we are live, derrick ward, news 4. >>> i'm jackie bensen in prince george's county.atastrophic accident here on new hampshire avenue just north of the d.c. line. a short time ago, take a look behind me. you can see one of the cars, that black

. >> reporter: i'm jackie bensen live in bethesda, police are cracking down against drunk driving andl us this is one of the busiest nights of the year. >> i'm tracking the next chance for rain. i'll tell you when it arrivearr >> we start tonight at the live desk with new video from the chicago police shooting and protesters promising to shut down the city's main shopping district on friday. take a look. here are live pictures. a few dozen protesters marching down michigan avenue and some shouting justice for laquan and 16 shots. and some calling to shutdown the magnificent mile the busiest shopping day of the year and the board of trade. >> already shot 15 times and motionless on the ground, the video shows no officers even trying to give him first-aid. another angle shows a nearby burger king, whose district manager tells nbc chicago police deleted nearly 90 minutes of security footage from the surveillance camera. officials deny this but can't explain what happened on that video. president obama posted on facebook he was deeply disturbed by the initial footage but grateful to chica

live in laurel, jackie bensen, news4. >> thank you. you can expect to see a lot of police on the roads through the weekend. virginia state police tell us they'll be out in full force. they've issued a thanksgiving week challenge, ride to save lives. last year, eighth people died during the holiday week. virginia already had eight traffic deaths than they had this time last year. only one was raring a seatbelt. >> whether you're staying home, hitting the road or have a plane to catch, doug has the wednesday forecast covered. this is the kind of weather we like to see the week of thanksgiving. >> that's exactly right. last year, we were talking about incredibly bad weather for the travel day and today, beautiful weather. we will get in the mid 50s. if you're driving 95 t$95 to or laying or new york, no problems on the roads whatsoever. if you're flying, i don't expect delays across most of the country here. rain, light showers in the middle part of the country. a bigger storm moves to the pla plains, that forecast coming up in a couple m

live in southeast washington, jackie bensen, news4. >>> a virginia man is in jail tonight for a case of revenge porn involving a university of mary washington student. he was vaesed for unlawful dissemination or sale of images of another person. mary washington student says photos of her taken during a past relationship were shared without her consent on social media. those pictures were posted sunday and monday. he is not a student and lives in hen r henrico county. >>> meanwhile, the pentagon suspends the program at the center of the run away blimp saga and won't renew it until they figure out how and why this blimp broke free. this incident out of the proving grounds in maryland, the so-called system was supposed to protect missiles and the d.c. area. the program cost taxpayers more than 2$2.5 billion. some people in pennsylvania are also filing damage claims with the army after the tether from the blimp took down power lines as it flew across the state last week. >> state police in maryland want to hear from you if you're concerned about what was in your child's halloween candy b

news4's jackie bensen has been tweeting updates from the scene all night. jackie, what are you hearing? >> reporter: doreen, i know that there is tremendous concern in this neighborhood about what is going on here. and right now i can tell you we have been given no official information from d.c. police about how these two people died. now they are described as a man and a woman, a couple in their late 20s or early 30s. according to neighbors. now what we can tell you is that police are calling this a death investigation. not a homicide right now. and that the commander of the first police district is calling this an isolated incident. now there was an initial crime alert that went out this evening that referred to this as a shooting, we are told. that was in error that is not correct. now we do know police were called here around 3:30 this afternoon to check on the welfare of the couple. neighbors tell us they were in the process of renovating this town house and when we arrived, every window on the second floor was open. it is not clear whether police opene

. >> she was inside the radisson when terrorists stormed in, as newsq0Á4's jackie bensen explai datarwas there on a mission to help others while her life was cut short. >> reporter: speaking during an official trip to mall sla president obama addressed the loss of life. >> on behalf of the american people i want to extend our deepest condolences to the people of mali and the victims' families, including at least one american. these were innocent people who had everything to live for and they will be remembered for the joy and love that they brought to the world. >> the grieving friend here in takoma park read a statement authorized by the family. >> we are devastated by the loss of our wonderful daughter who was doing the work that she loves. we have no further comment at this time and ask that you respect our privacy. >> reporter: news that the hostage situation in mali had claimed the life of an american citizen turned to shock waves in d.c.'s public health nonprofit community. anita datar was a board member of a nonprofit working to connect women in underdeveloped countries to qual

they told our jackie bensen they need to know if it's safe to take their children to beverly park. jackie? >> reporter: doreen -- the park is expected to reopen tomorrow. cleaning contractors wiped and sanitized surfaces at beverly park, known as the pit because of its sunken layout, making it ready for children to return. they carried away cleaning materials in red biohazard bags. a man was found dead here around 8:00 a.m. police say he is 24 and from another part of alexandria. sources tell news4's pat collins his throat was cut. >> we had our children talk to one of your sergeants. and she was fabulous. and she made my kids feel really safe. >> reporter: alexandria police chief earl cook answered questions about the crime at a prescheduled community meeting at a church in the northridge neighborhood. >> was there id on the body? >> reporter: people wanted to know if there was a motive for the murder. >> we do not know whether or not any gang-related activity was associated with his death. we don't know if any drug activity is associated. we have no motive as yet. >> reporter: peo

