now at 11:00, significant and unprecedented delays. tonight, thousands of airline passengers are missing their bags after a tsa meltdown. it's supposed to be a private place, but tonight police are out looking for a man who

restroom at a d.c. hotel. shocking allegations against poultry producers. >> a debilitating disease. >> i wish it was me. i really wish it was me. >> dee smith and her husband taking aim at alzheimer's and offering a message of hope. check it out. we begin with a major mess at one airport that could impact passengers all over the country in to the weekend. hello, everybody. >> i'm doreen gensler. thousands of checked bags couldn't be screened and now diverted to other airports out west. chris lawrence is at the live desk with the latest. >> we are watching a meltdown at the phoenix airport. a technical glitch caused 3,000 checked bags t

flights and almost all ended up in a parking lot here at sky harbor. the tsa experienced what they are calling an unprecedented computer issue and could it automatically screen the bags for explosives. they have been bringing in extra k-9 units to do it manually but so many bags were stacking up they had to send them to the parking lot. now passengers are flying 0 it of phoenix with idea when their luggage l catch up to them. southwest alone is driving 1500 bags to las vegas where they have to be screened and eventually rerouted to the final destinations. >> what a mess. thank you, chris. the issues in phoenix come at 'worse possible time for the tsa. the agency's leader was grilled on capitol hill for growing wait times at airports across the country. the tsa is screening more passengers than ever. sometimes 3 million a day.

tsa each week. 6,000 a year. that's leading up to three-hour waits at some check points, infuriating passengers and lawmakers, too. >> you cannot recruit. you can not train. you can not retain and you can not administrate. it's a huge failing government program. >> reporter: the tsa says more carry-on baggage is slowing screening even more and they suggest signing up for tsa pre-check to speed up the process. breaking news. several people injured including two critically after a crash in brandywine, maryland tonight. the wreck at crane highway southwest with and timothy branch drive earlier this evening. this is what route 5 looks like right now. we're told there are eight patients and major traffic backups in the area. in fact, news 4's shomari stone is caught up in the traffic

trucks whizzing by. new at lemp, some confusion for metro riders after the transit agency says a track problem on the red line is to blame for the delays. jackie bensen is live with more on what happened and what it could mean tomorrow morning. jackie? >> reporter: this was not a big problem by any stretch of the imagination, but it is a confusing problem if you are a rider. what we're told, just over an hour ago there was a report of a possible arcing insulator here. fire department showed up and decided metro maintenance could handle it. metro, according to a tweet, was single tracking through the area. we have something to show you right now, which is metro's own alert. you can see the difference between the two of them 9:58 p.m.,s red line no longer single tracking between van ness and medical center.

problem at friendship heights. one minute later, red line single tracking between friendship heights and medical center due to track work expect delays through tonight's closing. this is the type of thing that riders complain to us about all the time. we hear it over and over again. they have the same thing the rest of us have and we are trying to figure out what is going on at metro. most people read alerts before they get on but tough to tell from how that was written. live from friendship heights, back to you. >> thank you. metro is responding to orders from the feds by shutting down a stretch of the blue, orange and silver lines for 16 days. last week, metro released a draft of its safe track plan to focus on repairing certain parts of the system. yesterday,

administration said metro was going to make immediate repairs before the safe track plan. the plan is to close the blue and silver line and the orange line for repairs next month. new at 11:00, the secret service is keeping a close eye on donald trump's former butler after he made several threats against president obama on-line. >> anthony senegal has a face page filled with incendiary comments. he served as trump's butler at his club for years. the secret service says it is conducting an appropriate investigation at this time. d.c. police are asking for your help to find this giechl he's a prn of interest in a you your case at the renaissance hotel onth street in northwest d.c. it 457d last wednesday. police say a man

someone who videotaped him from inside of bathroom stall. the man in the video is a person of interest. if you know him, call police. things are back to normal at joint base andrews. a woman walked in the visitor's center and claimed she had a bomb. it forced a lockdown at the base. police took her in to custody and found she did not have any explosi explosives. the main gate is back open tonight. the streak is over after 15, count them, 15 days of rain. something to celebrate. >> don't put the umbrellas back yet. what a new streak tomorrow? >> i thought you were staying positive here. >> trying. it's hard. >> we are going to start a new streak tomorrow but our record-breaking streak of 15 days is over but another little one of two days tomorrow and saturday. right now not seeing rainfall in the

