lorenzo sanders is accused of selling cocaine, crack, and heroin in front of his house. mayor bowser said she doesn't know sanders but told "news4" he will be held to a higher standard. new developments in the speaker of the house race. this is a live look at the capitol building where the republicans have a new front-runner to lead the party after paul ryan made it official. he sent a letter after getting support across the gop. ryan said he gould, quote, go all in. if elected he'll be one of the youngest speakers of the house in history. in a tweet candidate lincoln chafee said he will update the state of his campaign. he's been hovering around zero. he's expected to make the

announcement around 8:00 this morning. we'll send the alert to your phone through the nbc washington app. right now we're watching hurricane patricia. right now it's headed toward mexico. it could be the strongest storm on record to ever hit the country. the national hurricane center is calling it potentially catastrophic. it's heading toward a big resort area. one resort is going to be evacuated. pa treesh ya is expected to make landfall this afternoon. 4:31. time for "weather & traffic on the 1s." chuck bell has your weather. >> yes, indeedy. not too bad of visibility. you can still see the u.s. capitol building in downtown washington. current temperatures, how about this out the door. low 60s in the shenandoah

valley. mid-50s in the suburbs and downtown. compared to yesterday it's considerably milder. this afternoon even though we're off to a milder start, we'll have a cooler day. north to northwesterly wind. could be breezy at times. that will hold. nowhere near as warm as that 76-degree day we enjoyed yesterday. you still need your light jacket first thing this morning and your sunglasses for later on and you'll need to wear your jeans for a little bit of a cooldown. more on the weekend in ten minutes. a check on traffic with melissa. we take a look at prince george's county. no problems there in the inner loop or outer loop of the beltway. still have this crash. 32 westbound as you're approaching 95. the crash is on the right side of the roadway. it's an overturned vehicle. it could be some time before that's completely out of the way. 270 from 70 down to the spur,

we're nice and clear. green. a little bit of roadwork, 370 as you're headed over to 270 this morning. 66 looks good. 95 looks good. overall zooming in to 95, you can see a little bit of a slowdown as you're approaching 33 miles per hour because of roadwork. bi we'll be back here. >> 9/11. 911. for the first time we're hearing the 911 call. a friend of amanda jones made the first 911 call monday night. he was on the phone with her when he said he suddenly heard a struggle when she got inside the house. >> she sounded like she was fighting somebody. >> now, the next morning on tuesday jones' own daughter found her mother stabbed to death and she called 911. >> what happened? what are you seeing?

>> she's lying here on the ground. and she's got ooe exercise equipment and there's blood everywhere. the victim's former boyfriend mitchell cole is charged with her murder. prince george's county. no arrest this morning in a deadly shooting. "news4" was there as first responders tried to save the victim. this happened yesterday on g street. we're told 51-year-old nathanial moody was stabbed at least four times. today family and friends will gather to remember an 80-year-old man found dead in prince george's county. a funeral service will be held for luben phipps. he was found after wandering away from an assisted li eed li facility. he suffered from dementia.

his body was found three weeks later. the penalty gone is saying they've not changed tactics in iraq. they say the u.s. forces to rescue hostages is an exception. >> they're not there to assist in those missions in iraq. >> 71 are free this morning. the pentagon is getting information and the five isis guards that u.s. forces captured thursday morning. one u.s. servicemember died. the first american killed in combat in iraq. they said they had intelligence that isis was about to execute the hostages. >> new calls this morning. newly received ads are asking neighbors and patients to help save laurel regional hospital. one ad focuses on john spearman. >> john spearman told "the baltimore sun" something i didn't fully appreciate when i

started here is how deeply this community loves the hospital. >> the ads are asking you to contact governor larry hogan to help save the hospital. you can look at our app to find out how to contact the governor. a presence george's county father is not happy with the school board after a teacher spanked his child. it happened at the french immersion school in greenbelt a year ago. school officials say they found no wrongdoing and won't comment for legal reasons. that teacher is now working for a different local school district. some changes you need to know about on metro this weekend. if you're heading to the marine corps on sunday, metro will eat two hours early at 5:00 a.m. and you'll encounter track work. red lines will operate every 18 minutes and green lines every 16 minutes. orange, silver, and blue line

trains will run every 26 minutes. there is no track work on sunday. loudoun county wants the state to buy the dull lense greenway. they want to vote to support the purchase of that 14-mile highway by the state. supervisors say they would also support distance-based or time-based tolling on that privately owned road. right now drivers pay one amount no matter how far they travel on the road. all right. it's 4:37. let's take a look at the current temperatures on this friday morning. much milder this morning. the kids haven't needed a coat for recess this week, but that is about to change. outrage against a popular airline accused of leaving a disabled man on a flight long after everybody else got off. wait until you hear the compensation that airline is offering him. and the upgrade to traffic signals that could have an impact on you even if you don't drive. your time right now

