involved in the ethiopian airlines crash three days ago. >> now,oeing just issued a statement moments ago saying it made the recommendation to the a out of an abundance of caution and in order to reassure the flying public of the aircraft's safety. our transportation reporter am tuss joins us live from reagan flalgs airport. you were the as a plane turned around on the runway today. >> reporter: unbelievable, jim and we thought that plane would be allowed to take off. but it had actually pushed off from the g te andn that administration orlder came down from president trump and the plane had to turn arnd. were there as the plane did that u-turn on the runway. it had just landed from dallas. the planeho got off from dallas said the pilot was making it very clear this was one of the 737 max 8 airplanes and that the pilot felt it was completely safe to fly.

it boarded, it pushed back and actually taxied out to the runway, then had to turn back around. and then, ye u we caught with the passengers who thought they were headed down to florida and instead are looking at rebooking flights and what they can do to get back on their way. take a listen. >> my mom isactually, she just got me a flight and i've got to go catch aplane. >> i'd like to go home, but it's okay. i understand it's going to b hard to get another flight. >> not as much as the kids who were going to disneyland. they areery upset and crying. but that's okay. >> reporter: yeah, that plane was headed towards orlando so a lot of kids not getting to go to disney world. this ishe m tap73t7 max 8s are still in the air right nst. handful. and if you were to see this same screenshot yesterday, there would be dozens and dozens of these planes above the united states. compare yesterday to today, sof

allhem being grounded. once they do land and complete rethese flights the supposed to be grounded for the duration ttil they get a safety check. and all ofs happening with the president's order after became yetier today the latest nation to ground the 737 max 8s and 9 after it was learned there was some more information coming out of that ethiopia crash thatd k o ionfess that's what we're hearing now on the backside of things. there may betiome corre between the ethiopia crash and the indonesia crash. again a of those, both of those starting to look like they may have had some similarities. and that is why you saw the action today from canada and from the trump administration. we have about 70 of those types of airplanes that usually operate here in the u.s. >> the u.s. joining what is now a global ban along 40 othern countries this. southwest says it is offering

flexible booking for passengers who were supposed to fly on that. united says it's automatically going to be swapping air crafts and passengers don't have to do anything special. stay with news 4. we're going to have updates throughout the evening. now to new legal concernsor tonighthe president's former campaign chairman. even before the dust had settled from his second sentencing. and the biguestion is not whether paul manafort will get a pardon from president trump. a federal judge end.c. sentenced manafort to 43 months. that's on top ofnthe 47 he received last week. right after that came down brand new charges announced against manafort this afternoon. leon? >> well, jim, this new case filed by the district attorney n in york, a 16 count indictment with the state supreme court, and that means it falls outside of the potential pardoning p t view ofhe president. this indictment filed last

thursday, actually, nid become public until after today'searing. it's related to yearlongio investigat involving alleged real estate and busines crimes in new yor the manhattan da accusin manafort and others to falsifying records to illegally obtain millions of dollars. a senior official tells nbc news if convicted on the top count manafort could face-up to 25 years. those charges announced l than an hour after manafort's d.c. sentencing where he apologized for, quote, all of the activities that have gotten us here today. but judge amy berman jackson said it was, quote, har to overstate the number of lies, amount of fraud and the extraordinary amount of money involved. and furth she also focused on what we've been hearing from manafort's attney stating this, the no collusion mantra is simply a non sequitur. w, before this week ends we could see additional updates on

other individuals in the esident's orbit. a status update for and a sentencing status forr roge stone's associate rick gates due to come soon. ar if yostill not able to open your fis book or get your posts out on your instagram accounts facebook says it knows and worki on it. in an e-mail to news 4 facebook says it will resolve this issue as soon as it can and says the outage is not related to a cyber attack. >>l house actress lori loughlin is scheduled trtappear in chis hour in connection to that federal probe involving alleged c admissions cheating. she and 49 others indicted an alleged scheme that accuses wealthy parents of paying millions in bribes to secure their kids spots in highly selective schools. on capitol hill today lawmakers outraged over the investigation.

