are going to keep on happening. >> first at 4:00, new accounts of the terror in orlando. powerful new details about what happened inside the pulse nightclub. >> as well as the deep divide it's causing right here in washington and for those running for president. >> good afternoon. there is a lot of new information coming in now about the story which is still dominating everyone's thoughts and hearts today. >> here's what we know as we come on the air. the only person who could face charges connected to the attack is the alleged shooter's wife. noor salman told the fbi she tried to persuade her husband not to carry out the attack, but she was with him when he bought ammunition and a gun holster and at one point she drove him to the pulse nightclub so he could scope it out. all of that came from sources that spoke with nbc news'cñz3 p williams. >> authorities are considering filing criminal charges against her for failing to tell them what she knew before the attack, but they emphasize that

that. several officials say she is cooperating with the fbi. >> salman is originally from california. she is omar mateen's second wife. the couple had a son who is now 3 years old. today president obama addressed the alleged gunman and his sympathizing with isis terrorists. he acknowledged that isis propaganda may have inspired mateen. the president also blasted donald trump saying his muslim ban, quote, is not the america we want. he also dismissed the idea of having to refer to terror groups as radical islamists. that's been a main point of criticism from trump since the shootings. >> calling a threat by a different name does not make it go away. there's not been a moment in my seven and a half years as president that we have not been able to pursue a strategy because we didn't use theel

>> now, donald trump responded by saying the president obama puts enemies ahead of the american people. president obama also called for a new ban on assault weapons after meeting with his national security team. so here's what we learned today about the people who were wounded in the nightclub. right now 33 of the victims remain hospitalized and six of them are still critical. doctors say they wouldn't be surprised if the death toll which now stands at 49 goes higher. today one survivor says she was hiding in a bathroom stall when the gunman came in and called 911. she says he spoke in arabic on the telephone and pledged his allegiance to isis. >> and after that he even spoke to us directly in the bathroom. he said are there any black people in here. i was too afraid to answer, but there was an african-american male in the stall where the majority

answered and he said yes, there are about six or seven of us and the gunman responded back to him saying, you know, i don't have a problem with black people. this is about my country. you guys suffered enough. so the motive was very clear to us who were laying in our own blood and other people's blood who were injured, who were shot that we knew what his motive was and he wasn't going to stop killing people until he was killed until he felt like his message got out there. >> 20-year-old patience carter is recovering from the gun shot wounds she suffered to the leg. one of her friends was killed. she said she went from having the time of her life with her friends to the worst night of her life in a matter of minutes. >> you see her breaking down there, but i'm just amazed at how calmly she can describe what it was like in there. >> she was so very composed today as she recalled the story and we are also today hearing

orlando's biggest hospital just after the shooting started. >> orlando health is just a few blocks from the nightclub. paramedics rushed a lot of the victims there and news 4's aaron gilchrist is live. >> reporter: you can see the memorial growing where most of the patients were brought after the pulse nightclub. today there was a news conference with the surgeon, doctors and nurses who treated those patients. 27 people still in the hospital today with all sorts of wounds, we learned from doctors today. there were people with head wounds, chest wounds, arms, legs, of course. the doctors believe that the gunman used both of the weapons that he had in the nightclub that morning to shoot some of the victims here. as you might imagine it was an all hands on deck effort from doctors who got phone calls as the morning went on to treat some of the patients here and

you might imaginmagine, as well was very much overwhelming. >> they started lining up in the hallway. they weren't being brought by ambulances and there were paramedics dropping them off and they were being dropped off in truckloads and ambulance loads. >> reporter: there are still news conferences and doctors expected there could be some in the hospital for some time here. there was one survivor of the pulse nightclub shooting who was able to speak to us as well. a courageous young man who told his story and we'll have that coming up on news 4 at 5:00. in orlando, aaron gilchrist, news 4. we athis is chris gordon in chantilly, virginia. the news hit him like a punch to the gut. he knows what it's like to comfort the families of shooting victims after the virginia tech massacre. he says more needs to be known about the motivation for the orlando shootings, but he says in the u.s. fight against

