eye. i'm so happy that i have back my two lovely kids. >> now at 11:00, families reunited after fying moments, a active shooter in a local office building tt

preschool. police identified the man found dead in a burned out house in bethesda. >> and only news 4 has access to a local gang unit, showing you how they protect our community after a alarming spike in murders. >> the vines in the last three four years surprised even us. >> news 4 at 11:00, begins with breaking news. >> we have -- identified the gunman who died. >> he is 52-year-old john francis wood from vienna, you can imagine the scare he gave parents, kids and employees today the falls church preschool is in that building where wood opened fire. >> his only target was himself. but it took time to figure that out and chief ross cosays this is the kind of call no officer wants to get.

the most horrific thing that can happen to any of us. this is trauma tizing to everybody including myself. >> into mayor field with the investigation now. >> reporter: we know this man's name but we do not know what led him up to the fourth floor law firm that specializes in divorce and family law. active shooter, fairfax county police chief says multiple 911 calls for what he calls the nightmare of law enforcement began coming in just before 5:00 p.m. >> as far as the background, motive for that, we do not know that at this time. >> reporter: police say the shooting happened in a law office font fourth floor of a large commercial building that is home to a preschool. officers helped evacuate students who were bussed to a nearby middle school to be

parents. >> the police were absolutely perfect. well done. so we are very glad that our children are safe. >> it's scary, you just sort of -- i don't know. you're stunned. you know you don't expect this to happen obviously in the building where your son's skill in. >> reporter: when first responders got into the office, they found a man dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the officers made sure there were no other gun men. detectives will determine exactly what happened in that office if the man intended to shoot others but was somehow prevented. >> we have several hundred employees that we have to interview including the witnesses to this event. we are thankful that this event did not create any other injuries to anyone in the building and or our community.

>> reporter: police are in the process of clearing this scene. they tell us the building will be returned to the tenants open for business tomorrow. live in mary'sville. >> people living in a brand new fairfax county high-rise have hours to get out. county leaders posted notices that the trash shuts and sprinklers are not working. the documents obtained by news 4 say the building is unfit for human occupancy. we spoke to a resident who said she hasn't seen anyone leave and doesn't know where she would go. we put in calls to the owners of the building. the reward has doubled in the case of a missing teen ashanti billy disappeared seven days ago. the sandwich shop where she works will

fund that will lead to finding billy. she works at a blifrp pi at a mile pace. authorities found her car and phone but so far no science of billie. >> a mother from silver springs said she's too distraught to speak tonight now that police say her son was found dead in a burned out bethesda home. more than two weeks after the fire, this investigation is taking a turn for the bizarre. joining us live from the neighborhood. >> reporter: right now we're here in silver spring. this is where it all happened. this family is demanding to figure out what exactly happened here. why was their son in this house. why did police find underground tunnels. there was so much junk in the place, there

sister -- they're tightlipped not telling us what it is, they're talking to friends. >> definitely demonstrated -- >> reporter: brandon kob misses his best friend. they grew up together. >> he touched a lot of people with his life and the things, the people he was connected with, he had a lot of people that cared about him. >> reporter: those people including his mother and father demand to know how the 21-year-old died in a house on dan bury road in bethesda about two weeks ago. his family said he was visiting his friend, beck with, he was able to get out of the house when it went into flames did you ever meet him. >> no the only thing he mentioned he was he was doing renovation. >> reporter: authorities collected chemicals stored in

wiring, hoarding conditions and underground opportunity else. >> i think the at the where is this gentleman he was working for. >> reporter: we reached out to beck with, no answer. police are tightlipped with the investigation. >> i think everybody wants closure. i think everybody wants to know if there was some sort of malicious intent they want to know why it happened. >> reporter: here is he scene you can see montgomery county police are parked here around the clock to make sure people don't jump the fence and contaminate the scene. a medical examiner will determine the cause of death with a autopsy and we'll share that inform and on our nbc washington app. new fallout from the string of alleged sexual assault at massage

