on right now. we have crews heading to the scene. let's go to scott. >> my apologies. juggling a lot of information here. it is a double shooting. one person dead. one person wounded on the grounds of high point high school. you have an image there that shows you the proximity to powder mill road near i-95 in beltsville. two people shot on the grounds outside high point high school. one dead, one wounded. this school let out at 2:25 this afternoon. that's the normal bell time at high point. the reports are coming in of a double shooting sometime late this afternoon. we have several crews en route, but now we can tell you emergency medical services crews are telling us two people shot outside high point high school. more information as it comes in. >> scott, do we know what time school let out and if either of these victims was a student in fact? >> we don't know the age or the demographics of the students. school let out

>> we're talking about powder mill road. likely to impact some traffic because this is fairly close to, what, the beltway? >> yeah, it is in beltsville. powder mill, a major artery through bw parkway through i-95. this happened just west of i-95 off powder mill road near the cherry hill neighborhood. we have breaking news on metro this afternoon. we're learning about a possible track problem at the federal center metro station. there have been reports of smoke. crews are trying to figure out if this is just trash on the tracks or one of those arcing insulators. services is suspended at eastern market and l'enfant plaza

major overhaul on the rail system is expected to be announced tomorrow morning. we'll have our announcement on our nbc washington app for you. this will mean long delays for thousands of commuters. mark segraves. >> reporter: this is actually going to be more than just a rehab. this is going to be almost a complete rebuilding top to bottom of the metro rail system. that means it is going to take time and cost money. >> we are running on tracks and ties and cables, et cetera, that were laid in the early 1970s. >> reporter: metro board chairman jack evans says metro is the only major subway system in the united states that hasn't had a complete rehab and we can't wait any longer. >> it's not fixable by the way we're doing it now, three hours a night during the week and two hours a night on weekends. it's left the system worsf

>> reporter: metro's new general manager has scheduled a press briefing for friday morning to lay out his plan to completely ov overhaul the system. >> we'll have to have more closures. from what i hear, we're going to be single tracking trains and closing segments of lines in order to work on them. >> reporter: while there are no plans to close the entire system, portions of metro will likely be shut down for days or even weeks. that could mean some stations will be closed as well. large portions are expected to be reduced to single tracking for as long as a month or more at a time. it adds up to delays and inconvenience for the hundreds of thousands who depend on metro every day. most riders agree the system needs to be fixed, but some are skeptical. >> it's hard to know whether he is right or not. >> reporter: others worry about the impacts of

>> it's going to have a ripple effect on the rest of the traffic. they're going to be on the roadinroads and other means. >> reporter: metro plans to use fleets of buses to help fill the gaps if stations have to be closed. the project will impact every line of the system. >> 15 years of neglect. this is what happens when people in the past didn't do their jobs. >> reporter: we'll learn tomorrow morning when construction will start and which lines will be impacted first. the cost of this project is going to be into the billions of dollars. coming up at 6:00, why that could mean local taxes are going up as well as taxes around the country could have to pay for this. we're also going to tell you why once this work is completed metro will still face long-term problems. back to you guys in the studio. >> huge changes on the way. thank you. we want you to weigh in on this. how would you like to see metro complete needed

survey this afternoon. you can call or text the number on your screen or cast your vote on the nbc washington facebook page. a 3-year-old boy is now safe tonight after a desperate search. he was taken from his mother after she got a fight with his father. that led to a region wide manhunt. the mother and child reunited. news4 meagan fitzgerald joins us live. >> reporter: wendy, deputies arrested 28-year-old joshua williams just after 1:00 today. we're told he's being questioned by investigators and he is cooperating, but investigators say, hey, look, we know this guy. he has a long violent past. but we went to this guy's neighborhood he once lived in and neighbors there said they didn't realize he was violent. an entire region was told to be on the lookout for 3-year-old zion

highway signs were updated and fliers were passed out. on wednesday night, zion's father severely beat his ex-girlfriend who is also zion's mother. captain jeff pierce with the spotsylvania county sheriff's department says the assault happened inside the car while the toddler was in the backseat. the mother got out and that's when deputies say williams drove off with zion and an amber alert went out. >> it was also determined and discovered that mr. williams made previous threats to seriously serious seriously injure or kill the child. >> reporter: he was dropped off at his grandmother's house. >> we don't know who dropped the child off, but he was returned