out of the sand and take action. >> we do have a prohibited list that are barred by law from having weapons. i propose to add folks on the terrorist watch list. >> r. >> reporter: ahead at 5:00 what gun stores say about the background checks for those who want to buy guns. keep it here for continuing coverage on news 4 and the nbc washington app. we've posted a list of ways to help the orlando victims in that app. just search victims. the presidential primary calendar ends tonight in d.c. right now residents are casting their ballots despite the fact that hillary clinton is already the presumptive nominee and after a year of competing against each other, clinton and bernie sanders will have their first face to face meeting in washington before next month's democratic convention in philadelphia. meantime, it looks as i

over donald trump. according to a new survey monkey poll, she's now ahead by seven pointses. 49% of voters say they would vote for clinton if the election were held today compared to 42% for trump. also 54% of voters say they believe clinton will win the election this fall. the margin of error in the poll was plus or minus 1.4 points. >> and in addition to the presidential candidate, voters in the district are weighing in on several big, local races. news 4's tom sherwood is in southeast washington in ward 7 with more on one of the most high-profile races here today. hey, pat, we may be the nation's capital, but when it comes to local elections there are a handful of council races today. everyone is watching the race here in ward 7. former mayor vince gray is trying to win his old seat on the council against yvette alexan

longtime neighbors who are on opposite sides. >> i've known vince for quite a while. he's been an old friend, and i think he's the one that can help the city become better and do a lot for the city, you know? >> reporter: what about alexander? >> three things, first of all, she doesn't make excuses and doesn't have to tell what somebody else did. yvette has proven to me to be someone worthy of the nine years of seniority she has, the years of seniority she has. we don't want to see her lose that seniority. >> reporter: the neighbors say they're still speaking to each other and the polls are open tonight until 8:00 p.m. in southeast washington, tom sherwood, chris, back to you. >> thanks, tom. there's also a race in virginia, a democratic contest for an arlington county poll seat. polls in arlington close about three hours from now at 7:00. >> first at 4:00, a major hack attack. w

international hacking in an effort to learn about donald trump. what a beautiful day today. plenty of sunshine across our area, but the sun may be going away for a couple of days. we've got the forecast which could include the umbrellas. our new safety concerns for metro after a train with passengers onboard came close to another mis

following the developing story. the democratic committee says russian government hackers have breached its computer network and they have research on rival candidates like donald trump. the hackers specifically targeted the dnc's research unit. chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz is calling it serious and the committee quickly moved to kick out the intruders and secure network. so far the trump campaign hasn't commented on the breach and is directing all questions to the secret service. jury deliberations are entering the seventh hour in the trial of the former military lawyer accused of a near-fatal home invasion attack. andrew schmuhl faces seven charges including abduction and aggravated malicious wounding. prosecutors say he and his wife were bent on revenge when he burst into a mclean's couple's home in november of 2014. schmuhl tased, stabbed and shot

the attack came two weeks after the male victim fired schmuhl's wife from his law firm. andrew schmuhl says he was so heavily medicated at the time that he doesn't remember anything about the attack. his lawyer argues he's a victim of involuntary intoxication and that he should be acquitted. metro is just getting started on its safety blitz and this afternoon it's already dealing with a new safety concern. what happened in the work zone they're calling unacceptable. plus the cars that could help prevent tragedy. how they could protect children

we're following a developing story in newport news where a navy helicopter crashed into the james river. three crew members have been rescued and they're all okay. the navy says they were on a routine training mission. >> because the aircraft went down in the water we responded both our dive team, we've had two different boats gone along with it and a private vessel actually picked up the three people who were in the aircraft. the military has launched an investigation to determine the cause of that crash. first at 4:00, metro is trying to figure out why a piece of maintenance equipment derailed today. this happened a

crews were making safetrack repairs after a train derailed with passengers onboard and then came by and hit it. adam is taking a look at this. what have you learned about this, adam? >> reporter: this happened after midnight and you look at the section of track and it happened with a piece of maintenance equipment known as a spiker. it drives spikes into the wooden ties in the track to hold them in place and for whatever reason, even after that piece of equipment derailed, a train with passengers came through and then hit the mirror of the spiker. the train then had to be inspecked and all of this taking away from the time when crews were actually working here. today metro leaders were once again reminding business leaders and commuters about the importance of safe track and getting the work done the right way.

