>> take a look at storm team 4 radar tracking two batches of rain. one in north washington and another to the south. this first batch most of the county generally seeing light showers. traveling along parts of 70 dealing with rain as folks are coming home from work. then we head south around the wood bridge area. what we're seeing is this rain kind of stationary and as we head throughout the evening hours we will kind of continue to see it in the same areas. slowly coming together and maybe bring showers into the beltway. 84 degrees right now. scattered showers at 7 p.m. by 9:00 potentially in the metro, as well. otherwise mostly cloudy. we will be dealing with rain at times throughout the day. i will be tracking that for you coming up.

could lose his hand after playing with fireworks. >> firefighters say the boy was rushed to a trauma center in baltimore. megan fitsgerald has more on what happened. what have you learned about this? >> what we know at this point is that that little boy was rushed to the hospital. he is in his young teens. they say he received serious burns to head, torso and hands. this is the type of incident that fire officials try to warn people about trying to send a message that losing a hand or limb because of fireworks just isn't worth it. watching fireworks is usually the best part of the night. using them your 168 could be the worse. not only are they illegal in prince george's county. fire officials say a young boy was badly burned after playing

in district heights. he didn't see the accident but says he has noticed young kids playing with fireworks unattended. >> rockets, i guess little fire crackers or little cherry bombs or something like that. i think parents should be monitoring the kids. >> reporter: fire officials say they are still trying to figure out how the young boy got the fireworks and who bought them. it is an ongoing investigation but they tell us charges could follow. do you think fireworks for personal use should be illegal? that is our flash survey today. nearly half of you say no. go to the nbc washington facebook page to weigh in. the man who for a few hours escaped custody with immigration officers is no stranger to being on the run. prosecutors say the man was deported several ts

>> loudoun county deputies helped catch 27-year-old marlo mendez. he told immigration officers his handcuffs were too tight. as they loosened the cuffs they say he ran off. he was caught two hours later. david culver is outside the court. what are we learning about the suspect today? >> reporter: i can tell you that we were inside the courtroom just a short time ago when he appeared for the first time in front of a judge. because of the holiday yesterday he was still in custody. he went in front of the judge. we know about marlo mendez a little bit more. he is a citizen from el salvador. i want to take you back with a little more detail. it started monday in loudoun county with initial arrest for being allegedly drunk in public and local

to assault and battery. loudoun county deputies transferred custody to immigration officers. immigration officers decided to transport him from louden to fairfax. this is how it all played out. we were above the scene on monday as that incident within the van turned violent. apparently his handcuffs were too tight. he asked one officer to loosen them. the officer pulled over on the dulles freeway, got out and loosened it. that is when he got hit and marlo mendez apparently took off. he was gone for more than three hours. they had several different agencies trying to help out. you had loudoun county deputies trying to help. they were able to locate him some four miles away. this is a story that has us digging a lot deeper tonight working for you because i know on the nbc washington facebook pageen

several of you are asking the question how did something like this happen especially when you hear this fact that he has been deported five times before. this would have been his sixth deportation since 2007. how does that happen? court documents say in part it may have been because he was able to use aliases. >> david culver, thank you. we are learning new details about a deadly shooting in suitland. police have identified the victim as 18-year-old tyrek walker. walker died at the scene. police haven't released a motive for the murder yet and no arrests so far. deadly shooting in new york city is getting national attention. friends of the new york city police officer shot and killed in an ambush style attack says she was just the sweetest person. miosotis familia was killed when a gunman opened fire earlier this morning. police found the

shot and killed him. people who knew familia said the mother of three joined the force to help the community and was very giving. you will see the report on this later in this newscast. a little boy is one of the five people recovering after a number of shootings in the district. one person died overnight. someone shot him in southeast d.c. no one was hurt seriously in four other shootings. one near covenant baptist church around 1:30 a shooting on chesapeake street. police responded to two other shootings first on minnesota avenue and then on sixth street. despite the shootings d.c. police say violent crimes including murder are down in the first half of this year. we are lunearning more abou the man with hiv accused of molesting

