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thanking a crowd of about 200 people tonight in logancircle. >> her daughter stabbed to death, just over 48 hours ago. now, police say, her killer is behind bars. good evening, i'm jim >> i'm doreen againgentzler. we'll get to the suspect in a moment. but first,iv shomari stone is with the support for martinez's family and fiance. >> reporter: good evening. wendy martinez's mother and fiance are understandably devastated. the past 48 hours have been awful for them. they were supposed to be happy this week, planning her wedding. ead, they're planning he funeral. >> my heart has been broken. in a thousand pieces. >> reporter: cora martinez is filled with sadness as she tearfully speaks at acandl candlelight vigil for her

daughter, wendy. >> she passed doing what she loved to do, and that was running, so, that means a loto us. >> reporter: family, friends and people who live and run near lon circle holdcandles, hug and cry. wendy martinez was 35 yearswi o, a promising future. a georgetown grad. chief of sta at a data management company who got engaged just a week ago. her fiance, daniel. >> wendy, i love you and i know that you're in a better pla and know that you're looking up on us. >> reporter: her family told thd crhey're pleased police arrested 23-year-old anthony crawford. this surveillance vides the suspect moments before investigatorsay he randomly stabbed wendy several times near logane cirt 11th and p street northwest tuesday night. >> my daughter fough up to the last breath. she foughtag cously.

>> reporter: crawford had his first court appearance today. >> but i forgive that man because i know it wasn't him. it was somebody else. it was evil being incarnated. >> reporter: now, cora martinez says she's goingo bur her daughter in the dress they recently purchased for her wedding party. live here in northwest d.c. by logan circle, i'm shomari stone, news 4. >> thank you, shomari. d.c. police arrested t man accused of killing wendy martinez last night. anthonyrawford appeared in court for the first time today. a judge ordered him held without bond. according to court documents, a witness told police that crawford is an avid user of the synthetic drug k-2. 161 occupied apartments, a fire burning above the sprinkler system, so, it didn't activa.

no alarms here going off and many of the people inside not able to escape without help. but somehow, everyone did escape this fire wednesday the arthur capperenior apartments in southeast. now, the focus turns to finding new homes for all those residents. news 4's jackie bensen is live with that story and more on the problems that made t it sogh to put out. jackie? >> reporter: well, ji we want to show you what it looks like here tonight. just look at this wrecked shell of a buiing over there. but i want you to also come over here and take aook at this. new tonight, this chain link onnce may have hindered the firefighter resp to this. the reason this fire engine had rev up and plow through a haasly disassembled security gate and across soggy grass to reach the burning apartments may

have had to do with this. chain link fencing. part of an ongoingonstruction project that narrows and in some cases, shuts off access to the north side of that building. the last section to catch fire wednesday. >> i don't think anybody on-site thought that fire engines would need to have access to the north side of this building. >> reporter: this n resident, who did not want to be identified, said he watched firi ennes arriving at the north side of the block-long structure in the minutes after the fire s reported. >> they were beginning to grab the -- to grab these -- the fencing itself and pull itut of t way. >> reporter: d.c. council member charles allense reps the neighborhood. >> yeah, we certainly saw it first-hand. the constructio site thats immediately to the north did precept pr present challenges. we're going to try to work

through and understand wha the emergency response was. make sure we learn from things, make sure we're doing better in the f rure. orter: the capitol hill community foundation has set up aal fund to help the displaced residentresidents. you can download our washington app to find out how you can help these displaced seniors. >> jackie, thank you. new tonight, a witne says the woman who shot and killed three coworkers in, aberde maryland, today got into an argument at work before opening fire. snsh chia moseley was a tempora employeeco some rkers described running for their lives. others hid to escape the bullets. one employee told his wife the shooter got into an argument after a town hall argument and then, ote, went f, unquote. randomly shooting people. authorities have not confirm that account, and are searching for a motive.

