at the river a wind gust of 52 miles an hour. winds that strong we are going to see some wind damage. >>e did have a tornado warning a little bit earlier between 2:30 and 3:00. you mentioned friday. this is foured fro fridays in a with rain.ri two fys in a row with tornado watchesnd tornado warnings. fortunately moving out of here. the severe weather well to the north and east. still seeing some showers. you notice the swers coming back in to d.c. metro area. down towards quantico. some heavier rain around fredericksburg. no lightning here, but once again, we are seeing some moderate to heavy rain. t's take a look at the heaviest rain. right in here, southern calvert county around mechanicsville and moving over towards huntington, down towards the calvert beach ea as well. we'll continue to see that rain moving off toward the north and east. behind this, no more warningsr anywhere o watches anywhere in

the state of virginia, maryland, only along t eastern shore. here's the whole storm. you see the rotation spinning here. there is that line. stil seeing a tornado watch in effect around the fiphiladelphi area. moving out of our area. tomorrow something different. movingim on in just in tfor the weekend. now to a story you first heard on news 4. a manhunt for a suspected arsonist wanted for setting a fire outside the national archives. that is the billing that houses some of our country's most treasured documents. the i-team scott macfarlane broke the story today. he's in the newsroom with new >> wendy, this is similar to an incident last week in new york when a man was stopped with a gas can and lighters in st. patrick's cathedral. last night security cameras outside the archives captured images of a person dressed in darklothes and a hood walking away from archives. on the right of the screen you'll see a glow.

those are theme fla where a gas can was set on fire. security couldn't put it out so they calledc. fire which did so within a few minutes. a wider image from surveillance video shows the person making an escape across that busy street. holds hives of course american treasures and atracts tourists from across the nation. the building's public museum had closed just two hours before the incident. our r security officer in control center was monitoring our cameras and almost immediately saw that there was a fire senrting. and theveral of the officers ran out with fire extinguisher, attempted to put it out. by that time the fire wasbiretty against the wall. >> news 4 obtained still photos of the gas can believed to have been used. we see some of the burn damage along the marble. crews will be cleaning awayhe mess left behind. they are still looking for the person who ignited the flames at the archis and are looking for

tips from the public to help find that person. m scott macfarlane. back to you. >> cameras are everywhere. scott, thanks so much. we are starting to run out of finrs now to count these cases in our area. once again, thieves targeting an atm at a 7/11 in ntheast washington. but in this most recent case, things got a bit more violent and now the feds are getting involved. that's because by our account we e quickly approaching double digitings in terms of attempts. news 4 mark segraves has our story tonight. >> reporter: this time it was the 7/11 here on south dakota avenue here in northeast d.c. a truck t crashingough a window in an attempt to steal the atm. this time the suspects attack the employees inside the store. once inside they forced two employees to the ground. thm robbed the of their personal property. >> reporter: while the bad guys got away again, they had to leave their truck behind stuck in the window.

sources say the fbi is now aware and coordinating with local law enforcement. it's become a regular occurrence twe typicall 2:00 and 4:00 in the morning always at a 7/11 crooks giving new meaning to smash and grab. smashing through the front nindows of a store with a sto truck, then grabbing the atm. sometimes the crooks make off with the cash machine. sometimes theyn't. but they always leave behind a scene of wreckage.w in the past feonths there have been at least nine atm deat deaths. police found three of the stolen atms in an empty lot on fire with one of the stolen trucks. the truck used in this morning's incident looks vey much lik the truck used in another atm theft. today's video shows one of the suspects carrying a pick ax that sources tell news 4 they used to

disable the surveillance cameras. as things get back to normal, theem window rns boarded up and the atmut of service. sources tell us the fbi does not have any active investigations open at this point, but these crooks have caught the attention of the feds. in northeast, mark segraves, news. now despite this more aggressive approach in this latest attempt, no one was seriously hurt. the lead investigator on the case tells us it's concerning ta him tt the thieves appear to be getting increasingly violent. my> the police chief at the u.s. naval acade is out of a job after an investigation into claims of sexual harassment. "the cital gazette" is reporting chief lance royce was fired yesterday. the naval academy spokesman would not specefy why roy was dismissed. only saying the navy takes the security and safety of its members seriously. e spokesman said the harassment investigation proved, quote, inconclusive. would not comment on whether it

