something they say comes from more drivers and more distractions and more impaired driving. let's get right to news 4's transportation reporter adam tuss. he's in mont fwgomery county wi that for you. adam? >> reporter: people are saying tuesday is the new wednesday and they're saying this hour right now, the 5:00 p.m. hour, is the busiest part of the thanksgiving travel period. let's take a live look at 270 here as rush hour certainly has picked up out here on the roads. and everybody is saying the same thing. got to be patient. >> hardest part about the drive is realizing that you're going to get there. who cares. just don't stress about getting there. you're going to get there. >> reporter: wes definitely has a good attitude as he gets ready to head to pennsylvania for thanksgiving. the weather has been so nice during the day, wes is putting the top down on the convertible. >> sun's out, top's down. >> reporter: for thanksgivinging? >> i'm warm.

>> reporter: well, it can be stressful out here. take a look at some of the mess we found today on the interloop as travelers made their way. an accident, way ahead. the cause of all this. aaa says well over a million people in our area will travel out of town by car this year. that's basically like the entire population of fairfax county leaving at once. gas prices hovering around 2 bucks a gallon most likely tempting many to the car this year. >> take it slow. take it safe. and get there and have a happy holiday. >> reporter: captain tom with montgomery county police says officers will be out to assist, but they want withdryou to foll rules. >> they'll be looking for those people talking on credell phone not wearing seat belts and of course the drinking and driving stopping that. >> reporter: the best travel option of all and the meal already top of mind. >> turkey, sweet potatoes, mashed potatoes, gravy. green beans. >> reporter: there you go. >> the usual things. >> reporter: slow and steady on

the meal and the driving. and back here now live, a look at 270 and the traffic tonight. you heard the officers there talking about drunk drivers. coming up at 6:00, going to show you the unconventional methods they're going to use this year to catch drunk drivers. the weather, of course, that's another big story. we saw that guy in the convertible today. the day was warm. what's the rest of the week going to be like? doug has that forecast. >> i tell you what, adam, it's more convertible-like weather. gets warmer over the next couple days and most of the nation fairly quiet especially tomorrow. thanksgiving a little different. satellite and radar showing all across the east here, we've got cloud cover. nothing as far as storminess is concerned. goat to go way out to washington state and northern california. that's it. driving local on your wednesday. dry road. sunglasses needed. driving out to the west, i-7 0 to the west, looking good, okay. air travel, delays out west. talking about maybe the denver

area, places farther west than that. all in all, entire country looking pretty good. if you're traveling the only real parts, watching the chicago area, maybe kansas city, maybe dallas. again, pretty good day and pretty good travel looking like for tomorrow and on thursday. >> doug, thank you. virginia's governor made a big announcements today that could impact the future of travel along i-95 and 395 for years to come. governor terry mcauliffe officially announced 395's hov lanes will be converted to express lanes and those lanes will go all the way from stafford, virginia, to the d.c. line. news 4's david culver live along 395 with what this might mean for you. david? >> reporter: traffic wise, 270, look behind me. see the folks making their way from the district here into the commonwealth. lot of congestion. perhaps some of this is holiday travel, but those of you who are traveling it yourself or have loved ones who make this commute, you know this is pretty much every day. now the governor is saying his plan that he announced

officially today would alleviate some of this congestion, saying adding express lanes on 395 are a, quote, game changer for drivers. i want to show you a couple maps. the first is how the route currently looks. all right? this is the way from stafford all the way up to the exit on 95. now, the change would make it from that road exist which is currently an hov 3 restriction, all the way up to the district line. >> 395, we're going to extend it to the district line, add about eight miles, going to add a new line ensuturning the entire thr lanes into dynamic tolling. for the first time a single driver can get on at stafford and take it all the way to the district line. >> reporter: what does that mean for those of you who take advantage of the hov restrictions, you have a carp l carpool? the governor says nothing will change for you during those rush hour times. coming up at 6:00 we're going to take a closer look at this.

