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

>> reporter: there is no one to prosecutor in this case, but the charles county sheriff's office wants to find a motive. coming up, why that is so important and what they've learned so far. we would like to remind you that nbc 4 is committed to raising awareness about domestic violence and solutions in our area. you can find phone numbers and links to local resources in our nbc washington app. just search safe and home for more details. should he have the job permanently? that's the question in the district right now where the public is weighing in on the mayor's pick for police chief. they're lining up in support and opposition. peter newsham has been serving as acting chief since kathy lanier stepped down last year. meagan fitzgerald has reaction from some of the people who signed up to sound off

>> reporter: one of those supporters who just finished up testifying before the council within the last year was former police chief kathy lanier. she said she recommended him for the job and she relied heavily on newsham when she was policing the city. there are also people who spoke out against newsham saying there were past events where they call into question transparency and accountability. >> so it's got to be a combination of bottom up and top down. >> reporter: since 10:00 this morning dozens of the more than 80 registered to testify have had their chance to voice their thoughts before the council, one of the first was marra hilliard, the executive director for the department of civil justice. news4 was first to report that her organization is suing the city and the police department for withholding arrest records from protests on inauguration day. she questioned newsham's commitment to transparency. >> i don't believeed

experience we have and his actions as recently as two months ago that he is fit to be chief of police. he has shown himself unwilling an unable to uphold the basic constitutional right to free speech. >> reporter: patrick burke is the executive director of the d.c. police foundation. he's worked closely with peter newsham for decades and tried to convince the council that newsham has been tested and is ready to read the force. >> he's a visionary leader. all crime categories were reduced last year including homicide by 17%. cares about his community, cares about his officers. >> reporter: and newsham has been known for making himself available to the media, but today he would not speak to our cameras. someone from the mayor's office tells us he will not be speaking until after her testifies. >> he has been interim for a while now. any

take a vote? >> reporter: yeah. it's a good question. we were told that this vote will likely come sometime next week, possibly the week after. and by all accounts, it looks like he should be confirmed. 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. >> president trump blaming the democrats for the failure of the gop health care bill. the president saying that the bill had no democratic support, but republicans have the majority and they could have passed the bill alone in the house if they had the votes. but about an hour ago house speaker paul ryan decided to pull the bill because he did not have enough gop support. speaking ryan called the failure growing pains. >> i will not sugar coat this. this is a disappointing day for

all of us, 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. >> the bill did not appear to have the support of most of the country either. 17% of the people approve of this bill according to the recent quinnipiac poll. >> and most in our area were overwhelmingly opposed to the measure. scott macfarland has been talking to local lawmakers today up on the hill. >> reporter: we're in the hall of columns of the u.s. capitol just down the hall from where paul ryan had that press conference a few minutes ago and directly beneath the u.s. house chamber. there was a lot of scrambling in the capitol fotoday. it was a truly hectic day for local republicans. all eyes were on barbara comstock of northern rg

she put the mystery to rest early this afternoon when her spokesman says she would have been a no vote on this american health care act. but in the meantime her phones got locked up so many calls were coming into her office. local democrats were unanimous. they were going to vote no all the way on this bill. they say they got flooded with calls too. >> we're getting a lot of calls about it. i had a town hall and a huge number of people showed up about it. i had a rally last week talking about this. we had tremendous turnout. there's a tremendous amount of interest in my district. >> reporter: so they officially pulled the plug on this american health care act in the basement of the capitol at 3:35 this afternoon. we watched a procession of republicans fwhawalk in to get news and we watched them a few minutes later walk back out. tonight at 6:00, reaction from

local congressman don byer of virginia. >> could have been a very long night down there. they cut their losses early. from that set back on the hill to a victory in the courts for the president, a federal judge in virginia has ruled against a challenge to president trump's immigration order, a challenge brought by the council on american-islamic relations. t this ruling doesn't change the injunction issued by judges in maryland and hawaii, however. the man accused of firing off shots inside that d.c. pizzaria has now pleaded guilty. edgar welch entered hisa

assault with a deadly weapon. last december he brought a gun and opened fire inside comet ping-pong pizzaria in d.c. welch told police he wanted to investigate a fake news report about democrats and child sex trafficking. welch will be sentenced in june. sentencing guidelines recommend between 3 and 7 years in prison. this video from chopper 4 shows you just how bad this crash was. all five people inside this car hurt when the driver swerved and ended up in a ditch at the intersection of edge hill road and pope's creek road in newburg. the driver swerved to avoid hitting a deer. police say everyone is expected to survive. now to the latest in the u.k. where a fourth person has now died from that attack in central london. the victim a 75-year-old man. this comes as authorities made two more arrests overnight.

