new questions are coming out about her relationship to the suspected ringleader and how she died. we are tracking the coldest air of the season and windchills on sunday, only in the 30s. i've got that forecast. [ speaking spanish ] >> first at 4:00, a firsthand could from the man behind the wheel of the church van who was involved in the fiery crash in hyattsville. five people died and 14 others were hurt. now the van driver is talking about the experience with our ownerica gonzalez. where does the family go from here? >> they still have a long road ahead, but when i talked to him today he said he wishes he could have every one of the first responders first responders and the good samaritans who were there to hug them and to say thank you. he and his son are now home, but his wife and daughter are still in the hospital and they've got a long road ahead of them.

>> reporter: freddy rodriguez describes his injuries to him. his chest feels like he's been beaten with 50 bats and that when the steering wheel and the dashboard rammed into him. his leg now broken has several metal rods. doctors had to take a skin graft from his left leg and put it on his left arm which was severely burned in the crash, moments he remembers vividly. he said he could see the pickup truck that ultimately collided with them zig-zagging through traffic. he could see the truck's back two wheels on fire and smoking. he would try to steer the van out of the way, but the truck was just coming too fast and after that, he says, was there screaming and sirens.

now to a developing story in africa where police are still searching for a team of terrorists who stormed a luxury hotel in mali. wendy rieger is at the live desk with new information. wendy? >> pat, security forces are now going room to room looking for potentially more gunmen at the embassy blu in mali's capital. a u.n. spokesperson is telling nbc news 23 people are dead including 19 civilians, three of the attackers and one member of the malian security force. that number a bit lower than the 27 that had been previously reported earlier today. at one point the gunmen were holding as many as 170 people hostage, but all of the hostages have been rescued or they escaped on their own. an extremist group that split from al qaeda is claiming responsibility for this attack.

that group said it wants fighters freed from mali's prison. there were several americans at that hotel at the time and all have been accounted for. pat, back to you. >> all right, wendy. >> now to the latest mystery surrounding the paris terror attacks. the discovery of a third body at the site of monday's massive apartment raid in suburban paris where the suspected mastermind died. the third body is in addition to hasna aitboulahcen, the woman who wore a suicide bomb and abdelhamid abaaoud, the militant from belgium and accused ringleader of last friday's massacres. french authorities say the third person was a woman, but they haven't identified her and they also say the cell they stopped in that raid was about to carry out more attacks. . >> the terror attacks are having a big effect on decision 2016 and fellow republicans are criticizing donald trump's latest remarks. listen to what he said when a

reporter asked if he had a database to track muslims in the united states. >> i would certainly implement that. absolutely. >> what do you think the effect of that would be. how would that work? >> it would stop people from coming in illegally. >> he said that last night during a campaign stop in iowa. senators ted cruz and rand paul along with john kasich and jeb bush are all blasting trump and the very idea of a so-called muslim database. >> the council on american islamic relations calls trump's remarks islam phonetic and leveled the same against ben carson for what he said yesterday about syrian refugees. >> we must balance safety against just being a humanitarian. for instance, you know, if there is a rabid dog running around your neighborhood, you probably not going to assume something good about that dog and you're probably going to put your

children out of the way. it doesn't mean that you hate all dogs by any stretch of the imagination, but you're putting your intellect into motion and you're thinking how do i protect my children at the same time, i love dogs and i'll call the humane society and hopefully they can take this dog away and create a safe environment once again. more than 30 governors have called for a ban on syrian refugees over fears the terrorists could use migrants as cover to cross border sgloos when you take a look at the newest online poll you still see mr. trump's name right there at the top. nbc's survey registered independent voters who lean republican. about 18% of them prefer dr. ben carson or ted cruz. marco rubio came in fourth at 11%. brace yourself.

