now at 11:00. e parents of a murdered teenager spent years fighting for justice. how they cnged stateaw to keep killers from going free.

>> caught on camera the blind an tumbles onto theetro tracks as a train approaches other passengers rsh in to rescue him. >> one of the democrats vying for their parties nomination for thehite house is about to make an early spring sprint through the area. >> welcome to news 4 at eleven. april showers rolling through tonight. ave broughtorms may a rumble of thunder to your neighborhood tonight. here's what we found. people out there scurrying down the street through the drops. forced to improvise. >> it can be tricky. a look at when the showers end. >> tracking that rite now we saw light rain for the most part. some areas of moderate rain earlier this epg.

what we haveext is the areas of heavy rain. this is the last three hours. we have shower activity to the south. appeningment showers coming in. heaviest rain to the west of the city. i'm surprised we got the nationals game in. we did. the heaviest rain. looking at shower activity through southern maryland. back to the west here. tracking this area. this is some wind damage with this storm right here. i'll zoom in. thwi is s you what's happening. heads up around martins burg. this means business. lightning associated with it and but look what's happening for the rest of us. a line right here. this is the cold front moving through the region. it will be with the cold front

over night tonight. i'll take you hour by hour. through saturday and sunday. >> weather may have been a factor on the roads. we have baking newsrom the belt way. chopper 4 just sent back this video of an accident involviic several vs. the maryland route 4 pennsylvania avenue exit at forest and for a while all of the lanes were on the outer loop we closed. you can see from the video, that backed up traffic significantly. a real mess. just a few minutes ago three lanes are open. one is blocked at this time. >> one person has been injured. but expected to recover. >> that's quite a dista there. take a look at this alarming video. it was tuesday morning at the red line medical center setion. passenger who is blind. making his way toward thetrack. he find the edge okay. then something goes wrong. he falls onto the tracks. the man manages to get himself

up right. nearby passengers rush in to help. pulling him back ont the platform just in time. 50 seconds later the next train rooifs at the station. the victim was taken to the hospital. he's going to be okay. that is a close call. >> last summer a visually impaired womanellnto the tracks. she was searching for a door on the 7,000 serietrains. e mistook a gap. and fell onto the tracks. e federal transit administration ordered immediate changes. and then metro switched the rubber bareerers to chains between rars. >> a mothers journey for justice ending. after years of fighting to change maryland law. stacy's law passed. 17 year-old killed in a murder

for hire in 2005. she's spoke the mother tonight about the emotional victory. >> as far as your journey for justice for your daughter. is there anything left or is this the final piece? >> i can rest. >> gail can rest 14 years after her teenage daughter waskilled. she was there when maryland lawmaks passed a bill. it makes solicitation for murder a felony. >> i started crying. i was overwhelmed. this is it. >> she fought for the law. after she learned soliciting to kill is a misdemeanor carrying little jail time in maryland. the suspect was never charged wd solicitation. because the statute of immitations ran out. >> itished my daughters

murder. the fact somebody cld conside a misdemeanor. very hard to see that. >> it's a felony with no limitation and substantial jail time. with the help of delegate smith the bill was sproeuced this year and passed unanimously. >> i hope it send a message. you will go to prison. and you will be held accountable. even though you didn't pull the trigger. >> she has a satisfaction that she did this for stacy. >> she counted. she mattered. and we were able to create something positive out of somethg so negative. >> a surprise turn of event today in the death of an arlington philanthropist. investigated as a homicide. when he died six months ago

officials thought it was from natural causes. now police say the evidence and the report make is a homicide. she died from a combination of smothering, drugsnd alcohol. neighbors are troubled. >> smothering involved plus the drugs. i don't know what to think. maybe it was assisted suicide. hopefully it wast foul play. >> we have no word about suspects butolice emphasize they see no threat to the community. >> some people homes in marylanu could be conion casualties. if i 270 and the belt way are expanded. the governor has been promising noomes would be taken through imminent domain. a stud is saying the opposite. three dozen housesould be moved or removed in silver spring. all theio opt involved adding to lanes.