they're also combing through more than 2500 items seized in searches across the country. investigators are also trying the figure out how and why the british born attacker became radicalized and whether he acted on his own or may have been directed by others. the american man who died in that attack curt cochran actually lived for part of his life in western maryland. cochran and his family apparently moved away at the end of his junior year in high school. cochran and his wife melissa who live in utah were in europe to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. they' he held a butcher knife to the throats of children. baltimore police had to shoot him, they say. those kids were 1 and 4 years of age. police say the man barricaded himself in a home in west baltimore this morning. when police arrived other people inside the home told officers the man was homeless,n

police say they told the man to drop the knife but he didn't. the man died on the scene and the officer will be placed on administrative duty while the shooting is investigated. temperatures starting to go in the right direction for a change. we started off on a cool note this morning. little bit in the way of some rain. now we're seeing the winds picking up and the temperatures picking up too. 61 degrees the current number in d.c. 70s, though, just back to the west. see the 50s? they're finally pushing off to the east. the 70s pushing east as well. by this time tomorrow we will be into the mid 70s. some very nice warmer weather coming in. warmer pattern moving in now. chance for showers, a few of them over the next couple of days. not tomorrow, by the way. no big storms here. and staying on the warm side for the duration. the next ten days, temperatures at or above average for the most part.

tidal basin. your internet provider isn't allowed to sell your private information, but that may not be the case for much longer. what they could soon give away without even telling you first. >> reporter: chris gordon in calvert county where an 8 month old boy was killed by the family dog. what the investigation reveals. many of you asking on social media what's up with all these cases of missing teenagers.

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. tonight we have some new details on what local leaders call the worst tragedy to hit a quiet maryland town in

time. an 8 month old baby killed by the family dog. >> this happened yesterday afternoon. new news4's chris gordon has been out there. he has our first update on how the family is going and the potential impact this is going to have on other pet owners. >> reporter: two sheriff's deputies answered the emergency call from a family friend who was watching the 8 month old baby boy. the deputies entered the house and saw the pit bull attacking the baby. they quickly decided the only way to stop it was to shoot, killing the dog. they discovered the baby was already dead. sheriff mike evans says the deputies are distraught. >> you could see the emotion, how they were upset. they felt kind of helpless that they couldn't do more. >> reporter: there are plenty of dog owners here in this quiet neighborhood where the tragedy took place. the name of the baby has not been released

protect the family's privacy. >> this is one of the worst tragedies that our community has suffered in such a long time. it's almost unspeakable. it's a very, very close tight-knit community. >> reporter: pit bulls are regulated in 900 cities. according to the website dogbites.org, last year nationwide there were 31 dog bite related fatalities. pit bulls accounted for 22 of them, or 71% of those deaths. the chief of calvert county animal control doesn't think yesterday's attack indicates the law needs to be changed here. >> the majority of the pit bull breeds we deal with are very friendly. there are some that are sometimes a problem in a way. but do i think we need a ban on it? i don't think we need to go that far. >> reporter: the sheriff says after a thorough investigation, ther w

charges filed. we're following new developments involving that congressional investigation into russia and alleged wiretapping. today, house intelligence chairman devin nunes announced he has cancelled a hearing for next week. he's asked the fbi director and the nsa chief to testify in a closed door question. today nunes also walked back statements he made this week that the president and transition team may have been part of what's called incidental surveillance. but he says there is still no evidence to support the president's accusations of wiretapping at trump tower. georgetown university says it will atone for its sin of slavery at a religious ceremony in april. it is time to coincide with the city's emancipation da

ties to the slave trade. it owned slaves. jesuit leaders of the school sold nearly 300 of its slaves to help pay off the school's debt. on april 18th of this year they will hold a liturgy contrition of hope on campus. they will name one haul in honor of isaac hawkins, the first slave listed on the sale documents. consumer reporter susan hogan is working that story and joins us now to tell us how that's going to work. >> kind of crazy, isn't it? >> yeah. >> right now the fcc regulations ban major internet service providers from selecting and selling our data without our permission. but all of that could be scrapped by a resolution jus

