go d.c. go d.c. go wiz. >> i find it weird that you would vote for the wizards. >> oh my gosh. left. >> greg's celebrity corner. well we are just days weeks perhaps, away from the premier of entourage and jerry is taking up surfing lessons. there he is. i believe he's in perth. he's waving at a super model. jeremy has been working out for this movie. he's very excited and a lot of people don't know he's an amazing body surfer. he's lost his hair. anyway that's all. >> very good. >> okay. do you like country music and want to know where the birthplace of country music is it's in virginia. the original country music songs were recorded in 1927 and now today's biggest country music singers, like sheryl crow vince gill they are releasing the cd. you can find out about the reunion, september 18th through the 20th in historic downtown bristol. i'm going to go to that if i can get the day off. >> there was a new study released by hold on the citizens council naming the top 50 most dangerous cities in the world. detroit, new orleans, baltimore. they have a high crime rate and also soar

wizards caps, go d.c. >> let's go. right. >>>. to -- tom, what's the weather looking like?>> i said dress like eun, go sleeveless. you need a light layer this morning. here's the storm team 4 skycast, lots of sunshine through the morning and the lunch time as well. beautiful blue sky and the rest of the afternoon as well, gorgeous sky. with sunshine and just a few high clouds coming through. rather cool now though. we are just in the 40s and 50s. leesburg, manassas and warrenton upper 40s. prince george's county in the low to mid 50s. upper 50s in washington. on sunday morning yesterday i biked the canal the path, beautiful along the path. down to near the aqueduct. a great ride. i saw a lot of other people out riding the bikes and walking dogs for sunday. another great day for that if you're lucky to have the day off. look at the rapid rise in temperatures. we will be all the way to near 80 by noon. then hitting mid 80s mid afternoon. lots of sun with a few high clouds coming through. then overnight tonight it will be mostly clear. mid 60s, another warm day on tuesday. we'

to create a big hassle for us if we want to go from d.c. over to arlington or any of those places. we will have to go 66 or 395, which is going to add more congestion between 66. a pain to get into the arlington cemetery. sam: a lot of frustration with those drivers. the national park service says they will do a temporary patch job, a band-aid construction project, to fix the worst parts of the bridge. that will not start until july. it is expected to last between six and nine months. while that construction project is going, the lane and weight restrictions will remain in place. sam sweeney, abc 7 news. anchor: thank you. a power pole has to be replaced in arlington after a crash this morning. a car crashed into the pole on irving street. the car overturned trapping the driver. firefighters say the driver is expected to be all right. crews were neighbors may lose power when they replace the poll. you should be used to the hot and humid conditions by now with another chance of showers this afternoon. devon lucie is here with a look at the fo

d.c. earlier tonight the front of the train going into a turn. when it shook. eye witnesses on the scene, and those on board say the front looked pretty bad there is one person working for the associated press was quoted an ap report as saying he saw, quote some people mangled up. we have no confirmed reports of fatalities, however, we're being told

d.c.? you are not going to like this. under a budget just passed by the d.c. council, the fine for an expired parking meter jumps from $25 to $30. and in premium parking zones across the district you are going to need to feed that meter right up until midnight. the fine for parking beyond the time limit in a residential parking zone goes from $30 to $35, all of this set to take effect october 1st. >>> well, coming up, a man trapped inside a burning home is lucky to be alive tonight thanks to his neighbors and a charles county police officer. >>> meteorologist howard bernstein in for topper. still tracking a couple of showers at this hour. we had the strong storms earlier, but look at doppler 9000 in the winchester area. you are seeing a little bit of lightning and thunder. back with a look at a steamy thursday forecast in just a few minutes. >>> the search continues for missing people after an hiss to storic flood in texas. we work weekends here. because it works for our patients. here, at cancer treatment centers of america in philadelphia, we give our patient

have a budding new program called beyond the beltway to take our singers and mobilize them to go out of d.c to cities and towns in the region that maybe need or want to hear us a little bit more. it's going to be a special program for us. it's sort of an extension of what we're already doing. now we're going to really go full hog on it. >> why is community outreach so important to the chorus. >> it's how we started. we started as a community group that was there to support the community. and as the years have gone by we have grown to one of the largest choruses in the city indeed, the country. our budget has grown, staffing has grown. it's really important to stick to our roots and follow through on the mission that we've carried for 34 years. >> i understand you also have a new artistic director. >> we do, yes. she's been with us as an assistant several years. she also has a chorus in new york. we have we had appear seven-month search to find her. it was wonderful come work with her on that level. >> julia, what are your dreams for yourself? for your musical singing career but your life in