>> reporter: moments later investigators found and arrested williams who was hiding in a home a few miles away. >> we made contact and he came out and surrendered. >> reporter: neighbors who live in the suspect's hold neighborhood say they're shocked. >> i've had a couple of encounters with that guy. he's always been a nice guy. >> reporter: joshua williams is facing serious charges for abducting his son and beating his ex-girlfriend. deputies say williams will be charged with felony abduction and malicious attack for allegedly attacking his ex-girlfriend. coming up at 6:00, deputies talk about how they were able to locate williams to make that arrest and they talk about the resources they were able to call in to make this happen. back to you. >> thank you. turning to the weather now. we have lost count. yesterday we said nine days. ten days in a row of rain now? >> 110 now, doug. it feels like it. >> everybody is saying, w

that's the kind of weather we've had. it's all been out there. we're seeing that again today. most of the day has been dry, but we've seen a few showers, a few areas of drizzle. now tracking more showers. some to the south, some to the north. northern prince george's county, howard county, frederick county, they're all moving to the south and east. heads up around gaithersburg and the 270 corridor. that's in the next half hour or so. it is part of a big system. it is a very big system just spinning down to our south. what it is going to continue to do is bring a lot of moisture tomorrow. one very wet day. we'll talk about that coming up in just a minute, but some of that rain could be on the heavy side. carry the umbrellas tomorrow and the weekend at least looks nice. 11 days of straight rain. disturbing new details tonight about the death of a young man from centerville, virginia. he was found dead in his bed at his family's

he had been stabbed in the chest. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey joins us live with the revelation that this attack didn't take place in his home. >> reporter: this search warrant obtains some troubling information. he was viciously attacked at a party, but instead of calling 99 911, his friends drove him back to his house and put him in bed where his family discovered him dead the next day. he had been studying at george mason university. on april 24th, his family found him dead in his bed. the autopsy showed he died from a stab wound to the chest. no arrests have been made yet, but this search warrant details the alarming facts. court documents report lee went to a large party the night of april 23rd that lasted into the earl m

24th. he was physically assaulted by a mob of 10 to 15 individuals. they saw people stomping, kicking, and punching lee while he lay motionless on the kitchen floor. he was then stabbed, but instead of calling911 for help, his friends reportedly put him in the car and drove him bleeding back to his townhouse where they placed him in bed. last week police went to serve a search warrant on this townhouse looking for possible evidence connected to the attack. the front door at that home still ajar. as police continue the investigation, hundreds came together a week ago to mourn the loss of steven lee. lee was a volunteer and a small group leader. one of his closest friends has set up this gofundme page to raise money to help his family through this very difficult time. what one of steven's friends thinks might be behind this

in the race to the white house, the fight for the democratic nomination is moving forward as both parties face a primary next tuesday in west virginia. chris lawrence is in the newsroom with the details on that. >> we've got a lot to tell you about the democrats, but first we want to get to the presumptive republican nominee. house speaker paul ryan says he wants to support donald trump, but he's not there yet. he made those comments as trump is already starting to talk about the stakes. trump said there was a 40% chance he could pick one of his former rivals. ben carson is expected to be part of a committee to help him select a running mate. meantime we learned today mitt romney as well as john mccain and both former presidents bush 41 and 43 are going to sit out the republican convention this summer. neither of the former presidents plans to endorse trump. this afternoon he posted a photo to social a