simply the timeline here. how soon are we talking? then i spoke to some local leaders. you're going to hear why some of them are saying this is not a done deal. wendy? >> all right. david culver. and now to the fight against isis. there is some new video showing coal liition air strikes agains that terror group. over the weekend air strikes took out more than 280 isis-controlled oil tankers. the coalition says illegal oil production in southeastern syria provides isis with 2/3 of its revenue. as the coalition targets isis in syria, europe remains on alert and across belgium, it's the highest level of alert as security forces trying to prevent what the prime minister called a serious and imminent threat of attack. tomorrow, the metro system and schools in brussels will re-open. even with the most-wanted man in europe, salah abdeslam still on the run. down the road in washington, french president francois

hollande said president obama was the first to call him after those attacks in paris. hollande meeting with president obama at the white house to discuss those attacks, the fight against isis and the way forward. news 4's chris lawrence is here with that. >> reporter: yeah, wendy. president obama says the u.s. and france are in total solidarity to not only defeat the terrorists but defend both nations, but there have been 8,000 air strikes and the president says more still needs to be done to fight isis in syria and iraq. both presidents say it's far too early to say conclusively what happened, but president obama says the downed russian plane is an example of how close its operations are to the turkish border. he says russia could play a more constructive role if it shifted its focus away from propping up bashar al assad and focus more on fighting isis. the president also tried to calm fears about syrian refugees as well. >> we cannot and we will not succumb to fear. under president hollande, france

plans to welcome 30,000 additional syrian refugees over the next two years. refugees coming to america go through up to two years of intense security checks inclu including biometric screening. nobody who steps foot in america goes through more screening than refugees. >> and in france, authorities have identified a second person wanted in connection to the attacks that paris. the suspected mastermind abdelhamid abaaoud visited the scenes in paris. it's likely he and another man who died during the raid planned to carry out a second attack in that city's business district. jim? >> chris lawrence, thank you. if you're flying for the holidays, a worldwide travel alert means you should get ready for longer screenings at our washington-area airports. news 4 found lots of security personnel at dulles international today. the state department says

americans should be aware of their surroundings when traveling and at big public events. there are increased threats from isis, al qaeda and other terror groups in multiple locations. many travelers say they welcome the warning today. >> keep people aware. more alert. >> i'm going to be alert as i can. >> i'm glad they made an alert. you know, it is not all that safe after the paris attack, and i hope it doesn't happen anywhere around here. >> now, the travel alert for americans is in effect through the holiday season until february 24th. the majority of people we've spoken with today say they're not changing their travel plans, but schools and universities may have to make changes to their study abroad programs. news 4's megan fitzgerald live at reagan national airport with details on that. megan? >> reporter: that travel alert is certainly something folks we had a chance to speak with today say they're thinking about it.

top of mind for them. schools like g.w. and howard university say it's not affecting their studtidy university say it's not affecting their studtid abroad program and travel agents say people are still flying. >> i'm actually traveling to argentina to visit my cousin. >> reporter: this year traveling for the thanksgiving holiday comes with a warning. because of the terrorist attacks in paris. a worldwide travel alert from the u.s. state department. >> i am a bit nervous. i have been -- i had a little bit of a fear of flying. >> reporter: according to the american society of travel agents, most people aren't changing plans despite the travel alert. >> the traveling public really isn't as fearful as a lot of people might think. they're not really canceling their trips. >> reporter: at howard university, the same thing goes for the hundreds of students in their study abroad program. >> we have one student that i'm aware of who has decided she's not going to go abroad. >> reporter: tania is the deputy director of the study abroad department at howard yuuniversi. every year they send 500 students to dozens of different

countries around the world. she says students are still going abroad but they have made a few changes to their policies. >> here at howard, we are revisiting our emergency protocols and make sure that we are giving students enough information, proper information about what to do. >> reporter: so whether it's studying abroad or flying somewhere for the holiday, many folks say they're not letting fear ruin their plans. >> we live with security issues, and so it's part of the deal. >> reporter: now, both howard university and g.w. say that the study abroad programs that they partner with are working closely with law enforcement in the various countries and staying in close contact with the state department. any updates or new information they receive, they pass along to students. coming up at 6:00, hear from a student who's traveling to paris next semester and a student who's going to an african country that's not far from where the terror group, boko haram is located.