the victims are suing four women say they were saladassaulted by same massage therapist, all facing charges, the victims seeking $25 million in damages. we know the name of the woman found stabbed to death with her crying baby boy still in her arms, paula coles was found in the hallway of a apartment here on 30th street in south east d.c. this morning. neighbors tell us coles was stand 10 times. police say it's a domestic murder. a friend said the victim had a stay away order from the father and the coles told police the father threatened her hours before the

there's not going to be no peace for none of us around here. >> police responded to reports of threats but it's unclear what happened after that. sources tell news 4 police want to question the father. we have breaking news coming in georgetown university has had to deal with five different bias incidents in the month of september alone. here's what we've learned, the school's police chief just issued a statement saying his department is now actively investigating ongoing incidents of anti-semitic andmy sauj nice tick graffiti in the residence hall. in the most recent incident someone vandalized a trash reaccepty cal. >> last night this man was hanging similar balls of hat

around the american university campus. police still don't know who or where he is. confederate flag posters and sprigs of cotton were found on campus. students gathered to talk about the latest series of racially charged incidents. >> we had a man come in at 10:00 covered up pretending to be someone and not stopped by a public safety officer. that's a huge problem. >> they're policing this investigation, you'll remember last may bananas were found hanging were nooss and there were two incidents last year when a woman said bananas were thrown at her. maria a category 1 moving

northeast at 7 miles an hour. this just down from the national hurricane center, the storm is headed out to sea, more on maria on the nbc washington app and your morning plan tomorrow not bad. 78 dress, by 8:00 a.m., 72, 10:00 a.m. around 73, not only breezy but less humid tomorrow, 75 degrees by lunch time. today it felt like 96 degrees, tomorrow feeling about 15 degrees cooler and we continue to cool more on that coming up. next at 11:00, a spike in gang murders in our area. police shocked not just the sheer number of the cases but the brutality and the ages of the people involved. >> she's 16, 17 years old describing this murder. >> all new tonight and only on news 4, julie carey rides along to show you what's being

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as a washington dc lobbyist, ed gillespie worked for lenders trying to keep student loan rates high. and ed gillespie's plan to cut taxes for the wealthy could cut virginia school funding, too. ed doesn't stand for education. a surge in gang violence in our region has claimed 28 young lives in less than two years. >> law enforcement's put many of the criminal's behind bar and the fairfax county gang unit can take credit for some of those busts. a ride along for one of the friday night operations in a story you'll only see on news 4. detective brian storm can tell you all about a neighborhood that's been a hot bed for gang activity.

unit for 12 years. on this particular friday night his sergeant in riding along side as detectives and officers fan out in a apartment complex that's called sach you'ration role. we do a consensual stop with three men. we ask if they want to talk, we'll start talking, lot of times we ask to search, it's a consensual search, that's all it is. >> when they can, they take photos. >> we ask officers to take pictures, a head shot and full body shot because we want to know what they're wearing. we love to take them to informants because that's our gold mine for identifying these guys. but mostly they ask lots of questions. later in the evening they spot a guy they think was involved in a gang shooting. >> this guy knows he's one of the mmf players in the

>> it seems he's taken a younger newly arrived immigrant from honor do you remember as. >> they want to get to know him, too, walk into his apartment for a chat. you can get so much for a chat, sometimes they call us in a few weeks. a teen girl once described how she was ordered to help lure a gang rival to his death. >> she described calmly to us the leader had her cut his head off. and she's 16, 17 years old. describing this murder to us that she committed in honored yours, it was like she was telling us about our day at school, nothing to it. >> it's that kind of desense tation that can help explain the shocking level of violence. the murder of 15-year-old reyes a prime example gang members video

