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

story of one man who blade dead in order to stay alive. >> reporter: the memorial outside the regional medical center has been growing here for the survivors of the pulse nightclub. one of them spoke us to today and this is a courageous young man who told a frightening story about what happened that night and about his will to survive. >> he just dropped me off across the street and i look over and there's just bodies everywhere. >> reporter: angel colon had nothing, but gratitude to the doctors and nurses. he remembered in vivid color being inside the nightclub, hugging friends good-bye and hearing shots. >> we grabbed each other and started running and unfortunately, i was shot about three times in my leg so i had fallen down. >> reporter: angel laid there listening to screams and gun fire. he was trampled and left with a broken leg. the shooter returned to fire again on those already down including

>> so i don't know how by the glory of god he shoots toward my head and it hits my hand and then he shoots me again and it hits the side of my hip. i had no reaction. i was just prepared to just stay there, laying down so he won't know that i'm alive. >> reporter: the doctors here were able to save 35 of the 44 patients who came to this hospital with head, dhechest, a and leg wounds likely from two different guns, but in the moment the numbers were almost overwhelming. >> people in pain. people worrying about their loved ones. people not knowing where their loved ones are and we were trying to help them all. >> every morning in the middle of the night, in the afternoon, you guys are always there, and i really appreciate that. >> reporter: angel colon has quite a bit of recovery left to do with the injuries to his leg and to his hip. we do know he says he won't be going back to the pulse nightclub if and when it does

new information regarding the gunman's wife and the possibility she may have known something. sources tell nbc news the shooter's wife was with him when he purchased ammo and a holster and also drove him to that pulse nightclub. she reportedly also tried to talk him out of it, but it is unclear to what degree she knew about the plot. this comes as the fbi looks into claims that the shooter had frequented the nightclub and may have used gay dating apps. still ahead, nbc's pete williams will join us live with the latest on the investigation into the gunman's wife. the nationals plan to honor the victims of the orlando shooting tonight as the club celebrates its 12th annual night out. it was planned long before the shooting and this was an effort to educate the lgbt community about the sports participation. the gay men's chorus will sing "true colors" and there will be a flag unfurled on the field. stay

horrific shooting. the powerful poem written by one of the survivors about her feelings in the wake of this. and head to the nbc washington app if you're looking for ways to help. just search victims. now to some breaking news close to home from the fairfax county courthouse. the man accused of brutally assaulting and torturing a mclean couple has been found guilty. >> andrew schmuhl is guilty on all seven counts. our julie carey has been following this trial from the courtroom. jules? >> reporter: the jury deliberated before finding andrew schmuhl guilty on all seven counts including abduction and malicious -- >> and i could not see any expression on andrew schmuhl's faces and victim leo fisher embraced friends and relatives who were sitting with him in the front row. the other victim, his wife, sue duncan was not present in the

verdict, it is a clear rejection of the defense team's unusual involuntary intoxication argument. they tried to convince jurors that andrew schmuhl was so heavily medicated for back problems and other ailments that he didn't know what he was doing during the incident on the night of november 9, 2014. prosecutors say schmuhl was bent on revenge when he burst into the mclean home and then tased, stabbed and shot leo fisher and his wife sue duncan, holding them in that house for three hours. the attack came just three weeks after leo fisher fired schmuhl's wife alicia from the job at the arlington law firm. schmuhl and his wife were caught soon after and in a bizarre twist schmuhl was found dressed only in a diaper. the defense team tried to persuade drivers that it was alicia schmuhl, andrew's wife that was the mastermind behind the plot and the one calling the shots, but the jury's vct

theory. the sentencing hearing, normally it comes after a verdict is rendered and that has been set for thursday. when i join you on news 4 at 6:00, i'll tell you the penalties that andrew schmuhl can face and his reaction from his defense attorney. >> julie carey, thank you. an arrest in the case of a woman who was sexually assaulted by a man who followed her from the metro. police released this surveillance video of the suspected attacker last week. they say he followed the woman from the new carrollton metro station and into a nearby office building. investigators tell us after a trip to crime solvers, they arrested jaharee chester. he is charged with sex offense and assault. we have breaking news from metro. we just learned a metro train rear ended another train in a rail yard. this comes hours after a maintenance machine derailed and it was hit by a passenger train. that happened in an area where metro is

