a church damaged by the storm in germantown, maryland, last night. those powerful winds and the rains hit right before bible study here. the reverend talked to us today about the scary moments when the storm bore down on them. news4's derrick ward is live now with his story and a look at all the damage. derrick? >> reporter: well, indeed. we're here on the grounds of the baptist church in germantown. this is a side of trees you don't get to see very often except at times like this. doug kammerer tells us that winds were clocked at 70 miles an hour through here and that is, indeed, believable. it amounted to some hairy moments for the folks inside the church here as it cut a swath all through this area. here at the upper seneca baptist church in germantown they were getting ready for wednesday evening bible study and choir practice, but they weren't ready for what the winds had in store. from the sanctuary they could

lightning and they could feel the high winds. >> i looked out the side doors, that's when i saw this solid sheet of rain and the wind just was really tremendous. >> reporter: that's not exaggerating from the looks of things around the church. >> even inside the lobby area the doors started kind of buckling in and out because of the pressure change. >> reporter: while crews have begun cutting up what's left of fallen trees and repairing the daniel to power lines, you can seen the damage all over the area and the close calls. >> and we heard a tremendous loud sound. >> reporter: parts of the church roof are now in the church parking lot, and there are leaks inside where the water came in. even the cemetery saw some damage but reverend felder is happy no one here was hurt, and he says it's hard to think of a better place to be in a storm. >> absolutely. we were definitely in god's hands being protected. >> reporter: and the damage he says, however costly, can and will be repaired. and indeed they consider themselves very lucky, as most people in this area do considering it's

derrick ward, news4. back to you. >> thank you, derrick. a deadly toll from the storm for the state of virginia. four people killed, including that little 2-year-old boy. storm team4's veronica johnson is here now with a look at the devastation to our south. >> yeah. it was a devastating storm. virginia one of the hardest hit states. nine reports of tornadoes. national weather service will continue to go out and assess that damage over the next couple days. now confirmed an ef-1 tornado in waverly with winds around 110. tappahannock and appomattox winds 140 to 165. the one in tappahannock was on the ground for an incredible 28 miles. >> reporter: virginia governor terry mcauliffe got a bird's-eye view of the damage. homes reduced to piles of rubble in the evergreen area of appomattox county. >> tremendous devastation. homes just

foundations the only thing left. it's really sad to be there and see families and friends walking through the debris and all you have is a cement foundation and they're just walking through trying to find a memento. it's hard. >> reporter: a funnel cloud there cut a path of destruction eight to ten miles wide. >> he opened a front door and he said, mama, tornado, tornado, and he ran, and i ran, and i was hugging that tree, one of the trees in my front yard. >> reporter: that family okay, but elsewhere in appomattox county, one man was killed and several other injuries. >> it's just a tragedy because i lost a good friend in the same process as well as i could have lost my own life. >> reporter: three people also killed when a tornado tore through a mobile home park in the town of waiver verly. the victims, two men and a 2-year-old boy, were thrown from the structure. their bodies were found 300 yards from where their trailer once sat. desmond garner knew one of the victims. he said the weather swept through with little warning.

>> the wind picked the car up. all we could do was hold onto even other and pray. >> you can see the home blue right into the couple's sun room. they tell me the house shook and it sounded like a train went through. >> reporter: in tappahannock witnesses say they saw homes lifted off the foundations and tossed into the street. police shut down access to the town as they search for people trapped in the rubble. rescue efforts lasted well into thursday morning. >> wendy, you were just asking what number those were. appomattox, ef-3 tornadoes. three people also killed when a tornado tore through a mobile home park in the town of waverly. the victims, two men and a 2-year-old boy, were thrown from that structure. their bodies were found some 300 yards from where their trailer sat. desmond garner knew one of the victims. doug, you have more on just what's next coming in behind the system. >> yeah, because this who