the cold is coming in. doug kammerer is in the storm center where it's warm right now, but doug, it will feel chillier tonight and a lot of people today coming into the weather saying it's chilly outside today and it wasn't the temperatures, it was the wind. temperatures today only in the 50s, but with the wind, winds gusting upward of 20 miles per hour, and if it was just sunny with temperature, 55, it would be a nice afternoon and 54 leesburg, and 54 down toward pawtuxet river. if you're heading out, the sun is going down within the hour and temperatures will cool very quickly. make sure you have the coat down to 50 by 7:00 and 47 by 9:00 and 45 by 11:00 and many of you in the suburbs will be in the 30s by 11:00 and very cold tonight and the coldest air of the season this weekend. we're talking the first freeze right downtown. i'll show you when it arrives coming up in my forecast. >> being on, doug. new reaction for a man who

pulled a brazen stubt landing his drone at the capitol. >> reporter: this is chris gordon at the u.s. courthouse in the district of columbia where the man who operated that gyrocopter flying it down the mall last april centered a guilty plea to one felony. hughes says he was aware he didn't have a pilot's license when he flew a gyrocopter through restricted airspace with stamped letters addressed to every member of congress protecting the corrupt use of money. >> i asked hughes why to plead guilty rather than go to jail. >> i'll use better ways to restore dl democrat see on the outside rather than being in jail. this is the best way for me to return to the battle. >> reporter: all new at 5:00, why doug hughes is asking the judge that before he is sentenced on april 13th, he be

allowed to participate in a march from philadelphia here to washington for one of the biggest acts of civil disobedience ever aimed at the u.s. capitol. i'll have that part of the story coming up on news 4 at 5:00. back to you. recent attacks are reigniting concerns that airport badges may be getting into the wrong hands. what homeland security is doing to prevent the breaches.

campus police are investigating a hate crime at harvard. so much vandalized photos of african-american professors at

the law school. take a look at the portraits inside the hallways where vandals covered their faces with black tape. students are so upset they're placing colorful strips on each portrait's frame and they're rallying in support of black students across the country. princeton university will look at removing former president woodrow wilson's name from the campus. it came after a student sit-in to protect his legacy. he voiced opposition to voting rights for african-americans. the university will survey students and the board of trustees about removing wilson's name from the school of public and international affairs. after investigators found syringes in a hotel room linked to the paris attackers, new questions are coming out about the drug fueling fighters in syria. why it's so dangerous. major outlet stores with deceptive pricing.

our consumer price team is outing the

developing story overseas. a houftage crisis has come to an end in mali, but more than two dozen people are dead after islamic extremists stormed a radisson hotel. we'll take you through a time line of this terror attack in the next half hour. a third person has been confirmed dead in the

anti-terror raid that targeted the ringleader of the paris attacks. french media outlets are reporting that that suspect is the one that set off an explosive and not the woman nationally believed to be europe's first suicide bomber. i'm mark segraves in the district where one woman's battle with the tax man has now resulted in changes to the way the d.c. tax office operates. earlier this year, elizabeth leblanc started getting letters saying she owed back taxes, more than $6,000. then she got another notice saying that because of fees, it had gone up to $9,000. ultimately a collection agency sent her a notice saying she owed $13,000 because of fees and interest. the problem was she didn't live in the district and didn't owe the city anything. coming up, you'll hear from her and the apology from the city and what's being done to make sure that this doesn't happen to you.

howard university students are back in their dorm right now after a car crashed through the building. police say the driver, a howard student was drunk when it happened late last night. the car made it to the bethune annex. everyone inside evacuated and while crews checked for structural damage. luckily, the building was safe. a university spokesperson says the driver was taken into custody shortly after the crash. there were no injuries. after nearly four weeks and 4,000 miles, the capital christmas tree has finally arrived in d.c. this year's tree came all of the way from the national forest in alaska. it stopped in 14 cities on its way here. the spruce is about 74 feet tall and it's the first tree from alaska. even though it hasn't been decorated yet, the tree is already making a statement. >> when i came and walked down capitol hill and came around the corner and saw the tree and the

capitol, it's like i'm really proud of our country. >> i think this makes a statement about our unity, our values, our families, our communities, and it really hit me and now i'm going to cry about it. don't cry. >> the crews are moving the tree to the west lawn of the capitol where they'll decorate it with thousands of ornaments that kids in alaska created. the tree lighting ceremony is wednesday, december 2nd and we posted the details on the washington app. just search capitol christmas tree. what timing. the tree arrives when the weather is getting to changeous, doug. >> perfect, doug. >> i'll tell you, we have the coldest weekend so far this season coming up over the next couple of days. today, chilly, but temperatures still close to the average high for this time of year. we've got plenty of sunshine out there and we have temperatures sitting at 55 degrees and winds out of the north at 10 miles an hour and it's been gusting to 20, 30 miles an hour and it has

