how this crash happened and why. a single car crash at the intersection of smallwood drive and st. niklas drive in waldorf. it happened just after 12:30. it was as quick as it was deadly. this man was waiting for the light to change when the car came by. >> the speed was super fast. my truck shook. >> reporter: there were about four or five others cars as that speeding car came on. >> there was a car in front of him. what i'm guessing is to avoid hitting the car, he must have turned to his left. >> reporter: the car hit ra utili -- a utility pole and broke apart. emergency responders arrived. >> they had two individuals deceased inside the car. there was a third individual located. he was transported via helicopter also with life threatening injuries. >> reporter: those who travel this road and who work around this intersection say this isn't

>> i see accident every, i would say, once in a month, twice a month. >> reporter: but never one with the severity and never one that claimed lives. until now. now, some of the family members have been notified but those notifications continue for all of the victims. we understand that the victims were three teens, 17-year-olds and an 18-year-old. the 18-year-old, we understand is the survivor. he is in critical condition with life threatening injuries. and the investigation continues. we were also told these three may have all been students at westlake high here in this part of maryland. live in waldorf. derrick ward, news4. a search tonight for killers of two people in fairfax county. this follows the discovery of their bodies in a shallow grave in a park in the lynn cone ya

this is getting out of control and we need to stop it. >> reporter: julie carey joins us live from the holmes run park neighborhood where police tell us they are determined to stop gang violence. julie? >> reporter: you know, as you said, two bodies, both of them found in the woods there about 300 yards from where i'm standing. what's even more troubling, it is the second time this kind of discovery has been made in this park. this area was blocked off with crime scene tape for days as investigators collected evidence, evidence of two homicides. today we were able to climb to the hill top to see where the victims were found. police say the bodies had been here for less than a year. for neighbors it's unsettling news. it's upsetting. you don't wake up every day thinking, did anyone die behind my

related is pretty scary as well. >> reporter: it's the second time resident versus leas have this kind of violence nearby. in 2014 two young men were found in the park. both had been beheaded. their killers were gang members. >> this is four murders in this park. obviously we've had other murders in the region in the past few weeks. this is getting out of control and we need to stop it. >> reporter: the other recent murders the chief is speaking about, those of 21-year-old christian sosa rivas. his body was found in mid january. then last month the body of a 15-year-old good faith aithersb alexandra reyes. 14-year-old sergio truemenio a

mendes haven't been seen last fall. >> i have deprave concegrave co missing teens. i don't know if it's gang related but we have a spike in gang activity, especially murders. it's pretty serious. we need help. >> reporter: they hope for tips that could bring the teens home safely and a tip that could lead to the gang member who is killed the victims found in the park. now, the bodies found here at the medical examiner's office for identification. when i join you at 6:00, the discussion underway about how to make this park less appealing to gang members who are bent on violence. back to you now in the studio. and the two men and two women arrested in connection with the death of christian sosa rivas will be held without bond. the four were just extradited back to northern virginia. they were tracked down in pennsylvania last week. the two women face conspiracy to commit murder charges in connection with the same crime. one other man and a juvenile

case. this evening we are working for you with how police hope to stop the deadly increase in gang activity. they say it won't end with arrests. instead they're going to start addressing parents. but ahead, a major obstacle that's making residents uneasy about reporting crimes. we're following new developments this evening about those threats to jewish groups here and across the country. federal authorities say a man seeking revenge on an ex-girlfriend is behind at least eight of the threats. juan thompson was arrested in st. louis, charged with cyber stalking. he appeared in court late this afternoon and ordered held without bail until his next hearing on wednesday. now, according to the federal complaint, thompson made some of the threats in his ex-girlfriend's name as part of a sustained campaign to harass her. federal officials have been investigating 122 bomb threats across the country. three schools in our area received threats this week, but

