timing of this. what it means with the big time front coming through. president, then, it is a scary time for young men in this country. the latest now surrounding his sundeme court pick the fbi's review of alleged sexual sc duct. >> the president says he believes that he will get a positive vote but he adds it could depend on what the fbi finds. and we know ford was in the room. >> the bureau has a friday deadline and m mitchonnell says she will be a vote on kavanaugh this week. >> meantime, the president called it a very scaryime for men in america.

you can be guilty of something you may not be guilty of something. you are truly guilty untilpr en innocent. >> joining us now, jeff wentett. >> there's a lot there in that statement. one could assume he's saying you don't believe the victim or survivor in this era of me too. is he talking to the men in his base? how tret land on women out there who are also in his base? >> it is hard to see how any of this helps his cause.as hesked directly, what does this mean to young men? he was asked,s what i your message to young women? he said women are doing great. last week he was asked directly byallie jackson yes seems to give the benefit of the doubt to

the accused men t rathern the accusers. he said i myself have been accused. in this cultural reckoning, in this me too moment, this is a scary time for men. >> and you he learned the fbi doesn't plan to interview christine blasey ford. and it seems we are hearing from some new kavanaugh classmates about, as the day goes on, about other behaviors out there.at how is oing to play out? >> it's interesting. even though it has been broadened. there are still limits. >> there are no plans to interview christine blay ford. her attorneys have been reaching out to the fbi. the fbi has noteen returning their phone calls. this story is breaking now. but not only that. the fb we've learned is not

being authorized to delve into brett kavanaugh's history of drinking. the preen matters is it speaks to his behavior in high schoolo andge when he was drunk and it suppose the whether or not he was forthcomg is that truthful abo his testimony before the judiciary community. an eve when president trump was defending brett kavanaugh, he is drawing a red line. emif it is determined that he did do that, that would be disqualifying. so we'll have to see as this ever evolvingaga continues. >> you can look for all the haste from the nbc political team. that's ahead at 7:00. >> it is sprid will make your heart skip a beat. bowling over two pedestrian in addition d.c. parking lot. the oriver kept going. this happened las month, and

police are still looking for the driver who got away with this. we talked on one of the women who was hit. it happened at wisconsin avenue. two young medical students in the crosswalk. they had the green light. theyad the walk sign. they were struck b a car. the driver continues down wisconsin avenue like nothing everpp ened. e>> we could hav died and there was no empathy from him. >> she is a 22-year-old medical student at georgetown. today she is doing just fine. after you see what happened toh you will know how lucky she is to be alive. it was around:00 at night.

they were studying at the library a decidedo get something to eat. they wer crossin wisconsin avenue at albemarle street. they had green light. they had the walk sign. they were almost halfway across the street when all of sudden, wham. take a look at this surveillance video. i shows the car runningig through the crosswalk, striking she and her frid and shen continuing on down the street. >> he wa m hitting and my only thought was, i'm getting hit by a ca i didn't even register pain because it was so much adrenaline and my articm was bleeding and he just took off. i remember looking up to see and he was just driving away. >> police are circulating this video, hoping that someone will recognize the car.

>> she said she wants him off the street. >> i hope he isn't allowed to drive lik that anymore. he is probably still driving. >> if y your car, why would you notvi stop? do you know this man? this car? police want to hear from you. >> thank you. >> there are new arrests connected to the deadly violence last year. u.s. attorneys have pressed charges against several white supracists who they say incited the .violen they e not to it. they are connected to the violence that day and the violence the nht before. the u.s. attorney's office says four people were arrested this

morning. members of a militant wte supremacist group from california. they're accused of head butting several people. then these men are responsible for acts of violence at litical ralliesn california. they'll be charged for those crimes separately. they say there is video evidence of these crimes. even man facing up to t years in prison for violations of the federal riot act. it is possible more people could be arrested in 2017 in charlottesville. nflt thank you. back here inur area, the fbi is looking into mail sent to the pentagon, suspected of containing the deadly toxin ricin. it involves two envelopes.