rs completed what the allegations consisted of. also new details in the case of a fairfax county man accused of killing his wife and then shooting himself to cover up that crime. he needed a cane to walk into court today. in court with two very different views. julie carey has a story that you are only going to see here on news 4. >> laslo, his defense attorney says he's a crime victim. prosecutors call him a calculated killer. he was just indicted for the murder of his wife donna,he charges coming more than two years after the mom of two was found lying on her bed dead of a gunshot wound to the head. but today in a bond hearing, the defense attorney characterized his client is a victim of violence too. p pent was taking a bath when he felt a pain in his stomach and

daalized he'd been shot. soon after that hihter arrived and found her dad still lying in the bathtub bleeding and called 911. then whi on the phone found her mom shot to death. the defense attorney didn't say who might have shot him, bke for bond so the defendant could be wit his children while he awaits trial. the wrosecutorghing in with a much different take calling pentek a cold blooded killer of his wife saying, quote, it's clear she was executed. he went to extreme lengths, including shooting himself in the tub to hide thisfact. while also telling the judge a gun was found in mrs. pent hand, the bullet that killed her could not have been self-inflicted. prosecutors say there was a secondun found in the bathtub with mr. pentek. the judgeenying the bond request saying he poses a danger. he's set for trial in early june. julie carey, news 4 frm.

the woman who admit td being a secret agent for russia will spend 18 months in prison. butina was sentenced to 18mo nths. she will receive credit for the nine months she's spent behind bars. th former american university graduate student used her contacts with the nra to gather information for moscow. butina bleed guilty to conspiracy. she is the first russian citizen convicted of crimes relating to e 2016 election. though her efforts were want connected to the kremlin's electiondd meng. president trump is now referring to the special counsel counsel investigation as an attempted coup. he said he didn't need a gun to stop it. the president spoke at the nra annual meeting in indiana earlier this afternoon. mr. trump has long touted the group's support. that group spent more than $36 million to help him in the 2016

election. during trump's speech the president said he'd remove the u.s. from the arms trade treatyr >> redskins are getting widespread praise tay for using their first round dpift ck on an ohio state quarterback. a buckeye who also has some deep rootsn montgomery county. >> for the 15th pick in the 2019 nfl draft, the washington redskins select dwayne haskins. before dwayne haskins began setting big ten passing and scoring records, he played high school football here in potomac. haskins even hosted a watch party in gaithersburg. chris gordon with new reaction from people who know him well and are excited to welcome him back home.

>> reporter: quarterback dwayne haskins' winning waysat at ohio stmade him a heisman finalist and it was here in potomac, maryland that haskins developed his football skills after his family moved here from new jersey. >> we are more like ivy league than a power house. we have good football, but also great a academi great arts. the haskins family also had a daughter who was a great artistg in terms of acnd singing and they wanted a school that would compliment both of them. >> dwayne haskins led the bulldogs to three conference championships. his football coach tells me he saw haskins commitment to success way backnt in nigrade. >> i can remember vividly being out here on this field and practicing and we have to be off the field at 6:00 and he's still out here throwing routes a 7:30 at night. >> dwayne haskins' picture hangs on the wall of the athletics builphng. the tro he won as maryland

player of the year 2014/15 is on display. he will be inducted into the hall of fame after his pro career ends. >> having a chance to kindf watch him grow and develop as both a student, a scholar and an athlete is something we really value. >> rorter: and of course there are plenty of redskins fans here happy to see dwayne haskins return hom reportsing from potomac, ma maryland, news 4. the head of the school says he'll be watching haskins up close. he's been ask redins fan and season ticket holderor more than 40 years. a special moment at a local eltary today. just ahead, the reunion between a military m and this little boy who didn't think he'd be seeing her until the end of the

year. plus a first in the u.s. an organ is delivered by a drone to a transplant patient. why doctors are calling this special delivery a medical breakthrough. >> reporter: students are preparing to put the painful connection to slavery on display in hopes of a stron r tomorrow. >> i think the fact that it's uncomfortable makes it all the more important that we're looking into this now. > . ande' herthe latest on storm team 4 radar. storms pushing out buthey did cause some damage. trees down. you see crews clearing them up. this is by the lanham skating rink. rink. do andat redfin, we charge you a 1% listing fee.