we heard from some during the house hearing on the cost of college and financial reforms. >> the realitysf this maddening and inflammatory. >> can you scream and heave at the same time? i mean, it's the most disgustin thing. >> federal investigators say there could be additional arrests. at this point no students have been charged. back close to home tonight, terrifyies for residents in a neighborhood in brookland. take a look at this video. home surveillance here shows cameras capturing a running gun battle over the weekend. the residents here ducking forh cover in homes. some tell us it felt like a zone. news 4's meghan fitzgerald has reaction tonight from residents in a neighborhood on edge. >> just to give you an idea of how concerned some neighbors are for their safety around here, take a look at this house. you'll note they have cameras up everywhere. there' even a sign telling you

it's under surveillance. over here at the corner of this window another one. the idea here is to capture crimes. and on saturda evening it did just that. >> i came from my garage, returning from the store, walked through to the steps.n >> reporter:aturday evening just after 6:00 cecilia ford was walking up her back steps. as you can see on her video,ea when she gunfire. it happened steps away from her home, and the entire scene was captured on her surveillance cameras in the front of house. you can see several suspecters with their heads covered opening and returning fire in the middle of newton street. >> pow, pow, pow. come through the door, mom, mom. she's in the dining room down o her knees. are you all right, mom, yeah, i'm all right. stay down, stay down. >> reporter: some neighbors say it felt like a war zone. this family just moved in two weeks ago and they had a bullet andged in their front door. this woman didn't to appear

on camera. >> i actually feel something hit the house, and then the lights epflickered. >>ter: if you watch the video again you can see at least one of those bullets hit a power line causing the wires to spark. >> it was fear. like, i started -- my first reaction was to start crying right away. i was just in shock. >> reporter: that's how a lot of neighbds feel aro here especially since police haven't made an arrerf. they're f of what could happen next. that's why ford says her are always rolling. >> it's just fortunate and the grace of god we have not been hit yet. >> unbelievable scene, right in broad daylight. d.c. police want to hear from anyone who witnessed that shooting. erika? >>hi we told you earlier month about a group of burglars who had tried and failed twice to steal atms from area sto as. but polic now looking into the possibility those same guys may have managed to pull off the theft at a few locations in the

dmv. a couple of pretty unforgettable scenes, eppat? >>ter: erika, i thought i'd never see these guys again. i mean, after all they were like 0 for february when i came to atm thefts, but now it appears they're back in business. t .ns time -- this time it's paying o remember the three guys who bungled that atm robbery last month at a 7-eleven in montgomery county? the one where the g away driver left the suspects behind on the scene? the one where the atm fell on one of the suspects? well, police believe the three thieves are bk at work again. but this time with more success. they say this morning they used a stolen pickup to smash through the glass at a 7 leven and

there they made off with the atm. and police sources say the suspects are good for two more atm thefts atel ens, one in baltimore and another in d.c. no fumbling, no bumbling this time. pickup in, atmout, suspects gone. well, just like they may have planned it. so what do the thieves do once ey have t atms, once they've made their get away, once they'vextracted the money from the machines? they take them to a desolee plike the site of the old landover mall. it was here police say they found three atms on fire along with a stolen pickup truck. here the atm buria ground. so now police from four jurisdictions o to find these g crash anb atm bandits.

so coming up at 60 we'll hear from police, and we'll take a close look at some telltale evidence. >> we'll look forward to it. pat, thank you. it a has been football free agent frenzy since monday. minute by minute news about nfl stars and their new teams. but today's big redskins news is ro.cm who's staying here i d es.vejo d k g with more on the skins bnging back aiderage peterson. a lot of folks excited about th >> in running back years p33 is supposed to be old but not for mr. peterson. he was cly in eight place but could be much higher by the end of his redskinse tenure. deal, two years, $8te million.

rson had an incident year in his fir d.c., rushing for over,000 yards. the first time he'd done that since 2015. he even earned a couple of votes for nfl come back player of the year. peterson will be looked at to mentor darius guice who lost his entire rookie season last year due to injury. so the skins should be in good shape in the backfiel'l explain coming up in sports in the next hour. >> that's good to hear. gary, thanks so much. video of a maryland man jumping onto a pelican in florida, it goes while some folks reacted by laughing it has resulted in a nightmare for a locall business. wehow you how. plus new hope for people who struggle with high cholesterol but can't take traditional drugs. joining us to explain the new drug on the market. and it seems there's no escape for robo calls. they're comin in record numbers.

