. >>> what people who live in this hyattsville apartment building experienced they say was worse than a fire. i'm tracee wilkins. coming up on news4 an >>> this guy is a thief, a serial thief. >> and over and over again, he has hit office buildings and stolen computers. pat collins tells us now that this guy often hides in plain sight. pat? >> reporter: wendy, he strikes just as the office opens or right before it closes. he goes in, picks up a laptop here, a laptop there and he is gone in a flash. police describe this man as a serial computer thief. they say he goes into offices in arlington and rips off laptops. they say he has done it about 20 times in the last 14 months. >> nobody wants to work for their money anymore. that's the hard part about it. so -- >> what do you do to protect your laptop? >> i take it home with me every day. >> reporter: this guy is not bashful. one of the buildings he targeted is close by misheadpolice headquarters. they could walk to the scene. >> quick in, quick out with whatever devices he can carry in a backpack. >> reporter: the suspect carries a bac

they've searched hyattsville homes connected to welch area family. they dug through grave sites on a mountain side more than 200 miles southwest of wheaton near bedford, virginia. police say lloyd welch told them he saw his uncle sexually assaulting the girls in a hyattsville house and that he left and never saw them again. we are expecting this news conference to start at 12:05. we will bring it you to live and on the week. live in wheaton, wusa9. >> as bruce said, we'll go back to that news conference as soon as it happens. >>> police have two people in custody right now for a deadly shooting at wheaton metro station. they received a call around 7:00 last night. when investigators got to the scene, they found a man on the second floor of the parking garage suffering with a gunshot wound. he died a short time later at the hospital. commuters were a bit shaken by the news. >> i left probably around 6:55. i think it happened at like 7:06 what they said. >> reporter: this is your normal commute? >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: your feelings are after yesterday

. >>> three women are suing their apartment complex in hyattsville over a bedbug problem. tanya stokes and her 87-year-old more ethel live at the apartments in hyattsville and they said it was infested with the little guys but the property owners didn't fix the problem. so they moved out in 2012, then a different tenant moved in but she wasn't aware of the bedbug issues. >> my legs and feet were swollen. her chest and back of her neck were all bit up by the bedbugs. >> all three women filed a civil suit against the berkshire property advisers. they owned the building when they lived there. it's under new ownership. the women are asking for $20 million. >>> some great news for larry hogan's health team. the tumor in his neck has shrunk by 80% after two rounds of chemotherapy. the doctors are very pleased and the governor left university of maryland's medical center in baltimore yesterday after his second round of chemo. in june, he announced he had been diagnosed with aggressive nonlodge kins lymphoma. >>> and your wait times on metro will stay the same. it would have cause

it happened on hubbard road in hyattsville. one man in critical condition and the other is expected to be okay. police haven't said what may have led to the shooting. >>> searchers are expected to look for man drowned in the chesapeake bay. doug brown went under while swimming friday night. the sheriff's deputies found the body of his brother yesterday. >>> and right now, president obama is meeting with kenyan youth and community leaders. later this morning he'll travel to ethiopia. president obama is first sitting president to visit the country. >>> right now a wildfire is forcing people to evacuate. it's threatening as many as 200 houses northeast of sacramento. they say that the state's extreme drought is making matters worse there. >>> so this is the last guy you want showing up at your weekend cookout. a group of people barbecuing in milwaukee spotted not one, but two lions. police rushed to the scene. couldn't find the animals but you can see from the video officers patrolling the neighborhood. they had their rifles at th

you are helping a mother and a father have peace. >> today at the welsh family hyattsville home this woman declined to answer questions about the case. saying that the police lie. >> they will make this press conference tomorrow the place where the sisters with were last seen 40 years ago. in wheaton brad bell abc7 news. leon: tonight a montgomery county man is in maryland to face child pornography charges. jonathan elias is standing by at live desk for brand new information we uncovered about the case. jonathan: since we first broke the news at 4:00 on abc7 news we learned that the suspect a former employee of a dance school called dance place in northeast washington. his name is bradley porter. we have a photo. he had images of child pornography at a hard drive at his home in takoma but they found him in knoxville. he has turned himself in. a spokes penn with the tans studio tans place, tells us that he is no longer employed there and never involved with kids classes. the very latest i'm jona elias. back to you. >> thank you. coming up on "abc7 news at 5:00" -- move over rusty. ano

