but michelle herndon's case was different. >> at the end of the autopsy, i really had no idea.idn't find anything -- anything slightly wrong whatsoever. >> to find somebody that's deceased without any indication of what caused them to die, especially somebody that's that young, was highly unusual. >> the medical examiner estimated that michelle died about 24 hours before her body was found. so investigators interviewed everyone who was with michelle during that timeframe. they also checked the alibis of those closest to michelle, including her fiance. >> jason, squeaky clean. jason had an alibi of being at work and was quickly removed as a potential suspect. >> then the medical examiner took a closer look at something on michelle's left arm. a tiny mark, smaller than most needle marks. >> we needed to find the explanation for that puncture wound. and there could be a very legitimate explanation for it. >> but michelle's personal physician said she didn't have any blood drawn before her death or receive any injections. so the medical examiner told investigators to widen their se

there are two trailers to be added on to herndon, and also herndon high and elementary are also overgrownthey are adding about 70 trailer a year to keep up with the enrollment, but even that is not enough. >>> a local pharmacist blows the whistle on prescription mistakes. >> and bottle filled with the wrong pills. and how often does it happen? a news4 investigation happens next. >>> i'm dianna russini where everybody is talking about the next pitching rotation, but how does the bull pen look? i will explain coming up. >>> and she is in florida with no sleeves, and we are talking about cold and snow in thxt bs time. >> we have heard the complaints about the large chains, and how they are morphing or e how they resemble fast food restaurants. >> reporter: and this is the head of the boards of pharmacies and representing governmental agencies charged with insuring pharmacy safety. he says nobody is taking track, because the large chains refuse to turn over the data, but that is the only way to fix the problem. >> to have the legal authority to mandate a reporting of the medication errors. >>

it happened in herndon in the flight path of dulles. darcy spencer was with the homeowner when faa investigators arrived at her home. >> reporter: tonight, an investigation supervise we are the faa leaves a home in herndon. that's where this object crashed through the house landing in the dining room. the faa trying to figure out if it fell off a plane. >> we have no idea if it's an aircraft part or where it came from and we have to investigate it. >> reporter: abby baker says she found the piece of metal and the hole in her upping and in her ceiling friday morning. when she returned from taking her child to school, she lives in a dull else airport flight path. >> at first i thought maybe a gas pipe burst. then i found this piece here that i thought maybe was a pipe from the gas pipe. but when i had the gas company come out, it was identified as likely a piece of aircraft. >> reporter: this mystery object came down into the typing room. baker's concern, what if someone had been standing here when it happened. it's about four inches long

herndon elementary has voted to add two trailers to help. hutchinson elementary and other schools are also overcrowded. other areas like great falls are well under capacity. we asked fairfax county schools about this problem. we were told that the county has been adding more than 70 trai r trailers year to keep up with the growing enrollment, and with the silver line opening in the future, there is concern that the crowding will be worse. >>> two bills could decriminalize marijuana in maryland. coming up the proposed a changes. >>> and a local pharmacist blows the whistle on prescription mistakes and bottles filled with the wrong pills. ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit hungry ♪ ♪ and there's nothing really good around ♪ ♪ turn around ♪ every now and then i get a little bit tired ♪ ♪ of living off the taste of the air ♪ ♪ turn around, barry ♪ finally, i have a manly chocolatey snack ♪ ♪ and fiber so my wife won't give me any more flack ♪ ♪ i finally found the right snack ♪ ♪ >>> i want to show you what fire crews had to

we talked to the drivers in herndon about it. >> it is good to keep the road quiet, sure. it certainly can't hurt, because noise is a distraction at times. >> reporter: and if it was running next to your house? >> i would like it. >> reporter: if it made your house quieter? >> it would be nice. >> reporter: but is there a downside to the quiet pavement? well, it turns out because of the cold winter, something has been happening with the quiet pavement, and we will tell you about that "news4 at 5:00" and 6: 6:00. in herndon, adam tuss, news4. >>> a popular grocery store shutdown after a major health violation, and what the investigators found inside of that store. >>> and you saw it happen on ellen, the military family from the washington area that got a big surprise. >>> right now the owners of a washington sprshupermarket are waiting to see if they can reopen their store after investiga investigators closed the supermarket on tuckerman lane this morning. they brought in exterminators and a cleaning crew, and said that the problem has been fixed. but as we are told, even t

