after police say he staged his suicide. developing now, a standoff in san diego. air traffic's been shut down as a man shoots at police near the airport. s.w.a.t. teams are moving in and you can count on news 4 for live updates throughout the evening. developing here in the district, one man is in critical condition after a greyhound bus hit him near the washington convention center. 7th street and mass avenue and we are told the man is wedged beneath the bus and crews had to use jacks to prop the bus up. >> a man who stole a local ambulance and led police on a chase is taking responsibility for killing a man. sebastian pled guilty to manslaughter and dui. last december he overpowered the emts in an ambulance and crashed it outside a center in greenbelt. tracee wilkins was in court with him today. >> it was an unbelievable story. a drunk driver steals an ambulance and takes it on a

joyride that ends with a deadly crash. today the man who was behind that wheel says that he is guilty of a number of charges. 34-year-old sebastian isakson pled guilty today in upper marlboro court to carjacking, a motor vehicle, dui, assault charges and hit and run. this happened last december on the beltway. isakson was involved in a car accident and he assaulted the emts, stole their ambulance and then droefr around the beltway before taking an exit leading to beltway plaza. he would crash into seven vehicles including alvin hargraves, killing the 77-year-old retired math teacher, father and grandfather and injuring the passenger who was also in the vehicle. today sebastian pled guilty to all of the charges associated with this incident. coming up at 5k clo, the victim's son reacts to the fact that isakson is looking at spending at least 25 years in prison when he's sentenced.

in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. students at woodson in fairfax returned to school and got an update on the chemistry lab fire. one is still hospitalized with burns and another is recovering at home and three injured students went back to school today. two teachers who were in the room are still on leave and we'll hear from students and the school's principal coming up at 4:15. some breaking news now, there is some troubling development with the crash over egypt. evidence indicates a bomb brought down the russian airliner over the sinai peninsula over the weekend. the official says investigators are focused on the possibility that isis operatives or sympathizers were directly involved in that bombing. that news comes as uk officials have also taken the extraordinary step of suspending flights to britain out of sharm el sheikh airport and they're

deploying aviation experts to analyze some of the security procedures in egypt. [ shots fired ] >> that's breaking news in san diego where an active shooter is in a standoff with a s.w.a.t. team in an apartment complex close to san diego international airport. airport officials are canceling some flights, no planes are landing, some are taking off. police say a shooter has a high-powered rifle. the apartment complex is in an upscale neighborhood near little italy. so far no one's been hurt, but police had to be called to the scene on a report of a domestic abuse charge. i'm meagan fitzgerald in the newsroom. they're calling it the ultimate betrayal. startling details about an illinois police officer lauded as a hero, charles joseph glen wicks, it was a carefully staged suicide. he was a popular 30-year veteran

of the fox lake police force. he was found dead of gunshot wounds in september after telling dispatchers he was chasing three men. today investigators say he shot himself after staging the crime scene because he was about to be exposed as a crooked cop. the investigation shows glen wets had been stealing funds for years from the explorers program. >> thousands was used for personal purchases, travel expenses, mortgage payment, personal gym memberships, adult websites, facilitating personal loans and unaccounted cash withdrawals. >> multiple police agencies, s.w.a.t. teams and federal agents were all involved in the massive three-week man hunt following his death. the investigation ran into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. coming up in a few minutes we'll break down the cost to taxpayers. pat?

>> thanks, meagan. >> now to central california where five people were stabbed on a university campus this morning. it happened at the university of california merced around 8:00. the school is about 120 miles south of sacramento. police shot and killed the attack attacker. of the five people who were stabbed three were airlifted to the hospital and the other two were treated on campus. the suspect was a student at uc merced, but they haven't released the identity. a man from virginia has died after his motorcycle collided with a bus in maryland. the accident happened on rockville pike and caused major traffic delays this morning and it happened around 6:00 a.m. in the height of rush hour just in front of the national institutes of health in bethesda. police say the bus was making a left turn on to south drive when the driver collided with that motorcycle. francis pratti, jr., died on the hospital. investigators are still looking into the cause.

