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intentionally set a woman on fire. and the health care vote is on. congress ready to try again to replace obamacare in a matter of hours. good evening. tonight that inmate, that dangerous inmate who escaped in maryland last week is finally back in custody. >> david watson is his name. he managed to break free last friday while being transferred to the hospital for mental evaluation. it started a days long search. somebody reported seeing a suspicious man in the woods. >> police say the 28-year-old man freed himself from handcuffs and waist chain while riding in a prison van and then overpowered officers. police tell us they found watson lying inside an 18 inch drainage

pipe. he was in good health. they are promising more updates tomorrow morning. >> he is facing charges and serving sentence of 100 years in delaware for attempted murder. more breaking news in what sounds like a disturbing case of domestic violence. >> a woman apparently set on fire tonight in the district. police responding to the call at a motel on fourth street just off new york avenue. our shomari stone is there live with details for us. >> reporter: good evening. we were the first on the scene here. one woman walked up to me and said this is so disturbing, how could someone become so angry that he would allegedly set a woman on fire. let's roll video for you. an employee at the hotel told me a man lit a woman on fire in a room on the first floor about 9:00. he got away before police

arrived. medics drove the burned woman to the hospital. d.c. fire, ems and fire investigators were here and left moments ago. to show you the process we called police and they tell us that there was a domestic disturbance at the hotel. we don't know the woman's condition but we do know that she was transported to the hospital with burns. we'll continue to stay on top of this story and bring you the latest details as they become available on our nbc washington app. live here in northeast d.c. i'm shomari stone news 4. we could be one step closer to a major overhaul of the nation's health care system. republicans scheduled a vote tomorrow on a bill to replace the affordable care act. the house majority leader promises they have enough republicans on board to pass it. the last bill

it made it on the floor. and republicans have been scrambling. the new version allows states to opt out of certain requirements so insurers wouldn't have to cover mental health or maternity care. experts say that is not enough to offset costs of preexisting conditions. they are supposed to start voting at 10:00 in the morning. keep an eye out for the number 216 to get the bill passed. i'm chris lawrence. i took his word for it again although i had a bad feeling about the whole thing. i was not given blood thinners the first time around. >> military veterans sounding off about problems at d.c.'s v.a. hospital responding to a report that detailedas

unsanitary storage. the new hospital director says changes have been made. jackie bensen is live with the details tonight. >> reporter: the acting medical director says he wants to make this facility the crown jewel of the v.a. system but tonight's comments indicate he has a long way to go. >> so i don't have very many good things to say about the facility. the problem here is systemic and the problem is the facility you have a culture that has to be changed. >> i brought this because i want to show what kind of bandage was put on the port of theive port of my husband's arm. >> military veterans passed the auditorium in northwest washington a few weeks after a scathing inspector general's report that included finng

unsanitary storage rooms. the vets gave v.a. officials an ear full. the town hall was organized by american legion. medical center officials were implored to better address needs of female veterans. >> i think the women's health clinic are overworked, under paid and short staffed. >> reporter: v.a. secretary testified before congress today vowing to improve services even if he can't get the money to do so. >> my five priorities are to provide greater choice for veterans, modernize our systems, focus resources more efficiently, improve timeliness of our services and suicide prevention among veterans cht. >> reporter: the medical center's director did say the problem of insanitary storage rooms has been fixed. jackie bensen news 4. on the

congressional members of the soroarty wit denounce racist threats. somebody hung bananas on nooses. aka is historically black sorority. quin donely says there were six displayed and not just the three reported by the university. >> the fact that somebody went to this level of effort and had this all over campus and weren't caught is really scary. they could be in your classroom sitting next to you. you don't know who to trust. >> widely believed the hate was aimed at the school's first black female student government president. she spoke exclusively this afternoon. >> i feel supported by members of the organization reaching out to me from alaska to tennessee across the

