and that breaking news just coming in now from northeast washington, where an apartment went up in flames. it happened tonight here on downing road near rhode island avenue. a woman was sent to the hospital

>> a second woman and a firefighter were also taken to the hospital. both are expected to be okay. we just got these pictures in of a dog who was rescued from the flames. that fire broke out in a first-floor apartment. fire crews now have it under control. investigators are trying to figure out how it started. >> we also have new information tonight about speed and that deadly amtrak derailment in washington state. >> nbc news cites multiple sources who say investigators are looking at the possibility that the train was traveling at 80 miles an hour in a 30-mile-an-hour zone when it flew off an overpass and onto a busy freeway below. three people are dead, more than 100 others are injured. all the victims killed were on the train. >> this was the inaugural run of a new route on that train. we'll have a live report from dupont, where wash state. that's ahead in about 15 minutes. back in our area, more breaking news tonight. shots rang out tonight on a

southeast. leaving a man dead. news 4's shomari stone went straight to the scene for us where police describe the man they're looking for right now. >> reporter: right now d.c. police are searching for the shooter. i'm standing on a hill, bringing you as close to the scene as possible on the soo side of that metal fence, other side of that crime scene tape is the basketball court and that is where the shooting took place we're on the 1800 block of bruce place southeast. a woman told me she heard shots fired around 6:00 monday evening. people who live in this community tell me the team was on the court when someone chased him, robbed him, and shot him. he died. police will not confirm that he was robbed. but they do tell us that the shooting happened near a playground in the frederick douglass community center. i talked to some people who live in in community. let's hear what they have to say. >> it's kind of scary. >> my

the perpetrator that done this. >> reporter: and right now police tell me they are looking to a male dressed in a red hooded sweat shirlt. detectives urge anyone with information to call the d.c. police. detectives have not released the name of the shooting victim, the teen or his ang. in southeast d.c. shomari stone, news 4. leon harris here at the live desk following breaking news. the build-up to tomorrow's tax reform vote taking a dramatic new turn tonight. police arrested protesters at the capitol. some taken into custody were in wheelchairs. dozens of people gathered. some of the dramatic video you see here shows these people laying down on the ground as officers moved independent officers repeatedly told the people to leave, but many of them decided to stay put. organizers with the working families party organized the rally tonight. they

scam. tomorrow's vote is k37d to be an emotional one for democrats and republicans. experts say people need to sit down with their tax professionals and figure out what they need to do before the end of the year. >> sit down were your tax professional and find ut if there are steps you can take before year end to take maximum benefit of what will be happening. >> one senator who will be noticeably absent from tomorrow's vote, senator john mccabe. he returned to his home in arizona last night. he's been undergoing treatment for brain cancer. republicans have secured all the votes they need. they did that late last week. critics of the gop said this could hurt the middle class while helping corporations and some of the wealthiest americans. doreen? >> leon, thank you. new at 11:00, a washington redskins player is threatening to sue police in loudoun county

recent traffic stop but as nurz 4s derrick ward reports police say it's just not true. >> reporter: it was wednesday december 29th. departmenties with the loudoun county sheriff's office were conducted a speed enforcement in ashburn. they were using a radar to determine the speed of an object. the sheb's office says su'a craven, say washington redskins safety, was speeding. >> said i was going 39 in a 35. >> reporter: the official report says it was 39 in a 25-mile-per-hour zone. about a mile away they pulled cravens' car over. >> they got squad cars out here. >> reporter: it ended here in this parking lot. cravens says this is where he was surrounded by police, roughed up a little bit 1/4 he started doing a narrative, filming it with his phone. the video was posted to his twitter account. >> well, they say stay in your car right up on me. i said what? pulled me out of the car said calm down, started pushing me up against the web.

office also says cravens was cited for having car windows with too much tint. he says the deputy that pulled him over made aaccusations. >> this man opened up my dar, was saying i smelled like weed. >> reporter: the statement released by the county sheriff's office db adrets cranes' claims that he was profiled. he has a court date on january 26th. we's will reached out to cranes' agent but so far we've gotten no response. in loudoun county derrick ward news 4. chopper 4 flew over the scene of a large brush fire in gaithersburg. this happened on hawk inds creamery road near laytonsville road. firefighters doused foot and i contain contained it. but it's far from being extinguished. the department tells us it will burn for hours if not the entire night. they're klessly moshting the fire. no word about what caused it. it's a race good tote back up and running after a power outage knockout out the busiest airport in the world. we're till feeling the effects of yesd ten-hour blackout

atlanta's hartsfield jackson international airport. more than 400 flights were canceled today on top of the 1100 canceled yesterday. a fire inside an airport tunnel is to blame. these new images show some of the damage underground. airport officials say a switch caught fire, then burned through seven critical lines knocking out the main and the backup power system. >> the fire created a failure of all those cables. >> reporter: apparently one of the wires leading to the switch was frayed. airport authorities say they believe a rat may have chewed on that wire and that could have sparked the fire. he loved medicine and he loved to fly. tonight friends and family grieve after a single-engine plane crash killed a maryland professor, his daughter and her friend. dr. louis cantolina was piloting a small plane on saturday. he picked up his daughter in kansas and was heading back to frederick,

