and he's telling his side of the story news4. we start with a story you'll see only on news4. a mother gives us a firsthand account of her problems with the head start program in prince george's county. >> she says her young son wandered away from school and made it all the way to a metro stop. prince george's county's bureau chief spoke to her about that and more. live from upper marlboro with the story, tracee? >> reporter: according to this mother, that's where her child was headed but stopped on the edge of branch avenue. and teachers were able to bring him back to the school. this happened last year as head start was investigating the prince george's county school system with allegations of abuse and neglect within the system. they filed a report that led to the school system losing its $6.4 million grant from the federal government. and in the report, they mentioned an incident of a child allowed to wander away from a head start prog a

there was no mention of what happened to this mother, begging questions of whether or not this incident was reported. hear from the mother who describes what it was like when it happened to her son. >> numb. it was a little numbing that he would have been able to leave school, period. to get off a playground. there should have been watching him. just -- it's numbing. you don't know what to think, you don't know what happened. >> reporter: now that mother wrote a letter to the prince george's county school system outlining what happened to her child, she says that she did not receive any followup from child protective services and doesn't know what happened. lots of questions about why the report wasn't filed, leading to the real possibility that there were other improprieties that e

the prince george's county school board will be meeting tonight. we're expecting them to address the head start issue, although it is not on the public agenda. we'll have more on what happened with this mother and what she believes should happen with the head start program coming up at 5:00 and 6:00. in upper marlboro, tracee wilki wilkins, news4. i'm jim handly at the live desk. tracking the latest on the tornado damage in indiana right now. the state's department of homeland security saying the severe weather spawned at least a dozen tornadoes. several of them touching down in the city of kokomo. that's just north of indianapolis. the tornados flattened homes, ripped up trees, causing widespread damage. fortunately, no deaths. about 15,000 homes and businesses lost power. the tornados taking indiana governor mike pence off the campaign trail. the vice presidential candidate toured the damage in kokomo. earlier in the day

-- spoke at the emergency command center there. >> it is truly remarkable that there are such a few number of injuries or worse in the wake of this storm given the fact that it literally struck howard county virtually at shift change in the afternoon in a great manufacturing town, and about the time kids were getting out of school. >> 15 people suffered minor injuries. much of central indiana is right now under a severe thunderstorm and tornado watch for through the evening. at the live desk, jim handly. back to you. >> all right. thank you very much. metro's top officials are working to address safety concerns the transit agency's board met to discuss several issues including a recent derailment near east falls church. an incident that's now a criminal investigation. darcy spencer

downtown. >> reporter: the metro board chairman started by saying that metro has been negligent when it comes to dealing with safety. and heed th-- he said this has t to stop. this was a special board meeting called for today to specifically address the safety concerns. one of the main topics, last month's derailment in the silver line at east falls church. we've learned it it was related to deteriorated rail ties and that inspections were not done properly. a criminal investigation, like you said, is underway. let's hear from virginia congresswoman barbara comstock who sat through the 2.5-hour meeting and then from chairman jack evans. >> i understand the accident is under criminal investigation now. i'm pleased that they quickly moved on that. i think what we need to have going forward and i think what they're trying to provide for us is the factual information. >> i just want to say to everyone, to the public, to the riders, the elected officials in this region,

>> reporter: one of the board members raised questions about how many times train operators are running red lights -- dozens of times in the past four years. coming up on news4 at 5:00, a safety official addresses why that may be happening. back to you. >> all right. thanks. a new poll out today shows hillary clinton topping the magical 50% mark among likely voters. quinnipiac university's poll puts her ahead of donald trump 51% to 41%. the margin of error is 2.5% points which translates to a pretty big lead. the poll was taken the last secretary of days amid ongoing controversies with both presidential candidates. more coming up in the next half hour. first, nbc news has confirmed ryan lochte has been summoned to testify before brazil's justice department over his claim that he and three teammates were robbed at gunpoint in the

