by that day. after an suv turning left struck the 5-month-old and his mom. a witness says the driver was looking at his phone before the crash and then picked up speed as if to try to beat the stroller through the crosswalk. residents who wondered about charges got their answer today. the 45-year-old man was indictmented by a grand jury. th driver facing serious charges. >> i think that whatever charges they have given to him he deserve because there's no excuse to be on the phone and driving at the same time. the little one who died. >> reporter: this plaque at the memorial imploing residents to remember the impact the child had on their hearts and asking them to take the time to be

>> everyone is more vigilant about slowing down. >> there's a lot of windy roads so you definitely take the turns a lot slower, you definitely -- there's kids everywhere walking so you have to be vigilant in what you're doing. >> reporter: i'll show you yet another way neighbors are trying to make sure this death inspires safer driving. back to you in the studio. >> thank you. students from around our area and walked out of class today protesting the results of the election, some of them holding signs that said not my president. meantime there has been mixed reaction to president-elect trump's first hires. steven bannon will be trump's chief strategist. he's a former executive for bright bart news. after running a campaign as an outsider trump also tapped

staff. trump talked about insiders on his transition team on his 60 minutes interview. >> you are saying you have to rely on them even though you want to get rid of them. >> i'm saying that they know the system right now, but we're going to phase that out. you have to phase it out. >> this afternoon the president-elect's transition team said that trump spoke with russian president vladimir putin, the kremlin says puttin partner dalogue with a trump administration. students are still determined to make their voices heard over the election last week. students walked out of school today to protest the election of donald trump. news 4 is there live with the story. >> reporter: this is montgomery blair high school behind me. it has let out for the day. students have gone home and as

have some conversations with their parents tonight about why they walked out of school to join a political protest. >> we reject the president elect. >> no peace, no justice. >> we are the future. >> reporter: hundreds of students from the high school in silver springs walked out of class and took to the streets in protest. >> we walked out. we decided to protest trump because what he says is these different people that are just americans and should be accepted. >> reporter: they blocked university boulevard and picked up more students along the way, from northwood high school all to protest donald trump's election nearly one week ago. >> we're no protesting for a new president. we're protesting to have our voices here, to be on social media and the news so they know how we feel. >> reporter: the students were

montgomery county police used rolling roadblocks to manage traffic and keep students safe encouraging them to march on the sidewalk. they made no arrests. >> i'm trying to drop my kids off at day care and ran on to this. i'm a little shocked. >> not my president. >> reporter: students rallied outside a parking garage. they told me they had the support of their parents and weren't worried about getting in trouble for missing school. >> we're out here trying m our rights. >> reporter: protesters marched to downtown silver spring where they rallied again and then with the school day nearing an end, planned to go home. some told us they didn't agree with kids skipping school. if your child were participating in something like this what would you say? >> i would be upset. >> reporter: why. >> they should be in school getting their education. >> reporter: we heard from the school officials a short time

the protest today and we just found out what will happen to those students who were marked absent. i'll have that part of the story coming up tonight on news 4 at 6:00. back to you. >> thanks. we are just a little more than two months from donald trump being sworn in as the nation's 45th president. a group is fighting to get protesters on the front line of the inaugural parade. the coalition wants demonstrators to be allowed in front of trump locations on the parade route arguing it is a first amend right and believing that reserving certain zones of that route for trump supporters is discriminatory. >> 100% of freedom plaza is being denied to protesters and it's being denied because they don't hold a pro-government viewpoint. >> judges will issue a written opinion but did not provide a

we're seeing rain out there right now. we're tracking the rain, but it's moving slowly to the north. inside the d.c. metro area and places to the north, no rain. we haven't seen any rain, just the cloud cover all day. rain to the south to the shenandoah valley and fredericksburg and stafford county. over the last three hours, i want to show you what's happening. fredericksburg, here is the i fredericksburg to stafford county. it's evaporating before it can fall to the ground, but it will move into the d.c. area over the next couple of hours. make sure you have the umbrella handy. we may be able to get through most of the evening rush, 7:00, maybe everybody at home before the rain moves in, but down to the south. it is trying to make its way across our region and we will be seeing rain tonight.

