stephanie ramirez wusa9. they also tell us that they will attempt to post all the body camera and surveillance videos for the public to review. >>> carrying coal. investigators are trying to determine what caused that crash as the driver been identified. a suspect still on the run. it all started at the shopping center where they were trying to make a getaway car when that gunfight broke out with police. he drove off, crashed the getaway car, carjacked another one. an innocent bystander was caught in that crossfire when we were told that he is recovering tonight. >>> president barack obama in vietnam tonight. his first stop on the week long asia trip. mr. obama now the third sitting president to visit vietnam since the end of the war. during the three-day stay there, the president is expected to make the case for -- stronger security ties with the country. >>> the death of the afghan taliban leader in a u.s. air strike is being confirmed by two sources tonight. the strike just inside killed mohammed aktar . t

woodbridge, stephanie ramirez, wusa 9. >> stephanie adds that hail is only half the size. prince william county fire says the fire marshal vehicle was also hit as well. >> gosh. you've never san that before. >> we have seen the size of the coverage. >> six miles by six miles. it was huge. and the storm stayed together for about 2 1/2 hours. average life span of a thunderstorm is 45 minutes. let me show you the picture. this might be the biggest hailstone in montgomery counselee. i think it's official now -- county. i think this is official now. you don't see that too often. that's big. pretty much by any standards. even out in the midwest really. live look outside. it's our michael and sons weather cam. 66. light rain at national right now. looking at winds out of the east at about 7. winds are going to continue to be east or northeast through thursday. even through friday. that's when we're really going to have a cool stretch here. here's the big picture. this is over the last hour. this is by far and away is where the heaviest activity is going to be. fredericksburg is n

sylvia ramirez: thanks for having us.damian: well, we see all the colors and the splendor of carnaval. i mean, here it is right here. this is back, right? sylvia: oh, carnaval is amazing. i think it's the best show in northern california. so, it's free, everything's free: the parade, the festival. there's pageantry, there's costumes, there's dance, music, art, food. it's just the biggest party. damian: and the headliner is pretty amazing this year. sylvia: yes, oscar de león, the lion of salsa, a very, very well-known, internationally-acclaimed salsa artist with an 18-piece orchestra is going to be playing free at the carnaval festival. so, there's no reason not to go. damian: and he's the one who can attract those who like maybe tex-mex or like some other genre of music. he's the one who can attract you to listen to his orchestra and enjoy it. sylvia: oh yeah, because it's world class. i mean, we're not cutting corners here. we're providing the best entertainment. i mean, he fills stadiums. and this is gonna be free on h

you will hear from a loved one tonight at 11:00, stephanie ramirez, wusa9. >> and the alexandria national cemetery one of the original 14 cemeteries established in 1862 under president lincoln. >>> it is called the civil war unknown monument. it houses the remains of 2100 confederate and union soldiers but the monument at arlington seldom sees the attention the better known tomb of the unknown. today, veterans laid a wreath at the civil war unknown monument. >> on all of these things in every state have been representing the fact there are those who have given their lives for their country and they all have been forgotten and we owe them not only a debt of gratitude, but a debt that we can't fully repay. but we can respect what they have done. >> the remains inside the tomb were once scattered across the battlefield of bow run and the roust. >>> thousands of motorcyclists in the washington area this weekend for rolling thunder. >> i think it is vital. without things like these, people begin to forget. not forget what happened, but, they definitely, it brings it back into people's minds. i

stephanie ramirez reports alexandria on this national rebuilding day. >> reporter: he's a vietnam war veteran. a father, a grandfather, a homeowner, and, a retired bus driver. >> it's a challenge. every day. school kids keep you on the ball every day. >> reporter: but more recently, that challenge turned to keeping seymour holder's alexandria home. he is dealing with kidney failure. volunteers saw that need and saturday, the group's rebuilding alexandria and heros at home joined forces on national rebuilding day to install new railings. >> one of the big issues was a leak in the upstairs bathroom coming into the kitchen. >> reporter: new screen doors were on the list. this is not the only home. at least 40 different homeowners will get some much needed help. it is all work mr. holder says he didn't do on his own or afford to get supports his grandchildren. >> our work ensures they can live here comfortably and safety. >> probably drive down this street. you know. a lot. you know. it never occurred to me that you know, who lived here and what needed doing. it is nice to be able to cont