august 14th. he backed off his claims saying he was intoxicated and his actions led to the confrontation with brazilian security guards. if lochte does not show up, he phase a penalty under brazilian law, however would be denied the opportunity for a plea deal. a former math professor at northern virginia community college is no longer facing charges after he was accused of raping a student. news4's julie carey broke the original story in may after two female students made the allegations. now she's learned prosecutors are dismissing all four charges. >> reporter: that former teacher's name, yusef taleb. he tells me he cried last month when they called to tell him that the charges would all be dismissed. he was arrested at the end of the spring semester. he taught several management classes on the manassas campus of northern virginia community college. search warrant documents said that one of the

claimed he sexually assaulted her in a conference room when she came to him for tutoring. prosecutors and taleb's attorney said soon after his arrest, inconsistencies emerged in the women's stories. last month the commonwealth's attorney dropped all charges. >> he maintained his innocence from the getgo. i believed in him. i believed he was telling the truth, that he did not have these inappropriate relationships with any students. any student whatsoever. >> reporter: ahead at 5:00, we'll hear from yusef taleb himself about the ordeal he's just been through. in manassas, julie carey, news4. an alarming sight that might bring back some very painful memories. first at 4:00, what was behind this emergency response at the pentagon. epipens are all over the news now for their skyrocketing prices. what if we told threw are cheaper alternatives? we're looking into how much they cost and if they're just as effective. temperatures on the way up across the region. upper 80s to near

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this is something you don't want to see on your way home newschopper 4 over the beltway for hours. crews trying to clean up a fuel leak on the outer loop in fairfax county now route 123. at one point, only one lane was getting by. now it's not clear yet what caused that leak. we're getting new information just in to our newsroom about a deadly shooti

in fauquier county. just before 1:00 a.m. this morning, police responded to a home on rappahannock street in warrenton. the homeowner's name is seth shaver. that's who called to report the shooting. police found another man dead inside the house. he had been shot. now investigators are still trying to determine if the homeowner who called them was the one who shot that man. right now, no charges have been filed. and another woman has been attacked while using the washington old domestic indian trail in northern virginia. this latest incident happened around 6:30 this morning near value view avenue and south king street in leesburg. the victim of an off-duty sheriff's deputy. she told investigators she was jogging, and a man approached her armed with a box cutter. she was able to run away unharmed. police are still looking for that suspect. they're also searching for two men who tried to sexually assault another woman on the trail last wednesday in sterling.

allegedly came out of the woods and tried to grab her. they ran off thankfully when a bicyclist rode by. more at 5:00. there's been a discouraging setback in the fight against the zika virus. first at 4, new signs the virus is moving even faster than experts expected. and look at this -- a live look as we take your donations for our backpacks 4 kids drive. help us and local kids back to school with supplies that they need. give our phone bank a call. 202-885-4949. text

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new concerns as the zika virus tocontinues to spread in florida. a second person has contracted the disease in the palm beach area. the patient is a woman who was hospitalized last week with zika symptoms like fever, rash, and joint pain. she says she has not traveled in months. the number of non-travel-related cases in florida stands now at 43 with the majority in the miami area. the pentagon conducted an emergency drill this morning. they simulated a helicopter crash on the north side of the pentagon. this mass casualty exercise allows emergency responders including the red cross and the arlington county fire department

it did not disrupt employee or visitor access to the pentagon. now the exercise wrapped up at around 1:00 this afternoon. my daughter starts kindergarten in just a couple weeks. i'm just learning what a lot of you have known for years -- it takes a lot of money to send kids to class. this is why nbc 4 is working for you and the community. we need your help to get school supplies for a lot of kids in our area. that's why we work so hard with our annual backpacks 4 kids campaign. with me now, stacy burnett, senior director of government affairs -- government and regulatory affairs for comcast in our area. of course, jackie bradford is president and general manager of nbc 4. jackie, let me start with you and just ask, you know, why is this effort so important for the community? >> well, our community is so important, as you said, and our children and education is so crucial. this is our 11th year of doing this. thi o

yesterday we raised more money and got more school supplies for kids than we ever have before. it's wonderful to see our community respond. and we don't do it alone. we do it with apple federal credit union. they've been our partner the last couple of years at a lot of our community events. we are especially appreciative. >> we saw the bins and people coming to drop off backpacks. stacey, this is a partnership effort. let's look at our phone bank. so many people are standing by. they are ready to take your calls. we also want to get the number up there. there they are right there. they're ready to take your calls for donations at any time. the number to call is 202-885-4949. again 202-885-4949. we're putting that up on the screen, as well. stacey, talk to me a little about, you know, you see the volunteers there. you saw people taking donations yesterday. how much does partnership play into pull