r susan hogan on the line to take a look what's being done to stop them. stay withus. and i'm still tracking this monster of a storm. it almost looks like a hurricane. this storm will move our way. i'll show youow it h

well, cholesterol is a cornerstone ofood heart health, and tonight there may be good help for peopleho can't take traditional stattens. those drugs sometimes have se effects, muscle and joint pain. if approved this new drug could fer them some good relief. dr. john torres joins us live rom new york to explain. so dr.torres, what is this new drug, and how does it compare te other cerol drugs currently out there? >> and jim, the new drug hasn't been givene a commercial n yet, but the company anticipates it's going to be releasing it

and what the studies have shone this works great for people who either can't take stanton med agdss or only low levels of stanton medications. there's overon 100 mileople in the u.s. with high cholesterol. and as you mentioned higro choles drives the risk of heart attack and strokes higher asell. 10% to 15% of americans can't ke the stanton medicatio because of side effects. the main one being muscle pain. what they fod in the study if they could reduce the stanton medication dose down to where they're not getting the pai and add this acid or if they took it itself it would reduce the cholesterol down to 18%. so they're saying this combination of the two can really get the cholesterol down an avoid those side effects avoiding that risk of heart attacks or strokes from high cholesterol. >> so people with high chesterol, what is their next step? should they be talking to their doctor about this? >> their next step is to

definitely give their doctor a talk about this. these dferent types of stanton medications, it's a wonderful drug to lower your cholesterol and it's proven to be lifesaving. if they're on that medication they can stay on that medication if they're not having any proble. but if they're not talk about something like this. it can definitely help. this one it's $9 t $10 a day for the pill versus other ones w >> andre do we stand on fda approval on this drug?he >> so company expects fda approval to happen in the first part of so over the next nine or ten months i think you'll see it approved and then it'll get it's official name and out on the marketplace. and at that point i think doctors will say let's look at prescribing this for you. >> possible relief forou millio

there. dr. john torres, thanks so much. nightly news with lester holt e will have morn the drug and what it means for you. tonight right here at7:00. the fda has proposed new rules whe comes to those fruity flavored e-cigarettes. under this proposal the flavored e-cigarettes would only be sold at retailers awe ites that imposed restrictions. so flavored cigars would also be oubject to the new changes. the changes not apply to the flavors of menthol, mint and tobacco. well, it's an epidemic in our nation right now. we're talking robo calls. they are coming in record numbers. not only are they annoying, but any put you at risk of being scammed. >> right, and tonight we're taking a closer look a these calls are impacting o region and more importantly, what is being done to stop them. susan hogan working for you with

the details. >> it is especially frustrating because there is only so much you can do to stop these annoying calls. according to robo killer, an apo designed intercept these calls americans received near 53 billion phone calls from robo callers, tell marketers and scammers last year alone. that is up from near 36 billion in 2017. and check out these numbers from last month. there were 206 million spam calls in the d.c. region alone. that's an avera of 31 per person. i can believe that. but there is a new effort to crack down on these calls. congress is consideriew legislation now known as the trac it would actually ruire phone carriers to implement technology to identify who's behind had robo calls. this would give the fcc as well as feral and state law enforcement the tools they nee to crack down on the illegal callers. until then, though, you can use apps like robo killer to try to cut down on the number of these

unwanted calls you receive. but theyon't work 100% of the time. so you still need to be on high alert for potential scams. we get these all the time. i used to liv in rhode island 401 calls , so i get all the time. don't pick up, because once you pick up they kw it's live call and live number and they're going to keep ongoing. >> i thinkse i'm sup to be in jail because i haven't paid taxes in decades and -- a localge has a new way to increase the safety of s students on campus but it doesn't come without some concerns. why some say this effort puts their privacy atrisk. plus a massive storm impacting millions of people in a half-dozen states. doug with more

