news 4's meagan fitzgerald was in court when the prime suspect appeared. >> that's right and a judge decided to not give bond to ann nah anastasi. the argument is that she has four kids that she needs to get back to and has never been charged with a felony before, but the argument made by the state's attorney was very strong. he said court documents clearly show that she conspired with her 13-year-old daughter, her daughter's 18-year-old boyfriend to kill her husband and their 25-year-old lover. neighbors describe west bay front road as a quiet area of town, but on october 5th, many folks say they saw something they seldom see. >> i didn't hear anything until i heard the police coming up the road and sirens and stuff, and then i thought it was an accident.

>> reporter: it wasn't an accident. investigators say it was a planned double murder. according to court documents, anne anastasi called 911 to say her husband killed himself and when they arrived they found anthony in the bedroom with a gun next to his body, but an investigation would prove something wasn't right. >> she was instrumental based on the investigation in setting the .45 near the defendant's head or -- excuse me, near the victim's head and that .45 did not match with the .380. >> reporter: wes adams is the state's attorney for anne arundel county. he says ann placed the gun next to her husband and then the story started to unravel. >> investigators learned that ann and her husband had an affair with 25-year-old jacqueline riggs who lived in the basement of their home. when they went downstairs they found riggs dead from multiple stab wounds. >> court documents say text messages were exchanged between ann, her 13-year-old daughter and her daughter's boyfriend 18-year-old gabriel struss.

they talked about the two murders and the gun and then investigators received a shocking confession. >> we have statements from the 18-year-old about -- that were noted in his charging document which indicated that he admitted to being the person who actually stabbed the victim downstairs and shot mr. anastasi. >> reporter: investigators say there was domestic violence in the home which may have contributed to the murder plot, but they're still investigating why, they say, the 18-year-old played the most critical role. the state's attorney has not decided yet if the 13-year-old will be tried as an adult. they say that is something they're still considering. coming up at 6:00, what investigators say happened in the hours leading up to that double murder. back to you. >> well, the evening commute is back to normal on the woodrow wilson bridge after a bomb scare earlier today. someone reported a suspicious package on the pedestrian

walkway. after an hour, bomb technicians gave the all clear. that suspicious package was a box that likely fell off a delivery truck. a 24-year-old man is dead and another man is recovering after a stabbing downtown. police tell us they found the victims near second and k streets not far from where new york avenue meets 395 and they identify the man who died as joel mitchet. officers wound up going door to door in a nearby apartment complex to see if any of the residents saw or heard anything. >> the lady next door said she saw someone or whatever. >> i hope they catch who did it, and i hope that they keep the area continuing to be safe. >> at this point, no word on the suspect or motive. > . the fairfax county courthouse where today we are seeing for the first time video

showing some of murder victim nancy dunning's last moments alive back on december 5, 2003, she was at the potomac yard target near her home shopping for firsts to donate and the man that you will see right behind her is the accused charles severance. nancy dunning walks into the target at 10:15 on a friday morning and quickly begins to fill her cart. soon after, a man in jeans and a dark jacket enters seemingly on a cell phone and you can see dunning heading down a different aisle. the man soon bends down to tie his shoes and then he heads in the same direction. the video picks up dunning again just after checkout. the man, spotlighted once again not far behind and then she pushes her cart out of the store. feet behind her, the man with the dark, distinctive hair line.

dunning's body is found in her home and she'd been charged three times. prosecutors believe the man in the target video is a younger charles severance. the fbi-enhanced photos made from the video. this is a side by side comparison. the target man on the left, charles severance on the right. >> defense attorneys say there is no way those pictures match and they say the man in the video is not charles severance. when i join you at 6:00, the defense that they're expected to raise when they start their case next week. reporting live from fairfax county, i'm julie carey, news 4. metro is getting close to picking its next leader and the list to be the next general manager and by next week it should be down to two. and they're all expected to be transportation officials and