♪ ♪ ♪ david culver coming to you from what is the home for the loudoun county board of supervisors. this is their boardroom here and history made by the voters last night. we'll start with this chair right here. this is where supervisor eugene del gaudio has sat for many years, but last night voters decided to elect sainz for this seat. >> it's not about myself and not about my opponent and it's bettering the county at the end of the day. >> koran is one of the first african-americans to sit on this board, one of the first because the other one elected last night will sit in the chair position. that belongs to phyllis randall. >> and i realize, no one person ever gets to that place by themselves. it's because hundreds of thousands of people lay down a

path for me to walk on, and i am, i am behold tone histy and that seat. >> coming up at 5:00, we'll hear from both of the newly elected board supervisors and chairmen, and you will hear why they say there's a message sent here by the voters in loudoun county. in leesburg, i'm david culver, news 4. temperatures are way above normal for the start of november, but don't celebrate just yet, chief meteorologist doug kammerer is tracking a misty, foggy morning. >> we're talking about a little storm system make its way into the region and we're dealing with sunshine and beautiful temperatures, but take a look at the radar and you're seeing something make its way to the south. most of us dealing with sunshine and just out to fredericksburg, we'll widen out here and notice the showers and notice the direction they're coming through parts of the region and we will

not see a lot of shower activity at all from this and this is a slight chance of showers during the day tomorrow and it will bring more cloud cover on your thursday. friday, we're talking about record high temperatures and behind that, we get much, much cooler for the weekend and temperatures will drop more than 20 degrees. we'll talk about that in my full forecast. >> thanks, doug. video of this attack is getting shared all over the country and now trouble brewing for the accused executive from taco bell. a group of passengers thrown off the commercial flight and why some think it's a case of discrimination and how the airline is defending its action. >> a revenge porn inves

more trouble for the taco

bell executive who lost his job after this incident in an uber car went viral. benjamin golden was already facing misdemeanor assault and public intoxication charges in california. now he's been slapped with four assault charges that could put him in jail for a year. an uber driver says golden assaulted him when he tried to put him out of his car. days after halloween and families say they're still finding sewing needles in their kids' candy. a mom in maryland made the newest discovery as she was inspecting her children's haul. she took her kids trick or treating in the calvert county. a needle was found inside a licorice twizzler. if you notice anything out of the ordinary with your children's candy, maryland state police want to hear about it. >> these aren't the only reports of tampering and trick-or-treaters have reported finding needles in six candy bars in suburban philadelphia. students return to school following the fire inside the

local chemistry lab today. today the principal releases new information about the victims and the teachers involved. it turns out bobbi kristina's

for patriotism. a senators accuse the military of wasteful spending on sports tributes. we'll take you into a report if

any of our local teams are caught in a marketing program. a new response from spirit airlines today after black passengers were kicked off a flight. whur's troy johnson will join us to discuss whether the explanation goes far enough ? just a short time ago w.t. woodson's principal releas a statement about a fire that broke out in a chemistry class. he thanked students for the way they handled themselves during the fire and evacuation. he says the two most seriously injured students are improving, tne is still in the hospital. over the weekend, crews repaired the classroom so other classes can use it, but both chemistry teachers in that room when the fire started, they're still out 4's kristin wright handled the first day back. >> reporter: woodson high school students are back to class finding get well posters for their friends who are not here today. students enters the front doors for the for the time since a fire broke out in a chemistry

class friday. today, one girl is still in the hospital with burns and two teachers are recovering at home. they're on the minds of everyone in the woodson family. >> praying for them to be good and well as soon as possible. >> reporter: students still troubled by what happened can talk to counselors and psychologists in school today. the classroom has been repaired, but kids who were in that chemistry class period will meet in a different room for the rest of the year. so they aren't constantly reminded of a traumatic day, students couldn't believe was really happening. >> it just all happened at once. we all thought it was just a fire drill. >> the fairfax county school district had scheduled days off this past monday and tuesday giving students here at woodson a little bit of extra time before coming back to school. meanwhile, federal investigators are asking the school districts a lot of questions about what happened. in fairfax county, kristin wright, news 4. now your storm team 4 forecast.