there are no indications anyone has been exposed. it is an extremely dangerous poison made from caster beans. it has no known antidote. >> emergency legislation been passed. it is temporary. we've been following a huge spike in the synthetic drug ovdosing in recentmonths. last month, the d.c. mayor intruced the temporary emergency legislation that changed how synthetic drugs a classified. the legislation will give police and prosecutors more power to get the drugs off the street and to put the dealers in jail. >> synthetic drugs, one of several big issues. another is tipping. it is called initiative 77. and the council too action today to overturn a wage like

for bar tenders and servers. >> reporter: this started out as an issue about whether a small group of employees should be paid the same mill wage as everyone else. today it turned into a debate over whether d.c. counc members shouerturn the will of the voters. >> we have a probl with that. today's debateou not only councilmembers but many of the residents on hand for day's vote. >> you should have won the vote! >> that i believe we cannot reject thel of the voters. thank you.

we don't pass labor laws that will hurt people. >> it will also, as my colleagues said, send a message that their voice doesn't matter. their vote doesn't matter t council voted 8-5 to erturn the will of the voter ando kee the lower minimum wage for all tipped employees. now, the initiative was set tok ffect next week. and the pay raise would have gone into effect. today counsel took a preliminary vote to overturn the will of the they have on vote a second time and the mayor has to sign that. soo keep the wages from going up, the entire council voted unanimously to putff initiative 77 to take effect.

so the same five councilmembers swroetd the rest of the council to keep initiative 77. in the end, initiative 77 seemed doomed. oneore vote later this month. that's the very latest from city hall. news4. >>hat a turn today. in fact, for a lot o people, thanks so much. parents fear for their children after a threat and the threat was serious enough to remove t person from the school. why weren't parents notified right away? plus, the brother-in-law in the d.c. mansion murder trials. and new life for the old debate about another bridge across the potomac.

across the potomac. why the talks are

he turned arssnd the naacp. busin. ben jealous.of "marylandehe year". he's helped grow twenty companies and a thousandobs. ben's vision: medicare for all.

a plan to lower prescription drug costs and fully fund our schools. the sun says jealous has "the stature and gvitas" to lead maryland. we can do muchetter on jobs, on education, on healthcare. but it means we've got to believe in each other. ben jealou governor. some parents are outraged about the handling of a thrt at theirschool. they say they were kept in the gark why a deputy has beened

po at their elementary school. and why some parents kept their kids home from school. >> reporter: it has been an unttling school year for some kids who to go luckett elementary. they began to ask questions when they noticed a deputy was assigned to the school every day keeping watchful >> we were told there's no threat and we are safe. >> reporter: but parents did some digging of their own and later learned there was a threat. on august 17, a man called his ex-girlfrien and later told her by phone he was going to shoot her. he was arrested and charged when you ask him point blank, is there a threat where my children are going, and told no you find out that's a lie. completely unacceptable. d >> parentsn't get their first mostly from the principal until september 24th

it read in part, there security outure was enacted purely of an abundance of caution out of a domesti issue involving a staff member. i want to assure you, and then another e-mail followed saying the staff member he involved in this matter is away from ts lucket elementary. l news4earned the suspect accused was just acquitted in court bust a no trespass order remains in place barring him from lucketts eleme aary schoolar all school grounds. the pta willadou hadding here tomorrow night. they will vote to have a full time officer. loudoun county officials were notified.

