students and teachers at catoctin high school. she had purchased a shotgun, ammunition, and material to build pipe bombs, which were all found in her homes. >> it was also clear in her diary that she planned to die in this event. >> reporter: thurmont, maryland is a quiet, working class community where residents say something like this is unheard of. >> you don't expect it here? >> absolutely not. i always felt safe here, more so than in the bigger cities. >> reporter: scevario's father alerted officials thursday and within hours she was removed from her classroom and taken to a hospital for mental evaluation. >> obviously this was a student who needed some intervention and some help. i think the silver lining is that she's going to get the help that she needs now. >> reporter: cevario remains in a local hospital under mental evaluation. at this hour, she's facing several felony charges and will be placed under arrest.

when she's released from the hospital. officials said today that they believe no one else was involved and knew about her plans until her father read the diry and alerted school officials and that's when police kicked into action. that's the very latest here in frederick county. >> some quick thinking there. mark, thank you. we'll see you at 6:00. new at 5:00, we've learned the name of a local man gunned down in his own home. someone shot and killed raleigh farley. he was 36 years old. detectives are still looking for suspects. but for now, they say this was not a random crime. and we are learning some new information about how a young front royal college student was killed over the weekend. >> this is trending on our facebook and twitter pages today, huge response. her 17-year-old boyfriend, a high school senior, is now charged in her

leah adams was found saturday night along kerfoot avenue. the medical examiner said she died from being stabbed in the chest. julie carey spoke to the victim's father today about the sudden and terrible loss of his only daughter. >> she had big plans for herself. as she was getting older, she had a good job, she was going to school. she worked hard, she was full of personality. >> reporter: the photos make it clear, 19-year-old leah adams loved green bay packers football. but her dad tells me when the family moved from wisconsin to virginia, she made her way to study at the community college, working at a bank call center. but saturday night on kerfoot avenue, just blocks from her apartment, a terrible discovery. residents there found her screaming for help, lying in the street bleeding. they say a car had also just struck this mailbox and taken off. the driver bailed out and

but was arrested soon after. that 17-year-old, whom we can't name because he's a juvenile, was leah's boyfriend, just a high school senior. he's now charged with second-degree murder. the couple had only been dating for a few months. her family, stunned at what happened. they think the suspect might have been under the influence of some type of drug. >> it's possible he was on some type of drug that made him go crazy. the relationship, they got along very well, so we were shocked to hear everything that happened. >> reporter: the 17-year-old suspect appeared this afternoon in a closed juvenile court hearing, he was given a court-appointed lawyer and will be held without bond. he's due back in court in early april. storm team 4 has been keeping an eye on the radar all day long, and they've been seeing a lot of sunny skies, but there could be some showers later on this evening, doug. >> yeah, we have a couple out there right now. not a lot tonight, but tomorrow an

of showers and even a couple of thunderstorms. right now, it's all about the temperatures, nice conditions, 73 right now in d.c. 78, richmond. 71 in hagerstown. much warmer than the day yesterday. most of the area on the dry side. culpepper county, we've got one, lone cell. this is producing some fairly heavy rain. maybe some lightning and thunder with this, moving very slowly towards the east. the bulk of the action, back with this storm system, look at the yellow boxes, those are all severe thunderstorm warnings. this whole system moves our way during the night tonight and into the day tomorrow. so the shower chance is on the rise. temperatures back down after that moves through. rain, late week, and mild into next week. lot going on here, but it's all spring-like weather, for the most part. see you in ten minutes. >> doug, thank you. neighbors called dennis taylor a good

helpful. but tonight, detectives are looking for his killer. we'll see how deeply he touched people who lived on his street. >> dennis taylor made a lot of friends on columbia place. >> he used to cut our grass. he's a good kid. >> reporter: neighbors say the 15-year-old would go house to house to cut grass. a friendly face that many were happy to help. then saturday night, the sound of gunfire. >> i have no clue. i was sitting in the living room right here, i heard the gunshot. not knowing at first that it was taylor, he died a short time later. now at that spot, a growing tribute of bears and balloons. his sister spoke about the sudden, senseless loss. >> his little brothers looked up to him. all that. it's like -- terrible. >> reporter: at brooklyn middle school, grief counsellors were on hand and on the block where he lost his life, a call for anyone with information to step