phase of the safe track repairs. adam tuss is with us to tell us what went wrong. >> reporter: not the way metro wants to have these days going, beenedy, but no one is hurt. as far as the maintenance equipment that derailed between boston and east falls church, the real question is why was the train then sent through this area after that derailment? a train that had passengers onboard. tonight metro's investigating. as metro leaders continue to spread their message about safe track. >> this is getting us to a state of good repair. >> a problem on the track says a piece of equipment that drives spikes into wooden rail ties derailed and it happened around midnight. metro trying to piece together a timeline to figure out if the derailment was reported immediately and whether or not a train with people onboard should have been sent through the impacted area. that train ultimately clipped a mirror on the piece of equipment and had to be checked ou

metro says this will not affect the schedule for the first safe track surge area and all safe track plans remain on schedule. we've scheduled this basically to get on and do the core of what we needed to do in those windows. >> making sure this work is done e efficiently and effectively is especially important to the hundreds of thousands of commuters who are changing the way they get around because of safe track. >> the three of us who don't necessarily live that close together are coming together to ride in the same car. >> leona, the executive direct are on of the business improvement district has other stories of safe track causing a switch in commutes. >> one woman is taking two busses in order to get to a colleague's house. >> reporter: meanwhile, the work continues on the tracks and the region bracing for more impacts as safe track rolls on. >> reporter: back here now as the single tracking continues in this area and the safe track plan continues to roll on. now ahead at 6:00, are you

for safe track surge 2? i'll tell you why metro says it will be more impactful than the first surge, guys, back to you. >> adam, thank you. >> this evening military investigators are trying to figure out what caused a naval hadn't to go down in the hamptons road area. that chopper went down north of the james river bridge near newport news. a police boat plucked all three of the people onboard. no word or reported injuries so far, but all of them went to the hospital to be evaluated. the political reaction to the shooting in orlando took a very emotional turn today as president obama called out donald trump. find out what trump has to say now in this war of words. and it's primary day here in the district. d.c.'s former mayor is in a battle forward 7. we are live as the votes come in. and hackers target the dnc. what were they looking for? a beautiful day today, just about perfect, but it gets a

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sweetheart, and if you don't use the term, if you don't describe what's happening you're never going to solve the problem. >> there's no magic to the phrase radical islam. if there's anyone out there who thinks we're confused about who our enemies are that would come as a surprise to the thousands of terrorists who we've taken off the battlefield. >> president obama sounding off on republican critics who have accused him of being afraid to use the term radical islamic terrorism. >> also, the democratic national committee hacked by russia. we have team coverage of the race for the white house this primary day unfolding here in the district. tom sherwood has a look at the local contest and we'll begin first with pat lawson muse. donald trump has aren't been on twit toter toes rndpo to the president and donald trump claims to know our enemy and yet he continues to prioritize our enemy over our allies and the american pe.

his muslim ban proposal and expanded it to include any country with a history of terrorist activities directed toward the u.s. and its allies. the president today called that dangerous. as the president spoke in washington, hillary clinton also took trump on in pittsburgh. she called for republican leaders to stand up to their presumptive nominee. clinton also said trump appears to be fixated on the words radical islam. >> suggesting that there are magic words that once uttered will stop terrorists from coming after us. >> in the end, it didn't matter what we called bin laden. it mattered that we got bin laden. >> in a call for unity, clinton ended her speech with part of a note that president obama left for her husband when he defeated bush in 1993. the note read, quote, your success is now our country's success

you. tonight clinton will have a one-on-one with bernie sanders. trump, meanwhile, heads to greens borough, north carolina. wendy, back to you. >> a denial tonight from moscow. russian officials say they have no role in the hacking of a server of the hacking of a democratic national committee. it was etch brooed by russian hackers as early as last summer. they learned of the hack and sources say the hackers were able to gain access to a number of sensitive files including the dnc's research on the presumptive nominee, donald trump. >> the long and grueling primary season comes to an end today in the district. d.c. voters head to the polls for the primary contest of the year and the most high profile local race is arguably the council race between incumbent yvette alexander and vince gray. that's where tom sherwood joins us and he talked to voters