[000:05:58;00] suspect is behind the incidents here. meanwhile, local faith leaders came together today to denounce some of these acts of hate. chris gordon is live in fairfax with more. >> reporter: a show of support here at the jewish community center in northern virginia and early "todatoday at the jcc in rockville maryland. joining the religious leaders to protest bomb threats against jewish schools this past monday. faith leaders from across northern virginia joined in the show of solidarity, condemning monday's bomb threat against the gesher jewish day school. >> when someone attacks and threatened any house of worship,

they are attacking all faith communities. respect and hormoarmonyharmony. >> threats against jccs and day schools are threats against our broader community. we stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters of all faiths. >> we've got to stand together. hate has no place in the commonwealth of virginia. as attorney general, i will do everything i can to keep all virginians safe. >> reporter: religious leaders stood together to say hate has no place in this community. >> we're all human beings. all wone, all of god's children want to live in peace and harmony and respect for each other. >> reporter: police responded

quickly to the bomb threat at the charles e. smith school in confident whoever is responsible will be arrested. >> you will fail. we will continue to celebrate our jewish faith and access and enjoy our institutions without reservation or hesitation. >> reporter: ahead at 6:00, how local leaders and police plan to protect religious schools and houses of worship against hate crimes. that's the latest live in fairfax. pat, back to you. despite recusing himself, questions remain regarding attorney general jeff sessions and his meeting with russia's ambassador during the campaign. the president called this a witch hunt. moscow appeared to echo president trump's sentiments saying an ambassador's job is to meet the officials. despite sessions' announcement

he's recusing himself from involven say they need more answers. >> his meeting with the russian ambassador at that particular time is disturbing. i think he needs to explain exactly what that meeting was about. i'm very concerned about that meeting and the manner in which it did not come out during his confirmation hearing. >> these calls for more answers come as we're learning more members of the campaign had contact with the russian ambassador before trump took office. who is sergey kislyak? he is a career diplomat who joined russia's foreign minute ci -- ministry four decades ago. in 2003 he became the deputy minister of foreign affairs. he's been serving as the russian ambassador to the u.s. for nearly a decade. the individuals who's met with

him, we know now the presi's with him back in december during the transition speerperiod. joining him in that meeting, michael flynn. two other campaign officials carter page and jd gordon also say they met with sergey kislyak at the convention last summer. president trump meanwhile is once again in florida for the weekend. today discussing his push for school choice. the president and education secretary betsy devos toured st. andrew catholic school in orlando and met with students there. mr. trump called florida his second home and referred to the southern white house, his mar-a-lago resort, saying there's no rest there. he also jokingly told a student who said he wanted to be a business owner not to run for politics. well, to the weather. just when we thought we were ready for spring, winter makes a

come back, doug. >> yeah and a big cold. you put in the wind out there, yeah, the windchill has been a major factor. take a look at the windchills right now. 23 in hagerstown, 12 in state college, californkra pennsylvan pittsburgh. it is going to be a very cold night across our region and a cold day tomorrow. we are still watching snow showers coming through parts of our area mostly to the north and west. these will continue to die out as they move to the south and east. overnight tonight, just a frigid night. freezing tomorrow. the coldest weekend in months. yeah, the cold es weekeest week months. the complete forecast right back here at 5:25. a massive fire reduces a house to little more than rubble killing a man inside. his family struggling with his loss tonight.

>> distraught. this is horrible, you know? >> reporter: with all the recent gang violence we've been telling you about, we're working for you tonight, going a little bit deeper and trying to explain how to stop the spread. we'll tell you ahead why it begins with trust. also we're learning more about the teen shot near his prince george's county school. his father sharing his story. and check out our interactive map of 14 sites you can fios is not cable. we're wired differently. maybe that's why we've been ranked highest in customer satisfaction by jd power 4 years in a row. and now you can love fios too. get our best offer of the year.