neighbors whose homes are at risk don't agree on what's best. >> it wouldn't make sense to rush us to go somewhere i else. s easy to say when you are four houses away from the project itself. it's just the way it is. >> it's very early in the process. the state is holding meetings to talk about the proposalsnd the impact. if you'd like to go to meeting sp weigh in. open up the app and search belt way. >> we have a hords up drivers. speed limits are going back up on the park way after t huge potholes were finally repaired. starting tomorro the national park service says it's returning that speed limit to 55 miles per hour. between route 197 and route 32. the park service lowed the speed limit you may recall last mornt because of monster craters. speaking to news 4 this afternoon the newecretary of interior says the park service

needs help. >> we need to work with congress to come up with a better way to manage assets we have and take care of what we have. not just here in the baltimore. it's throughout the resources we have. and people love the park. and we need to up our game a little bit. >> the park service is currently facing $12 billion in backlog maintenance. >> a special session wh the within the next month to pick a reacement for the late speaker michael bush. there are already possible front runners for the position. fromaltimore city. speaker. and davis from prince george county. all liky to thr hats in the ring. county executive made a strong appeal for davis's bed. >> we don't have a single prince

georgen. nor an african .americ it would be his toric of course. and so i can tell you that would be something i would be obviously very supportive. i was prince george county. >> also fair minded and able tl en to both sides. so far the delegate said little ssibly about aossible bid. the late speaker will lie in state at the state house on monday. his fine ral is tuesday morning. >> it may seem early 2020 presidential hopeful beto o'rourke will speak in virginia. likely speaking in several cities. either tuesday-over wednesday. no exactio locn have been announced yet. likely alexandria and prince william. some scary and chaotic moments outsids the white house afternoon. a man in a wheelchair set his jacketn fire.

on pennsylvania avenue. the secret service responded in fire.s and put out the the man was taken to the hospital and is expected to be okay. >> law enforcement says the man has mental health issues and there was never a threat to the president. >> the east coast largest solar power plant will be operating. two yore long debate supervisors approved the plan. to put nearly 2 million solar panels on five square miles of the rural western part of the county. the project will bng hundreds of construction jobs and two dozen full-time jobs to the county. and add millions o of dollars. opponents fear it's too big. and will bringoise and water troubles to the area. >> maryland school unique program earns them an award from espn. >> a huge hon nor for a local school. coming up the honor being given

to the special olympics basketball team. >> later for parts. st using the fisher price rock n play immediately. >> ringing in a very busy weekend. with rain. plan around the showers. >> a look at the traffic and the road. a lot of things happenhe cherry blossom parade 10:00 a.m. saturday. let's take look at what's closed from 3:00 a.m. saturday to 4:00 p.m.on constitu fourth and seventh. you see theou closures t the area. starting at 9:00 a.m. constitution and 17th. no access to the 14th street from 14th street bridge. as we look at the rest of the we d. emancipati parade.

on saturday. that parade starts at 2:00 p.m. pennsylvania avenue is closed. at 1:00 p.m. caps and nationals at home this weekend. oue saturda aty

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month. infected withen unusual strain of e. coli. and reported eating ground beef at home and restaurants.ll you can sti eat ground beef be sure yo cook it thoroughly. >> a local special olympics tean is the spotlight. the basketball program atide school in arlington was named one of the top five schools i the entire country. what makes this team unique. >>s t is the kind ofou exciteme expect at any all star game. the crowds. the clapping even the card board ku cut outs. as this basketball teamys star status. they're not just scoring points. they're leveling the playing field fornt stu with special needs. >> thank you special olympics for givin us the opportunity to play basketball. i'm proud of myself and proud that now i will also get to play