d.c. let's go to our correspondent, who has much more on who exactly this man is and what he was trying to do. >> brooke police say this man, who goes by kid cole made 11 phone calls over the last five months to 911, in which he called in specific bomb threats that were false and false hostage threats. specifically targeted brooke to d.c. area metro stations and trains and subways here in d.c. the latest threat happening just three weeks ago in early may in which he called in what he believed was a specific threat to a bus that was parked at a metro station here in d.c. now, after the fact the police found each one of these 11 phone calls to be completely a hoax. and they say, though of course at the time they had to scramble

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go d.c. >>> all right, now 6:41. time to look at your weather and traffic on the 1s.rm team 4 meteorologist amelia segal live on the weather deck with your walk to work forecast. good morning to you. is it warming up at all tonight? >> well eun, it's comfortably cool right now. there's a nice breeze but as you walk to work, you might want to grab the light jacket. noticeably cooler than it has been in the last ten days. that's right. today's high 20 degrees cooler than yesterday. this morning partly sunny skies, temperatures in the upper 50s around 60s. walking home spectacular. you will need the sunglasses. plenty of sunshine. we'll see how long the temperatures will remain below normal but for now, over to melissa with a check of the roads. >> biggest problem still right now in silver spring. is this road closure, chopper 4 over the scene. this is kemp mill, shut down because of a crash overnight. you can see the wires down. i want to show you a bit of a volume here. not so bad, first 4 traffic tracker headed through tyson's at this point. outer loop rolling along n

they'll have the misters going. d.c., 80s. and it will be warm and humid, thunderstorms there.ck check on the national >> good morning. dave zahren here. get ready for some summer civivil this afternoon. temperatureses in t the 80's. mostly cloloudy skies. and >> this water cast brought to you by macy's where they sell just about everything. maybe even kayaks. paula? >> what about a life jacket? >> down? >> a life jacket? >> and your helmet. safety first. safety first. >> i think we throw in dan and you and see who swims. >>> by the way, rob, you stay safe. it will be as we said a busy weekend. he'll be covering it all. >>> coming up here on "gma," the abc news fix soern the case. how she got the debt collectors off the back of one abc news viewer. and her advice for the rest of us. >>> and david beckham fields personal questions from jimmy kimmel. the answers are hilarious. up aid head in "pop news." why weigh yourself down? try new aveeno® sheer hydration. its active naturals® oat formula... ...goes on feather light. absorbs in seconds... ...keeps skin healthy looking... ...a

the team getting hot going into d.c. to face the nationals.nobody is hotter than bryce harper. bottom of the second he hits a rocket to left. he's batting about .500 over last 10 games. game tied at one all. we go to the bottom of the sixth iain did he say mon hits a solid hit. he plays this terribly it gets way it from him allowing mat scherzer the pitcher to come all the way around from first and score. giving the nats the go ahead run run. phils couldn't muster up anything after that. they lose their second straight two-one. >>> in the nhl playoffs the rangers the favorite to win the all are down two to one after being great on defense or most of the post season. they've given up sick goals in the past two games. six goals in each game. time to bounce it back in game four. the rangers take home ice with a win in tampa. second period. noted at one. getting the goal off the reflection. two-one rangers. later heck check this out. keith, the shot, the puck bounces off his shin. scores on his own goal. that was a type of night it was for the lig

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d.c. residents today >> i think people should have a right to have one. to protect themselves. >> the crime and stuff going on in d.c. you should be able to carry a con seemed weapon. if you are using it to protect yourself and not go out and do something. >> the attorney general says he is reviewing the judge's ruling but he says the city's law a constitutional. but the city will be appealing. reporting from u.s. district court. sam ford abc7 news. alison: checking the top stories. arlington police shot and killed a man responding to a domestic disturbance that morning. two were hurt and one required surgery to his face. both officers will recover. a friend of the man who die said he was taking medication for mental illness. leon: they investigating a substitute teacher after this disturbing video. it shows the teacher beating one student with a belt inside of a classroom at twin park middle school in brandywine. this happened last friday. the teacher has been removed from the classroom. alison: engineers from the national park service and federal highway investigation are giving the memorial bridge a clo