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get the best. get fios. an intense fire left a man dead and destroyed a house here in rockville. this blaze broke out last night on willow lane. many neighbors called 911 after looking out their windows and seeing these pictures. >> fire, fire, fire. it was way too engulfed in flames. >> tonight we're learning more about the man who died in that blaze. meagan fitzgerald is in rockville. she spoke to a family member and neighbors today. >> reporter: yeah. jim i can tell you family members are devastated. they're still in shock. they came out here this morning and this is what they saw just behind us here. their father's house literally reduced to nothing. just the chimneys on either side

standing. 71-year-old larry in this home. >> a sweet and gentleman. very private man. easy to talk to. people liked him. >> reporter: the loss of larry pollyeye is one so many who knew and loved him don't want to believe. >> very good man. >> still shocked. >> reporter: his brother-in-law says larry was a loving father to two daughters and an extremely proud grandfather who continued to work as a cpa. >> we called his office this morning. his secretary said he hadn't showed up yet. >> reporter: family members rushed to larry's house, only to realize their worst nightmare was true. >> distraught. this is horrible, you know? >> likely the fire burned for a while before it was noticed. >> reporter: fire investigators say just before 10:00 last night a fire ripped through larry's home.

>> i saw the fire and it was really the second floor and >> there was a collapse. >> reporter: for hours investigators walked around the home sifting through rubble trying to figure out how the fire started, while those who loved larry most struggled to deal with the fact that he's gone. >> i feel bad. you don't want anything like that happen like this. you don't want to see anybody die. >> reporter: and you really get a good idea of just how hot this fire was. you can still see smoke rising up from the debris. in fact, montgomery county firefighters tell us they will be back out here tonight to spray this place down so that it doesn't reignite. coming up at 6:00, we'll tell you what family members told us about a possible cause and why

investigators say it's a lead they are looking into. that transgender teenager suing a virginia school to use the bathroom of his choice. attorney generals general from 18 states have now signed a brief in support of gavin grim. they filed that friend of the court brief with the supreme court last night. it argues that allowing transgender people to use the bathroom matching their gender identity creates no public safety threat tor financial burden. grim is suing the gloucester county school board for the right to use the boys bathroom. we've seen what appears to be an increase of gang violence in our region. our northern virginia bureau reporter david culver is in woodbridge with a look at what that's going to take. >> reporter: in talking with local and federal law enforcement and those who specialize on the regional gang task force, when it comes to

trying to stop the spread of gang violence, th need one thing for certain. trust. original from nicaragua, she has called prince william county home for 25 years. she's taken a leadership position within her latino community. the goal? >> to see how we can work together and how we can heal together, how we can have more trust. >> reporter: trust especially with law enforcement in trying to stop the spread of gang violence. police warn they need help. they need you. >> it's prevention at home. we need concerned parents and community members to report to us any signs of gang activity or recruitment, different behaviors in their children. >> reporter: deanne says that's going to be tough, mainly because many latino immigrants fear police, in part because of corruption in their home countries, but also because many residents are undocumented.

>> everything is saying to people,on if it is the police knocking on your door, don't open unless they have a warrant, because you don't know if i.c.e. is working with the police. >> if you're concerned, we need your involvement. >> reporter: richard buckholts plan to attack gang violence? >> we really need to cut off the pipeline of recruits. >> reporter: how do you do that? he's involved with schools, churches, businesses. >> we want the public to be aware of what gangs look like, what they're all about, how they think. >> reporter: deanne that says here in prince william county the police is making an effort to know the community. it starts with speaking their language. >> we're getting more officers that speak spanish. they are really trying very hard to do that. >> reporter: in an effort to create that trust, coming up

this tuesday at 1:0 chief right here in prince william county will meet with several hispanic business leaders hoping to find a solution. an emotional reunion as a woman separated from her family because she was jailed in another country returns home. and a busy week for the nbc

4 well, doug, how cold is it going to get tonight? >> coldest we've seen in quite some time. >> turn the heat back up. >> yeah, for sure. the fires will be going. a lot of people bought wood this year, haven't really had a chance to use it. >> you can tonight. >> remember just a couple of weeks ago, handly, you were making your court times? >> not so much this weekend. >> if you're playing tennis, you're playing indoors. it is cold. winter is back. that's the case right on through the weekend. the coldest weekend we've seen since the first weekend in january. it even looks cold right now. the only exception down towards the church there. you notice the schools do have some of the spring trees. yeah,'re blooming across the area. right now 40 degrees currently. temperatures dropping through the 30s.