of good repair for a 40-year-old system. we're not going to get a brand new metro system after this. this is getting us to a state of good repair for a 40-year-old system. >> reporter: and you take a look live now between the boston and east falls church stations as the equipment is out here and the trains continue to single track. metro officials tell us they will not take any longer than is necessary to get the work done in the scheduled shifts of this safe track search, guys? >> we also found out about another incident that happened this morning. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: so what we know is that in the new carrollton rail yard, not on the main line, two trains actually made contact with one another and it was the couplers or the pieces of the rail track that will hold the rail cars together and two trains are getting moved around the rail yard made contact with one another earlier today and no one was hurt. no damage. they havto

at why that actually happened and as metro tries to move the piecer around and get everything back to where it should be. it is still dealing with the old issues including issues with rail yards. >> adam tuss. thank you, adam. the union representing 12,000 d.c. metro rail transit workers is under federal scrutiny. the u.s. labor secretary is questioning the results of a union election in december. the i-team's scott macfarlane broke the story. >> good afternoon. metro itself is being closely watched by the government for safety problems and now its union is being watched accused of mishandling its own union leadership in december. thomas perez is ordering a re-do, a new election and wants to personally oversee it. in a court feeling the feds say local 689 amalgamated transit union didn't allow all

leadership positions in december and they denied it when they asked for a re-vote and they allowed ineligible people to vote. no response to request for comment from jackie jeter, the president of the union. jeter is named in the government's complaint today, a court is expecting her to respond to the government's allegations by month's end. >> scott macfarlane, thank you. a new feature coming to gm vehicles is an industry first that could help prevent the deaths of children in hot cars. the system will sound a chime and then display a reminder for you to check the rear. if the system detects that you've put anything in the backseat within tern minutes of starting your vehicle, the system will be available first as a standard feature in the 2017 gmc acadia. a powerful honor to vice president biden. the awar he received

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now your storm team 4 forecast. and that forecast today, guys, pretty darn nice across the area, at least this evening is going to be very nice. the next couple of days we get

a look outside right now and it is perfect across the region all day today we've seen nothing, but sunshine. look at the potomac. how tranquil is that and how calm is the potomac to get out there and do a little rowing. 79 degrees at the airport and temperatures everywhere upper 70s to around 80 degrees and 81 in fredericksburg and the chesapeake. if you're headed to the nats game as we take on the cubs two more times, but tonight after the beautiful wind last night and will be a nice night for the game and a perfect, perfect evening and the temperatures around 76 degrees and 78 if you're getting there early and 73 by 10:00. just about perfect for a game and about as good as it gets around here. no rain to talk about. i don't think we'll see rain chances until the day tomorrow and it's going to come from the west and not much happening now and we've had the frontal boundary with the jet stream mi

north and you can actually see this front making its way our way and it's a warm front back out toward the west and it will bring us the chance of a shower activity tomorrow and south of the warm front, it's hot and 92, st. louis to the north and 73 in buffalo and we'll be right on the edge of that and between the 70s and the 90s and 65 degrees tomorrow morning and starting off at the bus stop, 82 degrees, nice and mild and notice a lot more clouds tomorrow and 83 tomorrow for d.c. and 83 gaithersburg. rain toward the mountains and petersburg, west virginia, and to hardy and hampshire counties and maybe to charlottesville and la rhea and that's about the only chance and here it is on future weather. showing the clouds and a few breaks of sun. we're not going to see a lot of sun, but we'll have some. notice around 5:00, the

corridor back to the west and that's where we'll see the best chance of storms, and however they move back to the rest of the area and we do stand to see rain overnight tomorrow night. 80 degrees on thursday and 74 on friday and we expect friday to be fairly wet on friday and especially early on friday. saturday now, look at that, beautiful. the high temperature around 80. much more on the seven-day forecast coming up in a bit. terror in orlando. first at 4:00, the big, local event that's sure to bring emotional tributes to the tragedy at the pulse nightclub. it comes as we get new details about what happened, the gunman, his wife and the terrifying stories from the people inside who survived. she didn't make it. me and ti aira did make it, and i feel really guilty about that. >> after seeing what occurred i don't even know how i'm alive today.