haveÑi to repair the tracks, make sure tzoqe are safe before they put trains back on the tracks to go between d.c york. it could be some time. certainly not going to happen this week. >> aaron gilchrist thank you. we'llxd check in with you throughout "news4 today." >>> we are going probably about 60 70 miles an hour, i would say. itokxd seemed like a regular ride, but next thing you know, it violently shook first to the -- to the left and then to the right where we juste1w3 totally went overv/q y side on the left side oáu)ain.çóe1e1xd basically through the air and landed oh >> you're hearing former pennsylvania congressman patrick murphy describe what happened and you saw those pictures he tweeted as he was on that train.xdxde1 at the time of the derailment. murphy anchors thet( show on msnbc. >>> let's check in with news4's angie goff at the live desk. >> we have a look at the storyjf that'st(e1e1 dominating the front pages across the country. look at the "philadelphia inquirer," five die as train derails and that photo that illuminates this dark day for amtrak. another view of thee1 wreck we fo

some of the bus drivers impacted by this complained. >> it will be a hassle going from d.c. to arlington or iwo jima or any of the places. we have to go 66 or 395. which is obviously going to add more congestion. between 66 a pain in the butt to get around. sam: the national park service will do a patch job on the bridge focusing on the worst parts of it just to keep it open. that project won't begin until july. it is expected to last between six and nine months. during correction, the lane and the weight restrictions will remain in place. reporting near the memorial bridge, i'm sam sweeney abc7 news. alison: still to come at 5:00 tonight, abc7's suzanne kennedy will have more on the impact of the lane closures of course, which other bridges could see more traffic. leon: i hate to see the bridge, you know not in play there. it's the most beautiful bridge we have in town. alison: really beautiful. we'll see what happens. leon: turn to the weather. another day of possible thunderstorms to talk about now. alison: all right. will the weekend be a wash-out? chief meteorologist dou

promoted it to their list and a specific list that rachel berkle keeps, it goes to their list and go to d.c. yf, our website, we did an extensive amount of outreach on the rfp, we had a bitters conference we know as a government entity it's public money, it can seem overwhelming if you are a young community based portion organization to put this together we have a bitter conference to walk them through the rfp, we post the questions on the website, then we also have you know, people can e-mail alexa with additional questions, which are also posted on the website. so a we as debbie said got 16 proposals in we have panels that consisted of alexa and myself, and a 0 waste expert, a long time residence and possibly one of the first consultants in the u.s. so very knowledgeable so we scored proposals, anybody who got over 70 got to the nekdz round, and anybody over a 90, we thought, yes, we will fund them, the ones between 70 and 90, we interviewed those people, that was a different committee of alexa, me, and the executive director of the clean city tell us if you don't know work force developm

a couple of more toward kettering and a few more along route 50 going from d.c. toward bowie and croften. host most of us should stay dry but if you see rain it could be heavy at times. tonight 11:00, an isolated shower remaining mostly to the south. tomorrow notice we start off with a little more cloud cover but the showers move in fairly quickly here. this is by noon and already seeing a chance for a shower or thunderstorm by noon tomorrow. so tomorrow is probably the day you want to take the umbrellas because i do think it will be a little bit more of a widespread variety shower and thunderstorm. nothing too strong, but just like today any storms will have locally heavy downpours during the afternoon. by tomorrow evening if you're heading out, friday night, looking okay i think for that, just some cloud cover but all in all we should be dry tomorrow evening. tomorrow's highs, 87 in d.c., 87 in leesburg. 90 in fredericksburg. we've been in this pattern for most of the month, an area of high pressure has been to our south and east. that's allowed temperatures to

go on for some time now. n.t.s.b. officials earlier described conclusions as preliminary. they are described as robust. here's what we know so far. n.t.s.b. says that train, number 188, from washington, d.c. union station was going 106 miles per hour when it hit the curve last night. a curve rated only for 50 miles per hour. as of now another body was recovered from the train today. that brings the death toll to seven. eight people are still in critical condition from that accident. they are in philadelphia hospitals. the n.t.s.b. says action tram train 188 was traveling in excess of 100 miles per hour when it entered the curve where it derailed. >> maximum authorized speed through the curve was 50 miles per hour. when the engineer induced brake application was implied, the train was traveling at 106 miles per hour. >> reporter: the train's black box has been found and is being sent to washington for more analysis. the passenger cars and locomotive will be moved to a secure location shortly. we should know i know you want to know what did the engineer have to say about what happened last night? he has not yet talked to investigators. they tell us today he lawyered up instead. investigato