it's been amazing outburst of support and i am thankful to members of student body and the faculty, staff and administration for all of their help. >> the d.c. community is invited to a meeting at 2:00 tomorrow at the center on the campus. we have just learned there was a similar incident at the university of maryland last week. campus police tell us a noose was found in a fraturnity building. on april 27 called the act despicable. campus police are investigating this act as a hate incident. a high school student took an assault rifle on to school property this week and now he is behind bars. that's not all he is accused of doing. turns out the gun was stolen from rockville city police along with fully loaded magazines and a shot gun. a school resource officer spotted him walking into

black bag and came out empty handed and drove off. the car he was driving also turned out to be stolen. police found the weapon when they searched the trunk. a blaze broke out on a playground near a school. it started as a call about a brush fire but when crews arrived at aurora hill park they found playground equipment covered in flames. students at a nearby school stayed inside while firefighters put the flames out. investigators tell us the fire does look suspicious. service could be back to normal tomorrow after a train hit and killed someone on the track. that happened this afternoon. the train was heading from new york to miami when it hit somebody. service was suspended for hours then the trains began single tracking which caused long delays. no one on the train was hurt. she was a successful journalist, wife and mother who thought she knew everything she

her past. >> i didn't physically know him while he was alive. i know that he was always really meaningful to me. >> a new phishing scam spreading like wildfire. what to look for in your e-mail. we have one more day that is pretty nice but then this storm right here change as everything not just for a day, up to two weeks. see you in a minute. here in pittsburgh the capitals on the edge of elimination as the penguins celebrate the capitals. we take you inside where the guys are determined and desperate as news 4 at

facing a backlish tonight over violent videos on site and feeds facebook is taking action by unleashing thousands of extra employees to police using content. you have seen the graphic video including police shootout and execution style murder. critics slammed facebook for not doing enough to prevent the content from spreading. mark zuckerburg acknowledged the problem to investors but analysts say facebook faces a big challenge. >> clearly we have more to do here. we're going to continue building new tools. >> when you have it coming in live there is no way even if you had everybody on earth trying to do this you can't prevent stuff before it airs. >> reporter: faceb

millions of reports every week but before now the company only had about 4,500 employees to scan the content and quickly pull it down. scammers are trying to get control of your entire e-mail history and spread a worm to all of your contacts. google is confirming the campaign targeted its one billion g mail users. it asked you to attach a google doc file. if you get the e-mail don't open it. report it and then delete it right away. google says it is working on a fix. we have a fascinating story to share with you tonight about a young woman who was able to put the pieces of her life together and reunite with her long lost family who as it turns out is pretty famous. >> last week our barbara

harrison presented the hero of adoption award. invited her to share her story on news 4 and it is simply unforgettable. >> reporter: she was born in new york city on christmas day in 1964, adopted at 3 days old by teachers. they loved her dearly and she them. growing up they had shared what they knew about her birth mother. >> i knew she had been sent to new york sort of hidden away so that people wouldn't know she was pregnant. >> reporter: she grew up in an apartment filled with books and music especially that of her dad's favorite, the late great nat king cole. >> i knew every lyric. >> reporter: she later met some of his family. his twins

boyfriend at smith college in massachusetts. >> we went to a party and my boyfriend introduced me to all of his friends there. one of his friends, his best friend's girlfriend was -- >> when natalie cole was performing in boston she was invited to go. >> she seems to take -- she knew i was born on christmas day. >> reporter: she had seen old pictures of maria and nat king cole. the photos showed the privileged life his talent afforded them. >> he was like one of the very first true crossover artists. he was just beloved across all racial lines and globally. >> reporter: his music remained a favorite for caroline even after she grew up. >> when my

used to sing them to sleep. >> reporter: made her anxious to know more about her dna. she sought medical history from the agency. she learned there were no significant medical issues but did give her social history of the birth mother. >> the thing that stuck with me the most was that the description of her family at the time i was born, they were clearly wealthy people. >> reporter: she left thinking if there had been a black family in those days with all of that wealth she could find them by going through old copies of ebony magazine. >> it just hits me. i know these people. >> reporter: she called her parents to ask their advice. her mother encouraged her to go forward. >> so ultimately i picked up the phone and i called cookie. >> reporter: prepa