we'll make that announcement for almost general manager. he's been general manager for over a year now. >> one highway ramp that's soon to open may take the cake for an exit ramp. we are talking about the massive hov ramp along 395 road that links directly with the new mark center. transportation reporter adam tuss joins us live with how it could help your commute. adam? >> reporter: jim, let's take a look at this thing. it is an absolute concrete giant rising high above 395 here in alexandria and there is a lot riding on this ramp whether you use it or not. it's fair to say that never before has so much anticipation surrounded one huge highway ramp. >> we believe that it will encourage more people to carpool which would mean fewer cars out on the road. >> this links directly with the hov lanes along 395 in

alexandria and if you have three more people in the car you have a straight shot to places like the mark center and off seminary road and that connection is missing and many drivers are forced to sit on the regular lanes of 395 which simply crawl. lee hewitt is keeping his fingers crossed. >> they may shift and they may have a better e grows off of seminary. >> others like jerry grier with a short and sweet characterization of the traffic flow here. >> it is a great deal to be desired. >> reporter: not only does this ramp connect the hov lane and a new bike lane and pedestrian bridge a part of it, the whole project, $76 million and for now, hope that it unlocks a locked up situation. >> we'll see what happens after it's done. >> reporter: the huge hov ramp connecting to seminary road expected to open in december.

>> reporter: back out live as everyone tries to make their way home tonight. not everyone is thrilled with this on and off-ramp here. a lot of trees had to be ripped out to make way for it. coming up at 6:00, vdot's plan to improve the aesthetics here and i'll tell you about that, wendy. >> adam tuss, and let's take a look at storm team 4 and a good time to get your sweater weather moving into our region. >> let's get the latest from doug. sweater weather coming up for sure, and i have to be honest with you, i'm not ready and all of my stuff is in boxes. let's take a look and show you what's happening and temperatures are starting to fall across our region and we made it through the mid-60s and we're starting to see those numbers cooler and 65 in d.c. after 67 earlier and we are down to 66 in winchester and cold through the weekend and that's for sure and the trough of low pressure moving in and bringing the cold air and high

temperatures only in the 50s this weeknd and not just that. it's the low temperatures that will grab you early saturday and sunday morning and we're talking about really cold temperatures and we could see freezing temperatures and that's why we have a freeze watch in effect tomorrow night into sunday morning and it includes western montgomery county and fauquier and culpeper and places off to the west. temperatures at or below freezing. that's right. get out the coats and now i have to go find that box. >> thank you, doug. we've just learned the person killed near a busy montgomery county shopping area was a transgender woman. she was shot before 6:00 last night and this happened between montgomery village plaza across from lake forest mall. many people shopping nearby saw the crime, but have not come forward. although the killer is still on the run tonight police don't feel there is a threat to the larger community. montgomery county's department of liquor control

announced big changes that could fix some of the agency's most pressing problems. this comes after tisha thompson and the news 4 i-team launched an investigation into the troubled agency. tisha is here with what you can expect the next time you try to buy alcohol in montgomery county. >> montgomery county sells more than $30 million of alcohol each year, but we found it was using post-it notes and a paper-based system to track missing cases of alcohol. our investigation uncovered problems with theft and inventory control only after we created our own electronic database by sorting through more than 30,000 pages of paper, leading us to ask more than a year ago why weren't they using scanners and bar codes to track the alcohol. today, the county announced it will start using this type of electronic system last week and hired nine managers recruiting businesses like coca-cola,

prompting hans mriller to say this. >> great to hear someone with private sector experience run this like a business. yeah. get this ship turned around and running tight. >> the county also announced it will launch a customer solution center for restaurants and store owners to call when they don't get the alcohol they paid for delivered on time and it will open five new county owned liquor stores before the end of next year. these are huge changes taken place which had filed multiple employees all as a direct result of the beer bust investigation. tisha thompson, news 4, i-team. new at 5:00, a fund-raiser feud. >> why would you take advantage of a grieving family? >> you'll recall the story last summer of two brothers who drowned leaving behind large families with three children. a local bar had a fund-raiser for the families, but now won't

hand over that money. i'm mark segraves and coming up, you'll hear from both sides. debate demands. why cnbc is bowing down to the requests of donald trump and ben carson? new video surfaces of lamar odom in the love ranch. this is news 4 at 5:00.

