now at 11:00. tragedy on the tracks in northern virginia. a young teenager killed in a popular and dangerous spot. what we're learning about the moments before that deadly accident? >> getting answers about the incident involving young

men who were handcuffed on the mall. the siefd a high dollar presidential fund raiser. >> announcer: news4 at 11:00 starts now. a family was walking on the tracks when a train started barrelling toward them. two people were able to get out of the way but one didn't make it in time. she was just 13 years old and that vre train struck and killed her this afternoon. this happened on bull run bridge near manassas. with a warning tonight from police and more on just what went wrong. jackie? >> reporter: jim, we are told that the location, the trestle where the 13-year-old is struck is a popular and very dangerous place for young people to hike in the summertime. the scene from chopper 4 shows frantic efforts to help the 13-year-old girl in

train about 3:00 p.m. the victim was walking -- she was hiking with family and she was with two of her family members, a 13-year-old boy and 22-year-old man. the 13-year-old girl was not able to get off the tracks in time and she was struck by the train. >> reporter: the section of the tracks is surrounded by a thickly wooded area that was challenging for first responders. a staging area was set up at a local golf course. >> we have a meter back in there and there's no room to stand. >> there's a lot of people that like to go walking and everything and that's just a place where a lot of teenagers go to have fun. >> reporter: police stress that walking on the tracks is not only dangerous. it's a crime. >> it is private property. you can be charged with trespassing. >> reporter: the 13-year-old has not been identified but there is definitely a spreading sense of shock and grief here as people

live in clifton, jackie benson, news4. >> thank you. police in prince george's county are combing through this apartment complex after a man was discovered dead. this is just off pennsylvania avenue in district heights. police tell news4 the victim was shot. they have not released any information about a suspect or a motive. also new tonight an infant is recovering after falling out after a window in southwest d.c. this is on third street. police tell us the fall was less than ten feet. the baby was taken to the hospital but was conscious, breathing and is expected to be okay. nearly a week after those three teenagers were placed in handcuffs on a national wall for selling water a d.c. councilman is trying to get answers about why. >> the pictures prompted a backlash on social media, many asking if these young men were treated differently because of the color of their skin, including councilmember charles

alan. shomari stone spoke to him about this. >> reporter: d.c. councilmember says he spoke with the u.s. park police chief. he says that the chief is investigating what happened out here on the national mall and he's expected to get back to him by friday. >> it angered me, frustrated me. >> reporter: d.c. councilmember is outraged after sheeg these photos. u.s. park police officers handcuffed and detained three black teenagers for selling bottled water without a permit on the national mall. >> it didn't make sense. >> reporter: the officers who were not in uniform eventually let them go way warning. witnesses believe the teens were racially profiled. council meb alan wrote a leb to robert mcclain demanding answers. >> i'm pretty sure if my daughter were out there she wouldn't have ended up in handcuffs and i think that's what upsets so many people. >> reporter: the chief is not doing on camera interviews. last week when we told you a

us officers placed the teens in handcuffs for the officer's safety. the chief did respond to councilmember alan after he sent the letter. >> i feel like he understood why i and so many other people were disturbed. >> reporter: they buy bottles water from those teenagers because they don't like using the drinking fountain. it's not clear and warm and the dishes are dirty. some don't work. others have birds hanging out in them and some contain bird droppings. >> kind of nasty on the inside. >> reporter: the national park service blames the aging infrastructure and $850 million worth of deferred maintenance projects for the drinking fountain issues. now the national park service spokesperson sent me an e-mail moments ago stating that a custodial maintenance crew wipes down the drinking fountain. how of

he says he's going to get back to me. meanwhile here on the national mall it's expected to be very crowded over the next few days. you have the smithsonian festival along with 4th of july. i'm shomari stone, news4. >> thank you. it's going to be getting hotter for those crowds on the mall as we ramp up to the holiday weekend. we'll all need plenty of water around. >> let's go straight to doug kammerer. how hot are we talking? >> we're talking a lot hotter than its been. it's been absolutely fantastic the past couple of days. we'll see temperatures into the upper 80s to 90 degrees. today look at these numbers. you know how nice it was. 83 degrees, look at the 70s all across our region but tomorrow, well, things get hot and take a look at this. the heat comes back in by friday and saturday we're close to 100 as far as the heat index. i'll