this? >> well, it's important to partner with organizations that have the same mission for trying to do things to prepare students to succeed in school and in lif life. this is a perfect partnership with nbc 4, our colleagues, to improve the d.c. area and make sure students do well. >> it's funny because i see some of my daughters' friends in class, and they're getting homework sent home to do on ipads. how important is it to is internet access for everyone? >> well, what we've found is 30% of americans, mostly low income, don't have internet service at home. and proudly, comcast offers internet service for low-income families for $9.95 a month. you get a free wi-fi router as well as digital literacy training for the family. by having internet at home, children are able to easily do homework, apply

we've found that up to to 40% of moments have someone that's found a job because of being able to easily search for a job. it's transformative. >> somehow, some way doing homework on an ipad is more fun than pouring over the books. thank you very much. and for those of you at home, again, we're going to be taking calls for the next couple of hours until 6:00. you can also head over to our website, nbcwashington.com, and donate there. we want to thank you very much for all your help. susan? >> absolutely. i second that. and i hope you enjoyed the break in the heat because it is returning. you know what, it still is summer. we can't complain. it's what we should expect, right? >> that's exactly right. temperatures still in the average mid to upper 80s across the area. as we move through the afternoon today, that's it what we expect for this time of year. tomorrow, it's going to be more like july than august to september. let's look and show what we're dealing with outsi

atmosphere. the hazy, hot, humid temperature of 88. winds out of the south at ten miles per hour. look at the current heat index. up to 97 d.c. 99 in fredericksburg. 96 in manassas. so the dew points have come up. the moisture in the atmosphere. that's why we have that heat index. 97 today. tomorrow, back up into the low 100s most likely. to the nationals game, a nice night. as we take on the orioles one more time. they beat us three days in a row. come on. hopefully we can pull this out. 85 at 7:00. 82 by 9:00. warm and humid, but still a nice night to get out toward the ball game. now, nothing on the radar. radar is all dry. going to stay that way. we did have showers and storms moving our way. the same storms that came through portions of indiana yesterday. they quickly died out as they moved our way. now tracking more possible severe weather later on this afternoon. kansas city, indianapolis, around chicago, toward ohio. this is the area to watch.

that. for us it's the heat. we're also tracking and have been for the last couple of days a tropical system down to the south. you've heard so much about it maybe on social media, twitter on, facebook, maybe some of the local apps talking about hermine. will this is not hermine. this is a wave. take a look. here's the center of circulation. there are no thunderstorms around the center of circulation at all. this is a very poorly defined system. it is going to move toward the southern portion of florida. they'll see wind and rain. it may start to develop as it moves there. right now, this isn't a storm at all. it's something we'll continue to watch the next couple of days. highs tomorrow, 95 degrees. hot and humid. the big part, though, the heat index, 100 to 105. we stay hot through the weekend and into early next week. 90s all the way through -- all the way through next saturday. wow. you or your kids may be doing this now -- holding a phonor tablet close to your face. >> when it comes to your

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look up high. you have angelina here. she's doing really well in school. she noticed she had problems with vision. we want to make sure she's not nearsighted. nearsightedness is also call ed myopia. one of the biggest problems in the united states in terms of kids and vision. >> reporter: myopia is a refractive error in the eye. close objects appear clearly, but distant objects appear blurry. an estimated 30% of the u.s. population suffers from myopia. the exact causes are unknown, though there is a strong genetic component. and there has been research investigating whether all the screen time our kids are getting has an impact. >> in the schools, they're using computers, using tablets. they have tons of work that they're doing, and also after school they're doing a lot of homework and using their near devices up close. whether it's a tablet or phone. >> reporter: dr. andrew morgenstern started tree house nuyes maryland and virginia to

