good morning, everyone, i'm aaron gilchrist outside the navy yard. there were so many acts of heroism here one year ago today. there were police officers who rushed into the navy yard not knowing exactly what they were going to find when they got there. the u.s. park police heard the call and one of them jumped in his car to meet up with jennifer bennett who was shot here on the grounds. we'll hear from officer matt cooney in his own words. >> we weren't sure where we were going. we came down and saw mtv officials directing officers where to go. so people were taking cover near building 197. and he directed us to an officer that was by himself and said, the three of you, you are on our team and go. there's the door. as we were on the first floor in the atrium area, we could hear that he was up on the third floor, so we were brought that way. i found myself with a team on the roof, because we thought alexis was up there at the time. and checked the roof, he's not there, thank goodness, but there we have four civilians, including miss bennett. and i ca

i'm aaron gilchrist live outside the washington navy yard this morning. there's ban steady stream of vehicles going into the navy yard. those who normally work on the ground here, but today they will all stop to pause and remember those shot and killed here a year ago. in just two hours the ceremony will begin here. we'll tell you about the touching moments planned for the ceremony in a few minutes. >>> but first, let's go to tom kierein here with the forecast. good morning. >> good morning. we had one area of light rain come through the metro area a couple hours ago. another one is coming into washington county near hagerstown. we are getting a few sprinkles near northern frederick county over the next half hour. another batch of light rain now in the panhandle of west virginia. we are getting closer to martinsburg and charlestown. then tracking farther east, maybe getting into frederick and northern loudoun county over the next 45 minutes or so. there's the sky over washington now. we have a partly cloudy sky as we approach dawn for the bus stop this mo

aaron gilchrist shows us how. ♪ >> reporter: english teacher albert lewis is krauting a wall of inspirationhop music to motivate his new ninth graders. he hopes his presence is motivating for young men, too. >> if you can kind of inject more males into the building, imagine the type of power and influence that could have over students. >> rep lewis is in his first year at charles flowers high school in prince george's county, among the nearly 2,000 male teachers in the district st school year. but that number represents a problem. >> i believe to increase male educators, it releases burden on some of the teachers having to be mothers and fathers, counselors to students. >> reporte 23% of teachers in prince george's were male. in montgomery county, 26% of teachers were men and 51% of students are male. d.c. has a ratio of 23 to 51%. and fairfax county 18.5 to 52%. board of ed member curtis valentine started the male educator network for the district back in march. one of its goals is to reimage the profession for students. you can be call and be a teacher, valentine says. >> we wear the same

news 4's aaron gilchrist shows us how. >> albert lewis is creating a wall of inspiration, quote, from hip-hop music to motivate ninth graders and hopes his presence is motivating for young men too. >> if you can kind of inject more males into the building imagine the type of power and influence you could have over students. >> reporter: louis is in his first year in prince george's county among nearly 2,000 teachers in the district but that number represents a problem. >> our ability to increase male educators, reduces the burden on some of the teachers having to be mothers and fathers, counselors to the students. >> reporter: 23% of teachers in prince george's were male compared to 51% of students. in montgomery county, 26% of teachers were men and 51% of students are male. d.c. has a ratio of 23 to 51% and fairfax county 18.5 to 52%. board of ed member curtis valentine started the male educator effort back in may. you can be cool and be a teacher, valentine says. >> we wear the same sneakers and same music you listen to, but we know that as teachers we have to be professional and of

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang on this friday, september 19th, 2014. let's take a live look outside at 5:00 a.m. 64 degrees. and ending our workweek on a nice note >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein is here with our forecast. >> i saw them bundled up waiting for the new iphone in line this morning. you'll be spending much time outside this morning, you will need a jacket. it is cool. a light fog. a live view of washington on this friday morning. fog may be a little dense for the rural areas. watch out for the roadways. patchy fog there. elsewhere, beautiful morning. mild and comfy this afternoon. your weather headlines, a weekend turning summer like. nice warming coming up this weekend. a cool morning, though. temperatures with the fog will be hovering in the 50s between now and 8:00. after that, we will jump into the 60s. by noon, should be around 70 degrees. mostly sunny. delightful afternoon. temperatures in the mid-70s most of the region. low humidity in place. just a few clouds beginning to pop up. we go live to georgetown with amelia siege

i'm eun yang. >> i'm aaron gilchrist.me back on this tuesday, september 30th. 5:30 with a live look from the tower camera here in washington's tinley town neighborhood. you can see the fog off in the distance looking north. some of us waking up to some difficulty seeing. >> yeah, we'll check in with meteorologist tom kierein now to get an idea on the weather we'll have today. >>> good morning. the densest fog is mainly west over the metro area, shenandoah valley, and out in the mountains m locations are down to a quarter mile or less. watch out for that. east of the blue ridge, these are the visibilities in miles. gaithersburg and dulles, we are generally down to three quarters. but this could quickly diminish and get thicker here over the next hour or two because the air is pretty saturated. driving along, you may have great visibility and then come into a patch of dense fog. so use the low beams, slow down and watch out for students at the bus stops. watch out for deer, too. temperature where is the fog is the densest,