felt a lot cooler than that and that's what we'll deal with on sunday and first off tonight, dry and cool and a warm jacket tonight for sure, if not the coat and we'll drop into the 40s very quickly on our friday night and if you're heading out to dinner and the movies, and it will be quite cold quite quickly and on the radar, no rain to talk about and you have to go back toward chicago to see our next storm. we're clear here and look out to the west and this is a bowling ball of the storm system and in parts of south dakota and that same system moving out under winter storm warnings and they can get in the chicago land area and up toward that region. for us, that storm not bringing us rain or snow, but it will bring us much colder air coming up later this weekend. first up tonight, 28 in winchester, 29 in manassas. so starting your saturday on a very cold note. high temperatures tomorrow, cooler than today, but with less wind, i think it will be a better afternoon.

52 in leesburg. 53 down towards la platta and we're dealing with plenty of sunshine. the really cold air comes in on sunday and it's on the low side, sunny, but cool and sunday will be on the moderate side because we'll be dealing with 20 to 30 mile an hour winds and highs only around 49 degrees on sunday and then look at monday. a high of only 45 degrees on monday and we're talking about a temperature of 32 in the morning and 32 in the morning and the first freeze in the city and that means many of you will be in the suburbs or many of you in the suburbs will be in the low 20s. so we're talking about really cold air coming up this weekend and coming up in just a couple of minutes and veronica takes a look at next week including what's in store for that thanksgiving holiday. >> guys? >> all right. >> the woman who claims she was gang raped at the university of virginia. the university is suing rolling stone magazine. the richmond times dispatch reports the woman known as jacky is refusing to give the school

documents she sent to the magazine. a police investigation found no evidence to support the gang rain claim. rolling stone eventually retracted the article. jonathan pollard served 30 years in prison for spying for israel, but tonight the convicted spy is a free man. pollard was released from a u.s. federal prison in north carolina this morning and then appeared in court in new york just a few hours later. he pleaded guilty way back in 1987. this espionage case was one of the highest profile spy sag as in modern history. it put a strain on u.s.-israeli relations for years. pollard's attorney filed an appeal to loosen his parole conviction calling it too oppressive. major retailers sued. why outlets are fighting allegations of deceptive pricing heading into the holidays. how about making a run for dunkin without ever leaving the office. the new delivery service that

could be heading to d.c.

if you're planning a trip to the outlet stores over the holidays you may not be saving as much as you think. consumer reporter erika

gonzalez explains what led popular retailers in court. >> reporter: people shop outlet stores for one reason. >> to save money. >> it's cheaper. >> you get more for your money. >> reporter: consumers say they save big. >> i think i get a better deal. when you go through outlets you get 50% off. >> reporter: not everyone is sold on the hype. >> don't believe the price tags. >> reporter: he is a class action lawyer who filed lawsuits against major retailers, michael kors, kenneth cole, nordstrom rack, columbia, guess, levi's and joseph a. bank with deceptive savings on price tags. >> it's a total fabrication. >> the price tags look like this,a i compare at or manufacturers suggested retail price followed by a substantial savings and since it was never sold at the retail store and

made specifically for the outlet they are getting a better deal than they are. >> people get excited about the discounts that they get and these manufacturers and these retailers understand that very well and so the bigger discount you think you're getting the more likely you are to buy thingses. >> in court documents the retailers have denied allegations against them so we reached out. most said they will not talk us to about pending litigation. nordstrom did tell us the allegations have no merit. the retailer admits in court documents it manufacturers products to be sold only at nordstrom rack, but told news 4 it's items offered for sale at nordstrom rack with compare at prices are not lesser quality versions of original items. michael kors initially deniedal gagds and it later settled, agreeing to pay $5 million, but without admitting any wrongdoing. >> in our settlement with michael kors, it no longer says m msrp with the line through it