back to you. a teenager is recovering after a stabbing in a neighborhood off route 40 in frederick. they are now looking for a light tan colored sedan possibly a two-door mazda. the stabbing happened a couple blocks from a shooting that involved teenagers in that neighborhood earlier this month. and we now know that it was a 91-year-old woman who died in that fire that was started by a heating pad in fairfax county. her name is mildred. the fire started in the family room of a house in chantilly early saturday morning. it was one of the coldest nights of the season so far that night. can a new image help catch the driver who help and killed a father crossing the road? take a look. the photo's grainy but fairfax county police detectives want you to focus on that white vehicle there. may believe it could be a full-sized van or truck and that's the vehicle they think

hit zahor khan as he tried to cross the road earlier this month. the deadly crash happened near edison high school. it is decision day. a judge says the video of freddie gray being dragged by police can be used in the first trial against one of the officers but that's not the only development that could be a game changer. plus, he was a fun-loving college kid who died after an innocent accident. why emergency responders did not take him seriously. and we saw our sons off and we saw our sons off having

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the jury will not be sequestered. that decision came down during a pretrial hearing involving the freddie gray trial in baltimore, as the first six officers accused in his death about to stand trial on monday. news 4's chris gordon also reports on a decision about a key piece of evidence. >> reporter: jurors will be allowed to see this video of fred freddie gray being taken to the police van where he allegedly suffered fatal injuries. defense lawyers for baltimore police officer william porter didn't want it seen by the jury. arguing unsuccessfully that it should be excluded as evidence

because they say the video was taken before porter came in contact with gray. gary procter is one of porter's defense lawyers. is there anything you can say? >> there's a gag order, so no. >> reporter: the judge rules jurors in the porter trial will not be sequestered but will remain anonymous. gray's funeral last april was followed by rioting in a few baltimore neighborhoods. defense lawyers, again, moved to transfer the trial out of baltimore saying the intense media coverage will make it impossible for porter to get a fair trial. but the judge cut them off ruling the trial stays here. we asked some of the people here in baltimore if they think they could be a fair and impartial juror if they were selected on any of the baltimore police trials resulting from the death of freddie gray. >> i mean, i've seen all the footage, i've seen everything. the bottom line is you have to listen to all the evidence, you have to listen to everything that happened. >> reporter: some say they could put aside their personal beliefs. >> i seen the way the baltimore

police are and i think they were a little aggressive but i don't think they intended for him to die, fraeddie gray to die. >> reporter: ahead on news 4 at 6:00, how freddie gray'slet death and the riots that followed changed baltimore. chris gordon, news 4. baltimore's making progress as it tries to recover from the rioting that followed the death of freddie gray. the city's economic development agency tells us 93% of the damaged businesses are are now back open. the agency awarded hundreds of thousands of dollars to many of those businesses. the city estimates it has spent more than $33 million to recover from those riots. following the terror attacks in paris the fbi and department of homeland security were warning and telling people to be on alert about the potential for similar attacks here in the united states. >> bottom line, homegrown extremists likely pose the biggest threat but they also warn about so-called soft targets. >> joining us now is nbc's justice correspondent pete williams. from what the fbi sent out today, they're not really -- how

do we interpret that? in terms of soft targets and an extremist abroad or even here at home? >> well, i think a lot of this memo that went to the nation's law enforcement people, 18,000 of them nationwide, agencies, it's basically an assessment of what they could find out for themselves if they read the papers or watched television. it's that isis has moved beyond its initial style of operation which was to find somebody remotely willing to carry out an attack and instead move to these more coordinated attacks where it's well planned, the targets appear to be surveilled in advance. and they use guns and bombs to try to hit soft targets. that's the analysis of the soft target part. as for the possibility of attacks at home, the bulletin still says the major concern here at home is home swrn grown extremists. people receiving isis propaganda here in the u.s. who become radic radicalized on their own or perhaps even directed by isis from overseas to carry out attacks here. that, by the way, homegrown

violent extremism has been the concern from propaganda videos and other social media messaging. it's been the concern about isis for a year and a half so that part of it doesn't tell police anything new. they're not doing anything in response to these messages or propaganda videos they weren't already doing. two interesting notes about this memo. first of all, it reinforces to police the importance of see something, say something and mentions many cases where alert people were able to tip the police off that something may have been going wrong. for example, an aborted bombing in may in germany when a guy at a hardware store said, boy, somebody is buying a lot of hydrogen peroxide, a precursor chemical for some explosives. secondly, says it local police departments, make sure you're up on training for active shooter situations which of course is what they had in the paris nightclub. >> nbc's pete williams. thanks so much. keeping us up to date on this. appreciate it. see you on "nightly." >> more on what the fbi report said today on "nbc nightly news with lester holt."

