now at 11:00, the news 4 i teamgr exposingams in the classroom, unlicensed teachers. >> everyone wants a highly qualified teacher in the classroom. >> why it's happening and what the dangers are for kids.

firefighters return to the scene where two people jumped from their burning home. what saved their >>lives. and confusion grows in the fight over immigration. s s. military bases now prepping to handle thousa immigrant families. seems to be a failure at the class. an investigation reveals nearly 1,000 teachers in d.c. classrooms are not licensed. >> that's raising serious questions ability traiitng and the y to track if something goes wrong. >> reporter: what happened late in the morning in a hallwayf cleveland elementary school cost lacy thorton her job. one of her students was disrupting math class. surveillance footage shows the teacher strike the girl in the

head. a jury convicted thorton of sexual assault last week. her attorney declined a request for an interview. he found something we didn't expect to find, thorton never had a teaching license in the first place. when it comes tosc.c. public hools, she's far from the only >> every parent wants a highly qualified teacher in the classroom. >> joe weeden says every d.c. teacher should be licensed to ensure proper training. if that teacher's licensed is revoked to flag other school districts the law national databa database. an unlicensed teacher could be able to avoid detection. >> it may not be to the students here ind but it would be students the other juries dictions. >> using the freedom of

information act, we asked for a list of all teachers, nearlym 4,000 of tn d.c. we compaed those to th list of every licensed teacher in the district from office of state superintendent of education. and the team found 1 of every 4 teachers is unlicensed, about >> d.c. is not in compliance, which is ensureea allers have licensed when they enter the classroom. >> they are breaking d.c. rules. >> yes, >> reporter: ana says he do background checksne on al hires and next year they will quire theo apply for licenses before starting work. >> that's a rigorous interview process. >> reporter: we found nearby 100% of teachers were rilicense. ine george's county they are not allowed to teach without one. this man has two sons at oyster

adams school. >> it doesn't make a lot of sense that the system in d.c. hasn't embraced and built upon thewledge that goes into a systemedentiali >> hundreds of teachers for first-ngar teachers acco records obtained by the i team, but others taught with years of experience, and some are high profile. >> licensing is a safety net. >> licensing is absolutely the safety net. >> reporter: as for lacy thorton, she found a new teaching job at a private school in prince george's county as she awaited trial, a private school that did not require a license. d.c.chool officials say they're process hires quality teachers eveny' if t not licensed through background checks and multiple wsinterv

we expect reaction from other d.c. officials tomorrow. scott mcfarlane, news 4. >> check out our nbc washington app t ascend tip and get any updates on this investigation. n to our weather. meteorologist amelia draper. >> we're going to be dealing for that out there friday morning commute. it's one of those days you want to keep the umbrella around throughout the entire day as we continue to deal with showers during the midday, afternoon, and evening hours. here's l test on storm team 4 radar where i'm tracking rain mainly in virginia back throu the panhandle of west virginia. this has been moving very, very slowly during the evening hours but seeing rain here in prince wom william and loudoun counties to th west. heavy rainround roanoke for

the commute tomorrow morning. flash flood watch until 6:00 a.m. i think this will be canceled bu stafford counties a counties back to the west and south. that flash flood watch goes until 6:00 a.m. tomorrow. you're stepping ourrthe door to likely to showers, otherwise cloudy skies. ll have more around 11:18. a husband a wife are recovering tonight after jumping from their burning town home. it was still sldering when our cameras got to gaithersburg. news 4's jackie is live with the story. ckie. >> reporter:dor reason, a spokesman for the fire department says the couple who escaped by jumping from the second floor of this house very likely owe their lives to one

important thing that they did. >> the thing tet m the the difference in this fire this morning, last night, was the fact that the residents were in their bedroom with the door closed. but the fact that door was closed, the investigators think that saved their lives. >> reporter: firefighters went aor to door in the gaithersburg neighborhood whe early many of morning fire tore through this end-unit townhouse. some homes had no smoke detectors at all, others needed a critical spot t enhance their safety. at the newly purchased home ofi calv and corinne jenkins, all smoke detectors worked, 100%. the couple says it was a priority for them. >> when i walke out this morning, i saw the smoke. i was like, hiuh,is not good. we have a baby.le s get ready.