a nurse who had ebola is suing. hickox was seen riding her bicycle outside her home in maine. a medical official report thad she had a fever but hickox said she didn't have any symptoms of ebola. new traffic signals in fairfax county could speed up

response times for emergency vehicles. the lights would turn red lights green as 911 crews approach intersections. they say the signals could also reduce crashes. county officials are analyzing which corridors could benefit the most with that new technology. 4:41. we have weather this morning. >> meteorologist of "storm team 4" charles -- chuck bell. wi us going to call you charles. he doesn't like that. >> did your mother call you that? >> usually when i was in trouble. charles? skies are mostly cloudy. you're right. it's not cold at all. upper 50s, low 60s. it looks pretty good. a "b" for recess. temperatures will stay only in the mid-60s and tomorrow as you

get your weekend started, a dry start before the weekend is through. that part of the forecast in a few minutes. right now, traffic update. approaching 95, a crash is now cleared. you don't have to worry about that one anymore. they made quick work of that one, getting that overturned vehicle out of the way. prince george's county looking quite good as well. no problems there. looking pretty green. same thing here, you're looking at 66 and 95. had some earlier roadwork. it is now out of the way, so you don't have to worry about that too much this morning and then inner loop and outer loop, everything looking nice and clear here this morning. "weather & traffic on the 1s." i'll see you back here at 4:51. another scandal rocking the secret service. why the agency is being warned at putting your security at risk. fed up. what some neighbors on capitol hill are thinking

15 before the hour. we want to show you a map here. it shows the reason the people who live in the navy yard capitol hill area are nervous this morning. each circling you see there marks the spot where armed robbers attacked neighbors wednesday night. some neighbors tell "news4" they're so nervous, they're ready to use. police haven't released who might be responsible. one man said three men approached him with a gun and then robbed him. neighbors say people in the community are on edge.

>> my next-door neighbor was calling me and she was in a panic. her husband was gone for work and she's hearing helicopters circle for half an hour and she's scared. >> neighbors want to know if all of wednesday's robberies are related. one woman put her house on the market yesterday after news of the attacks being so close to her home. i really don't care what you say about me. it doesn't bother me a bit. it does bother me what you say about admiral mullen and i will not sit here and hear that. >> hillary clinton keeping cool dur 1g during 11 hours of grilling, everything from e-mails to benghazi. tracie potts breaking down everything that happened. long hearing for sure. >> it went halfway into the night. now it becomes what do voters think about all of this. remember we told you before, 44%

in the poll weren't buying her answers on benghazi. was she convincing not just to republicans who were grelging her but to the voters following her campaign. it was campaigner clinton who went in but secretary of state clinton in the hot seat answering questions about benghazi, why she didn't provide more security. she said she never got hundreds of requests that landed on her desk. she was aware of the danger and so was ambassador stevens and others who worked in the region. democrats described this as a show saying fellow republicans were badgering her over and over with the same questions, by the way, among them, two former federal prosecutors. clinton talked not only about the victims but changes in the department. she said changes had been implemented. congress said it was not enough. hillary clinton heads back

out on the campaign trail today. she'll be alexandria with terry mccollough. it's now 4:48. closing arguments may soon come next wednesday in the trial of accused killer charles severance. he's accused of killing three prominent alexandria residents in over ten years. yesterday his brother ben ser severance took the stand. he said they departed company in 2001 when he tried to get him some mental health. they also questioned several of his friends on a key piece of prosecution video evidence. police need your help tracking down two men they say shot and robbed a teen in charles county. take a good look at the sketch here. sheriff's dep pults released it last night. they say two weeks ago this man and another man shot a 17-year-old in the leg on a

waldorf trail and then took his bike. that teen was able to wave down a school bus driver who called for help. an update now to this deadly house fire. the parents of the two victims of this row house fire in dupont circle are now suing the homeowner for negligence and wrongful death. nina bermans and michael mick glof lynn died. their parents are seek $10 million per family. they say the home had no working smoke detectors and no fire extinguishers and the windows didn't open. a disturbing story. a wheelchair-bound man was left alone on a flight. he waited nearly half an hour after everyone else deplaned for someone to bring an aisle chair. he said he was frustrated and uncomfortable and needed to use the bathroom. when no one showed, he crawled his way out of the plane.

>> so i lifted the arm rest and got down on my hands and knees and proceeded to crawl. i mean i was halfway in the middle of the plane at that point, so i just crawled up the rest of the way through the aisle and then i got to the end and i had to crawl over the entry way to make sure i didn't fall obviously. >> united reached out to kneel and told him they're investigating and giving him a tree travel voucher. the national disability rights network said these types of complaints are on the rise with air zwroovl 4:50 right now. a former d.c. police officer and church pastor could face up to 18 years in prison. darrell best pleaded guilty to several charges yesterday. this is him in court. prosecutors say he used d.c. police headquarters and a house of worship to sexually abuse two ujds age girls. he also pleelded guilty to porn

pictures police say he had on his phone. the secret service is being warned that overworking its employees is putting national security at risk. they found employees sleeping on the job including one incident at the white house. they ble fatigue from travel, overtime shifts, and long hours. one record shows an agent worked 60 hours of overtime before he was caught sleeping. >> traffic is down 10% and they're not able to fill that void. people are leaving the secret service. oversight committee chair jason chaffetz says the agency doesn't agree with the reports saying that the two agents had sufficient days off. 4:51 right now. we turn to meteorologist chuck bell and talk about this little cooldown. you knew it was coming. >> but not crazy cold here.