tomorrow in a few minutes. >> thank you. now to a family tragedy. three young children and an adult family friend killed in a crash while on their way to a wedding. today the family from our area had been driving to that wedding when they ran into car trouble on i-95 and south carolina. a tractor-trailer wound up colliding with their vehicle. news 4 pat collins is live now in wheaton where there will be a vigil for tonight. >> reporter: indeed. at the elementary school a vigil for the three students killed in that crash. for the harley family it was supposed to be a moment of celebration, but now tragedy, now mourning, now funerals. they were all off going to a celebration, a wedding. >> yeah, and now it's like we're

broken. >> reporter: hard to recover? >> yeah, definitely. i don't think we're ever going to recover from this. >> reporter: the family live in wheaton. they had three children. all model students at the elementary school. last friday the whole family and a family friend were headed to a wedding down south. that's when it happened. this terrible crash on i-95 in t a tractor-trailer runs into the back of their car, pushes it into the woods and then runs over everyone in the backseat killed. 7-year-old devon junior, he was going to turn 8 this friday. 6-year-old nickloss and 5-year-old leoy and a family

>> they were three beautiful innocent children. this is the worst thing that could ever happen to me and my family. >> reporter: driving the car at the time of the accident, nancy harley. she's said to be in critical condition. they say she's in a coma and doesn't know what happened. her husband was in the front passenger seat. he's expected to be okay, physically, but emotionally they say he there's a go fund me page to help out the harley family. you can check it out on our website. back to you. >> thank you, pat. there is great sorrow in newsrooms across the country today as we learn of the death of gwen ifill. gwen co-anchored the pbs news

congress for nightly news. her friend pete williams said today that she had so many awards in her office, you could barely see out the window and sara just who is with pbs called gwen a standard bearer for courage and fairness in an industry going through seismic change. news of her death spread this afternoon, you could hear people gasp. >> gwen was a friends of ours and she asked tough questions, holding people and power accountable and defending a strong and free press. >> gwen had been fighting cancer for most of this year taking a leave of absence in may.

hospice. she was just 61. president obama was talking about the future of the dnc today. up next, some of his thoughts after a presidential election defeat. more street cars for d.c. the plan that could impact your commute for years to come. this man has a new lease on life after a double shoulder replacement. the new technology that took away his pain. the biggest and brightest full moon in nearly 70 years. moving across our the nbc washington app.

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world. more than 50,000 people get shoulder replacements every year in this country. now an fda approved device is changing things up when it comes to getting a new shoulder wm we're here to explain how it works. >> reporter: the device is smaller and more flexible than the typical rod that had been used in shoulder transplants. it helps doctors recreate a normal aanatomy more easily. john built this house where he lived in maryland. he runs the farm and has worked as a bricklayer. he's led an active life, but a few years ago serious shoulder pain started to interfere with all of that. >> it would range from a nine to 11, depending how high i would try to move my shoulder. >> it's a thinning or loss of cartilage that lines the bone

for the two bones to kind of slide against one another. in his case it was completely gone. >> reporter: john's degenerative arthritis created almost constant friction in his shoulder joints and limited his movement. >> there were times when it was so bad he actually would scream out sometimes in the night. that pain was unbelievable, the pain that came from those shoulders. >> the final straw was getting ready to go to church on a sunday morning shirt in and i asked the wife to help me and she did and the following monday i went to work and i got home and she says tomorrow you got a doctor's appointment. >> reporter: by the time john went to see dr. johnston at the southern maryland orthopedic sports and medicine center, his shoulders had deteriorated so badly that. >> the options for him reconstructive options were doing half a shoulder replacement or a full shoulder

small device which way approved by the fda just last year. traditionally shoulder replacement uses a metal spike which can run halfway down the arm. the stemless device is an eighth of the size, fitting into the top of the arm bone. >> the exact replacement john had, you can see the plastic. this is the shoulder blade right here. then this is the arm bone. and then this is the short the stemless implant that we've talked about. you can see that basically fits right there into the humorous and then we cut the ball off and replace it with this metal ball and the ball rests on the plastic shoulder. >> reporter: john had his right shoulder replaced in january and the left side was replaced a few months later. >> the day after the surgery when the doctor came in and saw me and asked how i was doing and i said i'm feeling great, i