and it is a clearer model so it is an outlet. >> michael kors has agreed to replace the msrp with the word value. >> knowledge really is the greatest weapon and so the more consumers have this knowledge the better that they can equip themselves to really shop in a responsible way. >> reporter: erika gonzalez, news 4. muslim databases and rabid dogs, some of the shocking comments now shaping the republican presidential primary race. >> potential threats from the inside. new concerns about missing airport badges. investigators found needles and syringes in a hotel room linked to the paris attackers. w

operation s forces are searchin every room of a hotel after a deadly terror attack in west africa. 19 civilians and a member of mali security forces were killed in a siege that lasted virtually the entire day. grenade-throwing gunmen entered the radisson blu. we are learning six americans were among those able to get out safely. now the french president francois hollande is ready to help mali, and a split is now claiming responsibility. the attacks are igniting a

firestorm. republican presidential front-runners ben carson and donald trump are calling for special government surveillance of american muslims. when asked if he wants them to have to register, trump said yes. steve handelsman reports. >> reporter: the congressional christmas tree arrived, a holiday symbol and a reminder that this is a christian, majority nation and that the lincoln memorial, american muslims protest -- >> muslims condemn terrorism and muslims condemn isis. >> reporter: donald trump saying he would monitor muslims. >> look at all those cameras up there. oh, that's beautiful. >> reporter: asked if setting up a database, trump said you sign them up. >> you have to have good management procedures and we can do that. >> do you mosques and sign these people up? >> different places. you sign them up, but it's all about management. >> reporter: shocking rhetoric,

hillary clinton tweeted, it should be denounced by all seeking to lead this country, and the republican front-runners pounced. >> i find it abhorrent that donald trump is suggesting we register people. >> i'm a fan of donald trump, but not a fan of government registries. >> trump said i didn't suggest a database, a reporter did. we must defeat islamic terrorism and have surveillance. >> ben carson wants surveillance of u.s. muslims. >> if, in fact, there are mosques where there's a lot of activity radicalizing people they must be treated differently. >> reporter: discrimination to keep america safe over the holidays and after. i'm steve handelsman, nbc news, washington. get ready to pull the coats back out soon. we're due for another air mass change. coming in, the coldest air of the season. are you ready? as far as this evening goes, let's take a look at our

forecast. temperatures have been in the 50s and 60s across the area and this evening it will be dry and cool and you'll need a warm jacket for this evening and we get into the weekend with a stronger weather system and you can see our clear sky there and here is a system that will be moving through our area producing snow now in areas of iowa and they'll get about a foot in a few locations and chicago is about ready to get snow now and what it does for our area is it will give us a day tomorrow that will be chilly and then cold on sunday and we're talking about windchills before long that will be in the 20s and maybe even teens for a brief period of time. i'll have that coming up as well as your travel weather for wednesday and a look at thanksgiving day in detail. >> and thanksgiving is less than a week away now. >> right now the nurses of georgetown university hospital are in their final hours of their annual 72-hour drive. to help nbc food collect food for families. in this little red wagon is a

load of kindness and compassion. there are lots of cans coming in by the boxes and bags. >> then i transport in this bag. >> reporter: it's a marathon to collect 7200 cans in 72 hours. a thanksgiving tradition for georgetown's magnet nurses, but the whole hospital gets in on this. >> transport, it's the o.r. and the facilities and it's everyone, so it's not only just a nursing thing, but it brings us all together. >> mercedes watson helps count cans. >> we've got 180 from pharmacy, from other units, like, 40 so we did good. >> these ladies brought in t-shirts and it put a smile on your face. >> it does, to be able to help. i'm glad to be here to be able to help. >> and the nurses added a little friendly competition this year. >> every unit that donates gets points toward the total and those people that win get a free, bagel breakfast for the

morning. a little fun and a huge response with well over a thousand cans collected in the first 24 hours. corn, stuffing, green beans, spinach, pumpkin and all of the ingredients for a hearty thanksgiving meal. >> all of this food will be loaded into trucks and given into the verizon center where it will be combined with donations from all over the region. done eggs that will help put the happy in thanksgiving for thousands of needy families. >> 59. a lot of people, it's unfortunate especially in the d.c. area who don't have a lot of money and it's very nice to give back to the community and help out. >> we invite you to join us on monday. drop off nonperishable food or cash donations from 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. or you can certainlyt. >> any way you can help, it is a fantastic cost. >> you can help a school update its science department.