right now storm team 4 tracking a chilly weekend ahead as the coldest air of the season starts moving in. some freeze watches are in effect. chief meteor ologist doug kammerer will show you how low the temperatures will be coming up. us airways will no longer exist when you wake up. how the american airlines merger impacts air travel. first tonight, there is a money dispute on between the family of two men who drowned and a local bar that held a fund-raiser for them. >> as news 4's mark segraves found out the family says the bar is taking advantage of them. the bar's owner says it's just business. >> the phfamily is holding up. their mom is as well -- >> those who knew them say they were best friends who did everything together including

swimming in the chesapeake bay. last july, the two men drowned off this beach in calvert county. doug brown was a partner in costa brava. >> we had a fund-raiser who doug passed away. that fund-raiser was in august and raised about $3,000. the money raised was meant for the family. >> they said it was going to go to the brown family, and we assumed that it was going to go to daniel and doug's mom and jane because she paid for the funeral expenses and she would use a portion to pay for the funeral expenses and split it between three kids. >> reporter: but shortly after the fund-raiser, the bar went out of business. >> we sold the restaurant last week, finally, and we lost money on the place. >> the family never saw any of the $3,000 from the fund-raiser. >> according to one of the partners in costa brava, doug brown and his family are still responsible for brown's share of

the failed business. >> instead of handing them a bill for $20,000, we might hand them one for 17. what it seems like that they took advantage of the people that were already grieving to just get one more dime out of us. >> the bar's owner says he's trying to be as sympathetic as possible to brown's survivors. coming up at 6:00, what the family says what their next step will be to get that money. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. we have a better idea how the democrats stand after the presidential debate. a new nbc poll showses the gap is tightening and hillary clinton is still a big favorite. the online poll conducted by survey monkey finds most democrats believe hillary clinton won the debate. 45% would vote for her now compared to 31% for bernie sanders. just two months ago clinton nearly doubled sanders' number. joe biden who has not entered

the race has fallen from 15% to 10%. >> donald trump and ben carson will be on stage for the next gop debate. cnbc has agreed to some of their campaign demands. >> trump and carson said they wanted to make sure the debate was not longer than two hours including the commercials. cnbc agreed to allow 15-minute opening statements between the candidates and it will be set for october 28th in boulder, colorado. >> the pope's popularity in the united states is surging after his visit to washington. a new knights of columbus marrist poll say 75% have a favorable view. that's up from last august. among catholic, it is higher at 90%. people feel better about their own faith and charitable giving since his visit. >> a live look now at reagan national where a major airline is about to fly into history. starting tomorrow, the us

airways name will go away as its merger with american becomes complete forming the world's largest airline. since the company announced their merger they have run 5 million mock reservations and tested out more than 9,000 computers and kiosks. the airline workers want to make the change seamless for passengers. >> american actually has a system that's pretty easy to slide in, the u.s. airways system, and they've been doing a good job of this for the last few years. >> the final u.s. airways flight will be a red eye from san francisco to philly and overnight th u.s. airways website will go dark, but it will be a while before the planes are repainted and the crew uniforms are swapped out. tonight dozens of customers are failing complaints with the federal trade commission against the two fantasy sports sites, draft kings and fan duel.

