we're going to tell you what happened and what happens next. the mother of a missing d.c. teenager opens up about what happened, how she felt when her daughter came home and the response from police during the panic. >> reporter: live at the tidal basin, already photographers, spectators, visitors out here in anticipation of mother nature's beautiful show here in washington, the cherry blossoms. peak bloom this weekend. breaking news in the capitol. >> this was the news that has been lighting your social media feed over the past 30-60 minutes. republicans have pulled their health care bill and will not vote on it. health care for millions of people is on the line and the bill was minutes away from coming to the floor when the house pulled it. >> the big question now is what next? lawmakers say that bill fell short despite a week of intense

negotiations. >> we have team coverage from the hill. >> reporter: good afternoon to you from washington where we have some major developments on the republican's plan to repeal and replace obamacare. we can confirm and report now that republicans just within the past 30 minutes have decided to pull the bill, meaning that that bill will not go to the house floor for a vote this afternoon as previously expected. now, the vote was expected to come down within the next hour or so. debate had been going on on the house floor all day long. the "washington post" is now reporting that the president himself called a reporter that he has communicated with often and said, t quote, the health c bill is over for now. we don't know if that means the debate is over for good or just postponed. but that bill will not go to a

vote as expected. we're standing by expecting to hear from house speaker paul ryan at any moment. he's set to address reporters on capitol hill. all of this comes after republicans spent all day scrambling trying to make that bill happen. today, as time ran out, republicans spent the day scrambling, knowing they were facing an uphill battle for votes. the vice president cancelled a planned trip as some republicans remained resistant despite two days of negotiations. >> be like pushing a camel through a key hole. >> reporter: the president, done negotiating but still talking, taking aim at the freedom caucus on twitter, saying the conservative group would allow planned parenthood to continue by opposing the bill. the white house not casting blame for the bill's turbulent road, but certainly not

timeline was not rushed. >> have we left everything on the field? absolutely. at the end of the day, this isn't a dictatorship. >> please vote no for america's heart and soul! >> reporter: on the house floor, frustration spilled over. >> oppose this bill with every breath and every bone in my body. >> we have a marvelous opportunity, but we could lose it. i ask you all and i urge you all to please vote for this act. >> hours ahead of the scheduled vote -- >> we'll have to see. >> reporter: the president appeared confident even as he fulfilled a different campaign promise, approving the keystone pipeline. all along, the president has appeared confident that the bill would pass. the white house even saying as late as yesterday that there is no plan b. their only focus was plan a and that is to push this bill. again, very late developing news that this bill will not go for a

we're standing by to hear from house speaker pa eer paul ryan. this is a big issue, but it has real ramifications for thousands of families in d.c., maryland and virginia. our scott macfarland has been on capitol hill talking to local lawmakers. >> reporter: let me set the scene. i'm on the first floor of the u.s. capitol, one floor below the u.s. house claimer where the vote was supposed to be happening right now and one floor above the conference room where paul ryan will speak at any moment. this has been a suspenseful day here. all of our overwhelmingly democratic delegations said they long planned to vote no on this bill. all eyes were on northern virginia. barbara

many calls coming into her d.c. office it knocked the phones out. the phones were going to an automated mailbox system. we did go in and heard the phones ringing off the hook. she did announce she would have been a no vote on this bill. the local democrats say their votes were clear from the start. their phones were ringing off the hook as well. >> the phones are blowing up. people are outraged. democrats are outraged. moderate republicans are outraged. i don't have a whole lot of conservative republicans calling me up, but no, people continue e-mail, to call, occasionally we get a letter. and when i'm in the community, i had a town hall meeting on saturday, big turnout. >> reporter: going to hear from other members of congress in the d.c. area coming up tonight on news4 beginning at 5:00. i did just speak with the chairman of the house

committee, a pivotal player. that congressman says i don't want to assign blame right now. u.s. house members headed home for the weekend now. >> i've got a feeling your afternoon is just getting started out there. thank you very much. now to a tragic situation in charles county. two girls and their father dead in an apparent murder/suicide. when deputies got to the scene in waldorf, they found a woman suffering gunshot wounds inside the home on west dale court. the woman's 4-year-old and 17-year-old daughters as well as her husband all were shot. investigators believe the father shot the wife and his daughters before turning the gun on himself. lot going on on this busy friday afternoon.