god forbid something happens.di when w our home inspection, that's something isi empd. >> the exact cause hasn't been determined. news 4 spoke with the couple's son who's spending the night at a neighbor's house when the fire broke out. >> having our lives is always better than losing a house. that.porter: remember and i was surprised by the number of the people who came up here and didn't know that. doorsom to the bed closed, it could save lives. did so here. jackie bensen, news 4. >> good for them. jackie, thank you. we've learned a woman mauled by her husband's dog has died. this morning a driver passing on highway 4 and hunting town, maryland e saw theounter and called 911. the attack was still going on

when ameed state trooper arrived. the dog starred moving toward the trooper.ro theer shot the animal and immediately started tending to the vict when more troopers arrived, t o ofhem shot and killed the dog. a neighborew told4 the dog always seemed friendly. >> i can't believe it. i've never sm even be aggressive, nothing. >> a neighbor says theog was a dois which looks similar to one. the owner is a pricoe george's ty corrections officer who's training with the k-9 unit. theal vicas his fiancée. a change on capitol hill. the house plans tot on immigration reform next week. republicans leading negotiations, they say two issues need to be worked out requiring employers to use on online system that verify their workers are cizens. >> t more important issues we have yet to discuss so far, so

we're going to spend the weekend, delay a vote until next week. >> tonight the crisis at thehi border ising focus. confusion is growing over how to reunite parents and children after president trump's executive order to stop separating migrant families. there's a debate over dismissing criminal charges against parents who crossed into the u.s. illegally. and the pentagon now preparing to how does 20,000 children at litary sites. >> the reason those children nnot be reunified is because the system has been overwhelmed by this policy. >> first lady melania tru pports bringing families back together. she made ao surprise visit speak to children at a detention center in texas today. she said that she wants to see families reunited as quickly as possible. >> the jacket the first lady wore on that trip is getting moreha attention tn her actual

visit. he wore a jacket with the phrase "i really don't care, do you" on the back. social med exploded. some critics called her tone deaf. one compared her to marie a antoinette. 23ish8d's communications director said in an e-mail jacket, uote, it's a there was no hidden message. new tonight the tv family roseanne barr helped make famous ll return to tv without her. abc announced the connors will premier this the show will be a spin off rosean"roseanne" the sit come t enjod sky-high ratings. the show was canceled after a racist tweet targeting a former adviser to president obama.

former jusgeorge bush are remembering charles krauth hammer. he was a longtime columnist for "the washington post." earlier thi month he wrote a heart felt goodbye to rewards revealing he had just weeks to live. he was a fox newsommentator a . he was 68 years old. the entire d.c. area in a fight for amazon's new headquarters, but next at 11:00, sophomore local groups say ty wanto part of it. new video from the wilson bridge. >> they are so lucky. >> a bird's eye view of thatg harrowscue. rain at times tomorrow plus the chance for more rain and s understorm

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. 2018 almo half over. zoat means about six months have passed since a announced the finalists for its new headquarters. >> as many as six months moreo go before we find out who they choose. there are 20 finalists, thr of them a here in montgomery county, the district, and northern virginia. we're live at arlington tonight where some people say they don't want any part of amazon around here. sha marry. >> reporter: that's right. the town hall in arlington tell me s no to amazon's new headquarters coming to northern

virginia. many of them are concerned about traffic, what effect it would be if they took a bus on the roadways on i-95 and the belt way. that's their big concern to see what effect this will have on the local economy. >> i'm not a fan at all. >> reporter: maria lives in northern virginia. she doesn't want amazon to move its headqrters in the area. >> we don't need it. there's so much more development that keeps popping up every month. >> reporter: maria licensed at z this altarounl this is a company that built its empire on tax violence. >> reporter: agreeing lee roadway says it's okay as long as the giant retail company pays ocits fair share of and state taxes. >> it's going to cost a lot of money if amazon arrives. you're going to have to widen a lot of lanes and hire a lot of teachers and run a lot more transit and picup a lot more trash.ng all those this are expensive. >> d.c., northern virginia and