it has been a good day here in the weather center and a phenomenal day outside. it's one of those days when you're walking into work and you're thinking i could stick around outside a little bit longer. a beautiful afternoon for sure, take a look at what's happening out toward reston and you can see plenty of blue skies and starting to see clouds move in and a lot of color. we are now at around the peak color for this time of year and past peak in some looks and clear skies, but notice clear off to the north and you notice the dark hanging out here? that's the dark color moving on from the south very slowly and still sun shooen. winds out of the south at 5 miles an hour and we're starting to see the clouds move in. so the clouds will be here and that means the showers will be here, too. nothing to show you on the radar. it's all just south of fredericksburg and clear skies all day long and boston down toward d.c., but notice what's happening here and a little bit of a wave making its way our way right off the atlantic ocean and

pulling in the atlantic moisture and that's going bring in those showers. you can see what's happening down around raleigh and in the outer banks and there are heavier showers there and for us, there will be light showers moving in and that means the potential is there for fog, too. maybe drizzle and areas of sprinkles and humid and mist and drizzle. it will be there so take the umbrella. i don't think you will need it much of the day, but you may need it from time to time. still a nice day to get out for a run because we're still talking mild temperatures. 67 by 11:00. up to 72 degrees by 3:00. yes, a few sprinkles, but still for the most part we'll see a nice thursday. take the umbrella, just in case. >> future weather looking good here as far as where these showers are going to hit. winchester, front royal, west of the blue ridge, you will not see anything at all from this, frederick, manassas, d.c., waldorf, these are the areas that i think had the best chance

to see some shower activity. by 8:00 a.m. tomorrow, west of i-95 we're on the dry side, but i-95 eastward, charles county and fredericksburg, these are the areas that have the best chance of shower activity tomorrow and that's all it is, very light shower activity. during the afternoon you can see it's extremely spotty, but most of the day is dry. that will be the main impact for tomorrow is the fact that you'll need to take the umbrella just in case and we're talking the small umbrella and we're not going to see any wind tomorrow and we'll see rather nice conditions and most of the day is looking like it will be on the dry side and then we get to friday. friday's high temperature, 79 degrees and that is a record high temperature and the old record set back in 1948. we're talking record there and look at the numbers come crashing dunn on today and high of 60 early, but then falling numbers during the afternoon. sunday, only getting to the mid-50s. it's the talk around town. spirit airlines is defending a

decision to kick a group of african marns off a flight from los angeles to dallas, fort worth. it happened monday evening, the flight was overbooked and a black passenger exchanged words with a flight attendant over a double-booked seat. the passenger and his companion were asked to get off the plane and then five other black passengers who allegedly became disruptive were forced to get off the same plane after a male flight attendant allegedly felt threatened. whur's troy johnson is here now. the passengers called spirit's actions racist and how are the airlines responding to that and how are your listeners handling the whole thing? >> they don't tolerate any form of discrimination and their concern is the safety of customers and their team. that is a very general statement from the airline and passengers say they can relate to the situation these passengers found themselves in. one of the folks thanks kicked off of that plane said that she felt singled out, embarrassed,

humiliated and those are the kinds of things that listeners say they've experienced in some situations and not just on airlines, but when they're out shopping and when they're going in places they feel like there is an eye watching and don't feel comfortable and in some situations they don't feel like they're treated the way another consumer would be treated and it's resonating with other people. i even talked to a listener who thinks this airplane situation speaks to a larger problem in the united states. >> at the end of the day, we are invisible. it doesn't matter what status, how much money we have, how much education we have, how articulate we are. we are invisible. some things will never change, however, with social media bringing things to the forefront making people aware of what has been going on for years, but will it change?

no. it will never change, but something has to be done. >> that's a pretty sad feeling when people feel that no matter what they do, no matter what they achieve they still may have that lingering feeling in the atmosphere. >> we saw a similar situation to this over the summer when a group of mostly african-american women got kicked off the napa valley wine train. >> right. >> the situation there the train was saying they were laughing too loud and they were enjoying themselves too much. those women now filed an $11 million lawsuit last month and they're taking action because of this form of discrimination. maybe we'll see that situation with these folks that were taken off of that plane. >> all right. troy johnson. thank you, troy. >> thanks, pat. another strange twist in the star-crossed life of bobbi kristina brown. why police say the woman who was supposed to be taking care of her was an imposter. we continue to follow the breaking news. a u.s. official now telling nbc news evidence shows a bomb may have taken down that russian jet over egypt. stay with

i'm meagan fitzgerald at the live desk. we're watching a developing situation in san diego where police have a man surrounded in his apartment. police say the man had been randomly firing out his apartment window with a high-powered rifle after a domestic dispute. officers say they have him