here, at least the warm part of the system, because behind it now we have the cold part of the system. so we're still being affected by it even though the storms that we saw yesterday are long gone. take a look outside. you notice the winds. the winds gusting upwards of 30 to 35 miles per hour. there are those winds. let's show you what's going on out there across our region. notice all of the snow on the back side of this system. so ahead of this, we got into the warm sector, warm southerly winds bringing temperatures into the 60s. today you notice the flow off the lakes. that's what making things on the colder side today. even some snow showers just into parts of our region. it's not going to amount to much as far as snow is concerned. the big deal is going to be the cold. much more on that, i have got your forecast in just a minute. on a night like last night, what kind of person would do something like that? >> a very low person. it was some young person that hno

the parents don't care what they do. >> at teenage girl robbed during that storm last night. the search is now under way for a group of young people who jumped the teenager during the storm while she was on her way me from school. she was walking near the potomac avenue metro station. news4's pat collins talked to the victim and her grandfather. pat is on capitol hill now to tell us what was the group looking for, pat? >> reporter: wendy, police are out tonight looking for that group of robbers who they say tased this teenage girl and then they stole her shoes. we begin our story now with her grandfather. when you saw your granddaughter last night, what went through your mind? >> i felt bad because there's nothing i can do. i can't run down there and beat up on everybody. >> reporter: this is a man we call gary, the grandfather of the victim. he's most upset by what happened to his granddaughter on capitol

we had last night. a 17-year-old teenage girl. she had just left the potomac avenue metro station. she was on her way home from school. she encountered five people, three men, two women, one guy was masked. the others hooded. they walked past her but then they came back. in the 500 block of 14th street, they knocked her to the ground. they tased her. they took her money and then they took her shoes. >> and they tased you on the wrist? >> yeah. >> how many times? >> it was like one of them tasers that just keeps going when they hold the button. so they just kept holding the button. they didn't let go. >> did it hurt? >> yeah. >> reporter: the robbers ran away. the victim says she hid here in the alley behind the trash cans

drenching rain. for somebody to steal her shoes on a night like last night, what kind of person would do something like that? >> a very low person. it was some young person that had no kind of training. the parents don't care what they do. >> reporter: now, it was a woman suspect who tased the teenage girl. it was a woman suspect who stole her shoes. the victim's pink shoes, the same color as the suspect's pink jacket. now, the teenage victim has a special relationship with her ailing grandmother. wait until you hear what the grandmother has to say about all this coming up at 6:00. jim, back to you. >> just an awful story. pat collins, we'll see you then. metro announced today it's stepping up police efforts in the wake of several recent high-profile crimes on the

third party will be brought in to support transit police officers. our transportation reporter adam tuss is live at gallery place with more on this and the battle against the perception that riding metro is not safe. adam? >> reporter: that's right, jim. you know, when this plan was announced, we immediately started asking the question, is metro safe enough? well, transit police say without question it absolutely is, but they understand that the perception is there that there aren't enough officers to keep an eye on everybody. episode after episode recently, some captured on surveillance video, and now riders say they're happy to see a stepped up response from transit police. >> just knowing about how easy it is for any of those things to happen, it's nice to see that we're really taking a stand against those types of activities. >> reporter: well, here is what will be happening specifically. metro is paying over 1 million bucks to bring in private security officers who will be

true's revenue collection. that will tree free up the curr police officers prmierforming t work to be out in the system. and the police chief says officers' shifts will overlap so power hour deployments can happen during the late afternoons and evenings. >> it is how do we change the perception? change our visibility and keeping people informed. >> reporter: riders completely on board. >> i think there needs to be more police presence on the cars as well as on the flat form. >> reporter: crime has been happening systemwide and metro admits there's been a spike. they will also be on buses. does metro have enough officers? >> we probably never have enough. probably no one ever does. >> reporter: for now you should be noticing more officers on