starts at 7:00. history was made today in the district with the unveiling on the first new fire station in two decades. news 4 was there when the mayor and the fire chief cut the ribbon on engine 13. there they go. it's a $10 million state of the art facility. near the southwest waterfront. what makes this fire station so different is it's built on the ground floor of a brand new hotel. at 6:00, hear how designers say hotel guests wouldn't be disturbed. the lineup set for the christmas tree lighting ceremony. the star performers include miss piggy along with the rock band fallout boy, also new orleans brass band, trombone shorty, singers andra day and aloe blacc as well as crosby stills and nash. this year's national christmas tree lighting takes place december 3rd on the ellipse near the white house. you can help decide which lucky bird will get to the national thanksgiving turkey and

receive a presidential pardon. the white house is letting you vote on twitter. say hi to honest and abe. schoolchildren in california gave the turkeys the names. the kids say both turkeys like country music. honest's strut style is scoots and boots while the other's strut style is macho man. president obama will pardon the winning turkey. that happens tomorrow. kevin durant has always been proud of his hometown and roots. now he's putting the county's name on his latest shoe. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up, what potential buyers think of the design. plans to honor d.c.'s mayor for life could mean a big change for one of the city's high schools. and add costco to the list of companies dealing with an e. of companies dealing with an e. coli outbreak

my favorite. bad news. the johnsonville factory burned down brian. it's terrible. well if you can't serve tasty sausage why are we even a family? i may as well move out. well, if that's what yo... you're right. i'll stay. and tomorrow we're going to help johnsonville rebuild that factory. i'll take dinner in my room, with chocolate milk. make pasta tastier with johnsonville italian sausage. we don't make sausage. we make family. and sausage.

and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> that forecast looks great over the next couple ofays. i mean, it really does. temperatures well above average through the thanksgiving holiday, through black friday. the weekend maybe not so much. take a look outside right now. temperatures today, right around average. we got to 54, 55 degrees. right now down to 51. winds out of the north at 5 miles an hour. it's cool but not too cold.

46 gaithersburg. 47 martinsburg. 43 manassas. another chilly night tonight. that's what you can expect this time of year. no rain to talk about. again, i don't see any rain until saturday at the very earliest. right now we have clouds just off to our north. as far as storm systems go, there's really nothing out there. we have lake-effect snows up toward new york. a bigger system way out toward the west. lake tahoe getting hit if you're heading out there to do skiing over the next few days. hey, maybe. i think there will be a bigger storm system in the middle part of the country by thursday so there may be some travel problems there. we'll talk much more about travel coming up at 545. waking up tomorrow morning to cool numbers. not all that bad. light wind. temperatures 28 in the coldest areas to about 37 in the city. you'll need the coat when you step out the front door. by tomorrow afternoon, with abundant sunshine and light wind, tomorrow's looking great. 56 degrees in d.c. 53 gaithersburg. 55 leesburg. high temperature around 57 in fredericksburg. if you're traveling i-95 looking

great, i-70 looking great. there will be no issues from weather across the area tomorrow. if you're traveling around. now, next four days, 56 tomorrow. 62 on your thanksgiving holiday. let's just take a look at the hour-by-hour forecast. waking up. people coming over early. 7:00 a.m., around 40. that's well above average. 53 at 11:00. looking good there. by 3:00 in the afternoon, 62 degrees as you're beginning to sit down to dinner. by 7:00, we'll still see a temperature of around 57. very nice weather. it gets even warmer on friday. friday says 64. i think we're going to go 66 here. going to change that. i want to go warmer. 66 degrees coming up on friday. that, of course, black friday. lot of people going to be out at the malls doing shopping. looking good for that. saturday things start to change. our cold front moves toward the area. high temperature of 54 degrees. it will cool during the afternoon. we'll see a chance of showers as well. we'll talk much more about the seven-day forecast including much cooler air to end the weekend. and veronica will take you around the country for that

