trapped in a basement when a fi broke out in december of 2017. khafra had been helping eckwitt, a millionaire sto trader, build secret tunnels under his home. khafra's family and friends disagreed with the sentence. he hadfaced the maxim of 30 years behind bar. >> if one researches mr. beckwitt's background, one would realize that the sentence does not f the crime. >> reporter: beckwitt wa ed to build a bomb shelter to protect him against north korean n this blindfolded, led into these tunnels, told he was in virginia anto then led that hell hole where he was left alone to urinate and defecate in buckets. >> reporter: beckwitt apologized to the family and said he tried to save khafra, the smoke was too thick. he asked to be thought of as an

imperfect human being and not a d monster. prosecutors described beckwitt as brilliant, but said he lacked empathy and used his talents to harm others. brandon cobb was khafra's best end. >> even though it's -- it might not have been what we wanted, we're all relatively thankful that beckwitt is receiving some form of punishment and nothing like this hopefully will happen to anybodygaver a. >> the judge in the case called beckwitt intellectually arrogant. she says she hopes when he getsi out of pn he'll use his talents to help the community, ot just to get wealthy. in rockville, darcy spencer, news 4. >> khafra'stemes in court today talking about how their son's death has left them with pain, anguish and grief. khafra's dad said his son didn't deserve to suffer the way he did. we want to show you anwful cident on rockville pike right now. all lanes of rockville pike are back hope now in the north bethesdaar after this nasty crash.

a landscaping pickup truck hauling a trailer crashed into several vehicles at the entrance to georgetown prep school. seven people were inred and taken to the hospital and four ith traumatic injuries, a utility pole and signal lig were damaged. twoeo plat pe a rockville gun shop are now facing charges for a similar smash and grab that occurred in howard county. 21-year-old terrance massie and a 15-year-old charged as a mine ar accused of a burglary at fox firearms. this was last week in laurel. investigators say thatn that case they smashed a stolen van through the storefront, made off with 18uns. we're told ase officers wre locking into the rockville case, they recovered some guns stolen from laurel. amazon is not only going to deliver thousands of new jobs to aoura. the tech giant's arrival in northern virginia is also

helping to deliver lots of new transportation changes. transportation reporter adam tuss taking a closer look at how your commute is going to be changing day by day. he's live in crystal city. do you have a time lapse of that? >> absolutely, wendy. yeah, no. there's a lot that's going on here for sure. it is loud here. there's a lot of construction going on the let me show you just an example of how things are changing here, wendy, take t look at t billing. that was maybe six or seven stories higher. things like there are happening. this is part of mazon's campus, and yet, you'll also be able to get around this area easier once this is all done. >sparks and cutting. >> banging, amjackhring, lifting and hauling. >> so sometimes you have to you can with a away from the windows so you can actually focus.

>> all the changes have been, well, a lot. let's just say lunch hour hasn't been the same. >> this one they start from the top down so it's been like this the past couple of months. >> reporter: this truly is an ariarhett fitted. take a look at the south clark l and beltreet bridge right next to buling route is demolished. the car is not the main focus here in crystal city. so often we do store business bridges that are coming together. it's not every day that you see one that's actually coming apart and will stayapart forever, but this is he new crystalcity, a completely changing landscape, areas that are opening up ahead of amazon's arrive.do how ou see this place changing? what do you think it's going to become? it's amazing just watching what's going on right now just in the -- what has it been, about six, seven monies since amazon made the announcement. it will be a real bustling ity, and i'm looking forward to it. >> just a lot of noise, too. a lot of noise. >> reporter: tory wilson works

here. he commutes from the district on metro, and he'll see the benefits of a second metro entrance to the crystal city station. he says it's needed. >> because coming of this entrance right here alone in the morning, it's terribe. it's terrible. everybody is trying to stampede over each other to get to work on time >> reporter: for now a neighborhood being reimagined and redesigned day by day. and it will look tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that. you get the picture. just be aware that if you're driving throu here or coming through here there are detours all over here now, an a lot of these are expected to be in place for the next two to three weeks in some concentrations areas, specifically near the metro station. guys, back to you >> at many a, we just want to n see and then fast forward two to three years. the before and after, and we've got a lot to get through. >> all right. >> the supreme court has yet to rule on the peace cross in mard, but the high court did toss out a lawsuit in virginia