what happened, just be honest and just tell. because he was a really good kid that was actually trying. >> reporter: and to give you a sense of how close this block is, we are told that just moments after dennis was shot, neighbors with medical training actually raced over and tried to save his life. his grandmother tells me family and friends are planning a sunset vigil this evening in his honor. i'm justin finch, news4. the woman accused of trying to jump the white house fence three times in the past week, will not be able to go back to those grounds this month, because this afternoon a judge ordered her held until another court appearance in early april. the suspect's name is marcy wahl, she's from the seattle area. according to the court documents, she was first arrested last tuesday. she was hanging from the top of the white house fence by her shoelaces. she was

but agents say they found wahl trying to scale the fence again on saturday and a third time on sunday. wahl reportedly told secret service she was motivated by the success of other people who had recently climbed over that fence. up to capitol hill we go and vote delayedoday. democrats in the senate judiciary committee used a tactic to push back a vote on president trump's supreme court nominee. that means a vote on whether to send it to the full senate will wait another week. chuck schumer said last week, he plans to filibuster gorsuch, potentially forcing republicans to go with the nuclear option. >> if our democratic colleagues are going to filibuster this nominee, as outstanding as he really is, i don't think they're going to allow any of president trump's nominees to be confirmed at the supreme court. the democrats on the committee also delayed a vote on d

attorney general. if confirmed, he'd oversee investigations on russian interference in the election, since a.g. jeff sessions has recused himself. president trump and vice president pence met with women and small business today. ivanka announced she'll be attending a summit on economic empowerment of women. ivanka was invited by german chancellor merkel. well, just days after the failure to get the republican health care proposal on to the house floor for a vote, the white house is moving on with an eye now on tax reform. the white house hopes this will create a working dialogue, both with democrats and conservative members of the gop. nbc's jay gray has our report. >> reporter: after losing fight over health care, the trump administration nowhi

probably start going very, very strongly for the big tax cuts and tax reform. that will be next. >> reporter: a goal perhaps even more difficult than the health plan, and one that will require some common ground. >> the president's vision on lowering taxes for every american is what's going to unite not just the republican party but i think some democrats are going to come on board wp. >> reporter: but with plans to increase military spending, finding those cuts may require looking into places in the budget that to this point have been off-limits. >> got to open up the entire budget, not just non-defense discretionary. you have to look at entitlements. >> reporter: faced with opposition, analysts say president trump must find a way to move forward. >> it turns out that governing is more complicated, more difficult than campaigning. >> reporter: the campaign that continues to grab the attention of the senate intell

ask the president's son-in-law, jared kushner, about possible ties between the trump team and russia. that comes as kushner has been tapped by the president to lead a newly developed office with sweeping authority to overhaul federal bureaucracy and streamline government operations. jay gray, nbc news, washington. >> now, kushner's role will be in what they're calling the office of american innovation. the idea using business sector ideas to help the government run more smoothly and efficiently. it's probably no surprise during last year's presidential election, that thenandidate donald trump's tweets sparked the biggest reactions on twit frer both ends of the political spectrum. some computer scientists at william & mary say they've developed an algorithm that can predict a user's political leanings without looking at their individual posts. they say it focuses more on the users' networks. they looked at 12 million users and a test

accounted for much of the fake news traffic. when we come right back tonight on news4 at 5:00, he was known to make everybody around him smile and laugh. a 15-year-old gone too soon and what police are doing to find his killer. and a consumer alert about a new phone scam, whatever you do, do not say "yes." news4's susan hogan will join us to explain. stick around. and this story has a lot of you weighing in on my facebook page. two girls band from united airlines for wearing leggings. but it's what's behind the sry thatto i

to make sure you're on the lookout for what's being called the "yes" scam. susan hogan will tell you what you need to know. >> that's right. this is absolutely crazy. so here's what we know, the scammers call you and try to get you to say the word "yes" during a call and then later use a recording of that response to authorize unwanted charges on your financial account. now the callers impersonate employees from organizations that provide a service, usually. the scam begins when a consumer answers a call and the person on the other end asks, can

me? the caller records your "yes" response and now has your voice signature. if you get a call like this, hang up. if you've already responded to this type of call, you gotta review all of your credit card statements for unauthorized charges. we always have to be on the lookout for telephone scams like this. never answer a call from an unknown number. let it go right to voice mail, even if you get a recorded call asking you to hit a button to stop receiving calls, just hang up. scammers use these tricks to identify live respondents. jim? >> just say no and just hang up. thanks so much. democrats in maryland say they have big concerns now about the federal budget outline unveiled earlier this month by the white house. today in montgomery county, lawmakers called on the dwgoverr to join their opposition to the cuts. >> reporter: local democrats and their supporters say these are

