streets and dozens of police officers have taken a position to keep the peace. no reports, though, of any issue since the mistrial was declared less than an hour ago. >> news 4's chris gordon is at the courthouse. let's get right to him for the latest. >> reporter: we are expecting freddie gray's family to speak here at the courthouse in baltimore at 5:00 tonight. there are a group of protesters and the numbers are growing. here surrounding the courthouse we have two police helicopters now i see overhead. it has been an anxious day of waiting. we want to show you some of the video starting with baltimore state's attorney!l marilyn mose who was disappointed and there is a group in a park in west baltimore. officer william porter was charged with manslaughter,

assault, misconduct and reckless endangerment in failing to call a medic. anne arundel police and other counties, as well. i talked to warren brown legal analyst. he is not surprised this case resulted in a hung jury and mistrial. here's what he had to say. >> when you look at the law which calls for a callous mindset. a callous disregard for reckless and wanton disregard for human life, they say it's just not there. >> reporter: now that was warren brown and other people have other ideas. i can tell you that officer porter will most likely be tried again. the judge has called the prosecution and defense tomorrow to decide if and when officer

porter will be put on trial again to face those court charges, but for now the jury returned a note just about 2:30 this afternoon saying despite all attempts, we cannot reach a unanimous verdict on any of the four charges despite any further instructions. they will not be able to break the logjam. the judge thanked them for their service. you are now seeing a live shot from the chopper and the word is spreading that although a lot of people were hoping that this trial would create justice and peace they're now chanting no justice, no peace. i talked to the president of the naacp who basically says they can protest and civil disobedience and hopefully no destruction and violence. that's the latest live in baltimore. >> this is just the first of six that will be going on trial.

we'll stay those live pictures and protesters getting word that there was a mistrial. police have been preparing for these demonstrations if any happened at all including our area in d.c. baltimore police have been asking for peaceful proat the times and we'll bring this throughout the eavening on news4 and the abc washington app. a secret service officer has been gunned down. news 4 has learned he was assigned to the white house and now there is an active search for the people who killed him. >> police say there could be as many as three suspes here. news 4's wendy rieger is working the story at the live desk. >> they have identified this officer as arthur baldwin, 30 years old and eight-year veteran of the secret service and shot multiple times on first street in southwest d.c. just before 3:00 yesterday afternoon. this is not, however, the first

time we've heard baldwin's name. back in april he was arrested after he was accused of breaking into his girlfriend's house in southeast and he was armed with his secret service service weapon at the time. baldwin was then charged with destruction of property and he entered a not guilty plea in this case yesterday. he's also been on administrative leave since that incident and his security clearance was suspended. in addition to searching for those three possible suspects in his killing. police say they're looking for a silver or a gray car, and we just learned that d.c. police will be holding a press conference on this murder a little bit later this hour. mark segraves will be there and we'll bring you the updates on that as we get it. back to you. developing right now. the federal reserve has just raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. short-term rates were held

within zero. the fed decided to move it up a quarter of a point, it could impact your credit card interest rates, your mortgage, your savings accounts and we'll explain here in teb minun minut. for the first time they have an updated terror alert system. jeh johnson revealed it earlier today it's got a bulletin category intended to better inform us about evolving threats. two others, elevated and imminent. this is the first change in the terror alert system since they replaced the color-coded one in 2011. >> a diverse group of religious leaders gathered today in georgetown university and their focus is to counteract violence and political extremism here and around the world. the midday service drew an unannounced participant, vice president joe biden who warned against america becoming anti-immigrant. >> if we live by fear then not only are we abandoning the

essence of what we say we believe but we're playing right into the hands of what these extremists want to see happen. georgetown university president jack degioia told news 4 he planned the service to bring washington area leaders together. >> let's get right to the storm center because if 70-degree days didn't put you in the holiday spirit you have good news for those folks, right should. >> yes, i do. we'll see the temperatures go in a bit of an up and down, the roller coaster ride. good news if you want it cold it's coming our way. that has change two. change one, we're tracking the weather front that will bring wet conditions to our area. not this evening, we're mostly clear. cool, 45 to 50 degrees and meanwhile, the big issue will be fog for tomorrow morning and look how dense it will be, down

below a mild visibility and zero in gaithersburg and i don't think that fog will lift until 9:00 a.m. early tomorrow morning so some improvements by 9:00 a.m. and i'll show you how hard it's going to wait tomorrow and doug kammerer is live. i'm adam tuss along h street in northeast where you can see the street car is running here. they're doing prerevenue service. those operations started today which basically means over the next 21 days and d dot is making sure that everything lines up with these street cars. they want to run them here and act like it's regular service and then see if they can go ahead and start the service, but there's a lot to figure out here. coming up on news 4 at 5:00, we'll show you what people on h street think about the street car and can you beat the street car in a footrace? back to you.

