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 deployment of rescue

workers. they used hydraulic jacks. they use large blocks of wood. they stabilized that bus and then freed the man beneath it. all of this with the crowd of concerned people standing by. the bus was being used to shuttle people attending the american dental association convention downtown. it was making a lefthand turn when it struck the man crossing the street. one witness said the driver didn't know he hit someone. >> the bus driver didn't know that he'd hit anything and the people that were jogging out here were banging on the door of the bus trying to get it -- be sure the guy stopped. >> reporter: the victim here is described as a man in his 70s. he's in the hospital. they say he has serious injuries, but he is talking and police are listening. more about the investigation coming up at 6:00, jim, back to you. >> pat, thank you. the principal of woodson

high and fairfax county says he's proud of the way the students and staff handled the chemistry lab fire. students returned for the first time since friday's explosion during an experiment. two students are still recovering tonight. one at home and one in the hospital. the principal says two teachers are also out on leave. praying for them to be good and well as soon as possible. >> we need to come together and support these kids and students, and the teacher that was injured. >> the classroom where the fire start side repaired now, but that chemistry class will meet in a different room the rest of this year. school officials have not specified which experiment was being done before the fire. there was a big vote in loudoun county. the voters there made history in one of the fastest growing and the wealthiest counties in our country. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver is live in ashburn to explain just what they did. david? >> reporter: wendy, in its roughly 250 years of existence

loudoun's county board has never had an african-american serve as a supervisosupervisor. last night voters on in loudoun county elected to change that by adding not one, but two, and one of them being its new chairman. >> it's very humbling, but i'm pretty excited about it. >> before taking hold of the chairman's gavel, phyllis handal is taking in her historic win. >> i have a couple of months to bask in this honeymoon period, but the voters of loudoun county have put me here to do some things and they expect it from me. the mother to two sons first made history in loudoun county when she was the first african-american to run for a supervisor position. she lost. sometimes you have to lose in order to win and that's what i feel like 2007 was for. >> reporter: last night's victory made up for it. she defeated four-term chairman scott york and the gop nominee. >> i think the message was not

one that was negative against mr. york, first of all, change is constant and sometimes change is necessary. >> this will be the seat right here. >> that chair? >> yeah. right here. and the plaque will read. >> koran t.saines. >> doubling up on this historic occasion. >> loudoun has been diverse for quite some time and it's just great to see the diversity represented at the highest levels. >> phyllis j. randall chair -- chair -- >> she had to think about that one. by state law it's supposed to be chairman, but that may be among the first things she tries to stay. i think for it to be by law chairman is a bit ridiculous to be honest. so, yeah. just chair. >> just preferring chair, not

chairman there. last night's elections proved to be a big win for women leaders. as we break it down and it looks like when the new term starts in alexandria and likely arlington and fairfax and as we showed you here in loudoun, women will hold the top positions. jim? >> speaking tonight, alexandria's newly elected mayor says she'll be taking a careful look at development plans along the waterfront there. allison silberberg dropped by the newsroom today following her victory over incumbent bill euille. >> there are certain projects that are proposed to be built within certain existing neighborhoods that certainly need careful attention including the waterfront and projects in other neighborhoods where the existing neighborhood is not in support of development that would overwhelm their homes. >> silberberg is alexandria's

first new mayor in more than ten years. >> across the potomac the city of college park elected the first openly gay mayor. patrick thanked his supporters on facebook today and he's thrilled to have the opportunity to play a role in college park's next chapter. he wants to bring more amenities and high-quality developments and business to college park. and there will be a new prosecutor in the high-profile murder cases involving virginia college students morgan harrington and hannah graham. she lost her election in the charlottesville area. harrington's mother spoke to wtop. lunsford's office reassured her there would be a robust prosecution of her daughter's suspected killer. >> any reluctance that we would have about the change is also a knee-jerk reluctance that all of us as human beings have to

change. >> the new prosecutor for albemarle county is robert tracy, a former federal prosecutor and you can catch up on all of the election results including the final race results from buoy, maryland, it's all on the nbc washington app. >> you may use them on the beltway and 95 and you will see them on i-66 in just a few years, but some worry the operator of the express lanes is slamming people when they miss a toll and today a judge allowed them to move ahead from the class action lawsuit and maryfield with a look at what's next for us, adam? >> well, jim, this is a win for any driver who feels they've been slapped and another driver is still worried about the thousands of dollars that they still owe. drivers along the expressway say they've faced excessive

