news 4 at 11:00 begins with breaking news. and we begin tonight with a stunning murder mystery. od evening, i'm erica gonzalez. >> and i'm leon harris. a well-known member of the.c. community shot to death and nearly 24 hours later policl are st trying to figure out who

shot him and where. p the victim and his father were at of a news 4 interview just last year. and it got a lot of reaction about life after prison. news 4's jackie bensen has their story. >> s i meetmany people that are in a position to even help me succeed in life becse they already met my father prior to that, so they know the blood linend they know the dedication that we have to helping the community. >> reporter: this is not how it was supposed t end. on father's day last year, news 4 viewers heard the inspiring story of eric weaver and his son eric jr mirror images of each other, yet it was their first's fathay together. eric jr. was born after his father, then 18 years old, went to prison. tw decades behindars for his involvement in a dispute over street drug turf in southeastha washington resulted in a homicide. by the time ericle sr.

prison, his son was behind bars. ut i waited so many years to actually be here with him. >> reporter: less than a year after that interview, eric jr. is gone. just after midnight he was dropped off at prince george's hospital center, dying from a gun shot wound. the person who brought him there fled. police don't even know where the shooting happened. >> it's a total shock. >> reporter: tina johnson is eric jr.'s maternal aunt. she says her sister is too devastated to speak about the loss of her son, but the family wahe world to know about his efforts to move forward in the rig>> way. you have those surreal moments like, i'm never going to see him again. i'm ner going to hear his voice again, you know, and it hurts, it hurts. >> reporter: i spoke to eric weaver sr. by phone. he told me i don't know how i'm

going to get throughs. jackie bensen, news 4. a group of high school students in bethesda are opening up for the first time about being targets of some very public judgement by their classmates. last week we told you a group of boys were punished for ranking girls by their looks at bethesda chevy chase high school. the list of 18 girls was spread all over social media and they're telling the "today" show's morgan radford it's the ultimate betrayal. >> i did not want to see the list when i first heard about it, didn't want to believe i was included on t list, but as the day progressed it became thef talke school and i knew i had to see it in order to have i guess the correct view on the situation, but after seeing the list, nothing was the me. >> tune in tomorrow to hear how these students were inspired by the me too movement and why they are apeaking outinst this kind of sexism in high schools. several d.c. blocks are back

open tonight after a drive-by shooting that had neighborhoods closed off at the height of the evening rush. police now trying to figure out who shot a man on a dirt bike along good hope road in southeast. news 4's shomari stone spoke with nghbors who are extremely shanch shaken up over it tonight. >> reporter: good eveningre d.c. policenvestigating what led up to this shooting. the man who was shot is at a nearby as police gathered information and evidence, crime scene tape stretched adoss good hope r in southeast. at least six shell casings covered the roadway and a dirt bike rest on the sidewalk. police sources tell me according to the preliminary investigation, a 34-year-old man, who we won't identify, was riding the dirt bike on good hope road thisenvening. su someone in a dark colored car opened fire shooting him in the hip. joyce saucier lived nearby. >> the gunfire -- see how nervous i am. i had to come outi here.

ouldn't believe this happened in the daytime in washington, d.c. >> reporter: the man drove t arou corner to 19th place where police found him. neighbors told me he zooms up and down the street. medics drove the man to a spital. he was conscious and breathing. we're waiting for an update on his condition. meanwhile, police urge anyone with information if you saw this shoong call d.c. police. in northwest d.c., i'm shomari stone, news 4. tonight we are hearing from former fbi director james comey er the first t since the end of special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. he sat down for an exclusive lesterew with nbc holt. comey said the summary of the report exposed president trump's liesbout the fbi. as news 4's blayne alexander shows us, comey also expressed surprise at one key conclusion the attorney general's letter. >> reporter: former fbi director james comey i e anlusive