>> good question. developing now a shake-up in the sheriff's office why local deputies are out of a job ahead of the holidays. new information just in from the fbi about what the san bernardino killers were doing on facebook prior to the massacre. a former washington wizard unleashes some offensive comments about women in basketball. also, we continue to follow breaking news in baltimore. the mistrial declared in the case of william porter. live team coverage on news

the fbi is clarifying what warning signs they received in the shooting of san bernardino. tashfeen malic and syed farook did not post jihadist messages on facebook before they got married and there was no

indication the couple had any contact with foreign terror groups. they shot and killed 14 people at the inland regional center two weeks >zl a similar threat came in to new york city schools and authorities there does not choose to close. >> we continue to follow the breaking news out of baltimore. we will take another live look downtown as some protesters have started gathering following that mistrial of officer william porter. now we're learning freddie gray's family is expected to

stories right now. the biggest story this afternoon, the mistrial declared in baltimore after three days and 16 hours of deliberation the jury is hung in the trial of baltimore police officer william porter. the mistrial declared just a short time ago. >> that's right. we just learned that the family of freddie gray is expected to speak at 5:00.

we'll stay on top of this story and bring you the latest not only here on news 4, but also the nbc washington app. and there are other stories developing right now at 4:15. we're breaking down how the fed rate hike impacts your credit card and savings accounts. we'll also go live to chief meteorologist doug kammerer in just a couple of minutes. >> first, controversy in a shake-up among key staff members. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver is in leesburg. some are questioning the sheriff's decision and timing. >> reporter: there's never really a good time to lose your job especially during the holiday season and that is the case for several veteran deputies here at the loudoun county sheriff's office. it comes as the newly re-elected sheriff begins his second term. at least five deputies will not be resworn into their positions. that includes the sheriff's chief deputy, a k-9 supervisor

and a lead detective. they question the sheriff's motives. >> my question is if this was a personnel issue the county has procedures and rules to deal with personnel issues and it seems those should be used rather than simply letting someone go. >> it's worth noting the sheriff is asking within the law and his rights as sheriff. he's allowed to do this. just ahead on news 4 at 5:00, you'll hear the response from the sheriff's office when it comes to our questions and plus you will hear from the former sheriff and what he thinks about the shake-up. in leesburg. i'm david culver, news 4. >> with the markets just closed and they all finished a day up after the federal reserve raised interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade. cnbc's courtney reagan has been following this all day. courtney, this means the fed has a pretty good confidence in the economy, right? >> reporter: that's exactly what it means and so the fed has

telegraphed for some time that it was going to raise interest rates. that's exactly what it did so the markets reacted slightly. stocks did trade higher, but it was a very muted response. the interest rate that the federal reserve raised just a quarter of a percent and a federal funds rate and it's not the rate that consumers pay on things like credit cards and home loan, but those are ultimately influenced by the fed's federal funds rate. the good news is the rate that you're paying for your mortgage, car loan or education loan isn't expected to jump quickly, if at all, and loans that are variable are more tied to the fed's benchmark rate so something like a credit card interest rate or a home equity line of credit will likely increase, but only slightly. the fed has signaled it will continue to raise rates carefully with modest increases. wells fargo, u.s. bancorp, j.p. morgan chase and others have announced that the prime rate or the rates that they charge the