montgomery are among 20 metropolitan areas amazon is considering. it would bring more than 50,000 jobs and could bring billions of dollars into the region. >> we have the kd of creative class, high tech, green tech, clean tech sorof folks that amazon wants. >> reporter: some people tell oa they're by the lack of transparency in the negotiations. they want to find out more about the incentives winning offered offered the amazon. >> i would prefer they go elsewhere. >> reporter: now, amazon is pretty tight-lipped when it comes to specifics with this plan. we reached out to a spokesperson and he would not comment on the record. live here in arlington, i'm shomari ston c videotures a daring rescue under the rils bridge . a track ran into a construction

zone yesterday hitting a boom truck and stranding three workers in the bucket below. video from the fairfax county police helicopter shows the workers getting lowered one by one safely into a boat. above f themmes engulfed that crash site there. the truck driver who lost control died at the scene, but all the workers are okay. the wilson bridge was closed for nearly 12 hours, and af people are still steamed over that today. what a long night. >> let's hope we don't see another one like that for quite some time. amielia, some rainl weake up with deal with rain tomorrow? >> it's going to be raining out there and it's going to continue to rain throughout the day. we'll have cloudy skies otherwise. out of the east tomorrow. it's going to make a marine layer over the area, so it might smell like the beach when you'r out and about. hemialmost y friday,e way. here's a look at your weather

headlines. rain at times tomorrow. otherwise cloudy and cooler. temperatures are only in the 70s because as we get that wind out of the east it's bringing in that cyler air actua off the ocean. that's starting to happen right now across the we're going to have showers and thunderstorms at times on saturday. it's not a washout, but it's not picture perfect beeither. th chance for rain is in the dae later next week it's looking great, monday, tuesday, wednesday, lowe humidity,y of sunshine of we have nice high pressure rebuilng in from canada and that is refreshing around here in june. we're tracking rain in nthern virginia. along 66 back through panhandle and west virginia. here's 4:00 a.m. with future we her. you can that rain, very slow overnigh tonight. but at 4:00 a.m., hopefully you're still sleeping or at least hitting the soze button a couple more times. we'll see rain in fairfax, parts of thent district southern

maryland. 6:00 a.m., still mainly tracking rain in virginia, but the morning commute gets under way and we're tracking widespread showers, maybe pockets of heavier rain tomorrow morning. your lunchtime dealing with showers. here's a look atno , otherwise cloudy, overcome skies and humid throughout the day. 4:00 p.m. still tracking areas of rain. tomorrow night you want to keep the umbrella with you. as we look to satday morning, he's 8:00 a.m. chance of widel scattered showers. saturday morning should be dry. chance for showers and rm thunders here's temperatures throughout the day tomorrow. we start with the low0s, only warm to 74 around lunchemme and thenratures actually fall as we head to the afternoon and evening. notom a great pool dayrow or saturday with rain and thunderstorms likely. you could go and take thesk but you might get pulled out and might have to pull k thes out because of thunderstorms in the

area. the best pool day will be sunday with a small chance for a late-day shower or short term. here's a look at your pollen report. here's your ten-day forecast. 85 on saturday. ni and muggy out there saturday with scattered showers and thunderstorms. 70% chance. sunday completely dry, partly cloudy skies, 90. monday, low humiditynd sunshine >> you miss the stormy weather. in comup the nats youngster star rises to the occasio tonighnt

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mac. he got a no decision, so the kid soto continuing to star for the nationals with 2-1 in the eighth, so tto smacks it deep t center scoring a two-run double. and that is your winner. nats take it 4-2 and win the series against the birds.ta ey cup back-to-back president's trophies, four straight 100-poi seasons. barry trotz with quite they raie for his time in washington. three daysni after resigng as head coach, he signs with the islanders. trotz had a two-year extension for winning the cup, but the deal was going to pay him less than $2 million per year, so he bet on himself, depressing to five years at $4 million per season, but it came down to f respector trotz. un i think that's a terrible

pace on value a the league. just tell mef anything can be done. i got the response -- going in different directions. we won a cupnd ihank them and the players. i love them all. they're a special group and we're tiedogether. nba draft, the wizards oregon with a 15th ockrall pi. spent one season in eugene but averaged over 11 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists per games. he worked out with the wizards on june 11th. kevin herder hearing his name called tonight, taken with the 19th overall pick by the atlanta hawks. he decided to leave college park after just twoeasons averaging over 14 pointser game his sophomore season. he becomes the first terp since 2011.

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