all right, doug joining us on this wednesday evening. 59 degrees. so nice. we've had plenty of sunshine thl last cof days and we'll continue to see a little bit more of it. >>e w my pink shirt and my tie with the nice little flowers on it. >> very spring-like. >> i mean temperatures today 59, so tomorrow we get to

i think some areas you could be into the low 70s tomorrow, and it all has to do with that monster storm out west. but first up take a look outside. a pretty good shot there. g ine got more clouds mov as a result of that system off to thend west. out of the south at 10 miles an hour. and winds out of the south means we're starting to see warmer air move in here. and 63 right now in fredericksburg. sorry you folks right along the water 50 over towards huntingtown, but away from the water 61 51leesburg, ann fredrix. really some nice weather there. tomorrow even better. partly sunny and nice and warm. a really great day across our region tomorrow thanks to this monster storm to the west. again, you can see the clouds coming on int here. here's the storm. and this storm is just incredible. dodge city, kansas, right here

has now recorded its strongest storm of all-time in that area. it's the lowest pressure of all-time. we have numerous records as far as winds are concerned around the denver, colado are colorado springs, 97 mile an hour winds. myrother just texted me and said please tell me this is over you've got another 12 hours to go before this storm system starts to pull away. as it does pull away take aook at this map from denver towards canada back to the northwest, wind a major concern here. blizzard warnings in the orange he. wind advisories all the way to the east, but here's the good news. this storm system moves to the north and east and ds not come our way directly, so we're only going to get some aects on friday. watch how we see it move across

st. louis and memphis. this could mean severe weather n tonigrht. more severe weather possible for this line early afternoon. but ahead of this, nice and warm out ahead of this. nice and warmouthwest wind before the front moves friday, saturday still back to the west. so we're still on the warm side. that's why i think we get to the 70s on friday afterno and even friday around 5:00. not much in the way o rain. wups again most of your friday looking dry. still a 7 chance of showers both in the morning and afternoon. 71 on friday. behind this storm we get cooler but not cold. 52 on sunday. of course sunday is st. patcks day. it will be breezy and cool for the weekend.g and stayin the cool side just about all next week. continuing coverage tonight of one of today's biggestst ories. up next nbc's ken dilanian joins us to break down these today.

plus caught on camera, a mother poisoning her disabled son. today she pleads guilty. find out whyhe says she did it. campus safety. there's an app for that. i'm d idcolver. just ahead i'll show you the new features they're now using to keep>>

at 5:30 we are staying on b top ofaking news. that same type of boeing jet that crashed killing 157 people on sunday is being dwrounlded across the united states. er>> that emergency ord happened so recently some of those flights are stillp in the sky. others are turning around on runways. ai are trying to rebook people as a quicklys possible. our transportation reporter adam tuss is working this story. some sad breaking news in local politics. former maryld governor harry hughes has died. he served from 1979 to 1987. he took the office after scandals involving his two predecessors. the current governor larry hogan issued a statement maryland, quote, will give him the celebration of life he truly

deserved. hughes was 92 years old. tonight a fairfax county mother admits she injected her own blood into her ilsabled as he lay in a hospital bed triggering a health crisis. bu we're learning for the first time now why she said she did it. in a story you'll only see on ws 4 our northern virgini bureau chief the new details that emerged in court toda >> reporter: elizabeth malone behind bars since laswh spring hidden cameras at a fairfax hospital captured her injecting her 5-year-old disabled son trigger aglife threatening emergency. of ourt today the mother three pleading guilty to one count of child abuse. her defense attorney telling the judge, quote, she denies any intention to harm her child. she loves her child like any mother. malone had recently moved from texas to fairfax county. her attorneys say when malone's son who'sunable to speak was

hospitalized she bece frustrated with what she believes was a lack of care and concern. attorneys say she injected her son with her own t blood get more of aedical response. prosecutors say the injections left the child with infections and high fevers. then during an april 2018 hospitalization when a nurseot d a syringe hidden in malone's shirtsleeve and a bloody napkin in the bathroom a decision was made to install a camera. that video played in court. it shows malone's son lying motionless in bed. she can be seen usingyringe to inject it into the tube. once pedice wat that video millenn wasn s under arrest. since malone has beenl in j her little boy's condition has improved so much he's even been able to go to school. coming up we'll show you much

