. >> breaking now at 6:00, you are looking live at the metro station northeast, a boy was shot and killed. the station now shut down. traffic is gridlocked at people flood the tidal basin. the cherry blossoms are gorgeous. this is one ugly scene. we have learned another american has died after the paris attacks in brussels. >> we have breaking news at the metro station northeast. a person is shot and killed. that station is now shut down. darcy, what are you hearing? wh

confirmed a boy was shot and killed. we have not been able to confirm an age at this point. we do believe this person was a teenager. he was transported here from northeast washington this afternoon and was pronounced dead at a local hospital. now, police got the call around 4:15 this afternoon to come here to the deanwood station. we understand this young person was shot right on the platform here outside of the train station. on the outside area, right where the trains pull in and pull out. it's a public area. we understand he was shot at least one time and again transported from the scene. we do not know what exactly sparked this shooting of a womg i spoke to a short time ago, tells me, his mother was apparently here and was screaming, obviously crying and very distraught about this, before he was taken to the hospital. police are telling u

crime. they are searching for suspects. let's hear now from this woman right in the area when this shooting happened. >> all i heard was the lady said, "they shot my son" and the lady was crying. so i was trying to console him. i said, he's in heaven. >> we don't know at this time. >> reporter: the deanwood station remains closed at this hour. we can tell you shuttle buses are offered to people who need to get to bypass this station. it will remain closed throughout this investigation. it sounds like it will be well into this evening. i should mention the former mayor is here at the scene. he said he was in the area campaigning and came here to tee what exactly was

as far as councilmember yvette alexander, more violence taking place and concerned about all the gun play happening here in your nation's capitol. back to you. >> let many eask you a real quick question. i know you mentioned they were looking at suspects. right now, do you have any idea of a suspect description, perhaps, of who they are looking for. what they were wearing? >> reporter: at this point. we did ask that. we had a briefing just about ten minutes ago from a police commander. he said at least one person was involved in this. kind of indicating that they may be looking for multiple people in connection with this incident. no refreshment was provided. he said he would be getting back to us on that. >> thank you so very much. meanwhile, we have a sad piece of news just into our newsroom, a 65-year-old woman saved by a d.c. fire fighter earlier this month has died. you may remember, fire fighter danny lovato gave her his air

today t,he grandfather confirmed she died from complications while in hospice. right now the cherry blossom trees are in peak bloom. think about this, peak bloom, gorgeous weather, awful crap t. bridges and roads if and around the tidal basins half cars and pedestrians making their way down to see the blossoms. so let's take you there live. a beautiful view of the tidal basin, it doesn't get prettier than this. the cherry tees hit peak. you have four to ten days to capture the trees at their best. >> it's all week and he. [ inaudible ] >> tweet us your cherry blossom pictures. and we will add them to our online gallery. if you don't want to bring the crowds, we got a list of alternate spots. there are other locations for viewing cherry blossoms.

open the nbc blossom app and search cherry blossom. >> now your storm team forecast. >> well, the cherry blossom peak blooms is one of the many things going on right now, storm team 4 meteorologist shows us what kind of weather you can expect to deploy this beautiful holiday weekend? >> it's beautiful out there, my goodness. the skies clear out tonight. we are looking at sunshine, the sun is going down at 7:00. depending on your location. enjoy, as we continue into the evening. now, temperatures a little on the cooler side today. and as we continue into the evening make sure you grab that jacket. it will be beautiful. we will see an increase in clouds, overnight and possibly some rain showers. tomorrow morning. it will be chilly, similar to last night for tomorro

so just know, we will use that umbrella, if you are headed to sunrise services, we will have your full day services coming up. >> fairfax county say a man died after being stabbed in the leg. they found him unresponsive on sussex drive last night in the alexandria section of fairfax county. detectives are still trying to figure out what happened and there is no word yet on who may be responsible. police say he lived on celtic drive. sad news developments on a couple lien seen at the -- brussels attack at the airport. his wife is still unaccounted for. they currently live in belgium but were originally from tennessee and kentucky. his brother says he travels the world as a worker for a water filtration company.