where he works. tracy joins us live from outside the middle school. >> reporter: this is the school where he works and we have found a number of students who attended this school who ran track with him who say that he was a good coach and a good substitute teacher from time to time. we are learning more about the other work that he did within the county. we were told by the sheriff's office that he worked at other schools. working for the before and after program that was at that elementary school. so they are asking parents who believe their kids may have been associated with him at that time to contact police. we know he was a track coach for the comets, a local track team where elementary school, high school and middle school students participate. he worked with the comets for sometime and e

been suspended from the school system continued to work with the team. this is a statement released from the president and it reads they have been in constant communication with the authorities providing them with the information they need to conduct their investigation. we send our deepest sympathies and prayers to the families affected by these circumstances. hear now from one of the students who called carlos bell a coach. >> we used to be real cool with him. he would be one of the best substitutes. when it came to track he would be so serious but fun when we did it. >> reporter: when you heard about the allegations? >> i was surprised. i didn't think mr. bell would do something like that and the fact that he was hiv positive is scary especially to the kids that it happened to. >> reporter: spokesman says they arece

for a number of organizations where he was coaching and possibly a number of capacities outside of track, maybe even swimming. and they are saying he may have been coaching outside of charles county. they are asking any parents who believe their children had contact with mr. bell to give them a call. reporting live in charles county, back to you all in the studio. now to a live picture of the airport in poland where it is just after 10:00 at night. air force one just landed a few minutes ago. this is the first stop for president trump, second overseas trip and the stakes are high. edward lawrence takes a look ahead. >> reporter: on his way to poland, president donald trump paused to say we'll do very well when asked about ending north korean hostilities. the president is working on an international coalition. >> we will try to rally

>> reporter: he spoke by phone with the president of egypt talking about the need for all countries to uphold sanctions against north korea whose leader vows he will not negotiate over his nuclear and missile programs. >> the odds of a military confrontation are increasing because north korean capability is increasing. >> reporter: mr. trump criticizing chinese leaders in a tweet saying trade between china and north korea grew almost 40% in the first quarter. so much for china working with us. the president of china forging his own alliance meeting mu ing merkel. >> the secretary general strongly condemns the launch of a ballistic missile. >> their illegal missile launch was not only dangerous but reckless and irresponsible. >> reporter: all of this with

meeting on friday. at home there is growing pressure for the president to confront putin on meddling in the u.s. presidential election. and the u.s. national security adviser says president trump has no agenda for the meeting. the russians will ask the united states to loosen sanctions imposed by the obama administration and return to buildings. >> thanks, edward. she vanished in 1937 while trying to fly around the world but now almost 80 years later there is a major new development in amelia earhart's disappearance. wedding planning takes a turn for the worse for one family when one vendor fails to come through costing them thousands. what happened when they called nbc 4 responds? mosquito bites are all too familiar. what about the other mysterious red itchy spots in the

nbc 4 responds to a wedding tent rental deal that collapsed. >> a bride's mother reached out when it cost her a lot more than she bargained for. >> reporter: as if getting married isn't

in this case thousands of dollars. it was a first dance to remember. mother and daughter sharing a memo memory. with the loss of her husband this mom vowed to give her daughter the wedding of her dreams. >> i didn't have problems paying for whatever i needed to pay for. >> reporter: jennifer's daughter chose the venue and what she thought was the perfect company to provide the tent. the name of the company was gotcha covered party rental. according to the contract they would drop it off the day before the wedding and pick up three days later. >> about two weeks prior to the actual date that the tent was to be delivered i was contacted by a representative to find out if i can move my date from friday delivery to thursday. >> reporter: jennifer says the nu

long as they removed the tent in three days which is the venue's policy. unfortunately, that wasn't going to work. >> she said i can't pick it up on sunday. i will be out of town attending my reunion. >> reporter: according to this text it is our policy not to work weekends. to jennifer ffs surprise the tent company showed up on that thursday to set up. >> weren't allowed in the gates because she couldn't pick the tent up on sunday and that would have cost me my security deposit. >> reporter: she tells us the owner refused to refund her but did offer her something else. >> he would, however, give me half off on another tent rental if i get it within six months from that date. when will i need a 40 by 100 tent again. i only have one daughter, one wedding. >> reporter: when he was contacted he told us he wasn't really