-- eyes in maryland and virginia to deal with childhood myopia pause they've seen an uptick in children. although there's no conclusive evidence that directly links screen time with nearsightedness in children, dr. morgenstern says it makes sense that using near devices may cause myopia and interfere with long distance vision. >> i think our kids really aren't getting outside enough. and the lack of that outdoor sunlight, lack of outdoor targets that they look at while they're outdoors creates a strain for that distance vision and puts more demand on the near. that's what effectively is one of the theories of causing nearsightedness. we're putting a lot of near demand on young kids at an early age, and this is part of our society. >> reporter: the american academy of pediatrics discourages screen time for children under the age of. and it recommends no more than two hours of screen time daily over the age of 2. in addition to straining young

screen time can also contribute to sleep and social disorders. it turns out angelina is both near and farsighted. the best treatment will be monitoring her vision and screen time as she continues to grow. she will also change her glasses prescriptions over time to accommodate her vision. if myopia runs in your family, you can watch your kids closely for signs. it, of course, doesn't hurt to send them outside to play. one local neighborhood has plan for some major development. the folks who live there now say the people trying to move in are discriminating against them. by now, you've seen the headlines -- epipen prices soaring, making it harder for parents to have the lifesaving medicine their kids need. there are cheaper versions.

more legal issues finish olympic swimmer ryan lochte. he was just summoned to a hearing regarding the debunked robbery story that turned out to be a rowdy confrontation at a gas station. metro board leaders discussed a recent derailment, isis-related arrests that signal overruns and other issues. the cleanup effort in indiana is just getting started after a tornado outbreak. the storms damaged several

and businesses. amazingly, no reports of deaths or serious injuries. we'll get more from the scene and mike pence's announcement this hour. the race for the white house took a nasty turn today. >> hillary clinton and donald trump accusing each other of bigotry. news4's steve handelsman is live on capitol hill tonight with more on what they said. steve? >> reporter: thanks. race and charges of bigotry is been undercurrents in this contest all along. now they're out in the open with clinton in a play on words saying trump wants to make america "hate" again. in nevada, hillary clinton charged donald trump is peddling bigotry, pair no aa an-- parano and racism. >> of course there's always been a paranoid flinchringe in polit. a lot of it rising from racial resentment. it's never had the nominee of a major party stoking it, encouraging it, and giving it

national megaphone until now. >> reporter: trump told supporters in new hampshire clinton is talking about them. >> she lies. she smears and paints decent americans, you, as racists. >> reporter: last night, trump used the "b" word -- >> hillary clinton is a bigot. >> reporter: for trump charged seeing people of color only as votes. some trump supporters were shocked -- >> bigot! >> reporter: today he promised minorities safe streets and jobs. >> a very important part of the message for me is the african-american community because they have really opinion let down by hillary clinton and the democrats. >> reporter: a reach out to white voters, too. >> there are republicans who don't want to vote for hillary clinton, but they don't want to vote for someone who they think might be a racist. >> reporter: trump even polled an audience on fox about his flip-flop over deporting 11 million immigrants. >> who does not want them thrown out? [ applause ] >> reporter: trump openly

looking for popular positions. even if that makes the self-styled republican outsider look a lot like the lawmakers up here who donald trump says he's running against. i'm steve handelsman, news4. chris? >> all right. thanks. we're also learning new details about a deadly attack at the american university in kabul. local police say at least 14 people were killed when militants set off a car bomb and stormed the school. the victims include seven students, a professor, five officers, and a caretaker at a nearby school. special police units were able to rescue more than 100 people who were holed up in classrooms. the state department says no americans were killed or wounded. the kabul police chief says the car palm killed one militant -- car bomb killed one militant and two suspects this morning. a proposed new development in northeast d.c. has some families afraid they might be forced out of their homes. residents say the developer is discriminating against large families. the developer maintains they're doing more than what's

to make sure no one is displaced. news4's mark seagraves has our report. >> reporter: these are the brooklyn manor apartments behind me. a sprawling complex here right off of rhode island avenue in northeast washington. this is a copy of a lawsuit filed today in u.s. district court trying to prevent the developer of this property from tearing these buildings down and building new units. the tenants who are suing the developer say the developer is discriminating against large families because the new units will no longer have four or five-bedroom apartments. and that means, they say, they'll have to find somewhere else to live. >> would be lost because i've lived there -- i feel like that's my home. i've been living there for 22 years. it seems like i've been there for like 30 or 40 years. >> reporter: the developer wouldn't comment because of pending litigation, but a party close to the developer tells news4 the developer in fact is going out of his way to provide affordable housing and that very