charges for simple mistakes. >> it is unconscionable that the fines would transcend the benefits. >> he didn't know his credit card expired and as his wife continued to use the lanes, missed tolls tied to that expired card racked up and he said he wasn't notified until it was too late and ultimately he had to settle by paying thousands of dollars. >> they allowed my $29 to be forgiven by me paying $2200. they were doing me a favor. it's just incredible >> now a class action suit with other drivers claiming similar issues moving forward. >> for the case of our clients and the plaintiffs in the case they didn't know they ran a toll until months and in some cases a year later and that's because the notice program we believe is inadequate under the law. >> transurban said we are confident the process that wiwi

demonstrate transurban's enforcement policy ensures customers are informed, provides significant opportunities for customers to know. and drivers like stanfield are still there. >> it would be different if we were trying to sneak on to the expressway, but these are people who make honest mistakes or had the mechanical malfunction. >> the case continues. >> reporter: now you guys said it, these lanes are scheduled to expand in our area and coming up at 6:00, i'm going to show you how the operator of the lane plans to help you and make sure you don't get charge those extra fees. wendy, back to you. getted withy, we're talking about a major change in our forecast. >> guess what? doug is tracking a 20-degree temperature plunge. what's this all about? >> that's exactly what it's about. it's that 20-degree temperature difference from friday where we're talking about record-breaking temperatures as we make our way into the weekend. >> we have a change going on

across the region and storm team 4 radar, and we have shower activity along the region and showers down to the south between fredericksburg and richmond and you can see the direction right up to the north and not a lot of activity here and still an idea to keep the umbrella with you if you are going to be heading out this evening and tonight's headlines, slight chance for shower activity and not much, even into the day tomorrow and friday we're talking about record high temperatures and we'll take you hour by hour for the saturday forecast and i have that for you at about 5:25. >> the man in this video looks like he's supposed to be driving this ambulance, but in actuality he's just stolen it and he would then go on to crash into several vehicles, killing one man. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news 4, he enters a plea in court. she may be living in a synthetic drug hot zone.

the i-team takes us for poison control at this evolving war on drugs. she just wants to be a regular kid and go to class. how one montgomery county how one montgomery county student, a fifth grader will okay. so everyone is saying, "hurry! you gotta get fios!"

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here at the live desk we're keeping an eye on a major traffic snarl. we're going to take you right out to some live pictures on the beltway as if it couldn't get any worse on a rush-hour wednesday night. take a look. here it is. that's the inner loop between potomac and tysons around the legion bridge. we are told president obama is going to a private event in potomac so they have stopped traffic and you can see almost nothing getting by there, and you can tell what kind of backup that is going to be on the inner loop. the inner loop of the beltway right around legion bridge. i know people in our area are used to getting traffic tied up when the president has to move throughout the area. that certainly doesn't make it any easier. jim? >> timing could be better. all right, chris. >> new video from a camera inside the ambulance shows a man calmly driving away in an ambulance he just stole. minutes later he crashes into a car in greenbelt killing a

retired teacher. sebastian isakson pleaded guilty in court today in the prince george's county. tracee wilkins has reaction. >> a good samaritan checks on the driver. >> is anybody in the back? >> he doesn't know if a patient is in the back because he just carjacked this emergency vehicle. >> not only has he carjacked the ambulance. he assaults the emts who were driving that ambulance. >> reporter: video released just today shows sebastian isaacson calmly driving it. he stole it from two emts who stopped to help him after he was involved in a crash in the beltway. police say his blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit. this is the scene after he crashes into several cars including this mercedes carrying 77-year-old, hargraves. >> it was all at once and

probably never saw it coming. >> hargraves taught at montgomery county and from time to time returned to substitute teach. >> my father was a great, great person who will be missed by many and impacted the lives of thousands of people over the course of his years. >> this is what isaacson looked like after the crash and today he entered a plea very vehicular manslaughter, dui, and assault among other charges. he's had dui charges before. >> when you look at his complete history and since this incident, he is a danger to society. >> isaacson will be sentenced in january. he could be looking at spending up to 25 years in prison. coming up on news 4 at 6:00, we talk with the son of the victim about what it was like being in court with the man who has admitted to killing his father. in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins, news 4. toic braing news we go. we've learned that a bomb may have brought down the russian airliner over egypt.