more of that hidde camera video. >> just so disturbing. elizabeth malone, by the way, will be sentenced in july. erika? >> students from and throughout our area are expected to lve class tomorrow morning and march to the white house. they'll be protesting gun violence. you may remember many students did the same thing last year after the mass shooting in parkland, florida. parents might want to check school policies during the walk out to make sure their child stays safe and doesn't get an unexcused absence. it's designed to keep students safe, an app that trts them on college campuses. why they're now using the app s even ase students are raising privacy concerns. our northern virginiar repor david colver has the story tonight from fairfax. >> reporter: all for new logy especially if it means making his campus more

secure. >> i think it'll make people more safe, you know? >> reporter: would younl dd it? >> yeah, i would download it. >> reporter: he's referring to the rave guardian app now used by the university. on the rave website they promote the app for schools orza orgaons designed to help save university and staff communicate more effectively sharing potentially lifesavg information. >> they can submit tips either silent or anonymous. reporter: the mobile apps can even alert police to your exact location on campus. they used to have thoselue light phones you could simply hit if there was an emergency. we notice heren campus they no longer exist. we're told they werese rarely and were seen as a dated way to alert police. >> this application provides virtually a blue light phone in your pocket. it's available tohe youver you might need it. >> reporter: but students worry who has access to that tracking information. >> i would just like to know where that information is going, what they're doing with the data

an that. >> reporter: the executive director of safety and emergenca gement stresses data is secure, adding that students can choose what ftures they opt into or out of. >> you can provide as much or as little information about yourself or in the app. and the your location services to track almost have to always be od anost people don't do that. >> if they're not selling your data for i don't know some kind of marketing thing. >> reporter: the university trying to adapt to a new generation, putting safety in the palm of their hands. president trump's controversial pitch to replace brett kavanaugh will take a seat on the bench of the d.c. circuit court of appeals. naomi had faced scrutiny over previous writings in her unrgrad years related to rape. but today the senate confirmed

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ol. at least 40 children were pulled out alive but ten others did not survive. many are still trapped.e cause of the collapse is not known. but nigeria sees a lot of them because of poor construction materials and less enforcement of regulations. states in the midwest now bearing the brunt of powerful storm out there. doug's back with a look how it could.mpact plus for days people have been sounding off on video that shows a maryland man jumping on a pelican. up next how

leon harris here at the live desk in the newsroom where we're watching some breaking news. tu're getting some live ps in on chopper 4. trains on the blue and silver lines ar -- an injured balday

eagleg what looks like the third rail there. animal control rescue crews now are being sent to the scene there to try to find a way to manage this anima and get this animal out of the way. we understand there are delays flow o the lines in both directions. this is again the blue and silver line in between the morgan and addison road station. as we're watching this set of e' tracks, been watching train traffic actually proceeding on that adjacent set of tracks. the manmal has not been moving very much, but this has bn goin on for nearly half an hour or so now. we will definitely keep ourye on it and let you know how it ays out. >> a lot of eyes on that one eagle. a shocking encouer caught camera. a maryland man jumping off of a dock down in floanda andng onto a pelican. th viral video is sparking outrage this evening and even charges for the man.

but he's not the only one facing backlash tonight as news 4's chris gordon reports a local business isss now in the c hairs. >>eporter: 31-year-old's hunter's facebook page says he works at jvw electric, but they say he's never worked here and they say reacto his video is a nightmare for them. >> and people were just saying hateful things, i don't even want to repeat, because they th wk we're associateh this man. >> you're --. >> n >> reporter: they've gotten a slew of negative reviews on facebook, yelp and other social media. the critical comments are now being taken down. we don'trt this. we're trying to clear ourame. we've donate today the wildlife foundation in key west, florida, to show we don't agree with this behavior. >> reporter: i spoke to rickra msey who says the video shows