tom? >> reporter: here in ward 7 there is a moderate turnout and there are three hours to go and all of the primary turnout in the city is steady citywide. voting was steady in the shepard park precinct. by early afternoon over 500 people had voted and many more expected after work and that doesn't count all who had voted early. >> good afternoon. >> polls closed at 8:00 p.m. friends and neighbors are staffing the polls for their council contest all around the city, but here in ward 7, interest is sky high. mayor vincent gray is attempting a political comeback seeking the ward 7 seat helped by his former ally yvette alexander. >> we worked very hard during this campaign in order to make sure voters know what we stand for and the issues that are important to people here in the ward. >> ward 7 seems very supportive. i've been here and there's still a lot of work to do so i'm

have more effect on the d.c. council in coming years than most any other. >> again, the polls are open until 8:00 p.m. tonight in southeast hillcrest, i'm tom sherwood, news 4. i'm pat lawson muse. we have some breaking news into the live desk. we just learned from u.s. park police that a tour bus has overturned on the gw parkway at stratford lane. this is in the fort hunt area and there are reports of multiple injuries. we don't know the extent of the injuries at this point. we do know that u.s. park police and fairfax fire and rescue crews are on the scene and trying to help the injured and we don't know where the bus has come from or where it was headed. we do know the parkway was closed. again, this is an overturned tour bus on the gw parkway at stratford lane in the fort hunt area and multiple injuries, and

together and we understand helicopters are involved in the rescue. we are gathering more details and we'll have more here on air and on the nbc washington app as we get the information in. back to you. >> thank you, pat. >> and out at the park, desean jackson is back and he's been a no-show at most of the recent voluntary practices and he was at mini camp today. >> jason pugh is live. >> how did desean look out there today. >> he looked like a player that's trying to get a new contract after this season and he looked awesome today in practice and kirk cousins threw him a long touchdown past and it was so beautiful it prompted cousins to sprint down the field and yell and point toward the sidelines and go ahead and celebrate. you love that. you can tell when desean jackson is on this field the redskins are a completely different team. >> we'll get some work in.

>> he's a great player and a differencemaker. we've told him that. he knows that. so when he's here our offense is able to be at its highest potable and he makes a difference and why we're excited. it's been an excellent receiver for a long time and very productive and the top two or three guys and most 50-yard games in the nfl history. >> he's a big-time problem for defenses and he's a big-time weapon for offense and he's very helpful to our team. >> he's a better look to offense and he can go right past your head. he's taking two guys out of play each and every play and people respect the man. it makes us more of an offense. >> health was a major issue for jackson last season. he missed seven games because of a hamstring injury. he refused to talk to the media today after practice. >> his

letting his play do the talking and cousins looks much more comfortable going into his second season as a full-time starter. >> anybody in this room who has worked a job, i would think you're a much better writer and journalist and you're better at covering this team than two or three years ago and to make it better. i don't know, but you are better. >> it was good to see desean jackson back on the field with the redskins and one player we did not see tight end jordan reed, he would not participate in the mini camp and he rolled his ankle last week in otas. >> from ashburn, i'm jason pugh, news 4 sports. what's old is new again. >> the famed watergate hotel has reopened and we'll find out what happened to room 419, the scene of the watergate burglary. we'll take you inside to see the total makeover of the washington icon. >> i have been waiting for this one. >> also ahead, a

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and now your storm team 4 forecast. and about as nice as it gets around our region. temperatures around 80 degrees. my perfect day, 80s, sunshine, low humidit

that's exactly what we have out there for today. there's the sunshine, there's the 80 and there's low humidity and winds out of the southeast, and light wind, too. it is a spectacular afternoon and a very nice evening and 79 in frederick and 81 around the warrenton area and 79 toward clinton and maryland. if you're headed out as they take on the cubs and it is going to be a perfect night for a ball game and 7:05 start and leaving now and getting down there around 6:00. no issues. 76 around 7:00 and 73, mild and dry around 10:00 and all in all, a perfect night for a game and let's hope it's a repeat of that. and we have seen a few clouds today and now the clear skies are out from new york all of the way down toward richmond and the wider view still showing pretty much the same pattern in the last couple of days and the heat is back to the west and the much cooler weather out to the north and east and 73, boston and 79