>> and an intelligence official says that the islamic state may be to blame. aviation correspondent tom costello. >> i go by john sometimes. >> i know. what makes them think it's a bomb? what evidence do they have? >> jim miklaszewski at the pentagon is reporting that there is evidence according to a u.s. official that a bomb may have brought down the plane. andrea mitchell, her sources say a bomb is likely, but not conclusive at this point. my sources have said listen, you have to consider that it is a prime suspect along with the possibility and nobody is taking this off the table yet, that this was a significant mechanical malfunction that the tail section of the plane had a disengagement, if you will, or metal fatigue that caused the entire tail section to break off and then the plane crashed. so what we have tonight, this all began, by the way, it came out of number 10 downey street none other than the prime

minister's office which earlier today said based on the information out there and some intelligence that it had received it was concerned about the possibility of a bomb and as a result, it was telling its ex-pats who are in sharm el sheikh egypt, do not fly out tonight, nobody is flying out tonight and the brits will arrange to get their tours there out safely. this is where we stand right now. there is nothing con cluesive and to give you a sense of what the stakes are, the security director at that airport sharm el sheikh airport has been fired along with other individuals on the ground. the russians immediately sent a security team in there within about 24, 48 hours of this incident into the airport to do a complete top to bottom review, allegedly they didn't like when they saw whatsoever. they were reviewing security tapes, procedures and they found it to be a very lax airport. >> dramatic development. tom, we'll look for your report tonight on nbc "nightly news".

>> my pleasure. we are waiting to hear whether a popular prince george's county restaurant will keep its license. that shooting happened sunday outside proud mary restaurant in fort washington. >> one woman died, a man was critically injured. there is a hearing today on whether that restaurant must give up its license. police tell us the shooting happened during a fight in a parking lot. >> we do not have the drugs to rid the world of cancer yet, but we do have the technology to allow a child being treated for cancer to transport herself back to a safe and happy place where she can feel normal and a little girl in montgomery county is showing us how. >> and i press it, and you can see that it starts connecting. >> do i. i do. >> oh, my gosh. is that us? >> 10-year-old payton walton is her own mission control, driving around a robot that allows her to be anywhere she can't be. she calls it pav.

my mom made it up. >> payton's awesome virtual self, when payton heads to sloan ke kettering hospital to get treatment for cancer. she'll be gone for five week, but not really. >> because of pavs, payton will virtually go to class and socialize with her friends, travel the halls with the help of the segway-type device from double robotics. >> they see the robot in the hallway. that's payton, she's here and with us and she's with the rest of them. >> the benefit has been huge. payton has had autonomy in her education and she has control whereas cancer takes that away and isolates her. >> payton will run pavs that syncs up through an app and she can see and hear and her classmates can talk to her like normal.

>> so what are you guys doing? >> being the techno generation, payton and her classmates got the hang of it rather quickly. >> payton's been so great on her end. it's been pretty seamless. >> there's been a learning curve. >> try not to crash into the walls, but like payton, pavs can handle a bump in the road. >> i move it around and hope that i have a good wi-fi signal. >> reporter: it has proved to be a special hot spot for payton and her family. she's the new kid in town and just moved here from new jersey a few months ago and the cancer just introduced itself a few months ago, as well. a lot for a 10-year-old to handle, and then her mom learned of this robot. >> it has to be quick because with cancer there is no time to make lengthy decisions and you have to make them daily. >> it costs about $300 and payton's new friends came up with the money and payton seized the controls. it's technology. what 10-year-old does not love

technology? there is definitely a cool factor to this. >> reporter: there is a very cool factor to all of this. as a bunch of 10-year-olds learn that no matter where payton goes, she will still be with them. >> and to learn more about this robotic technology that payton is using, open up our nbc washington app right now. it's fascinating. >> what a great story. wendy, thanks. the wizards may be hitting the hardwood then a rock concert takeses over followed by a hockey game. ever wonder how did they do that? ♪ ♪ that's howard university's band and it's going silent. yet performers are putting down their instruments. and d.c.'s mayor is preparing for her first trip overseas and she's traveling with a familiar face.