stephanie ramirez reports from southeast. >> reporter: this is the surveillance video from the night of charnice mill ton's murder. many a dozen potential witnesses drive by, and almost a year later, not one arrest. >> it is a frightening feeling to be in people actually sheltering murders. >> reporter: philipp is the one who plastered these posters. >> it looks as if a war was going on. and it is a war going on. >> this looks like the issues we agreed on. >> reporter: today, they will help solve these murders. various clergy members are meeting saturday organizing to get dc leaders involved. they believe the next step is to get the photos to air on dc's public access channel. the hope is once candles go out, the community will remember who they lost and maybe as pannell put it, decide to protect their entire community instead person. two weeks will be the one year since charnice milton was killed. her body used in a human shield as a shooting. the pain is still very real for her mother who chooses to celebrate her daughter's life instead of dwell on her death. but that doesn't mean

those in the community tell our stephanie ramirez that the suspect and his wife are not only from the philippines, but from the same town. >> this is a tragic incident. >> reporter: they tell wusa9 that he's helping the family of 44-year-old get her remains back to the philippines so they could give her a traditional burial. they tell us that they know that family through their and says that the philippines are where the beloved teacher and his estranged husband turned murder suspect. 62-year-old tortillo are from. >> that they are celebrating mother's day today. you have two minor children who will have a big emotional trauma. >> reporter: in the philippines he was one of five siblings. showing us a photo of her and the suspect participating in a past event from those of the same town. we spoke to the event organizers over the phone. >> it is shocking even now. >> the suspect asked her for help on facebook. >> he wanted to reform. he wants to change. i said go ahead. >> reporter: she is speaking about the protective order that they learned violence. it's hard to tell who really knew

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students today tell stephanie ramirez this never should have happened. >> reporter: you hear yelling and screaming. young women appear to be pulling their friends out by their arms, then you hear sprays. we don't know what led up in the moments leading up to this but we know graduates are shaken up. courtney humphrey was there. campus police tell us they received a noise complaint. there was a grad party going on in court yards and apartment complex, part of campus housing. those there say there were maybe 50 or more people at the party and that it was almost exclusively attended by african american students who earlier that day walked down the aisle for graduation. >> most of us graduate in four that was robbed. no discord whatsoever. everyone was celebrating, enjoying themselves. >> reporter: campus police tell us more than one officer had a body camera rolling. they started reviewing that and surveillance video immediately. he lives upstairs and tell us he came down to see the commotion. >> i thought it was probably overly aggressive. i don't really see a reason for why they spray

at reagan national, stephanie ramirez, wusa 9. >>> the metropolitan washington airport authority saysht now their wait times are below 20 minutes. they will be monitoring the tsa as we move the into the summer months. >>> a woman driving down i-95 to miami caught es county. she says she started to panic when it got closer to the highway. a possible tornado damaged a nearby mobile home park and the high school rescheduled tonight's graduation ceremonies for tomorrow. >>> and this story just might blow you away. the mount washington observatory in new hampshire posted this video of a man nearly gone with the wind. he ventured on the observation deck when winds clocked 109 miles per hour! it's like being in a category 2 nearly cat-3 hurricane, right, topper? >> yes. >> according to the facebook post, the weather observer gets to take a break to enjoy the windy and wintry conditions. doesn't look like fun to us. >>> so on top of mount washington is the highest wind ever recorded 234 miles per hour. and as high as it is, as cold as it is there, it's not the highest point east of the caroli

