panic around a local food truck. >> we were scared. we were concerned about our livelihood and we were concerned about the people on the truck. new calls for safety checks tonight as we learn more about

players facing charges tonight, suspended indefinitely. their alleged role in pellet gun shootings on campus. and the emotional moment in hillary clinton's first public appearance since conceding to donald trump. . >> announcer: news4 at 11:00 starts now. three people hurt, at least one critically burned. that's the toll taken by this fire that gutted a fo >> this happened at 21st and h northwest on the george washington university campus. shomari stone spoke to one of those victims tonight. he is live at the scene. >> reporter: good evening. one of those victims tells me he is very sick and recovering. this fire really shook the campus of this food truck. now, many of the students, faculty, and the fellow food

stunned. >> absolute shock. >> the bus was completely engulfed in the flame. >> reporter: shyler was surprised to see one of his favorite trucks going up in flames at george washington university this afternoon. >> you know, i go there at least once a week to eat. so my first thought was, you know r the people inside okay? and you know, i understand that this is their business. it's their livelihood, but are those people okay? >> reporter: tonight two condition. one has minor injuries after the house of if a lafell food truck caught on fire on the 2100 block of h street, where several food trucks are parked on gw's campus. matt gain was parked behind and watched firefighters put out the flames. >> we were scared. we were concerned about our livelihood and we were concerned about the people on the truck. we evacuated as quickly as possible. >> reporter: tonight you can see

off. fire investigators are trying to determine what caused this fire. you look down here. you can see this generator. did this cause it? or was it something else? >> it's hard to tell. >> reporter: the director of dmv's food truck association an advocacy organization and says food trucks must pass a health inspection every two years and a safety inspection every year. has this truck been through that? >> not get answers. >> reporter: again. we talked to the owner of the food truck and he told me that he passed the health and safety inspection. he wouldn't give specifics. again, essays that he is recovering. we of course will try and contact him tomorrow. meanwhile, dc fire investigators are trying to determine what sparked the blaze. as soon as we find out, we will tell you all about it on our nbc washington app.

shomari stone, news4. chopper 4 captured the moment when crews pulled a construction workerer from a trench in green belt ending hours of suspense. the collapse happened about 1:00. two rescue crews tried to dig the unanimous out. 3:00 rolled by, then 4:00, then 5:00, just before 6:00 crews slowly pulled the man out on a to a trauma center but is expected to safe. for the third day, students protested the results of the presidential election. they marched through rockville and wound up on the steps of the old county courthouse. tonight, the superintendent released a video asking them to stop. >> these demonstrations have unfortunately generated valid concerns regarding the students

injured as part of a protest, it raises serious safety issues that require us to rethink the situation. >> students beat up a 15-year-old trump supporter today. he should be okay. the superintendent's entire message will play at school tomorrow. you can watch it right now on our nbc washington app. hillary clinton was back in dc tonight to speak to the children's defense fund. she how hard she is still taking the loss. >> i will admit, coming here tonight wasn't the easiest thing for me. there have been a few times this past week when all i wanted to do was just to curl up with a good book, or our dogs and never leave the house again. >> clinton said cdf founder marian wright edelman inspired her to get back to work.

disappointed and gotth got choked up at one point. she was talking about her mother who was mistreated by her family and abandoned by her parents when she was 8 years old. >> i dream of going up to her and sitting next to her and taking her in my arms and saying looking look at me, and listen, you will survive, your daughter will grow up to be a united states senator, represent our country as secretary of state, and win more than 62 million united states. >> senator bernie sanders also made some waves tonight. he was asked if his attacks on clinton in the primaries hurt her chances of winning and said, well, you can argue the reverse, that maybe he would have won the general election. sanders also called the republican party arrogant and said if they expect confirmation hearings on a supreme court justice to move quickly, they should think twice.

thank you chris. more complaints about the trump transition team tonight but the president-elect's inner circle says things are going well. observers of donald trump's campaign are seeing some of the same things they saw on the trail including infighting and leadership shakeups. but trump's team blames the griping on sour grapes from people who have been forced out. >> every transition goes through day yos. every transition goes through turnover. >> i think there is some confusion going on about a chain of comma york. >> compared to his most recent predecessor's president-elect trump isn't doing too badly. it took former president george h.w. bush and george bush two days. and it took former president clinton a month. tonight we know why two university of maryland football players missed last saturday's

