. >> chris lawrence, thank you. >>> new tonight, a shakeup at this tsa, aimed at fixing those long security lines. in a memo to staff today, tsa's peter necessaryinger says they are creating a center to track times. >>> cause for calm and patience in baltimore. earlier today, a judge acquitted an officer. he ruled that officer nero not guilty. judge williams said nero could reasonably expect the officer driving the van to be responsible for securing gray. gray died from a broken neck while being transported, you recall. despite the not guilty verdict, an attorney for the gray family says he was satisfied with the decision. >> he did an amazing job not only of applying the law correctcorrec correctly but explanling in detail. >> another trial for another officer begins june 6. >>> the news 4 i-team has learned that full funding will be required for maintenance issues. it had been argued to be they will also answer questions about how the agency is spending money. >>> meanwhile, a slow roll for tens of thousands of riders along the blue, orange and silver line. repair is requiring trains to g

at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. >>> brand new tonight, she says she was trying to use the bathroom when a security guard burst in and kicked her out. >> now the transgender woman is talking to news 4 about the confrontation and the security guard is facing an assault charge. jackie bensen is outside of the giant where it happened tonight. she has the woman's story. jackie? >> the police report lists this as a suspected hate crime. i talked to the transgender woman who filed the report. she said it was a deeply humiliating experience and it makes her angry. >> the restroom door came open and all i heard was, i know you are a man. >> reporter: ebony belcher said she went to the gi supermarket at third and 8th street northeast with a friend who had to pick up a delivery from western union at the customer service desk. she asked the store employee to point her to the restroom, passing a female security officer in the hallway. once inside the restroom, she said something disturbing happened. >> she opened the door and came in and started to call me a name, saying you cannot use our rest

. >>> i'm chris lawrence at the live desk where we have learned that a fire likely broke out on flight 804 in the few minutes before it disappeared. the plane transmitted data to ground stations, showing smoke had been detected in a bathroom near the cockpit. the plane fell off radar screens within minutes of the warning which suggests something catastrophic happened on board. egyptian aviation officials said that search teams discovered human remains in the mediterranean sea and some passengers' luggage and seats from the plane. u.s. navy deployed a search plane to help find more records and two pieces of crucial equipment. the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder. the black box has a pinger that will send out a signal for up to 30 days. there were 66 people on board from paris to cairo. to see how their families are copio and search egyptair. >>> thank you. >>> police say he broke in to a house in the middle of the night and sexually assaulted the woman inside. now they released a sketch in hopes of catching him. kristin wright is in the northwest d.c. neighborhood where i

news 4's chris lawrence is here with a look at what's at stake. >> the night before voters go to the polls in two states, bernie sanders and hillary clinton are going all in to win kentucky, but clinton is direct being hin attacks at donald trump. >> abolishing the va? privatizing the va? we have a solemn obligation to our veterans, and i will honor that obligation, as the president and commander in chief. >> clinton is in kentucky for the fourth straight night and spending money on ads. the delegates could push her closing to clenching the nomination, but she doesn't see much chance of tha some of his biggest crowds. sanders is campaigning in puerto rico which doesn't vote until next month. he railed against the island's debt crisis and demanded that congress authorize emergency loans. >> billionaire hedge fund managers have been calling for even more austerity in puerto rico. austerity will not solve this crisis. >> now over on the republican side, governor john kasich ruled out a third party run and said he wouldn't even consider being trump's vice president unless he had a major

. >> first we want to go to chris lawrence at our live desk. he's keeping an eye on the results from oregon and kentucky kentucky. >> hillary clinton eked out a win in kentucky. who ill it is too earl will i to call, most are predicting a win for bernie sanders. >> thank you forri voting. >>> oregon votes by mail and people have been dropping off ballots all evening. hillary clinton did not visit the state and sanders is drawing his biggest crowds there. nbc news is calling her the apparent winner in kentucky after she won 2,000 more votes than sanders. that means they will delegates which puts her closer to clinching this nomination and avoids her suffering an embarrassing sweep. clinton spent money on advertising in kentucky and made a dozen trips there the past few weeks. no i we're three weeks from the last big tuesday when new mexico, new jersey and california voters all head to the polls. back to you. >> thank you. >>> new tonight, donald trump sat down with fox news anchor megyn kelly tonight to seemingly end their feud. he didn't apolog