reporting live in herndon, adam tuss. >> and let's check in with doug.oes it really get cold here, doug? >> well, all right. it is cold for sure, wendy, over the past not only couple of days, but the past couple of weeks, and we have been in the thick of winter so far, and it looks like it is going to contin continue, and i love the site out there at herndon with adam. and sitting at 41 right now in the washington, d.c. metro area, and now out there sonia, you are at 36, and christina in fredericksburg is coming in at that mark. and we are going to start here at 37, and going down to 35 at 9:00 p.m. p, and if you have plans this evening, pretty good on the radar. no storms to talk about. the storm team 4 radar is quiet. nothing going on to the south and the east, but here is the next storm system to affect us tomorrow. bringing more snow to dallas, texas. they are getting hit pretty hard and this is going to move frup arkansas and to our region tomorrow, and that is why we have the chance of light snow. 32 in martinsburg, and 40 near martinsburg and this

herndon 27 degrees right now or 27 degrees around 7:00 in herndon. 22 at 10:00. 10 that's what you wake up to in western fairfax county. 9:00 a.m. plenty much sunshine  but temperature of only 16. a cold one but we're not talking any rain or snow tonight. talking about the cold. look at where the wind chills are tomorrow morning. down near zero and even below in some areas around gaithersburg, 0 mostly cloudy, 3 in d.c. tomorrow morning will be bitterly cold. a cold one for sure. tomorrow the coldest we've seen in a month. rebounding to 33 on saturday. 50 mostly dry. showers moving in late in the day then 35 on monday. this is the day that we'll be watching out for our next storm. the latest computer models bringing colder air and that means this most likely a rain or ice if not snow event for most of us and looks like a more high impact event across our region. we'll watch this very closely for your and keep you posted. one thing we know for sure it gets cold again and stay cold through most of next week. >> a winter that won't end. >> won't let go of us. >> and holding night. >> goin

reporting live from herndon. darcy spencer. >>> just five people standing in the toyota hands on contest. for the last two days, contestants had to keep one part of their body on a 2014 toyota taughts. whoever is the last man or woman standing wins the car. the contest ends tomorrow at noon, and if more than one person is left, they just have to do a random drawing to determine the winner. i could maybe hold on to the remote control laying on the couch for that long, but that's about it. >> and to think that you put that much effort into it and it comes down to a random drawing. >> please go to facebook to see all the tv shows and things that i like. but it's great to be here, everybody's made me feel just so much at home. >> we're so lucky to have you and we're happy to have you here. >> you could have come with better news, a better welcoming gift like the 50s are going to last for weeks now. >> we were talking bit, we're finally getting some warm weather around here, at least it's going to last for a couple of

said children are being sold for sex at hotels across northern virginia, in sterling, in ashburn and herndon and they are often advertised on websites like backpage.com. >> i can't believe, i don't know the people at backpage, but they must have a hard time sleeping. >> reporter: the wife of senator john mccain testified about a state bill to allow prosecutors to charge child sex traffickers with racketeering in arizona, the site of next year's super bowl. you and the senator have these beautiful kids. >> yes, we do. >> reporter: you worry about even them? >> yes, i do. >> reporter: by some accounts this is among the least reported of all crimes. investigators suspect that they are hearing about just 1% of all the cases. >> i can tell you that our caseload is extremely overwhelming right now. >> reporter: detective william wolfe works with the northern virginia human sex trafficking task force. >> the average age of induction in commercial sex in the united states is 13 years old. >> reporter: 13? >> yes. >> reporter: these are little kids. >> yes, sir. >> reporter: and america may be failin

blanket to one of the man's daughter who was about 7 years old from a girl who made this blanket in herndonrginia. >> people at the camp were definitely so happy because we had seen some of the families two months ago, and we told them, we promised them we would be back. the kids, moms and dads were so happy to see us back. >> that was part of a conversation with news4 david culver. the american turkish friendship association sponsored that trip. >>> warning for parents this morning. we're back with a popular baby pacifier. and how many drivers are texting and driving. and how long will that warm weather stick around? chuck is stories right now at 6:29 today marks one week since that deadly shooting at the columbia mall. the mall will hold a movement silence for the two victims this morning at 11:15 the time the shooting happened one week ago. >>> today 100 new traffic cameras will ticket violators in the district. the cameras will ticket drivers who don't stop for pedestrians in a marked crosswalk. the fines range from $50 to $300. >>> security is on high alert this morning in new york cit

don't think of heroin as a drug associated with big cities but suburbs just like their in herndon. whenever a family member dies, all kinds of memories come flooding back for this fairfax family, the drug that killed christopher atwood who overdosed. his mom said she once found his needle hidden is his room but he blew off their acquisitions. the evidence mounted but the family didn't get the full story until after he died when his friends started opening up. >> there's a whole underground network and basically go downtown, washington d.c., to get their heroin and bring it back. i found out at one point from somebody who had observed my son, that when he was 15, he actually shot up at this friend's house and was basically left to die by the family because they didn't want to call the authorities because then they would get in trouble with the law. >> yet they believe the fight against addiction is a health issue, not a moral one. the atwoods created a foundation in their son's name to fight alcohol and drug abuse. you have to hope that message is heard by a lot of other parents out

