right now on "news4 this week," a new beginning. washington's new archbishop promises transparency. news4's david culver explains the challenges ahead for wilton gregory. breaking the bottleneck but at what price? adam tuss explains the plan to add more express tollways on the belt in virginia. t> and raising red flag. a new law in maryland already paying dividends, keeping guns out of the hands of potentially dangerous individuals. >> announcer: welcome to "news4 this week." hello, everyone. i'm leon harris. we start this week with a new beginninghoor the catc church in washington. this week washington's ha billion plus catholics were introduced to the new shepherd,

archbishop wilton d. gregory, most recent from atlanta, officially the first-ever african-american archbishop of washington. as news4's da d culverreports, it's a leadership role that gregory says must start with healing. >> i resolve to serve faithfully the spiritual needs of this local church. >> reporter: a new beginning for catholics in our nation's capit capital. archbishop wilton d. gregory accepting his position to the local church, holding high the mandate from pope francis himself and acknowledging the p recentin caused by church leaders. >> we clerics and hierarchs have been the source of this current tempest. >> reporter: gregory steps in following a devastating church scandal. most recently the defrocking of now ex-cardinal theodore mccarrick accused of sexually abusing minors and the outgoing archbishop, cardinal donald wuerl, accused of not doing predator punish

priests when he served in pitcaburgh. >> rdinal wuerl has been and remains aherished iend, an episcopal colleague now for many years. >> reporter: but some have criticized wuerl for his lack of transparency, something gregory has promised to do better at. >> archbishoha gregory s said very much it's my job to tell you the truth. i will always tell you what i know. if he follows through on that, that will go a long way ng repairihe breach of trust. >> reporter: a trust that he needs to establish amongst his priests as well. >> a great number of young priests, dedicated priests, who i think are going to be frankh withim, but at the same time will give him the information that he needs to make the bestc deions possible. >> i want to be a welcoming shepherd, who laughs with you whenever we can, who cries with you whenever we must, and who honestly conf his faults and feelings before you wen i commit them, not when they are evealed.

>> that was david culverre orting. now, let's talk about our traffic. that inspires a lot of folks to pray every day. but how about the idea of paying a toll to get around the traffic? that's now a part of everyday life in northern virginia. this week we got word that even more express lanes could be coming to the beltway. vdot now looking at extending the lanes from tyson's to the allegiant bridge. transportation reporter adam tuss has more. >> rorter: let's start here. why do some say that the express lanes are needed? take a look at them in action tonight. anes here e regular closer to us. they're going slower. the express lanes in the back,y the rolling much faster at rush hour. but of course there's ice to pay. take a look how this section of the beltway crawls day after day, and you can understand why drivers can't stand it. >> it'sery bad. >> reporter: victor lee is the kind of commuter these new lanes are targeting. he has to go aoss the legion bridge to get back to maryland.

he's in support of new lanes with one addition. >> they need to build another bridge. >> you think they need another bridge? >> yeah, exactly. i think it took them too long to build the second bridge. reporter: vdot isn't specifying anything about another bridge in this area, but they do agree the lanes wouldli ly need to continue into maryland. have a big ipact ontraffic congestion in this area, we need to have a system that continues across the river. >> what it really does is puts t f pressure on maryland to step up to the plate and figure it out. >> rcaorter: express lanes offer an alternative to regular bad when there are accidents. remember that tanker crash on the legion bridge? right now it calls for two new express laneses between the dulles toll road and the legion bridge. some property could be lost. >> i think it's a terrible idea. >> reporter: some say there are other ideas we haven't fully

thought of beforemo adding lanes. >> i think mass transportation working with local businesses to work out maybe better ways of fi staggering trin the area, i just think there are a number of options that they haven't explored. >> reporter: no construction happening yet, but the planning continues. in northern virginia, ad. tuss, news4 it's a law aimed at getting guns out of the han of high-risk people who could do harm to themselves or to others. and in maryland, the so-calledr flag law is already paying dividends. hundreds of guns have been confiscated and likely livese hav been saved. as cory smith reports, it's also getting some people the help they need, before it's too late. >> this really is about helping people in need and preventing violence. >> reporter: behind this door sits hundreds of firearms, taken out of the hands of prince george's county residents deemed by a judge to b a harm to themselves or others. to the inspector general, it's