d.c. parking. >>> cabbies in the district are going to court. they're suing services like uber. a few months ago, those cabbies conducted some protests tying up traffic all over town. they're upset with the law passed by the d.c. council that allows ride for a fee services, serves like uber a law that aweallows them tocapital. the cabbies say that puts them at a competitive disadvantageous because they have to follow more strict requirements. a lawsuit was filed in federal court last friday. >>> doug's here with a check on our weather forecast. hello summer. >> hello summer. >> that's what it feels like. >> they call memorial day the unofficial start of summer. mother nature said, let's do the whole thing. let's start it off the right way. pools opened up. any day this week you can hit the pool. it's that warm as temperatures are averaging very close to the highest our temperatures average, 88 degrees, in the middle of july into early august. let's take a look and show you what's it's look outside. warm for sure aloft sunshine. temperature of 85 right now but look at the heat ind

of course, i would not object to my name going into the d.c.mary. [ applause ] where were your washington headquarters be? where will you begin to receive campaign contributions? [ laughter ] the chairman of the republican national committee his office will be headquarters for the campaign contributions. i do have to be honest with you, working so hard on this decision, and i'm saying it's not been easy that i have not formulated any plans or saw it beyond today. i shall, this week, sit down sometime when we find the time make our plans, but i shall not be having headquarters. i shall not be having -- and i would not expect the contributions brought to me to be very much. thank you. >> will you be willing to debate rocky and barry and harold in new hampshire? [ laughter ] >> now we have to go to the debate because i hear two more have been added. yes, i shall be very happy to go on into a debate with other candidates, but with the provision it's carriedyied out as it was in maine in 19 48 when all four contestants went on the same platform and

you can log by going to fit d.c..com. you probably felt it. this may is one of the warmest on record. will june bring cooler air? amelia has the forecast next. >> i'm cars darcy spencer live in northwest washington where a 76-year-old woman used her cane to beat back a robbery suspect who was attacking her 81-year-old husband. you will hear from this lovely couple on news 4 at 6:00. when this woman saw a robber attacking her husband, she used her cane to hit the robber over the head. let's go to video of this couple. we interviewed them in their home in northern virginia. we will not identify them. they had come to washington yesterday near embassy road to do paperwork at a local embassy. they were walking back to their car when the robber showed up out of nowhere. he told the man give me your money. he didn't have money and the robber took his wallet. he was so frightened she took action and did the only thing she thought she could do. >> i was looking for my husband. at this time i was so different, it may have saved your life. >> he is now

>>reporter: more than 60 people and the the train going from d.c. to new york will concede to follow the breaking news on the philadelphia also coming up matter to a water how much water you will be allowed to use and the finest of going overboard a passenger gives birth to a baby on a plane and that is not the wild as part of the story but first chaos breaks out in a local public plaza toward art displays what led to this brawl more on this bill in two minutes. >>reporter: this is video of a big brawl that broke out in san francisco's justin harmon plaza this happen a few days ago where back now to explain what led to that. >>reporter: a peaceful place a lot of vendors selling art and other things the person close at the studio says she is one of those are the vendors she said the fight started when two groups of state borders worked in a fight and spilled into their area of some of the skateboarders turned on him destroying part of the display is pretty ugly some pictures from right afterward showed injuries to a couple of those artist will see two

now we want to go to d.c. mayor muriel bowser speaking about the death of a firefighter. >> a hero today, lieutenant kevin mcrae a 24-year veteran of the d.c. fire and emergency medical service passed away following a two-alarm fire on the 1300 block of seven street northwest. that's at the intersection of seventh and o streets in northwest. at 8:10 this morning, units were dispatched to a fire on the ninth and tenth floors of that building. units arrived at 8:13 and lieutenant mcrae's crew was the first team to arrive and fought the fire on the ninth floor. it took approximately 50 minutes, 50 minutes, to extinguish the fire. after the fire was put down lieutenant mcrae exited the building safely with his crew. he then collapsed on the scene. paramedics started cpr immediately and transported lieutenant mcrae here to med star where every effort was made to revive lieutenant mcrae. sadly, lieutenant mcrae was pronounced dead shortly after 10:00 a.m. lieutenant mcrae is survived by his wife terry, three childre

it's going to be a fun one to watch in d.c. let's go to colorado. did the bat man movie massacre suspect know what he was doing? a court appointed psychiatrist says yes. they say he was mentally ill but legally sane. they say he was able to determine the consequences of the shooting. holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. this is the first time a mental health professional who examined him testified in front of the jury. >>> let's turn the page to business on this gdp friday. the government report comes out later today. economists are expecting to learn the u.s. economy shrank in the first quarter mostly due to the brutal winter and rising value of the dollar. we also got news overnight that jpmorgan has begun cutting job. it's part of a plan to trim costs and move toward mobile banking. the bank has reportedly cut 1,000 positions and plans to cut an additional 4,000. also overseas on markets after stocks in china took a massive plunge yesterday. let's bring in hadly gamble from london to talk about this. it's friday afternoon in china