-- cinco de mayo. he called for bernie sanders to run as an independent. mr. trump is going to be in our region later this evening with a rally down in charleston. as for bernie sanders, he is in west virginia today at a stop in charleston just about an hour ago. part of a three-city tour of that state by the sanders campaign. hillary clinton had events earlier this week in west virginia. she is now out west today holding a rally tonight in california. clinton spoke earlier this afternoon to a group of community leaders in los angeles. she touted her advantage over sanders of nearly 300 pledged delegates and more than 3 million votes. her campaign also launched a new stop trump fund. sanders had a town hall style event earlier today in one of the poorest counties in the nation. he did not directly mention

event. the most recent numbers from a public policy poll show sanders with an eight-point lead over clinton in west virginia. all right. scott macfarlane back at the live desk. we're still looking into reports of a double shooting outside of high point high school in beltsville. one person dead, one person injured. prince george's county police and emergency medical personnel are en route. we got a report of one person dead, one person injured in the shooting outside high point high school. the reports coming in two and a half hours after closing bell at the schloo

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this evening investigators are trying to figure out why a cook ended up ramming his vehicle into the silver diner in tyson's where he worked. >> two questions now, what happened to that driver and when will that restaurant reopen. pat collins is live in tyson's corner where the restaurant remains closed tonight. >> reporter: jim, the silver diner one day after the hummer assault. the patched up entrance, the

this real estate bulletin box. this is what they use to bust the window of the hummer to get to that driver. you can see it is melted here. all of this while work goes on inside as they prepare for a reopening. bandages applied at the entrance of the silver diner. as workers move to repair the damage brought on by this bizarre hummer assault. this as some customers stopped by the scorched scene at tyson's corner. >> it's crazy to think that a car caught on fire and that people were probably inside and people were working and that someone would intentionally do that is really kind of -- it's disappointing and surprising for sure. >> i think someone did not have a good pressure relief valve and

happening his life. >> reporter: it was during lunchtime yesterday that a cook in the diner rammed his hummer into the entrance not once, not twice, but three times. at one point pinning a customer against the front door. then came the fire, a fire that he may have set himself, a fire that sent smoke billowing into the air. employees dragged the cook from the suv even as he retistsisted saying, don't touch me, leave me alone. police are considering malicious wounding and destruction of property charges, but those charges could change as the investigation continues. now four people were injured here. everyone is expected to be okay. now this afternoon they put this sign out outside. they're h

mother's day. so why did the cook do this? they'll only say he was on bereavement leave when it happened. was it that or was it something else? investigators are trying to answer that question. live in tyson's corner, pat collins, news4. and let's go back to our breaking news out at high point high school in beltsville where one person is dead and another wounded. shomari stone is there now. shomari? >> reporter: we were the first on the scene. we arrived here approximately five minutes ago and quickly got this up to show our viewers. this is the entrance of high point high school. we are in beltsville. you can see several prince george's county police cruisers here. it is pretty intense out here right now. we know that there is a black truck, pickup truck, over there, and police are trying to shield it from us at this point. we know that one person has been killed. another person is injured. we do nokn

if the person is affiliated with the school. we don't know if these people are students or staff. we know that one person is injured, one person is dead. i talked to a student off camera. she told me she heard shots. right now, police are gathering details. they're walking around, talking amongst themselves. we don't know exactly what's going on in terms of the investigation. keep in mind, it is preliminary at this point. school was out. you have students who are now standing around. we won't show them on camera because they are minors. they are standing near me and they are trying to figure out what exactly happened at their high school. we'll continue to bring you updates as they become available on our nbc washington app and on twitter and facebook. a spokesperson will be here momentarily to give us more information. i'm shomari stone, news4. whole foods is

