young people get sick and listen to this. the mixed reaction to ads on metrobuses. ic p with guns drawn move in after reports of an active shooter inside a building. patients and visitors barricaded and streets had to be shut down. >> we have team coverage of the massive response that felt all too real. >> we begin with jackie bensen to tell us how thelert beg in the first place. what have you learned? >> reporter: i wanto tell you, witht got off the phone dutch runnersberger. he was inside one of those

buildings. he said that he and the other people in that room absolutely thought this was real. they had non to believe that it was a drill. we'll hear from him, that he is concerd about that. there's video of people leaving, guns drawn, montgomery county lice did not know that this was essentially a planning for a drill that turned into a false alarm. they arrived and told us that they believed they were being called to check out and asst with reports of an active shooter. our friends at n news tell us this began as planning by one of the many agencies here.e they werlanning an ad hoc drill when someone mistakenly activated that drill that you heard at the top of th newscast. a short time ago, .by phone congressman rupsberger.

>> i was getting ready to leave. the individuals walking in the 4ll ways, in the back room, there were about of us in there. all we heard, every 20 minutes, an active shooter on the scene. what i found out later, they are saying it is now a drill. i am very much concerned about th. a lot of people in the room were upset. there was a woman next to me who was crying because she couldn't pick up her daughter from school and shen't get ahold of her husband o anyone. and the congressman did tell me from his congressional position, he is absolutely going to ask some ver tough questions about how this happened. news4. > walter reed is the nation's

largest military hospital. it is one of the places foro troops who are wounded in combat. they've seen more than a million patients every year. you can see why it took more than an hour to give everye the all clear. leon harrisnu con our team nch could. you can imagine, the fear was all too real and all too familiar to some other cases we've seen in the past. >> you're right. today's scare has a lot of similarities. people in hawaii were told a missile was about to hit the island. the employee who triggered tha alarm sai he didn't know an exercise was taking nvace. antigation later revealed he had confused drills on two other occasions.

in 2016, panic and confusion at andrewsce air for base after an active soter report there. military pereennel could be s walking around with guns.al offi say they were supposed to be doing an active shooter exercise but instead an actual shooting was miscommunicated. and in 2014 there were reports of shots fired. t the around it was reported in the same building. >> leon harris, thank you. a 7-year-old girl in serious condition after getting hit by a truck while getting off her school bus. and new in the last ten minutes, we've learn t theck did not

stop even though bus did have its stop sign arm out. chopper 4 today, the driver of the truckta did on the scene and is being questioned by police. so far they have not been charged. there is still a month left in 2018 but already our city has seen nearly 150dehomi that's more than all of 2017. and a 42% jump frohi time last year. pat collinsoins us with a closer look at this outbreak of violence. on the crime front, a lot of action. we had an arm carjacking case we have video of. . i'll get to that in moment. you see residents here are restless. benning road is one of the bloodiest streets in our city.

surveillance video of e latest benning road victim. ll's been identified as 20-year-old ran francis. he was valedictorian in school class. he recently worked as a model and photographer. you can see him hanging out. they say he was here about 30 minutes. he leaves the store, walks down the street and is shot severti s at close range. there were a number of witnesses to this broad daylight murder. this is heidi ellis. she was hererday when it happened. she heard theshots. >> i heard people yelling and i heard pop, pop, pop. she sawhe gunman run away from the scene. he wasrying to tuck it while

h was running. >> she wase and watched the young man die. the last 100 today's, a number of shootings. for three years, heidi ellis had lived around here. she said she loves our city but she says she's ready to get away violence >> i can't risk my life and my family's life for senseless violence. >> while cops are still running, police did have some success day working a carjacking case from last night. it centers around this hummer taken last night in northeast. the driver shot and gravely wounded. now police spotted a man in the stolen truck today. then came the chase. and the crash.

and a man taken i cotody for questioning. so far, no charges in that case. now, back to the benning road murder days. i am toldav police clues. they have pictures.d i'm they're closing in. back to you. >> a lot of frightened and frustrated residents.yo than now to a deadly virus on the university of maryland campus. a eshman died from the aden loe virus last week. now, several more cases have rtbeen re. tracee wilkins tells us what the university isng d to keep students safe. >> she was the happiest, most amazing person. and then g she really sick. >> students are still mourning over the loss of thm fr had a died from adenovirus. >> she was on my floor, too.

it is very suc that a tragedy could take place for something like pneumonia which iso curable nowadays. the firste was reported to the university. on the 5th, a second student was hospitalized. on the 7th, the university ban the cleaningsurfaces. on november 19th, the university became aware of six with adeno virus. on november 20th, they announced death. now there are nine confirmed cases at the university. medical experts are calling it an outbreak. >> we are working to doifgs the strain. making sure we can get word out. >> it is sometimes misclassified.