heat wave is going to last and which have the best chance for storms. see you in ten minutes. leon hammers here at the live desk. president trump was greeted by protesters at his first reelection fund raiser. tonight's $35,000 a person fund raiser, the rnc is expected to raise about $10 million and this new tonight the trump administration just released new criteria for visa applications from six mainly muslim nations. this move coming after the supreme court partially restored the president's travel ban. the new guidelines require applicants to prove a relationship with a parent, spouse, child,

daughter-in-law or silk in the u.s. already which means that fiancees, grandparents, grandchildren, aunts, umpgles, nieces, nephews are no longer to be considered as close relationships. the travel ban's expected to be implemented starting tomorrow. at the live desk, i'm leon harris, doreen. new calls for changes at the top of prince george's county schools tonight. the county chapter of the naacp is not calling for schools ceo kevin maxwell to resign but they say his title should be changed to interim ceo until the investigation into grade tampering to boost graduation rates is complete. in a letter to county executive, the naacp says maxwell new contract was based in part on his success at improving graduation rates and that his raise should be put on hold until the investigation is complete. two exrailroad employees were killed last night while

with the wheel. they received an alert that instructed them to stop and check part of the train. authorities tell us they accidently stepped on the active amtrak tracks and were struck and killed by a train outside union station. our transportation reporter adam tuss asked investigators today how amtrak and csx communicate with each other when someone is on the tracks. >> that scenario is going to be taking a close look at, what notification was made from csx to amtrak. there are four tracks together, two belong to csx and two belong to amtrak. >> it will assess all conditions on the tracks to see what went wrong. it was coming from boston and new york. a segment of the red line on metro will be closed for four weekends in an attempt to repair a leaking tunnel. adam tuss first reported on the possibility of shutdowns nearly

metro says it'll test out a new pilot program that uses a curtain grouting technique to add a waterproof membrane to the outside of the tunnel walls. there will be no train service between grof ner and friendship heights during these four weekends in july and august. in addition, red line trains will single track on weeknights between friendship heights and medical center. new tonight, a montgomery county liquor control employee gets busted for helping himself to the county stash. eugene snowden junior worked for the department of liquor control. he's been fire today. police arrested snowden and jean agust accusing them of stashing liquor in bushes, more than $21,000 worth dating back at least to february. we've reported on these problems with dlc in the past back in 2014, i-team cameras caught two members drinking on-the-job and reported on all

employees selling cases on the black market. after our series an inspector general report found significant security problems inside the warehouse. those problems were later fixed. in this case police say snowden scaled the dlc fence, broke security seals on trucks and stole boxes upon boxes of alcohol. the other suspect was caught with some of that alcohol in his car. next at 11:00. bumping the reward for answers in an unsolved explosion that cast a fairfax county teen his leg. his family's plea for answers. find out when's the best time t

it's been almost a year since a young man from fairfax county lost his foot in an explosion in new york city's central park. >> police are issuing a public plea tonight help solve the mystery behind that blast that involved a substance often used by isis and now the reward is up to $40,000 for information that leads to an arrest. nbc stephanie gosk has the latest. >> reporter: the explosion in central park on july 3rd last year was devastating and baffling. 18-year-old college freshman visited the park with friends jumped off some rocks and landed on a plastic bag filled with explosives. his parents got the terrifying call. >> they put him on the line and he was conscious at the time and told us that he had stepped on a

bo bomb. >> reporter: golden's left leg was amputated below the knee. today nearly a full year later new york city police are stumped and increasing the reward to $40,000 for information that leads to an arrest. >> we need phone calls and leads and that's why we're here. >> reporter: investigators believe the homemade explosives could have been there for days. a white powder called tapt. >> these components are commercially attainable. you have to know what you're doing to put this together. >> reporter: it has become a favorite among terrorists including isis used in the bombing of that grande concert as well as the attacks in brusles and paris. the nypd says there are no terror link in this case. visitors climb these rocks all the time. they take lots of photos and videos here. there could be someone walking around with a case breaking lead on their phone without even realizing it. >> i know there are people out

know more about this. >> reporter: golden's father and nypd are hoping the public will help crack the yearlong case now turned ice cold. stephanie gosk, nbc news, new york. buyer beware. d.c. is tracking down on illegal fireworks this fourth of july. inspectors will be checking fireworks stand licensed around the city to keep any more illegal dangerous stuff out. they will confiscate illegal fireworks and issue tickets to. for everyone to have a happy and safe holiday is the mission. we posted a look at the fireworks law in the districts and many local counties in the nbc washington app just search fireworks laws. >> a record number of us are expected to hit the road in holiday weekend and more than a million people in our region will travel 50 miles or more from home. maryland transportation officials have a few tips and key times if you plan on taking the bay bridge