that plain later crashed in oldenburg, indiana. the crash killed one dog on board. a second dog survived. kalt leona tied at university of health sciences in bethesda. >> it was difficult. both because he was a young man and the suddenness and the tragic nature of it and knowing that his daughter died with him and what this meant to his family. >> reporter: his daughter amy was studying to earn both her m.d. and ph.d. just like her dad. authorities say the plane had instrument problems which caused it to go down. the massive fire that's been turning mountainsides into ash in southern california is still burning. it's now the third largest wildfire in california history. and it only needs to consume a couple of thousand more acres to become the largest ever. the good news, though, the weather is improving. the bad news, it can could be well into january before this fire could be fully contai

been destroyed now, including the home where the eagles recorded their hit "hotel california." amid a wave of accusations of sexual misconduct against powerful men one of the biggest names caught up in the me too movement is dustin hoffman. >> fine women have accused the oscar-winning actor. three of those women sat down with cynthia mcfadden in an nbc news exclusive. catherine rossiter credits hoffman with giving her the chance to star in "death of a salesman." she says he repeatedly groebd groped and harassed her. people go how is it to work with dustin? and i tell the half truth, which is as a half truth working with him i owe him everything. i learned so much. and then i would stop. and there would always be a knot in my stomach about what the real truth was, which was he was abusive and he was a bully. >> reporter: nbc news has

about rossiter's claims. they have called claims by other women defamatory falsehoods. tomorrow will be the first time we hear from two of nine women accusing music mogul russell simmons of sexual assault. natasha says she was in college in 1996 when simmons tried to force her to perform oral sex. singer sherry heinz says raped her back in the '80s. simmons has denied the allegations. n't interview airs tomorrow at 9:00 on "megyn kelly today." we have a live report from washington state where a passenger train jumd the tracks on an overpass killing three people and injury 1g 00 more. a mother talking only to news 4 about a stranger picking up her 3-year-old from school. more than 2 billion packages are going out this holiday season.

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back to breaking news in washington state tonight. parts of interstate 5 are closed hours after a deadly amtrak derailment. >> but the focus tonight has shifted to the speed of that train as it approached the curve. nbc correspondent jennifer bork lunde has more from du pont,

a newly established route monday morning tragedy aboard amtrak 501. >> things started to tip over and as it was going around and all of a sudden just ended up on its side and everything went dark and stuff started flying around and that was it and then it stopped. >> reporter: adds stunned motorists w567d the train derail, one car falling onto the interstate below, another dangling from the overpass. >> i was right in front of it. really nerve-wracking kind of sick to your stomach after seeing this right now. >> reporter: multiple vehicles were hit by the falling train cars as others came crashing into the pile. >> the people that were in the vehicle, even when you see the pictures it's pretty horrific. at this point no one in any of the vehicles is a fatal. >> reporter: witnesses vamballed to rescue trapped survivors and helped emergency crews get them to hospital. >> sthf them couldn't move. they had back or neck injuries. snf them had broken legs or ankles. and most of them had head

trauma. >> reporter: a dramatic dangerous scene as a routine morning commute turned deadly within seconds. these train cars will likely be removed tomorrow and go on to a warehouse where they will be analyzed by the ntsb and used as evidences ato what went wrong here. i'm jennifer bjork lupd live in du pont, washington. jim, doreen. >> a lot more to learn. jennifer, thank you so much. only on news 4, tonight a mother says she's still shaken after school staff sent her 3-year-old daughter home with the wrong person. it happened at cleveland elementary school in the shaw neighborhood on friday. a man returned the school to the girl safe and unharmed about an hour later. he originally had come to pick up his 3-year-olds niece, who has a similar name and didn't know he had picked up the wrong child because the girl responded to his niece's name. the girl's mother says she

sending her daughter back to school. >> because i'm like oh, my god, what happened to my daughter? what if something happened to her? who was she with? i'm still devastated. i'm still traumatized about the situation. >> reporter: d.c. public schools say thaesh looking into the situation. this isn't the first time there's been trouble at cleveland elementary. last month a teacher there was arrested and charged with assaulting a student, and in october the former head of the after school program was also accused of assaulting a student. both are on administrative leave right now. if you still have christmas gifts to ship we want to make sure your packages get to where they need to go on time. tomorrow is the final day to ship by first-class mail. wednesday the last day to ship priority. zprier c and friday you're cutting it close but you can still use priority mail express. today was the u.s. postal service's busiest shipping day of the year. an estimated

visited a post office today. it's now up to america. the last four finalists on nbc's "the voice" turned in their final performances tonight. america will choose the winner of season 13. the winner will be announced tomorrow with a live finale pact by performances by kelly clarkson, sia, demi lovato and more. the finale begins at 9:00 on nbc 4. >> they all knocked it out of the park. >> so much talent on that show. >> amazing. >> all right, doug, we're going to have another warm -- crazy warm day tomorrow? >> yeah. temperatures today 56. that's not the warm crest temperature i have in the ten-day forecast. looks like right now it might be christmas. kind of amazing what the foeshlg holds for us. as we move to the next seven to ten days. very nice night. chopper had live earlier tonight and they found this on the way back. look at this house. >> one house? >> this is