pain was gone. >> reporter: his only regret, that he suffered for five years before getting help. >> i can raise my arms all the way up and it doesn't hurt. it doesn't grind. no more pain. no more pain. >> reporter: you can see john is a happy guy an active, back to all his activities again. with this process there's less blood less and evidence suggests there may be a lower risk of infection associated with the procedure. >> that's wonderful. >> reporter: great news for a lot of people. >> it looks simple. >> reporter: -- depression rates are on the rise among girls. researchers discovered the increase by analyzing drug use and health data. they found episodes of

to more than 11% two years ago. more research is needed to figure out why girls are so effected. but experts say it may involve cyber bullying and negative taekting. how can transportation be improved in maryland. the action committee for transit wants to expand train service between washington and frederick. the group is convening for $100 million in state money that wouldy additional tracks allowing passenger trains to pass freight trains and extend the train platform at point of rocks. officials tell us these improvements would allow at least five round trips a day instead of the current three. the governor has asked for ideas for improvements along i-270 that don't involve adding lanes. a crack down to promote pedestrian safety. police targeting drivers, but

last year 75 pedestrians were killed on our streets. violators are facing fines of up to $500. this enforcement will be lasting through the end of this month. you've heard about the dangers of driving while distracted. >> now it appears there's an impact to your health even if you're not involved in an accident. what you can exct through

radar tracking the rain much needed rainfall, not expecting a ton of it, but we do really need it. we are close to five inches below average since the first of september. that's only 2 1/2 months ago. we have not seen much rain at this another system that will not give us much. we are looking at heavy rain back towards the shenandoah valley. more down to the south and it is making its way northward and it will continue to mieg rate to the north. all of this fairly light as we move on out. it's had a tough time pushing north because we have an area of low pressure along the coast and

towards the west. this one has to move our way before the rain can come our way too. it will over the next couple of hours so make sure you have the umbrellas handy. temperature wise we've seen those numbers down toda 53 degrees currently. you can tell where it's raining. look at the numbers. 48. 43 degrees, only 45 with rain in fredericksburg, but still in the 50s where we have not seen the rain yet in may not see much rain at all. we'll start to see showers around 7:00, but definitely by 9:00 and 11:00 plain light rain as it moves down and temperatures will fall into the 40s as that rain moves in. here is future weather. notice again, around 8:00 that rain making its way across our region, but still to the north

around 11:00 down towards fredericksburg, but north and west not seeing much rain at all. you may get on this overnight tonight and early tomorrow morning, but for the most part you're going to see a little bit in the way of light rain showers there. d.c. down towards fredericksburg you may need the umbrella tomorrow morning and give yourself a little extra time because of the cloud cover and the rain we have going to have wet roadways early tomorrow morning. the clouds sticking around through 10:00 tomorrow morning. tomorrow. 60 degrees tomorrow. clouds early and then clearing. if you're at the bus stop, 7:00 a.m., 45 degrees and 66 degrees at noon but starting to see clearing and by 4:00 temperatures around 60 degrees. look at friday, high of 67 degrees. a chance of rain on saturday and then and then and then a

sunday. tom and i were talking about this, i wouldn't be surprised to see some snow showers for the first time. it's possible up to the north. tom will be back in a couple of minutes for the latest. >> we're covering our ears. thank you. hybrid cars call for a quiet ride, but that's going to change. the new rule going into effect that's supposed to save lives. a young girl caught in the cross fire of a deadly is a plea in court today from the family of a man who is

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speak about his own party. chris is in the newsroom to tell us about that. >> reporter: the president was asked what he thinks about the hiring of stephen bannon and he says he is reserving judgment and meeting with donald trump for the first time last week and how he emphasized to him that after such a hotly contested election, gestures matter. the president says that he suggested to mr. trump that he reach out to groups that may not have supported mr. obama says when it comes to his own party he thinks he's actually healthy for the democrats to go through some reflection. he still thinks his party has the better ideas, but says that doesn't matter if people don't hear them. he thinks the dnc should do a lot more work at the grassroots level. >> i think it's important for me not to be big footing that conversation. i think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge. that's part of the reason why i