travel forecast coming up at 5:45. >> all right. we'll look forward to that, doug. thank you. now at 5:00 tonight, nba star kevin durant uses his superstarr status to put prince george's county on the map but what are people thinking in the county about his new footwear that salutes his hometown? and someone shoots at protesters with the black lives matter movement. police make an arrest amid accusations that the ku klux klan was involved. i'm julie carey in chantilly where there are new problems tonight for a pet store that was raided yesterday by animal control officers and we're hearing stories from former

now at 5:30, trouble in toyland. before you start your holiday shopping, this list could help you avoid danger on the shelves. >> injuries can be severe. they can involve broken bones or even a brain injury. plus, a driver says he was targeted by police because of his race. he says he was pulled over in maryland for driving while white. and a college diving coach is accused of using her cell phone in a locker room peeping tom case. but first, that chantilly pet store is still closed after animal control officers raided it and now past cust miomers ar coming forward to tell us about the nightmares they've endured with their pets. bureau chief julie carey live in chantilly with one family's

experience. julie? >> reporter: well, there is no trouble for dreamy puppy tonight. see the store still dark and empty. a little while ago a county staffer came and posted his notice. it cites a long los of code violations and declares this an unsafe structure. now, i need to emphasize no charges have been filed yet in connection with the animal control investigation. they are looking into the health of the pups here and whether some of them were really old enough to be up for sale. i've heard from past customers today that are glad these allegations are being investigated. kate trinidad loved her yorkie, chewy, the minute a dreamy puppy staffer showed her the tiny pup a year and a half ago. >> the second he's in my arms, i'm not putting him back down. >> reporter: not long after she got chewy home, he became lethargic, one morning unresponsive. >> i picked him up, he was really floppy. his tongue was hanging out the side of his mouth. rushed him to the vet.

>> reporter: trinidad's vet diagnosed a lot of problems. >> this puppy was not the age we were told it was. they thought it was taken away from its mother too soon. >> reporter: that's one of the issues being investigated. monday animal control officers armed with a search warrant seized all puppies here between 40 and 50. they're now being evaluated by vets. the store's website and showroom boasts the healthiest puppies in the nation. most sell for 1,500 bucks or more. when trinidad confronted the staff about chewy's medical problem and $1,800 secrvet bill they had this response. >> they said we don't accept diagnosis from your vet. >> reporter: she's hoping the investigation will reveal whether dreamy puppy is looking out for the health of the dogs, itself. >> i went oh my goodness, it's about time someone did something about it. >> reporter: she is just one of former customers i talked to here today.

i tried to reach dreamy puppy's owner by phone and e-mail. those communications have not been returned. coming up on news 4 at 6:00, what happened when a woman came today to get the puppy she just picked out for her mother. back to you, jim, in the studio. >> all right, julie carey, thanks. townsend's university diving coach facing charges tonight an accusations she secretly video recorded student athletes in the women's locker room. a grand jury indicted maureen need yesterday. she was placed on administrative leave last month. a student found a phone of videos of athletes changing their clothes. townsend released a statement tonight saying it takes the safety of its student athletes very seriously. the school suspended all diving competitions until january. well, here's one of the biggest sports stars to emerge from our area. and tomorrow he honors his roots with new shoes. prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins introduces us to the newest kevin durant

shoes with a familiar name. >> reporter: he spent a lot of time here, mary, at the activity center and already paid homage to this space with a tennis shoe two years ago. now he's giving a shout-out to all of prince george's county. >> they're nice. >> reporter: the reaction to the new nike kd8 county sneaker is instant. >> i like the colors. >> i like the color. the color scheme. >> reporter: these connoisseurs of fine sneaker wear give their stamp of approval. kind of. what do you think about the price? $180. >> that's steep. >> i don't pay more than $120 for my shoes nowadays. >> k.d.s used to be $115, now they're $180. that's a lot, man. >> reporter: while the style gets a thumb's up, there's a split decision on whether it's worth lines up outside shoe stores for tomorrow's release. >> usually kids our age, we do it for jordans. i don't know about kevin durants. >> my school, k.d.s. if they're big k.d. fans they're

probably going to line up. >> reporter: the ones released in 2013 were not his hometown. the former mvp is releasing the p.g. county, a shout-out to prince george's. >> he's representing where he's from. i can agree with that. he's trying to bring it back, trying to do something good with it. >> any time he's in town, he normally makes sure he stops through. >> reporter: melvin mccray who once coached kevin says the name of the shoe makes perfect sense. durant donated tens of thousands of dollars to this difficult and there's a room named in the player's honor. it's clear he feels he owes a lot to this place. >> same kevin that was down here playing at 8, 9 years old is the same kevin you'll meet today at 27, 28 years old. >> reporter: the shoes go on sale tomorrow. they're called the kd8 pg county sneakers. on news 4 at 6:00, why some county officials tried to get that name changed.