the news 4 i-team has obtained more than 50 filed complaints and some complain ads are misleading and others say they had issues withdrawing winnings or money from the sites. the ftc hasn't said if it will launch an investigation and reports about 2,000 complaints abouter in the gambling every year come in and no comment from either side tonight. comcast and nbc sports have both invested in fan duel. >> we want to hear from you tonight, do you think daily fantasy sports games should be regulated the way sports gambling is? vote yes or no by texting or calling the number on your screen there. i'm george wallace in the newsroom. we knew it would be tough to beat the jets on the road, but the task got tougher. jay gruden updating the media and a lot of important names out for the jets game this weekend and the offensive line taking a major hit as they'll be without

two starters including the guy that is most important, trent williams. we learned today that williams is in the league's concussion protocol. two starting quarterbacks, deangelo hall and chris culver are out and desean jackson and running back, matt jones. starting tight end, jordan reid also out and he's he has the nfl concussion and they play the jets sunday at 1 clk. >> new at 5k c:00, two women charged with renting out homes they didn't own. how they got caught. we're following damage reports out of california tonight. big-time problems there. for us, it will be on the cold side over the next couple of days and temperatures right now starting to cool and they will cool quickly. i'll have a complete forecas

we're talking with cold numbers coming in over the next couple of days and veronica shivering already. >> all right. let's take a look. we have plenty of sunshine today. gotcha. sorry. we have sunshine and the bright blue skies and a breeze across

our region and a nice afternoon and a nice fall afternoon and tonight it will be rather chilly if you're heading out and winds out of the northwest at 10 miles per hour gusting at 20 miles per hour and that makes it feel cooler especially in the shade. sunset tonight at 6:29. it's going to be a very chilly night. so grab the jacket for sure. if you're going out now you will be out after the sun goes down at 6:30 and you'll need it around the 6:00, 7:00 hour and we'll stay dry for the next week or so and almost no chance of rain at all for about a week and there are a few showers up to the north and look at the cold air coming across the lakes and that's what's helping to produce some of these showers here and the cold air acreslot of. temperatures right now only in the 40s and 48 buffalo, and 50 in pittsburgh right now and that's the kind of cold air that we have coming into our region during the day tomorrow and look at the frost and freeze advisories across the country

and chicago, this area under a freeze warning. freeze watch in effect for our area and that includes most of western maryland and parts of western virginia and the panhandle of virginia and western portions of montgomery and fauquier county and it will not include d.c. and temperatures around the 39-40-degree mark and chilly tonight and 46 in d.c. and 42 in gaithersburg and waking up to 39 back towards win chester and mart insburg. so that forecast for you as you step out tomorrow, same deal on sunday and a very cold start and 31 in the city and most will be freezing on sunday morning and monday morning and high temperatures both days only in the low to mid 50s. sunday and monday we're seeing temperatures 10 to 15 degrees below average and we do rebound on tuesday, and then it gets a lot better coming up next week

and veronica will have that and she'll stop shivering and she'll have that coming up at 5:45. >> thanks, doug. plenty more to come. why death row inmates in virginia are getting extra recreation time. >> a sister's fight for justice. what happened to the drug dealer found guilty of leaving her brother in a hotel to die. charles county authorities say they've uncovered a scheme where suspects were

for the girl scout meeting... ok! for the soccer team... for the girl scout meeting... how many meetings are you having?! giant just dropped prices on thousands more items. which makes the checkout lane, victory lane. my giant.

at 5:30, the democratic candidate leading the race for maryland's senate seat isn't even officially running. we have the complete results of a washington post university of maryland poll breaking down the three-way race for barbara mccluskey's seat to give us a sneak peek she's working on for news 4 at 6:00. a local man becomes one of the few people in the world to successfully receive an arm transplant. first now at 5:30, two women in maryland accused of renting out homes they didn't own opinion we're learning more tonight about how they managed to pull it off in the first place and how they got caught. news 4's derrick ward is live in charles county with the story. derrick? >> reporter: you know, it's always been the american dream whether you own it or if you rent it, and if you find an agent it's a dream come true. the two suspects were sort of stealing that dream and now they