34 degrees at 9:00. by 11:00 we're at 30 degrees. the winds are still gusting, gusting upwards of 30 miles an hour right now. 29 in d.c. 23 gaithersburg. 22 in culpepper. look as these windchills. it's 5:00 in the afternoon and we've got a windchill of 27 in gaithersburg, 20 in winchester, 29 in manassas. those numbers will continue to come down this evening too. a cold night, bundle up, coats, dp gloves, hats. we will see windchills in the teens in most locations by around 11:00 tonight. we have seen some snow showers come on through, even a few heavier snow showers through hagerstown. but they die as they make their way over the mountains . as we lose daylight, very hard for those to stay together. still snow showers up toward frederick.

these are going to across the blue ridge toward portions of loudoun county there. we had a lot earlier, but once again as they move over the mountains kind of hard for them to stay together. this morning we had good ones come through right around frederick. even some black ice and issues out there on the area roadways earlier this morning. snow even came through the d.c. metro area a little bit earlier. something else coming in is the cold. we have not seen a map like this where everybody is on the cold side. tomorrow, a cold day. high of 42 degrees. that's the average high for tend of january. we'll stay cold right on through the day on sunday. monday, a high temperature of 60 degrees. we do get warm again. on tuesday, tracking some rain. could even see a thunderstorm or two with highs in the 70s. next weekend looking chilly as well.

false positives on a mammogram they can also cause some women to delay getting the tests. the new technology that's reducing false positives from screening mammogram. plus, moving forward with the express lane project on i-395. the closures that are coming next week in preparation for the project. >> reporter: i'm tracee wilkins. coming up, a father explains how he tried to get to the murder

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get the best. get fios. you're watching news4 at 5:00. right now on news4 at 5:30, the new technology that's reduzireduz i -- reducing false positive mammograms. first, a father's grief as his son is gunned down on a street that tnot far from his s >> jayquan holloway's family left confused by their loss just two days after his 17th birthday. >> people just tell me that, you know, your son gone. he dead, man. >> while police search for evidence that leads to them to a

suspect and a motive, wince. >> reporter: we were here watching students from potomac as they walk eed past this spot where jayquan holloway died. now his father is saying when he wants to know who would murder his son. >> he just turned 17 two days ago, just celebrated his birthday. i drop him off every morning. every evening he walks home from school. >> reporter: yesterday on his walk home from potomac high school, 17-year-old jayquan holloway was gunned down on the sidewalk inside the south view apartment complex in oxon hill. >> they say he was walking home with his friends and some guy got out of the car and shot him in the abdomen. >> reporter: prince george's county police say he died at the hospital. his father says he wasn't able

to make it to the his last breath. >> i get here. my son is gone. people tell me that, june, your son gone. he dead, man. it's my only son, man. >> reporter: prince george's county police are following leads in the case and talking to possible witnesses. as it stands, no suspect is in custody and no motive has been released. >> my son, man. just celebrate his life. that's how he would have wanted it. >> reporter: family and friends are planning a candle light vigil tonight in the south view apartments. it was the first day back at school since his murder. how students are coping. reporting live in oxon hill, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. getting a false positive mammogram can lead to anxiety and unnecessary procedures.

now there are new technologies like 3d reduce false positives. accuracy obviously is very critical. but what about radiation? is there more of it with 3d mammography and how does the procedure differ from a traditional procedure? >> there can be, pat. it works very similar to traditional mammography. your breast is still compressed. instead of getting a top down and a side view of the breast, the scanner goes all along around the breast so it takes about 15 different pictures of the breast. so the radiologies then can see the breast from all answerl ang. one of the problems with the 2d traditional mammography is that

overlapping tissue can look like a problem in a traditional issue of overlapping tissue. >> it more accurate? >> it is more accurate. false positives are reduced by as much as 40%. and cancer detection is increased by 40%. so those are two real big benefits. the danger for false positives, it leads to anxiety, confusion, stress. as a result they don't go and get that next screening. they put it off for as much as 13 months. that delay can put them at higher risk for cancer if they don't stay on that schedule. >> you can see ann's full report on nightly news with lester holt following news4 at 6:00. get ready for some slowdowns on metro. safetrack surge 13 starts tomorrow and runs until april