evidence that the ate's red flag law prevents domestic violence. >> i think this is one of the unique situations where the law isry ve closely doing what the legislators intended. >> reporter: last week sheriff's deputies seized 78 firearms an nearly 25,000 roundsf ammunition from just one person. it was the 56th extreme risk protection order related to domestic violence served in the county. that's the second highest in . maryland and has resulted in more than 130 firearms being surrendered. montgomery county there have been nearly 40 protective orders filed. spencer says there is no doubt lives have been >>saved. this is a way to, as you interveneroactive and early so we're not dealing with tragedy. >> reporter: preventile vioe is just one of the benefits in the law's short existence. >> as people become more aware, they see this as a tool to help them address an issue of someone who's struggling with mental health. >> reporter: and with guns being the number one cause of domestic violence fatities, spencer

hopes the public continues to speak up. >> we think the numbers right now of trending in that right w to say this is really an intervention tool and a prevention tool. >> reporter: in prince george's county, cory smith, new's. it story that got everybody's attention this week. a billionaire philanthropist paying off the student loans of an entire graduating class. still come, one of those graduates is a young man who tells news4 what it means to him. and a photo that went viral this week. the story behind this harriet tubman high five. nothing says summer like a beach trip, so let's promote our summer travel deal on choicehotels.com like this: surf's up. earn a fifty-dollar gift card when yis stay just twice thummer. or.. badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com

a local entrepreneur wants to ease gridlock in the d.c. area, and he thinks a monorail would do the trick. here's some video of the developer. he said this would be place on the i-270 corridor and a trip between shady grove and frederick would take less than 30 minutes. the monorail would be fully

automated and completely driverless. he ha's not said w going to pay for this, though. now to the viral picture of the week and this one comes from our area. take a look at this. you see this really cute little girl. her name is lovy hope duncan, she's 3 years old and she was out walking with her grandmother when she decided to walk upnd then high five a new harriet tubman mural in cambridge, maryland. theyural was actuajust finished recently. the artt says what he was trying to do was show tubman reaching her hand out to slaves making the tough decision on whether to escape their owners. it looks like thatis inspired th little one as well. when we come back, we are working for your health. doreen genler on how the party drug is giving help to people suffering from depression. plus the student debt of a graduating class all paid off by a philanthropist billionaire. we spoke with a local student benefiting from that gif

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it's the first new treatment for depression in years, and doctors say it works quickly to save lives. news4's doreen againgenzler sho how it's giving hope to people suffering from depression and thoughts of suicide. >> reporter: if someone goes to the emergency om because they're feeling suicidal, and that's not unusual, there really haven't been many options to help them quickly. but now the fda has approved an old drug called ketamine for a new use. it's already helping patients who haven't respondedo t other anti-depressants or treatments. >> just a shell of a person showing up. >> and it's scary. you can feel like you're in a zombie. e a >> reporter: two young women, both struggling with treatment-resistant depression and thoughts of suicide.

>> i felt so trapped. trapped in my mind. >> reporter: katie bathersfield is astay-at-home mother of two beautiful little girls but some days she couldn't get out of bed, crippled by her feelings of hopelessness. katie said she and her do tried 30 different medications over the years. nothing helped, until her psychiatrist recommended that she try ketamine. she says the improvement was immediat >> i felt happy, i felt so light. i coun't believe that i ever thought that suicide was something that was -- >> i tried everything. nothing worked until i got the ketamine infusions. >> reporter: kelly mason was diagnosed with posttraumatic di stress order, ptsd, after several deployments with the army. she was haunted by her past and went to walter reed national military medical center for help. >> as soon as i received an

infusion, i ju felt happy. i immediately noticed that the intrusive thought that i was having dissipated. >> reporter: clinical trials found that ketamine administered in controlled doses in a doctor's office might help many others with severeopeless depression. in march, the a approved a ketamine nasal spray called s-ketamine. >> it depose to a different area of the borin. >> repr: dr. erica richards is the medical director at si hey memorialpital and took part in the clinical trials. she calls this treatment a game-changer because ketamine is the firs depression drug that can work quickly, within hours. all of the other antidepressants available take six to eight weeks to take effect. >> not only is there relief or improvement from depression happening, it's actually sustainedg it's lastin for longer as well.