tonight at the committee center and hyattsville. shuttle service will be provided from all the stops transit center. we want to check on the roadways right now. danielle looks at your traffic this noon. daniel: we have some issues out there, nothing too major. you may want to watch for a tree trimming project going on between reservoir road. in southeastern we had an accident just cleared off of the good hope road. there was a crash on the eastbound side as you approach mlk avenue. police have cleared the scene. as you head onto isaac e-cig, we have roadwork westbound. watch for the cones in the area there. traffic as you head down to 34. right in the area of princely and parkway, we actually have a pretty serious accident right now. we have northbound and southbound route one closed. they are terrific -- directing traffic to avoid that spot. northbound georgia avenue: urgency -- had a medical emergency. jummy: thank you. national zoo says one of its animals escaped from the small mammal house. but the good news is that has been fou

investigators have since searched hyattsville homes connected to his family and dug through grave sitestain in bedford county, virginia where welch once lived with his uncle who at the time was a security guard near the wheaton mall. >> we believe we have finally zeroed in where we need to to find out the truth of what happened to those girls. we know who is responsible. each and every one of them which includes lloyd welch and family members. >> reporter: that was sound from investigators about a year ago after a development and much more on this case later today. welch says he saw his uncle sexually assault one of their -- one of the sisters, rather, in their hyattsville home and that he left never to see them again. much more on the news briefing coming up in our noon newscast. back to you in the studio. >>> an undercover video is sparking an uproar this morning among antiabortion activists. they say the video shows a senior planned parenthood official discussing the sale of parts from aborted fetuses. planned parenthood says the not for profit donation of fetal tissue to research fi

the victim only being identified as a man from hyattsville is expected to recover. >>> a consumer alert now for -- from the d.c. office of the attorney general. someone claiming to be from pepco is calling businesses in the city, threatening to cut off their electricity if a payment isn't made quickly. the owner of bow tie restaurant in d.c. was one of those targets. >> as a result, our power would be shut off that afternoon. it was a courtesy call from pepco and they were going to shut our power off in two hours. >> investigators say at least four restaurants have been successfully scammed in this. one victim lost $1,000, another $500. the owner of bow tie realized he was be time. >>> a woman is fighting for her life after a hit-and-run accident. she was struck by a car in the 8300 block of annapolis road in new carrollton. investigators say it appears the woman who was hit was not in a crosswalk. the suspect car described as a dark toyota, possibly a camry with front end damage. >>> president obama will be bucking a long-standing trend tonight when he goes to new york city. the comman

a surveillance photo showing a man or it could be him using a stolen credit card at a store in hyattsville. there is a cash reward for help in identifying this suspect. >>> changes in security on the inside and outside of the white house today. crews added new sharp met al points to the -- metal points to the fence. they are temporary and will stay on until a permanent solution is determined. it will take about six weeks to add the new security feature. inside the white house they are letting their guard down just a little. >> if you've been on a white house tour, you may have seen this sign. well, not anymore. >> that's first lady michelle obama taking to instagram to announce the white house is lifting its longstanding camera and photo ban. guests are welcome to take photos throughout the white house tour route. visitors are encouraged to share their experience on social media using the #whitehousetour. >>> stepping up security in virginia, what the state is doing to keep riders safe while mailing an uber car. >> just a couple thunderstorms mainly south of town. doppler the last hour, he

in baltimore following the death of freddie gray and officers who administered cpr to a boy in hyattsville who had stopped breathing. >> every day members of our department do heroic things. they go way beyond what's expected, and we don't always take the opportunity to recognize them in the day-to- day hurrying around and bustling of most days but that's what today is for. >> the police department holds these award ceremonies four times a year. >>> coming up, how a loving son is making his mother's cancer battle a little easier by getting some help from strangers. >> panic during a century's old religious tradition with deadly ruts. >> topper is tracking some big storms. the forecast is up in >>> a hindu religious festival turned into a deadly stampede in southern india. nearly 30 people were attachled as -- trampled as thousands rushed to a river for ritual bathing. authorities say the stampede was triggered by some pilgrims who were trying to retrieve their shoes that had fallen off the rush to the river bank. more than 20 million pilgrims are expected to attend the festival. they belie