witnesses talking about acting police chief peter newsham. we've learned that more than 80 people have signed up to speak. it the last of three public hearings on whether newsham should get the permanent job. the state department signs off on a construction permit for the keystone xl pipeline. the trump administration says the project will create jobs and benefit the nation's energy interests. opponents warn the oil pipeline will hurt the environment. talk about some extreme weather out west. blizzard conditions start the day in denver. only about an inch of snow fell downtown. up to five inches outside the city. but a bit farther south high winds were fuelling a wildfire in texas. this is the same area that was hit earlier this month by a deadly wildfire. this time close to 100 acres burned before the rain helped firefightersse

up for the weekend. amelia draper and doug. >> right now i tell you the temperatures going up big time. we saw a lot of rain earlier today but that rain is out of here. a warm front moved in. amelia down there on the tidal basin. >> reporter: yeah, doug. we're here at the tidal basin. 58 beautiful degrees down here. after some rain around this morning the sun is coming out. so many people down here already. i reached out to the head for the national park service cherry blossoms festival. how many people do you guys expect down here during the festival? he answered back 1.5 million. here's why. just spectacular

despite mother nature throwing us that curveball with those freezing cold temperatures. we are seeing that puffy white stage out here on many of the blossoms. i talked to a gentleman down here from baltimore. he said it's his second year. this is a picture from megan mcgrath. peak bloom will be this weekend. the temperatures tomorrow really going to bring out the flowers on sunday as well. as far as the winds, thankfully right now probably the breeziest time period out of the weekend despite some rain chances in the forecast. but i also had some gw girls down here. they said they were coming down to check it out because they heard how beautiful it is. it's still really nice this year >> let's look at the numbers right now and show you how those te

right now we're in the 50s but by late this afternoon we're into the 60s. 70s back to the west. 77 charleston, west virginia. petersburg, west virginia, also got to 77 earlier today. the warm air is here and the warmer pattern moves in. a chance for showers, but no beg sto -- big storm this is weekend.

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we're going to bring you that story in just a second. first, paul ryan is speaking. i told the president the best thing to do is to pull this bill. he agreed with that decision. this is a disappointing day for us. doing big things is hard, all of us, myself included. we will need time to reflect on how we got to this moment, what we could have done to do it better. ultimately this all kind of comes down to a choice. are all of us willing to give a little to get something done? are we willing to say yes to the good, the very good even if it's not the perfect? if we're willing to do that, we still have such an incredible opportunity in front of us. there remains so much that we can do to help improve people's lives and we will. i've got to tell you, that's why

every member of this congress is here to make this a better country. we want american families to feel more confident in their lot in life. we want the next generation to know that, yes, the best days of this country are still ahead of us. i'm really proud of the bill that we produced. it would make a dramatic improvement in our health care system. the worst is yet to come with obamacare. i'm also proud of the long, inclusive, member-driven process that we had. any member who wanted to engage constructively to offer ideas to improve this bill, they could. i want to thank so many members who helped make this bill better. i also want to thank the president. i want to thank the vice president. tom price, mick mulvaney and the entire white house team. the president gave his all in this effort. he did everything he possibly could to help people see the opportunity we have with this bill. he's

still, we've got to do better, and we will. i absolutely believe that. this is a setback, no two ways about it. i know every man and woman in this conference is motivated more than ever to step up our game, to deliver on our promises. [ inaudible question ] >> -- to try and help it along or -- >> this is the problem. the question is we've kind of prop it along and try and prop it up. it is so fundamentally flawed, i don't know that that is possible. what we're really worried about is the coming premium increases that are coming with a death spiraling health care system. that is my big concern. we just didn'

