i'm mark seagraves. we'll show you the compelling surveillance video. >>> big outdoor video signs are starting to show up on building s around town. what's up? i'll have the story, coming up. >>> plus past investigation shedding new light tonight on the troubles of the head start program in prince george's county. news 4 at 5:00 starts right now. >>> and good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with some scary moments inside a local beauty shop. >> this is really disturbing. two women and a young girl held at gunpoint during the robbery. at one point, one of the victims, thest hurt them. mark seagraves talked with the owner and is outside that shop in alexandria, in the alexandria section of fairfax county. mark? >> wait till you see this surveillance video. this is harrowing, beauty island shop here in the mt. vernon crossroads shopping center on richmond highway. that's the store right behind me. yesterday morning a gunman walked through that door and terrorized the three people inside. >> he put the g

mark seagraves jackings are up in d.c. and way up in baltimore. >> it's a crime that strikes fear into many drivers. the thought of someone with a weapon, threatening to hurt you in order to steal your car. >> it strikes at our inner core. >> nationwide and here in our area, the chance of having your car stolen while you're not around has gone down significantly in recent years, car jackings have gone up in big cities like the district. after reaching a six-year low in 2014 of 134 car jackings, that number went up by 10% in 2015 and is on track to stay at that rate or increase in 2016. car jackings where the suspects use a gun as their weapon were on track to near a six-year high in the district as well. but the numbers in d.c. aren't as high as they are in baltimore. >> what's so our inner space, our inner sanctum and our psyche, our zone of security. >> while overall in maryland, carjackings have gone down, including in montgomery and prince george's county, in the city of baltimore, carjackings are on pace to double thi

i'm mark seagraves and i'll tell you how the luann bennett. after losing her husband to cancer, she raised three boys here in northern virginia and grew the family business. a single working mom who helped create over 1,000 local jobs, bringing people together to solve problems. i'm luann bennett. in business, you bring everyone to the table and work to get results. congress just doesn't get that-- there's too much partisanship. i approve this message because washington needs more common-sense problem solvers. >>> i'm here in kensington maryland near wheaton mall. you can see this crime scene tape on the other side where montgomery police are investigating a stabbing. right now they are trying to determine why an 18-year-old man allegedly stabbed a 19-year-old pregnant woman. let's show you some video from chopper 4. police say this was a domestic stabbing, that happened near crossway community school around 3:20 this eervening. they tell thus couple is not affiliated with the

our mark seagraves broke this story on twitter.ern avenue in southeast. news 4 darcy spencer has more on how everything happened. >> reporter: an off duty d.c. firefighter shot and wounded while driving his car with his daughter inside. it happened here on southern avenue in southeast d.c. in broad daylight, just down the street from a church. the firefighter was flown to an area hospital. he was conscious, alert, and stable. the shooting happened at 4:00 in the afternoon. the lookout is for a black and red sports motorcycle. the gun violence a surprise in this neighborhood of single-family homes along a ve busy road along the border with prince george's county. this woman has lived here for decades. how concerned are you to find out there was a shooting? >> very much. i've been living here about 40 years and i have never had that problem. never. you know, people sort of stay to their self-but never any crime. >> the fire technician is 44 years old, a 20-year veteran. he works in northwest d.c. paul is an area neighborhood commissi

mark seagraves, news4. >>> it's not just d.c. the downsizing trend is being seen across the country. for the first time since the end of the recession, the average size of newly built homes is shrinking. experts say more entry-level buyers who need mortgages are coming back to the homebuying market, and that means more demand for smaller homes. >> it's financing. it depends on the markets. in our market, it's been financing's driving the deals. and people -- builders are adjusting their product to meet the affordability issues. >> as for the youngest home buyers, millennials are doing more with less, from microapartments to tiny homes. as long as the place is totally tricked out with all the top techie amenities, bigger isn't always better. >>> the makers of a lifesaving drug are under fire. tonight, steps they say will help families cut the costs. this amid l >> reporter: teaching community college one day, the next day, he was arrested and jailed after two female students accused him of sexually assaulting them. now the entire

news4's mark seagraves has our report. >> reporter: these are the brooklyn manor apartments behind me. a sprawling complex here right off of rhode island avenue in northeast washington. this is a copy of a lawsuit filed today in u.s. district court trying to prevent the developer of this property from tearing these buildings down and building new units. the tenants who are suing the developer say the developer is discriminating against large families because the new units will no longer have four or five-bedroom apartments. and that means, they say, they'll have to find somewhere else to live. >> would be lost because i've lived there -- i feel like that's my home. i've been living there for 22 years. it seems like i've been there for like 30 or 40 years. >> reporter: the developer wouldn't comment because of pending litigation, but a party close to the developer tells news4 the developer in fact is going out of his way to provide affordable housing and that very face the possibility of not having a place to live. in northeast, mark seagraves, news4. >>> it took an elaborate rescue to

i'm mark seagraves. both sides coming up. >>> at one point, it felt like the d.c. street car would never start running. and now it is celebrating six months of service. the new information we just expanding street car service. >>> and help us out, folks, and help a child that needs to get back to school the right way. call and donate. >>> a new development project in northeast d.c. is the focus of a lawsuit. >> residents are afraid they may end up on the street. they live at the brooklyn manor apartments off of rhode island avenue. they tell us the developer is discriminating against large families. news4's mark seagraves live in northeast d.c. to explain for us. mark? >> reporter: good evening. the brooklyn manor experiment sprawl across about 20 acres off of rhode island avenue in northeast washington. it's home to about hundreds of families, most of them low income. some of them tell us that they believe the developers' new plans could leave them out on the streets. >> would be lost because i've lived there -- i feel like that's my home. >> reporter: cheryl brun