these wonderful people be forgotten. >> reporter: at the alexandria national cemetery, stephanie ramirezsa9. >> the cemetery became full two years after it was created and that is what led to arlington national cemetery. >>> more than 150 american legion riders and americans across the country attended a wreath laying cemetery at the civil war unknown monument in arlington national cemetery. the monument houses the remains of 2100 confederate and union soldiers. they were once scattered across the battlefields of bull run and the route >>> as matt yurus is talking about, thousands of motorcyclists in the washington area this weekend, for rolling thunder. the annual memorial day weekend rally is designed to call attention to prisoners of war and those servicemen and women listed as missing in action. today, the bikers attended a wreath laying ceremony at the u.s. navy memorial on pennsylvania avenue followed by a salute to the troops. they will gather at the pentagon parking lot for a ride to the reflecting pool and the korean war memorial. >>> still ahead tonight on wusa9, people who liv

the driver is regularly ramirez. police say ramirez was driving under the influence at the time of the crash on highway 50 in sacramento. the chp officer was investigating another accident. he is still in the hospital and is expected to survive. >>> a medical emergency forced a night from san francisco to chicago to make an emergency landing. a woman passed out on the unites airlines flight last night. the plane made an emergency lanking at the billings, montana, airport. medical crews met the plane at the gate. as you see in this picture, the investigators say the woman later died. no word at this point on the cause of death. >>> a group of members in the east bay find themselves locked out of the place they woreship. we were at oakland's union baptist church as the knocked on the door. they say their pastor uncovered a dispute over accounting and spending by church deck cons and that has created a split in the church. some church members and the past you're have not been allowed to come in and worship for more than

police say gregory ramirez hit the officer with a delivery vehicle that he was driving. just a few hours ago, chp officers announced they suspect ramirez was under the influence of drugs. >>> the preliminary hearing for two san jose brothers accused of killing their parents could start as soon as tomorrow. defense attorneys and prosecutors said friday that they are ready for the preliminary hearing to start on monday. hasib golam rabbi and his 17-year-old brother omar kept away from cameras because he's a minor at 17 are accused of killing their parents about two weeks ago. in court on friday, the prosecutor turned in an electronic file full of evidence. legal experts say it will be hard to examine all of that evidence by tomorrow and say the push for the preliminary hearing is pretty unusual this early in a case. >> the fact that this case is still on track for a preliminary hearing in what is a special circumstances murder after only ten days is highly unusual. >> if enough evidence of a crime is found in the preliminary hearing, then the case does move to trial. but t

violence. >> prosecutors tell us that they will have a bond hearing tomorrow in montry stephanie ramirez wusa9. >> tomorrow's bond hearing could shed more light on how they were able to buy not just one, but two handguns after the protection order according to our sources. last week's shooting spree also claimed two other lives, injuring at least three more people. >>> a carnival cruise ship packs just hours before they are set to sale from the port of baltimore. it was used by passengers for boarding, getting off the ship. the ship suffered only minor damage and was cleared just to sail on time. but part of that damaged gang wave fell on to three parked cars belonging to employees who worked at the port. no one was hurt. the cause of the crash under investigation. >>> okay, let's turn to weather now as you know we caught a break b looking like more unsettled weather for your workweek. let's get to howard bernstein first meteorologist. >> yes, we will not have a nice stretch of clear dry weather at a decent day today some clouds have moved with a few radar returns coming towards west vir

kpix 5 reporter hen len ramirez is live with the story. >> reporter: i'm on the beach here in monterey one of the beautiful sand beaches around here. but if you look closely, you'll see that this beach is littered with the dead and decaying bodies of these little tuna crabs, they have been washing up here for the past couple of days. turning the sand a different color. it's a red tide on the monterey bay. but the splash of color on dell monetary beach is caused by the lifeless bodies of tuna crabs, they are turning up dead on arrival in california. >> it looked like a battlefield of crabs that would here. >> reporter: so many little bodies littering the ground. >> i had to watch my step everywhere i was going. i don't want to step on the shells that's kind of gross. >> reporter: this is what the invasion of the tuna crabs also known as red crabs looks like underwater. monterey biologist caitlin taylor recorded the video in the monterey harbor two days ago. >> they seem to have swarmed here in the bay because of the el nino. >> reporter: they are up to ten degrees warmer than normal bec