are facing some serious charges. a quaint cul-de-sac in charles county, a tree-lined suburban street in the same suburban county, where neighbors look out for each other, but there have been crimes committed in these places. two suspects, sherry hacket and julia turner would seek out vacant homes and some? foreclosure and they'd seek out their marks. >> the two women targeted potential renters who had bad credit or no credit at all and they found out about the renters either in person or through the internet. >> reporter: they get the keys. authorities say the suspects would replace the looks with their own and the bank or utility companies and by then the victim his been hit hard and the victim his to pay the suspects cash up front. usually about two months' worth of rent and the security deposit. >> sometimes there were obvious signs among neighbors. >> there was a new neighbor and

they said where do you live? over there. she said that's foreclosed. you can't be living in there. the victims thinking they would bolster their claims thought they could produce legal-looking leases and all the victim his was a sheriff's order to vacate in 30 days. the two suspects are facing charges of forgery, charge, theft and identity theft. coming up in the next hour of news 4, what are some of the signs of this kind of scam. we are live in charles county, derrick ward, news 4. >> thank you, derrick. >> two dozen people in the district became citizens at president lincoln's cottage. coinciding with lincoln's cottage, the new exhibit there is called american by belief. lincoln signed the first comprehensive immigration law in 1864. seven death rae inmates in virginia are experiencing new

privileges after they challenge their sentences. they get an extra half hour of recreation time per day. they're building a rec yard with a basketball court and equipment. they are a losare allowed physi contact with members who visit rather than separated by glass. elija cummings would be the favorite to replace senator barbara mccluskey who is reti retiring last year. these are the new findings of the university of maryland poll. joining us to break down these numbers is scott clement, a survey research analyst and let's take a quick look at those numbers and your post shows cummings with a third of the democrat while chris van hollen and donna edwards each getting 20%. without cummings then edwards gets that boost. she leads van hollen 38% to 28%. considering van hollen's high profile, these numbers, are they

surprising? >> i think they are. i think they challenge the conventional wisdom of the race which is that van hollen starts off as the heavy favorite. he's the clear favorite in fund-raising and he had a 3-1 fund raising in the most comparable reports, but his support is shallow in the state with especially a well-known figure like elija comments, and he gets a lot of those votes from the baltimore city area. how important is jurisdiction in van hollen and montgomery county, how important are these to the candidates? >> they could be and we saw last year with governor larry hogan drawing heavily with anne arundel. i think our poll and follow-up interviews detected a lot of passion for cummings in his home area. what was also interesting in the survey was a pretty stark racial gap in preferences and surprisingly low support among

african-americans. a group where he's received several high-profile endorsements from black leaders in the state, yet he received only 6% support among african-americans in a three-way contact. that was the most surprising finding for me. >> for primaries, how difficult is it to get people to vote in an april primary and would the supporters of these candidates the type to go out to primaries to vote? >> right. so the overall results are among all democrats and democrat-leaning independents which is a much broader population that would cast out. only 17% of the registered democrats voted four years ago in the primary. what we saw in the survey was better news for val hollen on this front and he performed better among seniors as well as people who reported voting in last year's turnout of midterm elections and not enough to take a clear lead, but certainly an

indication that he may benefit from a low turnout and that his voters would be more regular. >> scott clement from the washington post. thanks so much. >> wea've heard of organ transplants like kidneys and arms, but what about arms? an alexandria man has received his after an accident. >> a bionic arm is a procedure that's not so far-fetched. doctors are transplanting arms and hands for patients who has suffered from devastating amputations. here's what jeffrey knows about his left arm. it came from a 38-year-old philadelphia man who was left brain dead after a drug overdose. the rest, he tries to figure it out by studying his new arm. he's one of the few people in the world to undergo an arm transplant. it happened after he fell 40 feet off a staircase at a d.c. hotel last year. >> i was just leaning against it

and checking things in the ceiling and i wasn't thinking about stuff and just like that, i fell right over the side and i grabbed one of the different poles and catch myself which straightened me out and tore my arm off completely. >> how he lost the arm and what's involved in transplanting a new one and recovering from it, developing -- learning how to use it. that's coming up tonight on news 4 at 6:00. jim, wendy. >> thanks, doreen. a new battle cry in the war on sexual assault. the major change in how sex education is taught to teenagers and why some schools are making the lessons mandatory. words from a mourning sister. how she's fighting for change how she's fighting for change after the overdose of her