it is getting a $100,000 grant from northrop-grumman. it would build a fab lab, and it revolutionizes the way kids create and build things and today is the only day to vote. herndon is the only local school among the finalists and you can vote for them on facebook. for more detail, just search fab lab on our app. hide your ex. what facebook is doing to take a little bit of the pain out of your heartbreak. the tsa is doing all it can to stop insider threats and renewed concern over missing airport badges. i'm darcy spencer in northwest washington where homeless encampment has to be cleared out today. that's according to the city officials. you can see here that people are packing up the belongings of one homeless woman who has been living here in a tent and this location is right off of rock

creek parkway and the whitehurst freeway. these residents here have been given a couple of weeks' notice that they needed to move their belongings and the tens needed to come down and the officials are calling this a health and safety hazard and some of the homeless people say they have nowhere else to go. >> where do you go from here? >> back on the street. i guess live like an animal lives. >> people call and say i paid x amount of dollars for my apartment over here in watergate or the kennedy center. they don't want to see this. >> reporter: coming up on news 4 at 5:00, why city officials say this has to be done right now and you'll meet one homeless woman who says today's action was actually a blessing in

♪ ♪ adele's new album "25" is expected to sell well over 1 million copies in its debut week. it's out today, but fans of the british singer won't be able to hear it on streaming sites like apple music or spotify. everyone will have to buy the album digitally or in stores, driving album sales. it's unclear if the album will be available to stream in the future. ade adele, by the way, will be on "saturday night live" tomorrow night along with matthew mcconaughey. we all know breaking up is

hard to do, but facebook is adding a new tool that may make it just a bit easier. facebook is testing a feature that helps keep your ex out of their news feed and limits their status updates so basically, you would haven't to block or unfriend someone. the breakup tool switches your relationship status to single and it keeps you the option to keep photos or videos from your ex boyfriend or girlfriend's feed. >> you may be planning to buy your thanksgiving turkey in the next couple of days and you'll find a good supply, but you'll pay more. the industry is just recovering from bird flu. the government predicts the average price of your bird will be $1.34 a pound, about 20 cents a pound more than last year, but many stores will absorb some of that increase to lure you hoping other holiday staples while shopping for your turkey. we continue to follow several developing stories including a terrorist attack at

a luxury hotel. a military operation is still urn way. plus the discovery of syringes fueling new speculation the paris attackers may have been high

right now the the u.s. embassy in mali is telling citizens to limit their movement after today's deadly terror attacks. grenade-throwing gunmen stormed the luxury radisson blu hotel

during a day-long siege. dozens of civilians were killed and nbc's gabe gutierrez is tracking the latest developments. >> reporter: the hostage crisis over at the radisson blu hotel in mali's capital city, but the military operation is still under way. the united nations now saying that three of its staffers had been safely evacuateded. at least two of the gunmen are dead. an unknown number of others are holed up in an upper floor of the hotel as police and military forces try to negotiate their surrender, but it is a fluid situation as authorities are going room to room looking for more victims. six americans who are inside the hotel were among those who were safely evacuated. though it's unknown whether any americans were killed. this all started about 7:00 a.m. local time when a group of gunmen apparently breached hotel security by displaying diplomatic plates on their vehicle. once inside they began collecting hostages.

at one point asking people if they could recite a muslim declaration. those who could were allowed to escape. shortly after police and military forces stormed the hotel, eventually helping end the hostage siege. a group affiliated with al qaeda claimed responsibility for the atta attack, but so far that has been unconfirmed. gabe gutierrez, nbc news, london. it has people wondering about the security in the olympics in brazil. about half a million tourists will head to rio de janeiro. last week the president brushed off an attack similar to paris. a survivor of the boston marathon bombing says american airlines lost her luggage. in the luggage was her prosthetic leg.