in looking at cell phone video, the students tell stephanie ramirez that it never should have happened. >> reporter: you can hear yelling and screaming, and they appear to be pulling thei friends out by the arms and then you hear spray. we don't know what happened in the moments leading up to this, but we do know several university graduates are still shaken up. courtney humphrey was there. >> i'm hopping the balcony to get out. i'm not shot. that's my immediate thought. >> reporter: campus police tell us they received a call for a noise complaint a little before 1:50 saturday morning. there was a grad party going on at courtyards in the apartment complex part of campus housing. and those who were there say there were 50 or more there and exclusively attended by african- american students who earlier that day walked down the aisle for graduation. >> most of us graduated in four years and we are happy. and that was robbed. >> there was no discord whatsoever. everyone was celebrating. enjoying themselves. >> reporter: campus police tell us more than one officer had a body camera rolling.

kpix 5's len ramirez reports from san jose where an estimated 10,000 people showed up for a rally this afternoon. ♪[ music ] >> reporter: this is how it looked on the inside of this screaming and sweltering bernie sanders crowd mothers and children, young and old, and people of many colors, religions and orientations. they stood in the sun for hours. >> "feel the bern" today? >> oh, yeah. right here. [ laughter ] >> reporter: played hooky from work and school. >> extracurricular political science field trip. >> reporter: all to be part of something new in politics an outsider taking western states by storm. >> yeah, bernie sanders, man. >> we won a few months ago a great victory in the state of washington. we won oregon last night. and i have a strong feeling that with your support, we're going to take the entire west coast! [ applause and cheers ] >> reporter: sanders spoke for an hour hitting or familiar themes, taxing wall street, fixing income inequality, making healthcare and education free and being welcoming to muslims and latinos. one face in the crowd belonged to enrique a san

kpix 5's reporter len ramirez tells us, the defense claims the d.a.'s office is biased. len. >> reporter: well, that's right, ken. this is a case where the defense is going on the offense. mr. stubble field's attorneys today calling on the attorney general of california to get involved to ensure that their client receives a fair trial. dana stubblefield has not even entered a plea in his rape case but his attorneys have already gone to court filing a motion today to have district attorney jeff rosen's office pulled from the case. the attorneys accuse the d.a. of prejudicing the case and leaking information to the media. >> they showed up at mr. stubblefield's children's school with a press release in one hand and handcuffs in the other. >> reporter: stubblefield is accused of raping a 32-year-old developmentally disabled woman in his home last year after interviewing her for a nanny job. stubblefield said they did have sex but it was consensual. his attorney cited what they called inflammatory phrases in the press release like she was unconscionably assaulted and if conv

jessica ramirez is a woman who dealt with tough challenges in pursuit of her goals. beyond the dream we focus on her rise from poverty to success and how she's helping others through her work at catholic charities. >> we -- we used an outhouse. we did not have hot water. and my parents hate when i tell these stories because we did -- we moved on. we did get running water, we did have a house with a bathroom. but my early memories were definitely using an outhouse because we lived in the country. >> jessica ramirez remembers those humble days of growing up poor in a small town in puerto rico. she said achieving her american dream was a long and complicated journey. >> what little we had my dad lost his job. so he become very desperate. and one of his friends said there's this place called atlantic city. and you can work there and they will give you medical insurance. and you'll be able to make a living there and bring your family. and that's what he did. >> jessica was just eight years old when they moved to new jersey. they didn't know the language. had no family sup