here's what this means to you. sensitive data such as your browsing history, location information and even some of your financial app data when you do like bills and all of that online, that all can be sold to third party online advertisers. isps would no longer need to contact you before selling your data. the senate passed this bill late last night by using the congressional review act, which means if signed into law, it would not just repeal those fcc regulations, it would actually prevent similar rules from ever being enacted again. while president trump has stayed away from commenting on what's called net neutrality related issues, his nominee to lead the fcc has rallied against regulations on telecom companies and plans to restructure these internet regulations. still has a lot of hurdles to go through. the fact that senate passed this is pretty

we could see even more development in the northern end of the district's very popular shaw neighborhood. the washington business journal reports that howard university may be looking for partnerships to transform more than half a dozen properties around georgia and florida avenues, turning them into mixed use developments, including apartments, dorms. a teenager's life cut short. new details about what happened inside a local home and why police didn't have to go far for clues. well, this takes home schooling to a new level. this little boy so sick it is sometimes hard for him to breathe, but he's still able to learn and make friends without leaving home. plus, if you're looking for love, maybe you should start talking about what you hate.

weekend is upon us. we can't wait for saturday. >> how are the cherry blossoms looking now? >> they're looking pretty good. we're going to go to amelia in a second to talk about it. it's not going to be the brilliance as years past, but they're still going to be at peak. i'm excited for taking my kids out and playing in the yard whether i

tomorrow is going to be that kind of a day where you just want to get out and enjoy it. temperatures not bad. a little bit above average. up to 58. right now we're at 61 degrees. 61 degrees also at 7:00. temperatures may actually go up another degree or two before coming down a little bit. they're not going to go down all that much tonight as a result of that warm front. look at this, east we're in the 50s. mid 60s here. fredericksburg at 65. petersburg, west virginia, 79 degrees. that air is moving our way. i would not be surprised to see a couple of 80s tomorrow. that's the kind of warm air we've got coming in. a great night to head outdoors. it's a little bit on the cool side, but still pretty good, i think. tomorrow a great day to do it. if you want to eat outside tomorrow, no problem. if you want to go out and about today, no problem. tomorrow,

blossoms. that's what amelia draper did. >> reporter: hey, doug. you have back yard weather all summer. i want the cherry blossoms. right now it's all about peak bloom this weekend. i've been down here all afternoon. you can see the girls here playing by the water. temperatures really warmed up nicely. we're around 61 degrees here right now. the bholooms really starting to come out. peak bloom is this weekend. some damage mean the blossoms won't be as dense this year as they typically do. you come down here and it usually looks like that wall of pink flowers. look at what we saw earlier down here at the tidal basin. newlyweds down here taking beautiful pictures. marks the start of their marriage. so great to see them down .

best wishes to them. i mean, it was so cool to see them down here so happy and enjoying this beautiful peaceful scene down here. >> it's great that they invited you, amelia. >> i invited myself to that too. >> there you go. perfect. yeah, a great night for that. good for them that they had some great conditions. if you're thinking at getting out there tomorrow, look at this, 76 degrees on your saturday, 6 6 sunday. sunday we have an isolated shower. most of us will stay dry, just a little bit cooler. chance of showers both days but i'm not expecting a lot. wednesday a little bit cooler with a high of 70 still, still nice. then cooler air moves in thursday and friday. this might be a little too warm but we'll have to wait and see about that one. more 70s as we head toward next weekend. we're moving in the right direction. i don't see the wrong direction any time soon. >> thank you. we're just getting warmed up here on news4 at

coming up, a night at the casino does not end up as planned. >> they sparked a major security incident. plus, this has been the biggest story all week on our nbc washington app. what is behind all the talk about missing teenaged girls in d.c.? we're working for you to clear up some confusion and misinformation. and it's the first official weekend of spring. probably don't have to tell you. before you head outside, we'll tell you about the new addition to a popular attraction that could make for the perfect weekend get away.