anymore although his linked in profile shows otherwise. with less than two days until the wedding they had to hire another tent rental company at a cost of more than $3,000. >> i guess the only take away would be don't waiver from what is stated in the contract. push through whatever you pay for and good luck with every feasible result from that point on. >> reporter: jennifer did file a complaint with the pennsylvania attorney general's office which is where the company is located. with wedding season in full swing what can you learn from this? if you have a contract stick to the details of that contract. if the vendor wants to make changes make sure everyone involved is on board with it. back to you. >> good advice. wow. you don't want things to go wrong on wedding days. and how about this day after the

we have rain out there. where is it right now? >> the rain is mainly north and south of the beltway. we think inside the metro we will be dry at least for the next few hours. >> we are getting a lot of rain coming down. green county got five inches of rain. that is south of here close to central virginia. not a lot of rain around the d.c. metro area but have to keep an eye on the radar. mets game 7:00. the heavy rain hanging out there. we are tracking two areas of rain. >> can't rule out showers at the game tonight. i think for the most part it should be okay. here is the latest on radar. this area of rain kind of raining itself out. this area of rain in virginia making its way and slowly pushing northward. i'm showing you future weather. it's really overdone in intensity with the yellows, reds and oranges. i really like the placement. noticet

area. as we move towards 7:00 we are still tracking scattered showers with potential for rain inside of washington 9:00 p.m. still showers out there this evening. maybe a rumble of thunder or two. eating outdoors may not be the best idea. take a look at your hourly plann planner. patchy fog out there already deal wg areas of rain. so if you walk or ride your bike to work you may want to keep that in mind. 75 degrees. it is muggy tomorrow. even though we are in the 80s really noticing the humidity. only upper 70s around lunch time. by 4:00 tracking areas of rain. a few thunderstorms. not the best pool day. 82 for a high. very similar to today. 7:00 still scattered showers around. talking about the humidity it's oppressive tomorrow but improvements. >> and rather soupy which is lending to heavy rainfall that we are

we will show you what that humidity is like as we continue over the next several days because it will drop. so oppressive. very muggy tomorrow but as we head through friday starts to lower just a little bit and then for the weekend just in time we start tosy really comfortable conditions. if you are headed to the beach not looking too bad. ocean temperature around 73. >> thanks a lot. what is president's motive? that is the question on the minds of many americans. >> in regards to the investigation into voter fraud during the election. states are pushing back against the commission. should we be worried? a new product could give a whole new

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>> this is a new phenomenon. this lone star tick is suddenly you will get allergic to meat. that tick introducing a sugar that we aren't used to. as a result you have an allergy that you never had before. >> the tricky thing is that you may have a reaction hours after you eat. >> which makes it hard to diagnose because you don't remember that you had a burger 12 hours ago but you treat it like any other food alleragy. >> that tick has something white on its back. >> fears about mosquitos and the zika virus have subsided this summer but you say we need to worry about west nile disease. >> the cases of zika have been reported for people outside of d.c. west nile is a neurological disease. >> west nile is more common around here. >>

you want to use mosquito repellent. doesn't matter which kind it is. they are all safe and safe for kids. i have huge hornets nest outside my window and had it taken down. if you get stung and itchy and red does that mean you are allergic? >> no. allergic means you have a systemic reaction. you have swelling away from the sight of the sting. if you get a large local and very sitty you are not allergic. that is a li . >> when it comes to bees can your child be allergic and you not know that? >> no. your kid have to get stung. it is rare to have a life threatening sting allergy for little kids or kids under the age of 16. if you have it there is treatment. be sure to get to it because it is not just an epipen but

>> spiders seem to be everywhere. you say spiders aren't inclined to bite. what happens when they do? >> so in the end they really don't. if you don't mess with them they won't mess with you. the fangs or the teeth on the spider is too short to pierce your skin. so spider bites are rare. the scary ones, the black widow and brown recluse are not in that area at all. don't be worried about those. if you do get bitten keep it clean because you don't want it to get infected. raise it or elevate it. put ice on it and take pain meds. >> what does it look like? >> a spider bite can look like what we call necrotic tissue where you start to get a dead spot of skin where the bite it. it looks like a bad scab and it can turn pretty red. >> not like a mosquito bite. >> much deeper. >> can you have an