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don't get stuck in the past. sell with a redfin agent. . now at 5:15, those severe stormsn pushing o out of here. doug and amelia are back in a couple minutes to tl but your weekend forecast. lawmakers set to meet next week. two delegates vying to be of the 's next speak house and it's going to be a first. adrian jones dropped out of the race today encouraging the black caucus to throw its support from derek davis. if elected, he will be the first african-american to hold that

gavel, but he's facing baltimore city delegate maggie mcintosh. of course, the seat i being filled after the recent death of speaker michael busch. this weekend gonzaga high schoolers will unveil an exhibit dedicated to a painful past. it chronicles the school's use of slaves. this also shows the school's determination to move forward together. our northern virginia bureau reporter david culver spoke with students today at his alma mater. >> reporter: gonzaga students and staff assembling the story boards some might hide from, but not these students. gonzaga seniors, part of a group of seven sdents who signed up for this project two years ago. >> they set aside all the fun ouff over the summer and focused something that was important for not just me but for the whole school. >> rtorter: no course credi provided. all of the research done on

their own time involving summer and after school trips to georgetown university. combing through primary documents. used tng gonzaga which be known as the washington sem nary and was once part of georgetown relied heavily on enslaved lap enslav enslaved labor. >> the fact that it's uncomfortable makes it more important. >> georgetown university and the jesuit leadership revealed its own connection t slavery, a few months ler apolozing to the ded descendants to keep itun rng. the history teacher says georgetown's connection provoked a student to ask what was gonzaga's type of slavery. he suggested the students uncover that answer. >> from what they tell us, thii ph.d. level work. the quest turned personal. >> you start to feel a connection to tse slaves as you track them for hours and hours. >> the students identified five

slaves who worked at the school. e of gathem, -- ge -- >> a shadows history on display. one that students hope will lead to a brighter future. in northwest d.c., david culver, news 4. now the sdents will be back on high street this weekend putting the finishing touches on this exhibit. this will be displayed in the ormmuniti students kmeptshe next several weeks. we had a very dramatic afternoon today. >> is there a calm after the storm? it seems to hav pushed off, but we've got some chill coming on. >> a little calm. if y're heading to dinner, we're not too worried about severe weather. talk the umbrella.

still seeing some showers. tomorrow we're talking about grabs the jacket. >> i'm sure your ac was on at some point. if you he it on auto, you might hear the heat kicking on. >> we don't want to hear that. >> so y. it'siday. how about that? >> i think you're going to wake wh tomorrow and go what was that? 's going on there? take a look. show you what's happening out there right now. we've got shower activity on storm team 4 radar. here's the line. again, the line is over towards delaware and into parts of new jersey. it has moved through our area. this is the last four hours. raced across our region very, very quickly. take a look at what we're seeing. every single one of these little dots, these are a damage reports or wind reports. wind reports including a big one down toward the river. numerous reports over 50 miles per hour. every single one of these, kind of like this one right here, th's severe weather. chopper 4 right now over video

or actuay over a road. 98 avenue, this is right near the skating rink in that region. you can see that tree down across that road. that road is closed. numerous trees down. also numerous trees down in portions of charles county, st. mary, down into portions of calvert county as well. ards montgomery county we saw some trees down too. most of the rain, heavy rain is gone, but we still have some moderate rain i here in through portions of charles county along calvert county, route 2, route 4. still seeing some showers and me light rain aroundhe d.c. metro area. take that umbrella with you. tornado watch onlor the eastern shore. no longer for our area at all. it was until 9:00, but they did bringt down and canceled that for the rest of our area. here's the storm itself. the line around here, but we still have a lot more to go. again, this is an upper level system. it's going to move through. once it moves through, we're going to see something different for tomorrow. that's going to be some cooler air and a relief from the

allergies. >> absolutely. some good news with this rain and the cooler temperaturesec moving in bse before the rain came in, we saw tree pollen come in high. that tree pollen has been a nuisance this week on into last week. i think more than that, for some of u here's a look at the latest wind gusts. we're already starting to see them pick up. winds ontinue to see the pick up as we head into the evening. you can see winds gusting in frederick. the winds will pick up. the temperatures will cool o. 49 in pith. that cooler air filtering in tonight. it is a perfect night to stay ao home your friday night. a perfect piz kind of night out there. as we look at your planner for tonight, wutre abo 64. by 9:00 the swer chance is over. we're at 62.