story in the race for the white house. we have just learned that bernie sanders has taken the democratic caucus in the state of alaska. it's one of three state caucuses today. sanders has a good chance losing all three states. sanders says he's not going anywher anywhere. >> vermont senator bernie sanders drawing 15,000 people to a rally to seattle friday night. >> when i was the kid, i had a dream of being in a home play in a nature league full of hawks. >> reporter: if sanders is going to make a round on front runner hillary clinton, saturday would be a good place to start. with democratic voters in alaska, hawaii and washington holding caucuses. clinton has a 300 delegate lead. she supports the momentum. >> i believe that if we win here in washington, we're going to

>> sanders tends to be well in safer pockets and smaller percentages of voters. an analysis shows he commits about 58% of the delegates become the nominees. it's not possible, it's probable, given clinton's space moving forward. >> this is the woman that i would see as president. >> reporter: the republicans april 5th in wisconsin, they stump for votes there. participation is for anyone scott walker seeks to endorse. . >> there was a then, this is now. the ted cruz and david dewhamburgerdew hurst, are two different people. >> he says tla ted cruz is best poised to win the white house, after a nomination fight, which is becominggl

>> we continue to follow our top story. you are looking at live pictures from the denywood metro station northeast, where a boy was shot and killed. we are going to bring you new developments. stay with us for that. a woman says a police officer harassed her at a public library because of what she was wearing.

>> big development itself tonight on the second eagle watch in our area. we are learning one of the eggs that the d.c. training academy hatched. this happened a few hours ago. the parents, liberty and justice, have been nothing at the police academy for the last 11 years. we are still keeping an eye on that second egg. stay with us for developments from that. >> we need a cost for this concept. >> people opposed to a newun g

. >> a protest outside a d.c. library today after a library police officer asked a woman to remove her religious head scarf. many of those gathered outside the library wore them or others donned hoodies if solidarity. earlier this week a library police officer repeatedly asked the woman to remove the scarf, taking out his handcuffs and telling her she would have to leave if she didn't. the library is now investigating that incident. a new gun store opened in arlington county, not everyone was thrilled about the opening. some residents held a gathering. they report, they say the store

neighborhood. >> arlington lion park community, with the population of 5,000 people have that small town feel about it. what brought them here today is controversy over a new gun store in their midst. >> we didn't ask for this conflict and bake respect for local autonomy could have prevented this. >> there is an area under served by the firearms industry. so i thought this would be a good location. >> the location, to reach potential customers from the alexandria and d.c. areas. but the nova armory store was not being welcomed by all. >> a gun store down the street doesn't make sense. it doesn't fit. >> we provided a needed systems. we had an outpouring of support. >> you won't find it here. they pointed to the erosion of firearm law, even when fire happen b

term. >> legislation this year that would have band flame throwers in virginia. it was defeated. think about that. >> let's be clear. nova armory doesn't sell flame throwers. will you find long guns and shorter ones for whatever someone would use this one for. but the owner says he will find strict compliance with existing laws, background checks. >> more come from virginia than out of state. >> dennis pratt says this location suits him fine. he hopes to win over those opposed. it will be a turnout battle a few minutes from the store. >> and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> well, you know, as we continue through the day today, we are looking at very nice temperatures and you know, it's

ahead to max 2 out there. all right, temperatures you know as we continue through the day today, not too bad. you know, we are topping out around 60 degrees. fought looking too bad. but you know, it is a little on the warm side, and for your easter sunday planner, we will have temperatures moving through the 50s. that's it. when ul wake up tomorrow morning, we could have a little bit of some showers, temperatures on the cool side, you may need to take that umbrella with you, again, mid-50s as we get into the afternoon on easter. then eventually, we will warm up. temperatures out there right now, we are right around 60 degrees at this point. and then we will warm up into the low 50s. yeah, let's go ahead with max. 54, they're talking in my air. trying to physical out what input, 61 in leesburg.

not looking too bad out there. we continue through the evening. it will be a little on the cool side as we go into the overnight. temperatures will fall into the 40s. so when you wake up tomorrow morning, yeah, temperatures will be in the 40s. it will be chilly out there. we do have some cloud cover coming through. clouds are only going to increase throughout the overnight. we will wake up to cloudy morning tomorrow. so if you are headed out for a sunrise services, it is going to be on the cloudy side early tomorrow. you can see those clouds streaming up from the south, some rain also streaming in. that's the way it will be. our next chance of some rain, not only a few showers tomorrow. they will be extremely isolated. we will have a chance as we get into monday morning. when you head back to work on monday, we are going to have a chance for rain showers coming our way. it does look like we keep that chance going until noon. it will be breezy as we go through your monday.

