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plans this weekend. we'll show what you to expect so you can work around it. >> and the weather is a factor, too. more storms on the way. sunday is starting to look like a soaker. the full forecast coming up. good evening. we start tonight with a homeless high school student whose heart breaking story captured sympathy and support last year. tonight he's been charged with killing his girlfriend. >> te hdetectives saye tried to make it look like she attacked him fi st. >> we introduced to you amal speaks in the fall. the ballou high school running back had to stop playing football because he was omeless and couldn't prove he lived in tic school distr >> he feared c hisollege football scholarship would be in jeopardy. now he's behind bars accused of murder. >> leon harris is at our live desk to explain the

circumstances of this unusual case. >> this one is a real shocker. he is accusedof killing his girlfriend saniyah floyd. she was aund deadril 8th in a home in ft. washington. witnesses told detectives that she shot herself. but her aunt said she was a happy person who would never take her own life. w detectivesre up in a committal. >> do you believe this was suicide? or was this an accident? or was she shot? >> we're treati it as a death investigation for right now. >> an autopsy revealed her aunt was right. floyd did not shoot herself.ow detectiv say speaks was playing with a gun he had bought illegally when he fired the shot that killed his girlfriend.e spaks allegedly placed that gunn floyd's hand to make it look like a suicide. police say saksdmitted to being involved in the incident. after his story aired in september, a homeless she offered to help him find a home

so co-continue to play football and go on to college. tonight speaks is in jail being eld without bond. back to you. >> thank you. >> some big storm chances for our weekend. if you have plans late çósaturd, or sunday, you may want to rethink them. >> here to o time out weekend for us, when is the worst of it? >> i will tell you this. we are looking at some showers and storms rolling in for your saturday. but it won't be a washout the. that's the good news. i'm going to time it out in a moment. how about we look at the radar? we have some action on the board. the severe threat is done. still got should showers.ve crossing o 95. the beltway has some lighter stuff falling toward warrenton which you can see in northern prince george's county. to howard, ntgomery. some of that rain, more de mote. i would say about an hour or

two, you can see it wrap up. i'm putting it on and that you aring forward a coupleñi hours into saturday. c and you see more showers and storms on the way. i'm going into further detail coming up. i want you to stick around for your full weekend forecast. >> this is a look y atr first 4 traffic and metro this weekend. we have some staons that wil be closed and bus there's replace trains. yellowine of we also won't be stopping this weekend at dca because of all the repairs that happening. also closed on the blue line, van dorn street for the weekend. as well as the red line, single between medical center and grovener. see you monday morning for news4 today. >> we are learning some terrifying new details of two major human trafficking arrests. both involving teenagers.e

wherthis was allegedly taking place might surprise you. jackie joins us tonight from logan circle. >> reporterin reason years this has become a pricey residential area. between hours of 4:00 and 8:00 al, it is known as the blade. area for commercial sex trafficking. many of the women involved are teenagers. the court documents say terrelle armstead had a #teen supreme for his sex business. they say he used it to advertise a commercial sex business posting images, with the caption who wants to join team supreme?d ectives said he would direct messages to teenagers saying they could arrangeat sex d with customers. the so-called dates took place the rs that roamed around area of 11th street to 12th street between k and m streets northwest. introduced as evidence, texts as

one of the young women. i only made 200 so far. he applied. it is only nine. i've got faith you'll get 800 more at least. the instagram account shows him making an obscene gesture outside the montuooery county courthouse after a human trafficking arrest in 2017. >> police made second up related arrest of an alleged human trafficker who charged young women a thousands dollar a day to be their careerçó manage news4. police didn't have to lookng very lo to find a frederick county man acced of killing his girlfriend. that's because he was already bs.ind bar he was pulled over hours before police even knew that she was dead inside their home off jeffersonpike. darcy spencer has that story. the body ofar 24-ld heather williams was found inside this trailer.

she was face down in a bedroom covered with a blanket. s had severe head trauma. police have charged her live-in boyfriend, 39-year-old chris lee meyers, with her murder. the victim's mother toldut arities that her daughter planned to break up with the suspect. when family members didn't hear from her, they became very worried. it was her own father who broke through the front door and found his daughter's body. according to charging documents, the victim's t momld police, meyers is a heroin addict and her daughter had been taking him to a clinic inaltimore toet methadone. authorities believe he drove the victim's car after the killing. he was in her car, they say, when he was arrested there on traffic and drug charges. >> the police tried to find mis. williams they ended up putting a ping on her phone trying to find her phone. my understand spg the phone was te in baltimore within her car. >> reporter: during a search of the victim's ca police say they found several blood stained items, a towel, a man's cam

flaunged shirt and a pillow. they recovered the victim's trse and cell phone. william's momld police, meyers had threatened to kill her daughter if she broke up with him. prosecutors say leaving an abusive relationship can be dangerous. >> we have houses all over the state and in d.c. there are community resources for victimst of domec violence for women and men who are experiencing domestic violence to reach out to those organizations and seek help. >> if convicted, he faces life in prison. a local principal is on leave after a permission slip for a white house field trip angered a lot of parents. >> the form had a citizenship question on it and said noncitizens would have to stay o e. >> leon harris is back with the fallout. this has aop lot of pele shaking their heads. k >> thisked up a lot of fallout. the principal is on leave today.