cornered and are now trying to end this peacefully. >> there's really not a lot of pressure for us to rush anything. we've brought all of the resources we have available us to from around the county. so we will continue to try to negotiate and use the resources we have to bring this to a successful, peaceful resolution. >> schools in the area are locked down. police had stopped flights from landing at san diego international airport because the flight path goes right over the apartment complex, but they are confident that the shooting has stopped so flights are starting to land again. pat? >> thanks, meagan. a hospice nurse who took care of bobbi kristina brown before her death might not be a nurse after all. the woman is facing charges of nursing without a license and identity fraud. she stole a real nurse's state i.d. number and used it on job applications. she was working at a hospice in georgia before brown was

admitted. she died six months after she was found unresponsive in a bathtub. the late whitney houston was her mother. police have raided lil' wayne's mansion in miami beach. officers raided the rapper's home yesterday under a levy warrant which was used to seize property. sources say lil' wayne owes money and police were taking assets out of there. aerial footage showed agents taking items out of his home and his mansion is unoccupied and police say this was part of a civil case. we continue to work several developing stories, startling revelations in the death of an officer once believed to be gunned down on duty. why detectives say he staged his own suicide. new reaction from a stunned community. they look like heartwarming acts of charity, but a new senate report says your tax there ares pay for patriotism at professional games.

right now at 4:30, a pedestrian is rescued after being trapped under a greyhound bus in downtown, d.c., the man is in critical condition after the accident at 7th and mass avenue near the convention center. witnesses say the driver initially didn't even realize he'd hit someone, but people on the street finally got him to stop. crews used hydraulic jets to

lift the bus off the pedestrian. a man pleaded guilty in court for stealing an ambulance and crashing into a car. sebastian isaacson could spend 20 years in prison. he took off in their ambulance. isaacson was drunked and man he killed was 77 years old. i'm adam tuss on the expressway in northern virginia where some drivers say they have been hit with excessive fees and penalties all the because they've missed a couple of holes and they filed a class action lawsuit now against the operator of the express lanes. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, we'll tell you more about what they have to say and how much in fines that they've had to pay and if this judge is allowing the lawsuit to go forward. we've all seen the events honoring men and women of our armed services at professional sporting events. some of us have even taken part

from the celebrations in the stand, but few have realized many of the heartwarming tributes and reunions were actually paid productions. the department of defense used tax dollars to pay the bill. washington's football team isn't among the teams that have been paid, but the baltimore ravens are among them. jay gray has the story. >> reporter: while so many are quick to recognize the cost of their service. we are now beginning to learn the price that comes with honoring our men and women in uniform. >> as much as $6.8 million that we saw the department of defense spend on sports marketing contracts since 2012. >> reporter: that's right. that soldier singing the national anthem, the service men and women unfurling a giant flag on the field, even some of those emotional homecoming reunions were the result of what senator john mccain and others say paid patriotism. >> there say lot of good things that professional sports do to honor the men and women who

serve in the military, but these millions of dollars are not acceptable. >> reporter: a congressional investigation shows as men as 72 contracts with at least 50 pro sports teams included some kind of staged, patriotic moment. the service members involved apparently didn't know about the agreement and many of the leagues and teams say the events were free add-ones to existing high-dollar marketing contracts. >> to find out the taxpayer is paying for it, it cheapens the whole lot and that's simply not right. >> reporter: not right and soon could be illegal. >> the leagues have pledged not to continue and perhaps more importantly it's now, as soon as the president signs the defense authorization act, it will be prohibited. >> because those families have already paid the ultimate price. >> we have a list of all of the teams that paid armed forces and

what they paid in the nbc washitoight now, search paying for patriotism. prosecutors have filed formal charges against the driver who purposely plowed into a crowd at oklahoma state university's homecoming parade. four people were killed including a 2-year-old boy. the woman is charged with four counts of second-degree murder and she could get ten years for each of those counts. >> bill cosby's future could be affected by what happened in a district attorney's race in suburban philadelphia. democrat kevin steel is there on the left. he won the contentious race for top prosecutor in montgomery county, pennsylvania. he defeated the man on the right, bruce castor. castor decided not to bring charges against cosby in 2005 when a former temple university employee accused him of sexual assault. the investigation has now been re-opened and steel is the man leading it. cosby has not been charged with the crime and his representatives have repeatedly