. >>> i'm chris lawrence at the live desk where the disappearance of egyptair flight 804 is starting to affect security here in the u.s. los angeles international raised its security posture and deployed more police officers in the main terminal f. officials made the move based on updated intelligence assessments but there's no specific threat. authorities restricted access to l.a.x. police are stopping and searching passengers as they drive in and have increased the screening of people who work at the airport. the white house can't say definitively what happened to the plane, but as nbc keir simmons reports the families are starting to get some information. >> relatives of those on board have been gathered here at charles de gaulle airport. we have been watching as french government officials and ministers have arrived to give them information before the information is released. what we now know is american intelligence officials believe or suspect there was an explosion in the area where this plane disappeared. we know from the egyptians they think it is more likely this was terror

chris lawrence is at the live desk with the latest. >> we are watching a meltdown at the phoenix airport. a technical glitch caused 3,000 checked bags t flights and almost all ended up in a parking lot here at sky harbor. the tsa experienced what they are calling an unprecedented computer issue and could it automatically screen the bags for explosives. they have been bringing in extra k-9 units to do it manually but so many bags were stacking up they had to send them to the parking lot. now passengers are flying 0 it of phoenix with idea when their luggage l catch up to them. southwest alone is driving 1500 bags to las vegas where they have to be screened and eventually rerouted to the final destinations. >> what a mess. thank you, chris. >>> the issues in phoenix come at 'worse possible time for the tsa. the agency's leader was grilled on capitol hill for growing wait times at airports across the country. the tsa is screening more passengers than ever. sometimes 3 million a day. tsa each week. 6,000 a year. that's leading up to three-hour waits at some check points, infuriating passenge

completely blocked by the good thing is so far in kansas no major injuries, at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. >> thank you. >>> after a long stretch of rainy days, we are getting ready for some of the west weather we have had in weeks. >> we earned it. give us the good news. >> we have for sure. today the first day at 80 degrees or higher this month. that's amazing considering our average is in the upper 70s. normally we see a couple of 80s in may. last year we saw tons of them. this year, today was the first. 838 the high. 82 leesburg, 84 fredericksburg. a nice day with plenty of sunshine. the commuter forecast tomorrow, only thing to worry about is sun glare in the morning. 63 degrees early. 85 tomorrow afternoon. look at what we are looking at here. more 80s on the way. tracking the weekend and memorial day rain. i'm tracking a system and more on it coming up in a few minutes. >>> luxury cars are a growing target for thieves, but it's not always the car itselfh target. montgomery county police tell us they have had 35 wheel-related thefts since march. we talked to one woman who found her

i'm chris lawrence. >> the crime spree spanned two days over several location an left three dead and three injured. gladys was killed. this morning a woman and two men were shot in the parking lot. a woman was shot outside of the giant store at aspen hills shopping center and at 2:55 this afternoon, police swarmed tordil's car and took him in to custody without incident. >> his wife was a science teacher at park hill high school in prince georges county. today was a tough day for her students returning to school af killed yesterday at high point high school. >> her students are just very upset, as one can imagine. even students that didn't have her as a teacher are coming by the room, leaving notes on the door. >> she was a happy teacher. she would sing katy perry. >> news 4 learned that ulalio tordil had his work-issued firearm taken a away before the shooting spree that started yesterday afternoon. and police removed several other guns from the home. their two daughters were about to graduate from high school. we have a link to an on-line fund-raiser started by their friends. if yo