we're going from bonus territory to average. >> i'll take that. >> i'll take that. >> yesterday, wow! what a day yesterday was. >> stunning. >> who doesn't like 76 degrees in the third week of okay. that's 10 degrees warmer than average. today we loose the average and go back to closer to average. outside partly cloudy to at times mostly cloudy sky. still not all that cold. the colder air moves in. 59 now at washington's national airport. south wind averaging three miles per hour. it will be a mild morning outside first thing. turning a little breezy and a little cooler. it will be chilly if you're going out for a friday night dinner and a movie or friday night football game. it will be chilly for sure. a lot of work gone on. eun and i will be there first thing tomorrow morning statementing temperatures in the 40s. start-off time right around 9:00, almost 50 degree and mid-50s at 11:00 by the ejd of the 5k walk.

come down and join eun and i for the walk to end hiv. light rain in the pre-race hours, 2:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. we'll be off to a mild start, maybe a damp start. rising into the mid-60s by sunday afternoon. what about today? you've got to get through today first. temperatures are in the mid-50s this morning and we'll have a pleasant rise today, only in the mid to upper 60s. next shot of rain sneaking in our direction. that's the rb we have that wet start, i think, for sunday morning at race time. and then as you look through future weather then, for today, some clouds around this morning but sunshine coming back later on this afternoon. today's highs mid to upper 60s. as we get into the weekend, the weekend will start out dry on your saturday. no weather worries on your saturday. clouds come in and with the passage of that next front early sunday morning that's the reason for the rain chance. not a chance for a lot of rain.

highs, mid-60s the next couple of days. back to full sunshine on monday and tuesday looks nice and our first chance of moderate to heavy rain comes in next week. dry roads for most of your morning commute. melissa mollet, any slowdowns? >> i can thank you for that. don't have any problems. no slowdowns. we know they're coming. 66 into town looking good. it's going take you 8 minutes, so you don't have any major issues right now. remember to listen to our friends on wtop 103.5 f.m. as you hop in your car, big problems. inner loop and outer loop, everything is nice and green. remember this is cleared out of the way. you don't have to worry about that crash any longer this morning. 270 here also looking good from 70 down to the spur. it's going to take you 27 minutes just as it should. no major issues there. much of the earlier construction is now clearing out of the way as we approach the 5:00 hour.

i'll see you in ten minutes. >> thanks, melissa. texting and driving. it's illegal in maryland. why are they doing it. >> i'll take a grande americana with whiskey. no, too much. the push to bring it to starbucks. an ar

breaking news out of

tennessee at 4:58. at least one person is dead after an yoifr night shooting at tennessee state university. we're gathering information on this. we'll bring you an update in just a few minutes. also we're keeping a close eye on the weather as a cooldown is heading our way. chuck bell is putting together your headlines and the forecast for where you live at 5:01. this new video of a prince george's county school bus driver is upsetting parents. in it you can see the driver texting at the wheel. the bus takes kids to jason madison middle school in upper marlboro every day and some of the children says the driver texts while on the ride home. the student took photos but it wasn't clear whether the bus was moving and then one recorded this angle from behind the driver's seat. the parents took it to the district and the driver is still on the job. >> we don't expounded on what we're doing with a particular

employee. the video shown to us was enough evidence for us to take action. >> prince george's county is also looking at reports that the bus sometimes shows up late to take the kids to school. there's new evidence of a park & ride. commuters showed us a photo of a portable camera set up by police. they're seeing more patrols. four cars had their tires and rims stolen back in may and two cars were hit just last week. d.c. families can stay in temporary city housing thanks to a push from "news4." they forced their families to leave the apartments because of unsafe conditions. they say the building owner ignored 300 code violations. the district put them up in housing. now the problem is the city wouldn't pay for the rooms that

long. >> to be able to sit back and hear so many different versions or different stories about your present situation is very troubling to these individuals. >> they tell us one thing, come back with another thing. we don't know if we're tossing or turning, you know. >> after calls from "news4" the city said it would cover costs while officials processed housing requests. as if you need more reason to fuel your starbucks habit, five starbucks stores in the district may soon have licenses to serve alcohol. it's an effort to bring more people in at night. the program will also allow the coffee shop to sell small savory meals, beer, wine, and cove-based drinks starting at 2:00 in the afternoon. uh-oh. two of the stores are in the dupont circle area. the others that could get licenses are in chevy chase, georgetown, and penn quarter.