police are telling us they believe that the victim was trying to drive himself to howard university hospitalspital and howard university hospital is just maybe half a block from right where i am standing. we don't have any information right now as far as a suspect lookout. we don't know if this part of the street was indeed the scene of the stabbing, if the vehicle was the scene of the stabbing but we just know that an adult male with a stab wound to the neck found dead -- found with a stab wound inside that black bmw that. car was just recently towed away by d.c. police and now they are working to -- we are seeing them -- they did go up and down the street with flash lights looking for bits of evidence and they ever a been with a shovel shoveling up what debris there is left over from the vehicle accident and putting that into a d.c. police car presumably to comb through that for evidence. now that they are starting to wrap up the scene, we believe that we should hopefully be hearing something from d.c. police in the never future that will fill in a little bit more of those details and ques

south of howard university hospital. you want to use rhode island avenue instead. in just a couple minutes, our delia goncalves will have more information on what's going on there but in the meantime, go ahead and use rhode island avenue as your alternate route this morning here in northwest d.c. let's go back over to our maps. this time on the north side of town. no problems to report on the beltway from college park all the way into bethesda. we're looking good on 270 out of frederick and 95 out of baltimore. we'll end with a live picture on the beltway at georgia avenue. traffic is moving well both loops of the beltway north of town. in my next report, another look at area roads at 5:09. back to you. >>> we start this morning with breaking news in the district. two men have been killed in stabbings overnight. >> one of them happened in northeast. the other one in northwest. delia goncalves is live at one of the scenes on florida avenue. delia, over to you. >> reporter: certainly after an hour after a deadly shooting on coral street, police respond to this scene

this is just south of howard university hospital. you want to stick to rhode island avenue instead. we'll have more on this situation coming up in the next few minutes at 4:47. andrea and mike? >>> thank you, monika. time for your first money segment of the morning. >> ola, jessica doyle. just wanted to throw a little something at you. >> it is a new month. we're hoping for a new direction for the stock market. just suffered the first monthly drop of the year. investors remained searched about europe's death crisis and the strength of the economic recovery here in the u.s. the dow lost a little bit. the nasdaq was off 1.5% in april. checking the numbers now, the dow slipped about 15 points yesterday. nasdaq was down by 22. the s&p 500 was off by 5. >>> delta airlines expanding into a new business. the carrier says it's buying a refinery near philadelphia for $150 million. it's hoping to slice a $300 million a year from its jet fuel bill. delta's planes burn through 3.9 billion gallons of fuel. it cost the airline $11.8%, 36% of its o

we tried to call howard university hospital for a comment. they have not called us back. >>> this morning the d.c. special election results in. and ward 5 has a new council member. democrat kenyon mcduffie won 44% of the vote. and barring anything unusual, he will be sworn in may 30. he will serve the remainder of harry thomas jr.'s term which runs through 2014. thomas stepped down after pleading guilty to embethesda eggling more than -- embezzling more than $450,000 of taxpayer dollars meant for children. >>> the d.c. council voted on a proposed budt for the coming year, and it includes additional traffic cameras. the budget would allow bars to stay open until 4:00 a.m. on holiday weekends only. the mayor wanted the later hours to be in effect year-round. council members approved additional funding for d.c. schools and school maintenance. the council scheduled to give a final approval of the budget next months. >>> a fight over ambulance fees in montgomery county is brewing. this comes after the council approved a countywide ambulance fee de

one of the things that howard university and howard university hospital has identified was that we have a large population of at-risk drinkers, substance abuse patients, and that we wanted to find a way to try to really help our population. we didn't have enough social workers or frontline people to do it. so what we had done was put together a proposal to train our residents. and samhsa was very helpful in that and provided us with a grant to train our residents and our staff about screening, brief intervention, and referral for treatment. so when a patient comes in on whatever service... they may not have come in for an alcohol or substance abuse problem, but the results of the discussion may have been screening that patient just to see, is this person at risk? and once you have done that, you really go through a process of educating the residents and staff about how you can have open-ended questions, affirmative listening, reflective listening, that really allows a person to open up and tell you what is going on. now we know physicians and health care personnel are very busy, so the

as i said, he was just two blocks away from howard university hospital. ce are trying to determine exactly where the stabbing occurred. it appears since he was in his car driving, he drove away from that crime scene presumably heading to the hospital. however, it is unclear and police are not confirming that at this point. we are waiting for more details from detectives as they continue to comb the scene and try to figure out exactly what happened early this morning. back to you, mike, andrea? >> delia goncalves live on this breaking news story out of northwest washington. thank you. >>> jury deliberations should begin today in the child sex abuse trial against michael gardner. the falls church businessman is accused of molesting three young girls invited to sleepovers for his daughter last summer. gardner took the stand in his own defense yesterday. he said on one occasion his daughter asked him to come into her bedroom during a thunderstorm that night. however, he denies inappropriately touching any of the other girls. >>> the occupy movement hasn't gone

person was found with a stab wound in the neck transported literally one block over no howard university hospitald according to d.c. police sources. we also believe at this point it is still unclear, hasn't been confirmed but it is believed that perhaps the victim was stabbed somewhere else and was in that bmw trying to drive himself to howard university hospital. but as you can see from the scene here, obviously, he did not make it. that is all the information we have at this point. we don't have any information on a suspect lookout. someone who was here on the scene early this morning told mow they did see d.c. police interviewing someone. we are hoping to get more information on d.c. police as they wrap up the investigation and start writing up their report and as we get fresh information, we'll bring it to you. for now, florida avenue as you can see behind me open with traffic moving. >> thank you. >>> some of our other top stories this morning, the search is on for two armed robbers who officials say staged fake car crashes to trap the victims. police have just released the surveillance pict