. >>> right now we're working to find out the conditions of two men who were shot in hyattsville. prince george's county police say someone shot the men on hubbard road early yesterday. we are told one of the men had life threatening injuries. however, we have not received an update from police for nearly 24 hours. >>> and right now, investigators in st. mary's county are looking for this man. his name is alan rangel. he is charged with killing cody lacey on saturday. the sheriff's deputies arrested burks-jeffrey and braithwaite. >>> a howard county woman is in the hospital. a truck drove into her apartment and hit her. take a look at this scene here. howard county police put out the pictures. a truck drove through the sliding dallas door and drove into marilyn schmeits' house yesterday. police say mynor monterroso was trying to back out of the space when he hit a pole and this happened. arrests arrested monterroso and charged him with driving without a license and failure to control the car. >>> metro will continue to celebrate the silver line today. it's been a year since that l

police responded to the call about 130 in the morning in hyattsville. officers found two men with gunshot wounds. both were taken to the hospital. one is expected to survive. the other man does have life-threatening injuries have what we are told at this time. >>> meanwhile right now, crews are recon figuring the lanes at the intersection of georgia avenue and randolph road in wheaten. traffic will be down to bun lane in each direction on both roads during the construction. crews should finish by the monday morning rush hour. >>> the government slaps one of the world's top automakers with a record fine. what fiat chrysler has to do to make amends and why you may be able to cash in. >>> a wild and scary scene in a neighborhood had heavily armed officers guarding the community. >>> and guests relieve -- out of their rooms. why they say employee does have done much more to keep them safe. >>> temperatures hovering around 90 degrees right now. and there's a whole lot more 90-degree weather coming up in iran keeps their nuclear facilities. military sites can

they responded to a call about 1:30 on hubbard road in hyattsville. both men taken to the hospital. one is expected to survive. the other man has life threatening injuries. >> milwaukee, wisconsin remains on alert tonight after more sightings of a lion on the loose. and now we are learning a baby lion may be with her. wildlife officials were out all day with rifles and tranquilizer guns. they have been looking for the lions ever since this cell phone video surfaced last week. this morning, there were new sightings. officials say the is probably a wild mountain lion or mail order exotic pet. >> a whole bunch of smoke. looked lick a bomb went off. >> employees were not answer. five, six times. where are the stairs. we were met with blank stares. >> learning more about the scary moments during this fire at skoz mow poll -- cosmopolitan hotel. the fire department less than a mile away firefighters arrived quickly. as you heard from the last guest. some say the hotel employees were not helpful evacuating the massive building. flames broke out on the 14th floor. the pool area yesterday. t

man was later captured by surveillance camera using one of the stolen credit cards at a store in hyattsville. if you can help identify the suspect, you could be eligible for a cash reward. >>> in virginia surveillance video of a man setting several cars on fire at this auto repair shop. you see the guy climb into the back seat before the cars go up in flames. investigators say cars at four separate shops in martinsville were set on fire monday night. cops caught derek boone a short while later and charged him with arson. >>> a woman missing two days was found alive after her car went off the road in a malibu canyon. jennifer daron was reported missing when she did not come back from a run at the beach and was found after a woman noticed skid marks on the road while out jogging this morning. >> i looked over the cliffside and that's when i saw the vehicle and then i yelled hello! is anybody there? and i heard a very weak call for help. >> really her first words were i didn't think anybody was going to find me and she couldn't get herself up to get out of there. >> the firefighters had to use

in hyattsville, this issue popped up. westbound 450 there, veterans parkway two right lanes are blocked because of road work. we have the crash on the shoulder at 66 don't need to worry about that one too much. i wanted to mention it. 66 overall, both ways eastbound and westbound looking good. 95 in maryland no issues. b.w. parkway and 29 also rolling along nicely and 270 at shady grove road no problems there. back in ten minutes. >>> i'm kristin wright at the live desk. we have a terrible situation in bangladesh. at least 22 petry. and what's disturbing is that these people had gathered for a charity event where free clothing was given out. they were there to get free clothing and when the gates opened, everybody rushed in and 22 people were killed in the stampede. 21 of them women and one a child. so sad. eun? >> for sure, thank you, kristin. >>> a developing story this morning that affects millions of you. even if you have never worked for the federal government your information could have been stolen in the office of