denied these allegations. more good news for democratic presidential candidate ben carson. carson is surging in yet another poll and grabbing headlines from donald trump and hillary clinton. news 4's steve handelsman has the story. >> reporter: ben carson on the rise in today's quinnipiac poll. carson is at 23% in a virtual tie with donald trump who was ahead by eight points in that poll a month ago. and carson is raising more dollars than other candidates, more than a million since sunday. >> i don't feel that i have to make a lot of changes because i'm not a politician. politicians are always with their finger in the air and now what do i have to do whereas all i have to do is tell the truth. >> reporter: fans lined up early and many of them christian conservatives like carson. >> for a lot of the evangelicals, the donald trump bravado doesn't work for them,

but the humility of ben carson does work for them. >> reporter: donald trump filed for the new hampshire primary and blasted his rivals. >> i don't debate well. i don't do anything well, but you should vote for me. that's jeb bush. >> reporter: then carson. >> he doesn't have a chance of bringing back a single job. >> reporter: come to credit for a surge in republican strength. an upset republican win for governor of kentucky last night. gop wins in mississippi and virginia. despite the party war on capitol hill ends for the president. it's bad news for hillary clinton, and if the election were held today she'd be tied with ben carson according to the nbc news/wall street journal poll. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. for the first time in more than a decade, alexandria will have a new mayor. she comes into office with no mandate. >> we're a city of great

neighborhoods in alexandria. neighborhoods that have been protected and built up in a very careful way through many decades of community leaders and we have to be very careful as we develop these projects within the community. certain projects that i certainly support and landmark mall being redone as well as bringing the national science foundation and tsa to alexandria. >> silberberg won the mayor's seat with more than 63% of the vote. some high school students are trying to change a few minds in loudoun county. tonight, they're playing a powder puff football game to support mental health awareness. kids from woodgrove and loudoun valley high schools have been impacted by recent teenage suicides and they want to do something to stop it. those schools are crosstown rivals, but they're coming together to make headway on mental health awareness. >> it was very tragic and eye-opening to everyone around who dn't know that things like this happen or wasn't sure that

it could happen in your own community. >> it's a great chance for us to come together for a cause a lot bigger than us and it's a great chance for us to support those families and those kids who have lost a brother or a sister or a loved one or family member. tonight's game is at 7:00 at loudoun valley high. last time they played woodgrove had a come-from-behind victory. the teams raised $1200 for mental health awareness, visit the nbc washington app and search channg minds. more people sick with e. coli. what chipotle and federal officials are now doingo sop

out west, health officials are still scrambling to identify the source of the e. coli outbreak that's been linked to chipotle. now they have been able to identify the specific microorganism that has made at least 41 people sick. the next step is getting that identification down to the dna level and using the information to match the people that got sick with the food they ate. once the possible source is identified, chipotle says it has software that can trace every box of fresh ingredients from farm to table in real time. e the emissions test cheating scandal is widening. volkswagen is recalling 92,000 cars in the u.s. it applies to the beatle, the

golf, jetta and pass at models from 2014 and 2016. it can knock out the power brakes and make it much more difficult to stop. volkswagen is telling owners to keep driving their cars and forward problems to the dealer. volkswagen has admitted to rigging thousands of diesel cars to pass emissions tests. >> a massive man hunt for three cop killers turns out to be a giant waste of time and money. why police are calling a fellow officer's death the ultimate betrayal. get ready for some changes, fog, drizzle and mist for the morning rush and dramatic changes coming our way for the

right now at 4:45, we have a team of reporters working stories. >> we have negative online reviews. and meteorologist veronica johnson is tracking big changes in the weather for the weekend. first, shocking new details about an illinois police officer. for weeks it seemed as if he was killed in the line of duty. today investigators revealed he staged his own death and committed suicide. they also discovered he'd been embezzling thousands of dollars from a charity program. nbc's wendy wohlfort is digging into what some call the ultimate betrayal. >> reporter: the massive man