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we've seen a lot of clouds over the past couple of days. really 11 days now in a row with some rain across our area. before i talk about the weather, you can see it is a gloomy day out there. a lot of kids not quite enjoying all of this rain. i actually went down to graham road elementary school in falls church. talked to the fourth graders there earlier today. i want to say hello to them. now let's talk about the weather. you know we've had the chance for rain all day long. we haven't seen a lot, and that's what we talked about last night. we wouldn't see a lot of rain today, but we would see those showers come through. just clouds around the d.c. metro area. 57. winds northeast at 14. it's rather cool and most of the time it brings clouds

showers. that's what we have. 55 in winchester. 55 fredericksburg. normally our weather goes from west to east, but not when we have these nor'easter like systems that bring us the weather right off of the ocean. we do have some showers right through parts of montgomery county and howard county and frederick county. this is moving right towards gaithersburg. this whole line will encompass the beltway and right up 270. that's going to make 270 a slow-go. what else is new? satellite radar showing the cloud cover around our region, but most of the rain will be south and west and that's where it is. a lot of rain down to the south. look at this motion here. it is stuck there. it's not going anywhere soon, so that provides the clouds and the very cool temperatures. 56 in new york. only 51 down toward

even snow in snowshoe, west virginia. why is this happening? feeling more like seattle for sure. we have a big trough of low pressure around our region. a big ridge in the middle part of our country. winnipeg, canada, right now, 93 degrees. very cool out to the west. this is what is called an omega block. all that means to you and i this is not moving anywhere fast. it is a blocking pattern. with that, that means area of low pressure continues to sti around the area, so it is hard to move. sticking through the day on saturday. i think it will start to get a lot nicer by saturday afternoon. tonight, a few showers moving on in through here. we've got the rain. it rains just all day. look at 1:00. tomorrow will not be a good day to get outdoors. thank goodness cinco de mayo is today. tomorrow a very wet day. it does look like we'll start to dry on saturday. a high of 67.

early shower, but then most of the day looks dry mother's day. again, we're following two breaking stories for you tonight. evacuations at a metro station and a shooting outside a high school. we're now live on the scene of a shooting outside that high point high school. one person has been killed. reports of smoke at federal center. we're getting new details about what this means for metro service righnow.t

an update on that breaking news on metro this afternoon. no train service between eastern market and l'enfant plaza stationca a lot of smoke in the federal station. that station was evacuated. not clear what is causing this. it could be trash on the tracks. it could be one of those arcing insulators. federal center station has been evacuated. trains moved out and there is no train service between eastern market and l'enfant plaza. shuttle buses are being provided. you can see a lot of fire activity outside of the station. no injuries reported. metro says to avoid this area if you can. now to our other breaking story tonight. a double shooting at a high school in prince george's county. shomari stone is on the scene.

>> reporter: well, we were across the street moments ago. police asked us politely to move back over here, and that's exactly what we did. let me move right out of the way. you can see police are on the scene. people who are behind the yellow crime scene are not allowed to leave right now and people on the outside are not allowed to go in. keep in mind, police are trying to figure out exactly what happened here. again, we know that one person is dead, one person is injured due to a shooting. however, we do not know if it is students or teachers or an outsider is involved. keep in mind, prince george's county police spokesperson has yet to come. right now, we see a mobile command center coming here. officers plan to be out here for quite sometime. they'll be coming in and out of that command unit. there are students on the other side of that big command unit, which is black,

side over there. one told me she heard shots. that's all we know at this point. i'm still trying to figure out what role, if any, a pickup truck played. there's a pickup truck by the auditorium. i also see detectives inside the building looking through the front window, and they're talking amongst themselves. that's all we know at this particular point. again, waiting for more information from police as we cover this developing story. back to you in the studio. >> shomari, thank you. he got the maximum, a maryland man who shot and killed his stepfather learned his sentence today. >> the victim was a police detective. the shooting, a dispute over yard work. tonight we're seeing newly released surveillance video of the fateful day. we're hearing emotional reaction from both sides of that family. >> reporter: today, antoine james got the

time served. this case divided a family. the sentencing brings closure, but there is still a lot of pain. >> i'm happy he got ten years, even though it feel like it should be way more. >> reporter: the daughter broke down after sentencing after the prince george's county courthouse. today antoine james got ten years for shooting to death his stepfather. >> ten years is not enough. >> reporter: the state's attorney's office released video of his violent death. antoine james shot him 18 times during a dispute over yard work at their home in 2015. james was charged with murder, but convicted of involuntary manslaughter last year. she said to her son,