consensus today. what we have is a member-driven process to try and get consensus. we came very close, but we did not get that consensus. that's why i thought the wise thing to do is no proceed with a vote but to pull the bill and see what we can do. i don't think the law as it is fashioned is really going to be able to survive. >> drove out your predecessor john boehner, are they responsible for the defeat here today? >> i don't want to cast blame. there is a block of no votes which is why this didn't pass. we were close. some of the members of this caucus were voting with us, but not enough were. i met with their chairman earlier today and he made it clear to me that the votes weren't

sufficient to not have this bill pass. >> you all swept the house, won the majority with a promise to repeal obamacare. the majority in the senate with a promise to repeal obamacare. the white house with a promise to repeal obamacare. how do you go i home to your constituents saying, you know what, it's not even 100 days into the administration. sorry folks, we just can't figure it out. >> it's a really good question. i wish i had a better answer for you. i really believe obamacare is collapsing. it's hurting families. it's not working. we believe this bill is the best way to go but we didn't quite get the consensus to get there. >> number one, the bottom line is obamacare remains the law of the land. >> that's right. >> is that going to change in 2017. >> yeah. i don't know what else to say other than obamacare is the law of the land. it's going to remain the law of the land until it's

to replace this law. we're going to be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. my worry is obamacare is going to be getting even worse. i think we were probably doing the democrats a favor. i think we were doing the architects of obama a favor by passing this law before it gets even worse. i guess that favor is not going to be given to them and it's going to get worse. i don't think the architects of obamacare -- i'm sure they may be pleased right now but when they see how bad this thing gets based on all the projections we see, i don't think they're going to like that either. five states, you've got one plan left, one choice. over a third of the counties in america, one plan left. and the kinds of projections we're being told from the people providing health insurance to these people, it's going to get even worse. i don't think the architects of obamacare envisioned this future. it's certainly not one we want for the american people.

is a disappointing day. gop leaders just unable to get enough votes to get it passed. >> i think the thing that really jumped out at me is the fact that republicans were not able to muster the votes to repeal and replace the affordable care act but they have not shown a willingness to actually fix the deficiencies in obamacare. as ryan said, we will be living with obamacare for the foreseeable future. which means what is the status of health care in america right now? >> disappointing loss. >> yeah. look, we're going to turn back to some of our local news. a lot going on here today. this was initially considered a suspicious death in montgomery county. now police say it is a murder. >> the 17-year-old victim knew the person who killed him. it hapne

in silver spring tuesday. >> reporter: this 17-year-old is facing first degree murder charges after this homicide that happened earlier this week. the victim is 17-year-old lee roy matthews. the suspected tells authorities that he and the victim never got along. as a matter of fact he says on the day this happened, he heard the victim on the phone saying he planned to kill the suspect and his family. at that point the suspect strangled the victim while he was in his bed and left. he was later developed as a suspect and confessed to this crime to police. he's due back in court next month. again, he faces first degree murder charges if convicted. a mother in d.c. has been reunited with her daughter after the

>> she's talking this afternoon to news4's kristin wright about the overwhelming emotion she has experienced. >> reporter: one of the girls missing in d.c. is back home. her mother says she left on her own and then came back home on her own. the 17-year-old walked away from southeast on monday and didn't go home. catherine hunter was missing three long days. then she showed up at home in southeast yesterday. her mother says her prayers were answered. she was so scared that she would never see her daughter again. >> as a mother, i've been dying. i couldn't sleep. i've been driving all around the street, praying for my baby to come home. >> reporter: catherine's mother says this is not the first time she left home. there is still a long roa