sents dy harris who rep maryland, capitol police say a group of protesters pushed in the officeeroor ear today and just moments ago, a spokesperson said the congressman injured wriey as tried on force their way in. e was taken out in a wheelchair. there are reports that her leg wasaught in the door. the group was pushing and harris was he had a looking citizenes nick con of d.c.'s ability to decriminalize pot. in courte heard for the first time from the former fiance of the only person charged in the d.c. mansionmu ers case. the suspect's brother-in-law taking the stand. todayitegan ferald has the

latest. >> he is the brother-in-law in daron wint. he was in court after testifying that wint asked him to burn his blue minivan. one dayhe after family and theee housekper were killed. you can sayanything to us at all? >> no.la >> can you exp about what you testified? saying that he called you? >> inside the courtroom, he told jurors, his response to wint was that's a layer too deep for me and refused to help him out. he said earlier that evening winld told him he'd won the

lottery. it was a wad of c 1,200. but they said he never collected a prize of more than $600. he was escorted by her attorney. she ackwledged that three days tter murders, wint came to new york to stay with her. the two wt to dinner and he took her shopping, paying for everything in $100 bills. she is now the second person to testify that win said heon the lottery. on the night of may 20th, she id she was watching the 11:00 news with wint when she saw h, e two fled to a hotel whereedhey st the night and wint took a

taxi back to d.c. the next day to turn himself in. >> the reason they're focusing on the$40,000, it was delivered in $100 bills. the last person toe witness stand this evening was awol who was driving the car that daron wint was seen in. >> thanks so much. overseas, there is an increasingly dire situation in indonesia where 1,200 people have died and thousands more are left homeless. they're trying t find people.oo

we'll lk at how you can when he said this relief effort. a big boost for workers at amazon as the company raises its minimum wage. how those who don't work there may one day benefit. and a new lawsuit

decent depend on me . don't depend on me to tell you whether it is on your car. we're tracking a few showers and parts of our area. but you noticed, most of us not seeing much at all. a couple ofshadows. we are monitoring a very dangerous situation just to our north.ot youe the area in yellow. most of the state here under a tornado watch.t we w to zoom in. we have tornado warnings in red.

numerous tornado warnings north and west state college. wove had a tornado alrdy in western pennsylvania that hit a nursing home earlier and now we're watching this. a very dangerous situation going on in pennsylvia. for us, i think we stay on the dryer side and i don't expect much happening. well above average and we will stay that way. we think we'll stay above average through the next days. you can see where the fronten i,

buffalo. 89, d.c. the front right here and that' why we hat tha new york city. highstomorrow, 84 degrees. a mix of sun and clouds continued on the wm side. but it gets even warmer thursday. it will be a nice one at capital one aren 84 at 4:00. 80 degrees by 7:00 go caps! isolated storms. most of russ dry on thursday. temperature in th we'll watch that and i'll have

the rest of the weekend's forecast. and the entire ten-day coming up at 5:45. on the home front, he became a new dad. >>vi reflects on that new trop and the new challen of fatherwood. this baby gets a workout. the baby doll. and here's something we've been crossing over. been crossing over. i'll tell w kaine: my dad ran an ironworking shop. i learned hard work and a trade from him and his workers. then i went to honduras as a missionary and taught kids to be carpenters and welders.o our economs best when everyone has a skill, like shipbuilding. that's why i created career and technical academies across virginia and passed a law to expand job training for young people. i'm tim kaine, and i approve this message.

here in virginia, have to build an economtha.

bawell be barbara trumpstock. donald trump is against expanding medicaid in virginia. against protections for pre-existing conditions.ab and otaged the healthcare market, hiking insurance rates up to 64 percent in virginia. barbara trumpstock agrees. voting w th trump 98 percent he time. jennifer wexton believes healthcare is a right ... and successfully fought to expand medicaid in virginia.

"i'm jennifer wexton and i approved this message... because change is coming." look at that. in the crosswalk. both victims are university medical students and they're both okay. four members of a white supremacist group arrested today. federal prosecutors say they came ready for battle and punched, kicked, and head butted l people. they're from california and face charges there as well. >> and two pieces of mail sent to the pentagon in ce they

have ricin. one of them was addressed to the defee secretary. it was found yesterday on the pentagon grounds but away from the mainbuilding. and there's a push to build another bridge. ba new linkween virginia and maryland yet again. >> yeah.e udoun county leaders say they have identified two places where a bridge makes sense. >> the transportation reporter adam tuss in chopper 4 to explain it. >> we've been talking about it for a long time. leaders are saying this is a real possible to get from in their sign over here. take a look at route 28. they have identified a couple of corridors where i might make sense like route 28 and then taking a bridge acrs the river