demons are real. she believes her son's sentence was fair. >> people believe in angels, but they don't believe in demons. again, demons are real. >> reporter: that day three years ago split apart two families, but jamne newell thins she can finally move forward. >> i think i can finally get closure. >> i'm just happy that it is finally over so we can just heal. we don't have to deal with it anymore. >> reporter: with credit for time served, antoine james has about seven years left in prison, although he could get out on parole in about two. what antoine james has said to his mother about the shooting since being in jail and also how she is trying to make something positive out of this whole awful situation. allegations of rape tonight at spellman college down in atlanta, and it is causing a

this all began with an anonymous twitter account called raped at spellman. the person said she left spellman after being raped by four students at spellman university. she says the dean of the historically black college brushed her off. since the posting, others have shared their thoughts with the hashtag raped by spellman or raped by moore house. montgomery county police released this sketch of a man they say tried to sexually assault a 16-year-old girl. the man followed the girl into her apartment complex on castle boulevard in the briggs-cheney area yesterday. he grabbed her, expose

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all right. federal center metro administration evacuated earlier. it is because of smoke. now closed for the rest of the evening. it will not be reopening until sometime tomorrow. meanwhile not far from there at the white house president obama celebrating his last cinco de mayo today. ♪ oh, yeah. grammy award-winning band mana. when president obama took the stage, the crowd chanted four more years. it commemorates the mexican army's victory during the battle of

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and again our breaking news that the hour a shooting on the grounds of high point high school in beltsville. chopper 4 is over the scene now. one person is dead. another person injured. not clear what led up to this. this is not an active shooter situation. prince george's county police have not caught the shooter yet. they are

or her. shomari stone is at the school now gathering more information. and breaking news from metro now. federal center station will be closed for the rest of the day. this is video just into our newsroom about an hour ago. smoke filled that station. we still don't know what caused the smoke. there is no service now between eastern market and l'enfant plaza. shuttle buses are being used. right now we're told no one was injured. stay with news4 and also the nbc washington app for further details. it's a big day here at news4. we're introducing a new commitment to you called nbc 4 responds. >> yes. >> it is a consumer initiative based on one promise and susan hogan is leading our team. >> i sure am and i'm so proud of it. it is a promise to all of our viewers. you call us with a consumer question and we will call you back with an answer. today'su

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>> you're about to get really busy. >> bring it on. i'm ready. can you do something about the rain, susan? we've got a lot of frustration with that. >> that'll be the first set of calls we have coming in. all right. the weather, it hasn't been cooperating over the last couple of days, but it is as big as a pinhole. that's a little bit of light, some sunshine. that's going to come this weekend. first, a look at the radar. storm team 4 radar. this is live. you can see some showers rotating through around baltimore. you can see the bigger spin down to the south and a bigger batch of rain around areas like roanoke and norfolk and a few thunderstorms right there off the coast of the carolinas and the southeastern areas of virginia. all from this area of low pressure. it's a big one. it will start making its way up. some more moderate to heavy rain about midday tomorrow. 52

showers more widespread after midnight. it goes way up during the afternoon and evening rush. noon to 6:00 p.m., some of the heaviest rain will be coming to our area. we could see a half to maybe over an inch of rain through friday. there's a look at 6:00 p.m. tomorrow. by the time we get to 11:00 p.m. tomorrow, around midnight, the rain will start to taper. 7:00 a.m. saturday down across areas of southeastern maryland, the last of the showers with this system will be making its way out. minimal impacts for your friday morning rush. showers around heavy to moderate rain from noon to 6:00 p.m. you're going to need the big umbrella. temperature about 50 to 55, 56 degrees just like today. your saturday up to a high of 71 after starting out in the 50s. generally dry with a bit more sunshine coming our way. then even warmer for sunday. 75. a chance for a brief shower ea o