i'm jim handly with some breaking news here at the live desk. our julie carey just tweeted that a jury has found andrew schmuhl guilty in a violent home invasion in virginia. schmuhl is an ex-military attorney. he is accused of brutally s

wife in 2014 holding them captive for hours and shooting, stabbing, thaising them. the defense tried to argue alicia schmuhl planned the attack and that andrew was heavily medicated and had no idea what he was doing. again, andrew schmuhl has been found guilty on all seven counts against him. julie carey will have much more coming up on news 4 at 5:00 so stay tuned for that. more now on the terror in orlando and the deadliest mass shooting in our nation's history. >> we are tracking political debate and hearing new accounts from survivors. sources tell nbc news the alleged gunman's wife could face charges for failing to tell authorities what she knew about her husband's plans and here in washington, president obama fired back against critics who

stop isis-inspired attacks and called for a new assault weapons ban. and of the 53 people wounded in that shooting, six of them are still in critical condition. other survivors now are opening up about what they saw and what they heard when the shots started ringing out in that nightclub. >> nbc's jay gray has been hearing some of those accounts firsthand in orlando. what have you been hearing, jay? >> reporter: the details are shocking here. a man and woman trapped right inside the pulse nightclub here. one coming face to face with the gunman during the attack. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: today for the first time since the attack, we are getting a closer look inside the chaos from a hostage. >> bullets coming through the stall wall towards us. i was in a pool of blood. i wasn't sure whose it was. >> santiago was shot and held at gunoi

omar mateen. >> we got trapped in there. the gunman entered the bathroom and was shooting his machine gun so we're all scrambling around in the bathroom screaming at the top of our lungs. >> reporter: but carter says mateen was calm and deliberate during the attack. >> he pledged his allegiance to isis, and he started speaking and i believe after he got off the phone with 911 he started speaking in arabic. he even spoke to us directly in the bathroom. >> reporter: telling survivors to stay off their phones as the massacre continued. >> i never thought in a million years that my eyes could witness something so tragic. >> reporter: a horrific plan that mateen's current wife noor salman tried to stop him from carrying out. nbc news learned she was with him when he bought ammunition and a holster and drove him to the nightclub weeks before the killing spree. police and federal agents are investigating her role and the fiber taking a serious and much

in the gay community that mateen had been seen in gay nightclubs for years and he often communicated with gay men online. >> i recognized him from one of the apps, but i instantly blocked him because he was, like, very creepy in his messages, and i blocked him immediately. >> reporter: the latest piece of a tragic puzzle here as the investigation continues. >> reporter: and president obama continues to get constant updates on the investigation. thursday he'll travel here to meet face to face with the families of the victims. that's the latest live in orlando. chris, back to you. >> thank you very much, jay. we also want to take a live look at nats park right now. after the show i'll be heading down to the ballpark where the organization will be celebrating our local lgbt community. it's the 12th annual night out at nationals park which some people say is the

in sports. it will go to the d.c. school scholarship fund and the game starts after 7:00. the massacre in orlando has reignited the debate over guns and gun control. we want to know if you think it will make congress pass new gun legislation. it's our nbc washington flash survey this afternoon. call or text the number on the screen and you can also vote on the nbc washington facebook page. a man arrested while headed to a gay pride event in california was not allowed to have any guns. james howell was carrying three assault weapons with him when police took him into custody on sunday. investigators say howell drove from his home in indiana and had weapons and explosives in the car. this is video from last night as investigators were taking stuff out of his home. back in april, a judge ordered howell to get rid of all of his weapons after he pointed them at some of his neighbors. kellogg is recalling several