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first at 4:30 firefighters accused at fighting one another instead of the fire taking over a home. >> a career first responder facing charges. christ gordon has more. >> reporter: as you see the house is blocked off. windows are still boarded up. the public cannot come too near this because it is unstable. it is still dangerous. there were a lot of prince george's county firefighters career and volunteers working side by side. but once this fire was out on sunday we are told an argument broke out between a career officer and the volunteer. neighbors took this video

house fire subsinday afternoon. they say firefighters arrived quickly and brought the blaze under control. later a volunteer firefighter complained that he was allegedly assaulted at the scene of a fire by a career officer with prince george's county fire ems. >> based on zero tolerance with work place violence both of those firefighters were removed from emergency operations immediately and an investigation is ongoing as to what occurred and what should happen if any additional disciplinary action is required. >> reporter: the volunteer firefighter asked police to investigate his allegations against the career officer. police chief tells me it is too early to determine if a criminal charge will be filed or not. >> allegatiwe will investigate file a charge appropriately once it is reviewed by the state's

>> reporter: police and prosecutors may determine that no criminal charge is warranted and the investigation may try to determine if the argument here is the latest in the ongoing feud in prince george's county between career and volunteer firefighters. >> christ gordon, thanks. a charles county school aid and coach is charged with making child pornography and assaulting students. now school officials say there could be more victims. a grand jury indicted charles bell. bell admitted to police he is hiv positive. some of the abuse allegedly happened at benjamin staud rd middle school. in the wake of the allegations parents are faced with having a difficult conversation with their children. molette green spoke to psychiatrist

start that conversation. he says it is important to remain nonjudgmental in your questions and in your response to your children's answers. >> you want to have a conversation about secrets because in many cases the perpetrators will say this is a secret. we can't tell anybody. if you do tell somebody then something bad will happen to them or to you. you want to say was there anything told to you that makes you feel uncomfortable. secrets are important but sometimes secrets are meant to be broken in the case of safety. >> you can see the full interview and more guidance on how to talk to your children in our nbc washington app. search tips for parents. now, let's turn to the local backlish over president trump's request for voter data from november. president trump's voter fraud commission is asking for detailed personal information about voters in every state. election officials in maryland, d.c. a

not be handing over that information to this commission. troy johnson is here. what are listeners saying? it sounds like people have suspicions. >> it is critical you say suspicion, concern, as well. the trump administration is asking for some very critical information. i'll run through some of it. there may be things that folks aren't aware of. voters names and addresses, date of birth, party affiliation, voting history. voters' social security numbers. information about felony convictions and some of their time spent in the military. quite a few listeners told me that is too much info. in maryland attorney general says it is illegal. state law prevents them from providing that kind of information. i spoke with kyla today. she tells me it is really important that these 40 states are taking the stance to block this commission from access

from voters. she tells me she believes the presidents' concerns about voter fraud are unfounded. she tells me this effort takes him away from improving our company not just for his base but for everyone. >> i have to agree with the california and virginia officials when they said that the president's the tension would be better spent updating voting systems and focussing on alleged election meddling. i feel like that is where he can best serve his time, best tweeting and focus on that because right now that's a concern of the american citizens. he should just let it go. let it go and focus on something that is much more important to our country, for our safety and for our economy at this point. >> a lot of people were telling me that they're concerned that this information won't be used to investigate voter fraud but

more used for voter suppression. >> african-american voters are concerned about that because we saw in this 2016 election several republican controlled states took some extreme measures. they enacted strict i.d. requirements. north carolina, for example, same day voter registration. early voting was cut by seven days. lawsuits were filed about the purging of black voters names from the roles. quite a few things that may have suppressed the african-american vote. >> much bigger than just a privacy issue for a lot of people. >> appreciate the insight. a 12-year veteran of the new york police department killed overnight in what colleagues are calling an assassination. police are calling this a targeted attack that has left three children without their mother. how she is being remembered and wh