and as news 4's aaron gilchrist shows us, her faith and the people helping her keep her going. >> you get up, get dressed, go to work and live eporter: jennis a tough lady. she told me that by the police chopper that rescued her from the navy yard. three surgeries repaired her shoulder and arm after a five inch hole was blown through it when she came face-to-face with aaron alexis. >> looked him in the eye, he blinked, i looked at him and i watched him make the decision. he pulled the trigger, i watched him do it, the fire, the blast, i watched as it hit meemt went down. >> reporter: the pain was excruciating. blood was everywhere. somehow jennifer calmed herself, realized she had to move in case the shooter returned and she stood up. >> i called out for jesus. i said jesus, please come help me. then i sort of yelled that and i walked back up the stairs. i walked 3 1/2 flights by myself. >> reporter: she got to the roof where three colleagues were already hunkered down. they tried to stabilize her wound, and they prayed with her. >> we prayed for the shooter. because i knew his day wa

i'm aaron gilchrist. i'm eun yang. welcome to this monday, septemr 15th, 2014.ur workweek at 5:00 a.m., just 60 degrees outside our studios. very cool out there. storm team 4 meet rolls tom kierein with your weather and traffic on the 1s. >> we are the warm spot in northwes s and rural areas it is much cooler. partly cloudy skies overlooking northet washington. you'll need a light jacket. througho the morning, your headlines this monday morning, you will lov the low humidity the. be heading back home from work and sc temperat now, though, just in the mid-40s. shenando and into the mountain many locations ther ea it is just near 50 degrees in our nearby suburbs. gaithers, 48. leesburg, 52. dulles, 51. 51 in clinton and prince ge as well. for the morning commute, you wi need a light jacket. temperat in the upper 40s and low 50s between now and 10:00 a.m. mid to upper 50s. coming up at 5:11. r morning commute with melissa. no problems right

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to news 4 on this september 26th, 2014. a live look outside at 5:00 a.m. still dark. 60 degrees. a little bit of a warmup for the weekend. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. >> we're sounding the fog horn. i-95 around the blue ridge and the shenandoah valley. a quarter mile from martinsburg,

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang for this tuesday, september 23rd, 2014. all right, leave the short sleeves in the closet this morning as you wake up to temperatures we haven't seen around here in months. >> you might want to go ahead and box them up. >> no, i'm not ready to box up the short sleeves. >> tom kierein is here to help you prepare for the day ahead with your winter-like -- do you want to call it that for some folks? >> down in the mountains we are in the 30s this morning. but don't box up

aaron gilchrist will have spl live coverage of the navys rem ceremony and you can follow all of the day's eves on nbc wash. l be getting rain when we're that's going to be the thing, unle you're waking up -- >> they' be here. >> but for the best o of us, i thin we'll be okay. there are showers making their way, but outside currently, anr very nice night. temp have fallen of it's going to be ano nice nit f the most part, with the excep of those showers movi in. 69 degrees currently right now at the airport, winds out of the south at 12 miles perhour. 61 in fredericke not cooled as quickly tonight as a resu the cloud cover. you can see on the radar we're not dealing wh showe at the mome. but it doesn't take long, look to the west as we start toy in. lots of cloud cover before that. and the front is still west, pr few spotty showers, n. but thas really about it. behi that, it gets really nice agai so future weather, the clouds aly here, and then 4, 5:00 in the morning, t bt chance for shows developin fairly coul be isolated showers around 7, maybe 8:00, but most of the ac is now well to the

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to this tuesday, september 30th, 2014. we are dealing with fog right now. >> we'll look at the impact this fog is having on our ability to see outside. >>> yes, we had the showers yesterday and overnight to leave the atmosphere saturated with moisture. now the showers are just northeast of baltimore and continuing to pull off to the east. a few sprinkles in the lower eastern shore, but it is very humid as a result. the visibilities have really dropped with patchy, dense fog. down to a quarter mile in a few locations mainly west and north of the metro area. right around washington, visibilities are near 2 to 5 miles. if you

aaron gilchrist is breaking down what we can expect to see. >> apple is known for giving us products we feel like we can't live without, and they just may do it again. the expectation is if r the iphone 6. the new iphone. two versions are supposed to be released. both with larger screens. this is what the current iphone looks like on the left. tech experts say they could look like the two on the right with the larger screens. the 4.7 and 5.5 inch screen sizes that you'll see with the new phones. we could also learn in the i-watch will become a thing of reality. it's supposed to track your heart rate, sleep patterns, blood pressure. apple's take on that could really change the game. >> they reinvented categories in the past. they changed music. . they changed pcs. >> both are expected to be the first to use nfc. that stands for near field communications. . it enables mobile payments, which could mean the end of credit cards for a lot of folks. you can kound on news 4 to bring you the latest on this. watch the announce live on nbcwashington.com. look if the link on the top of the home