>> she had reported for her work day as usual and around 9:00 a.m., the shooting began, strikingut victims bothde the business and inside the facilit hifacility. >> was the third workplace shooting in the u.s. in the span of just 24 hours. a gunman shot four people in middleton, wisc sin, wednesday morning. that afternoon, four people were also shot inmasontown, pennsylvania, in a workplace. the sheriff in hartford county is promising another up te on today's shooting in maryland tomorrow morning. an update to breaking news we brought you last night here at 11:00. the man who shot two prince george's countyolice officers will not face charges, because those officered ent the wrong apartment. one officer was shot in the hand, another in the, shoulder while serving a drug warrant in district heights. but the team was acting on some bad information. the people in that apartment were innocent. thman inside fired at t officers, thinking they were intruders. >> this man was devastated when

he realized that he hadup fired police officers. and he was as worried about their safety once he realized th it happened as he was worried about the safety of his own daughter. >> there's a tempora moratorium on search warrants in prince george's county while police review theired pres. some detectives on thease could be disciplined. the officers whoere shot are expected to recover. right now, president trump is in las vegas, rallyingte supp. the president took the stage just about 30 minutes ago, before speaking to the friendly crowd, he spoke to fox news host sean hannity. in that interview, mr. tru questioned christine blasey ford, the woman accusing supreme court no, ma'a nooe bre-- nomint kavanaugh of sexl assault. the presidentasked, why didn't anyone call the fbi 6 years ago? leon harris has more. >> reporter: that's right, doreen.

that is the action that's i'm here at the live desk in the newsroom, and christine blasey o 's attorney spoke with republican and democratic lawyers on the senate judiciary committee. sources telling nbc news that dr. ford says she is willing to appear before the committee next thursday at the earliest she say she can't testify on monday. that's not enough time for her. dr. ford also says she's willing to appear at a public hearing, but she doesn't want judge kavanaugh in the room with her at the same time. she's also concerned about her safety. >> she's justlm undert unimaginable pressure. >> they're giving her an option. the option is show up monday or don't show up at all. i consider that to be bullying. >> gop senator chuck grassley heads the committee. the chairman's office says that he is committed to providing a fair forum for both ford and kavanaugh. in a new letter, kavanaugh says that he's ready to testify ltnday and once again he denied sexually assg dr. ford

more than 30 years ago. we'll watch and see how thisti neion goes. jim, back to you. >> leon, thank you. now the latest on the recoveryhe efforts in wake of hurricane florence. north carolina governor roy cooper says there are still many pele in shelters tonight waiting to find out if they can go home. but t flooding is like nothing he's ever seen. governor cooper said today he intends to make sure his state gets the federal help promised by the trump administration. florence is n bmed for more than 40 deaths in north carolina, south carolina and virginia. today marks one year since hurricane maria hammered puerto rico. the impact there is still being felt. power was fully restored just last month. a romanian woman pleaded guilty today to hacking d.c. police surveillance cameras and holding them for ransom. ays before president trump's inauguration, 126 cameras all over the district wt dark.

malware installed on the computers that operated the cameras demand bitcoin payments. th woman could receive 25 yearso in p when she's sentenced in december. another romanian is still awaiting trial. a woman says she was attacked and sexually assaulted at aet station during rush hour. she left a train tuesday morning athe u-street stop when she says a man groped her on the platform and tried to rape a witness scared the attacker away. police arrested antonio burnside near the station. burnside has been charged with assault.t next 11:00 tonight, fre after 27 years. a man wronglyct convi of murder ' murder embraces his family. tonight, we'll tell you how a group of local students helped get his constriction overturned. and how some airlines are raising fees to improve their bottom line. not again. for us, it's not the temperatures that are going to be rising, they're going to be

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vindicated, after almost three decades, a man wrongly convicted of murder is final free. >> you may have heard valentino dixon's story this week. the buffalo man released after 27 years in prison for ade murr he did not commit. >> what you might not know is that the role some georgetown university students played in his release made a difference.t, >> tonigh news 4 caught up with one of those students and a professor who got involved. >> reporter: it's homecoming

week at georgetown university, but one class is celebrating another special homecoming in new york.va ntino dixon is a free man after spending 27 years in prison, wrongfully convicted of murder. >> it's unbelievable. >> the real killer has confessed so many times, two days after the crime. i thought that seemed to crazy that that had gone unnoticed and that this man was still in jail for something he clearly didn't do. >> reporter: ellieer and two o students worked on dixon's case as part of a prison reform t project courss past spring. >> if i had to estimate the odds of getting somebody out of prison, much less by september, i would have said 0.05% chance. i mean, i thought it was such a long shot. taught the howar class with his childhood friend, whose wrongful cviction he helped overturn. >> we decided, let's join forces, let's get our students involved and try to get other people out of prison. >> reporter: during the