because they main contain peanuts. keebler and famous amos are some of the products that may contain unreported peanut residue. the company said one of its flour suppliers reported the problem. no illnesses have been reported and the threat of exposure is low. it doesn't think it will cause problems for the majority of people allergic to peanuts, but if you want to see a complete list of products just go to the nbc washington app and search recalls. an unusual rescue for police in the houston area. they had to save a guy from inside an l.e.d. sign at a car dealership. a sign 70 feet up in the air. crews used a bucket truck to get the guy down. officials say he passed out from heat exhaustion after getting trapped up there while working in the sun. vice president joe biden is father of the year. the national father's day council bestowed the honor because of his dedication to family, citizenship, charity,

reverence. his daughter agrees. >> he has been a father to so many, to his staff, his constituents and to absolute strangers who he embraces with warm any open arms. he comforts, he guides, he supports and leads us all to the best version of ourselves. >> past winners include presidents bill clinton and george w. bush and republican presidential candidate donald trump. >> congratulations to the vice president. a family's backyard suddenly torn to shreds by a speeding car. why they say they knew something like this could happen and the bizarre thing the driver begged them not to do after the crash. local students finishing up the school year. we check in with a local classroom we told you about at the beginning of the year. a class where they're trying something very different. >> and we've got terrific conditions out there tonight. temperatural

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school's out for the summer, but it's a very busy week at the university of maryland. students from all over the world are competing for a piece of history, natural history, that is. more than 600,000 student put together documentaries,

and websites based on the theme exploration, encounter, exchange. we'll find out who won thursday morning, but we know that one of the top prizes is a scholarship to the university of maryland. >> not bad. >> oh, yeah. that's worth a lot of money these days. students just wrapped up their last day of school in loudoun county and that reminded us to check back on an initiative launched this past school year. >> it's been a different year for seniors there. one that did away with the mandated midterms and final exams, one of the programs. northern virginia reporter david culver e plains. >> the traditional final exam replaced with this. >> our project is about cancer. >> reporter: a presentation in front of fellow students and a congressional staffer. >> a lot of kids don't want to present to people. that makes them very nervous, and they encouraged each other. >> reporter: allison said the

proved a success. the idea, take what you've learned out of the classroom and bring it into the world. >> it made me realize we really do need this because we become test takers and that's not what real life is about. >> reporter: bureau chief julie carey first told you about the idea at the start of the school year with the promise that we'd check back in with the students. >> to see how their projects turn out and to see if they wish they could take final exams. >> i still have the same reservations in terms of the sustainability of these products. >> reporter: george mason university-bound noah says the many assigned projects became overwhelming at times. and while regular testing still takes place, noah still fears doing without midterms or finals might make college a challenge. >> i still don't feel it's preparing us for college because college does have midterms and final, but it is preparing us for the real world. >> the

>> it provided a thorough experience and it gave me a new perspective. both students and teachers admitting now, trying something new, not easy. >> it was hard, but it was also, looking back, so rewarding. >> in loudoun county, i'm david culver, news 4. doing all those projects is great preparation for college. >> the real world. you think about giving a presentation in front of your boss or pitching clients on new business. those are real-world skills you've got to have. >> so is multitasking. >> that one especially. wild weather caught on camera. >> a scary up-close look at a terrible tornado that's causing pretty big problems. >> but first, the shooting rampage in orlando causes a deep dwie divide in the race to the white house as donald trump and hillary clinton weigh in. the current president goes on the defensive. >> enough talking abt being ou

maybe there is a lesson from all this. a lesson in tolerance we need to support each other's differences and worry less about our own opinions and get back to debate and away from believing or supporting the idea that if someone doesn't live the way you want them to live just buy a gun and kill them and bomb them up. that is not okay. we are used to hearing him crack jokes duringis

monologue on "the tonight show," but last night jimmy fallon used his time to pay tribute to the orlando shooting victims and he was tearful and even angry and choked up about being a new father and having to explain atrocities like what we saw sunday to his own children. >> it is a very, very hard -- very difficult talk to have at any time. >> indeed. president obama also got emotional today about terrorism, but his passion was aimed straight at donald trump's policies and political rhetoric. >> the president accused trump of making americans unsafe. >> reporter: the president's emotions seemed to be mostly anger and he didn't hide his contempt for the republican presumed presidential candidate to claim that it's either ignorance or timidity or political correctness or something even more sinister like sympathy with islamists that keeps our commander in

