right now on news4 this week. a father loses his life doing the right thing. only news 4 spoke with the daughter of a brave good samaritan killed by a hit and run driver. back to school, thousands now hitting the books after a long hot summer off. we'll tell you how one district is dealing with a rapid growing student population. and we'll check up with two local teens deported from the u.s. trying to start even in a country they barely know. welcome to news4 this week. >> hi, everyone. i'm leon harrison. we'll start with a story you'll see only on news4. a family is remembering their beloved father killed in a hit and run. this week t

this week, he was one of two samaritans who got ran over. his family spoke exclusively with pat collins. >> he's always been a person to stop and help anyone in need. and -- >> reporter: it came as no surprise to thnicole rios that r father would die trying to help someone in need. >> so painful, him being a good person ended his life. but it better shows who he is. that's not going to stop me from wanting to stop anyone. >> reporter: it happened in the dark hours of the morning one week ago. the scene edmondson road as it cuts through the agriculture department's research farm in beltsville. family tells the story this way. two good samaritans stopped to help drivers involved in an accident. but two good

driver. one of the victims, 52-year-old jorge rios. he loved animals. he loved motorcycles. and he loved his family. >> i hope he's proud of me, to see how hard this has been but how i have to pretty much keep going. it's been very hard. >> reporter: going to miss him? >> of course. very much so. my best friend. >> reporter: mr. rios lived about two and a half miles from the hit and run scene. he was a fixture in the neighborhood, a carpenter by trade. he built a special house for lucas's dog. it has a picture window, lights, carpeting, even heat. lucas was with him when this happened. he was rescued by a neighbor. >> the worst part of that is he was trying to help somebody else when he lost his life. but george is a good guy and i

>> reporter: i'm pat collins, news4. u.s. park police are in charge of the investigation and so far they have not made me arrests in the case. look anywhere around and you'll see construction and other blue collar jobs booms but too many of the jobs are going unfilled because not enough people are trained for them. the district is now trying to change that with a new blue collared a my. >> roadwork crews, workers crawling all over a major building project nearby. there's lots of work here and thousands of jobs to be had. >> whether it's storage, welding or the actual fab ration. >> the mayor touring the pep ko workplace on benning road. she signed a plan to create a d.c. infrastructure academy. it will train trade workers at a temporary school this fall, a permanent one in 2020. 24-year-old malik

blue collar career. he had an emotional introduction with the mayor. >> my path with here, i just lost my grandmother on friday. rest in peace to her. it's been tough but i'm optimistic. i'm sorry. i just want introduce the mayor. thank you so much. >> later with his parents, malik told news 4 he's drifted a bit since high school. >> i've had lots of jobs, worked in hotels, be a ba rita, a server. >> he says some friends look down on blue collar work even if those jobs pay $50 an hour. >> this is the first time i had an opportunity at a career. what i tell me friends is to actually pursue these trades and these opportunities that the city is providing. >> parents tony and patrice dickson are proud of him. >> f

bright. >> tom sherwood, news4. thousands of students headed back to school this week and of course there was a lot of excitement and anxiety as well on that first day of school. news4 east justin finch talked with students in montgomery county. >> there you go. have a good day. >> reporter: the school superintendent jack smith serving up a back to school bite. >> how about you. what would you like? one of those? >> good morning. >> reporter: on post card perfect morning, smith joined the elementary as it opened its doors, welcoming students who could not wait to get back and those a bit slow tore let go. but soon like brother and sister anthony and nancy, excited to start a final school year together. new school year, new opportunities. what are you two looking forward to the most this school year? >> i guess just creating lasting experiences because this i

as much as i don't want to see it, i'm going the nisz it. >> i'm going to miss my brother. this is the last year i can spend with him. >> reporter: superintendent smith stopped at one of montgomery's 205 schools, the largest school district is glowing. enrollment at 161,000, up by more than 2,000 students. so they've hired more teachers. the count now close to 1,000 and they're not finished. >> we're 98% staffed and we're looking for a few more teachers in the coming weeks. >> reporter: montgomery county is opening its newest school, silver creek mid until kensington today and they say as more families with young kids move into their district, they're accommodate and work to educate each student that enrolls. news4, back in to you in the studio. when we come back, the changes being made

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instant where i 270 meets interstate 70 as police blocked highway traffic to usher a motorcade of u.s. snaits. >> one car is fully engulfed. >> a dump truck failed to stop in time. >> there's a fire and explosion. >> and slammed into an suv. >> it was a horrendous sight. incinerated everything. really tragic. >> the crash killed the driver of the suv and ignited a wall of fire along the highway. charlie smith was on the scene. >> everything was incinerated. it looked like a war scene, as if something was bombed. >> the driver of the dump truck was suspected of talking on a cell phone when he crashed. after a seven-month information, smith decided not to charge the driver. he tells news4 the dump truck driver's cell phone was incinerated and they say there's evidence of brake failure