we saw another beautiful day across the area and high temperatures today into the mid-70s all across the region. it was simply gorgeous, plenty of sunshine and not a cloud in the sky and notice some clouds moving in. those clouds moving in from the south and the showers will come with them although most of us will stay on the dry side. still nice and mild and winds

out of the southeast and it's the easterly component that will bring in the clouds and bring in the chance for showers and here's the radar, not much happening and look down toward king george county and starting to see some showers in towards this area here and again, we'll watch these and i'll zoom in on the showers around the king george area and they'll move around the potomac and right along the 301 here as it moves up toward the north. so they'll be few and far between, but we do have a chance to see some of those showers and here are the clear skies earlier and here come the clouds and the showers from the south, too. not a big storm system at all and just a little bit of a wave in the atmosphere that will be driving up across our region and a lot of clouds just to our south and tomorrow that's what we'll be dealing with. more in the way of cloud cover and an isolated showers and drizzle for your thursday and that's what to expect. you may need it a little bit and for the most part tomorrow will be a dry day. morning fog, humid and mild

temperatures around 72 degrees and could be mist and drizzle out there, too. outdoor planner and a few sprinkles, but still very, very nice. temperatures climbing into the low 60s into the low 70s by the time we get to 1:00 or 2:00 and looking pretty good for the afternoon run and a sprinkle or two will not stop you from the afternoon jog or bike ride. temperatures 72 tomorrow and then on friday we get to 79 degrees and that would be a record. the record high temperature is 78 and i think we get to 79 on saturday and temperatures fall where we see 60 degrees early in the day and by 2:00, 3:00 we're only in the 50s. best chance of rain on saturday will be early in the day and again during the afternoon south of washington. that's what we'll talk about coming up at 5:45. sunday, 58 degrees and a cool weekend after record high temperatures and veronica has the rest of the seven-day

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the d.c. area is now the center of the synthetic drug war. >> we've seen more cases on a month-by-month basis than ever before. >> the news 4 i-team with an exclusive look inside the poison control center that's being overelmed. >> trying to keep them alive. that's the simple way of saying it. >> how do you treat a drug overdose if you've never seen the drug before? >> that's been the big challenge this year for our local hospitals as they've grappled with what the news 4 i-team has found to be an unprecedented number of synthetic drug overdoses. trisha thompson and the i-team take you inside the center of the city's synthetic drug battle. ♪ >> when you first walk in it looks like any other office. cubicles and computers everywhere. >> but with key strokes this

phone call, it is literally saving know some's life. >> we get calls into poison control. >> medical experts can tell you what to do if your child eats a liquid laundry pod or if you get bit by a snake. most of the calls come from inside people's homes and stephen kaminsky says one-third come from hospitals as doctors and nurses grapple with patients overdosing on drugs they've never seen before. >> we have identified over 300 synthetic products and every single one is different and they all have different averse reactions. >> reporter: kaminsky says they were one of the first in the nation to realize we had a growing synthetic drug problem. it started in 2011 when they say they suddenly received over 7,000 calls from across the country about these drugs that often look like marijuana, but can cause violent and deadly reactions within the human body. >> they are reminiscent of the old pcp patients that washington, d.c., is very famous

for. >> reporter: katherine clancy has been answering the phone here for more than two decades and the reality is there isn't a whole lot doctors can do for a synthetic overdose. >> we try to keep them alive, right. that's the simple way of saying it with no antidote, they keep them hydrated their heartbeating and their temperatures from spiking until the synthetic works through their system which can take up to two days. >> people have gotten a treatment strategy that was seeming to work and then in august there seemed to be a new version of the synthetic can of a noids. >> that prompted a huge record-breaking spike in poison control calls this year. >> we've seen more cases on a month by month cases than ever before. >> mississippi leads the nation in overdose calls. police are still trying to figure out why they've seen such an extraordinary spike there, but d.c. comes in second with