hunt for three alleged cop killers turned what police call the ultimate betrayal. >> we have determined this staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that gliniewicz had been committing. >> reporter: once thought to be a fallen hero, officer joe gliniewicz turned out to be a criminal himself. according to his own department -- >> they took off toward the swamp. >> do you need second unit? >> after that call to police dispatch, they believe the 30-year-old veteran shot himself twice. >> he was under increasing levels of personal stress, from scrutiny of his management, of the fox lake police explorer unit. >> specifically, stealing and laundering money from the unit that he led, one that mentors young people who want to pursue law enforcement. >> thousands of dollars were used by gliniewicz for personal purchases, travel expenses,

mortgage payments. >> only after filtering through thousands of text messages, emails and financial documents could they come to this shocking conclusion. >> unbelievable. my gosh, g.i. joe went from a hero to a criminal. yeah, it's just sad. i can imagine how his family feels right now. they have my sympathy. >> an entire community stunned by the revelations. wendy willfork, nbc news, chicago. more than 50 police departments in and around chicago were involved in the massive man hunt. it went on for three weeks and left taxpayers with a hefty bill. the search cost about $300,000 and most of that is from all of the overtime the officers acc e accru accrued. that's about $300,000, nearly 300 officers were working the case. >> the first snow of the season has arrived in arizona. four and a half inches of snow

touched down in flagstaff early this morning. >> look at the window for a second. >> this part of the state doesn't normally get snow, but usually not until thanksgiving. the system is just part of a wild weather pattern impacting the whole nation. meteorologist veronica johnson is in the storm center to tell us more about that and about the temperatures here. nothing like snow at all. in fact, will we need the heat at all? >> no, we do have the other side of that pattern and the entire eastern half of the country seeing very mild conditions and what you will need is a small umbrella. we're tracking some showers down south around fredericksburg and soon it will be making its way up into southern maryland and eventually right over d.c. so if you'll be going out this evening and maybe taking the dog for a walk and some drizzle around, and i think your best chance is around 7:00, 8:00, as it comes up over the north and east and our temperatures will

cool down to the mid-60s by 7:00 and it's almost closer to where the average high temperature is. >> we've been talking about it for the last two days, in fact, and that is the patchy fog and tomorrow, i don't think it's patchy and it will be fairly widespread. >> this is early tomorrow morning and i'll stop it at 7:00 a.m. and you can see everywhere down below and a mild visibility and really that could be an issue for some of you and might want to get an early start out of the door tomorrow morning. >> lots of fog, clouds and mist. that's throughout the area. so with cloud cover over us, and not as big of a range in temperatures for tomorrow morning. meanwhile, this evening again we're talking about the mist, the drizzle and spotty, too, for early tomorrow morning so at least we don't have to worry about heavy rain coming into our area and as a matter of fact, it's going to be very low chances of rain over the next seven days. >> the other thing about tomorrow, and you'll notice a

touch of humidity, mist and drizzle and upper 60s to low 70s by tomorrow afternoon and it's the 70s at the end of the week and a 20-degree temperature drop as we move into the weekend and could see a stray shower, and our biggest impact in terms of weather will be right down here and areas south of 66 and east of i-95. a look at your seven-day forecast and the weekend around 60 degrees and doug has an hourly look at what you can expect throughout the day on saturday when that big change takes place on news 4 at 5:00. >> thanks, v.j. a man who used to work for the state department is headed to prison for stalking and filming women in northwest d.c. daniel rosen will spend the next two to three years in prison. prosecutors say he shot video of dozens of video in mount pleasant, adams morgan between the 2012 and last year. he'd hide in alleyways and peep into their homes and angle the lens through the cracks in their

curtains and it showed women having sex, using the bathroom and other private acts. it tries to figure out how one of them broke free. last week one of the army's multimillion blimps got loose from its tether in aberdeen and crash landed more than 100 miles away in pennsylvania. the blimp carried radar being used to protect the d.c. area from missiles. the pentagon has suspended the blimp system indefinitely. review retaliation. we first introduced you to this last week. what can happen if you bash a company online? today lawmakers on the hill addressed the backlash on consumers for posting bad reviews. a u.s. senate committee addressed concerns about nondisparagement clauses also known as gag clauses. they usually live in the fine print of a customer agreement. the clause prohibits consumers from posting negative reviews or comments about a company and if

it's breached the company goes after the consumer and sometimes suing for thousands of dollars. senator john thune recently introduced legislation to ban consumer gag clauses nationwide and spoke today about internet policy. >> what good is information if it's been sanitized to remove truthful criticism. simply put, imposing consumer gag clauses can result in unfair bullying. >> right now california is the only state in the country that bans gag sclauz clauses. in the newsroom, i'm erika gonzalez. >> thanks, erika. she's been in office for 12 months and muriel bowser will take her first overseas trip as d.c.'s mayor. she leads a delegation to china. the mayor's delegation includes more than 30 private business leaders and city officials. bowser told nbc 4 today that the week-long trip will focus attracting more chinese tourism and investments in the city's booming real estate economy.