for this family. on news4 at 6:00, what catherine and her mother have to say about the missing children and teens in d.c. >> you see kristin there wearing that wool coat. it's probably a few hours ago because that temperature -- >> it is climbing quickly. we saw some rain earlier today. that warm front came through. temperatures are shooting up. right now, up to 58 degrees. by 7:00 i expect temperatures to continue to rise. temperatures in the upper 50s by 9:00. 58 d.c., 68 luray, 70 in petersburg, west virginia. noth

we're all clear. just a few high clouds making their way in. again, the temperatures back to the west so much warmer. we have been on the cool side of things. you continue to see the cooler air from our area to the north and east. back to the west, though, nice and warm. 76 lexington, 73 columbus. the cold air giving way to that warmer air and this warmer air wants to stick around for a while, not just for a while, for at least the next ten days for the most part. a much warmer pattern setting in here. the cold will stay locked to the north. there's going to be a couple of cooler days but no real cold days out there. now, tomorrow, if you're heading out to see the cherry blossoms, beautiful day for it, 76 degrees, mostly cloudy. there could be an afternoon shower to the north, areas closer to the pennsylvania border. 76 degrees, just gorgeous. as we move on through the next couple of days, high temperatures a little bit cooler on your sunda

70s, though, monday, tuesday and wednesday. a little cooler thursday and friday, but hey, not all that bad. >> it doesn't sound like it's going to be the kind of weekend you want to spends in a movie theater. wtop entertainment editor jason fraley joins us live to help us sort the movies out. the space thriller "life," is it worth the time and the money? >> hey, guys. i actually enjoyed this one. it reminds me a lot of ridley scott's alien. it's not science fiction, science friction because it's a horror movie in space. this one has a similar monster in the house sort of setup. it's got ryan reynolds and jake

now it's one by one decimating all the astronauts on the ship. if you're a little squeamish, maybe stay away. but if you like this thrilling space science fiction stuff -- i actually really enjoyed it. there's some nice surprises. it borrows from alien. i actually did enjoy this. not as good as alien, but pretty darn good. >> any movie with ryan gosling, natalie portman and michael fassbender would seem to have a lot going for it. does "song to song" deliver? >> right. the cast is so deep. but to me, this movie is not deep enough. it's

i love some of his gems from back in the day. the last three films he's done i just find very very pretentious. they're really just sort of mood pieces like basically two-hour director's reels. a lot of people got up and walked out of the screening. i would say stay away from this one. not my cup of tea at all. >> can you tell us how you really feel. from movies to music now, jason. some music legends coming to the birchmere. >> two music legends. we talked ed to both of them.

going to be here. bill medley says that when he sings "unchained melody," he now thinks of his former late partner bobby hatfield and his late ex-wife karen who was murdered back in the '70s. that just broke my heard. they'll be singing that and "time of my life" from "dirty dancing." check those interviews out on wtop.com. two great shows bill medley and th nan wilson. what they're doing to become po

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>> reporter: she would have been a no vote on this american health care act. the house democratic leader nancy pelosi and her leadership team have taken to the podium. she said, quote, today is a great day. it was moments ago that paul ryan was asked what's next? he said we'll be living with obamacare for quite a while. what you can't see is what's happening outside the u.s. capitol. members of the.

off for dulles and reagan to head home or the long drive back to maryland and virginia. they have called off this vote. there are no plans to call it back on. coming up, more local reaction, including the very interesting number given us today by northern virginia democrat don vier. take a look at this surveillance video. d.c. police say the man shown here is a person of interest in a home burglary last weekend. it happened in the 3100 block of connecticut avenue northwest. police say he went into the home about 1:30 in the morning saturday and stole property. the victim was in the house sleeping. surveillance shows the man walking away. if you have any information, please call d.c. police. draper got probably the best assignment of anyone in the