maryland, amid cuts in programs protecting the chesapeake bay. >> our number one natural resource treasure. >> reporter: cut to the tune of $6 billion. >> it's a vital source of research and hope. >> reporter: and the affordable care act. >> and i would be one of the people who would not only lose insurance, but i would probably die if the affordable care act is repealed. >> the trump administration has unveiled a budget that targets maryland for extreme and decimating cuts. it would hurt all areas of the state. >> reporter: they're calling on governor larry hogan to be more vocal on these issues. >> he's silent because it's politically expedient in his mind to do so. >> reporter: governor hogan has indicated some divergence from the administration's agenda. he's written letters about how well the state is doing under obamacare, as well as his support for medicaid extension, and he said he wrote

instead of voting for the president last november. critics say it's not enough. >> we'll be vigilant and continue to ask the questions, where is our governor? he's been missing in action. >> we reached out to governor hogan's office this afternoon. he tells us, if any of the budget proposals become law or even draft legislation, we will take a serious look at how to address them during our own budget process. the governor's office also tells us, the governor is focused on finishing the current legislative session, adding that lawmakers should do the same. remember the movie snax o"s on a plane"? now we have leggings on a plane. a simple story, one of the more interesting dust-ups on social media. two girls traveling on united airlines on free employee passes were told they couldn't board because they were wearing leggings, which violates the dress code. a lot of people went nut

pilot. i've known about this dress code since before i was born. it only applies to people flying on employee-family passes, buddy passes, friends and family, whatever the airlines call them. my dad used to get me these passes 40 years ago and he would say to me, you dress up, you don't wear any jeans. wear like you're going to a job interview. so i knew i was traveling as a representative of my father who represented the airlines. i remember my dad in the cockpit, and my mother would curl my hair and put me in a puffy party dress. these are captain rieger's children. united has posted a message, leggings are welcome. someone wrote, if you dress nicely on any flight, you're more likely to get bumped up to business or first class. >> and you're flying with free, so

connected to it. >> and everyone connected to the airline industry, we all knew this. kelvin knew, i knew. soon as i read that, i wrote, i bet they were flying for free on passes. >> and now you're wearing daisy dukes and flip flops every time you fly? >> now i go in my pajamas because i'm paying for the tickets. >> makes a difference. when we come back, you may enjoy the warmer weather this time of year, but you probably weent like what it can do to your car. i'm feeling out there on my street. the maryland department of transportation said it gets reports of about a dozen or even hundreds of potholes on roads each day. experts say the changing temperatures are to blame. >> the liquid precipitation freezes. when it thaws, it pops out and forms a pothole. so we encourage our customers, if they see a pothole to contact us, let us know about it, and our aim is to get that pothole taken care

>> boy, i wish they were that quick in my neighborhood. we're working for you to help protect your car. if you're seeing potholes where you live, tweet photos of them to @4 pothole fix. we want to help you get them filled. after three years of waiting for a trial, a man accused of killing five people in a high-speed drunk driving crash pleads guilty in court. what led to today's unexpected ending. if you own a fitness tracker, you're probably used to the shame it gives you when you don't reach the 10,000-step mark each day. we'll tell you what experts say is the new target number when we come right back after th

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>> we're having a pollen debate. >> i'm feeling it. >> the rain washed it out a little bit. >> but as soon as the sun comes back out, right now, everything's blooming, and boom, pollen is up there, on the moderate side. not too high yet, but if you're highly allergic, jim hanley, it is having an impact and it's going to continue. look outside now, plenty of blue skies and really what has become a beautiful afternoon. we saw the fog early this afternoon, cool temperatures, and now 73 degrees. temperatures dropping through the 60s later this evening.