been named a person of interest and police are reapplying public pressure on his uncle richard of hyattsville he says has been implicated by lloyd. >> he is observed richard welch sexually assaulting one of the lionyon sisters. >> those involved in the crimes and coverups, examine your conscience. reporter: the prosecutor says they to can be charged. brad bell, abc 7 news. leon: only on seven tonight, a youth group leader accused of sexually abusing and middle school girl that he was supposed to be teaching about religion. kevin lewis live to explain what that man's grandmother said about the criminal charges. reporter: that youth leader is 24. is a legit victim is only 13 years old. police tell us they are -- their secret little relationship lasted for five months and often included private hookups at secluded spots. he taught the good word but now since accused of breaking it. while leading a youth group in rockville, police say he wooed a 13-year-old girl. court documents say it was not long before the two were routinely having sex in places like the youth leader car, rock creek regional p

in hyattsville, a shooting leaves two men injured on the 3500 block of hubbard road. follow developments in both of the stories. you will be able to get a free ride to and from ellis airport thi. -- ellis airport. today and tomorrow you can ride the civil line express for free. if you're heading out today you might need to bring that umbrella. dave: some rain later tonight into tomorrow. it is sticky. as you step outside, at annapolis, 75 degrees. wind shifted to the south. temperatures in the low to mid to upper 70's. dew points, mid 60's and 70's. you will see humidity increased today and he will notice it this week. high pressure still overhead. that will be our benefactor today moving down to the east. clouds will encroach this afternoon. high temperature today around 90 degrees but it will feel hotter. the heat indices in the low 90's because of higher dew points. for tomorrow showers. high of 88. the real heat comes in the middle of the week. could be close to 100 degrees by thursday. brianne: thank you for watching. have a great sunday. >> business news from th

. >>> right now, we're working to find out the condition of two men who were shot in hyattsville. prince george's county police said someone shot the men on hubbard road yesterday. one of the men had life threatening injuries. however, we have not receive an update from the police in 24 hours. >>> firefighters in prince george's county are trying to figure out what sparked a fire at a vacant house. look at some pictures posted on twitter. as you can see it's pretty intense there. that fire started yesterday morning at a home along walters place. this is in district heights. took about an hour for crews to bring the flames under control. that house is a foreclosure and has been on the auction block since march. >>> a man is free on bond this morning after being arrested for leaving a baby locked inside a hot car for at least 20 minutes. this happened on saturday on north market street in frederick, maryland. the baby was covered in sweat and was who at to the touch when firefighters opened the car. the car's ignition was off and the baby's guardian, 44-year-old ismaila blay is char

three women suing their apartment complex in hyattsville over a bedbug problem. tonya stokes and her 87-year-old mother ethel lived at the kings park plaza apartments. they say their apartment was infested with bedbugs but the property owners didn't fix the problem so they moved out in 2012. then a different tenant moved in but she was unaware of that creepy creepy crawly issue. >> my legs and feet were swollen. her chest and back of her neck was all bit up. by the bedbugs. >> now, all three women filed a civil suit against the berkshire property advisers. they own the building when they lived there. it's now under new ownership. the women are asking for $20 million. >>> we are now learning even more businesses were damaged during -- than previously thought during riots in baltimore this past april. that's according to "the baltimore sun." around 400 businesses had physical damage. that's up from the earlier count of 361. a lot of the businesses have reopened or say that they intend to do so. >>> seven of the biggest travel websites are running out of ways to fig

he lives here in our area, in hyattsville much the meantime, we are hearing for the first time from the cold case detectives who helped crack this case. >> it's frustrating it's disconcerting, it's group setting to know that there's people that know and wouldn't do anything parents thought that have their own children that are keeping things from us. >> the grand jury has indicted lloyd lee welch for the murders of the two children. they disappeared back in 1979. welch is currently in jail in delaware on an unrelated sex offense. >>> tonight, more than a dozen people are facial charges in a massive theft ring that targeted people in the suburbs going about their daily errands much the ring operated for decades, until now. and prince george's county bureau chief tracee wilkins tells us how investigators connected all the crimes to one group. >> reporter: well, over the past six years, police say that this group was able to he were $5 million in stolen merchandise and vehicles. prince george's county say they expect to see a large drop in crime with these folks behind bars. police say the