we will go to madison for the latest. into washington, d.c. where senate democrats have rebelled against president obama over the tpp, the transpacific partnership. >> what we have just witnessed is the democratic senate shutdown the opportunity to debate the top economic priority of the democratic president of the united states. amy: we will speak to lori wallach of public citizen's global trade watch. then we look at how the fbi has been caught spying on activists in texas who tried to stop the construction of the keystone xl pipeline. and it was 30 years ago today when the philadelphia police bombed the headquarters of the radical group known as move killing six adults, five children and destroying 65 homes. >> we heard the loud explosion. the house kind of shook, but it never entered my mind that they dropped a bomb on us. amy: wheels it to professor journalist. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. at least six people have been killed and dozens wounded after

that's because in the westbound direction, going from d.c. into virginia they have closed that right-hand curbside lane. the reason they did it concerns about a spot of corrosion that they found yesterday during just a routine inspection. we're told out of an abundance of caution, they have decided to close that right-hand lane until they can get inspectors back out here later on today, take a closer look and decide what if anything needs to be done. we're talking about the westbound direction here. that right lane closed until further notice. this is a very busy bridge a choke point for many people when all of the lanes are open. so with one lane gone you can expect to see some traffic tie-ups. back to you in the studio. >>> today, the man police say kill his neighbors in rockville will be in court on the other side of the country. montgomery county police picked up scott tomaszewski on a cruise ship in alaska. he confessed on saturday to killing the vilardos. we told you that police tracked him down by connecting him to a burglary and a fir

i'm told it is going on all over the d.c. area and beyond. anchor: new footage now in an investigation we first showed you yesterday. police want help identifying this pair in relation to two armed robberies in georgetown. they are considered people of interest. the gunpoint robbery happened near the university campus and another at a hotel. if you have information, police want to hear from you. anchor: to the weather now. temperatures will be in the 80's tomorrow. we're monitoring the potential for storms before the end of the weekend. we have the outlook. steve? anchor: not so bad out there as you move through the overnight hours. patchy fog come early tomorrow morning but nothing that will bring us travel delays. satellite and radar at this hour, just a few passing clouds. as they move through the day tomorrow, our forecast shows morning temperatures around 63-65 degrees inside the beltway cooler to the north and west of us. noontime partly sunny. warm. a bit muggy. by 5:00 in the afternoon, we're talking temperatures around 894-85. it sta

go. to see how d.c. stacks up with the rest of the d.c., maryland and virginia area, just go to our wusa9 mobile app. outside the wilson building, i'm nikki burdine, wusa9. >>> today president obama is expected to nominate marine general joseph doneford, jr. to be the -- dunford, jr. to be the next chair of the chief of staffs. he's been commandant since last october. >>> 6:36. we want to congratulate alice dickerson from olney, maryland, our facebook fan of the day. alice says my day hasn't started till i've watched wusa9 news in the morning. >> way to start it off the right way. if you want to follow alice's lead, go to facebook, fill out the form and you could be looking at a $100 gift card to amc. how about it? >> i'm here on the weather terrace. what a great start. it's comfortable. it's going to be very sunny and warm today. but things are going to change. take a look at your forecast. but first, another shot of reagan national from our michael & son camera. we're headed to the mid-#s on today. it'

gingrich sign as deal with cnn after his unsuccessful white house run in 2012 and then we go to washington d.c. to take back the white house. [screams]. >> howard dean scream may have helped end his hopes for going to the white house in 2004 but he went on to become the head of the democratic national committee. his speaking fees topped $20,000. >> observers say even when it is clear to the outside world that a candidate doesn't stand a chance of becoming president on the inside, they see a different picture and hang on to hope. >> they go on the bus tours there's people coming out to see you you are the center of attention, and you have ideas and telling people how you want their live better, for a lot of people that can be it's own reward. >> long shot contenders can keep the campaigns going. >> these candidates have ideas. they have policy positions and vote es are sup effort popularitying those positions and they want to fight for that so it isn't necessarily about winning sometimes it is about keeping the issue in the spotlight. >> and mary snow, al jazeera. >> a surprising new find, abou