tomorrow leave before 10:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m., friday before 8:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m., saturday before 6:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m., sunday get this before 8:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m., monday before 8:00 a.m. or after 8:00 p.m. and tuesday before 9:00 a.m. or after 10:00 p.m. or just watch -- >> those are limited, aren't they? >> you don't want to be in that though. >> go in the middle of the night or don't go at all. developing right now a large brush fire sparking mandatory evacuations in southern california. this is the scene in ber bank after a file broke out. the flames are burning dangerously close to homes in ber bank. in addition to the mandatory evacuations officials are asking people to voluntarily leave if the brush fire spreads to pasadena and glendale could be

>> they're having it rough out there. >> serious stuff. >> some of that heat's finally going to make its way across the country and looks like it'll stick around for a while. do we need to see rain out here. we've seen only a inch in the entire month of june. the moon was really gorgeous earlier. look at that shot. nice shot tonight. temperatures 73 degrees. winds out of the south at 16-mile-per-hour. that is going to help to keep temperatures up tonight. last night we got to 50 degrees out of dulles. that tied a record low temperature. 70 in leesburg, 64 in manassas but still quite nice if you're making your way out later this evening or tomorrow. no rain. radar all dry and it's going to stay that way as we move on to the next 24-48 hours. we hav

some severe weather back towards iowa. we've been getting our air from this system. see how it's moving out of canada. that's what's been giving us the nice warm air, that arm wear coming out of canada. canada celebrating 150 years. just wanted to let you know. they're sending us their nice warm -- cool air. thank you very much canada but the hot air to the west is making its way in here and it'll stay here the next couple of days and because of that we're talking about that heat wave moving in with temperatures into the 90s. here comes the heat but not too humid tomorrow. i think the humidity really ramps up on friday and on saturday. tomorrow at the pool, beautiful. 88 degrees around 2:00, 90 degrees around 4:00. great day to hit the pool and here's that ten-day forecast. showing the extent of this heat wave. seven days is what i've got at 90 degrees or higher. take a look at friday with

monday starting off next week around 94. you look at this holiday weekend and it's a long one. it's going to be on the hot side for sure and if you're getting out to see the fourth of july fireworks. i think we'll be on the dry side. there's an isolated chance of shower or thunderstorm. by the time the fireworks are going off right around that 9:00 p.m. hour, temperatures dropping to around 84 and should be fairly dry there. nothing like last here. we had that incredibly low ceiling. some of the fireworks were cancelled last year. not this year. we got what we're supposed to get, the hot weather. too bad canada can't stay open for business any longer. coming up, steven strosburg tonight puts on a show at the park. sports is next. >> all of our viewers in d.c., shawn didy combs is

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>> announcer: this is the xfinity sports desk. >> all right. good night again. they beat the cubs. >> the good times are just rolling right now. the washington nationals lead the national league in home runs with 113 dingers. the cubs starting pitcher starting on the mound and he's allowed a home run in nine straight starts. the nats took advantage of the opportunity to send some fans home with a

after swiping another bag tonight. nats up 1-0. ren doen crushing this. 15th of the season. then look ran z-oen and he heard him say you're it. the very next at bat hammers this one to center. that one's gone. and they lead 3-0. steven strasburg on the hump. he gets anthony rizzo swinging. rizzo slams his helmet in frustration. in the fifth nats up 6-3. daniel murphy makes this seven. the nats take a 7-3 lead. in the seventh he's still going strong. he strikes out

>> the orioles hanging out in toronto. skipping ahead bottom four birds down 2-0. bases loaded. takes this one to short. both runners safe. scope didn't get and mancini couldn't bring it in. shutout innings. 4-0. national pro am today, redskins signed an autograph. ryan kerrigan also out there and soon to be free agent justin of the caps showing off his game. but the moment of the day sergeant

caddieing for ricky fowler serving overseas surprising his family with a reunion. great moment for sergeant first class green and his family. >> i was telling people when we overseas, you used to nerves because that's what you're trying to do. this is different nerves. if everybody not really knowing what was going on, and i was trying to keep my heads down but i think it was more down because i cried than anything else. >> to be a part of it, there's a lot bigger things than just playing golf and doing what we do out here. puts thing into perspective. i'm going to go have fun and play well, but this is by far the highlight of the week. >> cute ending. >> his daughter was saying that she recognized him -- his daughter recognized him from the walk. i just knew it was him. >> that's cute. >> thanks. we'll be right back.

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