it is going to be windy out there overnight with gusts up to 40 miles an hour and a temperature of 58. again the rain throat looks to be over by about 8:0 re's what you expect tonight into tomorrow morning. gusts up to 40. scatteredhowers outhere until about 8:00 tonight. we're talking about wind chills out there tomorrow morning. i'm going to be walking through the hour byour coming up at about 5:45. bottom line, grab the jacket on saturday morning. >> you said perfect pizza night. i remember my time as a delivery guy. pretty nice day sunday. tomorrow will be chilly especially early in the day. on monday. a cool day but not bad. 83 on tuesday. going up and then right back down. upper 60s0 to around 7 on wednesday. chance of showers next week. a little bit unsettled, but no big storms as we head to next week. no. got a chance for showers next friday too.

keep the showers going, right? >> that's how we know we're i washington. a new approach for allergies in children. fe them a s amount of what they're allergic too. plus a hospital testi

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available for transplant surgery, time is critical. a team in maryland is wking to improve that timing. it's had someen rect success using a drone to deliver the o a be this is a joint effort between the medical center and the clark school of engineering. they created am custo built quad copter that we refer a to as drone, but this one is able to holdup to ten pounds. yo ove got thean and the ice. it also can monitor the organ while it is in flight to make sure it is staying cold. last friday they managed to transport a kidney about three miles across baltimore wheresu eon was able to successfully transplant it to a patient in need. >> with innovations like drone technology, we will be able to ha hopefully on demand organ shipment alcohol be far less expensive. >> t flightsre relatively limimd, but the tea is hoping

to one day expand the distance and the delivery speed. >> pretty exciting. news 4 working for your health. tonight new research finding that a promising peanut allergy treatment may not work so well after all. this treatment is called oral immuno therapy. children areeng small amounts of peanut protein under a doctor's supervision. the study looked at the effects of the treatment and found while it worked well at first, patients were more likely to have a severe allergic reaction within a year than those who did not have immuno therapy. a surprise today duringol scho assembly meant to honor those who served. >> i wrote this letter. i love you with all my heart. >> she got to hear him readhat letter. >> how cute is he? >> the emotional reunion betweeo a sai and her little son there. plus a demand for safer

streets. a cyclist sounds t alarmel

andme back, everybody. chopper 4 right now over amlanh this is right on underwood street. we see numerous trees down. chopper 4 has been over this area surveying the damage. fortunately this is a big tree limb. half of a tree falling in the

back o a house. fortunately nobody hurt in that area. very close to that region there wasctually a school bus with wires on top of that bus. so wondering what's going on with that. we're waiting to get the latest on that one. right now tracking the latest on the rain. the rain still coming in. the storms, there they are moving out toward the east. we have rain across our area. we're still seeing rn in and around the d.c. metro area. rain from d.c. and along and east of i-95. heavst rain isharles county moving into prince george's county. kind of a wet evening out there. looking better tonige as far as thain is concerned. i'll show you what to expect tomorrow. a littleffy at times. talk about it. see you back here in a few. >> doug, thank you. > at riverside elementary school, about 10% are military kids. they held a special assembly today for military child appreciation month. one first grader said he was sad his mom was deployed and couldn't be there today. iting to surprise him.e was

news 4 aimee cho was on hand for thei emotional reunion. ♪ oh say can you see >> for all those who serve overseas. there are loved ones missing back a khome. >> wew how challenging it can be. >> reporter: today riverside elementary doing their part to honor that sacrifice. an assembly to appreciate military kids. kids like 7-yeaold j.j. stevens. >> thank you for taking care of me for the paste coupl years. >> reporter: j.j. reading a letter to his mom. she's in the navy and stationed africa. it's been seven months since he's seen here. if only she could hear him now. >> i love you with all my heart. you're the best mom ever. love j.j. >> little does he know the best mom ever is fresh off a 16 hour flight waiting to surprise him.