it is headed toward hyattsville at 5:25 on our storm tracker and also headed to fedex field at 5:33. again heavy rain the main threat. just isolated showers and storms this evening, showers and storms possible by dawn. that's what's kind of counterintuitive. tomorrow's storms will be more numerous in the morning than in the afternoon. so yellow alert possible tomorrow. we'll follow this all night and issue one at 11:00 if we feel confident. friday okay in the morning but usual afternoon thunderstorms but not a washout. neither day will be a washout. 8:00 tonight done with everything except for maybe a couple sprinkles in the mountains, upper 70s to around 80, 79 leesburg, 80 downtown and manassas at 9:00. by morning here comes the showers. by 6:00 nothing crazy heavy, 66 in manassas, 65 culpeper, showers. continues to move north and east essentially up i-95. this is 9:00, a little yellow in prince george's county and by 1:00 some breaks in the clouds out toward leesburg and frederick, had hiest activity south and east of 95 -- heaviest activity south and east of 95. day planner 71, m

among the dozens being freed a man named normal o'neal brown, from hyattsville maryland, arrest and given life sentence for the possession and sale of crack cocaine. he has been in prison since 1993. the president says brown and the others would have no longer have been in jail under today's drug rulings. >> i believe that, in its heart america is a nation of second chances and i believe these folks deserve their second chance. i also believe there's a lot more we can do to restart sense of fairness at the heart of our justice system and to make sure our tax dollars are well spent even as we are keeping our streets safe. >> joining us now nbc senior white house correspondent, chris jansing. so, what is the reaction to these commutations? >> reporter: you can just imagine at least from the prison population, because when the president announced this program last year, he got 35,000 applications for commutations. so, it's been a huge job just starting to sift through them. but what happened today is the largest single number of these kinds of pardons or commutation of sentences since the jo

now this happened on hubbard road in hyattsville around 1:30 in the morning. both were taken to the hospital. one man is expected to be okay while the other does have life threatening injuries. crime scene investigators will be at the scene this morning collecting evidence. >>> also in prince george's county, police are investigating a crime scene on swan road in suitland. they say officers responded to a call for a shooting. found an injured man there. police would not say if that man was shot, stabbed or attacked in some other way. we are also waiting on them to tell us what the condition is at this moment. >>> we are following a developing story in calvert county. today, searchers are expected to look for a man presumed drowned in the chesapeake bay. now, the calvert county sheriff's office is looking for the body of doug brown. deputies found the body of his brother yesterday afternoon. both vanished while swimming at cove point beach in lusby friday night. the costa brava restaurant posted a message saying it is closed because of a quote, death in the cos

among them a man from hyattsville, maryland, norman o'neil brown has been in prison since 1993. he was grieve an life sentence for the possession and sale of crack cocaine. president obama says brown would not even be in jail in the first place because of the change in our gun -- or drug laws. >>> we are learning new details tonight about the first heat-related death in maryland this year. it was a 2-year-old child left in a car in baltimore for at least 24 hours last month. the child's father is the one who left child in the vehicle and later discovered her. he is under arrest. police urge parents to check their vehicles before walking away from them. >>> and we are getting a little bit of a break from the heat and humidity now but it's going to be a brief one before the heat wave rolls in vj. >> that's right. going to move into some sticky conditions, then down right oppressive. this upcoming heat wave could very well be one of the longest ones they have had for the summer so far. today with the low humidity temperatures topping out, but again, weekend, a lot of heat and high