could be a couple of showers. show you where we have one right now, but most of us will stay dry this evening. 62 in annapolis, 78 in fredericksburg, 73 in frederick, maryland. beautiful day, but cooler along the bay. even a mile inland from annapolis along the water, you're a little bit warmer. we are tracking this storm from culpepper county towards faulk ear county. i wouldn't be surprised to hear thunder. you can see it moving to the east. right along 15 and 17, as you're making your way out of warrenton. this is the only game in town right now. you can see it's making its way right across 15. so if you're around warrenton, you're going to see that shower coming through. it could be a brief heavy how were, but that's about it. couple more showers, they're back to the west, trying to move in, and this is all part of a system, a pretty strong system bringing severe weather to places

kentucky. this storm, however, is not going to time out right for us to see severe weather. that's a good thing. 73 degrees right now, 78, raleigh. one more day of warm air before the cooler air moves in behind the system. this evening, future weather, does have a couple showers this evening. we've shown you that, most of us remaining dry tonight. but by tomorrow morning, seeing some showers in towards parts of northern virginia. may interact with your commute. heads up there. around noon, scattered showers, good idea to take the umbrella. tomorrow afternoon, 4, 5, 6:00, a better chance for showers to hit you pretty good. i think we could see stronger storms. i don't think we'll see much in the way of severe weather, but an isolated severe storm. frederick, leesburg, down towards d.c. then the cooler weather. tomorrow, 74, mostly cloudy, showers likely and again, possible ter

well. biggest threat there would be strong winds and hail. hail could be an issue tomorrow afternoon. look at 66 degrees on wednesday. but only in the 50s on thursday and friday. friday, kind of a nasty day, but it's okay. we need the rain. could see over an inch of rain on friday. high temperatures only in the 50s, but right now, the weekend looking pretty good here, guys. i think this is a forecast we'll take. looking more like spring as we head into april. >> thank you, doug. the court documents in this case, so vile, i can't read them out loud. the rape of a 13-year-old. the story coming up, news4. a man indicted for killing five people in a dui crash pleads guilty today before his hearing. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news4, what this means for delayed justice and the family involved. and we covered this story for weeks, an explosion that left seven people dead, many

county. while the community is helping one man who lost his family in that explosion, they're hoping to get him back on his feet.

you're watching news4 at 5:00. and welcome back at 5:30. we are learning more about a particularly disturbing case of rape here in t

>> this evening, two people are facing charges, but the most troubling part of this perhaps is the ages of everyone involved. >> our pat collins is live for us at the scene, along 25th street in southeast d.c. pat? >> reporter: jim, the suspects in this case, and there are two suspects in this case, are both men. 21-year-old men. the victim, she's just 13 years old. the crime -- rape. the scene, the basement of this large house on 25th street and southeast. according to court documents obtained by news4, this is how it went down. a 13-year-old girl said she began talking to one of the suspects on social media, that she agreed to meet them here in d.c. she said she snuck out of her house in maryland and took an

street. one of the suspects meets that teenage girl outside the house and then leads her around to the back basement door and into the house. once inside, it gets ugly. real ugly. according to court documents, over the next hour, the victim says the two suspects took turns having sex with her. the entire time she says she repeatedly said "no" and tried to push them off her. eventually she got away after being in the house for about two hours and 35 minutes. both men charged with child sexual abuse, both men held without bond tonight. coming up at 6:00, reaction from a next-door neighbor. i'll see you at 6:00, now back to you. >> pat collins, thank you. you may

back. an unexpected twist today in a deadly dui. a man accused of killing five people in oxen hill back in 2013 pleaded guilty today. to the victims' families, it was a long time coming. tracee wilkins has more now on that delayed his plea. >> reporter: it's just as you said here, this is an accident from years ago. it took a year for them to indict the driver. and then just as the family was preparing for a trial, he pleads guilty. today we found out more about why justice was delayed so much in this case. kenneth kelley admits he was at fault in the deadly crash that killed five people three years ago. >> this case has misery that's hard for any of us to imagine. >> reporter: it happened october 2014. it took a year to gather evidence to convict h

months to gather his blood-alcohol level from the hospital that treated him. >> we were also waiting for dna results, which we got in the spring of 2015, which is when we filed our indictment and then a warrant was issued for him and then we had to wait for the warrant to be served. >> reporter: typhani wilkerson and tameika curtis were killed. two children were also killed. the mother, who was driving, survived. in the striking vehicle, dominique green was killed, but the driver survived. prosecutors say kenneth kelley was drunk when we got behind the wheel that night. today a jury was to be selected for his trial, but he pleaded guilty to all counts. after he spent three years waiting for a trial, the question is why. >> they felt like they could do better by accepting responsibility and pleading the case with the judge. >> reporter: the sisters had ten children between them both, now left motherless. >> you can just imagine the