remember facing charges related to shooting students on campus with an air soft gun. jackie bensen live in college park with reaction. >> reporter: we have obtained the charging documents in this case. they say that two air soft rifles that look like ak-47s were surrendered to police by the football players. shock in college park tonight as word spread that two members of the shootings that had students on alert for their safety. >> we have been getting a lot of warnings the past couple weeks about beebe guns and then shooting and all these things. makes me really nervous. >> reporter: lorenzo harrison the third is a starting running back approaching record yards by a freshman. both are 19, both graduated from

degree assault and reckless endangerment in three recent cases where students walking on campus reported getting shot by bbs. it's now believed they were actually pellets from an air soft gun. arrest warrants were issued friday. harrison and turner were suspended from the team hours before maryland's 62-3 loss to ohio state. the athletic department says in part, we are aware of the situation and take these matters very involved have been suspended indefinitely for violating the student athlete code of conduct. >> i think it's important to hold people accountable for what they are doing and important for us to feel safe. >> reporter: the court documents show there was a third player in the back seat of the car during one of these incidents. he has not been charged. live in college park, jackie bensen, news4. this will be the last weekend of business for aches si

bureau chief tracee wilkins broke the news today, she says the county defeated several court appeals to keep the clubs open. sees and desist orders are going out. this got started last spring when twh county changed zoning laws saying strip clubs couldn't do business near churches. a major development. tonight in one of the most shocking police-involved shootings this year. shot by a police officer during a traffic stop. his girlfriend began streaming the aftermath on facebook, you may recall. now officer geronimoian easy is charged with manslaughter. he said he thought castile was reaching for a gun. after watching the video prosecutors say castile was calm, compliant and did everything right. >> his dying words were in

there simply was no objective threat posed to the officer. >> the shooting set off weeks of protests in minnesota, many of them violent. the officer is now facing up to 20 years in jail if convicted. well, tump temperatures today reached the 60s. we are going to stay on the warm trend over the next couple of days. average high this time of year, 58 degrees. we'll be well above that average high, even close to 70 on friday before things go down season. and it wants to stick around a while. i'll show you when coming up in about ten minutes. next at 11:00, the nationwide heroin and opiod epidemic putting a strain on local families. >> i'm here raising a 6-year-old child. my husband and i are parents all over again. >> the growing trend for parents of adult addicts looking for

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it's big brother to the rescue. take a look at this. a mother in miami left a baby on the changing table for just a moment. and he suddenly rolled over. he was just a split second from hitting the ground when 9-year-old joseph rushed to his rescue. the mother has five children, was trying to get three of them ready for bed when this happened last month. she says she was too embarrassed to post the video then but now

residents of dc's ward eight got a progress report tonight on a new sports and entertainment arena coming to our region. the wizards will use it as a practice facility and it will serve as home court for the mistics. tonight residents saw the latest design concepts. the arena is expected to have a little more than 4,000 seats. it's opening on the old campus of st. eves hospital in congress heights. that's in southeast. the project is expected up by 2018. opiod and heroin addiction is a huge problem that we've been covering for many months now. president obama calls ate threat as great as terrorism and many of the victims of this crisis are almost invisible. the pictures are pretty shocking, two parents passed out in the front seat of a van with their toddler in back. a little girl crying in a store. sheets' trying to rouse her

addiction to opiates and heroin out of control in america right now. and thousands of children are the victims, losing their parents and their homes to drugs. >> sometimes you get so lost. you know? this should be my time to shine, and i'm here raising a 6-year-old child, my husband and i a p >> reporter: mary and ed live in the baltimore area. they have custody of their granddaughter, lexi. their daughter janet, lexi's mother, struggled with drug addiction for years. first pills. then heroin. >> drugs just totally had taken what love she ever had for her daughter. >> reporter: lexi used to live with her own parents but when mary saw the conditions her granddaughter was living in she was appalled.

drugs. that's all these kids see when they are with their parents, drugs. they don't hide that from these kids. that's when i look at my husband and said we have to do something. >> reporter: they petitioned the court and their daughter for full custody of lexi, and won. there are no concrete numbers for how many people are raising their grandchildren as a result of drug addiction. but a look on facebook shows pages like the addicts mom, grandparents raising grandchildren, which offer on line group support for grandparents. >> i know a total of probably eight grandparents that are raising their grandchildren. like i said, the lady that lives next to me lost her son from the drug. >> reporter: suddenly becoming a parent again after raising her own five children is a challenge in so many ways. >> i didn't have a car seat for lexi. i had nothing. no bed. no nothing.