>> she was taking medication for crohn's whicheaned her immune system. >> i've been here coughing the whole time i've lived here. >> reporter: the cdc is saying there is no known connection between mold andhe adenovir students impacted live both on and off campus and they are ducting their efforts. turning now to our weather. if you thought today was windy, folks, just wait until tomorrow. a weather alert day tomorrow. >> just about everybody will be under a wind alert. it runs throughout the day. everybody here in beige is under

that alert. th back around the i-81 corridor. gusts up to 45 miles an hour during the day. could it lead to some isolated wind damage and powerutage as well. and more importantly, it will be cold out there. we're already downo the 30s. i'll let you know whatpe you ca walking out the door at around 6:25. chopper 4 flying over the scen of a deadly crash in frederick county. at least one personas killed. chris gordon talked to some drivers at the scene. >> reporter: chopper ndour.

a road crew of inmates from hagerstown was doing yardwork in myerstown. the driver stan d oe scene. the maryland state pice are hat stigating to determine caused the truck to swerve, leaving them. >> it struck van. a correctional w offic inside the van. fortunaty he was uninjured. the-t tractiler struck four inmates.tw people were not harmed in the crash. this truck narrowly miss.

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2016. around the same time manafort t joined tmp campaign. >> the bombshell comes a day after prosecutors accused manafort of like and ended his plea deal.ne bl >> reporter: the article from the dwarnld is getting some angry push back a new twist is being thrown into the investigation and it comes as the man who helped lead the president to victory is coming up indiana creased legal trouble. a conflicted prosecutor gone rogue. doing tremendous damage to the criminal justice system. >> the presidentas voiced his unhappinessnirom the beg this has gone on, this ridiculous witch hundred for more than two years. >> it comes as the former

campaign manager paul manafort faces more legal troubles after mueller's team filed payments alleging he broke a plea deal by lying to them repeatedly and now they want him sentenced immediately. they said the new attack on mueller may be strategi >> the strategy is to under mine the investigate so when the report comes t, he has some political cover. >> he is saying he did not lie.n but faced new questions after sourc tell guardian newspaper, that was and around the time, he held secret etings withulie an assange. >> wikileaks, i love wikileaks. >> today the president's attorney and wikileaks denying the report. >> the president was involved in no wrongdoing. was not part of any wrongdoing. >> allf this over a talk of a

presidential pardon. >> neither he nor his team ruling itout. >> both julian assange and paul manafort are pushing back very hard, calling it totally false, a total fabrication. both are threatening to take legal action. >> thanks so much. to the crisis at the border. roughly 5,000 central american migrants remain at an overflowing shelt in tijuana, mexico. an nbc news crew reports many migrants are growing discouraged about the chances of entering the u.s. and they say they ar shaken up by what happened sunday. when bored heges fired tear gas at migrants rushing the board. roehly 100 peo were deported after that clash and at l 8st others have volunteered to go home. thousands more are trying to decide what to do next. d.c. detectives say they have identified the two men seen

jumping the metro fair gates after allegedly attacking a blind passenger on a red line trai police are seeinging arrest mark segraves has our update. >> it was just about the peak of monday morning rsh hour. a blind man with his service dog boarded. these are the two suspects seen jumping the tolgates. metro police say they have identified these two suspects and are seeking arrest warrant and hope to have them in custody, soon. it has left some with concerns. >> we need more police officers and p metroice to be mindful and around when these things happen. >> as they boarded the train, he inadvertently bumped into one of the suspects.

she was able to call police. w itept on for several station stops when the train reached union station,he two menot off and ran away. >> nobody was seriously hu. police say if you know these two suspects or if you were thereng duhe incidents, they want to hear from you. a costly mistake. man ne letter cost a hundreds of dollars when purchasing airline tickets. what you can do toeep it from happening to you. hold on to your hat. rrow. picks up to a pro fooasall player

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we're telling people to hang on to their hats. they gave them out for the olympics. when am i going to wear that? as we talk about tomorrow, it will be a very windy day with gusts up to 45-mile-anour. we're going to be in storm team 4 weather alert modeor wednesday. chuck will be in tomorrow avrning updating the forecast and we'll the latest on wtop radio as well. it is still dry but we're still talking with the winds.il

itbe breezy out there. still going to noticing the breezy conditions for thursday. when the winds finally relax, the rain moves in. maybe a shower or two friday. right now, rain is looking likely especiallyeched half of saturday. currently, it is cold out there. this is what we wake upmo to ow morning at 6:00 a.m. we'll have windchill temperatures in the teens out there tomorrow morning. and the w howlingds woke you up earlier, probably going to be the case a in tomorrowmorning. even a little bit stronger.dc the wll in leesburg, right around 18, washington, it had feel about 19 degrees.