today over political boundaries. the federal court previously ruled virginia's district lines redrawn, finds the map done by the republican-controlled legislature invalid and unconstitutionally separated by race. virginia's attorney general declined to fight the ruling but the gop house tried to challenge it. the hoy court found that ale sinody in the legislature did not have the authority to sue. a.g. mark herring called the decision a big win for racy. wendy? >> a community is mourning the awful loss today of a 14-year-old honor student kamal nash he was killed over the weekend while he was just jogging across an intersection on saturday. this was near bowie. the driver who hit him did stay on the scene, but police say they are looking for a truck driver who may have witnessed that boy being hit. news 4's drew wilder reports from church road where neighbors report that street has been

dangerous for a long time. n >> reporter: you don't need a speed gun to see cars are going a lot faster than 30 miles per hour through this intersection, an after th weekend's tragedy neighbors in this community are demanding that prince george's county do something to make this intersection safer. a family friend looks on to the flowers remembering this 14-year-old hit and killed while crossing the street saturday. t community says speeding is a big problem. people don'treally obey the speed limit. >> so they are speeding through here regularly. >> reporter: there is a speed colors like purple and blue, that means they are definitely seeing some hail hit the ground.o we've gen at least measurements in at 1.25 inches. here's the storm right now, or should iay this is heavy rain, a little bit of lightning with it. this is getting ready move north of wood bridge and then it will head over towards mt. verneon.hi the t about it is you can seat lighte showers just to the north of it. that may clip the nats game but

i don't foresee a washout with that storm in particular and we're not done yet. still a long evening ahead of us. as you can see, we have a lot of showers and storms out on the board right now, and this system that's prompting these warningss and watche is going to stick with us through tuesday, wednesday and thursday. okay. so the impacts tonight, tornado ptty low on the totem pole. not real concerned about that right n. 's the hail and rain and tsmaginwind gus report. looking at futurecast on rightn . by 9:00 p.m., this model in particular has the worst of this out of here so that's likenegoo ws for us, right, but we're still going to see that chance and i'll leave that chance for showers and storm as we head wards the midnight time frame. can you see 2:00 a.m. s ing a fewreats for spotty showers isolated in nature. tuesday at 2:00 p.m. we'll stard t tomorrow another threat at some showers and thunderstorms. your forecast overnight. temperatures falling into the 70ng it's g to be a mild night.

some lingering rain and storms, but you've just got to -- got to get pastld i wou say 8:00 and then we're safe. storm team 4 ten-day outlook, t u can see we're going to s chances all the way through thursday. temperatures tomorrow in the mid to upper 80s. we take a little bit of a dip and cool dunn on wednesday into the low 80s, and if you're looking for some drier weather, that's awaiting usr on fay and saturday with a lot more heat moving in at the top of next week. i'm going to stay here in the en weather cr and keep tracking these storms and i'll have the late for you >> jim, back for you. >> somara, thanks so much. school it out and one jurisdiction is takilidss ofav a h bigger than ever jobs program in prince george's county. >> and there he is. a neighboood on edge after a black bear is seen running around the houses. >> he's a big one. >> looking forkeis picni bas c ♪ 1,2,3,4

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from the victim herself thanking himnd the others for saving her, being her here, o. she called you a hero. do you accept that >> it's a good feeling to be called a hero, but i don't feel like i'm a hero. i just feel like i did the right thing. i did what was to be done to savepoupdse somebody'si >> just incredible. neighbors ll news 4 last week's incident was not thers time these dogs attacked. we'll have more on that part va the story right here on "news 4

at 6:00." >> d.c. mayor bowser says the d.c. children will be taken cath of is summer. the mayor helped kick off the first day ofummer camps as the banniker recreation session. they will have a chance to attend summer camps wh tehey will receive free meals. childre a can also takeantage of outdoors. pool the back-to-basics d.c.eek started in 2012. the city willerve meals at more than 250 sites across all eight wards. d.c. ranked number on in the nation for its summer meals p particiation. >> and an expansion this year to prince george's county summer program. county leade say more young people will have the chance t ge a job. as news w4's derrickd explains, more young people are finding opportunities to work in areas that they are interested in. >> the lives in the crowds at upper marlboro show place arena e testament to how much the program has expanded and it's now open to 14 to 22-year-olds,