neighbors have helped out and mary now works cleaning houses and walking dogs. but making sure lexi feels safe and stable has been the hardest part. >> she was a child that was traumatized. like i said, i couldn't get her to sleep by herself. i got her in therapy. >> reporter: mary says her daughter janet is now clean and sober and lives in an upstairs apartment in their home where she and ed can keep an eye on her. although janet has it's lexi's grandparents who are sharing in all their granddaughter's moments and milestones. >> her very first report card. i'm happy she is starting to become this happy little girl that she should have been four years ago. >> lexi and her family are looking forward to spending the holidays together. so many other children of addiction will not be so fortunate. doug joins us now. couple of nice days before the

>> this one will be a shock in many ways. the last couple of cold air masses were like one and done type deals. a day of cold air and then it warms back up. this one, it's going to take a while to get warmer air back here. yeah, it's time to get out the koeds coats. you might need them for a while tonight. not tonight. not tomorrow. temperatures right now, 50. wind out of the south at 5 miles an hour. the e.j. rest of the region, 39 in ss gaithersburg. it will be cool tomorrow morning but not all that cold. at the bus stop tomorrow morning cool at 7:00 a.m., 60 by noon. by noon we are going to be so nice. many. suburbs in the upper 50s. inside the city around 60. going to a high around 65 degrees. rain not going to be an issue moving through the day. we saw some earlier today but that was about it. look at this little system, little tiny system move on

upper 60s. that system is moving through. the bigger system is way up to the north. the little systems are going around the bigger system. behind this there is nothing to talk about from washington back towards chicago. that means plenty of sunshine for the next two days. and then things change. let's look at that sunshine tomorrow. 66 degrees. sunny and nice across the area. really is going to be very nice out as we make our way through. again, temperatures for the next few days nice. 65, 66 tomorrow. 70 on the average tie hmp this time of year is 58. we are nowhere near a record though. the record is 80 on friday. still extremely warm. most of saturday during the day looks great. if you have any plans on saturday, no problem. but it's saturday night that we see the warm air give way to the cold air as the front moves through. i'm not just talking any front either. this is going to be a strong front. much colder.

hour. some may see snow showers. not bad at all with the simple fact it's going to be cold. 46 on monday, 48 on sunday. the redskins have a game coming up on sunday. we'll be down there with storm range her as we take on the packers for the 8:20 game. time out these numbers. 42 degrees by that 9:00 cold air. and all next week well below average. >> we can. we'll be ready. coming up the caps give the coming up the caps give the peng your path to retirement

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>> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. caps looking good tonight the against the penguins. >> yes. the caps looked great. the wizards not so much. >> oh. >> the capitols beat the best team in the nhl while the wizards lost to the worst team in the nba. tonight's win didn't give the capitols the stanley cup from laea victory. they handed pittsburgh their worst loss since october 19th of 1991. the capitols not happy about dropping their last two games. luckily they took it out on pittsburgh tonight. first period, caps on the penalty kill, t.j. oshie comes up with a turnover. gives to it beagle. he shoots, doesn't score, but oshie is there for the rebound.

more from orby. right place, right time. two goals, two assists in this game. capitols up 3-0 after the first period. in the third they have a 5-0 lead. the great 8, alex ovechkin gets a goal. eighth of the season. the caps are up six. backstrom fires and scores for his second goal of the game. final score is 7-1. wizards taking on the 76ers, the worst team in the nba. scott brooks all smiles before this one. not so much during the game. 76ers led by as many as 20 points in this game. nice play by john wall who was on a minutes restriction. another good take from wall. he scored 21 points in the

point. trying to find some life. shawn holmes. knocks down the three pointer there. a big bucket for the 76ers. they beat the wizards. your final score 109-102. this is what pure joy looks like, people. max scherzer, the moment it was announced he won the national league cy young award. scherzer take home his first cy young award in nashls national's history. just the sixth player to win if award in both the person that and the national league. in 2013 with the tigers. 20-7 record. 284 strikeouts, and a 20-strikeout game back in the month of may. >> it is a unbelievable. i'm speechless. you know, just to be a part of this. it's unbelievable i've been part

i've had great teams. i've been able to accomplish this, you know, like i said i'm speechless. >> do you think your wife will throw away your cy young award like she did your no-hitter trophy? >> no chance. no chance. this one is going to be stable on a wall. there is no chance she is going to throw that away. >> the redskins getting ready for a primetime matchup this sunday night against the green bay back. coming back from a shoulder injury. he missed a game. head coach jay gruden doesn't know about his availability for

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