okay. so everyone is saying, "hey! you gotta get fios!" but why? why fios? well fios is a 100 percent fiber optic network, so you can get 100% out of all your devices. whatever speed you need, fios has it. so if you need more streaming for more devices, fios gives you options with the fastest internet and wi-fi available from 50 to 500 mpbs. and we're not just talking downloads. we're talking equal upload speeds, too. you can upload your favorite videos up to 5x faster than cable. plus with the fios mobile app, you can view your entertainment at home, or on the go. but the main reason to get fios? we're rated number 1 in customer satisfaction. why fios? ultimately, that's why. right now, get 50 meg fios internet, tv & phone starting at $79.99 a month, guaranteed for two years. plus get $300 back with a two year agreement.

get out of the past. get fios.

the push to stop sexual assaults among young people is getting a new campaign message yes means yes. it is replacing the old no means no in some places. the partner must give explicit permission before a sexual encounter can take place. starting next year it will be mandatory in california high schools. california and new york passed similar laws in college campuses and other states are considering the same. >> by asking for consent and by looking for yes you are showing

that you care about what your partner's experiencing. >> by having your partner asking a question consistently you are forced to check in with yourself and say am i am cofocomfortable right now. >> some critics of the law say it oversimplifies the ramifications of what can happen between two people. a controversial statue of former supreme court chief justice roger brook tawny is one step closer to being removed from city hall in frederick, maryland. city officials there unanimously approved a resolution today that will ask commissions for input on a possible relocation. tawny practiced law in frederick and the bust has been there since 1931. someone vandalized the statue earlier this week. critics who pushed for the removal point to the dred scott ruling that he wrote affirming slavery. it was my brother this time.

it will be somebody else's the next. a family reacts to a federal judge sentencing a drug dealer. why they say their fight for justice is just beginning. >> the storm struck without warning and the damage is widespread and the cleanup is a huge mess. >> a far-reaching frost and freeze for the upcoming weekend. what you need to know to prepare

>> right now at 5:00, new information in the case of a man who admitted guilt in the death of a loudoun county father who overdosed on drugs last year. >> the federal judge hanned down a sentence with a message for all drug dealers. you'reás.h responsible for call

for help if someone overdoses. david culver reports. >> reporter: erica pot are's two young sons wanted to be with her today and they wanted to see justice in their uncle's overdose death. they watched their mom read this letter. >> i am no longer a middle child. i'm no longer a middle sister. my parents have been replaced by two fragile beings with broken hearts. >> jason latham overdosed on a mix of drugs including cocaine. gregory kohling admitted selling the drug, but stopped short of admitting that's what killed his friend. dragging latham's body out of an ashburn hotel room. >> it was my brother this time, it will be someone else's the next. >> he was family to all of us so we're missing him. >> to latham's friend, the worry is the sentence isn't tough enough. >> i don't think he has really any remorse, but for himself. >> he's sorry he got caught.

>> reporter: still, they realize through tragedy they've been brought closer. >> having him behind bars won't do anything. all of us being here together, that's the only thing that matters. >> reporter: erica plans to take her fight for justice back to loudoun county, hoping collie will face new harsher charges. >> he did admit to will issing my brother drugs and i want to see him charged accordingly. >> reporter: the commonwealth attorney will be the one to file those charges. while not excusing her brother's actions she does say that she wants those dealing drugs to be held accountable. in alexandria, i'm david culver, news 4. just hold on until the weekend and everyone with the allergies. >> everyone is getting very sick and throaty from all of their allergies. >> yeah, and the mold spore count which has been pretty