most credit-worthy borrowers will increase from 3.25% to 3.5% for the first time since 200. it's been some time. we couldn't sit at zero interest rates forever, but so far it seems all of the reactions are very calm and muted, so it's something to be aware of, but not something to worry about. >> great context, courtney. it sounds like they'll take these increases slow and sure. >> turning to storm team 4 meteorologist, they're live at zoo lights. so doug, the weather looks good for checking out the holiday decorations, and that will be changing in a big way, if you're thinking about hitting zoo lights tomorrow night you may want to think about coming tonight or any other night between now and christmas because we're talking about great weather tonight if you are making your way out and nice for the evening and we're seeing temperatures in the 60s and close to 70 today and we're seeing temperatures in the mid

to upper 60s and we're going to stay on the mild side, and it's looking really good for the ninth annual, right? got that one right and let's show you temperaturewise across the region because when the sun goes down the lights will be coming up and as we make our way through the rest of the night. again, a dry night tonight and we'll start to see the rain move in and storm team 4 radar is dry, but let's take a look at the wider view and that wider view shows the rain back out to our west and we'll see an area of low pressure develop around that front and we will see the rain develop and overnight tonight we'll start to see it moving very close to the region and let's take a look at future weather and we think the morning rush is going to be okay. as far as that's concerned, no rain, but we are going see some areas of fog so head's up for that. fog early tomorrow morning could impact your morning commute and by 10:00 we see rain across the

region and from 1:00, 2:00 into the early afternoon we'll see areas of rain move through. make sure you have the umbrellas handy tomorrow and it is a weather alert day because we're predicting a half an inch to an inch of rain and the heaviest will be in the d.c. metro area and down around fredericksburg. as we move into the next couple of days here's what we're going to be seeing. heftiest rain from 11:00 a.m. until about 6:00, 7:00, so the next four days, temperature, that's when they start to change, too. highs tomorrow in the 50s and by friday temperatures falling through the 40s and we get into the low 40s by friday night and we see the windchill only in the 30s all day on saturday. sunday, warming up just a little bit, but if you think about coming out to zoo lights, notice next week we get warm again, so if you want zoo lights to be a cold experience, if you want it

to be warm tonight and mostly next week. veronica johnson takes a closer look at what you can expect as we approach christmas eve, everybody. >> lights on in just a couple of minutes. thanks a lot, doug. we want to take you back to the breaking news we've been following all afternoon and this is a look from chopper 4. there were a couple of scuffles that broke out mobetween police officers and protesters. mayor stephanie rawlings-blake did put out a statement saying if people choose to demonstrate peacefully to express their opinion that's their constitutional right, but she also said in the case of any disturbances we are prepared to respond and we will protect our neighborhoods and businesses and the people of the city. we'll stay on top of this story. >> nine shopping days to go until christmas and while you're making your gift list and checking it twice, don't forget

about your health checklist. in news of your health, things to take care of before the end of the year. thea al lerlergy and asthma car. is your office filled with patients trying to get those last-minute check-ups and visits done? >> absolutely. there's a lot of better late than never out there and there are an awful lot of people getting it because their deductible was met. if i was supposed to see them in the next couple of weeks they might as well get it in this calendar year and the college kids are here and they won't get caught with the spring semester needing something. >> and procedures that you may be putting off. >> if you meant to get your cholesterol check or your glucose check for diabetes, make sure you get that done. if you were meant to get a sleep study or the treadmill test done for cardiovascular health and finally, if that hammer toe

you've wanted to get fixed, get it done within the calendar year. >> how about the vaccinations and which one should you check off the list. >> most insurance companies are mandated to pay for this without a co-pay and you haven't met your deductible. certainly a flu shot and pneumonia and whooping cough and the ones you want to get your winter with so you can get another one if need be. >> and i've been stocking up on a couple of prescriptions and i've stocked up my mom. this is the good time to get the 90 days filled. >> get them the 90 days and oftentimes they get mailed to you. think ahead also for the rest of the year. >> for instance, if you're an asthmatic that has problems in the vining and you know you'll need that maintenance inhaler, you'll have it read for the spring. >> there's still some people

trying to get insurance and some still can been. >> you can. especially those that are getting it on the exchange, you've got a little bit of time left, but not much. so you've got to get it in the next few weeks if you'll have it at all and that's also if you're going to make a change in insurance now is the time to go get it. >> get it done. >> dr. jack. >> surely. the u.s. marine corps is relaxing its restrictions on hairstyle. see how the changes could specifically affect black women in uniform. >> plus the teenager who got national attention for using affluenza defense goes off the grid. what they're saying as police search for him. >> and is the national zoo getting bei