you're watching news4 at 5:00. it started as a suspicious death, but it is now a full murder investigation and police say the victim did know his killer. >> they weren't related but still had some family ties. news4's derrick ward has an update on the complicated relationship and this investigation that started in springfield on tuesday. >> reporter: well, you know, one teen is dead, another is facing first degree murder charges. the possibility of life in prison if convicted. and according to court documents and a confession, it seems this all stemmed from bad blood and an alleged threat. the sut,

and kristin matthews never got along. he says matthews intimidated him nor th more than once. matthews was the father of the suspect's sister's child. others at the home heard a loud disturbance in the bansement. police arrived and found matthews unresponsive in his bed. there were suspicious marks on his neck. >> mr. tyshawn was brought in to talk in an investigation by montgomery county police. it was later determined that he was responsible for the crime because he confessed. >> reporter: he told police that earlier he overheard matthews on a phone call talks about killing him, killing his daughter and the rest of his family. lipford told police he feared for his own life and the

he went into matthews home and bedroom and put him in a chokehold while he slept, leaving before police arrived. >> reporter: a judge ordered lipford held without bond. he's been charged with first degree murder and could be facing life in prison if convicted. coming up on news4, we'll talk to some people who knew the victim and say that the charges seem out of character to them. now a maryland man is charged with drunk driving onto the secure grounds of the nsa. and the news4 i-team has learned police also accused the man of having an unconscious female passenger in the front seat. in court filings investigators say jerry neblet was headed home from the maryland live casino and wound up exiting on a ramp to be used by nsa em

intended to drive north to towson but took southbound lanes before pull into the nsa. he's scheduled to go on trial next month. this evening a mother's prayers are answered. her 17-year-old daughter is home after she went missing from school on monday. >> catherine hunter showed up at her house in southeast d.c. monday. her mother hasn't recovered from the emotions she felt while her daughter was missing. >> i've been dying. i couldn't sleep. i've been driving all around the street, praying for my baby to come home. >> one of the most popular stories on our nbc washington app this week is about missing children like catherine. our story today debunks a fake report that 14 girls went missing in d.c. in one day. >> today pat lawson muse

with someone whose job it is to bring missing children home. what kind of insight are you getting into this false report? >> wendy, first and foremost, he confirmed what police have been saying. we are not, not seeing an uptick in the number of missing children in the city. d.c. police have told us last week that they're simply sharing missing child stories more and more often on social media. robert lowry jr. is with the center for missing and exploited children. i asked him today about why some missing children cases g s get a attention while others don't. the way he sees it the child's age and the circumstances surrounding the child's disappearance matter more than race. >> i think what seems to capture the public's attention the most is those young children who may have been stereo typically abducted by an offender who wants to sexual assault them. and i would say that the media attention is driven largely by the age of the child. you know,

this child touched all of our hearts and garner aed a lot of media attention. >> you the public are the best resource police have. you should pay close attention to those flyers and don't hesitate to report a possible sighting. police would much rather chase down a lead that doesn't pan out than miss out on a tip that doesn't bring a child home. it's been so popular on social media. people are really talking about it. there's a lot of concern about it, but it's also so critically important that accurate information be put out there. >> and not become hysterical stuff that goes viral. >> that's right. while even one missing child or girl is too many, the truth in these cases is far more

number. in our washington app we look at what's true and what's not about the issue of missing girls in the district. just search missing. if you are getting out this weekend, there's a lot of new places to stop and see on the new artisan trail in loudoun coun county. it's designed to pull together local artists and businesses, emphasizing local products. tryst art gallery is along this trail, along with breweries, wineries, bed and breakfasts. so is taylorstown pottery. >> i thought it was a great opportunity to draw folks out. you know, i think folks really like to see where things are made, see how things are made and so being in a remote location and being part of this network of agra-business, restaurants and artists is a

>> loudoun county is trying to come up with a name for this artisan trail. if you have a suggestion, go to their naming event on march 28th at the stone tower winery. have you ever thought about what you have in common with people where you live when it comes to what you love to hate? maryland residents hate bad parking jobs. there's an app now that breaks down dislikes in our dmv. the new dating app called hater shows d.c. residents don't like people who don't vote. they don't like mel gibson either. the app featured in washingt washingtonian magazine shows maryland residents hate snitches. number one, was uber surcharges. number four in d.c. in the news this week, people who block escalators. maryland hates picky

they say you're not 12 anymore. and virginia daters hate man buns. >> that makes a lot of sense to have something like this, because especially in these times that way you don't have to argue. the filter's already in place. >> weed them out. one of the city's busiest metro stations just got new escalators. don't block them. but now it's another station's turn. >> our first look at how this could affect you when you go to work on monday. >> reporter: this home nearly burned to the crowd by a huge fire that broke out in the niddle of the