into montgomery county. they say they can actually do it withou impacting. they say they can take and it come across the potomac river into montgomery county.ve now, in the montgomery county side of things, you can see a lot of agricultural land over here and that has been the debate about protecting this land in montgomery countyt hey have identified these corridors. 28 in the loudoun countywh parky e they say a crossing could actually happen. take liberty tohat they're saying. it says, hey. this can be baltimore washington parkway. something that looks like and fits the attitude in maryland. >> now the leaders say there is a next step in all of this but they're going to put an endo

their plan. the toll tome river crossing, not a de deal just yet. d.c. city council passed a limit on sit like air bnb. it would limit a homeowner in the district to rentaling their primary residence. they can only do it for 90 days a year. it would require a homeowner to have a busins license. the bill requires a second vote. it could happen this month or next and mayor bowser has not said whether she supports it. n>> marriott began testing home rentals london last spring. they expanded the pilot program to rome and lisbon. it will allow people to redeem marriott points at more than 300

different homes. >> amazon makes t bige delivery. this one for its employees. heat's next foriant after raising its minimum wage to $15 an hour? plus, the story that may have you thinking twice about allowing your dog to lick yo face. and some caps coverage, too. so stay with us. and we continue to track searre weather in of pennsylvania. look at all this lightning. a potentily historic, dangerous weather situation unfolding in parts of pesylvania. nnso

the caps raising the stanley cup. >> they went thee distance cou of believe it? tomorrow it will be raised again. the cams opening a brand new season tomorrow. now for captain alex ovechkin, it has been quite a busy off-season. >> you say four months. >> so quick. this summer, this is one they foll never et.

the celebration starts with winning the stanley cup in june. then on 8/8/18, the great 8 welcomed his first son name after his first brother. they received the championship ring and finally seeing their name on lord stanley' cup. >> you don't want to forget it. you gond over over again. you see the happy all of the p coaches and all the stuff. it is something special. >> have you changed any diapers yet? >> yeah.st difference f guy who changed it. >> that's nice. can you showus ? >> sure. >> a little baby. >> sorry! not like that.

>> you chaed theirst diaper. >> the first diaper. oh. the wrong way. >> ding, ding, ding! >> so i will say now t his defense, i got a reallymall baby doll. about two months now but he did a pretty good b. >> we have more guys trying to put the diapers on the babies and some you can see with more experience than others. they're better with a hockey stick. >> we have a full day of coverage as we welcome the stanley cup champions back to

the ice. mallett green kicks off the coverage and then they'll report live from capital one arena tomorrow afternoon right here oe 4. the caps will raise the banner and start the new season at 7:30. an we are counting down. >>e were made to understand, it would be terrible. every small want. every nigglingurge. >> that is the poet laureate who says we need to make room for poetry in our lives and now we can. rte is sg a poetry podcast next month. a weekly show called the showdown. it will only last for five minutes. long enough for smithd to r and explore a poem. long enough to check the rat race at the door andstand what she means when she says, poetry is not a luxury but a

necessity. azon that it is vowing to raise its wage. the minimum is $7.25. next month it will raise its minimum wage to $15. that includes whole foods employees and about 100,000 seasonal workers.om theny says it will start advocating for an increase to the federal minimum wage. and warning about a job scam that appears to be from amon, and the crook are tarting parents. the better business bureau warns, victims receive a voicemail text message, a message on social medie- il, inviting potential job seekers to apply for a high paying job. e job rep will allow to post product reviews for a payout. not bad. the timing for this scam

couldn't be better. >> back to sschool. pareow have some extra time and they might be looking for an at home opportunity. it requires new employees to pay a $200 enrollment fee before starting the b.jo after you pay, you never hear from that person again. ma locations are off limits when it comes to smokingm a new on the number of places you can light up. and the giant that says it isn't doing enough to protect young users from search young users from search trafficker

he turned arssnd the naacp. busin. ben jealous.of "marylandehe year". he's helped grow twenty companies and a thousandobs. ben's vision: medicare for all.o a plan tr prescription drug costs and fully fund our schools. the sun says jealous has "the stature and gvitas" to lead maryland. we can do muchetter on jobs, on education, on healthcare. but it means we've got to believe in each other. ben jealou governor.