news4's jackie bensen is in rockville with what will happen next. jackie? >> reporter: doreen, the mere discussion of changing school boundaries can make parents see red. but money to do just that, to begin a discussion is included in this budget. >> our hearings were lively last week. we filled the auditorium, and then the fire marshall wasn't too happy with it. we're experiencing explosive growth. we'll be opening new schools, building more space in the schools. and when we do that, obviously we have to change boundaries. >> reporter: tonight the school board vote made it clear that painful discussions and $1.7 billion will be needed to see montgomery county public schools through fiscal years 2017 to 2022. it includes money for roundtable discussions on how to handle enrollment increases in the gaithersburg and walter johnson clusters. >> we don't look at boundary, we can't build our way out of 24. >> reporter: the recommendation by superintendent larry bowers includes ten new classroom additions, a new elementary school in clarksburg, and widespread rep

in the news4 newsroom, jackie bens bensen. >> if you love chipotle but worried about that e.coli scare we've been telling you about all week, the cdc says it does not believe the outbreak will spread beyond oregon and washington state. no one who reported e.coli had the same strain as those linked to the outbreak. right now, investigators are trying to figure out what made everybody sick. >>> a congressman is challenging the food & drug administration to revoke a birth control device the focus of news investigation. calling for the essure device to be pulled off the market complaining about its side effects, unplanned pregnancies and abdominal pain leading to surgery. behr that sells the device says the safeness is supported by more than a decade of science. >>> more about our weather. gorgeous out there today. rain tonight. now, what? >> we get gorgeous again on friy. tomorrow's kind of the day you go -- it's still 70 degrees tomorrow, what we're going for, still well above average. i think most of the day is pretty nice. we have rain out there. temperatures today in the 70s, mid-70s,

let's go live to jackie bensen in northwest d.c. jackie? >> jim, police believe this was a disagreement between two people. it happened about oh, 45 minutes or so ago and closer to an hour, hour d a half at the tinnily to t tenley town metro station. he was taken to a cal hospital and conscious and breathing in the ambulance when he left. we understand that at this point that his injuries are not believed to be life threatening. this did shut down one side of the metro station for a while and people weren't allowed to access on the eastbound side and right behind us right now, metro transit police are taking down the tape and opening the station up again. one person in custody, a woman at the metro station she was in a motorized wheelchair in custody for a stabbing that happened here. live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> all right. developing right now. a former university of maryland student has pled guilty to involunrymanslaughterr sucker punching a fellow student who then died more than a year later after that attack. our prince

it happened near the maryland, d.c., line and news 4's jackie bensen is there right now. jackie, what's going on? >> reporter: doreen, what was here was a downhill slope and two american sports cars, muscle cars, a mustang and a camaro. in one car, one single man. in the other car, two adults, four children, and as you said, those children are hospitalized in very, very serious condition. now we want to swing over and show you, this is the camaro, we believe. that is the car that the children were in. police are just getting ready to tow it out of here as part of an investigation that's been going on here for a couple of hours now. new hampshire avenue north of the district has been heavily affected by this all afternoon and metro busses have had to be re-routed. police took their time with this because this is a very, very important investigation, this accident reconstruction team is only called out for very, very serious accidents, and as you can see, they're getting ready to tear away that mustang. jackie bensen, news 4. >> the hunt continues for four people who escaped

the shooting happened at 2:00 this afternoon and news 4's jackie bensen will have more coming up. >>> there are new fears this afternoon that a major intelligence breakdown may be to blame for those attacks. the suspected ringleader is believed to be in syria, but somehow he was able to travel across europe even though he was a wanted man. there are reports that abdelhamid abaaoud was spotted in greece on monday and by yesterday he was in that apartment north of paris that was raided by police. prosecutors are confirming now that abaaoud was killed in that raid. his body was so badly mangled it had to be identified based on skin samples. tonight we are also hearing a dramatic exchange between the french police and that female suicide bomber just moments before she detonated her vest. let's listen. [ speaking foreign language ] [ shots fired ] >> that woman has been identified as hasna aitboulahcen. police believe she was the cousin of abaaoud. take a look at this that was obtained by "the daily mail".com, and it shows a paris cafe sprayed with bullets. you can see one person ducking f

news 4 at >>> i'm news 4's jackie bensen in the newsroom. the search warrants paint a picture of a bitter divorce and custody battle that the victim likened to a horror movie. newly unsealed search warrants and nearly a dozen of them indicate the brutal stabbing murder of 42-year-old bonnie black occurred horrific circumstances. the documents reveal a bitter divorce proceeding that's under way. six months before her death her husband told her, quote, you are never going to see the children again. in an interview with a coworker bonnie black revealed that she feared her ex-husband and feared he could break into her home at any given moment and it was like being in a "scream" movie. he was arrested a day later. investigators learned he had previous arrests for assault and harassment and was arrested as a juvenile for stabbing another teen. david black remains jailed without bond pending trial. reporting in the newsroom, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> well, his coach at the university of maryland says he saw something special in florent groberg fro