high. >> so we'll see where that puts the count over the next few days. meanwhile, we're talking about cold and that's the big story for the upcoming weekend right into the early part of next week. if you're going out this weekend, jacket, sweater, hat, gloves. you won't need all of it, but a nice, warm jacket or sweater as the temperatures drop down to the 40s and upper 30s in a location or two by early tomorrow morning. i'll show you in just a moment where the core of the cold air will be moving over a 65 degrees. that's where we are right now instead of in the 70s. as the sun sets, temperature will drop pretty fast down to 60 degrees and mid-50s by 9:00 and down to 50 degrees and about five every couple of hours here. by morning, upper 30s, as i mentioned and we will have a light wind around the area and maybe a breeze, too, by the afternoon with just a few clouds coming our way for the afternoon hours. >> again, it's a freeze watch for portions of our area up

around westminster and leesburg, culpeper and charlottesville and off to the west this cold air coming through areas of the ohio valley as well as the midwest. those temperatures under a clear sky and with the calm windfalling so you can see a lot of cold air up here and the core of the cold air will be over us on sunday and into early monday morning and this will be lasting for a while as we drop down to 46 degrees and it gets colder by sunday into monday morning. high temperature tomorrow running at 58 degrees right in d.c. also around fredericksburg and quantico and mid-50s to the north and it will be a nice day as long as you stay in the sunshine. as far as heading out, make sure you have the long sleeves on. still a good day, i think, as long as you keep things moving. your saturday is breezy and chilly and lower temperatures for sunday with the freeze likely west of d.c. as well as early monday morning.

so that is our weekend. you'll want to prepare and you can see the future weekend chill. this is where we think there will be wind coming through the area for sunday going into monday morning and what that will do is really send the temperatures down and i'll stop it here at 6:00 a.m. on monday. 31 feeling like right in d.c. and 38, the windchill around culpeper and 29 degrees early on. some of these areas bottoming out with temperatures again in the low to mid-30s and sunday morning and maybe lower by monday morning. let's talk about the four-day forecast which crowe can expect and if you're thinking of getting dry this weekend and good weekend for washing the car and it will not be until thursday or when we'll have rain moving in. to prepare for the cold i don't think you need to leave the water dripping outside, but you will need to adjust the thermostat at least by mid-week, wednesday, thursday, we'll see

the mercury back up into the low 70s. >> wendy, jim? now to the nasty situation out west where heavy rain triggered massive mud slides creating a huge mess of things all across parts of southern california. >> cars, trucks and homes were surrounded in mud, in some cases several feet high. hundreds had to be rescued yesterday and it could be days before some roadways reopen. >> here's nbc's jennifer bjork lund in l.a. county. >> a day of muck-covered clean up. after a night of sheer panic. [ speaking spanish ] >> as mudslides in parts of southern california covered highways in lake hughes. >> it was just like a freight train coming through your house. it really was. it was loud. it was really loud. >> reporter: cars, semitrucks, snaking down interstate 5, trapped in a muddy nightmare. >> all we saw was a mountain of

boulders and dirt and stuff coming right for us and it pretty much lifted my car up and spun us around like it was nothing. >> reporter: the storm truck with little warning as much as 5 inches of pounding rain in an hour for some areas and marble-sized hail. too much water too fast. >> hopefully it stops. >> know, it's sliding up. >> triggered mudslides and just wiped some of these cars off the road here. >> reporter: hillsides crumbled into roadways swallowing dozens of cars and homes. first responders say this is the most dangerous weather they've seen in quite some time. they've gone car by car marking them with yellow tape once they determined there was no one inside. debris trapped vehicles on the highway. the quick-moving system gone, but leaving plenty of damage behind. jennifer bjorkland, lake hughes, california. welding equipment sparked