repeatedly stabbed with a knife and sticks and tattoos cut off. in this latest gang murder surge. >> the violence in the last three, four years has surprised even us. >> when someone is green lighted, marked for death, storm says there was a time when detectives didn't always take that seriously because often it was only a threat. >> now when we're hearing about green light, you know t-it's being followed up on. it's that point when we hear someone's been green lit, we'll seek them out and inform them, hey, there's a target on your back. this night they were looking. there's a guy tonight if we stumble on him, we'll inform him of his troubles. >> they didn't find him. they're hope they can warn him before his rivals find him. in fairfax county, news 4. years later we are getting some answers aboute

biggest mysteries in our news 4 history. who is the model in this video. whatever happened to her. does she know jim vance couldn't stop laughing at her. when vance passed away, we were talking about this, we need to talk to that model. we found her in war saw poland. >> my nightmare as gun, you know, and i fell down twice as everyone is having a great laugh until this day from my fall. and so i became very famous have being a columnsy model. >> and a good sport. she talked very openly and honestly about her now infamiliarous fall. let's don't start. her reaction, her life since then, hear her conversation tomorrow

news 4 at 11:00. she'll tell doreen now that happened. hard to remember, 19 million views. if you liked it, you have a lot of company. >> chief meteorologist joining us. two weeks ago i got too excited when we had two days of 70s, i switched out the closet. i'm ready for fall. >> wool wasn't a appropriate option when it hit 91? it was 96 with the humidity. the good news we are trn sitioning to more comfortable weather. it will be breezy from start to finish, winds gusty from 20 to 30 miles an hour as times. heads up there, kind of a nuisance wind out there, nothing to worry if you drive a suv or anything. but you will notice them. as we look to friday and the weekend a beautiful fall weekend, if you're looking for something to do our web team has put together a wonderful

of fall get aways in our area. in addition to a cool down we stay on the dry side. we need 2 inches of rain to get us where we should be in the month of september. that's not in the forecast f. this is the latest radar, it's maria pulling away from the area. bringing us cool skies, cool front moves through tomorrow bringing us cooler temperatures. 91 today, 79 tomorrow. i think the thermostat moving in the right direction for a lot of us, 7:00 a.m. nice, by lunch time the mid-70s anatomy evening much cooler with lower humidity levels and a breeze, temperatures around 7:0072. weather having a effect on your commute. after exercising you'll notice the wind. after school activities you don't need to pack the

kids, it'll be nice out there, just dry and cooler. talking about how hot it's been the last four days we've been above 90 degrees. this is so unusual. on average our last 90 degree day should have been two weeks ago on september 10th, and the last ever 90 degree day on record happened on october 11. we'll see if we can hit a new record. no 90s on this. friday highs in the low to mid-70s, weekend, low seventies, october begins on sunday. quickly point out notice 80s at the end of the 10 day forecast, first full week in october. 80s. we were doing so well. >> today a huge res

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this is the xfinity sports desk. >> not a good night again for the nats open. >> it wasn't a good night. but there is maybe a silver lining. we know who he will play, the narls will be hosting the chicago cubs on on the 6th. finishing their final road series where they have the second best record on the rode. dust -- bryce happener playing his second straight game. harper swings starting to come back, dropping for a base hit, a single for his first hit from his return. later jason keeps the fun going, werth crushing the ball to left.

a 2 run double. with two on, her arrow changes that, takes this one into right center, that brings in a run, phil add another they win 7-5. visiting the red bulls. on the attack. steve clark shuts the door. clark from point blank comes up with a huge save off his chest. can't believe it. they tied at 1-1. later in the happen, united on the attack, nice passing, puts it in the back of the net. 5th goal in his last two matches. united comes away with a 3-3 draw. preseason hockey, caps hosting the devils. surprised by

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[ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> steve: from studio 6b in rockefeller center in the heart of new york city, it's "the tonight show starring jimmy fallon." tonight, join jimmy and his guests -- jared leto. nicole richie. musical guest tyler, the