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just a week of completing work on the escalators in bethesda, metro is set to start work at another station on the red line. starting month metro plans to begin work at the friendship heights station. it will involve escalators on the maryland state at western avenue, some of which is six stories high. crews replace one at a time, with the project expected to last about 2.5 years. the jennifer street entrance on the d.c. side won't be impacts. exercise is not just about losing weight. there are se

that can actually improve your brain and memory function. i posted the study on my facebook page. the story was in the "new york times." the did of rats compared weight lifting, interval training and aerobics. sustained air ro eed aerobic ex the most profound improvement in the hypocampus. they didn't give a length of time per day to do this. we're talking about rats but they believe it relates to humans as well. weight lifting gives you strength as you age, which is important. if you lean heavily into interval training

lifting, the study shows you may want to up your aerobics. we always say that about our hearts. but this was interesting that it actually sends out new neurons in the brain for memory. we're going to introduce you to a little boy who deals with difficulties many of us cannot imagine. he's too sick to attendchool but sth

a woodbridge family of five is starting over afterfire gutting their home overnight. >> this was a nightmare. the few crews responded to ramrod road 2:30 in the morning. julie carey talking to the neighbors today to learn how not only was the family in there, their grandparents were visiting. but they made their escape. >> reporter: well, this is a might mare to nightmare too. it is uncommon to see a house burned to the foundation. now, the neighbors looking on this scene with a mix of emotions, sadness that this young family has lost everything, but grateful everybody made it out along. fire officials blaming this blaze on an improperly discarded cigarette on the front porch. it was a fire that spread

porch, then breaking through into the home itself. a neighbor's cell phone video captured the frightening infe o inferno. chip lohman was awakened not by the fire but by the two little girl who s who just escaped the flames. >> young girls knocking on our door, screaming, just hysterical. girls ran back toward the house. i told my wife to call 911 and then took coats out to the girls. >> reporter: he soon learned everyone in the home had gotten out safely. the husband wife and three children had been sleeping upstairs. >> because the fire was on the porch they were woken up by breaking glass. tom explained to me he tried to go downstairs, realized he couldn't. they had to climb out through a second story window. >> reporter: the grandparents were able to get

door. all three kids were taken to the hospital but none suffered major injuries. neighbors amazed and relieved that everyone got out alive. >> there were just these clouds of embers, you know, chunks of embers that were just floating over the tops of the trees. i said if any of this stuff ignites, we're going to have a real problem here. >> reporter: fighting the fire here, an even greater challenge because there are no hydrants. the fire department brings the water in with tankers. it took hours before the blaze was extinguished. now, the mother here, she's an air force lieutenant colonel. she has been released from the hospital. i have not received an update on the husband and the children yet. how this fire has some neighbors rethinking their family's safety plans. >> thank

of his ability to move, but one local student is still thriving in school, thanks to what you see on the screen here. >> chris gordon shows us the impressive robotic technology making it possible and the impressive little boy already making an impact on his community. >> good morning. >> good morning. >> how are you, max? >> reporter: max can't go to school, but he attends class every day. >> let's go see who's there, max. >> reporter: this is max's robot. max and his mother operate it from their montgomery county home several miles away from school. it allows max to connect with his classmates, make friends and even join them for lunch. >> every time max would beam

excited and yell it's the robot. but after a week or two, it would be max is here. >> reporter: max is 3 1/2 years old. he was born with spinal muscular atrophy, a degenerative disease that makes it difficult for him to move, breathe and eat. he can't be in a classroom for fear of catching a cold or flu, which for him could be life-threatening. >> we felt that it was really important to max's cognition is fully intact. his social intelligence is fully intact. we wanted him to be able to interact with his peers, but we can wanted him to do so safely. >> reporter: the family won a grant to cover the beam robot technology. >> what about you, max? catfish or dogfish?