go through lunch time. we get some heavier stuff south of d.c. just some light showers through frederick and baltimore into leesburg. it's not a downpour of a day but it's just not the best looking day. with the clouds and the rain around, we're not going to warm up much. upper 50s, lower 60s. that's it. this is 5:00 drying out for areas off to the west. good thing the nats are off today because by tomorrow much better weather n. pushes out of here for your evening commute and sunset we're looking at dry weather and tomorrow looking at sunshine and back to the upper 70s. here's the forecast. 62 degrees today. 76, much better looking for your friday. saturday a little cooler, 72 but sunshine. 08 by sunday and by memorial day 87 degrees. a few storms in the afternoon. pretty isolated, though. larry, over to you. >> thanks, allyson. i'm tongue tied today and cannot stop laughing. >>> good morning, folks. 6:49. marc train running on schedule and vre on schedule as well so off to a good start in that respect. from georgetown pike to baltimore avenue,

d.c. and let's go to go to kimberly first in washington.t was released by the white house in a statement. what more details did they give us about what happened, kimberly? >> we know that this was ordered by president obama as well as the defense secretary ash carter but it was in close consultation with a national security team, which was unanimous in its decision that this should be carried out this operation, an operation conducted by the very elite delta force. kind of a precision-targeted attack, if you will. an attack that we know involves some hand-to-hand combat. apparently there were women and children present possibly even being used as human shields, and it was during that engagement, as the military refers to it, that he was killed. now i can tell you that women and children were present. two of those women were captured. one, sayyaf's wife, and then a yazidi captive. she was a slave that umm sayyaf may be complicit in holding her captivity. we know that that woman is being held in detention, and we're told she will be returned

crews are still searching for survivors aboard derailed amtrak 188, a passenger train going from washington, d.c. to new york city. at this hour we know at least five people are dead, but that number could rise as the sun comes up. one of the reasons there has been uncertainty up to goes back to when it all happened around 9:20 p.m. eastern time. the train derailed in a dimly lit area. rescue crews were scrambling, having to use flashlights in what ended up being a level three mass casualty incident. a call went out for surrounding helicopters to help with the rescue efforts by shining spot lights on the area. we also know six people are in critical condition. there were 243 people on board the train, five of whom were amtrak employees. msnbc's adam reiss is live in philadelphia with us this morning. adam, what is the scene looking like this morning where you are? >> reporter: betty, good morning to you. mayor nutter of philadelphia says they can't be sure everyone is accounted for. they sent in search dogs and firemen with hydraulics jaws of life to rip open the metal of the trains to see if in

. >>> victims of police shootings will go to washington, d.c. to call on federal officials. they're calling for an audit of police departments in bridge ton, millville. one of the people is the widow of gerraine reed. >>> in north philadelphia investigators are looking for the cause of a house fire that broke out on north woodstock street around 2:00 this morning. everyone managed to make it out of the house safely. later today chester county officials will release names of three women killed in the mobile home fire. two adults and two children were able to escape. investigators tell "nbc 10" that the family had gathered there to mourn of loss of a relative who died on sunday. >> smoke was flying. it was terrible. that thing was well gone before the fire department got here. the family's two cats and a dog died. the cause is under investigation but it is not believed to be suspicious. >>> 5:03. happening later today. camden county investigators will return to the scene of a deadly hit and run in audubon. last month someone found christopher dean lying on the side of the road

d.c.'s most wealthy neighborhoods in just go a mile or so from the burned house. mourners were coming and going all day, the family too distraught to talk to the media. bruce leshan, wusa9. >> again as soon as the player and police chief get there, we will bring you -- mayor and the police chief get there, we will bring you their news conference live. >>> we've got other breaking news, this time out of boston where a jury has sentenced marathon bombing suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev to death. the jury deliberated over 14 hours and three days and were apparently unmoved by pleas tsarnaev was swayed by his older brother's influence. tsarnaev was convict last month of all 30 federal charges against him. >> reporter: tsarnaev never testified in his own defense and showed emotion only once when one of his relatives wept on the stand. jurors heard from forensics and terrorism and sat through heartwrenching testimony of survivors of the attacks and family members of those who died. three people were killed, 260 others injured back in the april, 2013 attack. years of appeals a