given population distribution across the country, we have to compete everywhere. we have to show up everywhere. >> reporter: the president reiterated that right now his top priority is making sure there is a smooth transition to the trump administration taking control. jim. >> all right. thank you. new details right now in the case of a father charged with stabbing his two children inside their home in prince george's this afternoon. news 4 derrick ward was there and talked with family members today. he joins us with the story. >> reporter: at that court appearance the mother of the man who is accused of trying to kill his two kids made a plea for lennansy. she said that he's been a doting and devoted father to these kids and although they saw some signs

never thought it would end up like this, that he would be in jail and charged with trying to kill his own two sons. he will remain in jail at least until his next court appearance after what happened in this district heights home saturday night, a violent tragedy played out in a family setting. >> i talked to christian yesterday. he said, mom, what did i do? >> reporter: police say he went after his two sons with a knife, they're 2 and 3 years old. they survived the attack at the hands of doing anything. that's how i know this is not him. he just lost it. >> reporter: family members say he had been spiraling downward. his job and relationship with the boys' mother and drug use converged that night violently. >> he's not a bad guy. he's an amazing father if you can believe me. >> i've been trying to get christian help for some time because he's been depressed and

>> reporter: he cut himself after attacking the children before his mother and another brother took the knife away from him. >> it was a terrible sight to see the stab wounds and my grandchildren crying and christian whispered saying take care of my kids. >> reporter: he faces charges that he sexually assaulted the children's mother earlier that day before leaving the home and returning that night when the children were attacked. the state's attorney says the family is coat investigation. they want to see he gets help and this case highlights the need to address one of the most pressing problems of domestic violence. he's due back in court on december 12th. coming up in the next hour we'll hear more from the state's attorney about how this is just another tragic case of domestic violence. we're live, back to you. >> thank you. two teenagers are recovering. police are searching for two

wheeton metro station. the victims are 15 and 16 years old. they wound up in the hospital with stab wounds after an attack yesterday afternoon. police have a suspect in mind but have not released names. parents will have a chance to get answers after the arrest of a counselor at an after school program. staffers with the kids after hours program at flower valley elementary are hosting the meeting at 7:00 tonight. man earlier this month. he is accused of having inappropriate contact with a 5-year-old girl in that program. a toddler shot dead, the bullet meant for someone else, a teenager, who wasn't home at the time. this set off a manhunt for the killer that lasted more than a month. now more than two years later the trial for the suspect is getting under way.

in court today. >> reporter: you got to remember what it was like in the summer of 2014 when police were looking for the suspected gunmen in this case after the 3-year-old baby was shot and killed inside of her bedroom. the jury was selected today, but the family is going to have to wait one more day for that trial to get started. for more than a month in the summer of 2014 the fbi fugitive task force and police searched for this man. he was charged in the shooting death of >> for 38 days we've been searching for devon. we have him in custody and he's right where he needs to be. >> reporter: the child was playing in an upstairs bedroom when shots were fired into the home killing her. police say wallace was the gunman firing after a disagreement with someone inside of the house. tips led to police locating wallace in the southeast d.c. apartment building. the search for him searched from new jersey to north carolina.

person who shoots, injures a child. he should have been turned in long before he was and someone had seen him. this is a collective responsibility of this community to eradicate this epidemic. >> reporter: the family was in the courtroom today. i spoke with his attorney and asked if anyone had any comment on that side. the attorney said not at this time. this trial gets under way reporting live, back to you in the studio. >> thank you. street cars made their long awaited debut on d.c. streets nine months ago. now there's talk of expansion. still to come, the plan that could turn miles of d.c. into a construction zone for several years. that powerful earthquake damages roads and buildings and sets off hundreds of aftershocks.

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a guilty verdict in georgia for the father whose 22-month-old son died in a hot car. >> prosecutors argue that father intentionally left the child in the car for seven hours. nbc has our story. >> reporter: over four days a jury deliberated the case of