. >> chris lawrence, his soccer buddies called him "the tank" and malcolm winfell may have acted as one protecting a woman and paying for it with his life. he is one of three victims shot and killed during a shooting spree linked to a single suspect. family and friends remembered his life. andy talked about how much he will miss soccer games with his brother who loved sports. him and i paraded our skills around all of these soccer fields in the area. i wear this proudly, with his last anytime and mine on the back. >> he was jokingly called "the tank" because of his size and strength. assets that helped him to save a stranger's life. >> pain basically and sorry for the family. >> reporter: greg of the victims rights foundations knows there are many tough months and years ahead for the families of malcom in >> we have made a commitment to support them, spiritual support, counselling and so forth. in addition to that, fund-raising. >> reporter: the funeral service will be held at 10:00 tomorrow morning here at the catholic church. jackie bensen, news 4. >> two teenagers are missing in fair

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at the live desk, i'm chris lawrence. >>> this is a storm team 4 weather update. >> tracking rain and a couple of thunderstorms on storm team 4 radar. you can see what is happening as we rainin heavier thunderstorms south of fredericksburg. you may see lightning in that area. moderate to heavy rain in loudoun, clark county, look at what is happening in the district. seeing showers popping up along the line here. this one came over the airport, which if it gave us a hundredth of an inch that would keep our days of consecutive rain going and we have a couple more here, too. look at the west. a lot of rein and big-time storms. i don't expect much in the way of storms but the rain will continue. something we will be watching tomorrow morning is the fog. getting up tomorrow morning 58 degrees. rather foggy with rain showers. give yourself extra time on the are roadways. complete forecast shows when we may see a break in this rain coming up in a minute. >>> to politics now, and the west virginia primary. it is the first contest since donald trump became the presumptive republican nominee. >

let's start with chris lawrence with details on that meeting today. chris. >> wendy, speaker ryan called the encounter veryencouraging, but still holding out the endorsement, and say the process will take sometime. he arrived at rnc hdq and after he left washington, he tweeted, he had a great day with gop leaders. ryan said during the closed-door meeting, trump expressed interest in keeping him on as chairman for that convention this summer in cleveland. he is encouraged by what trump had to say, and believes they're planting the seeds to unify the party. ryan says what trump has done in the primary season has been nothing short of remarkable. >> he has gotten more votes than any republican primary nominee in the history of our country, and this is isn't even over yet. it is very important that we don't fake unifying, we don't pretend unification. this is our first meeting. i was very encouraged with the meeting, but this is a process. it takes time. you don't put it together in 45 minutes. >> ryan and trump issued a joint statement after the meeting,

news4 chris lawrence is in our newsroom working details on this story. >> reporter: trump is calling the article now one of the women at the center of it is calling it disappointing saying the times took her words out of context. the article describes a time when trump asked a woman he barely met if she wanted to change out of her clothes and into a swimsuit. he asked the crowd, isn't this a stunning trump girl? this supposedly happened at a party back in the early 90s. the model at the center of it told msnbc she considers the experience to be very positive and trump never asked that question. >> i never said he paraded me anywhere. he didn't force me to put anything on. he didn't take me out there and ask anybody what do you think. he didn't ask anybody anything. he said, now that's a stunning trump girl. i was very flattered. >> now "the new york times" put out a statement quoted her fairly and accurately, but she says trump was never anything but a gentleman who had extreme respect for any woman she met through him. >>> beautiful day. you just want to see for miles and miles. you

. >> and i'm chris lawrence in for jim handly.lt on a metro rider in the past week. >> the victim in this case is a teenaged boy. police say his attacker forced him to get on a red line train and then sexually assaulted him inside a popular shopping center in friendship heights. darcy spencer is outside the courthouse where the suspect missed a hearing for a medical situation. >> reporter: that's right. he was expected to appear here in d.c. superior court. i was in the courtroom this afternoon when his name was called by the judge, but then we were told he's not in lockup. he's in the hospital. we're still trying to find out why. we just got ahold of some new court documents that shed light on how this teen got away from his the 16-year-old boy tells police he was walking into the bethesda metro station when dot-cmnick simons approached him to use his cell phone. allegedly, he ordered the teen to get back on metro and wouldn't give him his phone back. the suspect then told the teen to go to a bathroom stall at the chevy chase pav