maryland, west virginia, virginia and pennsylvania also in the top ten, meaning the mid-atlantic region really is a synthetic drug hot zone. >> it is a mass of crisis in the country and it is a massive crisis in the d.c. area. >> if you want to take a harder look at those poison -- those numbers from poison control, we've put them on the nbc washington app, along with a contact number if you ever need to call them. they want you to know they will not call the police if you or someone you know is overdosing. tonight on news 4 at 11:00, we'll take you behind the scenes to show you how synthetics have dramatically changed the way ambulances arepatched in the city. >> we're looking forward to that. in a story we see on news 4, a 19-year-old accused of capitol hill home through an unlocked door and sexually assaultinga i woman inside should not have

been free to walk the streets. we are not identifying the suspect because he has not been charged in the district yet after going through court records news 4 learned the suspect was arrested and charged with a felony two weeks before the october 13th sex assault. the documents also show he was on probation at the time of the arrest and he was allowed to go free. right now that man's in jail in prince george's count owe unrelated charges. he was lauded as a hero after police found him shot to death in septemberr/y and that death sparked a long and a costly man hunt for the killer, but today the chief of the fox lake illinois police department says police officer charles gliniewicz was a criminal who killed himself. the chief called it a carefully staged suicide, possibly because of all the crimes that he committed. investigators say gliniewicz stole from a program for young people who wanted to become police officers and then use the money for travel, for personal loans and even to visit adult

websites. >> gliniewicz committed the ultimate betrayal to the citizens he served and the entire law enforcement community. >> police say they are continuing their investigation trying to figure out if anyone was aware of the crimes gliniewicz was committing. ten months into office d.c. mayor muriel bowser leaves saturday for her first major trip overseas. our tom sherwood reports the mayor will lead a delegation of more than 30 business leaders and a few city officials to china. >> reporter: mayor bowser has made economic development a focus of her administration in short trips to london and montreal. on saturday she heads to beijing for a week-long trade mission. her first. >> it was important to go to china because of the capital that the chinese are investing. we are also going to be talking about chinese visitors to the district of columbia. they make up one of the largest groups of visitors to washington, d.c. >> reporter: the official trip includes at least two business

persons who contributed thousands of dollars to the controversial freshpac political action committee created by bowser. >> everyone is paying their own way. >> international investment has bankrolled billions in economic development in the washington area. at a national conference of hispanic leaders in businesses that included regional leaders, d.c.'s independent chief financial officer jeffrey dewitt who is also going on the china trip says the area must appeal to international business. >> we're the nation's capital and we have all of the embassies of the world here and international investments are incredibly important to the d.c. economy. tourism, economic development and banking and all those things are very valuable to have a partnership with china. >> the week-long trip include stops in both the chinese capital of beijing and the commercial center of shanghai. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. a mother and father killed

going out on a halloween errand. we'll tell you what one trooper did when he arrived to the couple's home to deliver the terrible news to their family. >> unfortunately, we were greeted by four

this week's wednesday's child is a young man you may recognize. you've met him on wednesday's child before, five times, in fact. i introduced you to him when he

was 11 years old. this week i caught up with him as he continues to languish in the foster care system. >> tony, hello. it's great to see you. tony, you've gotten so big since the last time i saw you. >> over the years, we've had a chance to get to know tony. he's spent almost his entire life in the foster care system, living in a residential medical facility where the staff is his only family. >> sometimes he'll say mom or he'll throw you a kiss. >> another member of tony's team is kristin catalano, while it takes some effort, he likes it. >> success is a great reward for him and his smile is a reward for all those who see program. >> that's fantastic. wonderful. very nice. i think you like standing up. >> he's been in foster care for about 12 years and he's spent most of his formative years here

at the hospital. >> she hopes there is a family out there that could be just what tony needs. >> i'm looking for a family that's going to be patient, committed to him, willing to really nurture him because i think he still does need a home. >> tony needs a home where people will celebrate his victories and give him reasons to love life. >> tony has a large personality, despite his inability to communicate, he's very engaging and people really feed off of his energy. >> that is true. we never give up on finding a child a home, so if you have room in your home or heart for tony or another child who is waiting, please call the special adoption hotline, the number is 1-88-to-adopt-me and find details on washington.com and if you're considering adoption search adoption expo to learn about a special, vent coming up early next month. >> jim? >> it's about to be a busy week here at the verizon center.