reporting live, tracee wilkins, news 4. >> boy, they are some hot wheels there. thank you. some toys on your kids' christmas list might have hidden safety issues. the public interest research group released its annual report today called trouble in toyland. the group says you should look for the following issues when buying toys. toys made with toxic chemicals including chromium. small parts that can be a choking hazarhazard. and some with magnets dangerous if swallowed. most are found in chain stores. >> these toys called sizzlers, they're incredibly powerful. reported stomach injuries from magnets very similar to these. >> it's important to note the toy industry responded to the report saying none of the toys has been recalled. it also says that people testing the toys failed to use proper testing methods. for the list of toys included in

this report, download the nbc washington app. just search "toy list." at least five cases of e. coli are linked to rotisserie chicken salad sold at costco. the cdc says people have been hospitalized in colorado, montana, utah, and washington. but anyone, anyone who has purchased this product from any costco store on or before november 20th, that includes here in our area, you're being told to throw it away. investigators are working to determine the source of this contaminati contamination. costco has removed the product from all of its store selves. a police officer charged with murder. why this case is getting national attention for how he allegedly took down a suspect on drugs. and driving while white? in annapolis? why one driver says

right now, breaking news. members of the black lives matter movement vow to keep on marching after five people were hurt in a shooting at a rally outside a minneapolis police station. leaders of the group say it was a planned hate crime. police arrested two men who they say were among the shooters but haven't said if they were members of hate groups. they say white supremacist groups have been showing up at protests lately and the justice for jamar march went on today without incident.

witnesses say he was unarmed and handcuffed when police officers shot and killed him earlier this month. a developing story tonight. a chicago police officer could spend the rest of his life in prison if he's found guilty of shooting and killing a 17-year-old. officer jason van dike was charged with first-degree murder today. dashcam video showing the shooting hasn't been made public yet, but it allegedly shows 17-year-old mcdonald holding a small knife and walking away from officers last year. then it allegedly shows van dike shooting mcdonald more than a dozen times. and continuing to fire as the teen lay motionless on the ground. a judge has ordered that he be released to the public by tomorrow. you can feel it, right, there's something in the air. it is. it's a nice warmup. it's going to come just in time for the holiday. i'll take you hour by hour for your thanksgiving day and friday shopping and even traveling

across the nation. and he just wanted to hang out with kids in college park. but he never made it home. the news 4 i-team reveals how emergency crews mocked this patient during an emergency. and how his tragic story is now a lesson an compassion. >> it can't be that when you call people to come help you first responders, that they decide whether you're worthy of

here at the live desk we're just getting word of a story that just makes you shake your head and say, wow. a newborn baby has been found at a church in queens nestled into the nativity scene. take a look at this picture. this is a picture that the priest took of the newborn. there he is. his umbilical cord was still attached. a maintenance worker had just set up the nativity scene with catholic tradition you leave the cresh empty. the utility worker went to lunch, came back, heard the baby crying and the baby was right there in the that tinativity sc. some officials looked at surveillance video. they did see a woman dropping the baby off. police are looking for her. churches are like hospitals, firehouse, police station. they're considered a safe haven where you can drop off a newborn baby without fear of retribution. police are looking for the mother. the priest says they already got several offers to adopt the

baby. wendy? >> all right. chris lawrence. a maryland mother dealing with grief after an accident takes the life of her son. >> it's how he was treated in those last few hours by those called to help that she can't forget. >> tonight, she shares elon's story with tisha thompson and news 4 i-team hoping to keep it from happening to anyone else. >> he was a redhead. like his hair, bright and jolly and social. and just totally lovable. >> reporter: rebecca lights up when she talks about her son, elon. the outgoing, religious college student who she says loved making other people. >> now, i'm all for a good laugh. >> reporter: one year ago, elon was on school break from cornell. visiting childhood friends in college park. when one misstep changed everything. >> we never expected this to happen. we are perfectly ordinary people. living an ordinary life.