radical islamic terrorists. >> so someone seriously thinks that we don't know who we're fighting. >> reporter: president obama mocked donald trump's demand to use the term radical islamic terror saying that would help isis recruit in the u.s. >> and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorist's work for them. >> the shooter in orlando was an american muslim born in new york, but mr. trump renewed his call to ban muslims from entering the u.s. >> we cannot continue to allow thousands upon thousands of people to pour into our country, many of whom have the same thought process as this savage killer. >> it won't make us more safe. it will make us less safe, fueling isil's notion that the west hates muslims. >> reporter: republican house speaker paul ryan agreed. >> this is a war with radical islam. it's not a war with islam. i do noth

in our country's interest. >> reporter: the house was disrupted by democrats demanding an assault weapons ban, pushed today by hillary clinton. >> people being watched by the fbi for suspected terrorist links can buy a gun with no questions asked. that is absurd. >> reporter: president obama told trump and republicans to stop talking tough. >> actually be tough on terrorism and stop making it easy as possible for terrorists to buy assault weapons. >> reporter: in a statement the republican party'ke blamed mr. obama for the rise of isis and charged he would deny americans the guns they need to defend themselves against isis terror. >> reporter: the president said today there is progress in the fight against isis in iraq and syria, but he called it very hard here in the u.s. to detect and prevent isis-inspired attacks like the one in orlando. live at the white house, steve handelsman, news 4. chris? >> thank you, steve. >>ea

if you think the shooting in orlando will push congress to pass new gun legislation and almost all of you say no. remember, you can keep voting over on the nbc washington facebook page. > new video at 4:00 of a powerful tornado that touched down in texas. the twister spawned monday near masterson just north of amarillo. a driver who stopped to take shelter pulled out his phone and shot this video. the same storm brought hail and dramatic lightning strikes to the texas panhandle. and now your storm team 4 forecast. >> thank goodness we're not going to see anything like that around here, but we will see some rain, unfortunately, hard to believe because we have sunshine out there right now. it is so comfortable and so pleasant. i can't believe we're inside right now. look at the blue sky. it's so gorgeous.

temperatures topping out in the 70s today and that's the only place we've got, 79 is the temperature in d.c. and a nice, southeast early light wind, so it's not quite as breezy as it was yesterday. so again, looking on the good side of things as we continue into the evening. if you're headed out to nats park, i'm jealous as we take on the cubbies again and it will be another great night for baseball and in the upper 70s to 80 degrees and if you're walking the dog, looking good, but notice we stay clear and maybe a few clouds try to move in by tomorrow morning and that's a change and there could be isolated sprinkles early tomorrow morning and we're not seeing anything on the storm team 4 radar or clouds out there and we're just looking at plenty of sunshine and that's the way it will continue to be, as we go through tonight, but let me widen this picture out a little bit more. you can see all of this rain coming through south carolina and georgia all of the way up through the midwest into

will gradually lift into our area as we go into tonight through early tomorrow. i do think maybe a few sprinkles by tomorrow morning and isolated, but we will have cloud cover around and temperatures falling into the 60s tonight and still on the lower humidity side and i don't believe that humidity will creep in until tomorrow afternoon. another night to open the windows and i think we'll probably have to turn on the air-conditioning because it will be humid. we'll be around 80 tomorrow with sprinkles in the morning and we could have some rain around tomorrow night. most likely to the west and then we'll start to see again, some chances of rain increase for everybody overnight. so here's a look at your future weather and we've got the clouds in place for tomorrow morning by 4:45 tomorrow you can see some of that rain trying to move into the west and it will continue and then through thursday it may continue and maybe sunny breaks on thursday and that's about it. t