>> i'm mark segraves and coming up, we'll show you what it takes to turn this to basketba

all right. veronica is here to tell us we'll get wet tomorrow. >> yes, we are. we'll go through a change and a more dramatic change at the end of the week and for the weekend. you'll see what i'm talking about in just a moment and stick with me for early tomorrow morning and more cautionary and this is road impacts because of the fog which will be fairly widespread and dense and then because of the drizzle and mist that will be moving in and it will continue tomorrow with the possibility of wetness around the area. so through the afternoon and evening you get the green light because it will be nothing too heavy for the afternoon hours. areas down south. here are the showers that we're tracking through southern maryland and the showers down here around areas of culpeper moving to the north and northeast. right over 15 and toward remington out of stephensburg over the next couple of minutes and right up 301, some light showers there for your afternoon and it will just continue to spread northward here for your evening hours. nothing heavy for this evening

and even tomorrow morning and very spotty again. it's mist and drizzle coming our way for the next 24 to 30 hours or so. going out this evening with the cloud cover moving in, temperatures only drop to the mid-60s by 8:00. it's not going to be quite as low as they have been over the next couple of hours as we head into the overnight period, but big story again is the fog. you c seean just how wide spread it will be for early tomorrow morning and dropping under a mild visibility. clouds, mist, fog and the temperature range, 54 to 60 degrees out the door. some of you may need a jacket, but still you will lose it by the afternoon. a little bit of humidity also with some of the dampness around the area for tomorrow afternoon and with the temperature pushing up from 70 to 72 degrees and i still think it will be a good day to get out and do exercising. friday's temperature, we take a 20-degree temperature drop by the weekend and that's the big change coming our way.

you can see the stray shower and that temperature around 70 degrees and here is a look at the area, though on saturday with the next weather system moving in and it could be problematic for some people with not only gray skies, but showers and the areas of waldorf, annapolis and leonard town for saturday and it's a 50/50 weekend for us and as a matter of fact, hourly forecast for saturday and the temperature at 60 degrees, but i think that's going to be early in the day. falling temperatures and mid-50s at lunchtime and 52 degrees at 6:00 and it will definitely be cool and rather chilly and on friday again, that record high temperature and that 78 degrees, we're thinking it will top out at 79. shattering a record on friday and then a way cool weekend with a little bit of wet weather and we'll talk more about what to anticipate this weekend in just a couple of minutes on news 4 at 6:00. >> all right. thanks, veronica. >> that food scare with chipotle continues. they're still working to track

the exact source of the e. coli outbreak. it closed 43 of its restaurants in washington state and oregon. so far a total of 37 people have gotten sick. along with interviewing those who tested positive. health officials are testing chipotle products and believe they're going to find the problem on some kind of fresh produce. the situation comes as the government reports an increase in multi-state outbreaks of e. coli. doreen gentzler joins us with details on all of this. >> hi, wendy. just 3% of all food borne outbreaks involve more than one state like the situation out west with chipotle. because of germs like listeria and salmonella like we saw at the fig & olive restaurant in downtown, with e. coli the breaks could have more severe consequences. 2010 and 01multi-state outbreaks accounted for 4,000

illnesses. there were an average of 23 outbreaks and that's a spike when we average just six outbreaks across state line and in a quarter century beyond that. the centers for disease control says there are two main reasons and one of those, consolidation inndustry and instead of companies just shipping to one reon t tainted products can wind up in more places. at the same time health officials have much more sophisticated testing to link them across state line. ? so how can you protect yourself? researchersre looking into vaccines, but that's a ways away at this point. right now there is no medicatio that can protect yourom e. coli-based illnesses. the best way is to avoid food borne ilesses at home. cooking meats to proper

temperatures, washing fresh produce and of course, washing your hands and it probably bears repeating, jim, that we have not had any reports of any problems with the food at chipotle restaurants in our area. >> that is good to know. >> doreen, thanks so much. >> stage crews at the verizon center are about to get a workout and very little sleep. the venue faces a quick turnaround and we're talking basketball, hockey and ack conct and backo hockey again. news 4 mark segraves goes bakstage with how crews plan to deal with the changes. >> it begins tonight with the wizards taking on the spurs. as soon as at gameis in the books crews will turn it from a basketball arena to a hockey t ff the ic it will be for the grateful dead and joh mayer. >> the hardest working guys in the building come in about midnight and then finish between 5:00 and 7:00 a.m.