>> outdoors brookville. they've been doing that for years. how about that? that's amazing. >> that's a lot of work. >> that's a lot of work. look, it looks like an ice hockey rink. i'm not sure what it is but it looked like an ice hockey rink. where was that submission for doug's holiday lights? out there we've got lights going on but that's just the city. we'll continue to see a very nice night. when i say nice night, this is really beautiful for this time of year. 49 degrees. the average high is 46. 49 degrees right now. very warm for this time of year. 50 in cumberland, maryland. cool spot. 44 nuntingtown. down toward the cull pepper area. nothing on the radar. dry. going to stay 245 way as we move on through the night tonight. cloud cover moving in. the rain-snow line all the way up toward upstate new york and ma

before you get some really cold air and that's not coming here anytime soon. notice the flow here straight across the north. we're going to say on the warm side of the next couple days. 49 d.c., 45 in pittsburgh. 45 in new york city. in the move december. yeah, you don't get that very often at 11:00. you know something's going on. tomorrow look at the numbers. starting off 41 degrees. sunrise tomorrow 7:22. nice by noon. nice day to get lunch outdoors. 59 at your 4:00 hour. 49 degrees at 7:00. tuesday looking good. we're watching this storm system that's going to be mostly to our south. the latest computer models try to bring it farther north. areas like staffburg, fredericksburg, southern maryland you have the best chance of seeing rain. 44 on thursday. high of 44 degrees with wind chills in the 30s. 52 on friday. saturday a chance of showers,

60, chance of showers down to 48 christmas receive but not a washout. and monday for christmas i'm going 66 with a chance for rain. right now it doesn't look like a lot but this forecast is going to change a little bit. temperaturewise warm air out ahead of this p. cold air. moving our way. but on christmas we stay warm the day after the cold air comes rushing in. 36 on christmas day. 35 the day after christmas with wind chills in the 20s. and by the end of the ten-day period we're at 29 degrees for a high. wind chills in the single digits and teens. we're talking? really frigid air that may come just after, just after christmas. >> still a week away, though. >> a lot can change. we'll watch it for you. >> we know we will. all smiles for one caps star on the. so why does he feel so bad about his rush 209 line-up? >> sports next. first hs

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week 6 but coach gruden said best to give him time to get ready for next year. doug looked this guy up during the game. even quarterback kick cousins. cousins called him the wrong name. post-game presser he said e.j. bibbs. we're like you know it's capri. third-year running back out of colorado state. already making plays. 36-yard touchdown catch here since cardinals. his coach among those impressed by bibbs. >> i've been very impressed by him. it's one thing to come in here and learn a system but another to come in here and produce. and capri making plays on a screen play and some protections with some decent things. had some other catches. i was impressed with the way capri handled himself both mentally and physically and he'll get more and more opportunities next week. >> tonight the calm before the storm. wizards and capbo

wizards with four games in under a week starting tomorrow at home versus the pelicans. the caps obligate road to start the holiday festivities. their wish list at the top is coming true. come tomorrow t.j. oshie coming back. oshie returning to the ice for the capitals. oshie has missed six games with a on kugs. he suffered against the sharks on december 4th. t.j. going on the road trip with the caps. all sides point to him playing tomorrow night against the stars. the caps have gone 5-1 without him in the line-up. oshie excited to return but knows they've got a good thing going right now. >> the whole team's playing pretty good hockey right now. on the team side you feel bad that someone's playing good hockey and they're going to have to sit out. hopefully that won't mess up the mojo. but selfishly i want to get back in there and join in on some of the fun. >> and a couple local college basketball scores for you. mount st. mary's come to t

59-56. and the howard bison fall in florida losing a close one to jacksonville state 62-60. finally, ryan kerrigan spreading a little holiday cheer today in the children's hospital. a heartwarming scene as kerrigan handed special build-a-bears. is that how you say it? build-a-bears to the kids at the hospital. the linebacker went room to room spending time with the children of course decked out in his redskins santa claus hat. it's all part of a foundation which spriefds support for seriously ill, special needs, and physically challenged children throughout the area. >> good for him. >> the bears all appear to be redskins. >> there's a theme going. build a wear. >> build a bear bears. >> you learn something here. >> you can dress them, right? in redskins -- different redskins outfits. you're a quarterback today.

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well, as many of you scramble to find that perfect gift in this holiday crunch, as we count down? like me stress over how to wrap that gift. in this week's hand-to-handily i team up with city warriors. she taught me how to crease the edges, center the gifts and curl a bow. did you know you could curl a bow? >> heck yeah. everybody knows

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