>> i'm anxious. hope he cries. i really need him to cry. make this 16 hour flight really worth it, you know. >> reporter: we asked j.j. when he thinks his mom will be coming home. >> next december. i'm going to be 8 whenhe comes back. >> reporter: as it turns out, he'll still be 7. >> mommy! i missed you so much. >> reporter: also there today, the rest of everett's family to help welcome her home. she'll be home for a week. now nextp on their itinerary, heading off to legoland. in alexandria, aimee cho, news >> i'm going to be 8 the next me. she sees >> she has been in the navy for nine years now, so legoland.

that's the only way to top that. >> mom needs legolanore than j.j. does. meet diego fl wes. he chosen from more than 50 other fourth graders. all the applicants had to write an essay calle if iere mayor. in it they had to explain a specific issue in their mm ity, how they would solve it. it was about improving pedestrian safety. >> car crashes in gaithersburg or around the world by putting on more stop signs, traffic a lights, to reduce speed limits a little. >> it all made sense. he made his debut at the state of city address. he's going to be invited to join the real a mayor other events throughout the year and he'll get to host a community service

project at his school. >> good for him. d.c. byclists are demanding change a week after the deathf one of their own. the group creoring a meml today to honor crash victims. and they placed itight outside of city hall. >> news 4 derrick ward is live along pennsylvania avenue with their message for the mayor. derrick. >> reporter: well, if you were traveling along here this morning oe even lat last night, you might have seen that memorial going up. it's gone now, but the people who put it up hope it's the message that endures. some passers byeren't sure just what to make out of the display outside of the building. it was a memorial of sorts. >> i think it's a great message, really great message. >> reporter: a week ago to the day, bicycling advocate died after being hit and killed on lorida avenue by a driver in a stolen minivan. his death a those of 127

others who died in crashes on the city streets and roadways of the past four years. the pedestrian, the cyclist, the motorist, they are the reason for the display. >> these are real people with it families, neighbors, loved ones, friends. it'smportant that weemember who they are. >> how many lives do we have to pay for to get change in this tety? >> proers are calling on the bowser administration to step up the agenda. tnfrastructure improvements all aimed a eliminating traffic deaths by 2024. the more cyclists and pedestrians and cars aren't sharing the streets. for many cyclist this is as close as you get torv niana. two lanes of bike traffic separated from vehicular traffic. or it is an ongoing effort

us in the bowser administr bion, mayorser is equally committed. >> we will be fighting to ensure that accommodations for people are made and not just for cars. >> the demonstration ended with the names of people killed on d.c. stree sincet began. 128 by their count. to list everyone here -- you can see the infrastructure along pennsylvania avenue. that has helped. advocates say it's a good place to start but by no means a place to td. >>nk you, derrick. still to come, helping area teenagers get to college admissions process and find the best schools. leon harris shares more on this week's harris's heroes. i'm darcy spencer. a firefr sverely damaged this home more than a year ago. insurance money has been paid insurance money has been paid out but the work isn't

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we've got some breaking news thanks to the storms. anopper 4 flying over a sticky situation in atl. >> you see a zoschool bus there. let's go to chopper 4. brad, what do we have here? we heard thereas power lines earlier. is that right? >> right now chopper 4 is over one of the more heavily damaged arearom the recent line of storms.tu

this is acly wellington street. what we have here is a small school bus that actually has wires down on top of it. you can see those right there. and weere able to get a closeup view of there is actually students and a bus driver on that bus right now. om the looks of things, they're trying to assess the situation before they go ahead and off load the passengers. so right now i'm thankful for the fact that i don't see any ambulances on scene and it doesn't appear there will be any injuries. they want to approach this very safely and make sure nobody is put in danger. as we follow this from above, we'll bring you more as it becomes available. coming up, susan hogan joins us with the rall of a product that could be dangerous to infants. plus i

we want to go back to some live pictures. folks, it was a violent afternoon. the storm may have moved out from a lot of us, but this is some damage of a tree that looks like it was split in two. these pictures again from lanham where a school bus with kids and a driver on it had some wires draped across it earlier. no signs. we heard from brad on chopper 4

that there were any ambulances around, so we don't know if it's a high risk area, but look what it has done to that yard and most or maybe perhaps the corner of that house there in lanham. doug and amelia are going to have an update on the forecast coming u at theop of the hour. for you parents with young children, there's another recall that h to do with those rocking sleepers for infants. consumer reporter susan hogan is joining us to tell you what you need to know about this one. >> wendy, first, it is important for parents to know that this is not the same rall i talked about just a few weeks ago. that one had to do with fisher price rock and play sleepers. this recall has to do with sleepers from the kids two company. the sleepers are sold under multiple brand names, including bright start, rock and dream, ingenuity and a few more. nearly 700,000 were sold. the consumer product safety commission says at le st f