of unspeakable pain that any family would suffer, but imagine the ten children without mothers, the two sisters killed, the driver whose children were also killed in this incident. it's just too much grief to describe. >> reporter: i spoke to kelley's defense attorney and he explained why his client decided to go ahead and plead today. he said it's been a very difficult thing for him to live with. also coming up on news4 at 6:00, what would have been presented had they gone to court today. i'm tracee wilkins, back to you in the studio. well, authorities in maryland who control these things say the deer control efforts are working in the western maryland parks. they say there's an added benefit. the meat is helping feet the homeless and the needy. while tail deer destroy trees, bushes, and crops, and now the state is working to control deer populations in parks and

battlefields. deer control began in 2014, but just started at the battlefields this past december. since then the state says more than 8 tons of venison has been donated to maryland food banks. brace yourselves for another construction closure along rockville pike starting next week. the crossing project to build a pedestrian tunnel underneath the road near the walter reed medical center takes another step forward next week. construction crews will close one northbound lane along the pike. that will run from april 5th through the 7th, from 9 in the morning until 3 in the afternoon. millions of americans are getting their credit card fees reduced or eliminated. and you can as well. all you have to do is ask. >> credit card companies are willing to deal and negotiate because it's such a competitive marketplace. so you're feeling pretty good when you clock that 10,000-step mark each day. get ready to keep on walking. the new benchmark for those using a

you gotta be quick with your phone, folks. thousands of would-be museum goers are left disappointed once again this afternoon. >> the latest batch of passes for that wildly popular infinity mirrors exhibit sold out in less than two minutes

the museum says it releases 6,000 passes online at noon, but by 12:02, poof, they were gone. as many as 70,000 people have logged on to get them. try your luck again next monday at noon, the exhibit runs through the 14th of may. good news for you, getting your credit card company to slash high fees is as easy as asking for it. whether you want to cut your annual fees, late fees, or get a lower interest rate, pick up the phone, make the call. experts warn not to wait, in case the market changes and consumers lose their edge. >> credit card companies are willing to deal and negotiate because it's such a competitive marketplace. about 80% of people who ask to have an annual fee waived or lowered, got it. >> if you're on the fence, consider this. a credit

69% of customers who asked for a lower interest rate got it. and 87% were successful at having late fees waived. those can add up. all righty, on your mark, get set, go. your daily goal of 10,000 steps, oh, it's not enough. a new study shows, you gotta add another 5,000 on top of that. the report in the international journal of obesity weighed the heart health and bmi of mail carriers, comparing them to that of office workers who sit all day. mail carriers who walk 15,000 steps a day, showed no increased risk of heart disease. 15,000 steppe 15,000 steps is about seven miles. that amounts to walking briskly for two hours, or walking like a speed demon for an hour and 45 minutes. >> i putn

how many of you sweat the small stuff? you're in luck. there are studies now that show people who sweat when the stakes are low, did the best when the stakes are high. i put this up on my facebook page and put it to the test on the elliptical at my gym. "the wall street journal" reports employers having a tough time predicting who performs better under pressure, might one to look at the one indicator, the volume of your sweat when under low pressure situations. we're not talking b.o. or anything. >> oh, my gosh, who is that? >> he had deodorant on. [ laughter ] he's alone. no machines around him within use. so those who sweat when the stakes were low did better when this crisis situations. i'm a posting machine today. i think i'm being a little productive, a little more than usual. >> were you sweating as you were posting? >> okay, yeah, you were. >> i took

>> isn't that called anxiety when you're sweating the small stuff? >> it used to be. but you can be productive with it too apparently. >> there you go. a massive explosion that left dozens of families in silver spring devastated and heart-broken. >> how the community is rallying around one man who can't believe he made it out alive. i'm tom sherwood at the kelly miller middle school in northeast washington, empowering young people. easy to say. a lot harder to do. what the district of columbia's doing for the young girls in this city, coming up. i'm tom kierein, we're at our spring storm season. we're getting some of those. kentucky and tennessee, that line may be getting

you're watching news4 at 5:00. >> last summer, there was that massive explosion at the flower branch apartment complex in silver spring. it killed seven people and injured many more. at least 80 families were displaced. doreen gentzler has the story of one man who was, he lost almost everything, but he didn't lose hope. >> such an awful explosion and still such a fresh memory. 32-year-old neymar ialu was visiting his aunt and uncle when the unthinkable happened and his life changed in an instant. chaos in silver spring after an explosion tears through an apartment building overnight. this was the scene -- >> i came home very late, around 11:45, and i just opened the door and walked inside. i was sitting