>> if the internet could squeal in delight this would probably the video to do it. the national zoo's panda cub made a debut and bei bei got a huge response. one of the largest audiences since he was born four months ago. zoo keepers are trying to slowly prepare bei bei for all of the adoring fans he's going to see when he make his public debut january 16th. >> we want to get him used to the crowds that are going to be coming through and having a lot of people in the panda house. >> if you can't wait until next

month to get more bei bei. we have the panda cub cam posted. just search bei bei. >> he is so cute. >> female marines have more options when it comes to the way they style their hair. they are able to wear locks or twists while in uniform. here are styles most commonly worn by african-american women and they posted what's ago under the new regulations. the change follows recommendations from a staff sergeant who said it would be more culturally liberating and more convenient. sdwloo breaking news in baltimore. we are following crowds that are gathering outside a courthouse where a mistrial was declared for the police officer on trial for the death of freddie gray. >> we saw a few scuffles, but they were quickly broken up.

>> we continue to work breaking news right now at 4:30. the first trial in the death of freddie gray has ended with a hung jury. jurors said they could not determine whether baltimore police officer william porter was criminally responsible for gray's death. it's unclear if he'll be re-tried. a couple of dozen protesters are marching in downtown baltimore and these are live pictures outside the courthouse. the mayor and the naacp call for

peaceful demonstrations and there are skirmishes that broke out and certainly nothing like what we saw back in april following gray's death and we'll keep an eye on this and bring you live updates throughout the evening. whur's troy johnson is joining us here. what's at stake here for the baltimore police officers? >> there is an awful lot at stake because come believe the police were heavy handed back in april after the death of freddie gray when folks were beginning to protest and beginning to express themselves. others believe that police got caught flat footed, they weren't quite prepared for the response that they got so there was a mixed variety and other people are saying that police may have reacted a bit heavy handed in terms of tactical gear and riot gear showing up in that situation. so they're looking for a different situation this time around. mainly because the entire world was watching earlier this year

and they're going to be watching again. we're watching it right now and we're looking at live pictures and a couple of scuffles and nothing big at all. what's at stake for the activists and for folks who live in baltimore? >> there is a lot at stake because there are people who are trying to survive every day in the city of baltimore and a lot of people are doing it in blighted areas and communities that have been overlooked for such a long time. this is an opportunity for the activists to raise concerns about these ongoing issues in the city of baltimore and some folks they talk to have mixed feelings and one person says she's tired on the focus being on her community and she doesn't want to see her city go through this and across the board you have to know that rich, poor, black, white, young, old. they want to be heard as well through these protests. >> as we continue to take a look at these live pictures from

chopper 4, we also want to say this is what we see. we see the big protests and we see the officials coming out on the courthouse steps, but behind the scenes, what's changed since april? >> there is a stronger sense of community especially in the neighborhood. if you're in the neighborhood right where freddie gray lived which is the penn north area. i talked to erica of the penn north kids zone, an organization which you can see on screen there has come together in the wake of these riots. she tells me the community where freddie gray lived doesn't want a repeat of what happened earlier this year. >> we don't want any more of that and there's nothing left to destroy here. it's just my responsibility to shield these children from that and to have as many conversations with the adults and the young adults, those 18 to 30-year-olds that are either at risk or willing to risk it all. >> those kids are serviced every day.

all of the things are donated by the community, businesses and community folks, a resilient community that will be stronger after all of this is over with. >> all right. troy johnson, great, great context. the mayor of baltimore and the police commissioner are scheduled to speak in ten minutes and we'll bring you their comments live. storm team 4 tracking a new weather system that will bring some very sloppy conditions to the area. we're timing it out and the radar right now is very quiet and dry conditions as we scan live throughout the area and nothing to report. it was another nice day for us. tomorrow morning we're expecting some showers and they'll start developing and the big issue for us tomorrow morning will be the fog. it will slow travel. it's going to be dense and widespread with those wet roads and we're not going to have any fog issues by the afternoon and that's when we'll start to deal with the moderate rain and the intensity for the afternoon really going up and i'll show you the road impacts in just a

few minutes and when our temperatures will be getting back into the 20s. yeah. >> thanks, veronica. a teenager in north texas, notorious for using his family's wealth in a defense case is apparently missing. police have orders to take ethan couch back into custody because his parole officer can't find him or his mother. he got a ten-year probation sentence for a deadly dui crash that killed four people in 2014. in court his attorney said couch suffered from something called affluenza. a so-called condition that left his client from knowing right from wrong because of his privileged upbringing. his attorneys say they don't know where couch is right now and that they can't publicly discuss the matter further at this time. chipotle launches a new effort to make a mens for food safety failures. the washington wizard arenas