infant deaths have occurred because babies were able to roll from their backs to their bellies. you should stop using this product immediately and contact kids two for a refund or a voucher. we have a complete list of all of the brands for you right now on our nbc washington app. just search recall. back you to. susan, thank you. let's get a check on that eather right now with doug and amelia. we saw some of the violent video of trees going down. this is playing out all over our area. >> but is it out of here or is there more to come? >> it's out of here. the severe weather is out of here. a saw that severe weather come through betweenut 1:00 and about 4:30, 5:00. that's exactly the time frame we were looking at yesterday. it's really about out of here with the exception of some rain that's out there. tonight, though we've got a different change moving in. >> the winds pick up and talking morning we're about wind chills.

>> coming from another direction. they've been out of the southwest all day with the storms. now they're out of the north west bringing in some colder air. amelia is going to talk about that. that's what's happening. there's the line. you can see it moving all the way across in towards parts of new jersey, over towards ocean city, all under severe thunderstorm warnings right now. that storm system now moving out. every single one of these markers here, trees down, wind upwards of 40, 50, signature mile per hour winds. we saw 6 a lot of wind around the bay bridge a little bit earlier, up towards the north. we saw a couple of tornado warnings today. the good news is we are done with the severe weather. now we have the rain. you can see it coming down i-95. let's zoom on in. right along 301, over towards camp springs,ar over tow clinton. down towardsdo walrf along 301. some light to moderate rain here. we'll continue to see that moving on through over the next cooule of. it's all because of this area of

low pressure. it's not going tbe tooast to get out of here. we'll see showers over the next few hours. if you go to dinner, take the umbrella. you'll need it. we're not talking heavy rain. behind itn, ag look at the motion here. out of the south, that's nice and warm. out of the north and west, that's much colder. that's what we're going to be seeing as we make our way through over the next couple of hours here. amelia is here to talk about tind chill. i don't wan to talk about it, so she gets to. >> it's going to be a chilly start out thereor tomw morning. feels like in the 30s and 40s. yes, 30s in parts of the area. check it out as we take a look at your hourly temperatures right now. this is 6:00 a.m. on saturday. washington ll in about 46 degrees. that's not that bad. then you look to areas like hagerstown, martinsburg,

winchester. as we move towards 8:00, we'll have wind chills in washington, low 40s inaithersburg and na mass sas. frederick 8:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. if you're getting up ear going for a run, we have a lot of kids events going on, make sure they're prepadod. , not puffy coat, but at least a sweatshirt. >> i'm going to send the team an email. >> there you go. as we look to noon on saturday, we'll still have wind chill temperatures starting to improve, but certainly chilling feeling like we're in the 40s and 50s. high temperature of 69. feels more like 61. it's windy during the morning hours. breezy for the afternoon. maybe a spotty shower early on sunday. otherwise a mix of clouds and sunshine throughout the day and looking pretty nice with a high temperature of 73.n, agaie have the sporting tomorrow there morning. s.s and 40 broccoli fest going on. it's windy and cool. ottionals games saturday and sunday. bring a jacket, especially if

you're going to the game on saturday. >> what are you doing this weekend? going mushroom hunting. right now i'm leaving. bye. see you monday. >> you're doing that in frederick county. she does itve e year. 73 on sunday. 66 on monday. 83 degrees coming up on tuesday. that looks le the best day out of the next ten because we do have a chance of showers next wednesday,hursday and friday. next weekend looking pretty good. i don't know why she calls it mushroom hunting. i don't know if they move on you. i'm not sure. >> and we thought we knew amelia. >> so much more to know. hey, the college admissions process we know can be complex. and the recent scandal suggests some wealthy famils have gon through it with a significant advantage. >> you think? well, inonight's harris's

heroes, educating seniors about where to apply and where to fine the best school. >> it's not just every kid. it's a very special group. they've helped more than 100 under the radar students from immigrant families get into the topchools in the country. h harvard, yale, m.i.t. they're often the first in the family to attend college and face challenges. the field and theti inste for east african kucouncil for high education is this week's harris's heroes. inside this modest apartment, students are preparing to apply to the nation's top colleges, all thanks to this man. >>e started the institute for