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>> when it comes to making everyone feel the students have scored a slam dunk. >> great for themt' >> t awesome. >> so much fun. >> great. way to go. th's big. >> listen. you didn't think they were getting the game in. >> did not. it was raining during the game. light rain. the hefiest was to the west by 15 miles. it was quite amazing it justmi ed the city and stadium. and you folks in the west it was coming down for you. the last three hours here. towards what was going on. see the yellow and oranges. up to clarks burg earlier. now almost nothing going on re. the only action is toward frederick. also this line right here.

whh has a history of wind damage to the west. it's weakened a bit. there was lightning earlier. it's weakened. bu wouldn't be surprised to see wind gusts coming in. in the next 20 minutes. heads up. this area right here could see strong winds. also towards the hagger town area. what i'm reall watching we saw the rain move through. light nod rat. moderate. a lot ofnd tstormiv ay. let's show you on futurecast. 3:00.he notice heavy rain across the mountains into parts of northern viinia. by 5:00 a.m. area wide especially along the i 95 this is where we could see a couple rumbles of thunder. nothing strong or severe. gusty wind or downpours. this may wake you up a bit.

most of us will be able to sleep through it. 00 a.m. if you're getting up and you have a morning jog. hat's you may see early showers. it's out of here. people asked me about the 5 ks tomorrow. you'll be okay. especially after about 8:00. it gets out of here. by 11:00 the rain is gone. sun comes out. we have a nice day out there. 77 morning showers. p.m. clearing. and i think we could get 79. if you're heading to the caps game 3:00. you kno where to find it. find it here. if you're going you want to be here. that's where the we're taking on the hurricanes for game two. 69 degrees at noon. 77 at 3:00. very nice. let's go caps. through the next couple days 76

sunday. and just like tomorrow, early showers. ryst of the day and late night rain. 10 to 6:00 a.m. ending by the morningrush. could be wet for the morning rush. 65 and breezy on mondain and p nice on tuesday. high of 70 degrees with sunshine and better on wednesday andth sday. another storm coming next friday. as we make our way to the weekend. unsettled there too. right now the weekend is not that bad. tomorrow morning again sunday morning. sunday night. afternoons looking fine. >> y tha. >> sore muscles and joints tonight. dozens of people joining us live at 5:30 this morning. for our community boot camp. >> better folks than we are. >>f it was part othe effort to help you get fit for spring. >> there's moreo come. there are classes soon.

>> she's motivating us. good for her. >> patrick corbin and the nationals in action at home tonight. they dodged drops.

weather threatened the game y. and some nationals relievers might be wsh wishing the rain did noramage. the teams bull pen has been in control for t early season struggles. in the last series they gave up two runs in three games. thers hope. hope can be a dangerous thing. soto bobble head. night he insisted his toll be smiling. deep to left. extending his hitting streak to elen games. hitting 426. >> extend the contract. >> the bull pen woes continue.

two run single. pirates take a lead. ttom eight. again. the fixer. second jack of the day. the nl batting leader ties the game. we go to extras. miller facing and that didn't really work out. three run shot. nationals lose 6-3. >>ee. caps at prak it is after taking hurricanes last night.he the guys not too impressed with their pformance. didn't practice but expected to play in game two. >> we didn't playur best. there's some plays they'd like to have back as well i'm sure. i'm looking forward to seeing us execute better. and spend me time in the offensive zone and continue to improve. so that was there's room to grow. and the fortunate part is we

left with the win. >> pregame show. defending the cup. it airs tomorrow at 2:30 p.m. followed game two against the hurricanes at 3:00 p.m. when you think of caps think of news 4. >> redskins new today.er won't be suspended for his role in a alleged domestic violence las november. he will be fined two game checks. the teamred to join lar work out. he was cimed off waivers two da after he was cut by t 49ers for a domestic violence otarge that was dropped. he will appeal the decision and grateful for t second chance. he accepts the decision and he is truly sorry for the past actions and people who may have been hurt. ollow the ard i will plan out lined for me and work hard to earn back the trust of the teammates and community. >> finally tonight.se

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