ed a adriana lost the prosthetics and dance parts and the airline did find the bag in another country and it's now on its way back. >> get him! get him! [ cheering ] >> a daring rescue caught on camera in north carolina. a rescuer leapfrogged over a kayak, grabbed a man floating downriver and others pulled them both to safety. the kayaker fractured a few bones in his back, otherwise he's okay. >> lucky to be alive sdwl. you can have pretty much anything delivered to your door and pretty soon you can add dunkin' donuts. it will be teaming up with a door delivery service called door dash and they'll be testing delivery service in four other states. folks will be able to order anything on the menu and they'll get it within 45 minutes.

i'm melissa mollet with your first 4 traffic. a couple of things on the roads and rails i want to pass along for this week, and a pretty big closure here and the road will be shut down in nokesville. water and sewer line work happening there. this is all part of the widening project. talking about the metro now here. red line train will be running every 20 minutes and also have single tracking there. regular schedule on silver, green and orange lines this weekend. blue line trains and expect single tracking and same thing on the yellow line, 24 minutes and single tracking. see you monday morning for news 4 today. and now your storm team 4 forecast. the last time was late march that we had temperatures only in the 40s for a high. that's what's moving in this

weekend, coldest air of the season and as we get into the early part of next week, check this out, 20 to 25 degrees and what it will feel like covering a good chunk of the area and cold air and wind also. it will be breezy early monday morning. here's how we get there. let me take you through the maps here and show you the impacts and the cold will start tomorrow. 29 to 39. a big range in the temperatures across our area. we get the green line and cool during the afternoon and make sure you have a nice, warm jacket and then we're better on sunday and great weather for exercising and saturday, best day out of the weekend and you get an a-plus for saturday. let's talk about what's next for us, you can see our temperatures rising to 50 degrees to the low 50s and we should stay there for the rest of the afternoon. the cold front that moves through is still back to the west, so for tomorrow, a lot of

sunshine and clouds start slipping into the area late. 53, seasonable sunshine for saturday and sunday, we're breezy and cold and the sun comes through in the early part of the day and then it lingers around and we'll still see some clouds and with the windchills during the afternoon are going to be in the 30s and then again that just continues as we get into the early part of next week, but better by thanksgiving, as you'll see. the other thing we're dealing with is a dry pattern. i say yes, go ahead and wash the car this weekend because as we look at the next couple of days as well as thanksgiving day, dry conditions are expected. travel weather. we're in the 40s here and even down to atlanta, 40. it will be chilly through the east and we'll get the rain through the nation's midsection and quite cold. a little bit of snow, of course, still lingering up through areas of the midwest. for our weekend, look at that. 53 on saturday and 49 degrees on sunday and again, it's food for families, early monday. 45 degree, the high temperature

and the coldest air of the season with those windchills again in the 20s. there is thanksgiving, 60 degrees for a high temperature. we do get a chance to warm up and we do take a look at what's coming up hour by hour. you may not have heard of the drug nicknamed captain, but there is enough evidence that terrorists were high on it when they attacked last friday. it makes you euphoric and hyperactive. the drug is popular among the party crowd in the middle east. dr. kathleen clancy not only teaches at george washington, but she's also involved in the national captain poison center. these attackers almost seemed zombie like. >> it's a mixture of an amphetamine and caffeine so that mixture would make them really hyped up and probably give them some trouble focusing. i think it's given to people and it increases their blood

pressure and makes them quitage tated and fearless. >> i first heard about this and came across this drug five, six years ago when i was in saudi arabia. i know some of the fighters get amped up on it fighting in syria. where is it from? >> it was originally designed for use in attention deficit disorder kids. sort of like ritalin or adderall now, but they found it was very addictive and so they backed off and by the early '80s it was a schedule 1 drug in the united states like heroin. >> and a huge black market now, of course, in the middle east especially. >> and people are making it in, you know, sort of areas or with chemicals in their backyard or their basement and so you never really know what's in those pills. >> i know we don't hear about it a lot in the united states, but is it regulated in this part of the world? >> only so far as it's a

schedule 1 drug. it's illegal like heroin is illegal. it's not like it exists and it's regulated. like, it's illegal. >> i know there was just a couple of weeks ago that a saudi prince got arrested trying to smuggle 40 briefcases full of captagon out of beirut back to saudi arabia. this seems like a huge network in the middle east. >> it's a network of amphetamine use and it's not the only part of the world where amphetamines are abused and we've had our own problems with bath salts and moly and those are also amphetami amphetaminelike substances that are not unlike that amphetamine. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. pat? >> we are working several developing stories in our newsroom right now. a maintenance manager of the pentagon city mall in jail. michael mesa guevera carried out an inside job stealing more than