>> once the concert is over, it's back to hockey. >> immediaty after the sh you know, lke the jackson brown song, you hear the folding chairs andhe of folding chairs and the crowd doesn't typically know. >> while each, vent poses its own challenge for the crews at show, fans who like to ing the smoke. >> they have a long history of a culture that is more supportive of that than dismissive, but even during that time it was always the bane of the staff in trying to get people to not smoke. >> reporter: even though concert goers typically like to party the days of rock stars having huge backstage parties are mostly over. >> more often than not nowadays the artists get off the stage and get into a c and head riht out. >> and just because the days of excess partying are a thing of the past, it doesn't mean the demand stars make when they

agree to perform are. >> kevin hart had probably the biggest t. reques coming up at 6:00, why one artist had dozens of out of his concert andwhich star insisted the air-conditioning be turned off. at the verizon center, mark segves,ews 4. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> fired up for patriots week. the redskins' heavy underdogs as they prepare for the defending super bowl champs. preparing for fight. >> you know, you're not going to bully . you're not going to do certain things that aren't allowed. >> brawling with corey washington at the very beginning of the day. >> it rubs off on everybody and you need that at practice especially with the team we're getting ready to play. >> he's just a true competitor. he's from up north, and he's one of those walk around, always

pissed off guys anyway. that's just him in a nutshell and that's what you need on the field. >> trying to do my part and be a leader and whether that's vocally and just showing by what i on the field and the washington redskins and helping us as a defensive unit and i'll come and compete. >> culver who has been out three games with a knee injury and he will be returning this weekend and he will be repaired to fight which is welcome news as the skins prepare for the league's heavy weights. in ashburn, carol maloney, news 4 ports. the howard university band is launching a protest against the university over funding. during its halftime show on saturday the band wore all black, drawing attention to lack of scholarships in the band program and also announced that until the university addresses the financial issues that are affecting it across the institution that the band would no longer support the university with music. it's calling the moveme

movement #silentshowtime. a georgia trooper's simple act of kindness has popped up in your facebook feed. you can hear the story orphans who were

four kids were getting ready to celebrate halloween and their parents went out to get extra supplies and that's when tragedy struck. >> both died in a car crash.

a georgia state trooper went to care for the kids and broke the news. he decided to hold off and give them one last treat, instead. >> just one more day, it's a wish felt in the shadow of death. to get just one more day before everything changed. the children of donald and crystal howard were granted that. >> after theirdied, the same way that they lived, together. >> you couldn't get one without the other one. that's how much theyved each other. >> on halloween, the couple went out for face paint and extra candy, but never made it home. georgia state trooper nathan bradley was sent to care for four unknowing orphans. >> unfortunately, we were greeted by four youngsters dressed up in full costume. >> with their grandmother's permission. >> they thought we were there i said hey, you aint. all want to go grab a bite to eat. >> my parents will be here shortly, well, i just got in

touch with your grand me and she wanted me to pick you up and hang out with you until she gets here. >> he treated them to dinner, movies and halloween candy at the monroe state patrol post followed by a sleepover. >> the whole purpose was to preserve their futureholidays. >> giving them one more day before their lives would change rever. >> before their loss would grandmother could travel from floda to become their new guar >> he they needed them. he was there for them all the way. halloween they didn't even have a clue. >> just great kids. they're very smart. i want to see them continu pros. >> news 4 at 6:00, begins with breaking ns. there are new developments tonight in the deadly plane crash in the sinai peninsula in egypt. a u.s. official tells nbc news there are growing indications, not prof, but indications that suggest a bomb brought down that plane and that

bomb may have been planted by isis. >> and there's more tonight. nbc news has learned that the head of security at the airport in egypt has been fired. >> investigators are looking at the possibility that the bomb was placed on the plane on sharm el sheikh, and it was head for example russia. nbc's kurt gregory has details. >> reporter: a u.s. official tells nbc news that evidence indicates it was a bomb that brought down the russian airliner over the sinai this past weekend. the investigation is focused on the possibility that isis operatives or sympathizers were directly involved in the bombing. >> according to the official, investigators are looking at the possibility that an explosive device may have been planted onboard the plane by ground crews, baggage handlers or others at the