interview with nbc's lester holt speaking out about the findings of special counsel rober mueller's russia investigation that established no criminal collusion between th atrump campai russia. >> were you stunned when you heard that? did you expect it? >> no, i didn't know what answer the speciiv counsel would arr at. i think it's good that he was able to finish the work. >> reporter: cey oversaw the beginning of mueller's investigation before comey was fired by the president nearly tw years ago. soon after president trump told lester this -- >> when i decided to just do it, i said tomyself, i said, you know, this russia thing withru trump ania is a made up story. what did you think when you heard that? >> i thought that's potentially obstruction of justice and i hope somebody is going to look at that. what he appears to be sayings i got rid of this guy to shut down an investigation that threatened me. >> reporter: comey says he is confused abo mueller's reaching no conclusion on the question of obstruction. instead mueller left that

decision up to the president's attorney general. the white house firing back at comey. >> i think c it'sar that director comey's been confused on a lot of things over the lasp of years. >> reporter: comey says ultimately the investigation has been a good thing. >> itd, establis hope to all people no matter on the spraum spectrum, that ths not corrupt, but an honest group of people trying to find out what is >>true. eporter: defending the department he once led. blayne alexander, nbc news, washington. a mistrial today in the case of a man who says he killed a virginia store manager because he thought the victim was werewolf. prosecutors say it was murder. the jury was deadlocke over the case. he viciously slashed and beat bradford jackson to death in old town alexandria last year, but the defense argued he was insane at the time of the attack. prosecutors and the victim's friends didn't buy it.

they'll decide next week whether to retry the case or not. well, tomorrow we'll learn the fate of a man iolved in another high-profile murder case in virginia. darwin martinez-torres will be sentenced for killing a teenager. he's facing life behs.d b prosecutors say he attacked this woman while she was out walking with a group of friends. this happened during ramadan back in6. you may remember the story. he raped and killed her and the case drew nationa and international attention. her loved ones believe she wasse targeted bec of her muslim faith. growing controversy continues after all charges are dropped against jussie smollett. today chicago police released a new police report after a freedom of information request. in it, detectives detail the connection between the actor and the brothers police say he hired to orchestrate a hate crime against. himse cpd says a judge barred them from releasing any additional evidence. today the country's -- excuse me, the county's top prosecutor who recused herself from the

case insists that smollett did not get special treatment in his deal. prosecutors dropped 16 felony counts in return for two days of community service and $10,000 in court fees. >> mr. smollett was afforded t same opportunity that anyone in cook county who had a nonviolent offede and the require background would be able to get. >> reporter: smollett is also cing a federal probeor f allegedly mailing himself a death threat, but tonight nbc news has learned that case is also unraveling and may result in no criminal charges. well, it turns out your environmentally friendly efforts may be backfiring when it comes to recycling in prince william county. the county is putting out new guidelines on certain items like glass. county leadersay the cost of transport and recycle glass has more than doubled the last couple of months. d to that the increased standards from china and india where most recyclables a purchased, all of that makes glass not worth the cost of

recycling, but county officials say most of the items you recycle will be accepted. >> right now if you focus on newspapers, cardboard, aluminum and steel cans and plastic ttles and jugs, it's going to get recycled. >> now you can look for some of these purple bins. that's where you can drop off any glass youo want get recycled. the rules are different depending upon where you live. just search "recycling" in the nbc washington app to learn about the rules where you live relief is finally on the way for drivers who take the bw parkway. potholes have been causing a mess. in a rare move the national park service is launching an emergency repair operation ts weekend. so the parkway's going to be closed southbound between maryland route197 and maryland route 198 from 7:30 in the evening friday night until 5:00 a.m. saturday. the same stretch is going to be closed northbound. that one's going to gorom 7:30 in the evening saturday to 5:00 a.m. on sunday.

nps plans to make what it calls enhanced repairs. >> the application of an adhesive patch tha should last a littleit longer term, be able to be a little bit more durable. >> for the sakca of our , let's hope so. a long-planned repaving project for that stretch has been moved up to mid-april from t fall and repaving work between maryland route 198 and 175, that will start in the summer. >> folks say keepset c as long as you need to. tired of losing wheels and hub cabs. >> tires, that's right. tomorrow is abo oning. a lot of excitement for opening day at nats park tomorrow. the nats face off with their division rival the new york mets to start the season in front of a sold out crowd. first pitch set for 1: p.m., but news 4's going to be getting you ready well before th our coverage starts early tomorrow morning on news 4 today. jim is going to be like at nats park, which is why he's not here right now. he's going tone be j by doug, sherree and julie carry coming

