9 rescue group, but won't name that group. >> a local boy scout has done something only a handful of kids around the world has done, nathaniel cummings of troupe 663 earned all 141 merit badges during his time in scouting. scouts must turn 21 rankings, but the loudoun county high

school senior decided he'd earn all of the 141 badges and he managed to do that even with all of his other activities and sports and music, competing for his time. >> i'd already come so far. i knew how good it would look on applications and resumes. i had a lot of exciting stuff in front of me still with scuba, water sports. >> wow! for his eagle project, cummings built a replica of an eagle's nest for the play area at the rush nature sanctuary. only 5% of boys who start scouting stay to become eagle scouts. wow! less than 1% earn all of those merit badges. a group of men spoke to inspire students in prince george's as part of men make a difference day. it is meant to showcase the

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>> it's a great day across our region. the average high temperature is still around 70 and notice these are the highs so far today. 74, d.c. and 77 leesburg and a very warm afternoon and plenty of sunshine. the next couple of days, though, we'll see a little bit of a change. it starts tomorrow, but the temperatures won't change until wednesday and your hour by hour forecast and showers around 60 degrees and could be showers just about any time tomorrow and i'm not expectation lot of rain and take the umbrella with you and you'll only need the purse umbrella and most of us stay dry tomorrow. 67 by 8:00 tomorrow night and then getting a lot cooler. wait until you see the weekend. temperatures, some areas could see the first freeze. we have more on that. >> soon, you will be able to

search for your friends and maybe buy a new toast or facebook. in the weeks to come the social network will start testing a new shopping section. according to a company blog posted today, the mobile app will make it easier for you to browse and buy products while on facebook. it's the company's next big step into the e-commerce business. >> farmers say heavy rainfall this fall is causing a shortage of a holiday staple. now it won't be hard to find pumpkin for halloween, but come next month you can have trouble finding canned pumpkin that you can use for thanksgiving. the shortage can continue deep into the holiday season. >> pumpkinwise, it's a lot harder for the fungus. we had to spray them more than wield have, but the weather is hard on everything for agriculture and it puts us behind on bailing hay and you can't get it out of the fields. >> the overall pumpkin harvest is down by a third this year.

>> they are the latest high-tech safety features in your car. why some drivers say they're not using them. >> and the controversial halloween decorations that one woman is already taking down.

students are back in class at umpqua community college in oregon for the first time since that deadly mass shooting on campus. a man shot and killed nine people and wounded several

others before taking his own life before an exchange with police. it's important for them to return to a sense of normalcy. >> right now work is under way to clean up a vandalized statue of frederick, maryland. someone splashed red paint on the supreme court justice who wrote the dred scott decision. others say it's an important part of frederick's history. >> it was smooth sailing for southwest airline passengers at the airport today after a software glitch created major delays over the weekend. the issue pushed back nearly 500 flights yesterday and led to massive lines at major airports like lax. southwest says there's no indication that hackers caused the problem. from cruise control to blind spot monitoring, today's vehicles have a lot of advanced safety features. >> that's a good thing, but many

drivers are not using them. chris clackum reports on a new federal program to change that. >> this right here is like having a second set of eyes. >> reporter: chevy salesman logan burress takes me on a tour of the latest, greatest auto safety features now being offered like blind spot monitoring that sets off a blinking light in your rear-view mirror when lane change isn't safe, letting you know if there is a car right here or in some cases about to be right here. >> reporter: or adaptive cruise control. >> adaptive cruise control is right in here and it uses sonar to detect the vehicle that's in front of you. >> reporter: automatically applying the brakes if you get too close. all part of the growing list of safety features on cars and trucks these days. >> which is great when we think about how to survive crashes, but we're getting to the point where the technology is very mature and it can actually prevent crashes. >> there is a problem with many

of these safety features and some are so confusing and downright intimidating that some drivers just aren't using them. >> reporter: which is why the national safety council and others launched the website, my car does what.org. >> my car does what is a one-stop shop for consumers to could all of the technology that's available in their vehicle. they can contribute to their safety behind the wheel. >> reporter: experts say the features obviously help, but the best safety feature is still an alert driver. chris clackum, nbc news. >> and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> reporter: coming up, we're talking everything here from fall colors to showers around the corner and downright cold. first, though, we start with the fall color because this is going to make you ooh and ahh. look at the fall color. this is from the high spots of west virginia sent in from paul

rody in the pocahontas color. a lot of folks this weekend making the trip to the apple orchards and pumpkin farms and we want to see your fall color, too, and some of the fall pictures and make sure you download the nbc washington app and where you see that orange is for the most part where we have some moderate color taking place in areas of western maryland and low color here and it won't be along before we see the color popping on. the reason being, we're talking about more rain and how warm it gets during the day. 74 degrees this arch and tonight not quite as low, but that will change by the rest of the week and we truck into the 50s by 11:00 p.m. and clouds will be moving in after midnight and we get this, rain so get ready to carry the umbrella. as far as what to wear tomorrow, keep that rain off of you and long pants, too, mid-70s, yes and we start out in the 50s,