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>> we continue to follow breaking news in baltimore. all is relatively calm on the streets after a mistrial was declared in the case of the first officer charged in the death of freddie gray. baltimore's mayor stephanie rawlings-blake and police commissioner kevin davis are set to speak about the hung jury five minutes or so from now we'll brick that live to you as

soon as it happens. >> former wizards star gilbert arenas is trending this afternoon, but not for anything good. arenas posted video of women playing basketball in their underwear and he wrote in part, now this is what america was hoping for when they announced the wnba back in 1996. not a bunch of chicks running around looking like cast members from orange is the new black. he also put up a new post this afternoon doubling down and commending his comments. the wnba hasn't even responded to this, but as wizards fans know arenas is no stranger to trouble. he nearly missed an entire season for getting into a locker room confrontation with guns. soon, you'll be able to pick the brain of a celebrated producer, writer and comedian. the kennedy center will present a screening of mel brooks' 1974 movie classic "blazing saddles." the movie will be followed by a q and a session with brooks.

tickets start at $65 and go on sale starting this friday and brooks is also a kennedy center honoree this year. chipotle's ceo is apologizing again for an outbreak of e. coli that's made people sick, and this time he took out a page from the washington post. he said chipotle is instituting more high-tech testing procedures and while a perfect safety record is not possible and they're trying to get as close to that idea as possible. he also promises to make these improve ams without passing on the cost to consumers. a new change to the country's terror alert system and the first change in four years. how it

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following breaking news in baltimore, we are awaiting the start of a news conference by baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-make and police commissioner kevin davis. community activists in baltimore right now are criticizing prosecutors after the mistrial of officer william porter who was charged in the death of freddie gray. >> that's right. you can see the scene right there, chopper 4 giving you a live look at just a small group of people right now gathering outside, obviously, a lot of people getting this word in the last hour and we'll stay on top of this and again, we've got the mayor and the police commissioner coming up in just a few minutes here. >> right now we're taking into

this new terror alert system to let americans know about potential threats. it's coming as the nation's top security officials are sharing their concern about what they call poison. the thing that potential radicals are consuming not only online, but out of sight. what is this? what are we talking about here. chris, what we're talking about what the fbi security and secretary of homeland security has been warning us about possible copycats and self-radicalized folks and right now the federal government is trying to adjust their tactics to deal with this new threat. nearly 700,000 students went back to school in l.a. today. >> kind of like scary to hear about that. >> reporter: a terror threat message that closed the system yesterday shows the new environment we live in as the fbi director outlined a new enemy. >> san bernardino, as with

chattanooga, another terrorist attack that we've dealt with in recent times involved consuming poison on the internet and radicalizing. they have united san bernardino attackers. the fbi says starting two years ago the couple used private instant messages, but not social media to see if they were a terror match. >> they're both in those communications which we've been able to recover, demonstrating a commitment interest in jihad and martyrdom. homeland security secretary jeh johnson changed the terror alert system adding an online tool to release vital national security information. the first bulletin warns to watch for self-radicalized people. in addition, johnson outlying new, strict screening for visa applications to move to the united states. >> consulting social media is something that sense i've been secretary, i believe that we need to do and we have begun

that. >> all of this new information for the public led to this recommendation by the fbi director. >> don't let them win this by freaking you out. chan teleto something healthy. tell us if you see something concerning and live your life. >> late today the white house announced the president will go to san bernardino and meet privately with the families of the victims of the terrorist attacks. edward lawrence, news 4. now your storm team 4 forecast. >> the roads will be very sloppy at times tomorrow. storm team 4 already tracking this next system with moderate to high impacts on area roads. let me show you. we're timing it out. this is thursday morning and it's fog and showers so moderate impact and then a high impact during the midday time period, about 11:00 a.m. and right until about 2:00, 3:00 and high impacts here by the p.m. rush still looking sloppy and still with moderate impacts on area