the group will make stops in beijing and shanghai. a few objects from the daytime drama "days of our lives" will now be a part of the smithsonian. they range everything from scripts to some original props and they'll be added to the entertainment collection. >> we are honored today to vet them into the collections and each bearing the name of a character from the series. these objects reinforce the importance of family traditions in american life. >> "days of our lives" have been on air forever. we're working developing stories in our newsroom and one in montgomery county where the community is stepping up for a fifth grader. she's in the hospital and fighting for her life, but as wendy rieger shows us, that doesn't mean she's missing class. >> and it will be a busy few days for stage crews at the

verizon center and the wizards play tonight and the caps play tomorrow and the former members of the grateful dead come together. we'll show you some time lapse video. here it is, to give you an idea of what it takes to change the verizon floor and quickly. coming up on news 4, we'll talk to the man in charge of getting it all done, and which star wanted the air-conditioning turned off and which celebrity had security thro

right now we're following breaking news in bu i. chopper 4 is over a burning house fire on juit place. this is a cul-de-sac and it looks like one-half of that house is gone. so far there's no reports of any injury, but we'll stay on top of this and bring you any updates as they come in. we are learning more about a new case of revenge porn in our area. >> that's right. a student at the university of mary washington logged on to social media and found private pictures of herself posted by her ex-boyfriend. brittany mcdonald of our sister station has the warning legal experts want you to hear. >> reporter: 21-year-old john michael chief executivalier was arrested early tuesday morning charged with unlawful dissemination of an image, in other words, revenge porn. >> sometimes people when they break up they take what were meant to be personal photographs taken between the couple and

they distribute them or they post them or share them with other people and they do it with the intent to get back at that person. >> reporter: university of mary washington police say a student came to them sunday after spotting personal photos of herself on social media. she says they were pictures taken during a past relationship posted without her permission. >> simply posting the photograph without permission, that's not a crime, but as soon as you can tell from the circumstances that that person's intent was to harass somebody else, that's when it becomes a class one misdemeanor. >> nbc 12 legal expert steve benjamin says before posing for the camera, ask yourself an important question. >> can i be certain that that photograph i'm about to let this person take will never show up in social media? if you have any reservations about that then you probably shouldn't let the photograph be taken. >> chief executivalier faces up to a year in jail for each one of those photos. news 4 at 5:00 starts now with jim and wendy. a silent hero to the rescue.

now at 5:00, who jumped in to help when a bus driver didn't realize he just run over a man in downtown d.c. and this -- i'm adam tuss along the beltway in the express lanes in northern virginia. a judge has issued a ruling and a class action lawsuit that claims the operator of these lanes is hitting drivers with unfair tolls and penalties. and this new video of a drunk driver's deadly joyride in an ambulance. we have the courtroom confession tonight. news 4 at 5:00 begins with a developing story. a man in his 70s hit by a greyhound bus, and it happened a block from the convention center at 7th and mass downtown and tonight we're hearing from the person at the right place and the right time and came to help and we have pat collins live at the scene opinion wendy, a greyhound bus weighs more than 30,000 pounds and today a man was trapped beneath this greyhound bus.

trapped for about 20 minutes. that led to an incredible rescue and an unselfish act by a man described as a silent hero. with onlookers applauding and cops using sheets as a shield, rescue workers ever so carefully removed the man from beneath the greyhound bus, brought him to an ambulance and took him to a hospital nearby. that man was trapped beneath the bus for at least 20 minutes and just before it happened the witness says a doctor came to the rescue. >> there was a doctor that happened to be walking by, and he dove underneath the bus and he just assessed the situation and stayed under there. >> reporter: what about the doctor? >> i think he's a secret hero. a silent hero. >> reporter: the scene, 7th and massachusetts avenue northwest. a full