east african council on higher ee years ago. he did it to fill a need in his community. >> i have seen the cultural disconct between myself and my high school counselor and these students have that same issue. >> reporter: matthews believed it was important to focus on east african students because ffey're often the first in their families to go o to college and they don't know the admissions process. >> our students are all bilingual. a lot of them speak three or four languages. they don't think a college should know they work hours after school. they don't think that's important enough to be put on the college application. >> their approach is really paying off. they have a 100% success rate. this high school senior came here from ethiopia in 2005. now she's going to an ivy league school. >> i'm going with a full ride to rtmouth. that's a big accomplishment for me but also my family.

>> these two just wrapped up their first sem meester in scho. the parents say he has been a god send. >> he looks at them individually and talks to them and see what colleges sit for them. >> for him, it's all about the students and paying it forward. >> we could have gone anywhere in the world. i did nothoose mymom, nor did anyone else and that reality should compel us to be as helpful as possible. >> he says they constantly have to turn students away because they don't hav the space or funding toon help everye that comes. so if you'd like to learn more about the council or you'd like to help him out, we put a link in our washington app. go there and search harris's heroes. >> what a great guy he is. >> don't you think it would be a shame if this is a place where a kid that can spe four languages and is capable to work 30 hours a week in addition to

going to school can't go to college? that's why he's a hero. >>bsolutely. >> leon, thanks a lot. still to kmrks a scome, a s fighting for his 73-year-old mother. >>'s trying to get back into her house after a fire. darcy spencer so why the work still hasn't been completed. this has been more than a year, folks. he we continue to follow t breaking news where power crews have just pulled the wires off that prince george's county school bus. >> that's a good thing. the wires came down as a result of severe weather this afternoon. students we on this bus. don't

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this is an example of how news 4 is working for you. a frustrated son contacted us wondering what he could do to get contractors to just finish the work on his mother's prince george's county home. more than a year ago fire swept through that home on easternue aven it's more the maryland/d.c. line. darcy spencer explains why after paying more than $150,000 he homeowner still can't move back in. >> we ha to keep this place boarded up. >> reporter: john walks into his mother's fire-damaged home in capital heights. >> the first time i walked in here, i cried. i still have tears in my eyes. i cry because this is supposed

to be for my mother. >> reporter: street says 14 months have gone by and more than150,000 in insurance money has been disbursed. but thes house i nowhere near ready for his 73-year-old mom to move back in. >> i mean, my mom cries every day that she wants to come home. this is what i want for her. but i don't want her to come home like this. >> reporter: streetays his mom signed with a public adjustor, someone who secured the contrt for the renovation. the contractor started the project in february of last. year but there's a lot more left to do. now there's a stop work order because of problems with the permits. >> i want to see him do the job and repay them. >> reporter: i spoke to the contraor by phone. he told me this has been a difficult and challenging project. he says he's working to get the permit sittion straightened out. he's hoping to have everything wrapped up in the next 30 days. . the homeowner is staying with relatives until she can move

back in. any idea when you're going to be able to move back in? >> they said soon, but what's soon? it's been this long. >> reporter: prince george's county is also looking fors way to help ms. shirley. >> there are a of things we can do to try to get them some help, peaps going through habitat for humanity, going through our housing department. for someone who is a senior citizen, department of the aging. >> if you have a contractor in y mand, you file a complaint through the department of labor licensing and regulation. we have a link to that office on our nbc washington app. just search complaint. news 4 at 6:00 starts right now. now at 6:00, severe weather moving ou >> parts of fairfax and montgomery county under a tornado warning. >> i expect to see some trees down. >> the worst of the storm gone, but the rain and the wind sticking around. first on 4:00, an attempted

arson outside the national we've got the video of the suspect running off. this incident bearing a strong esemblance to another c in new york. and atm thieves at it again. new video from the latest smash and grab. this time a c left acial piece of evidence behind. >> news 4 begins with a storm team 4eather alert. it's been another busy friday for storm team 4. the tornadoarnings and watches we've been dealing with all afternoon, done. >> but the big weather changes folks are not over yet. before we get to your forecast, let's take you live to chopper 4. a power line came down on a school bus with children still inside. that power line has now been removed. >> brad, what have you been seeing over the last half hour or so?, >> well i am very happy to report thatll