roads and that's one reason why it's weather alert day and storm team 4 will be on the air and radio with frequent updates and also online. they're showing you that radar is live and here are the showers out ahead of the front right now and the system will be gathering more moisture from areas of cincinnati right down toward areas of memphis. >> out the door tomorrow morning and first thing what you will need to wear between the heavy coat and you can leave the sunglasses at home. go with the raincoat and we'll see rainfall totals range from a third of an inch to three-quarters of an inch and the areas that will be impacted the most right down here and take a look. d.c., i-95 and areas from southeastern maryland and moderate to heavy rain and even by 2:00 and you can see it very soggy. so down 301 and south out of d.c. around i-95 around quantico, as well, for the afternoon hours and we'll show you again, high-impact area right here, d.c.

even up toward annapolis at times tomorrow and later afternoon it really is more down to the south where more moderate impacts and frederick, leesburg and and out 66 a little better for tomorrow there. your sky cast, overcast throughout the day. so you are going to be needing the big umbrella for tomorrow and we're not going to have much in the way of any wind for thursday and that will come friday and saturday. we dropped to 48 degrees by 8:00 p.m. and school day forecast and improving conditions for the week with more b-b-plus weather coming that way after the c-minus type of day for tomorrow. the other big change, of course and cold air when it moves in and those wind chills early saturday morning with an air temperature of 34 degrees will be somewhere around 20 to 25 degrees and the windchill temperature after having such warm air around our area and warm air does return next week with more rain and we'll talk about that and more, maybe a peek at what it's looking for

for the latter part of christmas week. >> nbc news is taking a look at a cutting edge cancer treatment that's getting pretty positive results. we're joined now by janet shamlian with a preview of the special "nightly news" series. what is it and how does it work? >> it's fascinating pat, we have exclusive access into the alamos national laboratory in the mountains of new mexico and it's basically using the same technology and the nuclear deck technology that's used for destruction that's being used for a potential cancer game changer. this is targeted radiation. what it does it goes straight to the tumor and unlike standard radiation, it doesn't damage any of the cells around it, anyone with cancer, prostate cancer, leukemia, breast cancer, they won't suffer the ill side effects and the issue right now is it's hard to produce enough to make this viable. it's in clinical trials, but we could see this treatment effective in our lifetime. >> when you talk about mass

marketi marketing any idea when, how far down the line that might be? >> i asked the question to the physicists who were there. i asked is this going to be in our children's life time or our life time? it will be available in the mass market. it will prolong the life of people. a lot of times what gets them is not the cancer, but the radiation and other treatments they take. >> fascinating. janet shamlian. more on this new cancer treatment coming up on nbc "nightly news" at 7:00. when my kids start school i hope they have a teacher like megan bentley. even though she and her husband struggled to pay their student loans and other bills she always buys supplies for her kids out of her own pocket. today the ellen degeneres show had a big surprise for megan. [ screaming ] >> hi, megan! >> oh, my god. hi! >> how are you doing? >> hi, ellen! >> because she goes above and

beyond for her students, megan received every prize inningen's 12 days of giveaways, everything from tvs to gift cards and her co-workers at frederick douglas elementary school also got prizes, too. the ellen show airs weekdays at 3:00, right before news 4 at 4:00. >> that's wonderful and hundreds of kids in the district will have a warmer winter thanks to the d.c. firefighters. they gave out 600 new coats in northeast d.c. to children in need. >> a lot of kids don't have the ability to get a new coat and a new coat is important for a bunch of reasons. the ability to go to school when it's bad weather and sometimes going to school means getting their only meal for the day and it's the emergency without 911. >> the firefighters collect done eggs for this program all year long through itsspq operation program. santa claus made an early appearance in maryland today and st. nick ditched his sleigh for a harley.