building today. >> reporter: this is my favorite time of year in washington. i love coming down and seeing the cherry trees. i came here monday. a lot better today. we have one of the best vantage points. we have the beautiful washington monument in the distance. i've seen so many people walking along the tidal basin stopping to take pictures. a really nice afternoon, people final ly out on the paddle boat as well. the flowers, the colors not as dense as they usually are. take a look, here's why. with the cold weather we did have some blooms die off. the brown right here is where blossoms died where they would have been flowers. what you see on a lot of the trees, this puffy white stage. we'll continue

blooms come out. >> a look at metro this weekend. again, safe track surge number 13 being extended by a week through april 12th. that means on the blue line this week single tracking through the 12th of april. on the yellow line, also single tracking on braddock road and huntington. orange line also looking good this weekend. same situation on the silver line as well as the green line. here's something that may make you smile. some local teenagers are hoping to take their rhyming skill from the d.c.

international stage. >> reporter: take writing lines -- add in delivering them from memory. don't forget being vulnerable. and the result, slam poetry. >> body like church bells. >> reporter: they're all part of a local group called split this rock. they perform for judges and get scored from one to ten. to win, creativity is key. >> i feel pretty free when i'm writing my poetry. i'm really happy. >> it brought out feelings in a way that no other art form has for me. >> reporter: the poems don't have to rhyme, but they're certainly got reason. >> i saw these two guys bothering this girl like cat calling but to an extreme, like they kept following her down the street. i was like you know what, i'm going to write a poem like

attacks on people that look like me that are my age. >> reporter: the team tells me their work is never over. they're still constantly going through line by line to see how they can make it better. >> i definitely feel as a human being i should care about other human beings and what it is that they struggle through. >> reporter: and they do it through words that speak volumes. in northwest. >> more than 200 teens from our area are competing for just five spots in the finals. well, this one may come as a shock to you. most american children don't know how to read a clock. the nationwide push to change that.

five days in the grand canyon. she described the panic she felt and the moment she found help after nearly losing help. >> frantically i ran after it.

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it's a skill so many parents and teachers don't even bother

>> you take it for grants that most kids know how to tell time. a new study found 75% of youngsters don't know how to read a traditional clock. there's a nationwide push underway to make it fun and timely. >> reporter: there's a time to play, a time to study. but unless you know the time, well, let's just say your hands are tied. the kids will tell you -- >> sometimes it gets confusing. >> reporter: telling time isn't so timely anymore. >> everyone's so used to seeing digital. they all have tablets and cell phones so they don't have to look at a clock vrch thery ofte that's

>> reporter: they are trying to change that because of low numbers on a time test. and because they know kids can't always afford to get it wrong. >> any time you're in a place of business, out in public, normally will have a clock. going over to grandma and grandpa's house. >> reporter: do you ever ask your mom and dad what time it is? >> about three times a minute. th >> reporter: even kahn couldn't believe how the kids she worked with were running behind on the skill. >> when i was growing up, that was something that we learned. i don't know if that makes me old or not. >> reporter: now it's a new push with a new sense of urgency. >> you cannot be like if you're like in work or something. >> reporter: a fundamental skill as critical as ever to watch and learn.

>> basic skill. >> yeah. i know my kids have a rough time with that. >> with the clock. love is in the air again at the national zoo. bao bao is gone and now it appears two of the zoo's resident giant pandas are gearing up to get pregnant again. and a family of seven is looking for a place to sleep this weekend after their home was destroyed by fire.