opre than 7,000 youe p paticipating this year. >> we've also done some unique nhings with cleangy and information technology to make sure we're instilling the kind of skills that the kids will need going into the workforce. >> i didat't note jobs th they would have would be so relate today what i wanted to rdo. >>orter: high school sophomore janice richards sees engineering in her future, long term and media. >> i did get a job at bowie state university for omedical engineering. >> reporter: for rodney this is an extension of the philo he's instilled in his sons. so ph>> you can see and you can achieve. >> good to have an outlet wh us. >> reporter: and rodney jr. will be working with the clean energy program in environm>> sustainab looking to make sure the young people understand what the careers look like sunshine deed young pe le getidance in

areas like workplace culture and personal finance. >> we get to have that around when they want to spend their money. >> reporter: just the size of the venue that they use with the county. epeople leave her with something much more enduring with memories of a good show. >> helping me at a young age tor know m about working and when i get older. >> you do well and present yourself well and then hopefully they will call you back the next time. in prince george's county, derrick ward, news 4. the county executive says as 10any as ,000 young people applied for suer jobs through this program. that's impressive. getting a head start out there, and an apology today from the executives at boeing to the familiar ldes those kille in two plane crashes.a ahead 5:00 tonight, we have an update on when those max 8 jets may be returning to the skies. and a black bear running l for something.

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. i would give 30 or 40 minutes if you're headed to nats back. this means downpours and that's going to be through south d.c. more on that coming up. >> this was no deer strolling through a ft. washington neighborhood over the weekend. ait was a black bear, big one, folks. it was caught rummaging around saturday night in the area of jackson drive and adams drive. as news 4's darcy sncer explains, this isn't the only bear sighting in ft. washington in the last couple of days.he tre he is. the ft. washington bear walking ross the front of a house in the middle of the afternoon. surveillance video shows the curious hungry bear makg a run for it across the street right in front of an suv where the

driver comes to a dead stop. meanwhile the bear roams through the yard and takes a sniff, nothing. he knocks over the birdbath, anh he's on the move again. he's the talk of the neighborhood. you've lived here for a long time. have you ever heard of a bear sighting here? >> no, not at all. >> reporter: it gets really dark inoo this neighborhd at night. several residents told me they are checking their surroundingsw they don't to have a surprise encounter with this bear. >> i'm not somebody's best. s >> reporteebody driving through the neighborhood captured the bear on his cell phone. the sightings happened saturday at 1:30 in the afternoon. he was captured on seral cameras scurrying around. some residents have called authorities. they want him to be re cated away from this residential community so no one, including the bear, gets hurt. what would you do if you saw him? >> i don't know. maybe run away. i don't know. >> reporter: would you go back in tea house? >> go back in the house.

>> reporter: there are some neighbors who are scared and concerned about having this bear in the neighbhood, but for the most part people just want him to go away and they want to know here did come from? in ft.shington, darcy spencer. news 4. there's breaking news with pressure mounting for embattled metro board chairman and d.c.u il member jack evans. this afternoon a board member sent a t letter to governors of virginia and maryland indicating the board's essex investigation found evidence of multiple violations. this come after governor's ralph northam and larry hogan sent a message to metro's board detailing concernsbout how metro's ethics committee handled an investigation into evans. evans is accused of using his position to solicit business for his private work. coming upty from communi spaces to front and backyards,

someone's been stealing flowers from area gardens for years now. ahead at 5, where they may have struck again. >> maryland gets the go-ahead to start issuing digital driver's licenses. consumer reporter susan hogan t t a look a