he will not be returning for the rest of the year because of ts permission slip controversy.ou th grade students were excited to be there. but they learned that their friends would not be able to join them of it included typical questions like name,ate of birth. at the bottom in bold lettering, it asked the parents to check a y or no box on whether the child was a u.s. citizen. they said noncitizens would not be able to go to the whiho use. this caused a big stir because the school is heavily hispanic. >> we are lookingat redesigning the trip so al children can participate and have a good time. so as things stand now, the trip th white house field is off. the school is planning an alternate trip visiting d.c. museums and institutions that include all students. the school dtrict said the orange white house represent the was authorized.

the permission slip was not. >> thank you. to if you take youb or lyft get to work or home next being, you need to pay attention to this. on wednesday, ride share drivers are manning to turn off tir apps. they're strikingem to dand better pay,ar c tipping, fair policies and benefits. the may 8 strike will last for 12 hours from noon to mid notice. they're considering an organized protest. it? it could be a confusing day. she used thousands of plastic straws from in and around the anacostia river to create an me environtal piece of art. now, this artwork shows a girl fishing there. andth here's e message behind it. wendy hopes one day river will be safe enough for someon to stand in it. the artist also wants to inspire people toohat they can to

create a healthier river. >> could the royal baby be coming this ndweeke kensington palace announced that prince harry's visit to amsterdam has been postped. it could be a sign that meghan, the duchessof sussex, could give birth soon. they said they planned to break royal tradition and they won't show the baby off immediately after it's worn. >> while you'reg waitin, be sure to tune in tomorrow night. a big night. adam sandler will hit the satuay night stagefor the first time since leaving the show 24 years ago. this time he will be host for the first time ever. >> i should have come back to the show before it was hd. good lord, i waited a long, long time. i don't really look like adam sandler anymore. ne.i can't wait to see that >> i loveis hannukkah song. it makes me laugh every time. >> coming up, spring is here.

>> and rabbit complain-- rat co all over the city. the news4i-team goes on rat patrol. a costly new experiment involvi

spot.hey're not tough to this time of night we're talking about rats and the district has tried plenty of ways to kill them off. >> really scary when they're that size, right? now they're spending hundreds of thousands odollars on a whole new approach.

birth control for rats. >> investigative reporter jody flisher shows us why d.c. is willing to invest in this project. >> it's the ugly side living in a big city. >> they're pretty brazen. >> reporter: in the war on rats, this army is changing its tactics. think of whington, d.c. asne giant laboratory with gerard leading an experiment. >> the traditional methods that we use doesn't work. >> reporter: so d.c.'s health department is thinking insidehe t box. targeng roden where they feed. the news4 i-team watched as crews began baigt 16 alleys across the district. two in each ward with a product called contra pest. >> it is a sweet tasting liquid and they drink it. >> they're targeting neighborhoods like this one. >> my full hearted support. >> reporter: right behind scott bennett's restaurant.

you have to try anything. if it does work, it will be the best money ever spent. a >> costly gamble. d.c. is spending nearly a million dollars to deploy it. the product alone cost $300,000. the company's laest shipment ever. it makes them infertile. >> she handles operations at the the company that developed it. she said rats in the wild only live six to eight months but in that time they breed thousands of pets. in trcont, rats who drank it had no babies. >> we get the question all the time. why would i use birth control? >> she said it is a more humanet soln. the city of st. louis said the product was so successful at the gateway arch park, it is currently expanding the useful. >> you haven't done this before. >> no. we have personally not. >> on the company's webb, it touts smaller successes at a

multifamily housing complex in new york claiming it was gifrd to a substantial numb of rats which successfully reded the infestation and they saw a reduction in rat activity in as little as a month. the health department also tested a multifamily housing complex but said no clear and consistent decrease in rat activity was detected over time. >> so definitely proven that birth controlworks is quite challenging. >> she said the su was in no way affiliated the health department and the health department never ask for help rdeploying theuct which could have affected its outcome. >> most people, their definition of success is a wheelbarrow full of dead rats. >> she said you can never down the total number of rats y but can tell how much of the product is missing from the containers. if there arefewer baby rats running around. >> have you talked to those cities about what their results

were? >> we have not. we believe without knowing that it willwo rk. >> they should know in about six months. the measure of w successl be if the city sees a measure of success and fewer rat holes and oppings nearby. that happens, they'll expand thp gram. >> i think this will be the real world test. >> if it doesn't work? >> we try something new.d >> we di speak with a horse ranch in arizona that has been really happy with the product saying its rats are almost all gone. a boston suburb said it stopped using the product because other programs were more effective fo itsneeds. the district said it plans to ten to use other tools including rat poison while it tests the birth control. >> if you want to learn more about the project, you can check