everyone. this is teaching our children to see max as a child just as they are with the same needs. he's different and yet he's very much the same. >> reporter: it isn't easy. max is on a ventilator. his mother puts angel arms on max so he can move his hands and participate in activities like coloring for a friend's birthday picture book. >> do you like it? >> reporter: max vocalizes but lacks strength for articulation. his mother understands everything he says. what would you like to be when you grow up? >> a teacher? you want to be a teacher? i didn't know that. wow. >> reporter: what about max's future? well, a cousin wrote a note to the family saying, there's a

people in the world who will come up with a way to help max as he gets older. >> i'm glad that he has these teachers as role models. he's looking ahead, imagining himself in the role of teacher and just like any of us he's not going to let his different abilities get in the way of doing what he is passionate about. >> max, emma's coming to give you a hug. >> reporter: reporting from montgomery county, chris gordon. >> this technology was also used in montgomery county, i think, a fifth grade girl that had to go up and get some cancer treatment in boston, so she sent her robot to class every day and interacted with her ipad at the hospital. who got the best assignment of the day? lucky amelia draper. >> we

you, flowers. >> reporter: they're beautiful. we're starting to see the puffy white stage, stage five of six. we've been done here, myself, my photographer all afternoon. you can see folks still walking along here during the evening. a little chilly out here, a little breezy. temperatures, though, in the low 60s. all in all, a really nice day and a fabulous weekend. with a forecast this weekend, those warm temperatures tomorrow and sunday, it's really going to bring the blossoms out. that is going to be your first weather headline. the weekend is looking mainly dry overall. but i can't rule out some showers later in the day on saturday especially north of town. for the most part, the weekend is looking pretty dry from start to finish. and then your third weather headline, even into early next week we still stay mild on monday and tuesday. for the most part we're in the low 60s across the area. we're really not going to tumble

we'll fall in the 50s. that's where we'll start off our day tomorrow morning right around 7:00 a.m. by lunchtime, we're comfortable, already near 70 degrees. by the afternoon we'll have temperatures in the mid 70s. about 76. and really nice tomorrow evening aside from that small chance for showers mainly north of town. there are going to be plenty of clouds around saturday as well as seasoned. not a sun-filled weekend but temperature- wise potentially the warm est weekend so far thi year. the blossoms, of course, peak bloom. that's why we're down here tonight. if you're going to go out on your saturday night, might want to grab that small umbrella just in case. monday and tuesday, well, the chance for some rain, but some rain is much-needed. as we look to the rest of the week, we do start to cool off a little bit. as we come back here live at the

scenes i've been seeing all afternoon. people lining up to get beautiful photographs of the monuments in the background. i've seen two couples down here, one couple that was just married and another couple taking pictures for their wedding that's not until june. that's how spectacular the scenery is down here. already has the wedding dress on and they don't care that the wedding is not until june. >> i'll go down there and show you a couple breaking up, how about

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while it may seem like a no-brainer to some, we often report on airline passengers stopped at checkpoints with guns in their bags. >> tsa hates that and those numbers are on the rise. a lot of people wind up getting arrests or facing a big fine because of that. >> agents demonstrates the proper way to travel with a firearm. >> reporter: it happens more times than you might think. bag passes through the x-ray and inside is a loaded firearm and the police have heard just about every excuse in the book. >> i forgot it. somebody else packed my bag. but we've got to treat it as any other person with a firearm. you know, you're not allowed to bring a firearm through the screening point. >> reporter: 24 people were caught at checkpoints with fire a

2016, up 62% from the year before. >> not only do you face fines through tsa, you're going to face a fine and possible jail time in the state of maryland. >> doesn't really matter what the excuse is. you shouldn't have it at the checkpoint. it's so easy to pack it properly and fly the right way. >> reporter: tsa officials say it's pretty easy to travel with a firearm as long as it's done the right way. it starts with packing your bag from scratch. >> it's best practice to start by emptying your bag and starting from scratch. >> reporter: weapons including firearms are not permitted in carry- carry-ons. they can be put in checked bags if they are unloaded, properly packed and declared to the airline. in the end tsa reminds folks to do one last check before you pack. if you have any questions about a bag, just don't bring it. >> if you're a

you usually have a certain duffel bag or knapsack you take to the firing range, don't bring that one to the airport. news4 at 6:00 starts now. now at 6:00, the blame game on capitol hill as house leadership pulls the republican health care bill after coming up short on the votes necessary to get it passed. >> speaker ryan called the failure growing pains. president trump blamed democrats for playing politics. but democrats are claiming victory. >> the story still making headlines across washington. we start with blaine alexander on capitol hill. >> reporter: a republican plan to end obamacare undone today by republicans. >> perhaps the best thing that could happen is exactly happened today. because we'll end up with a truly great health care wibill the future after this mess known