we're at 94 in st. louis and around the raleigh area. we are right in the middle of two systems and an area of high pressure and an area of low pressure and that's giving us the temperatures around the 80-degree mark and more cloud cover so by tomorrow morning, 65 with mostly cloudy skies, tomorrow afternoon and more clouds, nice and mild. high temperature around 82 and there may be a slight chance of a shower and the chance for maybe some thunderstorm activity, too. 79 win chester and into the 80s into northern virginia, and 83 in la plata. we will see some sun, but we will see cloud cover, too. showing the clouds around the area and notice some breaks and that's the sun that we will see and with that sunshine, we'll be able to warm by about 5:00 through western portions of 66. >> better chance area wide and we think a

wednesday night into thursday morning and friday morning into early friday afternoon and only 74 degrees and some of you may stay in the upper 60s, but by the weekend, 80, sunshine and low humidity. i think we called that a perfect day and much more on that in the seven-day forecast. we're learning more tonight about what the shooter in the orlando club nightmare did leading up to the deadly terror attack. our pete williams broke the story about the role that his wife played. he joins us live next with more on what we know about the places he scouted. but first, we want to share with you one of the more emotional moments from today. it was at a news conference with survivors. we will hear from patience carter. she's a young woman that went to pulse with two of her friends and one of her friends was killed. this is her poem. >> the guilt of feeling grateful to be alive is heavy. wanting to smile about surviving, but not sure if the people around you a

as the world mourns the victims killed, and viciously slain, i feel guilty about screaming about my legs in pain because i can feel nothing like the other 49 who weren't so lucky to feel this pain of mine. i never thought in a million years that this could happen. i never thought in a million years that my eyes could witness something so tragic. looking at the souls leaving the bodies of individuals, looking at the killer's machine gun throughout my right periphery, looking at the blood and debris covered on everyone's faces, looking at the gunman's feet under the stall as he paces. the guilt of feeling lucky to be alive is heavy. it's like the weight of the n

uncontrolled by levees. it's like being dragged through the grass with a shattered leg and thrown on the back of a chevy. it's like being rushed to the hospital and told you're going to make it when you lay beside individuals whose lives were brutally taken. the guilt of being alive is heavy.

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now at 5:30. federal investigators in the deadliest mass shooting in u.s. history is looking into what the gunman's wife may have known before all of this unfolded. sore e sources are telling nbc news that the shooter's wife was with him when he purchased ammo and a holster. >> and they say she actually drove him to the pulse nightclub where those 49 people lost their lives. joining us now is justice correspondent pete williams who broke this story earlier today. pete, at this point is the wife being cooperative and is there a sense from investigators about just how much she knew? >> yes and no. yes, she's being cooperative, but no, they don't know fully whether what she's telling them is true and that will take time to figure out. let me back up to what you said in the introduction jim, just to be crystal clear, and i know you understand this, just to make sure. the fed

him to the pulse nightclub at least once prior to the attack. she did not drive him there the night of the attack, they say. he drove himself. they found his van in the parking lot. what she is telling them is one reason that she drove him around to these places knowing what he may have been planning is that she thought that by doing that she would have the occasion to try to talk him out of it. she has told the fbi that she had some sense of what what he was planning to do and that she repeatedly tried to talk him out of it. now whether she had that knowledge, whether she tried to talk him out of it, whether she was with him when he bought the holster and the ammo and whether she drove him around on the so-called casing visits, that is all to be determined and this investigation is in its early stages. if that turns out to be true, then the feds have a difficult decision to make here. they have to decide whether to file charges against her because it's illegal under federal law

just to get into this a little more clearly, of course, the crime wasn't committed until he went in there and did the shooting, but if he was planning the shooting and if he was buying the ammo and casing around then that's a crime in and of itself, so that would be the theory here that she was aware that this was going on and she failed to tell authorities and that certainly is illegal and they would be able to file charges, but they're a long way from any decision about what to do. >> pete, we're also hearing from some of the survivors that they recognized the gunman because they say that he had frequented this club pulse and some of them say they recognized him from some gay dating apps. what does the fbi make of this? >> well, they take this very seriously. dates apps some people have come forward to the fbi saying look, here's a message that i got and they start looking at the photograph and figure out it's not him and some of those have washed out, but