him at a dock at a key west marina jumping on ane urd bird grabbing the pelican. he's charged with animal cruelty and molesting a protected species. >> it's terrible to seepeow this on jumped on this animal, treated this animal, and we're not going to tolerate that here. >> reporter: his father tells ms receiving threatening phone calls since the video of his son wasposted. >> i'm getting life threats. >> reporter: his father says if there is a warrant in this case for his son he will drive his son to flori to turn himself in. he says his son is a fisherman and w dld never anything to hurt a pelican. >> w, theheriff in key west, florida, says more charges could be filed against hunter harvesty. ahead on new 4 at 6:00 tonight

we'll show you pictures of him investigators are examining to make that decisions >> and chris mentioned the negative reviews have now been removed. they were taken down hours after reporter susan hogantepped in help. we contacted both yelp and google and we pointed out to em that the reviews of this company directly violated their own policies, specifically on content. the negative reviews had nothing to do with customer experience. instead they were fueled by that viral so just a few hours after we reached out to them yelp and google took the reviews down. yelp tells us reviews are required to describe airhand customer experience, not what someone read in the news or on social media they also say the site is not thela for rants about a business' employment practices either. businesses can flag reviews posted on their pages and ask sites like yelp and google to take them down.

but thesprocess,ou saw, with that company c take days. back to you. >> all right, susan, thank you. you could soon have a faster wireless phone service if you're willing to pay more. verizon says the 5g network will cost you an extra $10 a month. it will be available next month. the offer is available only on unmited plans. on family plans each 5g line would be an extra $10. w now servil start in parts of chicago and indnnapolis. veri expects to have 5g in 30 cities this year. at&t a t mobile plan to offer the service as well. look at these planes here, flipped over and tossed around whereis is the airport winds blew through that area more than 80 miles an hour. s fort n at the dal

worth, airport, they ripped the roof off ogo a c building. the storm damaged homes and left thousands of people without wer. and look at this damage from dallas. a roof ripped off of a housech the high wind alson brought d a number of trees like this one that landed onto a home. at a town a nearby woman was also leaving this mobile home when winds turned it over on her car. she was taken to the hospital but is expected to pea okay. and just hourser ear that that same system spawned a tornado as it went through new mexico. this video is from the haguman ar just south of roswell. veral homes are damaged and injuries are reported there. so we are talking about this storm system out west, and so we put negative connotation with it, but this is actually helping improve the conditions in our

area. this is experiencing really bad weather, just incredible bad weather across much of the countrs, but, for us this is actually a good thing. but look what happened. tod esmerous roads shutdown. i have seen cra and numerous trees down. winds there gusting over 80 and 90 miles an hour. it is just incredible how strung this storm system is and continues to move towards theai . take a look at the radar picture. it came through dallas earlier and came through new mexico last night with those toorpds, and now it's all about the area of low pressure and this is w the arre seeing the strongest winds and the blizzard warnings including areasike denver and colorado springs. this storm system making its way towards the north and east but look how mh of the country is being affected by this storm. you've got high wind warnings

re in the orange. the deep reds here, this is blizzard warning from denver all the way towards the canadian coast. high wind watches, winter srm warnings. i mean just incredible. nearly 80% of the flight canceled in denver. they should just cancel that airport becse driving to and from that region just nasty as well. however, because the storm goes so far north and west of us g w are onlng to get on the tail end of this. and amelia, the tail end not too bad for us and actually gives uh some nice w tomorrow and maybe most of friday. >> yeah, absolutely, doug. we were just talking ability how our friday is looking mainly dry out there. and yeah, it's going to feel very much like spring even rmer than today. here's it storm system as we continue to move into the overnightnd eveningours. it does advance towards the ut east, b you can see just some meager showers as the main system starts to push up towards the north. this is tomorrow afternoon. we thent head friday morning

at 5:00 a.m. so ahead of this system we're going to get southerly winds that's oing to pump that warm air into our area for tomorrow and friday as well. maybe a shower backhe along mountains friday morning but most of us looking dry through the middayrs h for the afternoon and evening hours, though, some scattered showers out ther maybe a rumble of thunder. 57 degrees to start off the day, so already comfortable out there. high of 71 on friday. again, maybe a shower out there ngduring the mornd midday hours, but it's really later in the day on iliday. we have some scattered showers with maybe a rumble of thunder. friday nightng out, 68 degrees at 7:00 p.m., as the storm aystem clears oura for the weekend. we're cooler but completely dry both days. we4 ave saturday with breezy winds. 52 on sunday, soel it's defin feeling cooler, but, doug, we trade that off for a drywe end. also this weekend st. patrick's