face the possibility of not having a place to live. in northeast, mark seagraves, news4. it took an elaborate rescue to save a teenager from mclean. the 14-year-old broke his leg hiking in maine. his group was in a rugged area known as the 100-mile wilderness. a national guard crew airlifted the teenager off the mountain. he's recovering at a hospital in maine. over in delaware, we're learning more about a woman's death from a zipline ride. turns out she fell off the platform, 35 feet in the air, not the zip line itself. this happened at the go ape zip line in lums pond state park, near the delaware/maryland line. the company is based in frederick. its website says everyone gets a 30-minute training session before they're allowed to ride. news4 has learned the temperature inside the d.c. j

collapsed and died was dangerously hot. records provided by the d.c. department of corrections show the average temperature inside the cell block where lester irby was housed was almost 85 degrees that day in july. the d.c. jail declined to tell news4 what the hottest temperature record inside the jail was. instead, providing only daily averages. jail officials maintain the excessive heat did not cause irby's death. after news4 broke the story, the jail relocated dozens of inmates and brought in crews to prepare the cooling system -- to repair the cooling system. uniforms or regular clothes? it varies for students at local schools. which wardrobe is cheaper for back-to-school shopping? if you want to help families afford the cost of getting students back to class, we're still taking donations for backpacks 4 kids. call to make a donation --

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every year there's a debate over school uniform. >> does it help parents save money for back-to-school shopping? molette green takes a look. you have centraled pencils, your -- colored pencils, your binders. >> reporter: pencils, paper, backpacks. this family is mostly ready except for the school uniforms. >> i'm not done at all. i haven't done the uniforms yet. we're just getting started. it's a long process. >> reporter: patrice jones is getting ready three children for school in d.c. and counting every dollar spent. >> between the three of them, i will probably spend close to like $700 to $800 on uniform shopping. >> reporter: in the debate, uniforms versus regular clothes, for this single mom, it comes down to dollars and cents. >> i prefer uniforms just because it's consistent, and i know what they're wearing the

but as far as expenses, i think regular clothes would probably be cheaper. >> reporter: the two younger ones will wear uniforms back to school. that's okay with 10-year-old antoinette who will practice fashion design on her brand-new sewing machine. >> in the future, yi want to hae my own business. in order to have my own business, i need to do good in school. >> reporter: for many parents, school uniforms don't necessarily mean saving money. does cut down on the peer pressure to wear labels and keep the focus on the classroom. in northwest, molette green, news4. pet lovers in arlington are getting ready for saturday's wags and whiskers event at the village in shirlington. more than 6 -- more than 65 exhibitors will be there in terms of services in adopting pets. you can also hear live music. there's plenty of activities for the kids. >> there's all kinds of booths to like buy things for your pet,

pets. and lots of really pet-friendly businesses talking about what they do. >> and the things about this event, arlington firefighters will be donating pet supplies. they've been collecting them for the animal welfare league. donations are still being collected at several of the fire stations locally. it took years for street cars to return to the streets of the nation's capital. now there's a big change coming to how often you'll see them. and with epipens all over the news for their skyrocketing costs, we're looking into alternatives.

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map. today mark the 100th anniversary of the establishment of the u.s. national parks service. and on the national mall this morning, a huge crowd formed the parks service logo to mark the centennial. more than 400 national parks across the country will waive their admission fees through sunday. about 127 of the parks usually charge an entrance fee. the d.c. street car celebrating an anniversary this weekend. saturday marks six months of service. d.c. transportation leaders say more than 400,000 people have taken a trip since february. coming up on news4 at 5:00, our tom sherwood takes a closer look at the impact it'sa

tom has also learned that starting in september the street car will be running on sundays. nbc 4 is working for you in the community. thousands of kids are heading back to school. and so many need school supplies to start the new year. our annual backpacks 4 kids drive is an easy way for you to help. joining us is mark corman, community advisory board member and vice moderator of metropolitan community church. thank you very much, mark, for joining us. >> thank you, susan. >> you have been doing this now for five years for us. tell us why it is so important for the children. >> this is a key community outreach area for the metropolitan community church. we started four weeks ago and had the goal of raising enough money and backpacks for 300 kid. we think it's important that they get back to you in the right way and have the right supplies. our goal was 300. and i have a check for you. we surpassed our go