>> reporter: for katie and kelly, the drug has given them both hope, and they say it's helping them apply the tools le they have ned in therapy to deal with life's highs and lows. >> it was almost like two different people, night and day, and i was able to remember how i had been prior to the ketamine and just be grateful for how i am now. >> i feel free. i look forward to waking up every day. i look forward to life. i look forwardto the future. >> reporter: ketamine has been around for years. it's been used safely as an anesthetic in the oerating room since the '60s but it's also been abused as a party drug known as special k. doctors say whenn it's give in low dosages in a controlled medical setting, it's safe. thereatment is also supposed to be used in conjunction with an antidepressant medication, although it may not be fully covered by insurance, at least

thnot yet. >>k you, doreen. if you or someone you know is suffering from depression oro thoughts suicide, there is help out there. we posted a link of local resources on our bsite, so just go there and search changing minds. morehouse college grads are still beaming afterehe surpris announcement that their student loan debt is going to be completely paid off. this weekw ne's cory smith spoke with a local mohouse grad about that again russ gift from that billionaire investor. >> reporter: he returns to his anacostia neighborhood a college graduate. left morehouse with a bachelor of arts in english, lifelong friends, and -- >> no debt. m whatore can i ask for? >> reporter: it's all courtesy of billionaire investor robert smith, who after speakingith students the day before turned his sunday commencement speech into the surprise of a lifetime. >> and my family is making grant to eliminate their student loans. >> in the matter of like fivec

ds it went from everybody just sitting there to shouting. i was sitting in the fth row, so as far as we were concerned, it was, oh, my gosh, it was hugr: >> reporte as for the proud parents in the audience? >> what did he just say? and then we go ahhh! to see another parent or family financial of this debt was just so gratifying. >> reporter: in an instant, the debt of nearly 400 students was set to be paidin ull. to quentin, though, while the a ey matters, you can't put price on inspiration. >> the same way you say education is meant to inspire, he inspired allse of thoeople to do that, even the ones that aren't in that class. >> reporter: the money does come with one condition. pay it forward. quentin is well on its way. he'll be back in the classroom in a few weeks, teaching middle school. >> it really just allows us to live the mission that morehouse

college has preached into us so, deao develop men with disciplined minds. >> reporter: and for the graduates, this ending could not have bear a better stt to the rest of their lives. cory smith, news4. when we come back, how princgeorge's county is paying it forward themselves to one of their top teachers. this is annie. and this is annie paying back wr friend for the ticketsh zelle® before the previews star and this is annie getting ready to enjoy the show. [whispers] this is your right here, right now bank. this is wells fargo. lowe's knows tonly the best will do. so we carry pro trusd d purdy brushes anrollers. and everything else you need. so you can get in,get ou. the big carriers are talking about their current bu roll outs, their efforts are limited to a few pockets in select cities or trying to convince consumers that 4g is actually 5g.

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here's a special chance for prince george's county to pay it forward and show a little love to a very deserving educator. this week a teacher received a new ride after becoming this year's teacher of the year. news4's nicolelk jacobs ta to her about the special honor that set a new set of wheels in her hds. >> reporter: riding off into the sunset in a bnd new car isn't something every teacher gets. but angelica brooks does. she's the princegeorge's county public schools teacher of the year for 2019.

she's representingore than 10,000 teachers in the school system, and that's something acknowledged. >> good education is the cornerstone of a healthy and vibrant community. >> she has what you can't get in a foatal edn program and that is that she cares for every last one of her children. >> reporter: brooks is a choral teach er at bowie high >>school joyful, joyful, abolutely, by beethoven because that is exactly how i feel. >> reporter: and it uly is something she says she needs. >> we were down to one car. it was kind of difficult. >> reporter: but for the next three years, this leased 2019 honda crv will alleviate that difficulty. lso as part of the prize package for angelica books, clear channel outdoor has donated three digital billboards so now everyone can see

angelica's name and faceas they ride up and down the beltway. angelica also sa she hopes she is a finalist in the state teacher of the year recognition. nicole jacobs, news4. >> thank you, nicole. and thank you, angelica for all you do. that's all for "news4 this week." as we head into summer, we leave you now with pictures from the beach. thanks for joining us. ha a great week. lowe's knows you're the handyman who does it right.

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>> announcer: "news4 today" starts now. following breaking news overnight. developing from virginia beach. a gunn shot and killed 12 people before police shot and killed him. we're live wh the latest. traffic is moving along following a police-involved shooting sha shut down 50 root in anne arundel county. plus a sinkhole is causing a mess in montgomery county. a look at the emergency repairs. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us this morning. i'm megan mitagan fitzgerald. june 1, 2019. time is plying by, but