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this is the start of a week where we'll have more rainy days ndan face day a somara theodor cis here in aple of minutes with an update on the forecast. >> take it easy out there. the roads are >>ick. > maryland got the go-ahead to start issuing digital driver's licenses and news had wl give you a nuclear peek how they will work. >> how going digital could play a role to protect your identity. >> this is like coming outf nowhere and teams are a-changing, wendy and jim. >> this iso really col, and when we first heard about , oh, my gosh, like our wallets, everything that we n there, eventually we're not going to need anything. >> lipstick. >> that, of course.et don crazy. >> you're iright. >> personally do not like handing overliy cense, especially to a retailer, my age, my address, a it'sll there, right, but with a digial driver's license, they only see what they need. >> what's in your wallet? on there may be nothing left. ost of wt we do these days,

paying for groceries to hailing neridepe ur smartphone. even your driver's license is going digital. ryland, along with d.c., just wrapped up a pilot program to river's digital licenses. >> you have all kinds of tools on your phone and so your driver's license on your phone is real cool. > reporter: this is one of 500 onployees at maryland motor vehicle administra who gave the digital license a spin. for several months eployees ran them through tests like age verification at casinos and police stops anda. ts >> the results. >> it was very easy to use the and very exciting. >> reporter: a digital license looks just like the physical card we carryw, but what's diffelnt is not everyone wil see all of your details. the app will only prode age, this is all tion to thefof they will say. >> than that's really where the

safety comes in and the privacy comes in, because you're only presenting the information thate someone n to -- needs to make a decision. >> reporte get stopped by police, you'll be handed a card to scan which automatically sends a digital version of your license to the patrol car. the digital license won't replace plastic licenses entirely. they will be an option until all of the states adapt to the technology. >>i think there really is a desire out there, you know. everything is more convenient on our phones now so this is kind of that next logical first step in that regard. >> sos maryland tell they will likely start rolling thesn out year. we reach out to the d.c.dmv a couple ofimes to find out what their plans are and they haven't gotten back in touch with us. younsrea few qstns far as user friendly and on the app there's all kinds of things that you can click on for tsa and for your age, policeseon, a

give them what they need and they scan it. everybody will be equipped with the same type of scannercross the country. >> makes a lot of sense. >> and i'm thinking fake i.d.s for kids they are gone n. >>sorry, my 20-year-old. >> yeah. >> good luck, katie and matt. >> yeah. >> well, this allows to avoid the dmv going down there. >> you had such a bad time. can we not ever go there aerin. >> evthing will be done on your app which is reay cool. >> that's awesome. thank you, susan. >> sure.av we do h slick roads out there because of the rain that's coming through our area right now. >> somara is back in the storm center. when are we out of the woods with this one, somara? >> we're there:right around 8 p.m. and completely safe by 11:00. let's give you an update. this includes calvert county ann anne arl and prince george's county. lots of very heavy rain and lightning over diehl, and as i s turn thon, this is the hail.

when i start to seeblue, that's dark blues and purples, that means there's probably hail hitting the ground there making this a severe storm. then we head into washington, d.c. in fact southeast getting hammered right now with just a downpour as for as the contrast goes. sunshine up in northwest, and then weead had a little farther south of that, down towards areas like charles county and southern e'ince georgs county. waldorf get prepared. this severe thunderstorm warning in effect until 6:30 per. it's going to be a business evening, folks. look at the mess across the mi-atlantic and eastern seaboard. just a lot going on in the atmo dhere. a fewisturbances that are going to meanderhrough tuesday, wednesday and thursday, so we've just got to get used to this afternoon wet pattern. here we aretonight at 9:00 p.m. right now not showing much on the board. that's good news fors. u i will say we could see a spotty shower or isolated shower to pop between now and midnight for sure, and that's definitely

verified by this model here. pushing through tomorrow afternoon. models going bac and forth and keeping us pretty dry. i'm not buying it. i think we could still see showers and storms again tomorrow eveng especially south of washington, d.c. so your forecast for torrow, by t numbers, by the house, take a look. some isolated showers early. pretty dry and a similarsetup to today and then some storms possible closer to the evening rush time frame. temperatures tomorrow will be climbing to the upper 80s. not quite as hot as we saw today. we got to the 90-degree mark in a lot of towns today. tomorrow we'll probably be ier the upp 80s. it will be pretty human though as we head through your tuesday. the wayne outlook over the next couple of days. today widpread, tuesday, pretty widespread to scattered and wednesday another scattered threat and notice we' not drying until friday. have your umbrella handy until friday. the storm team 4 outlook shows temperatures in the 80s.