the club or other clubs in the orlando area weeks, months before the shooting is a very large number and the fbi is by no means disregarding that. they're taking it very seriously. they're looking at it. it adds to the picture, potentially of what was going through his mind. they still don't know why they did this and they may never know why he targeted that specific place on that day. >> pete williams. >> thank you, pete. >> stay tuned. pete will have much more ahead on nbc "nightly news". like other mass shootings before this, the tragedy is once again stirring a debate about gun laws in our country. chris gordon went to a gun store and a gun range to find out what impact this massacre has taken. >> reporter: katie meyers is the director of training here at the blue ridge arsenal in chantilly, virginia. >> gun sales are up after a

people tend to realize that their safety zones are not as big as they had originally thought. >> reporter: since the orlando shootings, she's been asked a lot of questions about making background checks tougher for gun buyers. >> we put them through a background check and more importantly, we speak to them. why do you want to purchase a firearm and we kind of get a vibe for who is purchasing the firearm. we have turned people down. >> reporter: this protest against the nra held on the 14th of each month is to remember the sandy hook elementary school shootings. it took on added meaning today because of orlando. senator tim kane says more needs to be known about the motivation behind the orlando shootings and he wants to expand the federal list of people banned by law from having weapons. >> if we are concerned about the misuse of these weapons by people who have been convicted

adjudicated mentally ill and we should be concerned about people on the terrorist watch list and that would be an important addition to federal law that i supported in december and i support again now. >> reporter: ahead what senator kane says congress needs to do to protect u.s. citizens from lone wolfs and isil's influence. >> that's the latest from chantilly, virginia. chris gordon, news 4. the dangers of aggressive driving. the message comes from police in d.c. and montgomery count pep it's part of the area's smooth operator campaign. they used a dummy to show what happens when it's hit by a car traveling over the speed limit at 35 miles an hour and they called on drivers to just slow down on the roads. >> that's why we need drivers to take a good look at their own driving habits and see what they can do to change this deadly behavior. >> police estimate aggressive driving causes more than a thousand deaths a

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man outside of a 7-eleven in new carrollton. >> today that man who beat and stomped on the victim's head leaving him in need of facial reconstructive surgery learned his fate. news 4's tracee wilkins was in court. >> reporter: this was very difficult video to watch and my first time seeing it i lost my breath watching what this attacker did to this man. he has a plate on the side of his face and works construction and during the winter the inside of his face gets cold. this has been a difficult transition for this victim and for his family. here's what happened in court. >> he wanted me to die that night. >> reporter: it was a chance encounter outside of a new carrollton 7-eleven gone wrong quickly. security cameras captured why juan velasquez thought why cameron miller wanted him dead. >> i can't remember when i was in the hta

head. it's too graphic to show. miller's friend comes back and takes his wallet and then miller returns and stomps him repeatedly. >> he did lean against the doors of the 7-eleven in what appeared to keep his balance and to be able to use maximum force to deliver these blows. >> unless you knew velasquez you wouldn't know that the shape of his face has changed. he underwent reconstructive surgery to rebuild the left side of his skull and he has a metal plate holding his head together and screws helping to keep his eye socket in place. >> i had to feed him. i had to feed my husband with the straw every time he ate. >> thank god he gave me another opportunity to live. >> reporter: today, before sentencing, judge john davies said, quote, the excessive violence and the assault that took place the first time and second time is why i'm sentencing you beyond the

miller was sentenced to 15 years in prison for first-degree assault. >> think the judge saw the video and he saw everything, what happened that night, and i think he make the right decision. >> reporter: again, this was considered a very violent attack which is why instead of the four to nine that someone would normally get for first-degree assault in the guidelines, he was sentenced to 15 years. he did apologize to the family for what happened. coming up, what they have to say about that apology. reporting live in upper marlboro, i'm tracee wilkins. back to you all in the studio. >> a man is shot in front of his girlfriend who was carrying his child. >> what happened next was like a scene out of a movie and we'll tell you how the scene ended in the district. a dog has aeen nos ke ♪ stand by me