need to do something in the morning and we'll have sunshine late on friday and the weekend looks fabulous with temperatures right around 80 degrees and comfortable with plenty of sun. let me get to the seven day because everyone wants to see it. the weekend looking wonderful and we will have rain by the end of this week. guys? >> thank you, lauren. there is fabulous news coming out of the national zoo today. >> that's right. congratulations are in order bahtang ask kyle the orangutans are patients to be. the zoo made the announcement today on facebook and conducted an ultrasound live for all of us to see. the zoo has been preparing for this for the past three years. this is batang's first baby and she's expected to give birth some time in september. i'm jason pugh at redskins park where they wrapped up one of their mandatory sessions and you know what the term mandatory means in the nfl. if you're not in

have a huge problem. desean was in attendance working with kirk cousins. he missed portions of the organized team activities, but he was in attendance today. >> better off that way. >> jackson felt like practicing, he did not feel like talking to the media. we'll talk about that coming up on news 4 at 5:00. plus, why his head coach jay gruden and quarterback feel jackson is due for another big-time season. that's all coming up. i'm jason pugh, news 4 sports. talk about too close for comfort. a car flies through a family's backyard and it was all caught on camera. wait until you hear what the driver told them when he climbed out of this wrecked car. >> you're watching news 4 first at 4:00.

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it was a close call for a new york family and a suspected drunk driver who nearly went for a midnight swim in their pool behind the wheel. nbc's chucky bedford reports the driver came back to the scene to apologize. >> reporter: surveillance cameras on lewis metzger's home captured the sudden impact. an out of control car plowed through his fence and through his backyard. >> it sounded like anec mroegz. >> reporter: just after midnight the family was jarred from their

had taken all, but one posts. >> we could have been in the pool. we were in the pool earlier. you never know. >> stumbling out of the mangled car, a driver neighbors say wreaked of alcohol who offered to pay for the damage and begged them not to call police, but it was a little too late. lewis mester is an nypd officer. >> he was moving around crazy and he couldn't stand still and couldn't keep his balance. >> even though he couldn't imagine this could happen he always feared it could because of the speed of cars racing down this road behind this house. you can hear some of them right now. >> i've lived here eight to ten years and at least five times the cars land in the lot. >> that's the empty loot rigt r next to his house. he and his family put in a request for a guardrail. >> that driver was obviously drunk and was arrested for dui. but apparently not in jail for long.

>> michael returned to the scene of his alleged crime to say he was sorry, but claims he doesn't remember the accident. >> were you intoxicated? >> i don't know yet. >> reporter: you don't know if you were drunk. >> they do work last night. we'll find out. >> mester didn't have much to say to spoliari. he's not letting his kids in the backyard until it's safe. >> and those toxicology reports are expected to be back by the end of the week. at first we didn't know that they were gunshots. i didn't know. i was so confused. >> we just continued to hear gun fire, and i just remember thinking when is it going to stop? >> everyone was rushing to the bathroom stall and the gunshots were still going off rapidly and it's still not real to me yet. >> and they kept getting louder, closer, and i

to smell, i don't know, i guess it's gunpowder. i'm not sure. >> he said hey, you, to someone on the floor inside the bathroom and shot them. shot another person and then shot another person who happened to be directly behind me who i'm told through the eyes of tiara that shielded me with their own body to make sure that i wasn't hit. i don't know the name of that person, but thank you. thank you. harrowing stories of survival from those who made it through that massacre in orlando. >> good evening. i'm wendy rieger. >> and i am jim handly. we are also hearing very strong words from president obama as the investigation takes several new turns. here's where it stands now. all 49 victims who died have been identified and another 33 remain hospitalized. >> now nbc news is reporting that the gunman's wife may have driven the shooter to the nightclub so that he could scope it

today the president called on congress to reinstate the ban on assault weapons, blasted donald trump for his proposed ban on muslims. >> enough talking about being tough on terrorism. actually be tough on terrorism, but there's no magic to the phrase radical islam, and the reason i am careful about how i describe this threat has nothing to do with political correctness and everything to do with actually defeating extremism. we don't have religious tests here, and if we ever abandon those values, we would not only make it a lot easier to radicalize people here and around the world, but we would have betrayed the very things we are trying to protect. for the first time we are hearing from the doctors and the nurses on duty the night the shooting started. many managed to make it out, but were rushed to the hospital just blocks from the nightclub. news 4's