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growth. it's calledlate let rich plasma or prp. >> you have hair loss in your 20s, you can do this. if you have hair loss in your 50s, you could do this. so coming in early is the key.s >> reporter: doctor is a board certified dermatologist at mclean dermatology in mclean, virginia, whod wal us through this cosmetic procedure. first she draw draws blood from patient's arm. >> we draw the blood. we spin the blood. we use the plasma and inject it back in the scalp. calledrter: this machine a centrifuge separates red blood cells from the plasma. repair blood vessels, promote cell growth and stimulate the hair follicles to grow. >> it starts off as peach fuzz and then grows into thick tufts to grow. >> reporter: it showsigh success ratsz among patients with hereditary hair loss or baldness. hair growthll new >> you come in for a series of

treatments one a month and you can go back to work that day, that minute. there is no down time. >> reporter: each treatment costs about $15. she says mt patients need five sessions, which makes this about a $750 investment. most people see hair growthhr after or four treatments and she says the results can last as long as you protect your hair. that avoid coloring it too much and stay away from blow dryers, curling irons and extensions, which can cause breakage. doreen gentzler, news 4. >> you may be getting money back if youff usede depot for computer repair services. the government says they trickeu omers into buying expensive services they didn't need. office depot and support.com agreed to pay a combined $35 million. theederal tradeommission says in 2012 an office depot employee exposed what was happening, saying they won't be part of, quote, lies andricks both companies allegedly used

deceptive practices, making people think they had malware when they didn't. all right. this one's got everybody -- at least around here talking. that's for sure. how do you take your bagel? probably, you know, sliced in half and toasted, right? we , one guy decided to ord his a little differently for his office in d.c. alex g krautma them sliced vertically, okay? heays this is st. louis secret. and it was a hit with his-w kers, believe it or not. the internet, though, thought a little differently aboutt. making a lot of jokes about this decision. it's paying off for this guy. after seeing this tweet, panera reachedo say the next set of bagels are on them. >> i think that's an omination. i have a lot of thoughts on this. are you using this to cut calories? are you a little too cheap to buy like three dozen, so maybe u're like maybe this way will make them stretch. >> somebody at the bakery wa on they had the slicer turned the wrong way.

>> the bagels, you take a serrated knife, you slather it on with cream cheese. everything but the bagel seasoning you have at it. and >> when you cut them open, the flavor comes out justight. if you cut them the wrong way -- i'm making that up, everybody. it's not right. i'm just trying to say it's not right. >> would you be that ithulted if was a donut? >> even more so. >> yes! tha didn't think about >> come on, man. >> i got to do some weather. i tell you, we've got some gream weatherg over the next couple of days here. starting off for theti als' home opener tomorrow looking really good. i'll be down there for that game and down there afterwards, too. first off, outside not nearly as cold as it was last night. many areas last night got down into the teens and 20s. it was frigid last night. not now. 44 degrees, winds out of the key,h and that's the southerly winds at 10 miles an hour bringing up warmer air from the south and not allowing our temperatures to fall.

you need clear skies a calm winds to get the temperatures to fall. we don't have that yet. we have what's called mixing in the atmosphere. 40es degver there towards -- this is all on the no radar -- showing clear skies around the area. all we have to do right now, al cof storm systems. one up towards chicago trying to makes its wayur way. ore clouds us tomorrow afternoon. especially in the day friday and saturday. the big storm this is a nor'easter down to the south. now our nor'easter, again, northeast winds coming our way for a prolonged period of time. same thing for them down in flida. sty weather. big time hail, 40-mile-an-hour winds. not good if youene got f along the eastern seaboard of florida for spring break, it is not going well for them. mine's coming in a couple of weeks. hopefully the weather is a little bit 47 in new york today for a high.