was planning for tomorrow. i heard a gigantic explosion, and i don't remember what happened after that. >> reporter: officials eventually cited a natural gas leak as the cause of the explosion. seven people died and 30 others were injured. nammar woke up after the explosion in the hospital in silver spring. >> i had a breathing tube. i inhaled so much gas and smoke, i was like, i mean, i was like, i'm going to die. and i was praying to god. >> memar had a serious injury on his left leg, a deep cut on his back, and he hurt everywhere. he struggled to recover in the hospital in the days afterward. >> and i didn't know at that moment, i didn't know what happened to my uncle and my aunt. i was so worried. >> reporter: memar's aunt and aunkel were among the seven people who did not survive.

and i lost my aunt. >> reporter: memar also lost his entire body of research that night. he'd come to visit his aunt and uncle on a break from a ph.d. program in international relations in italy. all of memar's work was destroyed in the explosion. although his other injuries healed over time, his left leg had been badly damaged and required constant physical therapy. it made it impossible to travel. >> it was my impression that he had a tear of the cartilage or the ligaments in the knee, so initially we treated him with physical therapy and adventist health care was willing to provide him with care. >> reporter: but physical therapy did not take care of the problem. memar and his doctor realized he needed surgery. we accompanied him when he went in for the operation. >> i believe that there's a likelihood that he has a ligament tear and he may have a cartilage tear in his knee.

rosk pi of his knee, where we look inside there with a telescope and a video camera through little holes. we'll evaluate everything in there and fix whatever we find that we can fix. >> reporter: dr. mcgee also thinks memar will need acl repair. but the physician is optimistic that this will help his patient get back to living a normal life. as for memar, he told us he is deeply grateful for how much the community has helped him. and to washington adventist hospital for providing him with carefree of charge. >> it's incredible. but i'm still alive. >> memar is on the mend and continues to be very grateful for all the support and help from his doctors and from the community. you can see all of our previous coverage on this devastating explosion in the nbc washington app, search silver spring explosion. wendy, jim? >> good for him. good for him that he's doing we

i feel so bad for him. all of his research. oh, my gosh. >> tom kierein upjoins us now a the early morning rain gave way to a gorgeous afternoon. >> the rain washed some pollen out. we use jim handly's nose as a pollenometer. he's complaining a little bit. >> a little bit? >> not more than usual. [ laughter ] that's what's responsible for your misery, jim. all the trees that are -- look at the leaves coming out already, in addition to the cherry blossoms already in full bloom. so the pollen count is beginning to jump. that's the live view from our city camera. the tree pollen now, it's in the moderate range. there's no grass or weed pollen, but some of the mold spores are beginning to build a bit as well. temperatures in the low 70s. a chilly

annapolis. near 80 in culpepper and frederic fredericksburg. tomorrow morning, you'll need a jacket, cool in the 50s, but then an umbrella in the morning and later in the afternoon. maybe some rain boots and a poncho tomorrow afternoon as some rain showers come through. there's only a small chance of an isolated storm this evening. mostly cloudy by 11:00 p.m., back down to the upper 50s and patchy, dense fog tomorrow morning for the morning commute and then a shower chance increases by 11:00 tomorrow morning as we climb into the 60s. so fog for the morning commute and showers likely for your lunch hour and then by 5:00 p.m. for the commute, wet roads, maybe thunderstorms coming through. temperatures in the low 70s. right now, getting one thundershower, maybe just a rain shower here in central faulk ear county. as we go to the evening hours, these patches of green are rain showers

during the day on tuesday, there's the time stamp by noon time, still settled, then these areas you see popping up in the yellow and orange, isolated thunder showers coming through. only a small chance they would be severe, but some of them could produce hail and brief strong wind. between 4:00 p.m. to 6 or 7:00 p.m. after that, settles down, and things improve into wednesday. but the rainfall totals may be up to a half inch or maybe more across our region, those areas in the green and blue by the time it ends. wednesday, sunshine back, blustery wind. cool or thursday. rain looking likely now on friday, as the nationals are going to be playing an exhibition game, they'll hope to, but it's probably going to be getting rained out. nice on saturday and sunday. they play a game in annapolis on saturday. monday, opening day, should be good weather for that. mid 60s and partly cloudy. thenay