. >> norman brown, who lived in hyattsville, is among those whose sentence was commute. a letter on taped by news4 shows his attempt to get his sentence reduced back in 2008. he asked the judge at that time to, in his words, remove some of my daily fears of never coming home. brown was sentenced to life in 1993 on cocaine charges. >>> tonight, a virginia woman is suing metro for $5 million after that deadly smoke incident in january. news4's chris lawrence is here with details of her lawsuit. >> megan bledsoe boarded the yellow line train in l'enfant plaza and says what happened the next 45 minutes cause herd great emotional distress. bottom line she blames metro. after it left the station bledsoe's train stopped in the tunnel, which was filling with smoke from an arcing insulator. the lawsuit claims bledsoe spent 40 minutes huddled on the there are of the metro car, trying to escape that smoke. bledsoe texted her fiance that she didn't know if she was going to make it and she says throughout the ordeal she saw passengers panicking and coughing. she watched one man vomit

. >> we have a brand-new crash that popped up in hyattsville, ridge road at beechwood. not too much of a delay, but wanted to mention it. off ramp to 50 is blocked. 66 overall and 95 overall looking typical at this point, 270 southbound, a tiny bit of volume at germantown road. back in ten minutes. >>> developing right now, crews are getting ready to raise the cuban flag here in d.c. the cuban embassy opens in just a few hours. news4's molette green is live on 16th street northwest where they're setting up right now. a historic day molette. >> reporter: yes, it is. angie, good morning. i'm standing in front of what is now again being called the cuban embassy here in washington. you can see the empty flag pole behind me. there it is. not empty for much longer as of later today. there's security gates that are now in place. that went up just about an hour ago. diplomatic relations restored and kicked in officially after midnight, between these two countries. the u.s. and cuba. and here again is what is going to happen as of 10:30. the embassy officially reopened its doors

the uncle is being chande lives in hyattsville. lloyd lee welch was indicted for the murders. on news4 at 5, we will talk to detectives critical of the case speaking public lit first time. >>> getting good news on the condition of george h. w. bush. he fell and broke a bone in his neck. he had to be rushed to the hospital last night but now his granddaughter jenna, says he is doing okay. # he is going to have to wear a neck brace. >> i think he can manage a minor neck injury. >> bush suffers from a form of parkinson's disease and uses a wheelchair to get around. president obama called him today to wish him a speedy recovery. >>> president obama should be landing at joint base andrews minutes from now. today, he became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison. went to oklahoma to push for changes in the way the country sentence and treats criminals. here is nbc's edward lawrence. >> reporter: president obama went to the federal correctional institution in el reno oklahoma, to push for criminal justice reforms that he says will keep streets safe while saving taxpaye

. >>> about 20 miles away in hyattsville, a car and a metro bus collided.hat happened near 23rd avenue and east west highway. police say two people on the metro bus have minor injuries. one person in that car was injured. still no word that caused that crash. >>> now the video to the aftermath of an attack on a trail that highlights the problem for d.c.'s troubled 911.is and everyone who uses a popper hiker had/biker trail in our city. >> a witness caught two teenagers on camera after police say they attacked a woman on the metropolitan branch trail. that witness called 91 1, but the response was not as quick as might be expected. >> news4's mark segraves learned it is not the only location where you might have trouble getting help in an emergency. he is live along that trail tonight. mark? >> reporter: city leaders like to boast about all the miles and miles of bike lanes and hiker/biker trails like the met branch trail here. it's one of the things that makes d.c. such a great place to live. but as this recent incident highlighted, if you call 911 from one

police say lloyd welch told them he saw his uncle sexually assaulting the girls in a hyattsville house and that he left and never saw them again. whether law enforcement officials now plan to announce an indict in the murders, the discovery of the girls' bodies, or simply new evidence, they refuse to say. there is silence from the montgomery county state's attorney. >> we're going to find out the entire truth of those people involved. >> reporter: from a lead investigator. >> it is morley wrong. >> reporter: from the bedford county sheriff. >> providing the parents closure. >> reporter: and from the commonwealth's attorney. organizers are bracing for a huge media presence out here. they're actually planning to close off the roads, even to buses. they're reserving spots along the street for all kinds of satellite and microwave trucks. you can see the stage of course that they have set up. that is where we're hoping finally to get some answers in this 40-year-old mystery that has shaken this community for all that time. live in wheaton, bruce leshan, wusa9. >> wow, bruce. sure looks like