rejection she braced herself to say she was sorry for the mistake. >> before i could say it she cut me off and said this means everything to me. >> reporter: nat king cole never knew his granddaughter. >> the devastation for cookie is that she gave me up largely to protect the relationship of her father who then died so there was no reputation to protect. it was too late to go back. >> amazing story. barbara will have more on this unforgettable reunion tomorrow night at 6:00. doug is here with weather it's not going to be unforgettable. >> this change is going to be a big change. we have been so nice for so long. six or seven days. we may not see 70 again after friday for a week to two weeks. that's the kind of weather

out there right now a very, very nice night just walking around the city it was spectacular. 59 degrees winds out of the north six miles per hour. already in the 40s. we are talking low 40s. 43 in winchester. harp's ferry down to 41. cool start tomorrow morning. 52 in the city about the average temperature for this time of year. 63 at noon. up to about 69 by 4:00. tomorrow will be dry but we are tracking rain. no rain now on storm team 4 radar. you see this storm developing. one thing you notice here look at the movement to the south. you see it coming down to the south and our storm out to the east. this will become a monster of a storm and then sit off the coast and it will be there for days and continue to just -a

cooler. 54 kansas city. we will get into the warm stuff first on friday. temperatures in the 70s and then we move into the 50s fairly quickly. nice warm pattern but the pattern shifts and do we stay cool. this is the pattern that will remain through the end of next week. pattern locked in place. much cooler temperatures. i said earlier today we may not see much sunshine. we have lots of clouds in the forecast very much like a winter pattern here. 69 on your thursday. 75 on friday with heavy rain early. let's talk a little bit more about friday. we're not only going to see heavy rain but this will come during morning commute. i am expecting over an inch of rain and then friday afternoon we may see thunderstorms if we are able to get sunshine. saturday and sunday clouds move in. 59 on saturday. 62 on sunday. look at the cooler weather all the way through the end of next week. just when you think it mig

start breaking out 68, back to 59 next saturday with another potential big storm. that will only reinforce the pattern so we stay cool after that one, as well. looking at some of the latest computer models and looks like we could stay this cool all the way through almost the third week of may. that's going to be a long cool pattern as warm as april was may is starting off a lot better. >> last weekend we were wishing the pools were open. coming up, no luck for the caps.

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desk. >> well, after tonight it is do or die time back in d.c. >> they are on the brink. no team has blown more series leads than the caps so nobody knows better. see it time and time again one mistake, one break down or one mental error can cost the game. caps one loss away from seeing the season come to an end. public enemy number one in pittsburgh after his hit knocked out their star gold scorer. penguins 1-0. off the skate. this was a heartbreaker. penguins' luck continues. they take a 2-0 lead. caps still scoreless. fires and scores fourth playoff goal. caps on the board. caps keeping attack. and then st

schmidt buries it. they score two goals. schmidt ties it. no good gets it back over to justin schultz who buries that rocket. the penguins take back the lead 3-2. that was enough for marc-andre fleury. dives on the puck later on. 36 on the night for marc-andre fleury. penguins take a commanding 3-1 series lead. we have seen this movie before. how did the players react tonight? >> reporter: the capitals' long season is on the line. win or stay home at this point. players telling us they know they need to get deep so penguins don't end their season early again. >> next game is most important game oth

if we don't have the urgency that we need in that game then we won't earn the right to keep playing. >> win or have the same result as last year. >> i'm pretty sure we understand right now. >> we play like we have nothing to lose. play like we are free and just let it all out there. >> he said he needs his top line to start playing better on saturday. >> the puck drops at 7:15 at verizon center. we need you to rest up. it could be a long series. nats hosting diamondbacks. who is better than ryan zimmerman right now? nobody. earlier today named national league player of the month. he untied the tied game. bryce

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