100 pieces of merchandise over a period of several months. the warrant we pulled says mesa mostly targeted the footlocker. they found 69 shoeboxes in his home in fairfax county. coming up in the next hour, news 4's david culver how police say he pulled it off and got away for so long. the badges have access to some of the most secure areas of the airport and hundreds are unaccounted for. what they're doing to make sure they don't end up in the wrong hands.

terrorism charges. he called in a bomb scare, and he allegedly wanted to delay his child's birth until he got there. the hospital was evacuated after the threat and e.r. patients had to be moved to other hospitals. >> we had one that was already under anesthesia. we hadn't started procedure yet so that one we stopped and we interrupted and we actually woke them up and sent them home. >> boy, this incident happened back in september and he was just indicted this week and he's facing ten years in prison and a quarter of a million dollar fine in he's convict sdmro.

as we head into the busiest travel week of the year. >> a possibility of an airport worker may have planted a bomb that crashed last month. as we showed you earlier this week an isis propaganda magazine claimed the bomb that brought the plane down was hidden in this soda con. scott friedman has concerns about insider threats at u.s. airports. >> at most airports in the u.s., workers skipped the security lines the rest of us wait in and enter through sidedoors, bypassing checkpoints and they can carry bags in with them. the tsa conduct random screening and workers are not checked in every day. deputy director john holinski says it's time to ramp up scrutiny at those side doors. >> i would say we have to take a heard, serious look at mitigating the insider threat and it's not business as usual.

>> workers at dfw airport have been arrested for using employee entrances to smuggle drugs and workers were caught moving guns through those doors. nbc 5 investigates discovered hundreds of airport employee i.d. badges are missing. lost or stolen at some major airports and our reports prompted concerns for congress and a department of homeland security review that's still under way and better tracking of i.d.s and tougher security at entrances will not happen overnight. >> and that's a lot. it's a tall order and it will be expensive and be painful for people, but it's risk versus gain and the risk is bringing an aircraft down from an insider threat. >> in the case of that downed russian airliner, investigators are now looking into the possibility of someone, like a catering worker planted a bomb. >> here in the u.s. a union that represents catering workers conducted a survey last year. 24% of airport catering workers said security at catering facilities is so weak,

unauthorized people could get into their trucks and place contraband items in food carts. so there's a lot of concern here. now at 5:00, hotel terror attack. one week after the shootings in paris islamic extremists armed with guns and grenades take hostages in mali. but first to the fiery crash in hyattsville. it's one of the worst car crash scenes emergency crews have ever witnessed in maryland. now a young survivor speaks out about his family and his fears. >> what were you worried about? >> that my mom that she went up with god. new at 5:00, we are hearing from one of the youngest victims of that awful, fiery crash that involved a local church van that was full of families. five people died, more than a dozen others were injured this month. >> our erika gonzalez sat down with a 9-year-old boy whose father was driving that van. his pregnant mother and sister were also inside.

erika? >> reporter: freddy rodriguez, jr., is out of the hospital and home recuperating by his dad's side and that makes him happy. he says he knows people have been concerned for him. >> what does that one say? >> we love you, freddy. we miss you. i hope you are all okay. >> reporter: 9-year-old freddy, jr., a student at brightwood in northwest reads me the cards his friends and teachers have sent us since the crash, and all he could think about his mom. >> were you scared? >> i was very worried. >> reporter: what were you worried about? >> that my mom went up with god. >> reporter: freddy's parents aren't doing well, but they did survive the crash and so did his little sister, but the baby brother his mother was carrying did not make it. freddy, jr., says he remembers being