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back to our breaking news, the gw parkway is shut down at this hour in the fort hunt mount vernon area. police tell us a tour bus overturned on the parkway at stratford lane. that's less than two miles from the mount vernon estate. there are injuries, but we don't know to what extent. medevac choppers have been

injured out and there may be another car involved and we have crews headed to the scene and we'll have a live report at 6:00. it is one of the hottest restaurant scenes in the district, 14th street. you can imagine how concerned neighbors are after a young man is found shot and killed inside an apartment building on 14th street. >> reporter: it happened at the columbia heights village apartments, home to many senior citizens. citizens who say they've seen too much violence here. >> a lot of seniors here and they really need to stop the killing. i'm -- i'm just so done with it. it's just ridiculous. every time you turn around there's something happening. >> reporter: around 6:00 this morning, a young man found murdered inside a third floor apartment and sources say he had been shot in the head. police identified the victim as davo davonntae crawford. police looked

information that would help them identify and track down the killer. in the meantime, as word spread about the murder, concern grew among the people who live around here. >> it's bad news for this community. sad. very sad. >> we all need to get together and do something about these guns around here because it's hurting a lot of ones close to home. >> it's just sad. we have to live here and not even safe anymore. i don't know what's going on. >> reporter: the shooting death at the columbia heights apartment is the 58th murder so far this year, compared to 55 the same time last year. in northwest washington, david culver, news 4. >> experts say there's a safer way to pay for purchases other than a new chip card technology and it's right at your fingertipings. your smartphone, compared to using a chip credit card which requires a signature. single mobile management said re

he calls mobile payments the next generation. >> that's very, very safe. it's almost bulletproof. it's very difficult to compromise. >> johnson says in most cases the mobile technology came with chip credit card equipment so why don't merchants offer mobile pay and why aren't more people wanting to use it? tonight at len:00, pay it safe, consumer reporter susan hogan answers those questions and takes a closer look at mobile pay security. all right, folks. we want to tell you our ac is busted in the studio. >> oh, my god, i'm on my second gallon -- >> we have to go outside to cool off it's brutal in here. >> i walked in and i'm, like, what is going on over here! >> the ac is broken. but meanwhile, it's nova scotia outside in the front circle. >> it is wonderful. >> at least it's

sweltering out there. >> it's 90 and sweltering in here. >> exactly! it will feel better once you get outside and it's looking great as we continue through the evening and tomorrow hopefully they'll fix the air conditioner inside the studio and it will start to creep outside tomorrow afternoon. so, yes, not a humidity-free week although enjoy it right now. it's wonderful, keep that umbrella close by tomorrow. you're going to need it specifically tomorrow afternoon and pretty much to the end of this workweek and as i said, the humidity moves back in and everybody loves the weekend and lo working for the weekend and i thought we would have bumps in the road before the weekend and maybe some rain chances and now it looks like sunshine. temperatures out there right around sunny skies and that's pretty much where we made it up to today and we'll stay around 80 for the next couple of hours and we'll start to fall into the 70s and a few degrees warmer than the past few nights because ae

tomorrow morning and when you wake up we'll have more cloud cover than in the mornings. >> shoot for tomorrow morning and we'll have rain showers possible tomorrow morning through tomorrow night and maybe a few rain showers in the morning and then again in the evening and friday we'll have some late-day sun as the pattern starts to break and nothing showing up on the storm team 4 radar right now and we do have a warm front to the south and that is going to lift to the north and maybe bringing sprinkles during the overnight and it will bring that humidity back in and you can see the temperatures not that bad around d.c. and it's warmer to the south of the warm front. overnight with a few more clouds settling in and we're falling into the 60s and another great night to open those windows and you may have to shut them only because we'll have the humidity increasing throughout the day and it will increase tomorrow after lunchtime and rain will start to build south and west this afternoon and we'll start this at 8:00 a.m. on wednesday and you c

rain showers building in from the west and again we'll start to see them fill in throughout the east overnight and even through the first part of thursday morning and maybe midday sunshine on thursday before more thunderstorms thursday afternoon and the weekend looking gorgeous with temperatures around 80s, plenty of sunshine and the thing, low humidity. we've got some rain showers wednesday night into thursday and some breaks on thursday midday and then some thunderstorms thursday night into friday. friday we'll get some clearing and the weekend looking good and excellent for father's day. >> thank you. >> news for your help tonight and the special bond between a local teen and his dog. that teenager's life changed completely when the black lab named abel entered his life. why abel just became one of his kind to be allowed in fairfax county public schools.