system. a lot of these cases juveniles have been involved, and coming up at 6:00, a judge has made a move to ban a lot of those kids from actually riding on the rails. here what metro has to say about a possible new precedent being set there, wendy. >> adam tuss, thank you. well, they lost their sons in a deadly crash last summer. well, now two families in montgomery county want to prevent future tragedies by giving jail time to parents who host underage drinking parties. the parts of calvin li and alex murk testified in annapolis yesterday asking lawmakers to pass a bill to send someone found guilty of hosting a party to prison. the boys died in a crash after attending a party where the parents had purchased the alcohol. it would be a year in jail for a first offense, two for the second. they were part of the walking home club. now the victims

for them in court. what we learned about the families caught in the middle of this scandal. plus, we weren't the only ones dealing with the wild weather. how this deadly storm system wreaked havoc up and down the east coast. and a local judge takes a big break for the bench for a health concern that began with just a bad headache. how his fate turned in an instant after we first interviewed him almost three years ago. >> kind of unbelievable and overwhelming to know that somebody you don't know and doesn't know you, you know, had to die for you to sur

a former teacher's aide has allegedly confessed to sexually assaulting his students and using them to make child pornography. >> he is now facing federal charge that could land him in prison for life, but some of the victims' families have also filed civil lawsuits in this case, and tonight we're learning more about their accusations and the impact on the children. our bureau chief tracee wilkins has our report from glenarden. >> what they know is that he sort of ingratiated himself with the kids in a very inappropriate way. >> reporter: the parents who are stepping forward and filing civil suits against deonte

carraway and the prince george's school system are shocked to be in this system. >> they had to reason to believe when their child went off to school in the morning that they might be sexually abused in the building during the school day. >> reporter: carraway, a former school aide is now facing federal and state charges for sexually abusing children and using them in child pornography. 17 victims have been identified by police so far. timothy maloney is the attorney representing six of those victims in civil suits. >> they feel confused, some shame. they're worried about what people will think about them. >> reporter: it appears carraway could do what he wanted when he wanted at woods elementary. >> he had the run of the school. he could pull kids out of the classrooms, pull them out of the library. he ran what was called the walking home club where he would then have access to various homes in the community. >> reporter: according to federal prosecutors, some of the pornographic videos were shot in the homes of students. documents show he shot most of his videos using this orange phone seen in this picture posted on twitter.

called the aka club, also demonstrated with this pic on the twitter page. >> i think the principal relied on him to babysit kids who were more troubled in the school and i think the principal was not someone who was in charge of the building, walking the building, seeing what's going on in the building. >> reporter: tracee wilkins, news4. about 100 tenants from a low-income building in washington were demonstrating in arlgton today. they're fighting a move by an arlington firm to displace the low-income residents, demolish the building, and bring in a new development. under d.c. law the tenants have the right to band together and buy the building, but they say the developer is asking too much for the 302-unit building. virginia could be on its way now to becoming the first state to regulate and formally allow those

football sites. lawmakers in the general assembly just passed a bill that would require the sites to register with the commonwealth's agricultural department. it would ban anyone under 18 from playing, and it would require a $50,000 registration fee from fantasy site operators. the bill now heads to governor mcauliffe. in a statement to news4 draft king says 1.2 million virginians play fantasy sports every year. both nbc sports and nbc 4's parent company comcast have invested in fan duel. i'm jason pugh here in vieira, florida. it's been a busy offseason for bryce harper. he was named national league mvp. we saw him out at super bowl 50 and the daytona 500 this past sunday. today on the first

sit bryce down and talk to him about how hectic this off-season has been. >> it's definitely something i enjoy, enjoy it with my families as much as coy and you get ready for that new year. you don't want to dwell on it as much as people think. it's a new year. all that's behind me. i'm worrying about today and what i can do to get better on a daily basis. >> there was a perception surrounding this team that the nationals had a toxic clubhouse, a negative clubhouse. how much do you think the incident with jonathan papelbon had to do with that. >> i enjoy coming to this clubhouse. i enjoy coming to my job as you say every single day and it's a lot of fun, so i can't knock this clubhouse. i can't knock the way we go about it every single day. so whatever anybody else is saying, i don't know what they're about or how they're going about it. so i don't really care what people think about our clubhouse because i know in and out what we do and everybody in tha

