and that breaking news right now, reports of up to two police officers shot in northeast washington tonight. news4 sources crm

suspect may have also been hit. >> we don't know anything yet about the officers' conditions or the suspect. all this happened in northeast d.c. >> we have shomari stone and jackie bensen headed to the scene right now. even before that happened tonight, three shootings on the same streets. four victims all in less than two hours. >> a nearby school notified parents this evening that students and staff were okay. new at 11:00 tonight, shomari stone spoke to one man who said he heard some of those shots. >> reporter: d.c. crime scene investigators are busy on wheeler road southeast tonight. three people wounded in shootings between 6:00 and 8:00 this evening. that happened down the block from eagle academy school. right now police are processing the scene, collecting shell casings, talking to people in the neighborhood. they're trying to determine a motive and find out who

the shots. no word on the condition of the victims. he lives near the crime scene. tell me what you heard. >> i heard eight or nine shots. they sound like 38 because i know what a 45 sounds like. i know what a 32 sounds like. i'd know. then i heard something else. >> reporter: d.c. police continue to investigate. they urge anyone with information about these shootings to give them a call. i'm shomari stone, news4. i'm chris lawrence at the live desk. i want to update you on the breaking news we brought you at the top of the hour. we have now confirmed that two d.c. police officers have been shot. both of them we are being told are conscious and breathing at the time. all of this happened in the 1400 block of morris street. it's near

morris and holbrook in northeast d.c. right now we're working to try to get information on what happened to the suspect and how all this went down. we have two crews, shomari stone and jackie bensen, both headed to the scene. we're going to keep bringing you updates as soon as we get them. chopper 4 over the scene of a fatal crash in reston tonight. a driver hit a woman who was walking along reston parkway and dulles drive. the driver did stay on the scene and will be okay. the results are in for some 200 women who had to be retested for the zika virus in the district after a botched batch of testing. seven more pregnant women who were told they were not infected with zika have learned their tests returned false negatives. one of them is now a confirmed case of zika. the other six not yet

pregnant women in the district who you were given incorrect test results to nine. there's a race to develop a vaccine to protect us from the zika virus. only on news4, the top infectious disease specialist tells the vaccine would trigger an immune response to the mosquito's saliva. the vaccine is in the early stages of clinical trials, but if successful it could be life saving. >> interesting, novel very creative concept. >> if that works, that would be -- >> that would be a game changer if it works, but we're still early on in the trials. >> nih is involved and moving ahead with more than

dozen zika vaccines. it's an all too familiar story around our region. hundreds of local families say they're about to get priced out of their homes. tonight they protested the new development that's about to replace their apartment building. as jackie bensen reports, the developer is promising to help, but tenants say that's not enough. >> reporter: protesters filled the plaza in front of one judiciary square just before the d.c. zone commission hearing. they claimed an 80-year-old apartment complex will displace families who will find it hard to find affordable housing. she's lived in brooklyn manor for 35 years. she believes the project will

>> we have grandparents raising children and they need a place to live. our children are becoming depressed. they don't know where they're going. they don't know where they're going to live. >> reporter: the protesters later packed the zoning commission hearing room as mid city financial corporation presented plans for the project which will be called ria. >> there's been a lot of misinformation that's been reported about the project. what we're trying to do is find a way to do this redevelopment and bring along all of our existing residents. we got our initial approval back in 2015 and the concept of the plan was that all existing residents in good standing would be allowed to stay and we would build the affordable housing first to house those residents. >> reporter: the project also calls for plans to redevelop the nearby brentwood village shopping center. police arrested several people for the murder of a young prince william county man and investigators tell us his case is connected to another murder.

now in custody for the death of a 21-year-old. the two men you see pictured here are charged with murder. the body was found last month near the banks of the potomac. he had angered ms-13 gang members by falsely boasting he had a leadership role in that gang. they decided to punish him by killing him according to police. the body of 15-year-old alexandra reyes was found in springfield. ten people are in custody in connection with her death. there are ms-13 implications there as well. parents, students, school leaders, and taxpayers in montgomery county are trying to figure out how to deal with the growing and critical problem of school overcrowding. tonight they met to talk about one plan that calls for reopening woodward high school in rockville. it's now the site of