9th. line riders. you can also expect to wait as long as 24 minutes between trains. now, if you use these stations, metro tells us look for other ways to get around while surge 13 is in effect. you cans a find transportation al tternatives in our nbc washington app. just search metro alternatives. beginning next week, we'll see overnight work that will shut down hov lanes on 395 in virginia. the work starts next wednesday and runs through sunday. crews are doing early work as they get ready for construction of the 395 express lanes. during the late evening and overnight hours you won't have access to hov lanes between edsall road to boundary drive. one room was a hot tub with

bu other rooms get just 25 minutes of sunlight a day. coming up, why this hotel which the owner says has the worst view of any in the world is now a tourist at traction.

>> reporter: we take a ride with the street sweeping crew live desk. montgomery county police have arrested a school bus driver for having inappropriate contact with students. his name is salvador rodriguez. last month, investigators say, he had inappropriate sexual contact with two 11-year-old girls. police say rodriguez has been driving a route that includes rock view elementary school, newport school and albert einstein high school. police arrested him this morning when he showed up for an appointment with detectives. they say rodriguez admitted having contact with the girls. now detectives are asking parents to talk with their kids to see if there are more victims out there. five people are recovering now after being shot in the district. d.c. police working two separate shooting incidents. last night two men and a boy were shot on rhode island avenue not far from the met troe statio -- metro station.

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♪ ♪ she went to visit family in west africa. she wound up imprisoned for near a year. now a maryland woman is home and she's thanking all of the people who worked tirelessly to help bring her family. friends and family were at the airport to greet her after a long journey home. >> reporter: safe and sound and back on american soil. fanta darboe jawara arrived at bu dulles after a long flight, nearly a year in the making. >> i'm so glad to be hope. >> reporter: she lives in frederick with her husband and two daughters, spent ten months in a gambian prison. she was arrested during a protest against a vick dictator.

>> she was in the wro the wrong time. rounded up. . >>reporter: mickey burgman says she has been in the notorious mile two prison, known for human rights abuses. he says efforts to bring her home started with getting her story out. >> the conditions finally got to where she was able the get out of the prison but not allowed out of the country for a while. >> reporter: now she's back home and reunited with her family. >> i missed them so much. it was the first time i've been separated from them for this long. >> i'm so glad my kids are hugging her. >> she just graduated in june. i was convicted for three years.

so that was tough for me. but i'm glad to be home. >> she said she most looks forward to a hot shower and getting some rest. one of the big winners in snapchat going public is a high school in silicon valley. st. francis high invested $15,000 into snapchat four years ago. now let's do some math. that school sold 1.4 million shares of stock at $17 each. you know how much that is? nearly $25 million. susan hogan knows. the former president of the school says it is a big win for education. >> teenagers were using it, this was going to be something big for social media. >> a few years back a parent asked the school board to invest in snapchat when the company was just getting started. >> if only we'd done that.

at costco. individual and business memberships will now be $60, a $5 increase. executive members will pay $120. that's a $10 jump. the change is effective june 1st. costco last raised membership fees back in 2011. nbc 4 responds to more viewers and recovers thousands more dollars for our viewers. >> consumer reporter susan hogan wraps up the whole week as a matter of fact. >> absolutely. yes, you wrote in or you called us. we are definitely hearing you. from a botched home renovation project to a water meter mishap nbc 4 responds is getting results. yvonne williams is renovating her northwest home. she paid a major retailer to replace gutters and siding on her house. but --

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>> i'm going to go home and check my water bill. what's the weekend looking like? >> coldest weekend since early february. we're going to have highs in the low 40s. >> wow. >> sounds great, right? winter's finally here. as we look to the first weekend in march, kind of ironic. also tracking snow showers out there right now. earlier today we actually had some thundersnow down in saint mary's county. right now these snow showers kind of dwindling. but i am continuing to track some activity mainly up in parts of frederick and washington counties. aside from that, it's gusty and cold out. winds die down overnight tonight. but tomorrow morning look at the chill in the air, because it will be breezy again throughout the entire day. we're looking at windchills in gaithersburg, frederick and leesburg around 20. it's definitely warm jacket, puffy coat kind of weather. not just tomorrow, but sunday as well. take a look at your saturday plann planner.