>> reporter: there's no salary cap in baseball. for a guy like yourself that feels pretty good, knowing there's no limit on what you could possibly make. >> i don't think about any of that stuff. i just try to play the game i can and don't put limits on players and organizations or what they want to do or how they do it. so i just try to go about it every single day the right way and play as hard as i can, and that stuff will take care of itself. >> reporter: now, as of right now the highest paid player is giancarlo stanton who plays for the miami marlins. he makes $325 million for his salary. bryce harper could top that. he may become the first $400 million ballplayer if he keeps up this pace, jim and wendy. >> and he's got a point. those salary caps are just annoying to guys like you and bryce. >> they really are. >> it's good to see you sur vafd the storm down there in florida yesterday.

it's a little nippy out here. >> we don't want to hear it. go put on a sweater. >> we got your little nippy. >> show us your flip-flops at 6:00. thank you, jason. we'll see you later. after that storm up here, communities to our south are still picking up the pieces from the storm that tore through their homes, claimed lives. we'll find out what's next in the full forecast for us. plus, fighting the heroin epidemic in fairfax. what police are doing right now to combat a troubling trend. you're watching news4 at 5:00.

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the same storm system that slammed our region left a path of destruction in north carolina. take a look at this. neighbors in the community about an hour north of raleigh were out earlier today trying to salvage what is left of their belongings. >> and this up in long island, new york, where strong winds brought down trees and power lines. this is a power line landing on top of this car causing it to burst into flames. >> doug, can we catch our breath and start cleaning up? >> yeah, we can. this just goes to show the extent of the storm. tornadoes from louisiana and m

80-mile-an-hour winds in rhode island yesterday. i mean, that's how big of a storm this really was, and now we are finally on the back side of this storm, and behind it we're getting on the cool side. take a look outside. you see the cloud cover across the region. those clouds coming courtesy of that northwesterly wind. we've actually seen a couple snow showers and rain showers today. 46 degrees right now at the airport. winds out of the west at 18 miles per hour. but look at the gusts. gusts to 30 in d.c. as well as gaithersburg. 30-mile-per-hour in martinsburg. close to that in fredericksburg. look at petersburg, west virginia, close to 50-mile-per-hour winds. we still have some rather gusty winds and that's going to be the case tonight, and with those winds comes the windchill. already down to 35 in frederick. 32 in hagerstown. 37 in culpeper. it's going to be a very chilly night and a very cool start to the day tomorrow. here is the radar. storm team4 radar picking up scattered showers and, yes, some of this is falling as light snow. not going to mean anything. it's not even going to accumulate. we have snow showers around d

so that snow comes down, melts very quickly. not going to be an issue but we could see some more up there towards the mason-dixon line. it's all part of that same system. let's take a wider view. here is the storms of that system. the thunderstorms, you can see it on the satellite picture. the radar doesn't goe6ut out ts far. but you can clearly see the line of storms on the satellite. behind it look at the flow. out of canada back into our region, and that's why we're going to see temperatures on the cold side. so starting off tomorrow, taking the kids to the bus stop, 33 degrees, rather breezy, windchills at that time right around 20 degrees. so a cold start for sure. between 3:00 and 4:00 in the afternoon, still rather chilly, 42 degrees. that's well below average. our average high temperature is now up to 50 degrees. so that's going to be quite cold for this time of year as we move on through. the impact forecast going to be on the low to moderate side because of the cold wind that we'll see just about all day long. now, we are going to see some warming temperatures. on saturday, not bad, 45. chilly but the wind won't be as

it will be rather breezy too but the winds will be out of the south and that will allow for sunshine. temperatures around 60. 59 coming up on monday and most of next week looks warm. i say most of next week. there's another storm. bts a we it's about a week away. >> we had a feeling you were going to say that, doug. >> welcome to washington. now at 5:00 tonight, do you know who may be tracking your cell phone? >> it could be the d.c. police doing it and they could be doing it without your permission or without your knowledge. how the secret policework is helping fight crime and causing new controversy. whose name will go on this new elementary school being wilt in prince william county, virginia? how the decision is being made ahead.