middle school. study groups will also look into moving alternative and vocational programs to commercial buildings. i'm chris lawrence back at the live desk updating you on that breaking news we've been following throughout this newscast. we can now tell you that a suspect has also been shot in d.c. this is part of this incident in which two d.c. police officers have been shot. a suspect, an adult male, has also been shot in that same confrontati confrontation. let's give you an idea of where this is happening. we know all of this went down at the corner of morse and holbrook streets. the first calls we started hearing came in around 10:40 tonight. within the last 25 minutes or so, we started hearing chatter about an offi i

officer down call. and that's when we started getting more information that there were two officers involve ed. two officers have been shot. we are being told they are both conscious and breathing. we don't know anything more than that in terms of how they're doing. of course, we'll be hoping and praying for the best for those officers. we have two crews headed to the scene right now. shomari stone and jackie bensen, they'll be gathering a lot more information. for now here at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. jim and doreen, back to you. all this coming on the heels of the new police chief announcement today from the mayor as well. a violent night in our city. >> and more just as soon as we get it. in the meantime, we want to check in with doug. record breaking heat today. what's coming next, doug? >> 77 degrees day. and i think we could get even warmer tomorrow. that 77 was a record at

this is what i'm watching. here's saturday at 3:00. if you have saturday plans, we could see some thunderstorms that may actually rain on those plans. we'll talk about the chance for storms and show you what comes behind this system. i'm ack in just ten minutbes

we're covering breaking news tonight. two d.c. police officers shot. one suspect also shot tonight. >> our jackie bensen and shomari stone en route there. here is a map of the location. morse street in northeast d.c.

non-life-threatening injuries. we'll update you as we hear more here on news4. the george washington parkway is back open tonight after a tractor-trailer crash shut it down. investigators tell us the mail carrier truck was northbound before it hit a tree before the cia overpass. trucks are not usually allowed on the parkway. authorities tell us the driver did not have permission to be on that road. graffiti similar to the vandalism on our national mall has now popped up in boston. u.s. park police are trying to see if there's a connection. there is the message captured in boston just like the graffiti in d.c. it's written in black permanent marker and appears to reference a conspiracy theory with the

phrase jackie shot jfk. espionage is all around us. living around d.c. means you probably live near or even know a spy. mark segraves now with part two of a story we brought you at 6:00 tonight about the connection between a spy living in bethesda and a kgb officer who slipped away from the cia one night in georgetown. >> reporter: this was the bethesda home of edwin moore, a retired cia employee who in 1976 tried to sell secrets to the soviets and was caught after he threw a package of classified documents over the soviet embassy, which is now the russian ambassadors' residence. eight years after he turned over the package of secrets to d.c.

police, that security guard was back in the soviet union. it turns out he was more than just a security guard. >> he was a fast rising officer of the kgb. >> reporter: in 1985 after being diagnosed with cancer, he returned to the united states, but this time as a defector. >> he had knowledge of a lot of kgb operations in the united states, so of course we were especially interested from a counterintelligence standpoint to debrief him thoroughly and we did. >> reporter: but his defection didn't last long. one night after having dinner at this restaurant, he told his cia security officer that he was stepping outside for some fresh air. >> when he came out of the restaurant and walked down the street maybe a block or so, he was likely picked up by the kgb at that point.

saw of him? >> we saw him a day or so on television announcing he had been drugged by the cia for the last three months and he was very glad to be back in freiendy hands. >> reporter: one of the most famous, this garage in rosslyn. >> the watergate story is in fact an adaptation of espionage techniques for a political purpose. >> reporter: spy sites include where you can walk in the steps of real spies. >> i'm 100% certain there's a spy site in your neighborhood. you can walk to them. >> reporter: on the hunt for spy

segraves, news4. i'm chris lawrence back at the live desk where we're trying to bring you everything we know about this shooting in northeast d.c. in which two d.c. police officers have been shot and wounded. we can now confirm d.c. fire and ems is now confirming with us that they transported at least one person from there. so they rushed one person to a hospital. we're not sure who it was, but again two officers shot. both conscious and breathing. a suspect also shot. all of this happening near morse and holbrook. this is where florida avenue and eighth street northeast all sort of come together. the first calls started coming in around 10:40, 10:45. we have mark segraves working his sources in the police department. shomari stone and jackie bensen headed to the scene. we'll continue to bring you any updates as we get them. >> chris lawree

newsroom, thank you, chris. doug is here with more about our weather. crazy warm temperatures again today. >> yeah, crazy really an understatement there. 77 today at dulles airport. shattering the old record of 73. the record tomorrow 78 degrees in d.c., and we could get there. if not, we'll get very, very close. 77 in gaithersburg. look at leesburg, 79. 79 in warrington. we could hit 80 tomorrow. 80 degrees in february. that's unheard of. 60 degrees. winds out of the south at about 9 miles an hour. 63 in leesburg right now. 54 culpeper. 62 down towards fredericksburg. average high is 49. 11:00 at night we're 11 degrees warmer than the average high temperature for this year. nothing on the radar.