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang. welcome to news 4 on this september 26th, 2014. a live look outside at 5:00 a.m. still dark. 60 degrees. a little bit of a warmup for the weekend. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein. >> we're sounding the fog horn. i-95 around the blue ridge and the shenandoah valley. a quarter mile from martinsburg, hagerstown, shenandoah. we don't have a lot of fog around. but when you do encounter the dense fog, use your low beams and slow is down. it will be with us another couple of hours as the fog slowly dissipates this morning. what to wear today, well, you will need a jacket this morning waiting for the buses. temperatures in the 50 to near 60 another couple hours. you'll be okay with that. later today it will be warming up at the bus stop. temperatures around 60 degrees. between 8:00 and 9:00, lots of .unshi should be into the mid-60s. coming up next at 5:11. a look at our hour by hour warming for the days ahead. now melissa looking at traffic conditions. >> looking good. you're not going to have any issue. we don't have any yet. y

. >> i'm aaron gilchrist on this thursday, september 18th. live look outside shows you cloudy can skies over washington at this early hour. again, we're waking up to a bit of a chill in the air. >> storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein will show us what we can exct. >> good morning. starting off early this morning. might get lucky. a few breaks in the cloud. you might get a glimpse in the southeastern sky for the morning commute. walking or driving this morning a light jacket. might need to turn the heat on in the car. low to mid 50s. after 8:00 it will jump into the 60s between 8:00 and 10. you'll be comfortable waiting for the long bus. temperatures in the low to mid-60s by then. looking at our skies through the morning, clouds coming and going by 8:00 this morning. it will be partly cloudy. by noon time as we get into the afternoon hours, clouds coming through from time to time. next weather and traffic on the 1s. an hour-by-hour breakdown. that's coming up at 5:41. now our thursday commute. hi, alexis. how are you doing? >> doing well. t

i'm aaron gilchrist in for barbara harrison. >>> news 4 mark seagraves is outside the superior court with more. mark, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, aaron. as you said, chris brown walked into the courthouse this morning and pled guilty, admitted to one count of simple assault. the judge said that he had already suffered enough consequences. so he gave him credit for time served and allowed chris brown to leave with no jail time and no probation. brown walked into the courthouse with only a few reporters and no fans outside. he did not speak on his way in. he did not speak on his way out either. inside the courtroom he did tell the judge that he was sorry for his actions on october 27th when he punched a fan in the nose. he admitted that he punched him with a closed fist and broke his nose and that it was not self-defense. after the court hearing, brown left the courtroom. this time, he was mobbed by about two dozen fans and about just as many reporters and cameramen. here is what his attorney, danny anarato had to tell the reporters after the hearing. >> mr. brown is please

. >> reporter: aaron gilchrist, news 4. >> louisiana state police say the investigation is moving forwardttorney's office and state police will meet with white's family before going public with their findings. >>> new at 6:00, growing calls for action amid the murder of a second american journalist, what we are learning about the calculated isis attack and the third hostage now being threatened. >>> sweeping changes could be comes in the wake of the ralisha rudd case. >>> police say he tried to snatch a 2-year-old girl from a local playground. how the child's big brother jumped into action to protect her. >>> our weather, a strong line of storms bringing rain and lightning across the region. >> it comes as you know one of the hottest days of the year. doug is tracking the conditions in the storm center. >> we are moving into the month of september. wouldn't you know it the hottest days of the summer after most of us head back to school. we have a loto severe weather across the weather. severe thunderstorm warnings much of the area under a severe thunderstorm watch. the strongest storms in

you can find more information t this, the complete study, on our website by going to nbcwas i'm aaron gilchrist, news4. are approaching hos and the only thing people can do is leave. we'll take you to the desperate scene.> bill cosby was a fixturr nbc news for years. nbc telev now a part of the comedi life at homecoming to washin> and school gets getting seco chance today as the list of schools giving parents longer to get their kids up to date on their shots is growing >>> welcome back to news4 at 5:00. i'm dianna russini. today the big story, starting quark rob gri iii is in a cast. but jay gruden expects him to retu thi. now in this week's "cooley report" chris cooley talks about how valuable yesterday's win was for this team. >> you would have never guessed that witho robert griffin, dese jackson, the offense wo done what it did. but clearly we have some depth. >> no jordan reed, too. >> clearly, there's some talent acro the board, and what i like from the game, regardless of who was in, they get this idea they can play. they get this idea they can do what they want to do as an offens just

i'm aaron gilchrist. >> i'm eun yang for this tuesday, september 23rd, 2014. all right, leave the short sleeves in the closet this morning as you wake up to temperatures we haven't seen around here in months. >> you might want to go ahead and box them up. >> no, i'm not ready to box up the short sleeves. >> tom kierein is here to help you prepare for the day ahead with your winter-like -- do you want to call it that for some folks? >> down in the mountains we are in the 30s this morning. but don't box up the short sleeves yet. it's going to be changing by the end of the week. there is a flag flapping gently there in front of union station. chilly morning. afternoon, mild and comfy. needed rain coming. your weather headlines for this tuesday, what to wear this morning, the choices i would suggest jacket and long pants. that's as you head out early this tuesday morning because it's down just into the mid-40s. most of the region, look at it just near 50 for prince george's county. the rest of the region is down in the 40s. it's in the 30s in the mountains. peters