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you're watching news4 at 5:00. antonin scalia, barack obama, bernie sanders. those are just some of the names on the table for a new elementary school in prince william county. >> but there are also some local people who could be honored boo by the school nearing completion. our chris gordon is live now in woodbridge where this new school is taking shape. chris? >> reporter: well, there are now 23 names under consideration for this new school in woodbridge, and tonight we profile

names, including the first prince william county firefighter ever to die in the line of duty. it's a long and growing list of names being considered for the new elementary school being built in woodbridge, virginia. local firefighters are pushing for it to be named after kyle wilson. he died in this woodbridge house fire on april 16th, 2007, the same day as the virginia tech massacre. >> the structure collapsed from rooftop down, and he was trapped in that debris, and that's where he ended his life. >> reporter: for the past eight years the wilson family has raised money with the fitness run and other activities giving scholarships to students at george mason university where kyle wilson graduated. he grew up within walking distance of the new elementary school, and his family says it would be a great honor if it carried his name. >> it's a very hard thing to talk about, but i think it would mean the world

have a lasting -- a never ending memorial to him. >> reporter: another name getting a lot of support is dr. george hampton, an educator whose foundation has awarded more than $100,000 in scholarships. 3,000 people have signed a petition to put dr. george hampton's name on the school. >> focused on dr. hampton as the symbol of african-american civic engagement within prince william county that we want to honor. >> reporter: ahead, why naming this new school could have historic significance. coming up on news4 at 6:00. that's the latest live in prince william county. back to you, wendy. >> chris gordon, thank you. a significant change to the way police are hoping to combat the heroin epidemic in northern virginia. police from all over carried out a series of raids yesterday. in a twist heroin users were offer

immediate treatment instead of being put in jail. of the 20 arrests in fairfax county, 5 opted for rehab. >> we quickly realized that enforcement efforts alone was not going to solve this problem, and we formed a partnership with the community service board to help identify users and aid people who abuse opiates to seek assistance or help. >> reporter: police expect to carry out more raids in the next few days. let's make a deal. howard university students have a chance now for some cheap seats when they ride metro. the university is asking students to consider a proposal to get a metro pass with unlimited riding privileges. it would add about $100 a semester to their student fees. all full-time students would be enrolled. if students vote to accept this deal, it would take effect for the next academic year. so has this happened to you where you go out to eat, you pay your bill, and you leave a tip? but several area customers say they were overcharged after they thought they had

consumer reporter susan hogan has their story. >> reporter: that's right. we heard from seven people who dined at two different restaurants, all had a similar story. take a look at this. our viewers send us these credit card reetz and told news4 someone upped the amount charged and in a separate case another viewer sent us her bank statement that showed a different amount charged than what she paid on her bill. >> i'm still missing $60 and i didn't quite budget for $60 to be missing. >> reporter: now, we asked those two restaurants about the charges. find out what they had to say and how you can protect yourself from it happening to you. my story tonight at 11:00. tip troubles. back to you. >> all right. and this shut down a major intersection in downtown d.c. and despite that

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check this out. a geyser popped up at a busy d.c. intersection downtown. turns out it was a ma malfunctioning valve. this was at 14th and k streets. a valve broke in a manhole and sent water shooting several feet into the air. d.c. water crew was able to fix the valve quickly and turn off all that water. there's a program

district that is aimed at bullying among kids. it wants to improve their sensitivity to others. and what they do is they bring a small baby into a classroom and then let the kids handle and study the baby's fragile state. our news4 photojournalist beth brown introduces us to roots of empathy. ♪ hello baby morgan how are you ♪ ♪ how are you today >> i thought babies were just cute that were cute and didn't do much, but i know they do much more than that. >> lots of new noises. >> see if she'll come and get it now. >> interacting with a baby just helps us see them in such a different light and see themselves in a different way too. >> he's able to crawl. >> on a