not feeling a lot like summer over the next -- well, it also,o but not ma summer heat over the next couple of days. definitely feel like summer with this kind of pattern though, t chances for showers and storms this afternoo we'll rev back up to that stormy pattern. next week we're tracking some major heat into the 90s by the top k. next wee over to you, j. >> somara, thank you so much. boeing's top official say they are making signint progress, but mo work needs to be done before the company's max jets can be cleared for takeoff. speaking of the paris air show today, boeing ceoo apologized t the families of victims from thd lion air ethiopian airline crashes both of which involved the 737 max8. boeing executives also apologized for the disruption caused by the global grounding of those aircraft. we're working closely with our customers to find

opportunities to mitigate disruption and help them where we can. and we know we have work to dot regain their confidence and e confidence of the flying public. >> 346 people died in those two max 8 crashes. in both cases, sensors wmalfunctioned and pilotsre unable toga control as anti-stall software pushed the noses of those planes down. well, for years neighbo in northwest d.c. have complained. someone stealing the flowers from their gardens and another case just happened at dupont circle. news 4's amy cho spoke to us e saying they artired of having fleir precious plants poached. >> reporter: a er bandit in d.c., you never know what flowers they will hit next, the or these or these. >> anoise heck out of us.

>> reporter: gene lives in dupont circle andomeone recently poached his petals and he knows how it feels. we've come in with people>> stealing whole flower pots. >> reporter: if you walk up and down the block you'll notice rose bushes. ken ensays his wife planted for his neighbor to enjoy. at's all the effort that you omeoin think itto's their rig to co mepo aacher ndgo back for years. in 2011 he was spotted at the newark street community garden and in 2014 police cat a one with an armful of peonies and arrested him and in 2016 that same man arrested in georgetown. it's not clear if these are allp the samrson but those who live and work insa dupont they just hope the stealing stops. >> i'll check to see if there are any decapitated stems when i get to work. >> just really o andd thing to be stealing plants. it's annoying and expensive and frustrating. it's all of the above. >> reporter: but as neighbors

count down to the day the bandit gets busted, some trying their best tosee the bright side. >> by being a romantic i would say that he's getting flowers for someone and he doesn'tr hat video that has become a viral video. >> i've ner been in a situation like this. >> new reaction to this story as the police are hit this is annie.

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a phoenix couple seen on video in a confrontation with police say apologize from the city's mayor and police chief aren't enough. this video of the incident that went viral shows police pointing guns and yelling profanities at a father and pregnant woman holding a baby. the images sparked outrage across theountry. nbc's dan sheneman has the latest.>

>st justice, that's it. >> reporter: drayvon aims a this woman say apologies from the police chief are not enough. cal ecause of this phy brutality in the case where the individualsre 100% complaint all of the time with no excuse for . >> get out of of the [ bleep ] car. >> the incident caught on a profanity-laced cell phone video happened in late may. >> put your hands up. i'm pregnant. ers eporter: after off responded to a shoplifting callh and en followed a vehicle that pole say fled the harper six months pregnant was with her two young daughters, her fiancee handcuffed by another officer police say the couple acknowledged shop lifting an item from the store and

seeing their child wa out with a stolen doll at the scene. >> is shouldn't have happened over a baby doll or whatever the case might be. it still doesn't justify their actions. >> reporter: the video spawning an outy over, sesive u excessiv force. >> the officers involved have been reassigned to desk diet as the investigation continues. dan shenem>>, nbc news. n at 6:00, one minute it's sunny and the next you're soaked. storm team 4 radar showing pop-up summertime storms all over the area. take a look at the storm that rolled thugh d.c. just an hour ago packing heavy rain and rattling our building here in northwest d.c. with booming thunder. storm team 4 meteorologist esthey're core has been track storms fo you this afternoon. the storms are sctered and they are kind of all over the

place but when they hither packing the punch. >> yeah. they are keeping me on my toes. we're tracking them all over the radar and iant to giveou this storm right here. this one is in norsothuterhen calvert and this is a severe thunderstorm getting ready to make its way through diehl. take a look at that. even hail through that. back towards the district where the southeast just got hammered with rain. making he showers now their rain out of district into district heights, camp springs nd they are going to move into essential prince george's county here. another severe thunderstorm as we hard farther south. waldorf, it's about to pick back up for you. o lots