it out at that same place. all next week on news4 today, we're going to be celebrating teachers as part of teacher appreciation week. our reporter will be at the school starting at 4:00 a.m. everyday. >> teachers rock. well, need to break it all iwn. >> you'll needt for a time le this. i can tell you it will not be a complete washout. this can be a little deceiving and i should have changed this view. what we have here is a little ground clutter. a lot of that not actual rain coming down where we are seeiin the ra is a little farther

north of washington. right along i-95 there into notythern anne arundel coun into parts of columbia, howard county, and then into baltimore. washington, d.c. some lighter showers in the northwest area. and as we head through the overnight hours, we'll be drying out. tonight will be dry. the temperatures will fall into the thatter 50s, low 60s. and it will be pretty humid out there and damp. as we move into tomorrow, we should get some drying and earing. here will be some clouds lingering for saturday. check out thosenu bers. 81 degrees. we'll go for the low 80s. our chance of rain on saturday will be impacting us ithe afternoon and evening. rain, more so, waves of rain, periodic rain will be throughout the entire day without w the heaviest moving into the mofring. we go m the 80 saturday to the 70s sunday. so saturday will be the warmer day of the weekend. and more than y,likel the drier day. so here's the futurecast.

11:00 a.m.ñr notice what we have. gray shading denoting that cloud cover is pretty dry. i fast forward to 7:00 p., closer to continuer. that's when washington, d.c. will pick up the heavierçó rain intohat's where we can get some storms. and then this is sunday. sunday night. i'm sorry. aturday night into sunday morning. we're talking some very heavy down pours sweeping in. ll:00 a.m., seeing some showers around brunch. a second batch moving through saturday afternoon, heavy at times. and then sunday afternoon, we don't really dry things out s untilday night around 11:00. in other words, the whole suny, just throw it out the window. that sounded morbid. the weekend yardwork forecast, better early tomorrow.

your storm team 4 ten-day outlook does show some hope on the horizon. plenty of sunshine. the temperatures not bad. pretty warm out there. we're going to do this all over again. this has been the same pattern thursday, friday, saturday. we're getting used to it. >> coming up, they travel up i-95 to take on bryce harr and the phillies. the phillies. how did the pitching staff hold a little anxious sometimes. these days we all feel so i, partnering with cigna to remind you thatg so i,how you'reg dootionallya affects you physically. go for your annual check-up and be open with your doctorab t anything you're feeling. physically, and emotionally. body and mind.

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this is getting ridiculous. >> it's not good. i'll say that. hopefully it will turn around. after firing the pitching coach last , the nats' front

office trying to send a clear peg that they're not satisfied. the immediate future could be darker than the last else of "game of thrones." >> that's very dark. washington plays 20 straight games against teams with recordn better tha .500. and there's a familiar face. i feel like we're always playing bryce harper. >> who? >> exactly. that's howie kendrick. we're all tied up. then kurt suzuki gives the nats the lead. yeah, 2-1 washington. do thepp ha dance! >> end it right now. >> yeah. the happiness didn't last. dan jennings up the three-run shot. the bullpen coughs up yet another lead. ter the game, the skeper

defended his decision w to goth jennings. he is supposed to get the slider in. he left it out on the plate. it was unusual of we thoughttc still the up was good right there. >> with him pitching the way he's been pitching. >> dan straily on the mound for the orioles as they host the rays. top of the first. tommy with the check swing but it's good enough. it goes down theright field line. in the fourth, two on for mike zunino. the catcher gets all of that one. the rays go on to win this one 7-0. how about some lacrosse? kathy reese of maryland is, taking on penn state.

this one all terps from the get-go. erica evans padd marylan with five goals. the 58-win. and ttu kencky derby is tomorrow. omaha beach was scratched due to health concerns. there are concerns about the weather tomorrow. the forecast shows wet conditions in louisville. so who could that help? well, nbc sports has the answer. >> who was bred for it? who might like it? whoill get atrip? you put it in the blender and see what comes t. there are some horses that are proven on it. the game winner is the horse that is proven on it. tacitus has run on and off track so there are a couple horses that will give you a good run. but some other horses that we

don't know.y' and t be great to see come the first saturday in may. >> and coverage of the 145th kentucky derby begins at 2:30 p.m. right here tomorrow on nbc 4. taking you all the way to thra big ce later to start at 6:50. >> two minutes of awesomeness. yeah.of >> plenty time

. tomorrow's date has special meaning for so many syfy fans out there. it is may 4th, also known as star wars day. some folks couldn't wait to celebrate. a hospital in des moines, iowa,

gave special star wars hats. a lot of hugely popular character hats. for those adorable newborns and all of you fans out there, may the 4thx% be with you. la so cute!

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