bruce, we do know the train was going from d.c.new york city and reports we got was that the front of the train actually start to do shake and obviously maybe it missed a turn and then went off the rails. so we don't know what rate of speed it was traveling but we can certainly see now there is a bit of a mangled mess. we're getting a better look from skyfox over this particular area and just flashlights everywhere as these first responders are looking for anybody that might be, v survived this particular accident. >> reporter: just interesting the former congressman patrick murphy was on this train. >> yes. >> reporter: and took some incredible photos. again, the one that struck me was in the dining car which appeared to be about 45-degree angle, and that gave you some sense of the desperation as people were trying to get out. the window was clearly broken to the right of the frame in that photo and folks were obviously trying to climb out and help each other. another couple of philadelphia fire department vehicles have now come t

a passenger train going from washington, d.c. up to new york city. now, at this hour we know at least five people are dead but that number could rise as the sun comes up. one of the reasons there has been uncertainty up to this point goes back to when it all happened, around 9:20 p.m. eastern. the train derailed in a dimly lit area. rescue crews were just scrambling, having to use flashlights in what ended up being a level 3 mass casualty incident. a call went out for surrounding helicopters to help the rescue effort by shining spotlights on the area. we also know six people are in critical condition. there are 243 people on board, 5 of whom were amtrak employees. we want to give you an idea of what it was like on that train. this video was taken by nbc producer janelle richards just moments after it all happened. >> got to get out. here, hold on. hold on. here. >> go go go go. >> just get out. >> can you help me? >> yeah. courtney. >> you can see the darkness and confusion there. one witness spoke to our philadelphia affiliate, wcau about what it wa

going to stay. we have two young kids, matthew 13 and kaila 12, and i am in d.c., and my family is at home so i tried to go home as much as possible, not only for my family, because it is important but also as a new member of congress, i think it is important to go back home. host: i think one of the items you brought from your office is a picture of your family. to our viewers. your family is back in hawaii. rep. mark takai: very appropriate. that was the day i decided to run for congress, august 8, 2013. host: what prompted that decision? rep. mark takai: there were some members of congress he talked to me, but, truthfully, the reason i am here, unfortunately, is because senator inouye passed away. there was a lot of movement in our delegation, and because of that colleen hanabusa, before me, ran, and there was a spot open, so in 2013, on august 8, we made that decision. host: how much convincing did it take your family? rep. mark takai: welcome of the biggest decision was where we were going to live. once they knew they would be a look to stay home with their friends, and my wife sami and her fami

let's go to washington, d.c. where alan fisher is live.the epicenter of arrest was zurich, the epicenter of the place that put this process in place is washington, d.c. why is that? >> reporter: the allegations here of course are about corruption, and bridery, and it is suggested that some of the payments went through american banks. that's enough for the u.s. justice department to get involved. even if it touched under the suggestion of an email going through an internet service provider in the united states that would be enough for the justice department to get involved. loretta lynn is the attorney general here in the united states and she is has said that corruption is rampant and deep rooted in fifa. clearly there has been a twitter storm, social media is abuzz with what is happening with fifa. one tweet says dear world we don't even like soccer but we're still going to cleanup fifa for you. >> alan might there be more arrested? this could be the beginning of a very long process. >> well three years to this point, why have they moved

this train was going from washington d.c. to new york it's a heavily travelled route. dozens of trains that do that route. over 11 million on that route. there's talk by amtrak, the train company and law-makers pushing for funding for the rail system in the united states and for this line. it's heavily travelled. safety security it comes up. this is an accident that will raise those questions. >> gabriel elizonda with that update >>> south korea's intel fence services say north korea's defence minister has been executed, and is believed to be the latest in a series of senior officials executed. harry fawcett reports from seoul. >> reporter: is this the moment he sealed his fate. he is said to show that he dozed off during april. sol picture with the supreme leader was supposed to have been killed for trees jp, failing to carry out his actions. south koreans are calling it it as consolidation, rather than crisis. our government sees executions as a way to create a fearful atmosphere to promote consolidation of the one and only regime. >> reporter: with the suddenness of

he was actually trying to go from d.c. all the way to new york. you'll hear from both of them tonight at 6:00. we'll continue to bring you the latest updates from philadelphia. live in philly shomari stone. thank you. >>> terrifying awful, chaotic. those are some of the words used by other passengers on the train last night. >> keep crawling. crawl forward, sir. >> this is cell phone video that captured the frantic moments after the crash as people tried to escape in the dark. "nbc nightly news" producer janelle richards was one those on board. >> smoke started filling the kafrl i thought i have to get out of here. first thing i saw, i looked to my left and there was a woman in the aisle and she had blood streaming down her face. i asked her, are you okay? she said i'm okay okay. >> federal accident investigators say the train was going more than 100 miles an hour before the derailment. >> there's a news conference underway by a member of the national transportation safety board board in philadelphia. let's go there. >> our thoughts and prayers ar