the victim is a hyattsville man in his 20s. he is expected to recover. >>> a vicious attack in northwest d.c. caught on camera and it was all over a bicycle. we have the video of that attack. before i show it to you, i want to warn you it is graphic and it is hard to see. it happened on july 11 and d.c. police say it was in the shaw neighborhood at r and 11 streets. as you can see in this video a person is lying on the ground while a group of people beat him and stomp him and jump on him repeatedly. it was all over the victim's bmx bike. it happened right after an event called a bike jam. the attackers got away with two bikes, a cell phone and a backpack. this is what one of the victims had to say. >> anybody could have got like killed or anybody could have been seriously injured because there was a lot of people. they could have done anything they wanted to really. >> reporter: thankfully those vehicle films were able to walk away -- victims were able to walk away with minor injuries, a few bruises and broken noses. they are e

in hyattsville, tracee wilkins, news4. >>> an autopsy just released in the death of sandra bland. what prosecutors are saying about the injuries she suffered while in jail. >>> a man misses his stop on metro, pulls the emergency lever. i'm adam tuss. >>> the chances of getting struck by lightning in any given year are about 1 in 700,000. what are the odds you're naked when that hits? three people are recovering after a lightning strike at a nude beach. lifeguards have just ordered everyone off the beach when the storm hit south florida yesterday. lightning hit the water and nearly electrocuted two swimmers. someone else went to help them and collapsed. >> my peripheral vision, i saw lightning strike really close and i kind of heard the lightning snap and i heard the largest sound of thunder that i had ever heard. >> lifeguards had to go back in the water during the storm to rescue all three of those people. >> incredible story. what are the odds? >>> more on the death of sandra bland, the woman found hanged in her jail cell, after being arrested in texas. >> the autopsy was just r

. >>> we are working to find out the conditions of two men who were shot in hyattsville. prince george's county police said someone shot them on hubbard road early yesterday. yesterday morning we were told one of the men had life threatening injuries. we are calling police to find out if that man's condition has changed. >>> right now investigators in st. mary's county are still looking for this man. this is alan rangel. he is charged with shooting and killing cody lacey in mechanicsville on saturday. the sheriff's deputy arrested burks-jeffrey and wade braithwaite. they were accomplices. >>> a howard county woman is in the hospital. a truck drove into her apartment and hit her. take a look at the scene here. the truck controversy through a sliding glass door and into marilyn schmeits' apartment yesterday. according to police. this is on old waterloo road in rutledge. mynor monterroso was trying to back out of a place and this happened. he was charged with driving without a license, negligent driving and failure to control the car. >>> this morning, we will learn a lot mo

. >>> people who used to live in this hyattsville apartment building say it was once infested with bed bugs, to the point they lost everything like a massive fire. now, they want to be made whole again. we will explain. >>> and i'm storm team4 chief meteorologist doug kammerer a great day for backyard weather the weather absolutely fantastic. who's winning? we will be right back with a little bit more. >>> hello, everybody. chief meteorologist doug kammerer. we are live in ann brinker's backyard. i knew ann -- everybody here calls her annie. i call her ann because this is app capina to me we went to high school together. i said we graduated in 2003. that -- that's right. we sticking with that? >> absolutely. >> absolutely. so, instead of our 20-year we just had our ten-year anniversary, our high school reunion, which was great. thank you guys, for having us to your home. your husband outside right now, take a look, there he is. jamie, what's up buddy? did you guys realize it jamie realize it it is national hot dog day jamie is making up. he has 700 hot dogs he is cooking up today. we a

he lives in hyattsville, maryland. jury has indicted lloyd lee welch for the murder of the two children. he's currently in jail in delaware on an unrelated sex offense. >>> disturbing new details about the man accused of fatally beating a maryland child over a piece of birthday cake. he's been charged with abuse before. police say robert wilson beat 9-year-old jack garcia unconscious in june after accusing him of stealing a piece of cake. the boy died five days later. in 2010, prosecutors charged him with abusing the daughter of a woman he lived with. those charges were dropped in a plea deal. wilson faces murder and child abuse charges in jack garcia's death. >>> this next video may be hard to watch, but d.c. police need your help catching these men. the group violently robbed a man for his bike. this was near 11th and "r" streets in northwest washington on saturday. the whole thing was caught on camera. police are offering a $5,000 reward for the men involved in this assault and robbery. >>> 5:49 now. officials at a