by noon, we're at 70 degrees. 6:00 p.m. 68 degrees. will get a little breezy. it's going to be pretty darn nice on sunday. monday 73. 83 to 85 degrees. we'll go from feeling more like march to june tuesday and wednesday. a change at a local whole foods store is creating controversy now. the complaint made its way to us and we sent chris gordon to get answers. >> reporter: our story begins with an e-mail sent out to a bethesda chevy chase community listener but one of its listeners complaining that this whole foods store in friendship heights has eliminated its entire section of jewish

she says her daughter is gluten free. yesterday she discovered the whole store doesn't stock gluten free matza. lisa received the list served e-mail, which upset her. >> i would be very disheartened if they were going to discontinue those types of foods. >> reporter: whole foods tells us the change occurred when they recently renovated this store. we did move a four-foot section based on sales movement. we do have kosher displays throughout the store. >> these days most food products are being made so that they can be marked ko.

an answer? >> yes. very glad to get an answer. >> reporter: customers are very important to them. if they can't find something in this store, whole foods has a program to special order items. reporting from chevy chase, chris gordon, news4. scott macfarlane back at the live desk. update to our breaking news. metro station has shut down the federal center southwest station lines orange, blue, and silver. there was a report of another arching insulator in that station. one of the underground stations not far from capitol hill. in response to this afternoon's insulator issue, possible issue, metro shuts down federal station throughout

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we are following several stories that are still breaking as we hit the air tonight. first in maryland. one person was killed, another was wounded after a shooting at a high school in prince george's county today. >> that scene unfolded at high point high school in beltsville. there's a map that shows you the location of the school. we've been reporting from there. thi

while ago. we have a reporter on the scene. we are hoping shomari stone can join us momentarily. there is the view from chopper 4 of what's happening there. we understand that shomari stone was first on the scene and he is ready now with a live update. shomari? >> reporter: right now, we're here at high point high school. moments ago i just spoke to a student. she tells me that she was there when this happened. she says that she heard the shots fired. she had a high school softball game. then all of a sudden the shots rang out. she believes that it happened in front of the school. she says that she had a softball game against duvall high school. then the shots rang out. she started crying. her father tells me that he's obviously upset. he's coming here now on live television. what's going through your mind right now? >> right now, when you

feeling kind of scared. making sure that she's okay. couldn't get ahold of her at first. she didn't have her phone on her. they're not allowed to. finally i got a hold of her. you're hearing from other parents make sure nothing's wrong with your kid. >> reporter: i want to thank you for joining us. i'm glad that your daughter is okay. we hear that one person is dead. another is injured. there are people who are saying this was domestic. other people are saying otherwise. police are out here. we're waiting for a spokesperson to give us more information. there are people inside. parents have arrived and they're waiting for their kids to come outside of the school. many of them concerned. what's interesting is many of them told me they moved out here to this area because they said this is a good school. now that this happens many of them are realizing, acc

them, crime can happen sometimes anywhere. i just received this from our assignment desk. one adult is fatally shot. the second wounded. this appears to be domestic related. i was actually periscoping bringing you the latest details on this shooting. back to the studio. i'm going to pick it up here at the live desk where we're getting some new information about a metro shutdown and seeing some incredible new video on what caused it. let's get to that video first. you're going to see an explosion inside the federal center station. there it is right there, that flash. then you can see right there as the train comes in that flash on the third rail. that causes the explosion.

that was an arcing insulator earlier today. this is the second arcing insulator in one day. now we're getting some look at some video from up top above that station, aboveground. emergency responders, first responders, police there all on the scene. chec the big news, the station completely shut down now. what's going to happen is the silver line is only operating i'm being told between wheely, reston, and boston. checky benson is there. we're going to send it to her. >> reporter: we're going to show you what it looks like here. you can see over there the metro transit maintenance and repair crews asl