students' research, they interviewed witnesses, valentino's daughter and mom, and valentinof. hims >> they were the most welcoming, lovely people. we still -- i've been talking to his daughter for the duration of the whole thing.he >> reporter: also spoke to the lead prosecutor and uncovered a valuable clue. >> gunshotue res exam, they itted valentino's hands a came back negative. and that was something we hadn't heard before, which was k a breakthrough for us in the case. >> reporter: valentino's lawyer used the student's research to file a motion in the case. >> the motion was filed and we knew that the d.a.e would g it his attention. and we felt like it was a waiting game. >> reporter: ellie got word value entino would be released weeks ago. >> it was everything we ever wanted it felt s miraculous. >> there's a celebration for valentino, but tre's still huge problems with our criminal justice system and i think this class is one effort t to shi

spotlight on this particular issue. >> now, all that succe came out of the first semester ever for this course at corgetown. thss is now working on three other wrongful conviction cases. and professor howard says have the same level of commitment to those cases they that had to valentino. cancer patients,heir families and doctors are in d.c. tonight for the first ever bid cancer summit. former vice president joe biden and his wife, dr. jill biden, opened the event w at therf this evening. the couple lost their son, beau, to cancer in 2015. the event here in d.c. will focus on the journce c patients experience. hundreds of smaller summits be held simultaneously around the world. ou> get ready to shell out more the next time fly. airlines are hiking theat fees th way pay for bags. americai rlines has joined delta, tblue and united by boosting luggage fees. theirst checkedag will set you back 30 bucks.

the second, $40. southwest airlines is t only major domestic carrier not charging to check yourirst bag. some members of congress are calling for more regulation to project teenagers. . well, we don't need to fly out of town to find nice weather tomorrow. . if you like today, and i think a lot of people did. >> yeah. >> i think you're going to like tomorrow, too. the best part about tomorrow -- >> fantastic friday? >> fic friday, exactly right, doreen. on the ball tonight. iteally is going to be a fantastic friday. yeah, we have a lot of cloud cover, but some sun. especially late in t day. highs tomorrow, upper 70s to low 80s. out there right now, wve got the clouds. that means we're going to stay on the mild side. the average l is 62 today. actually 61, we're sitting at 74. that south wind and those clouds are definitely going to keep things on the warmside. not to mention the fact dew points are way up there. 73 right now in culpepper.

we do have showers d the mountains of the blue ridge. this is where they're going to remain. ing right upflow c against the mountains creates a little bit of upslope there. th rest of the area, though, dry. and i think we're going to stay that way tomorrow into the day on saturday, too. look at these high temperatures today. 97 in nashvi 92, chicago. 72 in new york. what's happening? well,igh pressure dominating back to the west. normally, at this time of year, really, july and august, this heat would b making its w all the way across the coast. but that' nop hall int happenin. we're going to see the movement from the north come down across our area aea that cooler air later this week and some clouds. here's overnight tonight, into 9:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. clouds for everybody early tomorrow. by1:00,reaking up a little, but still a lot of cloud cover out there. by 5:00, some showans. best , west of the blue ridge tomorrow, but even east of the blue ridge, some showers and cloud cover. but a little bit of sun, too. tomorrow evening, a very nice

evening. now, friday night into saturday, we've got a cold front to the west. here's 1:00 a.m. if you are out late night, you could see showers or thunderstorms. this front, though, kind of dies as i moves dow to the south. and by saturday morning, we're on the dry side and we've got some sunshine out there. can't rule out s wers and storms to our south. maybe fredericksburg,r, culpep you have the best chance on saturday. most of us dry. tomorrow, 83. more clouds,ut still pretty nice. some of you remain in the upper 70s. as we make our way throughhe weekend, this is what we can expect. yard work, better on saturday. outdoor parties, have a backup pl sunday if you have it sunday, because i do expect a lot of shower activity. that includes the redskins game. and the carwash, hold off on that. we're going to see rain sunday and monday, too. monday could be a pretty good dousing of rain. look at the high on sunday. only 68. rather breezy on nday, too. so, kind of dreary, kind of nasty. drizzle, that's not good. kind of like fall around here. sunday and monday. of course, sunday, the first full day of fall.