>> as to count one the defendant be found guilty. >> reporter: he showed little emotion as the clerk read all eight counts and announce in the he was found guilty on each. among the counts, malis murder, which means the jury agreed he left the child in the sweltering suv to die. >> he left him there for 30 seconds before closing the door on that little boy's >> reporter: the defense admitted he did it, but he did not do it on purpose. >> he is responsible, but responsible is not the same thing as criminal. it is not. >> reporter: the jury heard evidence that harris took his son to breakfast in june of 2014, but instead of dropping him off at day care drove to his office where he left him in the backseat of his suv for seven hours. he told police it was an accident. prosecutors said harris killed his son to escape family

sexually explicit messages to woman and he searched hot car deaths before his son died. during the trial his ex-wife testified he was a loving and devoted father, but in the end the jury agreed with prosecutors and found harris guilty of guilty his 22-month-old son. nbc news. we know distracted driving is your health in other ways. up next, what researchers are saying about how multi tasking behind the wheel affects your stress. a street car to georgetown, sounds like a great idea, right?

here's some of what you missed. high school students in montgomery walk out of school to protest the election. >> reporter: it has been 2 1/2 months since a baby in a

intersection. today the driver of the suv that caused the crash indicted by a grand jury, the most serious charge, involuntarily mis. four members of a family after being hit by a tractor-trailer in south carolina. police wondering did car trouble play a role. d.c. street cars, only been in operation for about a year now. there's already talk about expanding that system, sending it all the way to georgetown. when that crosstown service could start. adam tus is in georgetown to tell us how this could possibly work. >> reporter: we're under the freeway here because this is where the street car station is it planned to go. it's a little further down the road here, but you can see the traffic is lined up and if all goes according to plan we could be talking about a street car

along h street in northeast, the sound and feel of the street car has become part of the community. >> this is something new and i wanted to try it. >> just see the different type of public transportation i think it's great for any city. >> reporter: the street car now not so much a fad, but a real way people are getting around and the plan is to possibly extend street car service from the h street corridor and union station in northeast across the ci georgetown. >> there's demand for transportation to go through the city and that's not going to stop. >> reporter: jamie henson is ddot's project manager. he says crosstown buses go about 5 miles an hour in rush hour. he says the street car can get up to 10 miles an hour. >> it's a really complicated project.

free to ride some see the value as part of the overall transportation network. >> i think it's something that could be blended and used as something as a simply mode of transportation. >> reporter: ddot holding a meeting this thursday to talk about possible expansion. it's estimated that every one mile of the d.c. street car system costs $100 million to build. coming up next hour at 6:00 how many people would actually ride the street car across the ci it's free now, but will it always be free. back to you. >> thank you. distracted driving is dangerous for you and others on the road. researchers are looking into how multi tasking behind the wheel effects your stress levels. researchers created a driving simulator to help capture data on what really happens to drivers when they're not paying attention on the road. >> we're trying to find out is

and your oil pressure, can we measure literally the pressure that's on the driver and see whether or not they're under a lot of stress and whether or not it's effecting their performance. >> reporter: researchers noticed drivers are so distracted they mismanage their speed, ignore speed limit signs and crossed the white line. new today, new rules for electric and hybrid vehicles. they're known to be very quiet at low speeds. highway traffic safety administration says it's a safety problem and it's about to change starting in september of 2019 all electric cars will have to make noise by law. it's designed to prevent pedestrians from getting hurt by cars that they can't hear and it could prevent up to 2,400 injuries every year. this is first lady michelle

ending, veteran homelessness. she says three states, virginia, connecticut and delaware have all ended veteran homelessness since the initiative started in 2011. she called on the trump administration to continue this effort. >> it is definitely possible to continue this work from one administration to the next and i fully expect that to happen with the transition to our next president. >> the first lady says 350,000 veterans have been given a home since 2010. we have another big name for you am cooing to the new mgm national harbor, sting. he signed on for a concert on sunday march 12th. tickets go on sale a week from today. every ticket purchased online will include a digital down lode of his new album.

names coming to this new venue. it's a victory, monday at redskins park. the team coming off a big win against minnesota. >> but the schedule doesn't get any easier and everybody is chasing the first place cowboys right now. jason joins us live at the park. they have a tough stretch coming up, right. >> reporter: that's right. they really do. the redskins play this sunday night. they'll host the packers. that is a prime time matchup. immediately after that game they have to travel to dallas on thanksgiving day to play the cowboys. so a very very tough stretch for the redskins, but if the players and coaches like to say one game at a time. let's look back at that minnesota victory yesterday because it was a thrilling finish for the redskins.