following tuesday. up and down we go. march sis a moody month. >> it is. >> you got us thinking basically, but for the second time in the last three years, the caps and the wizards are both playoff bound. but this could be the first time ever that both teams have home ice and home court advantage in the same season. it's made for one very happy owner. and carol maloney joins us now with more on her conversation with him. >> yeah, ted told me recently he's been called the worst owner in the world and the best owner in the world. and he thinks neither are true. he does, however, believe whole heartedly that the two teams in town are on the verge of something special. here's a clip of my time with ted. >> the greatest thing to say is when i was on the train the other day, and someone said, i love how the team's playing. and i go, which one? everyone loves playoff time, and everyone has anticipation about it. it gives the cmu

it gives everyone something to look forward to. so we're all getting psyched up. >> it takes a while for the community to get there. how long did it take for you to believe again? >> well, i believed in the offseason that the caps would be one of the best teams in the league. i saw nothing last year that would have predicted that we wouldn't be really, really good again this year. you just have to keep knocking on the door. that's all you're able to do with an ownership, is to give everyone every tool that's needed to be prepared to win a stanley cup. >> what questions do fans ask you the most, and which one of your least favorite? >> yesterday before the wizards game, i walked around for an hour, i went into the store. i walked all along the first concourse. i walked upstairs, i walked on the court. i just feel like the human interacti interaction, you get so much more a sense of

is when somebody says, i believe i can speak for all fans when i say. [ laughter ] >> and i say, really? did you get elected to that position? was that a popular vote, or was that the electoral college? >> so now you know what not to say to ted. we posted the clips of the interview on nbc washington. just search tedly yonsis. >> next at 5:00, how the district is doubling down to help young women of color succeed

it's tough enough being a teenager and sometimes middle school and high school can be a bit overwhelming. >> absolutely. mayor bowser announced a new million dollar program who support young women caught up in the pressures of school. tom sherwood reports. >> about how to teach leadership to girls in particular. >> reporter: 13-year-old chase jones was listening closely to mayor muriel bowser, the kelly miller middle school eighth grader has plans for after high school. >> do you have ambitions for you'd like to do? >> yes, ri'd like to go to m.i.. and be a

>> do you know how much it costs to go to m.i.t.? >> unfortunately i do. >> reporter: she's proud of her daughter, who introduced mayor bowser at a school ceremony, announcing a million dollar plan to engage young women in middle and high school with after-school and other enrichment program. >> there's definitely a need for a focus on girls, to know that you are more than capable, you know, of doing the same work or better than your male counterparts. >> reporter: last year, they created an all-male program to focus on teen boys. >> i believe that girls some find their role models that they need in order to speak up. >> reporter: art teacher sylvia inis is one of those role models. you remember being a teenager, don't you? >> oh, definitely. long time ago, but i definitely remember. >> reporter: she worries girls often hold back from boys in art classes. >> it's so important for us to speak out and to show our power. be

>> reporter: school chancellor antoine wilson said the program will begin with a city-wide conference for young girls. in the district, tom sherwood, news4. now at 6:00, a teenager girl accused of plotting an attack inside a local high school. what her diary reveals about the launt plans and how she was caught. and details about the trump campaign and russia and why the president's son-in-law is facing some tough questions. one woman arrested three times at the white house in just one week. what she says motivated her and what's being done to keep her from doing it again. news4 at 6:00 starts now. first at 6:00, a local school shooting plot foiled. >> yeah, a shotgun, ammo, and bomb-making materials found in the home of an 18-year-old girl. she was allegedly planning to attack her high school in frederick county,

police and how it was supposed to go down. the student's personal journal offered clues into the violence, revealing that she set a date and was planning to die in the attack. >> mark segraves has a closer look at the evidence and joins us now with the new developments. mark? >> reporter: good evening, doreen. it turns out that this female student was planning april 5th as the date she was going to attack catoctin high school. tf her father read her diary and called school officials to say he feared she was planning a mass shooting and bombing. >> i'm very sorry to hear that. in a small town close to camp david, it's just a scary thing. >> reporter: it was after reading his daughter's diary that he called the school to tell them he feared his daughter was planning a mass shooting at catoctin high school in frederick county. >> the sheriff's office investigators determined early on that