and we sent our son off to have fun with his friends and when he needed help, the people supposed to help him didn't help him. >> reporter: elon and some of his friends were challenging each other to short foot races on this sidewalk outside a university of maryland residence hall. >> do you remember him hitting the ground? >> yea. >> reporter: his best friend saw it happen. >> don't know if he clipped his heel or tripped on the sidewalk. >> reporter: elon hit the back of his head try to run backwards. friends immediately called 911. >> they were moving very, very slowly. >> reporter: do you think they thought you guys were drunk? >> absolutely. >> reporter: a team of the report noted all bystanders on scene were considerably intoxicated as well as the patient, but he says elon had only had one drink that night. he wasn't drinking. >> not really. >> reporter: he says the emergency crew did not put a neck brace on his friend and at first tried to make him walk to the ambulance. >> they tried to pick him up and his legs were all, like, jelly.

he was complaining he couldn't feel the bottom half of his body. instead of standing flat on his feet, he was like this, standing on almost the top side of his feet. >> reporter: the emts eventually used a stretcher. according to county records they did not use lights and sirens to transport elon. meaning they did not consider his injuries to be life threatening. but it was the moment after they arrived at the emergency room that he says still haunts h him. >> i'll never forget this. >> reporter: what one of the emts after his friend died out in pain. >> the guy who was driving, slaps him on the thigh and said, could you shut up, there are people who are really sick here. >> that's unacceptable. >> frankly if the retraining and retesting doesn't show improvement, those folks wouldn't be back to service. >> reporter: mark basher investigated the case after getting a letter from elon's mom. he tells i-team while the crew did transport in a timely

manner, both county employees had licenses suspended until they received extra training. >> in this particular case, folks probably weren't as professional as they needed to be. >> reporter: and the chief says that training will be passed on to all employees in his department. >> and this case is getting us a moment to pause to be able to go back and make sure that all after our providers are provided with a little bit extra information about recognition of potential head injury and the types of things that they might think were intoxication. >> by the time we got there, elon was no longer talking. >> reporter: blood tests showed elon was not intoxicated. he died a few days later from his head injury. >> it can't be that when you call people to come help you, first responders, that they decide whether you're worthy of help. it's not fair. >> reporter: and while his mother says she knows nothing might have saved her son that night from the traumatic brain injury, she can't help but wonder why compassion was

missing from his critical care. >> you think about all the times that you take such good care of your children, then here he had an injury that would kill him and nobody cared. >> rebecca and tany say the lack of compassion continued into the emergency room. coming up at 6:00, we bring you that part of the story when we sit down with the president of the hospital about what went right and what went wrong and the changes happening today because of elon's story. >> all right. thank you, trisha. an annapolis man is suing the city accusing police officers there of pulling him over for driving while white. daniel hodges says he was unlawfully stopped and his vehicle searched several times because he was a white man in a predominantly african-american and latino neighborhood. according to the lawsuit he was stopped three times this year and questioned twice about drug activity. hodges says he's not involved with illegal drugs. he wants $150,000 in damages. all right.

your holiday weekend is upon you. here on tuesday. >> right. and like i said, we're feeling it in the air. this could be one of our warmest than thanksgivings coming up in eight years. >> nice. >> very nice. that means great weather, too, for travel. eastern third of the country. we start first with the flight status. what's going on across the country. all the planes are green. san francisco, down to atlanta. areas like seattle, los angeles ef boston. they're all green. the weather across the nation pretty quiet. we'll talk a look at the travel weather for wednesday and thursday thanksgiving day in just a moment. another nice day tomorrow. we're in the 50s with sunshine. so the weather tomorrow we'll have a low impact on our area. doesn't mean we're not going to start cold. look at this. below freezing again. leesburg around manassas, herndon, starting out under the freezing mark tomorrow. only gaithersburg, germantown, same thing up to the north. we get the change, though, tomorrow afternoon again.