really slows us down and gives us a chance to notice things through their eyes. >> what do you think it is about isaiah's shoe that is he's so attracted to? >> he's getting used to us because the first time we saw him, like he was looking around like who are these people. >> i think just having that designated time in the day to talk about our feelings, to talk about the way that we may develop differently. >> his hand is starting to open wider. >> you notice his hands is relaxing and opening up more. >> i think it opens the door to those types of conversations and learning. >> when you see like beth caring for him and when something is wrong, like she helps him. so that makes you think like when somebody is struggling with something in class, like i could go help them out. >> after baby warrick comes in i

forget about the negativity that was in the past. >> good-bye. see you soon. ♪ >> how cool is that? if you'd like to learn more about this program, open our nbc washington app and search roots of empathy. a stranger saved his life. a local judge is alive but doesn't know who to thank. our doreen gentzler has his remarkable journey back to health and back to the bench. i'm scott macfarlane, the heavy rain causing problems here too, inside the d.c. jail. some of the rain was getting in so some of the inmates have been moved out to a different location. our story coming up. get ready to get back to winter. subfreezing temperatures by early tomorrow morning. the morning rush will be cold. our coldest in nearly a week. i'll take you hour by hour and show you the windchills, how low they will be for tomorrow.

for years local police have been using secret technology to track cell phones, and they have been doing it with the help of the federal government, and they've been doing it without search warrants. news4's mark segraves explains how the so-called stingrayis

a serial rapist have a lot of people troubled by these tactics. >> reporter: d.c. police have had stingrays since 2003, but the 2014 rape case is the first time legal experts say d.c. police have admitted using them. >> this device was a big secret. >> reporter: the cusuitcase siz device is driven around a target area where police think a suspect might be. any cell phone in that area is redirected to the stingray and police can determine your location and more. >> they could actually intercept the call and get the content of the call. >> reporter: in the 2014 case, police did not have warrant. >> stingray enables them to track you even when you're inside your house, inside your office, places the police are not supposed to be able to go into without a warrant. >> reporter: news4 requested comments from both d.c. police and the u.s. attorney's

both law enforcement agencies declined to comment. in 2012 the d.c. police department signed an agreement with the fbi. in fact, the fbi can ask local police and prosecutors to dismiss cases rather than disclose information about the technology. >> i think in this nondisclosure agreement the doj is foreseeing the exact problem we're having right now. it's going to be misused and when it is, you're going to have to dismiss your cases as opposed to revealing any information about the technology. >> reporter: the d.c. police department paid for their stingray devices through a grant from the homeland security department. they were to be used for fighting terrorism. in the district, mark segraves, news4. tonight the cleanup continues 24 hours after that wild storm blew through our region in hard-hit areas like falls church. work crews are still clearing trees as power crews continue to repair downed lines. it wasn't the lightning that caused the

county maxed out around 70 miles per hour or so. >> and what's a tropical storm? >> tropical storm winds start around -- upwards of 40 to around 50 miles per hour. they continue to go until you hit the hurricane category, but really was a lot of wircnd acro the area for that four-hour period. now it will be a couple days before we see another weather system moving in that will deliver just some rain showers for our area. we focus on what's next which really is the cold for us. it will feel a lot like winter tomorrow morning. in fact, we've had a few wet snowflakes today. 39 to 43 degrees the range. a chilly one out there if you're going out this evening. you can see on storm team4 radar the blue, that's some of the spotty showers. with the air cold aloft, even some wet snowflakes, even if you're not seeing that white right now. hagerstown, frederick a bit in the way of snow but more of it right here. it's all tracking from west to east. parkersburg, elkins,