no snow in any part of the country except for california. thundersnow here in iowa. blizzard-like conditions. two inches of snow per hour. this storm will have an impact on us. that was rain or snow, but with very mild air. you can see the flow coming out of the southwest. look at the temperatures to the southwest today. 75 around lexington. 77 in raleigh. that warmer air continuing to move in around our region during the day tomorrow. friday will be another warm day. friday afternoon looking great. 7:00 a.m. beautiful. 71. gorgeous at noon. a great day to get lunch outdoors. how often can you do that in the month of february? 76 at 4:00. by 7:00, absolutely spectacular. if you have a date night tomorrow night or going out with some friends, going to be

here's tomorrow. no problem. sunshine. a few clouds from time to time tomorrow night. very nice. saturday morning a little bit different. here comes the clouds. here comes the thunderstorms. this could be a very thin line of storms that comes through. 1:00 back towards the blue ridge and around the d.c. metro area around 3:00, 4:00. then it moves on through. behind it it gets rather cold and windy saturday night. look at the ten-day forecast. temperatures around 50 for a high temperature on sunday. 58 on monday. chance of showers on tuesday and wednesday. notice on wednesday, too, the warm air moves in. high of 74 before cooling towards the end of next week. we are continuing to stay on top of that breaking news involving police officers shot in northeast washington tonight. we hope toring you a b

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some college hoops tonight. >> dust off your dancing shoes. the college basketball season is almost over and with only two weeks until conference tournaments, the big dance after that games matter now as every team is looking to polish their resumes and finish their season strong. george washington hosting u mass. this a close one. gw up two. tyler cavanaugh with a great move and finished 21 points and 13 boardsor

gets the bucket to go. game high 26 points for him. gw pulling away. later in the game, colonials up 13. gw beats u mass 83-37. shomari stone is live at the scene with some updated information for us. shomari, what's happening? >> reporter: well, good evening. right now i'm here at bladensberg street northeast. she was told right now information cannot be provided. folks, there are two officers who have been shot. both of them are in good condition. they're conscious. they're breathing. one adult male suspect has been shot. unknown condition for him. i

morse street northeast. they transported one person from the 1200 block of holbrook. they responded to the call around 10:43. we don't know exactly what led up to this shooting. the identity of these officers has not been released nor that of the suspect. right now this is developing. it is breaking. police are trying to gather all the details about what happened. as soon as they become available as this information continues to come in, we'll immediately put it on our nbc washington app. we're working around the clock to bring you the latest details, including this police-involved shooting. i'm shomari stone, news4. we're also learning from jackie bensen's sources tonight that the suspect has indeed died. we're waiting to get more information from here too in the meantime. >> mark segraves is at medstar

mark, what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, good evening. i can tell you the two police officers involved in that shooting in northeast were both brought here to medstar hospital. we believe at least one of those officers was actually transported in the back of a police car to get here to medstar. sources are telling us that one of those officers has a non-life-threatening injury to his leg, but the other officer right now is undergoing surgery. he had an entrance wound, but no exit wound. right now he's in surgery being operated on. we don't know the extent of that and we don't know his condition. one officer with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound. the other officer right now in surgery. mayor bowser and the police chief are on their way to the scene of this shooting in northeast where they'll talk to reporters and give them the very latest on that information. but as you can see here live at medstar, you can see police are already showing

this is the scene that we see play out all too often after an officer is shot. then his brothers and sisters from the department start showing up in droves. that's what we're seeing here. that's the very latest. reporting live from medstar, mark segraves. news4. >> our thoughts are with those officers, the department, and the families too. >> this just happened. first call came out on ts lesshi

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more now on that breaking news we've been covering. two d.c. police officers shot in northeast just less than an hour

phone. she's been talking to her police sources. jackie? >> doreen, i'm at staples street and morse street in northeast. what we're hearing from multiple sources is that the suspect you described is deceased. we have little information about the officers' injuries. one was shot in the upper body. the other shot mid to lower body. both of them described as conscious and breathing when they left here, so that is very good news being received very well by the police department. a massive presence

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