today we got above 50. tomorrow above 60 degrees. after 1:00, a gorgeous day with high clouds. look at that, 5:00, mid 50s for temperatures. and your wednesday travel, upper 50s. sunshine here. i'm calling it chilly. we track the reain through the nation's midsection. a few showers as a new system starts to make its way through. thanksgiving day, we'll pick out high clouds ahead of the next weather system. there's more rain, thunderstorms approaching chicago with snow up toward areas of minneapolis, minnesota. some of the best weather in the nation right here as we get into the 60s. they've got clouds down south as they rise into the 70s. thanksgiving day hour by hour, we're super nice. 62 the temperature during the afternoon. we stay mild even as we get into the evening. that means a pretty mild start to the day on friday. mid to upper 40s across the area. for friday, shopping, then 66. 67 degrees for a high temperature. as far as getting out this weeke

weekend, more cautionary to red in terms of hanging christmas lights. the best day for getting out and doing that really will be on thursday as well as friday. so, again, we start cooling t in the upcoming weekend. we got a lot more details on the weekend weather. d.c. mayor muriel bowser wants to build homeless shelters in all eight wards around the district. before the mayor announce where those shelters will be, news 4's mark segraves found there are major concerns. >> reporter: right now there are more than 700 homeless families including more than 1,000 hemless children living in the district shelter system. today mayor bowser briefed council members o on her plan to replace d.c. general with at least eight smaller family shelters. the new shelters would house about a fami50 families each an located in all eight wards. ward 5 council member mcduffie said some of his neighbors are on edge about the plan. mayor bowser says she knows it

will be what she called a difficult conversation with neighbors who are not used to having a homeless shelter in their neighborhoods. mary chay says ward 3 residents overall are supportive but some have expressed one concern. >> whether they would be going to the local schools which are quite overcrowded. >> reporter: ward 3 has some of the highest performing public schools in the district. council member charles allen says ward 6 which he represents has more than homeless shelters than me part of the city. >> most go to school in ward 6. i find my neighbors in ward 6 have a big heart and want to make sure the city is looking after these families. >> children of homeless families should be able to go to the nearest school or their original school or whatever school makes the most sense. and i think actually that's probably what's going to happen. >> reporter: jay added political boundaries shouldn't be a factor in solving the district's homeless crisis. >> this is something that we're all in together, and we have to

solve together. >> reporter: bowser plans to announce the locations of the shelters before the end of the year then begin meeting with residents to hear their concerns. in the district, mark segraves, news 4. the late marion barry is going to be honored in the community he served but one idea involves a local high school and it could mean a lot of s

ballou high school in southeast d.c. is a school

famous for its sports teams and award-winning band. >> it sure is. there's a new proposal now to change the name of the school to honor the late mayor marion barry who died one year ago this week. >> news 4's tom sherwood reports, changing that school name is not a done deal. >> reporter: the ballou high school band has performed all around the country. students at ballou now enjoy a modern new school building instead of ailapidated one that was torn down. community pride. there's still pride in the school name, frank washington ballou from the 1920s until the '40s. a commission appointed by mayor bowser to honor marion barry suggested ballou be renamed for the late mayor who died last year. >> when he died he may have been mayor of ward 8 but he was mayor for life. >> reporter: at the school today, none of the parents nor

students news 4 talked with wanted to change the name. >> i think it should stay frank w.ballou high school. it was frank w. ballou when i started. >> reporter: what do you think? >> they shouldn't change it because it's historical. >> reporter: the students say it's not any disrespect for barry. >> marion barry. but why should they change the name? >> reporter: city rules say a person must be dead two years before a school is renamed but the mayor and council can overrule that. it's unclear when, or if they will. in the district, tom sherwood, news 4. tonight at 6:00, disturbing new details in the paris terror attacks. now we know the ringleader returned to the scene of the crimes after the initial shooting. and he may have been planning another attack in the city just days later before being killed in a raid. the development comes as president obama and french president hollande met in an

effort to create better coordination of the kay yotic war against isis. >> tonight we have team coverage on their strategy and the travel warning for all americans as the isis threat continues. first to steve handelsman at the white house. steve? >> doreen, jim, thanks. chaotic is right. francois hollande, was headed to the white house, one of our ally, the turks shut down one of vladimir putin's warplanes. leaving france on high alert, president francois hollande joined president obama to vow a better coordinated war against isis. >> it must be destroyed and we must do it together. >> translator: way need a joint response. >> reporter: hollande goes to moscow this week. his plan to get rush sure insia coalition may have been shot down in syria. u.s. allies say the jet was attacking pro-west