advisory, but i wanted to show you how quiet our weather stays here as we get into the late evening hours. it's off to the west where the snow is going to accumulate. yeah, accumulate for west virginia, western maryland, petersburg and a lot of the ski resorts throughout west virginia, they will get anywhere between 3 and as much as 5 inches of snow. the high elevations especially throughout the overnight, early part of the day tomorrow. there's 11:00. let's take it into early tomorrow morning. the snow starts to wane and we will see some sunshine around our area for tomorrow. so folks really going to love that. purple, winter weather advisories. frostburg, petersburg. certainly the temperatures will be low enough. temps keep dropping, the wind will stay up. 32 your windchill a reading right now in gaithersburg. 35 in frederick. now 32 what it feels like in hagerstown. so in the 30s now. let me take you hour by hour. another ten

feels like 27 degrees. we get into the red zone, even colder conditions by early tomorrow morning. folks, it's been nearly a week since last friday morning since we've seen temperatures so low across the area. windchill, 21, 9:00 a.m. then we get close to 30 degrees by tomorrow afternoon. so maybe feeling like we're around freezing with actual temperature hitting a high of 42 degrees. but better weather for the weekend. certainly for at least another day we'll need the coat, the jacket, the gloves. em everything as the kids head out the door for tomorrow. let's talk about the weekend. that's the next change. we get up to a high temperature of 60 degrees, and when we make that change we will say with temperatures in the 60s for a while and a couple dry days. this weekend i say wash the car. great weekend. 45, not bad on saturday, but even better on sunday. mild weather through wednesday, but it is wednesday when we've got our next chance of rain and if that storm system goes late

maybe a few wet snowflakes early thursday morning. we'll talk more on that. news4 at 6:00. more than 120,000 people in this country are waiting for life-saving organ transplants. the need for more organ donors is tremendous. >> doreen gentzler is here with the story of a high-profile transplant patient who is sharing his story for the first time. >> jim, wendy, judge lee satterfield is the chief judge, the boss of everything that happens at d.c. superior court. 21 years he's been on the bench. he oversees more than 100 judges and magistrates. his colleagues just recently found out why their leader disappeared for a while. judge satterfield had a heart transplant. you came pretty close to not making it, didn't you? >> they said -- they tell you things afterwards that they won't tell you before. i remember my medical people saying you got it in the nick of time. >> reporter: it is a stranger's heart that now pumps in judge satterfield's chest. he's just recently come back to

while back, and this wasn't his first brush with death. >> only symptom i had at the time was a severe headache, at least that's what i thought. >> he had weakness on the left side of his body. he had inability to see on the left side. his speech was slurred. >> reporter: almost three years judge satterfield and his doctor shared the story of his stroke with us. he thought it was a bad headache and tried to ignore it. good thing his colleagues at the courthouse ignored him that day and called 911. he talked to us about that to warn others about stroke dangers. but he never mentioned his history of heart problems. within a few months of that interview, judge satterfield learned his heart was failing. doctors told him there was only one choice left. they installed a heart pump to keep him alive. >> i was in the hospital for three months. i was sort of intubated and in an induced coma for ten days after the surgery because i could not breathe on my own, which were horrific

spouse who was there the entire time and really thought i was going to pass. she just recently told me she was planning my memorial service. >> reporter: the judge survived all that and returned to work with an artificial heart pump and a battery pack he had to wear 24/7. the ventricular assist device or vad kept him going for a couple years until the clock ran out on that option too. >> yeah. he was failing. you know, even though he had the vad in, the right side of his heart was starting to fail. >> reporter: this was last october, and this time his only hope was the hospital. check in and wait for a heart transplant. and hope that a donor heart would become available while he was still alive. judge satterfield couldn't believe what happened that first night in the hospital. >> the same day . >> the same day. >> it took 11 hours for his surgery. >> it's the most amazing surgery we do. take this new heart and sew it