>> that's not a crime. so in order to really take away somebody's freedom or liberty, you have to prove gross negligence. >> and statements from witnesses question the safety of the police motorcade blockade. one man said the way they shut down the highway with rolling stop was inappropriate. another say the motorcycle police may have had traffic moving over too quickly for cars coming up to slow down. and they say that the police nearly collided with a bus in the motorcade itself. >> if they're not conducted correctly, they pose a threat to the travelers who come into the county. >> reporter: the u.s. capitol police declined to comment on this. the driver of the dump truck told news4, he just wants to move on with his life. this week we've got new crash test results that you need to know about. they're especially important if you drive a pickup truck.

working for you and has a look. >> well four of the eight 1017 pickup trucks earned good insurance in their crash worthiness tests. this group of vehicles performed better in the small overlap front test than in of the larger pickup trucks. this test replicates what happens when a vehicle runs off of the road and hits a tree or a pole or another car that has crossed the center line. earning good rating, the toyota double and cabs, hef vo lay and the gmc canyon crew cab. they fell short on earning safety awards because they lacked automatic march braking and had poor rated headlights. you can find more of the results, you just have to go to the nbc washington app and you're going to want to search

we heard from two local brothers deported after nine years in the u.s. and now separated from their parents and their siblings. the brothers are beginning a new chapter in their lives leavi. now they're moving to nicaragua but they're there to continue their education at u.s.-based university. jodi fleischer has more. >> everything is going to be different. >> with a wi-fi signal that's spotty at best, they attempt to reach out to the world they left behind from the front porch of their aunt's house in a tiny village. their parents and siblings are still back in maryland. >> really hard. >> they came to the u.s. illegally in 2009 at ages 10 and 134. their parents and older siblings had come a few years earlier. the boys had never

trouble but i.c.e. deported them in august. >> we were handcuffed, ankle cuffed. they put a detainer around our belt. it was as -- >> one was about to move to north carolina to start college on a soccer scholarship. >> everything i worked for was taken from me. >> the brothers don't know what to expect adds they head off to kaiser university in nicaragua but they're grateful for the opportunity. optimistic but not quite excited. they see education as their best chance back to the u.s. or maybe canada. neither has decided on a field of study but both are ready to be back on the soccer field, part of a real team again. >> feel like people who work hard and haven't committed any crimes, they deserve a chance. >> with their family an ocean away, they say they

laws changing every day, they don't know if they'll ever make it back. the magnitude of that remains top of mind. >> our futures are not here in nicaragua. it's in the u.s. that's where we spent most of our life. >> the brothers shot some videos to show us their lives in central america but because that wi-fi signal, they couldn't send anything back to us. don't worry. we'll continue to update you with their story. when we come back, a police officer who doubles as a delivery nurse. news4 reunited him with a family who say

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them again. >> wasn't driving erratic, no sense of urgency. i assumed they were doing okay. at that point i went around them and no sooner as i went around them within on the right side he pulled off abruptly. >> made a quick u-turn. >> when i got back to the van, it was a completely different scenario than five minutes earlier. >> being with the k-9 division he knows something about dogs and pub byes but bunt know much about birthing babies. the officer arrived just in the nick of time. >> it was game time and her child wu coming now. i literally caught the baby as he came. i was just praying for him to cry. >> a few seconds later, the cry of new life came. >> i don't know if i started crying louder or he started crying louder. >> no tears now. even with all of the excitement at home, baby carlos unaware of his news making arrival seems ready to s

at least for now. >> thank you for that. boy, i tell you one thing about a cop, when you go to work you got to be ready for anything. that's all for news4 this week. we're going to leave wu with more video of kids heading back to school and they sure look happy for now. thanks for joining us. have a great week. ♪

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news 4 begins now with storm team 4. good morning, i'm chris lawrence. david culver is out on assignment in florida. >> we'll be checking in with him shortly. i'm angie goff. so glad you can join us early on saturday. we're tracking a lot, including the latest with hurricane irma as it barrels towards the state of florida. lauren, what's the latest now? >> right now we have the 5:00 a.m. update. winds are down a little bit to 155 miles an hour, this thing is still a monster, just to the north of cube. it has shifted west. all eyes are on the southwestern state of florida, naples, ft. myers. we're going to really have to watch the storm surge as we do through over the next several hours. should make landfall in the next 24