chance ofhowers all the way through next week, as well. thursday and friday looking okay, but keep the up brel whats handy. >> we will. thank youg do. coming up, a future hall of famer on how the rskins can stop a future hall of famxt. >> sports ne. >> sports ne. i'm neal simon. i'm the son of an immigrant and a family man. daughter: hey, dad. neal: and now i'm running for the u.s. senate, unaffiliated with any party, because they're playing partisan games and tting nothing done, and it's crippling america. i've created high-paying jobs right here in maryland by listening, bringing people together, and finding common ground, and i'll do the same thing as your senator. they say an outsider can't do it, but... together... neal: ...we'll prove them wrong. i'm neal simon, sa and i approve this mes. let's finally put people over politics.

this is the xfinity sports desk. >> all right, srree jois now. >> we're talking football. >> cleveland has mady. hist >> cleveland is -- oh, man. i'm excited for you. >> leon, you can just walk behind. give u a - >> give us one of those, buddy. >> they did it. >> so excited. >> oh.

>> okay. >> cleveland is not number one. >> no, they're not. one game does not make them number one. one game. we can only hope redskins fans ar o going to be this excit sunday. wow. >> fill the seats. >> that'sah true, they have a real opportunity to take down aaron rodgers and the packers, because rodgers is hurt. he is not100%. and the burgundy and gold have the best defense in the right now. d.j. swearinger tasked with leading the defense against aaron rodgers, who he cls the greatest of all time. the defense hasd looked goo this season. the redskins have allowed the fwest yards on defense, but playing against aure hall of famer, whole different ball game. anothe future hall of famer, adrian peterson, knows rodgers better than most, playing the packers twice a year with the vikings, and he gave his advice on slowing him down. >> you c have totain him. you have to keep him off the best defense, keep him on the sieeline. you sim hobbling around last

year and he was making plays. so, you know, that's one thi i learned. ouen you have aaron rodgers on your team, y always got a chance to win a game. all right,e head off to nats park, a beautiful night for some baseball. nationals hosting the max scherzer on the mound, allowed three runs, but calmed down once he remembered it's scherzer day. in the fourth, the strikeout to end the inning. fifth with a man on, michael conforto can't catch up. scherzer goes seven innings, allowing three runs, strikes out 13. not bad for his day. and his offense got behind him. man on for anthony rendon. tees off on this ball. 22nd of the year. 100th career home run. t gehe nats on the board, down just 3-2. and in the eighth, nats still down a run, man on first for juan. soto that ball goes off the wall. trey turner comes around to score. soto to second. an rbi double for the

19-year-old. we are knotted at four. we head to extras. bottom of the 11th. two on and two out for victor robles. oh. he gets caughtre looking he >> oh. >> ms scored on a sac fly in the 12th. nats lose it, 5-4. we 4ed to the e. alex ovechkin making his preason debut. caps visiting the canadiens. first period, problems for the caps. brooks orpikh the puck. a montreal defender closes in, orpik loses the pick, so here comes the canaens. a two-on-one. bran gallagher puts it in the back of the net.tu bad rnover for the caps. moreal takes advantage. they lead 1-0. we skip ahead to the second. canadiens up4-0, but the caps on the power play. tuck over to alex ovechkin. you know what he does there. ovechkin's first goal ofhe preseason. maybe the only time we won't see the great eight celebrate. thankfully, this game didn't count, becse the canadiens won 5-2, and for those wonding, no

shots on goal, no ts one penalty for kammerer, so -- >> you got a penalty? >> and we are confirming, browns lead 217 with a minute left, we saw leon in here, cleveland has not won a game in over 600 days. noted browns fan leon harris is running around the newsroom sm ging. >> but te continues. >> the game, is it over? i don't have my phoneot -- >>ver yet. oh, boy. would that be bad if he had to come back in? i thought it was over. >> all right. >> we'll have to check the scor

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