and it's amazing. every single time it's a miracle. >> once you find out that it's actually there, it's kind of unbelievable and overwhelming to know it's there. somebody you don't know and doesn't know you, you know, had to die for you to survive. i mean, get their heart. >> reporter: and now judge satterfield is back at superior court with his new heart and with deep gratitude for the chance to continue a long career in public service. and he has a message about organ donation. he knows almost two dozen people die every day waiting for a heart transplant. >> i'd like to see more people donate, be in a position to be donors if they can so that a lot of the people who have been through this journey can be as fortunate as i am. >> judge satterfield doesn't know anything about the donor whose heart is in hisch

not the gender, the age, not even where the person lived. yes, he says he's curious and he says he will write that person's family a letter, and it will be their choice whether to respond. i think the judge would like to meet them. if you'd like to learn more about organ donation and it is easy to sign up, open our app and search wrtc, washington regional transplant consortium or began donations. >> wonderful story. >> and itself easy. thousands of letters, personal notes, photos of the late rosa parks have been fully digitized by the library of congress and are now available online. when the civil rights icon passed away in 2005, her heirs and her friends disagreed over who should inherit her possessions, but in 2014 philanthropist howard buffett purchased the collection, placed it on a long-term loan at the national library. in honor of black history

allstate at the washington regional transplant community to recognize two groups who are making a big difference in the african-american community. the foster and adoptive patient advocacy center and the national minority organ and tissue transplant education program. our jim vance and general manager and president jackie bradford hosted today's event. all this rainy weather, we've had people at the d.c. jail scrambling to move the inmates. news4 has an exclusive look at that problem next. i'm tom sherwood in northern virginia. the super tuesday presidential primary is next week. who's voting and why? i'll have t

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all this rain we had is creating a big problem at our d.c. jail, and our scott macfarlane broke this story about major leaks in the roof there. >> now the jail is scram nling. it has to move around more than 100 inmates as water gets into their cells. only on news4, scott and our cameras take a look inside. >> reporter: you can a see a puddle is forming from the rain. the problem is it's inside the control room of the north corridor jail cells in d.c.'s central detention facility. water is infiltrating a main section of the jail from leaks there the roof. the department of corrections requested about $1 million in emergency money in december to make repairs atop the building. some of them were made in december, but the roof is failing again. >> the water is directly coming

>> correct. >> reporter: you can see water entering just above the bunks in cell 13. the agency has been forced to shutter this entire wing because the control room is flood edflo. the nearly 120 inmates they had to move were here. this is the third floor. so much water was getting into this area they had to move the inmates out. the thing is they're not sure when the inmates will move back in. they're out of here indefinitely. news4 checked and found the department of general services, the city's building agency, is scheduled to fully replace the roof later this year. the section above the administrative offices in april, the portion above the inmate holding cells in august. council member yvette alexander's ward includes the jail and she says the city may have to speed up. >> better sooner than later. before august definitely. >> the jail is not above capacity so there is room to

>> if they're not taking care of the internal delap dation, they will wait until the last minute to fix the roof. >> reporter: now and indefinitely they will have to improvise until the roof is fixed. scott macfarlane, news4. now at 6:00, severe storms carve a path of destruction. tonight we're assessing the damage as the governor of virginia gets a firsthand look at the damage. during that storm a teenage girl was robbed. they took her money and they took her shoes. we'll tell you why she was the target. >> plus, a pivotal night in the race for the white house. why the debate could get rough. first tonight, there's some big changes coming to metro. it's an effort to improve your safety. >>

stepping up police patrols in the wake of a high-profile crimes including a shooting on the green line and an attack of a man on the red line. >> metro officials are encouraged but a new trend of banning passengers who get rowdy from the system. our transportation reporter adam tuss is at the gallery place station with this report. >> reporter: a fight spills onto the gallery place platform. a man is punched. six wilson high school teens picked up and charged with everything from assault to conspiracy. a judge has now banned those students from riding the rails, and metro says that's a good thing. >> i think it speaks for itself. we're very encouraged by that. we thank the judge for that. i think our riders thank the judge for that. >> reporter: it's part of a response of what's become an unsettling theme in metro, attacks in the system, including a shooting on a train this week. the incidents have some riders on edge.