we'll have the windchilles temperatround 30, with a high of around 43 degrees. that's more common in january. i'm goingo have more on the weekend forecast around 6:50. >> another rainy saturday! >> i know! >> we're staying on top of the breaking news after a mistake triggered fear inside walter reed. a closer look at what went wrong after reporn of a active shooter. how local leaders are cracking downfter a recent increase in hate crimes. >> tonight, the changes

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yesterday. randall francis was a high school valedictorian and has recently worked as model and photographer. his family said it may fave steamem a dispute over a young woman. i think the fourth homicide ong benninoad in three months. and an inmate was killed and three others injured as they were working along t highway. incidents of hate crimes are growingcross northern virginia. >> but community leaders are fighting back. the message interfaith groups must stick together and stay vigilant. >> swastikas. kkk recruitment fliers left in driveways. a deadly rampage after a unite the righty. ra hate crime on the rise in virginia and fairfax county.

the number of cases, up by about 50% last year. >> the hate is turning violent too frequentory. >> that's thy attorney general is huddling with community leaders in a series of roundtables to get feedback how tote strengthen sta law to more aggressively go after those committing bias crimes. >> hate crimes are designed to put fearn the entire community. >> a different location, same topic as the police chief updated the board ofso super on how his department is encouraging reporting. someone who knows well how it can impact. his twice in the last 18 months with vandalism. the most recent incident just days before someone fired on a synagogue. >> it makes us feel like spray paints the tim of the iceberg.

> he said it is the cumulativ effect. for him, spotting a gym bag sets off alarm bells. >> what sms like an innocent thing can be terrifying. >> still, he takes heart in the way they're pushingack against neo-nazis and others >> we have to work through this. live our lives and ten to do wh we think is right and reach t to our fello citins. the ohio man was charged with killing heather haayer. slowly ection is going but he expects the trial to start tomorrow. the northernirginia chi julie carey will be reporting

from charlottesville. watch for her reports starting tomorrow on news4. there are questions whether the national archives broke the rules to host a wedding for a media power coup. they got married after thebu ding closed for the evening. elijah couples officiated. it was small and top secret. tom sherwood reports that use al regulations bar the of the rotunda for private events. the policy is being reconsidered now. the nationalat archives foun said the facility will begin accepting other wedding inquiries subject to strict rules. new to a potential situation, a drug that can be used. it is based on genetic mutation

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>> advertisemenow have n started. >> i get sic of them going forward. so you're here on the bus minding your own business when an advertisement comes over the loud speaker. is it annoying or justified? >>he rider on the fence with these newads. >> i think it is kind of weird. it is like a public good and stuff like that. >> but others see no harmful he just hopes the ads are useful. >> i think it will be important. >> the companyelping freeway ads say on a 45-minute bus rides, ads will 9ay about to 120 seconds. that's shorter than singi the baby shark song. and these ads can be geo target. meaning they're triggered when a

bus passes a certain location. for example you might hear an ad for a stose by. the payoff is notinsignificant. it is worth $250,000 a year. news4. i'm thinking head phones. the company that does provide these ads 38 save been successful in with a dozen other markets. we're forkr for you money on a typohat cou cost you thousands of dollars. gene booke a multileg airline ticket using two airlines. he caught a typo that he made. he found he left an h out of his

daughter's name. he called b expediaut no one could help him. them the only solution was to by a new ticket for $1,400. >> my feeling is it robbery, not fair, it is a mistake. >> so is a ticket typo impossible to fix? nbc 4 responds called several airlines to find out. they all said they do correct typos for free but that's not always possible when consumers book through third party sites. they said i you're booking an overseas flight, consider buying through the airline and always double-check your elng? i have to do that every day. a story of hope and alg. here's a look.

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definitely wanto have the puffy coat handy. around 20 on 30 miles an hour. tomorrow we'll be tracking gusts up to 45 miles an hour. so really goingot toe that increase in winds. the winds had pick back up arnd 6:00 a.m. feeling with 31 in washington. 25 in gaithersburg and about 20 degrees in winchester. a if you clouds out there and partly sunny skies tomorrow. we're waking up to 30 in washington and 20 in the suburbs. windy from start to finish. so it will feel like upper 20s and only about 30 degrees when we hit our hig of 43.mo ow it's blustery.

saturday is looking like the better of the two days. 64 on sunday. rain does look to move in by the midday hours. and then rain is looking likely. ysnday is by far the better of the two weekend monday and tuesday, if we get all this rain, we're going to be the wettest year on record. >> thanks. coming up, the latest on the redskins controversial edition today. today. ne, how thext t

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