. >> chris lawrence, thank you. >>> here at home, business as usual at airports today. officials say they are confident in their ability to keep everyone safe. that's despite the manpower shortage that lead to massive backups at security checkpoints in chicago and other large cities just this week. security will be top of mind as we get closer to memorial day. the american automobile association projects that more than 38 travel during the holiday this year. that is the most since 2005. >>> attorneys for a man accused of terrorizing a northern virginia lawyer and his wife say pain medicines left their client so impaired he didn't know what he was doing. it's an unusual defense as northern virginia bureau chief julie carey reports now. juror are hearing first from the victims who were saying the suspect was very much in control. >> reporter: sue duan was shot and stabbed by andrew schmuhl. his attorneys don't dispute that, but they say he was impaired at the time, that it was his wife calling the shots. victim duncan told jurors today that her attacker knew exactly what

news 4's chris lawrence is in the newsroom working details for us. chris? >> donald trump's campaign is rejecting statements made by his long time butler who is now being investigating by the secret service for making threats against president obama. the statement saying the president should be hung from the white mosque, the white house. the trump campaign said we totally and completely disavowed horrible statements made. trump is also responding to a report that back in early 90s, he used a fake name and acted as his own publicist to brag about his business. the washington post obtained audio that includes exchange between a reporter and man named john miller. the post is reporting that miller is really trump himself. take a listen to part of the exchange talking about trump's divorce from his first wife. >> i've never seen somebody to immune he gets so immune to you know some people would say he got bad press three or four months ago now he's starting to get good press. i don't know what you call this. but i've never seen somebody so immune to it. he act

chris lawrence is tracking that side of the story. what are you learning? >> trump is telling msnbc he'll likely go with someone who has political experience and it may be one of the rivals who ran against him. >> i've gotten to be friends with a lot of those people, and i guess perhaps enemies with a couple, but i've got to be friends with quite a few. i would say there is a good 40% chance. >> a lot of names in the mix. here are a few. chris christie has political experience and expertise in running a state. newt gingrich has publicly supported trump and has shown some interest in the job. rudy giuliani was an early trump supporter and is informally advising the campaign. then there's nikki haley. she is a rising star accusations that he's a mysogn s mysognist. just a few minutes ago, trump announced he probably won't announce his pick until the convention in july. in the meantime, he's going to stay busy trying to fundraise. he told lester holt he's trying to help the republicans raise a billion dollars for the general election. jim? >> thanks, chris. >>

chris lawrence is in our newsroom now with more on what's next in the bid for the democratic nomination. we thought the republicans were going to be fractured around the convention time. it looks like it is the democrats now. >> my how things have changed. sanders lost in oregon, but he lost kentucky by only a few thousand votes. for a recount. all of this is coming in as hillary clinton edges ever closer to wrapping up the race. she needs less than a hundred delegates to wrap up the democratic nomination which she could pull off just in california alone. we're learning more about the candidate's personal bank accounts. some of the financial disclosure statements show donald trump claimed an income last year of more than $500 million. a lot of it came from real estate, golf, and resort properties and some of his book royalties. clinton also released her fcc filing. it shows she made 6.5 million last year, most of which came from book royalties and the rest from some paid speeches. one another note, clinton is opening two offices right here in the district ahead of washington, d.c.'s pri

in the newsroom, i'm chris lawrence. >>> he was known to family and a virginia man who was one of thetown hero. >>> tom sherwood. the aerospace museum is turning 40 years od. whlat >>> these are live pictures of anaheim, california. these are outside a rally there. the police are lined up as they try to keep everything quiet and peaceful coming off of new mexico where things were not quiet and peaceful at a trump rally there. >>> we're learning more tonight about the two people killed in that small plane crash in orange county, virginia. the pilot charles caldwell and his passenger died in the crash. j.j. was an experienced and celebrated pilot who spent the past two decades providing volunteer flights for the seriously ill. >> he was just so comfortable in what he did and his method of instruction that it made you feel comfortable behind the controls. >> still not clear what actually caused the plane to go down. >>> it's a first tonight for loudoun county. the new chair of the board of supervisors is giving a state of the county phyllis randall says some of the speech will include fa