. >> reporter: for "today," kristen welker, nbc news hyattsville maryland. >>> we have had some pretty nasty weather out there this afternoon. >> we are hearing word about flooding, possible flooding. where veronica? >> the weather having a big impact inside the district, prince george's county fairfax county now the heaviest rain moving through areas of prince george's county and down through the southern part of the beltway, as you head down i-95. let me show you what i'm talking about, a couple of clusters with thunderstorms, yes, you can see the lightning that i put on here, fairfax right down through prince george's county and also present toward st. mary's and calvert county then we have got two other clusters, one back here, warren and shenandoah county, another farther south areas of charlottesville, all headed south southeast, very slowly, around five to ten miles per hour. slow movement of these storms producing flooding on area roads, certainly bond ponding, flash flooding continues for western fairfax county, prince george's county until 6:45 a while longer. i think this ma

. >>> three women are suing their apartment in hyattsville over a bedbug problem.onya stokes and her mother lived at the apartments and they say their apartment was infested with bedbugs but the property owners never fixed the problem. so they moved out and then a different tenant moved in and she was unaware of the creepy crawlers as well. >> my legs and feet were swollen. her chest and back of her neck was all bit up by the bedbugs. >> all three women filed a civil suit against the berkshire property advisers. they owned the building when they lived there. the women are asking for $20 million. >>> seven of the biggest travel websites are running out of ways to fight d.c. over a $60 million settlement. an appeals court denied the appeal over unpaid sales taxes. expedias and others paid sales tax on how much they were charged, not on how much the customers were charged. both have been fighting it out since 2011. >>> well you are probably going to see a lot of tweets today about black friday. retailer best buy's two-day event kicked off this morning. they're offerin

and he is from hyattsville. as soon as we get more information on the suspected shooter we'll bring that along to you. live in takoma park, i'm nikki burdine, wusa9. >>> a d.c. teacher's aide accused of having sex with a 16- year-old faces arraignment today. the suspect is carla norde. police say she was found in a car having sex with a special needs student last year. the teenager is a student at eastern senior high school and says she and norde engaged in sex acts about twice a week starting in september of 2014. >>> a man who torched a house in prince george's county is expected to be sentenced today. david coley could get 60 years in prison, prosecutors say he set fire to a two story home in glendale back in may of last year. happened as he was evicted. he was also convicted of firing a shootout officers during that -- shot at officers during a confrontation. >>> a former d.c. fire department worker,tarial mccray was convicted misusing agency credit cards. he charged more than $24,600 over -- $2,600 over fou

host: thanks for the call from hyattsville.etlla sa-- stella says "the president is lowering the standards of all our lives. what is a wealthy neighborhood in who is he to decide anyway?" many of you weighing in on our facebook page. this is from michael who says "he is out to destroy the white middle-class and weaken voting districts that opposes party. nothing but a dictatorial move by the progressives to gain more congressional seats." and from ted -- "not in any politicians neighborhoods will this happen." sharon "it will never happen in his neighborhood." send your comments on facebook.com/cspan. you oppose why? caller: i oppose and i agree with those e-mails you read. my husband and i worked very hard to work into this suburbs to get a good home, good education for our children. i never, ever got a handout. no one offered me nothing. now, i do not think this is fair. i really don't. obama is forcing us, forcing everything. he puts up a racial divide in this country. it is disgusting. this is just another method to his mad

host: hellen in hyattsville, maryland. you speak to her first question on how the other members of the p-5 plus one is watching and viewing this debate that will happen on capitol hill? guest: they're watching it closely and you've seen a lot of these countries wanting to go in. there are delegations that will go and i believe there's a german delegation this week going into iran. so i think you're going to see them try to push and say this is something that needs to happen. we all agreed upon it. but the rule of congress should not be diminished. certainly in the role of the u.s. it's hard to see this going forward. host: robert calling in from newport, north carolina. line for independents. good morning. caller: good morning. thanks for taking my call. with our twindling dependence on middle eastern oil, how important is the middle east to our national security? and isn't this really about protecting israel? guest: i would say the unrest in the middle east is a huge issue, if there was a war the u.s. wasn't involved in,