we have been dry all day long. temperatures are in the 60s. there's one shower toward rappahanock county t small shower making it was i north and east. notice what is. we have a big storm system heading our way. you can see the rain and moisture heading our way, too. a little area of low pressure here and a front to the west. we will get in to this activity early tomorrow morning. it may effect the morning rush. i think most of the morning rush will be dry until 8:00, 9:00 and then the rain will move in. the streak is over, but we have storms tomorrow. the storms coming through midday. and then some nice weather, 50/50 weekend. which day will be nice and which will be quite cold. we will talk about in a minute. mayor hogan is offering hiz condolences

james walls. he was discovered dead in his home this afternoon. right now there are no signs of foul play. an autopsy will determine the 39-year-old's cause of death. in 2006, walls became the youngest person elected mayor of district heights. governor hogan called him a dedicated beloved public servant. imagine working all day without using the bathroom. those are the conditions a new report claims poultry workers are forced to endure. the report says some workers wear diapers to be able to stay on the line. others restrict how much they drink to avoid using the bathroom. tonight perdue and tyson are responding. perdue says employees get two 30-minute breaks every eight

hours. you can expect to pay more at d.c. meters. the majority of meters will increase 30 cents but some will go up 70 cents an hour to the new rate. transportation officials tell us most of those meters are along georgia avenue, north of columbia heights. president obama and the first lady will host a state dinner tomorrow for the leaders of finland, norway,er sweden, denmark and iceland. we got a sneak peek of the menu, atlantic tuna, braised short ribs and a fishing boat made of chocolate to celebrate the thriving fishing industry between the countries. millions suffering from alzheimer's. >> she has no intention of backing down from the battle, and neither does her husband.

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bee smith is the nationally known former supermodel, restaurant tour t celebrity chef and more. >> and she is one of the millions of americans diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. dan, her husband and business manager for more than 20 years and now he has assumed a more critical role. we have their story tonight. >> you are now bee's caregiver. >> i'm a single parent. what i am,er you know, it changes your life in so many profound ways. >> reporter: changes indeed, dee and dan were the consummat

three restaurants, tv and radio shows, speeches, appearances. it all came crashing down with a diagnosis. one test after another after another. >> they said, well this is leading indicator she has alzheimer's. >> reporter: nobody wants to hear that or accept it. >> once you go through that, and you realize it's there. you go through all of the signs of not believing. you go through anger, disbelief, denial. >> the five stages. >> the five steps to reality. >> reporter: the reality for bee and dan now is first raising awareness. >> it is a tsunami out here. it's something that is happening more and more that women get it more than men. two out of three people with it are women, that blacks are two to three times more likely to have it. that it

of care it can decimate a family. >> reporter: their other mission is to light a fire under congress for more money for research. >> i say right now, congress needs metamucil. they have to move. they have to make something happen. i hear people talking about we have too much government or we need too little government. what we need is good government. what we need is to understand this is a problem that's not going to go away. >> reporter: dan's passion for more funding is not born in anger. this, after all, in essence, is a love story. >> i wish it was me. i really wish it was me. i love her more than i love anyone or anything ever. i'm looking for a hail mary. if that doesn't happen, i'm going to spend the most time we can together. i'm going to love her as hard as i can. i'm jim vance,er news 4.

million americans are living with alzheimer's. as the baby boomers age, that number will explode. as of today there' no cure or effective treatment. the late bo biden was honored at the hope awards. he died of cancer last year but recognized by the center for missing and exploiting children as a leader in child protection. the hope awards are presented each may in honor of national missing children's day. doug gets back with more about our weather. it was quite an accomplishment today. no rain, not even a drop. >> not even a drop of rain. it only takes 100th of a measurable rain to be counted as a day of rain and we saw 15 in a row and today was not 16. >> the streak ended. >> but a small streak. we are talking about more rain tomorrow and on saturday. look outside, a

walk outside, it is quite nice. 63 degrees. winds from the south at 6 miles an hour. what we are dealing with are temperatures above where they normally are this time of the year. everybody in the 60s with clear skies. we fall quickly but with the clos we don't go anywhere. look at the clouds around our area. philadelphia, new york today, they saw nice weather, 70s in new york city today. for us, everybody's been asking, where's the sun? well, that's been a common theme. an area of high pressure to the north, we get a northeasterly flow. i showed you the same graphic last week. it is cold air wedge and it wedges against the blue ridge mountains. it is amazing these clouds move to the blue ridge. to the west they saw sun, back to the shenandoah valley it was sunny. what this gives you is cool, cloudy conditions. showers and drizzle, but the pattern breaks tomorrow. you need something to break t

it's going to be a cold front. the radar picking up a couple of showers around warrenton, not much. most of this will not make its way in to d.c. notice what is happening here in d.c. and to the west. we are watching this area of low pressure. that will come through tomorrow. heads up early tomorrow morning. again, 8 a.m., i expect to see some shower activity. take the umbrella here. this is a new model. not giving us much. around noon, we are seeing the rain around here. i thif we will see rain in the 8:00, 9:00 tomorrow morning. take the prel umbrella. the clouds move out and the sun comes out and everybody gets out of the house. there will be so many people out you won't be able to move. it's a good thing. we start with sunshine saturday morning. if you are going out friday night, no problem. or saturday morning no problem. but watch the rain come in around 2:00, 3:00.