get ready. >> reporter: he is making sure his coach is ready to go. his teammates were ready out of the gate. the vikings defense haven't given up an opening drive touchdown all year. the skins changed that. minnesota came back to make this game close. no trent williams or deshawn jackson, no problem for quarterback kurt cousins. he continues to put up solid everything still on the table for this redskins team. >> we are in our division and we're a couple of games back behind dallas who is playing well. we have to figure out to catch dallas. so we have to continue play well, one game at a time is the motto. it's true in this business. you can't look ahead and look at your record and guess what's going to happen each week. you have to take care of your

green bay coming here sunday night. >> reporter: as for the dallas cowboys they are the best team in the nfl, but chris coolley believes the skins can catch them. we'll talk to him later on news 4 at 6:00. news 4 sports. >> thank you, jason. are we going to see the super moon tonight? probably not. >> if you go about 15,000 feet up, get >> if you saw it last night. >> it was glorious. >> right now in addition to the cowboys being on radar, we have rain is creeping closer to us inch by inch step by step. it is taking its sweet time slowly it is coming up our way. right into the metro area thankfully after the commute is

safely and not needing the umbrella, but right now getting the rain in the shenandoah valley and the leading edge of this right now is just coming into prince william county up 95. right here in washington we ought to see it around 7:00 this evening. the hour by hour timing on the rain after that, all this area in color is that rain. 10:00 the bulk of it starts to come in and by 11:00 and midnight it's going to begin to break up and tomorrow morning a lot of it will be gone, but we'll have clouds through mid right now where it is raining it's in the 40s and where the clouds are hanging in we're in the low 50s right now, but as soon as that rain begins we'll see temperatures drop down in the 40s and we'll stay in the mid 40s all night long. what to wear? have an umbrella this evening and maybe you need rain boots this evening, but tomorrow you'll be comfortable in a warm coat and in the afternoon you'll

last night. right by the lincoln memorial. post your pics, facebook, instagram. damp roads in the morning an then drying and staying up around 60 and heading back home dry roads and temperatures in the upper 50s. we'll be in the mid 40s in the morning and highs near 60 on tuesday. some clouds coming the low 60s. a warming trend toward the end of the back. sunshine back on thursday and friday. highs in the low to mid 60s to upper 60s on friday and then a dramatic drop of 20 degrees or more as we get into sunday with strong gusts of wind. can't rule out a few wet snowflakes flying through the air on sunday afternoon and then we'll stay dry and cold after that as we get into the following week.

rattling nerves in new zealand. >> they follow the powerful earthquake that hit this weekend. new video showing the moments that quake hit and the extensive

this is what it looked like the moment that strong earthquake shook new zealand. this is it inside a supermarket. wine bottles flying off the shelves.

building shakes violently. that quake left two people dead and hundreds of people may need to be rescue idea from a coastal town. >> the quake triggered a small tsunami. >> reporter: the epicenter of the earthquake is two hours north of here. it is the hardest hit and the road and they have been blocked by landslides so the area is accessible by air. >> we're making sure people are getting water and food. it's a number of tourists down here that have been stuck. >> reporter: about a thousand tourists are stranded there. rescue operations will get under way to evacuate them.

i can't return. >> reporter: there were strong aftershocks today, about a dozen of them according to officials. the tsunami alert has been lifted, but they're warning people to stay away from the shores. there are communities without electricity or running water and they're beginning to run short on food. so the focus in the coming hours will be reaching those areas that are hardest hit to get a clear picture of the earthquake's toll. back to you. news 4 right now president obama is about to leave the white house for his final foreign trip. at a news conference today he said he would stay in touch with president-elect donald trump while he was overseas. >> i remember what it was like when i came in eight years. it is a big challenge. this office is bigger than any one person and that's why ensuring a smooth transition is so important.

but it's vital to a functioning democracy. it's a commitment to reason and facts and analysis. it's part of what makes this country work. >> the president declined to weigh in on the backlash of donald trump's most controversial staff pick. yesterday the president-elect named steve bannon as his chief strategist. bannon led bright bart new extreme movement sometimes called the alt right. >> we have coverage of the transition and the protests that have followed. we begin with steve at the white house. >> reporter: the news that steve bannon will play a major role at the white house next year has critics of bannon and donald trump vowing to take a closer look now at the trump transition in new york.