the last five years. 6,370 -- >> wow. >> a corrload of backpacks outside. >> that is amazing. really we cannot thank you enough. and the children can't thank you enough, as well and their parents, i'm sure, are appreciative. and you can certainly help, too. we have a phone bank right now, and they're right now standing by to take your phone calls. 202-885-4949 is the number that you can call. you can also donate on our website at nbcwashington.com. mark, again, we cannot thank you enough for doing this for us. this is a large check. boy, the way it's got to make these people feel when they get their little backpacks as the kids go to school. >> thanks, susan. >> thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. >> thanks. school may be starting, but it still feels a heck of a lot like summer. lauren, what's in store for us? >> man, more of the same. heat and humidity. felt it out there today. it's going to be with us not only thr t

also into next week. so, you might want to get used to this a little bit. go ahead and water those plants outside. we don't is a lot of rain chances. now, maybe perhaps in a few times today it looked like it may rain. some of those skies darkened a little bit. we've got cloud cover over rockville. we're not seeing much rain on the storm team 4 radar. we are seeing current temperatures up there in the upper 18. some areas at 90 degrees, leesburg at 90. everybody else in the upper 80s. you factor in the humidity that you have, and this is what it feels like. already feels like the century mark, leesburg, culpeper, fredericksburg, upper 90s in d.c. so it is a little on the sticky side out there. and unfortunately, i think that is going to continue. i think tomorrow will be the hottest day. and as i told you a second ago, not a lot happening on the stormteam 4 radar. clouds, sunshine. but i'm widening this out, looking good. if you're traveling around the region, getting that one

weekend in, not that bad. overnight lows dropping into the 70s. we're not going to fall too far from where we are now. temperatures nearing 90. low to mid 70s overnight. you might want to think about going ahead and turning on the air conditioner. by tomorrow, temperatures are going to be in the low to mid 90s. we're also going to have humidity here. feeling even warmer. tomorrow, in the upper 70s. of course, feeling a lot warmer than that with the humidity. we'll time that out in two seconds. we'll see the heat index by 5:00 p.m. around 100 degrees. sunshine, maybe clouds from time to time. not bad. here is the heat index. as we go through the rest of this evening and through tonight, you see by tomorrow morning, 10:00 a.m., feeling in the mid 90s. that's how it feels now. and then we get to tomorrow afternoon, feeling like 102 out this. it is going to be a rather warm -- on the w

saturday won't be as warm as friday, but still warm as we get into the weekend. the weekend, sunny and muggy. we are going to be dry both saturday and sunday. headed to the beach, temperatures are going to be in the mid 80s. we'll stay in the 90s in the d.c. area. next chance of rain next week, wednesday and thursday. >> thanks. it's not cutting the price, but the mylan drug company will offer options to make the epipen more fosterable. mylan has been under fire for boosting the cost of of the allergy treatment to more than $600 per page. it's offering a $300 savings card to cut the bill in half for patients who would otherwise have to pay full price. the company is expanding eligibility for patient assistance program. so even families with higher incomes will be able to take advantage of it. >> we responded this morning, first and foremost, ensuring that everybody who needs an epipen has an epipen. as a mother

the last things that we would ever want is no one to have their epipen due to price. >> with skyrocketing prices, you can't help but ask what other alternatives do patients have to the epipens. "consumer reports" looked and found lower cost choices to this essential medication. daniel hanin has a severe nut allergy. his mom, don amakes sheer he always has an epipen nearby in case of emergency. >> we hope never to use it. it's essential that he have it with him everywhere he goes. school, camp, with friends. >> reporter: and since the drug manufacturer mylan purchased epipen in 2007, the price of the epipens has gone up more than 400%. >> my insurance doesn't have a co-pay for the pens. it is frustrating that it costs so much. >> reporter: there is no generic for epipen, but doctors can prescribe another kind of auto injector forren never rain that can cost -- for