quickly and by 6:00 we are dealing with more sunshine. the hour-by-hour forecast tomorrow, 7 a.m. okay. 64 degrees by 11:00 with shower activity. rather stormy 1:00 to 3:00 and then a great evening tomorrow night. a spectacular friday night and not a sad saturday night either. both nights look good. 63 on monday and then back in to the wedge pattern with a high in the upper 50s to around 60 on tuesday. another chance of showers. we hope to get back to average, which is 74. we get there tomorrow. watch for the people tomorrow night. it's going to be -- no matter where you are. >> all right. we are -- i think you are probably right. thanks, doug. >> thank you, doug. coming up, the caps head in to a disappointing off season but have a message tonight for their fans and critics. sports up next, but first here's jimmy

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mixed bag of sports tonight. the nats are off. opening a four-game home stand against the marlins tomorrow. awaiting the outcome of the suspension for harper. that's ahead. tonight is for the birds and we are lucky the orioles are entertaining enough. we saw them last night in d.c.

baltimore. their luck not with them. not the best. tigers up 5-0 in the sixth. in the seventh, birds within a run. alverez smacks this one to right. jones coming in to score. alverez game-tying rbi single. even at five now. the next batter,s scope polishes it up. rips it down the line and right. the ball will find the corner. both runs score. scope not stopping at second. two-run triple for him. orioles climb out of the 5-0 deficit and win the fifth straight 7-5 the final. exciting stuff. another playoff heart break. another exit followed up with the emotional disaster that is the locker cleanout day. like the fans, caps agree this good-bye is one of the most painful. 30 hours after walking off the ice, the islanders

get their stuff and have a postmortem with the media. a lot of questions centered on what happened and if anyone thinks the window is closing, but take heart in the determination behind the message to their fans. >> even if we disappoint them, hopefully they will have faith in us and we are going to do it. i promise. >> sometimes you want people against you because then you have something united to work for, we're going to prove you wrong. all the naysayers right now who are saying we can't get it done, bring it on. >> just keep going. if i got so mad that we didn't win and wasn't able to focus i wouldn't be a good player. every year it's the same thing. i'm going to win the cup that year. that's the way i look at it. >> let's do this. to the nba, duncan and the spurs in an unusual position bts about to get knocked out. kevin durant making it

final seconds knocking doup the three. oklahoma up 22 at half. fourth quarter, more from durant, weaving his way through the defense. throwing down a monster slam. game high 37. thunder take the series with a 113-99 win. is that the last we will see of tim duncan, 40-year-old tim duncan. >> 40? >> yes. the spurs won by 30 points in game one and oklahoma wins the series. >> by the way, you said scope earlier was toothpaste. i found crest multiwhiting. >> scope is a mouthwash i thought. >> i thought it was a mouthwash. >> and a second baseman. >> and now we know.

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we knew it was coming. well, now you can officially mark your calendars. "hamilton" the musical will begin a 14-week run at the kennedy center starting in june of 2018. >> what? >> that's right. the kennedy center says the best way to get a ticket is buy a subscription for the 2016 season and renew it in 2018. what a gift for the marketing department over there. >> exactly. they will milk it for a while. >> here we go, folks. 30. that's how long, that's how many years pat collins has been

thursday, may 12th, 1986. remember where you were? that's when pat collins began here at nbc4. since then he has covered the redskins, the olympics, he covers all the crime and weather stories, the blizzards. an today we took a moment to congratulate pat for three decades with our news 4 family. there's only one pat and we got him. so there. >> 30 years of entertainment. >> i love bringing him in to this weather department. he is not there normally but with his big stick he is ready to go. >> you are warning about big problems on the streets tomorrow. >> with all of the people on the streets because it will be so nice. let's show you the radar one more time. this is a different computer model. i want to show you the rain coming in. at 8:00 is west. but by 10:00 it is coming

so going out tomorrow, you are going out or getting out forecast, 63, some showers around. 1:00 some storms and 67. 4:00, beautiful. 75. again, watch out. people will be everywhere. you will not be able to ge

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