back on the air to bring you president trump's comments from just a few moments ago responding to the defeat in the house after paul ryan pulled the gop plan to repeal and replace obamacare due to a lack of support within his own party. here is how the president reacts

just a few moments ago. >> thank you very much. we were very close. it was a very, very tight margin. we had no democrat support. we had no votes from the democrats. they weren't going to give us a single vote. so it's a very difficult thing to do. i've been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let obamacare explode. it is exploding right now. many states have big problems. almost all states have big problems. i was in tennessee the other day and they've lost half of their state in insurer. that's happening in many other

and similar things are happening. so obamacare is exploding. with no democratemocrat support couldn't quite get there. we were a very small number of votes short in terms of getting our bill passed. a lot of people don't realize how good our bill was because they were viewing phase one. when you add phase two and you add phase three, which i think we would have gotten, it became a great bill. premiums would have gone down and it would have been very stable and very strong. but that's okay. we were very, very close. again, i think what will happen is obamacare unfortunately will explode. it's going to have a very bad year. last year you had over 100% increases in various places. in arizona, i understand it's going up very rapidly again like it did last year. last year was 116%. many places,

i guess it averaged whatever the average was, very very high. this year should be much worse for obamacare. what would be really good with no democrat support if the democrats when it explodes, which it will soon, if they got together with us and got a real health care bill, i'd be totally open to it. i think that's going to happen. i think the losers are nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. now they own obamacare. they own it, 100% own it. this is not a republican health care. this is not anything but a democrat health care. they have obamacare for a little while longer until it ceases to exist, which it will at some point in the near future. just remember, this is not our bill. this is their bill. when they all become civilized and get together and try and work out a great health care bill for the people of this country, we're open to it.

i want to thank the republican party. i want to thank paul ryan. he worked very, very hard. i will tell you that. he worked very, very hard. tom price and mike pence, our great vice president. everybody worked hard. i worked as a team player and would have loved to have seen it pass. but again i think you know i was very clear because i think there wasn't a speech i made or very few where i didn't mention that perhaps the best thing that could happen is exactly what happened today. because we'll end up with a truly great health care bill in the future after this mess known as obamacare explodes. i want to thank everybody for being here. it will go very snoomoothsmooth. it certainly was a very interesting period of time. we all learned a lot. we learned a lot about lty

getting processed. we learned about some very arcane rules in the senate and the house. for me, it's been a very interesting experience. but in the end i think it's going to be an experience that leads to an even better health care plan. thank you all very much and i'll see you soon. >> what's next on your -- >> we'll probably be going right now for tax reform, which we could have done earlier but this really would have worked out better if we could have had some democrat support. remember this, we had no democrat support. so now we're going to go for tax reform, which i've always liked. >> you're confident in speaker ryan's leadership and his ability to get things done? >> yes, i am. i like speaker ryan. he worked very, very hard. a lot of different groups. he's got a lot of factions. there's been a long history of liking and disliking even in the republican party even before i got here. but i've had a great

party. it seems both sides like trump and that's good. you see that more clearly than anybody. i'm not going to speak badly about anybody within the party. certainly there's a big history. i think paul really worked hard. i would say that we will probably start going very, very strongly for the big tax cuts and tax reform. that will be next. >> -- let obamacare explode? >> it's going to happen. there's not much you can do about it. bad things are going to happen to obamacare. there's not much you can do so help it. eventually it's not sustainable. the insurance companies are leaving, one by one as quick as you can leave. you have states in some cases soon that will not be covered. so there's no way out of that. but the one thing that was happening, as we got

closer, everyone was talking about how wonderful it was. now it will go back to real life. people will see how bad it is. it's getting much worse. i said the other day when president obama left, he knew he wasn't going to be here, 2017 is going to be a very bad year for obamacare, very, very bad, explosive premium increases and you deductibles are so high people don't even get to use it. i honestly believe -- i know some of the democrats and they're good people. i honestly believe the democrats will come to us and say, look, let's get together and get a great health care bill or plan that's really great for the people of our country. i think that's going to happen. >> you have been watching president trump's response to the surprising developments on capitol hill with the bill fail. he said several times no democrats supported this.

when they were passing the affordable care act, no republicans in the house or senate voted for that bill. we're moving onto a pretty great weekend. storm team 4 is helping us gear up for the weekend. >> that's right. amelia is down there at the tidal basin. doug, what's it looking like? >> reporter: it's a beautiful night here at the tidal basin right now, temperatures comfortable after this morning's rain. i must have done something right because the naj pational park rr just stopped by. what a year it has been. are they going to die r they going to stay alive. here we are, peak bloom this year.