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a man says that a truck was going so fast its wheels were still squealing after he hit a gas station wall in prince george's county. it happened overnight at a 711. we are told no one inside the store was seriously hurt. in news 4 your health, the cdc is warning you not to let your guard down about the zika virus. a new study finds mosquitos that can carry the virus are more prevalent in states across the country than previously thought. since last year's crisis almost 2,000 pregnant women have been diagnosed with zika here in the

experts say you should use repellent and wear long sleeves and you should avoid overseas travel where zika is still a threat. this one from what will they think of next file. there is a sweet way to get that same boost. supporters say that snortable chocolate powder is the new drug freeway to get motivated. doctors have a bunch of concerns about this stuff. it's called cocoa loco. the creator says energy benefits can last up to an hour. the product is not fda approved. some are calling it an explosive development in the hunt for amelia earhart, missing since 1937. what investigators found that might rewrite

>> we have no evidence anywhere that she crashed into the ocean even though that has been common narrative for so many years. epthink we

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this is fascinating. amelia earhart went missing 80 years ago. a new piece of evidence suggests that she did not die on that fateful flight around the world. investigators at the history channel have uncovered a never before seen photo. >> they believe it shows earheart alive and in japanese custody. >> reporter: amelia earhart on a flight with navigator took off and was never heard from again. for 80 years the world has wondered what happened to amelia earhart and her navigator. in july

pacific on around the world flight when they disappeared. now investigators from history believe they have found evident the two were blown off course and survived. >> i have a photograph which i believe clearly indicates that earhart was captured by the japanese. >> reporter: spent 15 years looking for amelia earhart clues. while searching for top secret files he discovered this photograph from about 1937. a string of small islands at the time were under japanese control. >> we have a caucasian woman with her back to the camera looking towards the ship. >> you think this is amelia earhart? >> that's right. >> photographic analysts tell history the photo appears legitimate and undoctored. former fbi executive director worked on the frauj. >> when you pull it

i think it leaves no doubt to the viewers that that is amelia earhart. >> in 1937 the japanese had banned nearly all weserners from the islands. in the photo it appears there are two caucasians on the dock. a man standing on the left and what appears to be a woman with short hair wearing pants sitting on the edge. henry took the photo to facial recognition expert who first overlaid the photo of the man. >> the hair line is the most distinctive characteristic. the nose is very prominent. >> reporter: teeth, hair line and nose all appear to match up. >> it is my feeling that this is very convincing evidence this is probably nunez. >> reporter: the person sitting with the back to the camera, gibson compared body measurements with previous

>> i usually go from not likely to likely to very likely to extremely likely. i say this is very likely. >> reporter: in the distance the japanese ship which is towing a barge with something measuring 38 feet long, the same length as earhart's plane. the story even documented. photographic evidence that the story may be true. >> we believe that took her to saipan and she died there under the custody of the japanese. we don't know how or when she died. >> reporter: the history team may have found pieces of earhart's plane. >> this may have been her cell. >> reporter: this photo is opening a whole new set of questions about what

and what if anything did the u.s. government know. >> we have no evidence anywhere that she crashed into the ocean even though that has been the common narrative. i think we have a lot of evidence that she lived and survived in the islands. >> wow. fascinating. that was tom cost elo reporting. according to the locals there, the japanese military told them the woman in the plane was a spy and told them not to talk about it. for decades the japanese government denied knowledge of earhart's whereabouts. to be clear, no official who was alive then is still alive today and many japanese records were destroyed in the war. you can catch that fascinating documentary on the history channel. >> pretty fascinating stuff. >> i was a skeptic. i don't know. i am going to watch that. that is fascinating. >> not to be missed. there is a lot of

over the earhart photo. we went to the air and space museum where families were drawn by the story. jim and wendy will have more on this coming up at 5:00. >> it is riveting and another layer in the mystery over what happened. >> we can't get enough. the curator has her thoughts on this. went to the museum to find out more about these developments. >> found out just how this story is resonating with a much younger generation. tonight at 5, there are many of you who suffer from frequent stomach issues. >> you may be able to alleviate problems without take ag single dose of a medication. we will look at hip nose skps how it is used. >> ice cream truck day here. we all overindulged today. we will s