40s. 50s for us. 60s for i highs the middle part of the country. look back to the west, you've got the 70s. so that's what's going to happen. get 60s tomorrow and then the 70s. tomorrow, i'm going a high of 64. increasing clouds, as i mentioned, and warmer temperatures. much warmer than today. our average is above 60 degrees. those of you t headed nats park, looking pretty good as we take on the mets.er scheoing to take on degrom. going to be a good one. 54keegrees. he jacket. i think you need the jacket early. you made need i during the whole game especially if you're on third base line orehind me plate because it is going to be a little cooler there in the shade. in the sun, 64 degrees. come see us, we'll be at the salt line. i've got the big green screen and we're going to be doing weather le from that area. 73 on friday, 75 on saturday.

sun, 59, 70% chance of showe and falling temperatures. we stay cool for the most part of next week. temperatures bel average once again. we get for the 206s next thursday and friday. sports coming up next.

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this is the xfinity sports desk. all right. tomorrow life really officbelly ns here in this town. as of tomorrow -- >> so exciting that baseball is finally back. it is the first day of the 2019 baseball season and already the nationals coming out with chip their shoulder. washington missed the postseason ast year so their goal making deep run. well, that journey starts tomorrow on opening day. >> going into our season feeling like we're a team and ready to e with everybody this is going to be a heck of a race and division to compete in and we look forward to it. >> good things are going to happen. iw i keep saying good things are going tohappen, but i think fans shouldli r we're very excited and all of us realize we could have something special. >> every one of us comes in thinking we've got a chance to win a world series. that's because of e roster they put together every year

here. every year we have the talent. every year it's possible. we'll fin out on thursday where we're at and try to start a run. >> all right. well, you are excited for opening day as this guy. here are four things you need to know about tomorrow. yes. center field gates open at 11:05 a.m., all other 30 minutes later. pregame ceremoniespl including er introductions, a flyover and the national anthem starting at :15. then first pitch for max 1:05.zer is at you're going to want to get there early. nats are giving away a 2019 schedule t-shirt for the first 25,000 fans. going to be a great day. >> nobody's working tomorrow. >> all right. the wizardsap dinting season is on the brink of ending with a loss tonight. they'reliminated from the postseason. tonight game two of a back-to-back against the suns, one of the worst teams in the league. bradley beal and trevor ariza t watching tha video of doug getting his ankles broken from news 4 at one guy getting redemption, jeff green trending on twitter for getting crossed up.

then this, throwing d hn auge slam and then doing that same kind of wiggle mom. green redeeming himself and his teammates on the bench going bonkers. what a play fromreen. final seconds of the first half, wizards down two. jordan mcrae with the ball. kind of gets it a swattedway but gets it back, puts it in at the buzzer. rae ties this game. right now just s third quarter. suns up one. jeff green making up for last night with thatdunk, right? so we want to catch you up. after jeff green put on skates, we went back to the archives. >> leo-- >> anyway. >> he had zlliamson -- >> i got pushed. >> a dunk and redeemed himself. >> look at this. for three. >> behind the arc. >> nba three, baby. that's right. >> see, your ankles were feeling fine. still able to sink those, but -- >> okay. >> see? got my goggles on and everything.

>> you didn't need to do the -- yeah, man, i got some moves out there. lasik.s after that's why i had to have those -- i don't wear them all the time. just letting you know if i'm playing ball. >> who is tha b dude thatke you down? >> i don't know but he's probably laughing at me. ifin you're wat right now, that was a good move. >> he's probably the same guy that slice the bagels. hey, n we know. ow>> [ ding ] show me the crown. [ ding ] show me homecoming. [ ding ] baby sloth videos on youtube. amy, do you, uh, mind giving someone else a turn? oh, yeah i made myself a little comfortable here.

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day tomorrow. >> opening day, 64 degrees. about 60 thee time get off there. take a look at that. >> so pretty. >> just gorgeous. >> that about does it for us. thank you for joining us. you've got jimmy fallon next. so with xfinity mobile

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