from 53 to 58 degrees and the temperature is not quite as low and here's a look at your sky catch and he'll not be completely overcast during the day and we'll have a few breaks of sunshine and breezy sunshine by around 3:00, 4:00. so just to midday, light, scattered showers in terms of wash being the car and just wait until we get through tomorrow afternoon. >> and definitely yes on washing the car. >> by the end of the week, the high 69 and upper 60s for friday and 50 to 67 degrees and i do think we'll see several spots that start out in the 30s. we'll show you those temperatures and how low your neighborhood gets coming up on news 4 at 5:00. >> we are developing several stories in the news room. right now, nasa said an 11-year-old is dead. in about tern minutes, pat will tell us more about the crash and

the young boy who was killed. >> the state of california is taking a stand on the redskins name. california governor jerry brown signed a bill yesterday banning public schools in california from using the name for their teams. there are four schools which will have to change their team names by 2017. organizers of anners fort to get the professional team the washington redskins to change its name says the state of california is sending a powerful example. and hundreds gathered outside union station for a ceremony marking columbus day. the knights of columbus is erecting a statue in 142 it made reference to the treatment of native americans. you may not have put up your halloween decorations yet, but a woman in ohio had to take hers down. it's because the naushs cop plained the decorations were too graphic and too close to an elementary school. ? yesterday the homeowner got tired of the complaints.

>> as a parent to another parent, let's talk to our kids. let's teach them the difference between fake and reality. barrett says most of the feedback with people honking their horns and giving a thumbs up sdwloo new information for those of you with high blood pressure. the government task force is updating recommendations on how you can be screened for this condition. it's something doctors say should be taken seriously when people suffer from high blood pressure. left untreated it can lead to heart attack, stroke or kidney failure. doreen gentzler will have more in our next hour. this is chris gordon at the university of maryland college park campus. the chief of police has the responsibility for the safety of a community of about 60,000 people. he says after the active shooter situation at the community college in oregon, he felt he needed to issue an alert to this community giving them three

words of advice, one, hide, phied. >> call 911 and let us know what's happening and where. if all else fails you have a choice and sometimes that is i'm going to fight. i'm going to fight for my life, and i'm going to fight for the lives of others. >> reporter: new at 5:00, what students here are telling us about the police chief's advice and whether they feel prepared to fight an active shooter. that's coming up from college park. back to you. >> moving forward. security and support for students as they return to an oregon community college following that shooting nearly two weeks ago now. >> i'm darcy spencer in northwest washington where a young woman was sexually assaulted by a man she thought was an uber driver. was an uber driver. coming up, i'll tell you

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well, one white bengal tiger in a litter is know usual enough. three are extremely rare. these guys were born in a zoo in crimea. two have grayish stripes while the third is virtually all white. unfortunately, their mother rejected all of them so the zoo staff is bottle feeding the cubs and on saturday they put the cubs in a nursery with lion cubs also born recently. they crawled all over the cot and each other, too.

an oregon community gathered to welcome students back to umpqua community college and it's their first day back in class after a gunman shot and killed nine people on the school's campus. nbc's jay gray has a look at the return in roseburg, oregon. >> carrying the message, hundreds lined the road back to umpqua community college this morning. >> this is our community, and it doesn't happen here. it's not supposeded to. 11 days ago it did happen here. >> when a former student burst into a classroom and opened fire. nine people were killed and nine more injured as police moved in. he turned the gun on himself. >> it was a very sad event and we need to move on now. >> for students, moving on means coming back. as the campus opened for the first time since the massacre, was there a stepped-up police presence along with counselors and volunteers. >> there's still a lot of

healing that needs to happen. the students that i met and talked to need a lot of support and they need a lot of love. >> reporter: college administrators say support teams will remain on campus and many in roseburg say they'll do whatever they can to help their town and these students. >> this is a very strong and resillient community and they will provide the support that these students need to move forward and begin the healing process. >> reporter: support that so many will need during what will be a long and very difficult road back. jay gray, nbc news. news 4 at 5:00 starts now with jim and pat. right now at 5 dl:00, trage or homicide? >> whatever was done was done ineffectively. >> new questions surfacing over the death of an 80-year-old man who wandered away from a senior day picnic. >> i'm tom sherwood at union

station. the annual columbus ceremony at columbus circle, but not everybody thinks it's a good idea. i'll have the story coming up. developing now, downtown collision. an officer collides with people on bicycles and news 4 is live at the scene. right now at 5:00, a family's search for a loved one comes to a tragic end after police find his body in a park in prince george's county. >> the 80-year-old disappeared at a field trip at the park. news 4's tracee wilkins is in largo where she just spoke to the family. >> this is a heartbreaking turn of events, the family just wrapped up a press conference just a few hours ago and during this press conference, the attorney said that this is a homicide, that the assisted care facility that was responsible for this man is implicated in this homicide. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, why they believe this is the case. we'll have that in just a bit.

back to you in the studio. >> a police officer and pedestrian are in the hospital after an accident on connecticut avenue northwest near l street. it's a busy intersection and news 4's jackie bensen is there live. jackie? >> jim, was there a lot of confusion about this because one of the first responding officers was on his bicycle down there as well as a passerby lay their bicycle down to try to help and there was some initial misinformation that this was a bicyclist who was struck. we are now told by police that it was a pedestrian. a man walking across the street carrying a briefcase. he was in the crosswalk. we do not know at this time whether or not he was crossing with the light. that man was struck by the window, apparently, of the police cruiser by one of the side view windows. a short time ago we talked to lieutenant ronald wilkins