came to regard this episode as the highlight of his career even if as he freely admitted to william herndon lincoln's law partner turned biographer that he had come upon the whole thing by lucky chance. he said, from my report you will see how accidentally i discovered. i was looking for nothing of the kind and having certainly not the slightest idea of it. but on his tombstone here in illinois one finds the following inscription. in the hour of the nation's peril he did, abraham lincoln through the ranks of treason to the scene of his first inauguration as president. now i am guessing that many people who come to this story will know that abraham lincoln survived to become president of the united states and is soon afterwards the nation was plunged into civil war. why tell the story? why now? there are three reasons. one, it's a barn burner of a story. it reads like one of the yellow back adventure novels in the day that pinkerton himself love to read. you have conspirators taking blood of that midnight and detect its jumping off the trains. you have president-elect of the united states st

culpepper, and manassas, and herndon, and gaithersburg, and rockville, and up to columbia, and back to the west, the freezing rain, and then the temperatures will rise, and the line will move back towards the west. now we are talking about the rain in d.c. around 3:00 a.m., and rain around gaithersburg, and leesburg, and still some patches of ice, and the freezing rain moves back around i-81 around hagerstown and martins bug, and winchester, and that is why we have the winter storm warning that is in effect for tomorrow morning and for rush hour will be just rain. tonight's critical period is 11:00 p.m. to 3:00 a.m. or 4:00 a.m., and this is the area. montgomery county, loudoun county, northern fauquier, and up towards the north and the east. that is the winter storm warning, and upwards to a quarter inch of ice, and dangerous travel, and we could see wednesday morning delays and cancellations. now, anne arondel county, you can see the freezing ice, and this is the area that you need to keep your eyes open. 35 tomorrow, and 35 on thursday, and 40 friday, and 39 saturday, and we are wat

chevy chase 31 degrees, the wind out of the northwest at 12, wind of 22. 29 in herndon, feels like 21ill be cold and breezy as we go through thursday night. air temperatures in the upper 20's. did 30's in the city. every body will even out into the 20's. later tonight, it will get even colder. the windchill, feels like nine in gaithersburg, 13 hagerstown, 31 quantico. the wind does not die off totally, just enough of a breeze moving through that it will adjust the feels like a picture. the windchill, probably feel like the single numbers. inlly cold for this late february. the temperatures very cold all over the country as a new push comes in from canada, the northern plains. this cold weather spreading rapidly to the south and east with gusty wind. tomorrow, the center of the airmass gets closer. highs tomorrow in the upper 20's. think about that, a full day of sunshine on the 20 eighth day of february, high in the 20's, that does not happen very often. across the country, offshore, pacific ocean, this is a big storm developing in the pacific. there is the circulation center pushing

it's also time for thousands of students to get back to their studies. 24-year-old michelle herndon wasar.

john, herndon, virginia. caller: i think afghanistan did not start yesterday. it started 9/11.lot of contractors who work with the pentagon that has a big contract and they have not spent a dime. what you are seeing is contractors are going out there, making money. one contractor who has done something good about afghanistan? there are no schools, no roads, nothing. a dime whenot have he went to afghanistan. he is a multimillionaire. his brother was a multimillionaire before he got killed. the moneyothing -- goes to afghanistan. it does not go to the people in afghanistan. a goes to the cronies that work for pentagon and they spend that money. they gave them money too few afghanistan came back here and by million-dollar houses in this country. when people go to afghanistan, they have nothing. when they come back, they have plenty of money. host: are you from afghanistan? caller: i work for a lot of afghan people. what disappointing that this gentleman is saying after all of those years, now they investigate. what are you investigating? guest: the caller raises a concern i have

host: let's go to jeanne waiting in herndon, virginia on our line for independence. we're talking bitcoin and digital currency. hear thingsy time i and dollars and credit cards, there seems to be a comparison left out between bitcoin and something such as paypal. seemescription i've heard very similar to paypal. i wonder if the guest could explain how it is different from paypal. guest: sure. the difference really is that paypal is a system that lets you transfer dollars. to makellows businesses online transfers. you are transferring dollars and doing it by connecting to either bank transfers or the credit card system or some mechanism like that. it is a more convenient way of doing traditional dollar transfers in the financial system. what is different about bitcoin is that bitcoin creates this new currency that you can own. fixeds not have a exchange rate with dollars or any other currency. therefore, that bitcoin in a sense has its own economics which operates different from the dollar economy. that is why it is different and it is harder to understand and predict