chris lawrence is in the newsroom with the details on that. >> we've got a lot to tell you about the democrats, but first we want to get to the presumptive republican nominee. house speaker paul ryan says he wants to support donald trump, but he's not there yet. he made those comments as trump is already starting to talk about the stakes. trump said there was a 40% chance he could pick one of his former rivals. ben carson is expected to be part of a committee to help him select a running mate. meantime we learned today mitt romney as well as john mccain and both former presidents bush 41 and 43 are going to sit out the republican convention this summer. neither of the former presidents plans to endorse trump. this afternoon he posted a photo to social a -- cinco de mayo. he called for bernie sanders to run as an independent. mr. trump is going to be in our region later this evening with a rally down in charleston. as for bernie sanders, he is in west virginia today at a stop in charleston just about an hour ago. part of a three-city tour of that state by the sanders campaign. hillary

chris lawrence is in our newsroom now breaking it all down for us. >> the new nbc news/wall street journal poll suggest that voters do care that he's never served in public office or the military. 61% of voters in the poll have reservations about his lack of experience and more than 40% are very uncomfortable with it. on the flip side, 15% say they are okay with trump's experience. on the other side, another poll finds that senator bernie sanders continuing campaign is damaging democratic frontrunner hillary clinton. clinton was in detroit today trying to solidify her support today she described her plans to raise the minimum wage and deal with immigration reform. clinton also directed her attacks at donald trump, not bernie sanders. the senator took his campaign to east los angeles to focus on the economy. he says there's a need to invest in young people, give them jobs and education. perhaps most importantly sanders gave no indication he's even considering levaving this race. >> thank you, chris. democrats say the extended primary battle between sanders and clinton has been good for the

chris lawrence is here now with >> reporter: let's start with the republicans. ted cruz did have a handful of events across indiana today, including some appearances with the governor who endorsed him last week. but if a new poll holds true, tomorrow is looking like a very good night for donald trump. it shows him with a 15-point lead over cruz in the hoosier state with john kasich in a distant third. cruz made several stops across the state, pushing for those last-minute votes. during one of them, he had an impromptu debate with a trump supporter. over on the democratic side, the same poll shows hillary clinton with a slight lead over bernie sanders. but clinton already seems to be looking beyond tomorrow. she has events today in kentucky and west virginia. sanders has been campaigning in evansville where he called the nominatin difficult for insurgent candidates because the way everything is divvied up between delegates and superdelegates. those comments are coming after a press conference over the weekend where sanders said the convention is going to be in hi

. >> and all right, thank you, chris lawrence. >>> well, we got so deliciously close, didn't we? and then the hockey season, just, ah, poof, a the heartbreak does not get any easerier, folks, but it sooms that we are used to it, carol. it seems to happen every year >> yes, it is brutal to talk about it today and a tough night for all of us, and yes, the same old ending that we are used to. for the 11th time the caps fail to get out of the second round. after trailing 3-0, they forced overtime, but they could not complete the comeback bonino sc rebound, and the caps going home again, and especially for alexander ovechkin who has not made it past the second round in the 11-year nhl career. so here we are going off licking our wounds. >> and shaving our faces. you sharpened up the razor last night. >> yes. >> and adam tuss. >> yes, there we are last fight, and with were doing it to grow it for the raised almost $11,000, and we went down to the barbershopdown there, and took it all off. >> shea shaved half of the face? >> well, it is fun to do, because i had three warm towels at one

. >>> i'm chris lawrence at the live desk.re keeping an eye on the deadly plain plane crash in virginia. and this is south of culpeper. chopper 4 just got to the scene. the virginia state police got word about an hour ago there was a plane crash on the tender lane. a crash right in the roadway. i did a search just a couple of minutes ago. not much around there and there's a small market maybe a couple of miles up the road, but in that area, nothing really in that area. they are confirming right now that two people onboard have died. state police are on the scene looking into it and they ntsb. state police working to try to find out who these people were and exactly what happened to that plane. we'll bring you any new information and push alerts on the nbc hey d.c., guess which airlin er out of reagan national last year? here's a hint. did ya catch it? no? here's another: their colors are yellow, red, and blue, and they save you tons of green. still nothing? that's okay