15-year-old and his beloved dog. >> he's there for me when i'm high or low or each good. >> reporter: abel is more than just mason's best friend. >> he is there kind of to protect me and keep me safe. >> reporter: that's because mason is diabetic and abel is his service dog trained to detect mason's blood sugar levels and alert the teenager when it's time to check his levels. the dog's acute sense of smell makes them ideal for this kind of work. >> the dog can smell my blood sugars through my pores and my skin so he can actually smell your blood and what it does is it gets him stressed out. he'll pant or whine and be all over the place and not stay down. >> reporter: mason was just 9 years old when he was diagnosed with type 1 diepetties. it was extremely hard to do this by myself. i'm a single mom and we've had to account for

piece of food or liquid that went into mason's mouth. sleeping, was there no such thing as being able to sleep. >> reporter: mason's mother would get up every three hours to check her son's blood sugar. usually 9:00 p.m., 12:00 a.m., 3:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. the black labrador retriever arrived as a 10-month-old puppy. abel went to work right away. 20 minutes after abel arrived he was already alerting to mason and he had a blood sugar of 260. he goes everywhere mason goes and just a month ago abel hit the halls of south county high school with him. for all three people who live in this home abel the service dog has been a guardian and life changer. i'm able to breathe a little bit easier at night knowing that mason has abel to be not only his friend. he's his ua

gives us all a sense of peace. >> doreen gentzler, news 4. >> and while we're loving our animal, let's head to the zoo for the national zoo announced they have a mother-to-be and it's batang the orangutan and her and her mate kyle are expecting. it's her first and she's expected to give birth some time in september. after a delay the watergate hotel is finally back open for

our first look tonight inside an iconic washington landmark. now open to overnight guests for the first time in almost a decade. the renovation of the watergate hotel is complete. news 4's derek ward is there to show us what the future has in store for this piece of d.c. history. nearly a decade after it closed the watergate hotel is reopening following a $125 million rehab. the rooms redone with furnishings that harken back to the hotel's heyday in the '60s and '70s. >> we love the history of the building and it was a playground for powerful people. it was a place where actresses, political people were all day long here. >> you'd be hard pressed to find

and it keeps with the design of the exterior. the architect would blend the river that runs alongside and the river around the potomac breathtaking. >> the original architecture and he's talking about the same language of the design and the materials that we use. >> you can't mention the word watergate without thinking back to the 1972 break-in and the political scandal that brought down a president. the new owners don't run from the scandal. they embrace it. our number is 1-800-619-1972. it's the day of the break-in. >> even the key cards break homage, you don't have to break in.

programmed to twinkle. the owner is well acknowledging the most infamous guests and want to give visitors another reason to keep the property on the map. >> the food scene is here. the art scene is here and the fashion scene is getting here and the hotel scene needs to catch up. >> talk about embracing the scandal. >> take a look. this is how the invitations to the night's affairs go out. it's a cassette tape that's a usb drive and here written on the case, the words if these walls could talk. at the watergate, derek ward, news 4. news 4 at 6:00 begin with breaking news. the george washington parkway has been shut down right now because of a serious crash. >> police say a tour bus overturned on the parkway and there are injuries. news 4's david culver just arrived on the scene. this is off stratford lane

>> reporter: and wendy and vance, we did tell you it's also very close to mount vernon and george washington's home and we're working off a cell phone here to get you a live report as soon as possible and fire and rescue have blocked off this portion of the parkway and police have blocked off what is the entrance to the george washington parkway and turning cars around and we said this involves a tour bus and this also involves a vehicle and we heard that someone in the mount vernon home and they relayed that information to me and they are making room at some point for medevac to come sure in this area. we're not sure exactly where that's going to happen and how many people will be airlifted out of here, but they have told us that and we know this will be shut down for several hours. we notice several tour folks coming through and people just visiting this area trying to get an idea of what exactly is going on. you can see a lot of them