mark seagraves joins us live with the terrifying account from one of the victims. >> reporter: good evening, this would be a horrible attack for anyone but imagine someone putting a gun to your 7-year-old daughter's head. the two women working in the store were going about their normal duties when the gunman walked through the front door, pointed the gun in their faces. >> i said i give you everything. no problem. take everything. >> reporter: then he asked if anyone else was there. at first they lied. but after the gunman threatened to shoot them, they told him the one woman's 7-year-old daughter was in the back room. >> we got up, holding me. got back to the little girl over here come out. she had to flat down lay down, too. >> all three of you were on the ground? >> yes, sir. >> reporter: the suspect forced all three into the storeroom and asked the owner to open the safe. then he put the women in the bathroom and told them if they called back to kill them. >> i told him to take whatever he wanted and we weren't going to call the police. >> reporter: the little girl is still upset. her m

our mark seagraves broke the story on twitter and joins us from rock creek park where bystanders had to lift the tree off the car. mark? >> reporter: that's right. this happened right behind me here on rock creek parkway just after the connecticut avenue exit. it's that description of the location that seemed to confuse the 911 operator. it was rush hour, monday evening. as traffic moved slowly along rock creek parkway and beach drive, a huge tree fell. crushing a car and trapping the driver inside. the first 911 call came in from a woman who was a few cars behind the car that was crushed. her call came in at 6:05 p.m. the 911 operator did not dispatch fire and rescue 6: 6:11. >> the first caller gave us about four different locations. it took a few minutes for them to sort of realize exactly where the situation was. >> reporter: the office of unified communications which handles all 911 calls and dispatches, would not release the tape of the call, but did allow this reporter to listen to it. in the first few seconds of the call, the woman clearly describes the location as rock creek

mark seagraves is live with the story you'll see only on news 4. >> reporter: yeah, it turns out that the 911 dispatcher delayed for six minutes before sending emergency rescue crews to this location because she was apparently confused about where this location is. meanwhile, bystanders and police on the scene lifted the tree off the car, rather than waiting for the d.c. fire department. it was the height of evening rush hour when the tree fell, trapping the man inside this car. the first caller to 911 described the location of the incident as rock creek parkway just after the connecticut avenue exit. but the address or a cross street. after six minutes of back and forth between the 911 operator and the witness, units were dispatched. by that time, police and bystanders had lifted the huge tree off the car. >> i will tell you that there was some back and forth about where exactly this location was. the call taker seemed to me was being very diligent in trying to extract an exact location. it just took some time to get that out. >> reporter: now, i spoke with the woman who made that 91

mark seagraves talked with the owner and is outside that shop in alexandria, in the alexandria section of fairfax county. mark? >> wait till you see this surveillance video. this is harrowing, beauty island shop here in the mt. vernon crossroads shopping center on richmond highway. that's the store right behind me. yesterday morning a gunman walked through that door and terrorized the three people inside. >> he put the gun up here right like this. >> reporter: the store owner, who didn't want to go on camera, says she has had this shop for years and didn't have any trouble until this man walked into her shop yesterday morning. he pointed a gun at her face, the owner thought it was a joke. >> i kind of smiled because i thought he was joking and so i said may i help you? he said you better turn around. he tell >> reporter: she quickly realized he wasn't joking. the gunman ordered the owner and another woman to the floor and asked if anyone else was there. at first, they lied. >> he said if you tell me truth, i'm not going to hurt anybody but you lie, i'm going to shoot you. >> reporter:

one was ellie seagraves, daughter of anna, roosevelt's eldest child. she was at roosevelt's inauguration and john botegur, another child of anna, he told me this amazing story. roosevelt was very charming, he did not connect. people felt like they did not know him. but they could be charmed by him. that is why the skills of a politician are not the same as the skills of a parent. roosevelt was a consummate politician but he really charmed john and had this wonderful memory of sitting on roosevelt's bed and reading the sunday funny papers. brian: in the acknowledgments you talk about belong to the -- belonging to the biographers association. biographers international organization what is that? , mr. kendall: a group of biographers and we meet every year at a conference. i'm on the board and every year we celebrate a biographer. ron chernau i guess is a household name now because of hamilton. we celebrated him one year, and stacy schiff, just america's -- a worldwide group led by the american contingent. we get together for annual conferences to discuss

one was ellie seagraves, daughter of anna, roosevelt's eldest child.he was at roosevelt's inauguration and john botegur, another child of anna, he told me this amazing story, roosevelt was very charming, he did not connect. people felt like they did not know him. but they could be charmed by him. that is why the skills of a politician are not the same as the skills of a parent. roosevelt was a consummate politician but he really charmed john and had this wonderful memory of sitting on roosevelt's bed and reading the sunday funny papers. brian: in the acknowledgments , you talk about belong to the biographers association. biographers international association. what is that? mr. kendall: a group of biographers and we meet every year at a conference. i'm on the board and every year we celebrate a biographer. ron chernau i guess is a household name now because of hamilton. stacy schiff, just america's -- a worldwide group led by the american contingent. we get together for annual conferences to discuss biography and how to tell stories. brian: how would yo