day. that's why all the clovers are behind me on this graphic. >> on the cooler side nice and mild here with that thunder chance. and breezy conditions. 20, 30 mile an hour winds on saturday. little less of a breeze sunday and we stay cool. average high temperature next week to 56. f we'llally get there next thursday and friday, but that's about it. so get ready for som cool weather. my wife asked me today can we oat away the winter coats, the ski c. yes, you can. keep out the jackets, though. you may need ose. all right, good to know. coming up one of music's power couples is set to receive a special honor this evening here in washington. >> they'll be presented with a ize at the special concert event. the award is an award fro congress it honors lifetime

achievement and promoting music to enhance cultural understandin they are the first married couple and first latinos to receive the ar >> good for them. they both have big hearts, too. >> yes, they do. all right, one of the oldest artifacts in yemaryland. >>, a piece of history lost and only recently found. mark seagraves on the story of a 40year-old cross andts return to its rightful place. ng plus we are kee an eye on that bald eagle drama. not in a nest. this one o playing not far from fedex field. blue and silver line trains blue and silver line trains because of a bald eagle

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and finally an iron cross nearly o 400 yea arrived ipst. mary's county with the first settlers. >> it's one of the oldest artifacts in the state and history at theatholic church in fact. >> mark seagraves tells us how a priest literally stumbled over the cross and now plans to take it back to where it first came >> rep much of the history tefrom. of this cross remains a mystery.

it arrived march 25, 1634 with some of thesh first eng settlers and jesuits. the cross tn made its way to st. francis xavier urch. in 1862 an inscription in latin was added tohe cross and then it was lost to history until father murphy found it in 1989. there he saw replica of the cross on a plaque saying that the original crosst is georgetown university. >> and that's when mys curiosit aroused. i never saw a cross like this at georgetown. whe could it be, wonder. >> reporter: father murphy asked everyone on campus. even the archivest didn't know about the cross. but one day the priest was rooting around in a storage room beneath the south tower at healey hall. >> and i only got so far when i

tripped and fell on my face and there it was. >> reporter: murphy had literally stumbled over one of the university's oldest relics. >> it may have been sitting there for over 100 years. >> reporter: this weekend the cross is coming .do on monday march 25, 2019, father murphy will take the cross back to st. clemmants island where another catholic priest first walked to sho with the cross 385 years ago to the tday. >> andre i am holding it in my hand and walking back with it to where it came from. that kind of an experience is , veery hard. you don't want me crying. >> reporter: mark seagves, news >> just incredible. >> the return of the cross will be part of the a day celebration at st. clemons island museum on mend. >> it's open to the public and ou have all the informatio need on our nbc washington app. just search iron cross.

news 4 at:00 starts right now. two big stories breaking now at:00. first, grounded. >> an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights. >> the faa ste a iner sunday's deadly crash in ethiopia. the u.s. theast to act. news 4 cameras flight turning bab to the gate when the word came down. >> are you sad, frustrated? >> not as much of the kids who are going to disneyland. plu indicted again. former trump campaign chair paul manafort sentenced for federal crimes for the sn ond time week. just minutes after a federal judge finishes speaking new a rge that could sidestep presidential pardon. tonight airlines are hustling to rebook passengers now that the faa has grounded all boein 737 max 8 jets. >> this is the same model plane

involved in that deadly ethiopian airlines crash days ago and another last fall. >> the planes weren grounded in the u.s. until this afternoon when the president says hemeot new information. chopper 4 captured planes getting moved away from the gate. >> our transportation reporter adam tuss joins us nowrom reagan national. he was there one one of these planes got turned back when passengers had boarded. d that plane was just about to hit the runway, right?er >> reporter: lly we hought it was going to take off, and that districtive came down from the president and you saw that plane turn right back around and head back to the gate. passengers onboard tha plane scrambling to rebook flights, figuring out what they're going to do next. and all of this coming after what was really one directive.ed safety turned around and headed back. passengers who thought they were leaving reagan national