we are so thrilled to see color coming out. not as much as long time visitors are used to, may look a little more marbled than we're used to. >> reporter: 24 degrees 90% bloom die-off and 40 degrees and higher. >> our happy number is 40 degrees. when we hit 40 and above, the bloom cycle is actually underway. get above 40, we continue on our way towards peak bloom. 50, 60, 70, it goes up exponentially. we're moving two or three times that rate tomorrow. >> reporter: we're talking 76 tomorrow. are you going to bring your family down here? >> if we all get

>> reporter: i think i got the last one. >> we'll set one aside for him. >> that's what i'm talking about. it will be a great weekend out here. temperatures on the warm side, right now 58. look at this, south wind at 17. that breeze will continue to pump temperatures up. 77 in charleston, 70 in richmond. 73 back in west virginia. that air is going to be moving our way tomorrow. this is all warm air making its way our way before our next storm system tries to move in on sunday. not going to amount to much at all. just a couple of light showers if we see any. most of sunday will be dry. high temperature tomorrow 76. we get to 66 on sunday. 40% chance of rain on tuy.

a little bit cooler next thursday and friday. friday right now looking like a pretty good storm. how about this, no gas in her car, no signal for her cell phone. >> a desperate woman stranded

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a texas woman has quite a story about her spring break at the grand canyon. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a fun spring break trip to see some of nature's most beautiful scenes, but amber's vacation ended up with her stranded near the grand canyon in a car running on fumes. >> at first i panicked which is ill-advised and drove around trying to find the road again. by then i didn't have gps or cell phone signal. >> reporter: then her car ran out of gas. >> i decided to hunker down and sleep or try to sleep. >> reporter: one night soon turned to five. >> i mostly spent a lot of my time reading, actually, because it helped me escape the reality of my situation. >> reporter: she made signs hoping search crews would see

finally on the fifth day of waiting she walked roughly 11 miles to try and get a cell signal and she saw a helicopter. >> frantically i ran after it. i was like, wait, don't leave me here! >> reporter: sunburned and tired, amber is finally back home. >> i have a lot of stuff to do still and i have any cats to look after. >> reporter: and she's already planning her next trip, only this time she'll bring friends. >> so glad she made it. the news continues now with jim and wendy. right now at 5:00, pulling the plug. the republican health care plan, dead on arrival. we are following all the twists and turns and this late breaking story. also looking ahead to what happens now. first at 5:00, a family of four shattered by tragedy. a home becomes the scene of a murder. and a neighborhood left with more questions than

>> you know, i didn't sleep very well last night, because you don't expect that in your own neighborhood. . news4 at 5:00 starts now. and it's friday. i'm wendy rieger. >> i'm jim handly. we begin this afternoon with that family tragedy that has neighbors on a quiet street wondering what went so terribly wrong. two girls and their father dead, their mother wounded in an apparent case of murder/suicide. >> the community searching for answers. >> reporter: this was an unthinkable crime. now we are learning more about the victims. >> it's very sad. >> reporter: for friend and neighbor britney, the loss of her classmate 17-year-old lachelle goodwin

make sense. 37-year-old carlton goodwin shot and killed lachelle and daughter laila before taking his own life. >> i pray that she gets through this. this is very sad to lose two kids. >> reporter: today at thomas stone high school, administrators tried to help classmates cope with the unthinkable. >> we had our pupil personnel worker as well as our high school resource teacher to follow lachelle's schedule and go to each one of her classes at the time she would be in there and to facilitate discussions about the fond memory that is the students had of her. >> reporter: she played volleyball, was on honor roll and had a bright future, a future taken unexpectedly by the man she trusted most. >> she had dreams of being a graphic designer. students said you could find her