0 25 degrees. by lunchtime only in the upper 30s. as we head into the evening hours 7:00 p.m. we're at 37 with temperatures in the 20s in d.c. and teens in the suburbs. when we talk about cold on sunday morning look at the numbers here. at 9:00 a.m. it's feeling like 19 in gaithersburg. 22 in lease beesburg 21 in mana. liberty and whitetail are closed for the season. roundtop is open. if you wanted to go locally, that's going to be your best bet. outdoor exercise is layers and gloves kind of weather or just staying indoors. yard work not a good idea. hopefully you did hold off on fertilizing and getting in the garden. normally around here our last freeze is toward the end of

march. if you're heading out and want the warm coats but the sunglasses as well. the cherry blossoms are in stage 2 of 5 as they hit peak bloom about the middle of the month. if you're worried about some plants that have come up, maybe the daffodils, cover them with a sheet or some burlap. you can get that at pretty much any kind of home department store. by monday, we're warm again. we're back to around 6 0 degrees for a high on tuesday. we have highs in the mid 60s. it's looking dry for the majority of the day. but as you're coming home on tuesday, that's when rain is looking likely. windy then and cooler on wednesday. 61. after that the forecast does get a little tricky as we look to the second weekend in march. it's looking on the cool side, temperatures back in the 40s potentially with a chance of

rain showers. the thawing out my tongue here. doesn't just mean spring in washington. >> it also means street sweeping. it starts up again. what you need to know so you don't get a ticket when those crews come by.

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get the best. get fios. the room number three, the banksy room. artwork there shows a palestinian and israeli in a pillow fight. it's street sweeping season once again. mark segraves shows us why it's important for you to obey those signs. >> it's a very big job. that's why i love the guys, the men and women who are responsible for doing it every day. >> reporter: these street sweepers hit tens of thousands of miles of roads in the district, picking up thousands of pounds of trash. if you don't get out of their way, you could end one a ticket.

last year these street sweepers picked up more of trash and debris off the streets of washington, d.c. >> we do not want that litter in our stormwater drains. >> reporter: while it's important for you to pay attention to those street sweeping signs those crews can pick up all that trash that could otherwise end up in our streams and rivers, it could also save you from getting one of those $45 tickets or your car getting towed. >> please abide by the signs. even in cases where the sweeper has already swept the block, you asked that you abide by the signage and not park on that side of the block between the hours marked. >> reporter: to give you an idea of how big a problem dpw has with drivers not paying attention to those signs, last season d.c. issued more than 77,000 tickets for a total of $3.5 million in fines. the city will issue warnings until march 10th.

after that, they'll issue in the district, mark segraves, news4. news4 at 6:00 starts now. the fbi is calling our area a gang hot spot after the discovery of two more bodies. >> that is a total of four people now dead in connection to recent gang violence in northern virginia. the human remains were found after a tip led investigators to search holmes run park in fairfax county. julie carey tells us this isn't the first time a discovery like this has been made there. >> reporter: well, there is an unsettling sense of deja vu for neighbors here because back in may of 2014 the bodies of two men were found in these woods. their killer is now serving life sentences. but it's happened again. now two sets of human remains found in the woods about 300 yards from where i'm standing.

it has the fbi and fairf police promising to find the latest killers to try to stop this surge in gang violence. a tip led police to dig here for two days. late thursday night their made their troubling discovery. we were able to go to the spot where the bodies were bury. the medical examiner will determine the victims' identity police want to know who killed them. >> this problem is horrible. this is four murders this this park. obviously we've had other murders in the region in the past few weeks. this is getting out of control and we need to stop it. >> reporter: the other recent murders, those of 21-year-old christian sosa rivas and 16-year-old accelexandra reyes. the discovery of more bodies heightens concern of other missing teens in our area. these two boys haven't been seen since last fall. >> we see nationwide hot spots across the nation.