going to be in the upper 50s, lower 60s by monday. again, breezy conditions. the food news is, we clear out on tuesday, tuesday looking phenomenal. wednesday looking phenomenal as well. you know, it's just going to be good all throughout the area. let's go ahead to our future weather, show you what's going on. we do have those cloud cover coming through. it will be cloudy tomorrow with rain showers possible early. then some rain moving in late on sunday. we got that 7-day forecast coming up in just a few minutes. >> coming up, after the break the capitals are hing aav

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chris miles here in the cnn stoitd studios. this is a huge night for the caps t. team with the most points in the nhl this season. what makes this remarkable. there are still nine games left. walk, got in this position with a glorious effort last night.

back after missing 13 scored the game winning goal if overtime against new jersey t. caps have won four of their last 5. another win tonight will put a bow on the season filled with tremendous moments. >> our group is really strong. i think it was a sign last game. they played with a little more focus about tonight. they played with focus and i think they see the light at the end of the tunnel. they're giving up for class and all they have to. it's sort of the next level. >> tony bennett reached a new milestone in his already stellar career. a win over the cyclones in the sweet 16. bennett has had advanced in the elite 8 for the first time. uva is one of four acc teams still playing. it is guaranteed one of them will advance to the national championship game. bennett believes it not only shows his strength in the acc, but also his team. >> the acc,

showing itself to be real strong. of course, you pla i in this leaping. already so many good leagues in the country, there are so many different kind of systems and styles and the talent and the depth. i think that does. it battle tests you. it can break you a bit at times. but you see a lot. it does toughen you up. >> the wizard's double overtime loss to the timber wolves might be the most deflating of the season and might be the final letdown that costs them the playoffs. walk is now three-and-a-half games back. a final spot in the east. ten games remaining. they're heading west for a five game roadtrip. which includes games against the clippers and warriors. >> this branch, no nation about it. we need to play the game. >> we need to play desperate. we have no other choice. we kind of have to control our own destiny. >> you got to win. i said it before, this game, we need to win this

come back over 500 from the west coast roadtrip. we still you know need to do that. you got to win at least four instead of at least three. >> with the regular season winding down in the nhl, that means one thing, baseball opening day is almost here, nine days until the fats swing the bats officially against the braves. they did, however, unofficially continue their spring training this afternoon against atlanta. washington having a great spring. the naats, continued his impressive pitching today. scaterred six hits over five scoreless, racked up four strikeouts. 14 innings, one run allowed this spring. this is also a good sign. check out ryan zimmerman, he is healthy, looks good. so many shoulder issues with him in the past couple of seasons. this solo shot, his second of the spring. michael taylor adds the insurance. the single scores 2

birds, red sox on the diamond, how about mark trum bo? we have to mention this guy every single day, great off season signing. doubles down the right field line. 6th inning, manny machado time. his fourth of the spring, gets out in a hurry. next batter, chris crush days. you already know what it is. that's going the other way. orioles put up 16 runs, win it 68. you need to save some of that for the regular season. >> top 15 showdown in college park, sixth rank turks hosting unc. turks up 1 in the second quarter. matt rambo, rocket. that's good. maryland up 6-4568time. in the 3rd, this is just a great effort. check him out. he fall, still scores. two goals on the day the junior turksa

rambo at it again, takes it himself. four goals for the junior. turks win it 11-8. a difficult afternoon for the ravens t. team attended the funeral of 23-year-old quarterback tray walker. really like to express our sympathies to the ravens. >> chris miles, thank you so much. we appreciate that. that is the news for now. "nicely news" is coming up next. if you decide to head out to the cherry blossoms, it

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on this saturday night, trail of terror. a suspect identified and charged in this week's deadly attacks. see the man in the hat in the airport just before the attack? an american survivor recalls what it was like as his world was shattered. cuss totody controversy. aoung girl removed from her foster parents. the wrong man. he served 20 years for a murder he says he did not commit. tonight, he is a free man after witnesses and our investigation raise ed new doubts. gentle giants. the recovery of the manatees and whether they should still be called endangered. "nightly news" begins now.