at the live desk, we've been following this for some time. a total of four letters with ricin have been intercepted today. two of them found yesterday in a facility on the pentagon grounds, awayrom the main building. one of them addressed to thee defesecretary. now a third letter was intercept at the white house mail facility. a fourth sent to the houston texas office of texas senator ted cruz. all of them came from the same person but no word on who that is yet. it contains a small. aut ricin an extremely dangerous poison. it is made from caster beans. it has no known antidote. from the live desk. back to you. >> thank you. woman who was aville of sex trafficking when she was just 15 old is now suing facebook. g that lawsuit is claim facebook did nothing to protect her from being recruited by a trafcker who wasisguised as a so-called friend.

the conepmerter joins us with this story. kind of crazy. >> it is this is what we learned. the lawsuit against facebook was filed late yesterday afternoon and the victim only known as jane doetu describes ding details of how she was lured into sex trafficking by soeone friended her on facebook. he told her she was pretty enough to be a model and went on to promise financial security through modeling jobs. after the two met, she alleges she was raped, beaten and forced into further sexaf cking. the lawsuit says facebook took no steps to verify friends identity and claim the social dia sight has not taken any reasonable steps to keep sex trfickers to keep its platform from searchaf cking. now, the lawyers who filed case against facebook are also representing nine jane does in

ground breaking hotel chains. so new, we were granted exclusive access into one of the world'sel largest h chains to see just how they are training their employees to spot human traffickers. this is an eye you'll want to see only on news4 starting at 110 tonight. >> it really is.ma it isng to think that it happened and what hotels are doing and what a lot of them aren't. pretty crazy what gs on. thank you. no smoking signs more popular but there is a plan to expand a ban on smoking that is already in place. >> r orter: montgomery count is considering a health law pro had i beening outdoor smoking. at restaurants on patios, decks and porches. if it passes the ban, montgomery

county would joi more than 230 counties and cities nationwide that mandate smoke-free outdoor dining. >> it is a good idea for the health of everyonein lved. second hand smoke is an issue. i think it is a great idea. i am all in favor of personal liberties. am a big believe that sitting next to somebody smoking in close approximate symptom very uncomfortable if you're not a smoker so i'm in favor of it. some some smokers feel it is unfair. >> i believe should be able to have a'r cigarette if you having a beer at an establishment. absolutely. >> montgomery county prohibits smoking in eating and dnking establishments but doesn't specify outdoor patios and decks. currently, there are law to prohibit it at outdoor dining areas. councilmember sydne catholicott

notified them that he is sponsoring the county wide smoking ban. >> everybody involved or that could be involved up front, what being considered and give them the opportunity to come in and give gus suggestions. >> t montgomery county council has a public hearing scheduled laterhis month, october 23rd. they say they want to hear people with all points of view on this issue. whether or not to ban smoking at outdoor restaurants in montgomery county. that's the latest live from betho da. backyou. >> a lot of people lining up to talk. newtoday, evidence of a dramatic rise in the sale of the ecigarettes among teenagers. the centers for disease control says juul ecigarettes spiked 1 641% in a year. the sleek look rembles a usb

drive. nust last month, the food and drug administratio issued more thanni 1,300 w letters to retailers who illegally sold juul and other ecigarettes to myrons. they said they tonight to be a part and it will take rgulators worktogether. this is a wild story. a wisconsin man is recovering from a rare infection that led to several amputations because a dog licked him. he thought ted flu. it was a bacte iaection transmitted from dog saliva. dogs saliva harmless most of the time but in this one case it was not. >> i couldn't believe it. i've been around dogs my whole life. it was hard.o ta >> we didn't fight this hard to lay down and give up. we know we have a fight to . but he doesn't believe that

the saliva that started this came from his dog.oc his dr said he has fought harder than any patient they hai and soon h begin the process of relearning to walk because his legs were amputated. >> and onearm, it looks like. my yard i brown. t> stormm 4 well to the south and west. with you that is not the case just to our north.