much less. >> it uses the exact same dosing as the epipen. >> reporter: with epipen, you need to remove a blue safety release, then push an orange tip against your outer thigh until the pen clicks. wait three seconds until the drug is fully injected. with the epinephri no, sne, injectiontor, push it until it punctures the skin, wait ten seconds until the drug is fully injected. either device could save your life in an emergency. it's important to fully understand how the device you're prescribed works. >> if you're frustrated with the high price of epipens, generic adrenaclick may be a real option to discuss with your doctor. >> that is important before reaching for an alternative. talk to your doctor. another way to save money is filling those manual

it's tricky, and you need to use extreme care. >> we want ton what you think. have the makers of epipens done enough to help with the price hike? head over and track our results live on the nbcwashington facebook page. one community is putting local artists' work on display for the next few weeks. members of the partners art group are displaying their work at manassas city hall through the 9th of september. the exhibit is free and open monday through friday between 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. community shocked by an outbreak of tornadoes. first at 4:00, we'll look at the devastation from those serious storms. and the man who left the campaign trail to see the damage for himself has a promise.

survivors of that pulse nightclub shooting are not going to have to pay for out-of-pocket medical expenses. orlando regional medical center says it won't send any medical bills to the patients. instead, the organization says it's going to seek payment from other resources like insurance companies and charity care provided by orlando health. florida hospital is not going to send bills for its services either which means the two hospitals will write off between $5 million to $6 million in

flooding in parts of iowa wednesday. rushing water carried away cars and this r.v. at least one person was killed when his car was swept away. the upper iowa river and turkey rivers have overflown their banks. a huge stretch of indiana is in cleanup mode after a dozen tornadoes touched down. >> the damage from at least 12 twisters is widespread. amazingly, no one died. chris clackum with a closer look at the damage and cleanup effort. >> reporter: there's more to clean up in kokomo because this is where the most damage was done. >> it will be okay. at least we're all here. >> reporter: remarkably all did indeed survive. eight tornadoes tore through indiana wednesday. >> we are very blessed to be able to tell you that we don't have any serious injuries or casualties as a result of this storm. >> oh, my gosh. starbucks just got blown over. >> reporter: no serious injuries even among customers inside a starbucks when the

>> three or four of us work together, got the doors off, got them out. >> reporter: others also grateful to be alive today. >> i said, dear lord, it's going to be my last moment, make it quick and not very painful. >> reporter: indiana governor mike pence left the campaign trail to return home to talk to victims. >> the house was hit. we were stuck in the closet. >> they texted you -- >> yeah. >> reporter: and toured the devastation in kokomo, left by what storm experts think was a powerful ef-3 tornado. from the air, damage in the indiana countryside may be more widespread. but just as severe. here, too, though, neighbors are already pitching in to help in the cleanup. chris clackum, nbc news. good evening. i'm jim handly here with angie gove. ihe

>> reporters in the field working to get you new information on developing stories this hour. >> reporter: two frightening encounters involving women walking or running along the popular w&od trail. ahead, the warning from police for those who are trying to go for a jog. >> reporter: i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news4, a story you'll see only on 4. while head start was investigating the prince george's county school system, a 4-year-old wandered away from the program at this elementary school. so why wasn't it included in their report? >> reporter: i'm julie carey at the prince william county courthouse where we've learned a sex crimes case against a former community college teacher has been dismissed. last spring, two female students accused him of sexual assault. coming up, what that former teacher has to say about the ordeal he's just been through. first at 5:00, it has happened again. another woman assaulted on a popular biking and

>> the victim, an off-duty sheriff's deputy. this latest incident was just this morning. northern virginia bureau reporter david culver just talked with police and joins us live along the washington and old dominion trail in leesburg with a warning. david? >> reporter: hi, angie and jim. we did just speak to police. they tell us that they are adding extra eyes to this trail tonight hoping to find the person behind what was a frightening encounter. one that had, as you mentioned, an off-duty deputy who was out for a jog turning around and running in the opposite direction when she saw a man carrying a box cutter. let me show which part of the trail we're talking about here in leesburg area. the woman went for a jog around 6:30 in the morning. her usual morning jog. she noticed the man headed her direction. the sharp boxcutter in his hand. she reacted quickly. >> the deputy recognized it, turned and ran, and the suspect fled in the