d.c. firefighter is going on right now at the d.c. armory in southeast. of the district's dignitaries are expected to eulogize lieutenant mcrae. after the service his body will lead a procession to the district to fort lincoln cemetery in brentwood, maryland. mcrae joined the fire department through the cadet program in 1989. he was promoted to sergeant in 2003 then lieutenant in 2008. the 44-year-old collapsed and died after fighting a fire in northwest last week. lieutenant mcrae was the 100th d.c. firefighter to die in the line of duty. the medical examiner has not yet determined a cause of death. lieutenant mcrae leaves behind a wife and three chirp. we are live streaming the service on nbcwashington.com. >>> after the break, an update on johnny depp's dog fight with >>> let's get a look at the stories you and your friends are sharing today. foreign policy selfie style. this is indian prime minister narendra modi tweet ago selfie with the chinese premier. the two are touring beijing's temple of heaven. it has thousands of retweet this is morning. and

going to stay. we have two young kids, matthew 13 and kaila 12, and i am in d.c., and my family is at home so i try to go home as much as possible, not only for my family, because it is important, but also as a new member of congress, i think it is important to go back home. and you work in the district, hawaii for me. host: i think one of the items you brought from your office is a picture of your family. we will show that to our viewers. your family is back in hawaii. rep. mark takai: very appropriate. that was the day i decided to run for congress, august 8 2013. host: what prompted that decision? rep. mark takai: there were some members of congress he talked to -- that talked to me, but truthfully, the reason i am here, unfortunately, is because senator inouye passed away. when he passed away, there was a lot of movement in our delegation, and because of that, colleen hanabusa, before me, decided to run for senate and there was a spot open, so in 2013, on august 8, we made that decision. host: how much convincing did it take your family? rep. mark takai: welcome of the -- well, the biggest decis

husband and now she says she doesn't want to go up to new york, she wants to turn around and go back to d.cssengers are getting on buses heading for places like new york and boston after spending the night here at 30th street station. deanna durante, "nbc 10 news." >>> it's obvious if you're waking up, planning to take a train today, that likely will not happen. let's get you updated with first alert traffic reporter erer jessica boyington. what can you tell us? >> besides the obvious delays here on amtrak due to this derailment, all northeast corridor service is suspended from philadelphia up into new york so far for this morning. modified service between washington and philly. harrisburg and philly. new york city and boston so far for the morning. but if you did have an amtrak pass, new jersey transit will honor those tickets between new york city and trenton for this morning. we're also dealing with suspensions on septa's trenton line and chestnut hill line until further notice. out in port richmond we're dealing with closures around the area. frankford avenue north and south is closed b

this would connect bethesda and new carrollton without going into d.c. it would provide a better commute and could run close to your house. it's highly polarizing. >>'s 500 square miles in prince george's county. i have roads and bridges in the county that people want that think are more important than anything else and they're right. >> reporter: now, this isn't just a story about montgomery and prince george's counties. virginia is also factoring into the mix here. more about that coming up next hour at 6. back to you. >> adam tuss. >>> the man who landed that gire recopter just feet from the capitol steps says he's not guilty. we'll tell you who he said to reporters when he was asked today if he would do it again. his domestic violence case set off a big scandal that rocked the nfl. so why were the charges against ray rice dropped today? we are continuing to work every lead in the manhunt for this murder suspect. we're going to go live to brooklyn to see how detectives are worki narrator: puerto rico's healthcare system is on life support, putting thr

d.c. police going in and out of the house trying to figure out exactly what happened here. in this suspicious fire in the 3200 block of woodland drive. take a look at that second floor. you can see that heavy fire damage from yesterday afternoon's fire. and that is on the second floor where firefighters discovered the bodies. here's what we know so far. the home is owned by 46-year- old sava savopoulos and his wife amy. neighbors tell us they have two teenagers daughters and a -- teenaged daughters and a son in the fourth grade. police haven't identified the victims but a housekeeper who was reporting to work yesterday and she was frantically trying to get in touch with folks inside. she believes mom, her son, and another housekeeper were inside at the time. but i should emphasize that police have not confirmed that to us. police do say there was no forced entry and we're hearing from neighbors that the garage door occasionally would remain open. but at this point, this still remains a mystery. we've talked to a lot of neighbors who are very confused and shocked and frighte