you are under a tornado watch. just the entire ste o pennsylvania under a tornado watch and this has become ada vy erous situation. we're tracking this to the west. numerous severe thunderstorm warnings. you can see some severe weath here. tornado warning, tornado warning, aund williamsport, it was reported on the ground. most of this activity will be to the north. we could see some of this come through. most of the wtime, when lose daytimehe ing. we're sitting at 81 degrees. we think most of luus will stay

the dry side. this is all part of the system. moving to the west, all severe weather will be back to the west. for us, this pattern means octor warmth. we're talking about big time warmth. and dry, staying dry over toward the next few days. you might want to wat your brown lawn. we're talking not just one butse we'll be c to potential record highs on thursday. we won't get there. but we'll be close and this is something we tend to see. >> it is notunusual. we're forecasting a high temperature on thursday. not tomorrow but thursday. close to 90. that got me thinking, when i was putting together this graphing. when do we typically see our last 90-degree day? and how unusual is it? so take a long on averag our las 90-degree day has fallen on september 10th. the last 90-degree day this year was september 7th.

the latest 90-degree day on cord happened in october 11 of 1999.s so that a ways away. as we talk about humidity, a little humid. when you facto in the muggy know, the tls will be 90 to 95 degrees. and here's somethi else. the brown lawn. i do know he suffers from allergies from all the rain. our mold spores are coming in and we have not see it drop. >> she said, keep your dog off your lawn, too. don't let the dog go -- 84 degrs tomorrow. looking at warm temperatures. the isolated storm possible. that will cool it on friy and saturday. the one day i'm really watching is saturday. weould see some drizzle saturday. a lot of activity sunday andyi a lot of activity sunday andyi monday s with theclou ds

kaine: my dad ran an ironworking shop. i learned hard work and a trade from him and his workers. then i went to hondura as a missionary and taught kids to be carpenters and welders. tour economy works best when everyone has a skill, that's why i created career and technical academies like shipbuilding. across virginia and passed a law to expand job training for young people. i'm tim kaine, and i approve this message.he in virginia, we have to build an economy that works for all.

there is a desperate effort overseas searching for survivors. >> more than 1,200 people are believed dead after this earthquake and subsequent tsunami hit indonesia. >> reporter: the images are horrifying, apocalyptic, the death toll in the thousandsnd

it is only expected to rise. the magnitude 7.5 magnitude earthquake and the stsunami. this the president of the indonesian relief usa. this.ody expecting >> the need is getting greater. phone calls coming from concerned citizens who want to helpy in y they can. money and goods. a call for prayer from the pope. >> what is needed is the mical supply for them. and thenause of the earthquake and also the tsunami. >> the challenges sxom the logistics. gettg the relief supplies where they are neede most. infrastructure sparse in some areas and nowos a non'tis tent. >> an emergency in the country.a ot of things at once.

they would come in and making it even tougher to get in. this is the second natural disaster. 400 people were killed. theear is that this will make one pal in coarison. the nomination of brett ion live and the rea from capitol hill. >> if it turned out kavanaugh lied -- >> that finishes everything. >> hit and run. caught on camera.

i remember looking up and he was iving away. >> pat collins talks to the victims. plus the amazon fect. it may push lawmakers to improve your commute. >> a there is next step. >> adam tuss shows you how from chopper 4. >> you can see the showers and storms. >> the worst is t thenorth. tornado watches west of pennsylvania. >> yay parts of pennsylvania and it is just that the entire state of pennsylvania including our area as well.