we tried to call howard university hospital for a comment.is not called us back. >>> in montgomery county, a fight over ambulance fees is brewing. council members approved a plan where patients would be charged a fee ranging from $300 to $800. in most situations, health insurance would cover it. the money will help provide more public safety services and equipment, says the county executive. critics fear the plan would keep people from calling for help in an emergency. the policy would take effect in january of 2013. though council members believe the issue could go to another referendum vote. >>> you'll soon be able to party in d.c. bars until 4:00 in the morning. at least on holidays. the d.c. council passed a revised version of mayor gray's budget yesterday. the council approved the extended hours for the night before all district and federal holidays. the mayor had wanted the late hours all of the time. he says it would have generated $3.6 million for the city. >>> 6:35 now. the catholic archdiocese firing back at georgetown university's

we called howard university hospital for a comment.ve not called us back. >>> train doors opening during your ride is extremely rare. that's what metro is saying this morning to reassure riders. commuters on the red line during the morning rush yesterday got to see that rare event. doors suddenly opened as a train was traveling between van ness and tinley town. one of the riders took this photo of the open door and posted it to twitter. the cars involved are 1,000 series models, the oldest in the system. the affected cars have been pulled from service. >>> 5:37. a heartbreaking story. what we're learning about an accident that claimed the life of a 3-year-old boy. >>> first, trying to make things better, the encouragement this little girl had for her dad after his disappointing day. >>> and after a day of rain, the skies are finally clearing. [ male announcer ] dandruff, meet micro-beads. any last wishes? new selsun blue deep cleansing micro-bead scrub goes to the source wiping out flakes before they flake. new selsun blue deep cleansi

that can you talk a little bit about what role hospitals... and you know-and we are using howard university hospital as an example-are doing or should be doing in order to engage in these efforts? i am glad you asked that question, ivette. the hospital has suicide prevention, suicide groups as well as recover... people who have recovered from post-traumatic stress disorder. so there are some groups to help and address some of these issues, but there is still a larger community that we need to get help to. the identifying and screening, not only for just substance abuse but for the mental health that jordan was talking about previously so you can identify patients a little earlier. you start seeing the patterns: this person got shot last year, now they got shot this year, they're under the age of 17 and as a trend may go... that third time may be a fatal one. so getting the family involved, getting the child protective services, getting our community involved to really try to address some of the greater issues that may be going on and not just putting the patient right back out on the street, but you

they arrived on the scene that victim was said to be unconscious, transported to hospital, howard university hospital, just about two blocks from where i am standing, and the victim was then just -- the victim then died at the hospital some time later again we don't know what transpired there was early information that led everyone to believe perhaps this adult male victim was stabbed in another location and was trying to drive himself to the hospital. and then ended up here obviously not able to control the vehicle any longer, we are again waiting for dc police to release that information, to us, i did ask, whether they had any suspect information and i am told there is no suspect information at this time, which would lend to that theory perhaps this person was stabbed at another location, however i will tell you of these two stabbing scenes, the other one on quarrel street northwest dc police are telling us at this point they do not have information that would lead them to believe those two scenes are connected. that is the latest here in northwest. >> melanie thank you. >> also new dc police hope

of the vehicle and landed open the street as well we know the victim was transported to howard university hospital and then told, the victim died we don't know if the victim was deceased on scene or died later in hospital not able to revive him. again, police right now are saying they don't believe at this point, have no evidence to tell them those two stabbing scenes the one you talked about earlier, corral street, 1:15 a.m., and they don't believe those two are related, but again they are trying to unravel details and figure out what happened we did see them going up and down the street looking for evidence down closer to, 5th street, and we are 6th here. so we are waiting for updates from dc police but for now t scene is clear unfortunately, not too much dam -- forchew theyly not too much damage to the building behind me, but yes, we have an adult male, deceased from a stab wound to the neck. >> thank you mel. >>> now in our other top stories this morning a new clue in the search for two armed robbers accused of purposefully bumping into motorists late at night in north potomac maryland police

also howard university hospital is just down the road. we counted at least two bullet holes on the side of the truck. it also had a flat tire. a d.c. police say they believe that the adult female who was driving the pickup truck and the 10-year-old victim may be related because they both have the same last name. they are not saying exactly how they are related. the investigation is continuing. in northeast, i'm tracee wilkins, news4. >>> happening today, a member of british royalty is headed across the pond. prince harry will be here in d.c. for a special honor. news4's megan mcgrath has more now from the ritz-carlton downtown. >> reporter: it is a cause that's near to his heart. since serving in afghanistan in 2007, prince harry has been actively involved in charities that help wounded soldiers. tonight he's being honored for his work and will receive the atlantic council's award for distinguished humanitarian leadership. >> needs attention and who better to give it to him, high profile. >> i think it is wonderful. i think he's done grea

howard university hospitau workni certificate fightinger charges of says patient'ss ofpersonal details. indictments say this she sold patient names and socials ansecurity numbers.se if convicted she faces ten year in prison. the hospital says it regrets the incident. >>> the apparents and friends od -- parents and friends of ex- ex-gay's groups is suing.is the group known at p fox sentx flyers home claiming that people can choose to be heterosexual standpoint of gay. they claim the superintendent called the message reprehensible and dee brotherly.an the district said they had no choice but to he put out the flyers.ye >>> the government key witnesser in the trial of roger clemens said he has lied before about facts and his memory has evolves korver night .er brian mcnamee testified he has been mistaken about some thingse paul wagner has more. >> reporter: mcnamee spent aboum two cnhours on the witness stan, sparring with the defense lawmaker.la clemens and mcnamee first met in 1998, and he claims to have first injected the pitcher with steroids. he said he's not making anythinn up, but says he at times has lied. clemens' torr lawyer attacked hypothetical from several directions -- clemens' lawyer attacked him from seve