>> that's a good problem to have. no treat for the weather. we have storms out there to keep an eye on. >> lauren and amelia are standing die by. >> looks like the game should be ok okay. scattered showers tonight. you definitely want the umbrella tomorrow. not a great pool day. >> we have unsettled weather pretty much all the way through the rest of the work week. weekend looking a little bit better. >> take a look at storm team 4 radar as we are tracking areas of rain. you can see rain right now north of town and rain south of town and then we are starting to see rain build back in towards the west. take a look here at loudoun county starting to see this area of rain form and rain continuing to build in. this area in the circle is dry right now. as we head into later evening hours wei

moving into the metro area just scattered showers. not talking about any severe weather tonight. right now 84 degrees. 7:00 p.m. tracking hit and miss showers. by 9:00 showers are possible in the metro area. otherwise we are mostly cloudy. 77 muggy degrees at 11:00. here is tomorrow at 6:00 a.m. showers greeting you as you head off to work. 9:00 a.m. a bit of a later start. still showers around mid day and afternoon hours and maybe a few rumbles of thunder. 6:00 tomorrow evening. potentially tracking a severe thunderstorm or two. bigs concerns would be very heavy rainfall. wet roads for the commute. indoor craft day for the kids tomorrow. exercise tomorrow definitely check the app. dinner out rain around. friday we start to improve. >> not too bad on friday. we have downed the percentage for chances

friday to 30% to 40%. i believe a lot of action will happen before the evening commute. we can have patchy fog and showers at 8:00 a.m. on friday. through the day temperatures near 90. chances for scattered showers and storms lessens. hopefully dinner out on friday night looking a lot better. your week is looking fantastic. saturday humidity continues to fall. we stay in the 80s on sunday. sunday low humidity, comfortable and perfect. but we get warmer temperatures and more humidity back on that same day? >> we start to see humidity build back in after the weekend. tomorrow high temperature of 82 degrees. it's extremely muggy. still noticing humidity on friday. high temperature on friday around 90 degrees. maybe a few scattered showers around. then the weekend. saturday fabulous near 90 degrees, low humidity. sunday it gets

mid 80s. extremely low humidity and plenty of sunshine on sunday. >> great. can't wait. police in new york are trying to figure out what happened after what they are calling an unprovoked attack. >> nypd officer ambushed and killed. her colleague calli itng

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the type of woman who would give you the shirt off her backs the way people are describing the nypd officer shot and killed ambush style. >> attorney general jeff sessions condemned the attack. the officers colleagues are trying to figure out a motive. >> reporter: the nypd commissioner called it an assassination. 12 year veteran officer miosotis familia shot and

shot in a vehicle. >> she was on duty serving this city, protecting people, doing what she believed in and doing the job she loved. >> reporter: officer familia's partner in the seat next to her was unharmed. police say this man fired the fatal shot through the window. >> anticrime scene encountered male subject running on morris avenue. as they confronted him he drew a revolver. >> reporter: as fellow officers from the 46th precinct try to comfort each other friends remembered the 48-year-old mother of three. served eight years in prison for robbery and was paroled in 2013. investigators are reportedly looking into an anti-police posting in a social media account. the attack reminded many of a similar incident when a gunman s

they sat in their squad car. they grieve the death of a colleague and friend. news 4 at 5:00 starts now. right now at 5:00 a former teacher's aid accused of molesting at least seven boys. we learn more about his involvement with other children. >> we apologize. wrong video there. he escaped the custody of immigration officers. prosecutors say he is no stranger to being on the run. new details in that investigation investigation. and right now i'm tracking areas of rain impacting the region. pockets of heavier rain. what that means for your evening and how the weather impacts your thursday. new details about the former teacher's aid with hiv who is accused of sexually assaulting

>> investigators have released a timeline of other jobs that carlos bell held in charles coun county. >> they say in 2008 he worked at faculty attendant. 2015 he worked for alpha best providing before and after school care to elementary school kids. last spring he volunteered as an assistant coach for a track club for teenagers. >> tracee wilkins has been talking to young people today who know him. what are they telling you? >> reporter: everyone i have talked to about carlos bell has said the same thing. >> i was surprised. i didn't think mr. bell would do something like that. >> reporter: students who knew carlos bell as coach say they are taken aback by allegations that he may have sexually abused kids. >> he was a nice