montgomery county police escorted him through the streets of germantown and heokong way an all of this is for a great cause. the proceeds benefit the children's inn, a private non-profit that helps families at the national institutes of health. we are working several developing stories in the newsroom including the investigation into the deadly shooting of a secret service officer. police found arthur ballot win near the d.c. prince george's county line. baldwin was a secret service officer stationed at the white house, but he's been on leave from his job pending an ongoing criminal case. we'll have an update on his story from news 4's mark segraves coming up in ten minutes. we're awaiting on a news conference to start from baltimore mayor stephanie rawlings-blake and kevin davis. we're looking at a live picture where protesters are criticizing

prosecutors after the freddie gray death. we'll have live team coverage coming up. mayor rawlings-blake stepping to the podium now. she put out a statement advising people tol have peaceful demonstrations and saying she would protect the cities and neighborhoods and the businesses in the city. let's listen. >> the jury in the criminalase of officer william porter ended its deliberations without being able to reach a unanimous verdict all of us, if we believe in justice must have respect for the outcome of the judicial process. this is our american system of justice 12 baltimore city residences answered the solemn call to serve. they listened to the evidence presented and they rendered a decision. if some choose to protest they must peacefully demonstrate.

that is their right, but i also want to be very, very clear about any potential disturbances in our city. we are prepared to respond. we will protect our residents. we will protect our neighborhoods, our businesses and we will protect the safety of our first responders. irge everyone to remember that collectively our reaction needs to be one of respect for our neighborhoods and for the residents and businesses of our city and for those who have answered the call to serve and protect, we will not and cannot be defined by the unrest of last spring, as a city and as a community, we are stronger and we are united to be better than what some displayed to the world in the spring. for the past eight months we

have worked relentlessly to unite baltimore with a resolve to have peace in our street. we have a chance to show the country how to be heard peacefully, respectfully and effectively. i know that as a community we are up to the task. thank you. >> thank you, mayor, for the protesters and there are certainly protesters out on our streets right now and there will be in the days to come we respect the rights of americans to protest. protesters have a friend in the baltimore police department. >> we are here to serve as peacekeepers, quite frankly and we respect the right to protest and we respect protesters and what they've meant for so many years in this great country of ours and those protesters who

are lawfully assembled and our police department respects them and will do everything we can to afford them the ability to protest in the city. >> folks who choose to commit crimes and hurt people and break things and harm people are no longer protesters. you lose your ability to call yourself a protester when you choose to harm people and destroy property, so i think that's something we've spoken about for a few months now. i believe the vast majority of folks quite frankly understand that very, very well. we, too, respect the criminal justice process in this country and we need this to protect it and we pledge to this city and our police department and our fire department. we have fire chief niles ford here with us today. our pledge to the folks of baltimore is one of public safety. we are here to protect and serve and we're here to take this

responsibility very, very seriously. thank you. did anyone have brief questions? >> we're monitoring social media on april 27th. is there any signs similar to the disturbance that you've seen that you're monitoring on social media now. >> we continue to monitor social media and we have a pretty robust system in place to make sure that we have every capacity available to identify things that we should know about and right now there's nothing that concerns us, nothing that has been brought to our attention at this moment that doesn't give us the impression of any type of wrongdoing whatsoever. news 4 at 5:00, begins with breaking news. now at 5:00, a hung jury and a mistrial declared in the case against the first police officer

in the trial of the death of freddie gray. this is a live look out over baltimore where things are peaceful at this hour. [ screaming ] >> a few scuffles did break out near the courthouse just about 30 minutes ago after protesters got word that there had been a mistrial. jurors deliberated for more than 16 hours over three days. they still could not reach a verdict and let's go straight to chris gordon outside the courthouse in baltimore. chris? >> reporter: well, protesters are expressions frustration. politicians are issuing statements saying they hope baltimore will remain resilient and as protesters walk around the courthouse and over to city hall, we are expecting freddie gray's family to issue a statement over there and the tone and tenor of that statement, more than likely will

determine the reaction from the protesters going into this christmas season. no one wants a repeat of the scenes last fall. we're going to go to freddie gray's family. >> hung juries are not unusual. approximately 5% of all the criminal cases that are tried in the country result in hung juries. most of them are re-prosecuted and in a high number -- in a high percentage of those cases there is a conviction, and so this hung jury does not mean it's the end of officer porter's case. i understand that the judge has ordered the parties to appeal before the administrative judge and that the state will be seeking a new trial. so this saga is not over. personally, i've had the same experience of having a jury come back hung and