these flames in brown county yesterday. some 300 acres have now burned. so far no one has been hurt and firefighters are skreditied with saving dozens of homes. six people recovering in the hospital after a scaffolding collapse led to a mangled mess. at least four of the people rescued were trapped under the scaffolding. this happened at an apartment complex under construction in downtown houston. the workers are said to have had significant injuries, but they are expected to survive. encouraging news of lamar odom after this video of him checking into a brothel in nevada surfaced. e! news that odom has regained consciousness and is breathing on his own. workers at the love ranch found odom unconscious and doctors previously said he had multiple drugs in his system and he suffered a stroke. the former l.a. lakers star is estranged from his wife, reality

star khloe kardashian who has onlyec in only spoken out to thank fans for their support at this point. we do have some road work and track work. i want to mention for you this weekend and g.w. parkway construction and the northbound ramp that connects to g.w. parkway will be closed. the work runs from midnight here so early saturday morning until noon on saturday. also, part of this parkway will mean the ramp to 395 northbound, use 1 to get to 395 northbound. that will not be a problem for you. again, here's saturday and something else happening downtown. light the night runs 5:00 to 9:00 p.m. pennsylvania avenue between pennsylvania avenue and e street. those closures start at 8:00 a.m. saturday morning and last until 1:00 a.m. sunday morning. track work, of course, as always

and red line train will be running every 24 minutes and green line will be here this weekend and we do have single tracking on the other line and let's take a look at what i'm talking about. the orange, silver and blue line between the eastern market and stadium armory, and the yellow line, single tracking between the plaza and pentagon city. >> take a look at this, it's ongoing and the dust storm north of arizona. they've issued a dust storm in northern pima counties for the next couple of hours. >> sky 12 out there captures this wall of dust blowing in the south valley, and you can see there the visibility is reported very low in the area and dust storms like this can range from 2,000 to 5,000 feet in height. we don't have that here, but a lot

dozens of children and adults rallied in front of baltimore city hall to demand police reform today in the wake of police violence and includes the death of freddy gray while he was in custody. as david collins reports on their list of recommendations the firing of bad cops. future leaders of baltimore city marching for change. they possess the spirit born in the april uprising following the police and custody death of freddie gray and they feature

ben gellis and they announce a six-point plan to improve policing in baltimore. >> our first demand is we want to fire police officers who have demonstrated corruption or unnecessary violence. >> reporter: the city has a long history of aggressive policing, most recently since police misconduct is captured on video, the department is disciplining officers, but the assembly would have to change the law to fire officers immediately. >> one of the priority is to ensure that every police officer is trained in de-escalation techniques. >> removing the gag ord or victims of police misconduct. they're calling on the mayor to end the policy prohibiting victims from publicly discussing brutality and other misconduct settlements and they want the department to improve community policing and stop rewarding cops on the number of arrests they make and they suggest incentives for problem solving and increase community perception and they

publish the policy and procedural centers online. >> there is nothing in this report that the city could not enact next week if they wanted to. enough is enough. we will assert our rights as citizens of the united states, as people in baltimore, as young people who are born, not for this trouble, but for the victory that is our very lives. now at 6:00, a win for donald trump ahead of the next republican debate. plus hillary clinton gaining ground amid questions over whether vice president biden will enter the race for the white house. >> a bizarre love triangle ends in double murder. what we're learning about the moments before the attack and why tension in this home was rising. >> first to video capturing the final moments of a prominent alexandria woman's life. jurors watched it for the first time today in the trial of accused serial killer charles severance. prosecutors hope it will be a

strong piece of evidence, one they say shows a younger severance stalking murder victim nancy dunning. bureau chief, julie carey joins us look with this chilling video. >> reporter: you might remember we saw two photos made from that video way back in 2004 right after nancy dunning was killed. alexandria police said at the time the man was a person of interest and he was never identified and fast forward to 2014 when charles severance is arrested and charged with three murders. that video took on brand new significance, and now prosecutors say it could be key as they tried to proof that severance killed dunning and two other alexandria residents. nancy dunning had planned her day shopping for gifts to donate and meeting hear husband sheriff jim dunning and son for lunch after, but she never arrived. this security video from the potomac yard target shows dunning making a stop around 10:15 a.m. december 5, 2003 and fa