jackie bensen, news4. >> thank you. "new york times" is sta-- n yor city is standing with france tonight. the world trade center is lit up with the french flag and manhattan is on high alert and heavily armed officers can be standing outside. >> we've had conflicting reports whether all the members of the california rock band performing in the french concert hall made it out alive. eagles of death metal were performing a sold out show when chaos and terror erupted. at least one band member was shot and wounded. it's not clear if all of them survi survived. the band is on a european tour promoting a new album. >> former vice president al gore was hosting a climate change at the eiffel tower when the attacks started. the web live cast was suspended shortly after the attack. we know former new york city michael bloomberg was in the french capital friday morning and tweeted this picture with the mayor of paris. it's still unclear whether he was still in town when the attack happened. >> we learned yu2 had a concert schedule

our jackie bensen is outside the french embassy in northwest d.c. right now. what's happening there, jackie? >> reporter: well, dear een, news 4 has learned there is a heightened security alert at the embassy. this d.c. police cruiser pulled up. the officer got out and went over to speak with the security personnel at the entrance to the french embassy cl, as you can see, by the front gates there is a very, very secure facility. we can tell you there is a public event going on there tonight and people have been passing through security to get in there, but it is obvious, not something that is normally here is that this d.c. police cruiser and the coordination with local authorities and we've been in touch this evening with the d.c. office of homeland security and various police departments in the district of columbia. what we are being told by all of them is that we have a heightened alert and they're being extra vigilant, but nothing very visible and nothing extra visible that will be seen right now. live in the northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> we apprecia

live in rockville, jackie bensen, news4. >> if you still need to book your holiday flights, there is a new airline ranking out tonight you want to hear, plus adam tuss getting tips from the tsa to help parents get through security faster. >>> and a lawsuit over miss labelled birth control pills and some parents asking them to pay the cost of raising their children. >>> back at the live desk, we're following a developing story off the coast of cuba. right now, they're looking for a woman who fell off the deck of a cruise ship. we just received this photo from a passenger. they dispatched a cutter and surveillance plane to help find her. it's not clear if she jumped or actually fell. she was on board the norweigian >>> developing tonight a utah judge wants to take baby away from lesbian foster parents but child service sincere says it will fight the judge. it went against the recommendation the baby should stay with the married couple who already have kids of their own. the judge wants to place the child with a heterosexual couple for what the judge calls the child's well-being. it was

live in chantilly, virginia, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> now at 5:30, the holiday travel season is heree have team coverage for you. >> from the roads to the airports to your travel forecast, we've got you covered this thanksgiving holiday. >>> right now we know you are getting ready for what will be a busy week. at the airport you've never seen what it's like to be part of the crew over the thanksgiving travel period. our transportation reporter adam tuss went behind the scenes to give you an inside look. >> reporter: at the airport this week, time is precious. turning an airplane, meaning getting it back on its way with another load of passengers, a priority. jetblue airplane going to west palm beach out of pca today, and a lot of these planes have to turn around pretty quickly. they want to get the people back on, and the bags back on and you have to do that in 35 minutes. >> out here on the tarmac on a day like today the weather plays a factor. the jetblue crew letting us tag along. it's cold out here today. >> a little chilly. >> there is a windchill on the open runway, but that ka

. >>> i'm jackie bensen in prince george's county. a catastrophic accident here on new hampshire avenue just north of the d.c. line. a short time ago, take a look behind me. you can see one of the cars, that black mustang involvedd2 this accident that has left four young children and four adults injured. you can see we're on the downslope of the hill here on new hampshire avenue and we'll show you over to the left where the prince george's county officers are. that is the second vehicle involved in this collision. the white camaro where it is not clear at this time which car the children were riding in. we understand in one vehicle there were four children and two adults. the other vehicle, two adults, but i can tell you that this section of new hampshire avenue is a downhill slope and people are able to pick up speed here. although it is not clear at this point if any type of excessive speed was involved in this accident. now we'll take a look over here and you can see people lined up, waiting to go north on new hampshire avenue comi

jackie bensen, news4. >>> we're also following breaking news in belgium where officials raised the terrorrt to its highest level. the national crisis center warning people in brussels of a "imminent attack" hours after they hit paris and mali. france deploying police to their colony and deployed a 10 day state of emergency. the hotel is a popular hotel and about a dozen americans were rescued from the siege. telling people to avoid crowded areas in brussels and will release more details later in this day saturday. i'm chris lawrence. >> thank you. >>> a northern virginia neighborhood is on edge after a man was found dead in a neighbor's home. neighbors in woodbridge want to know if they need to worry. shomari stone has a report. >> i see a crime scene and wondering what's going on? >> reporter: wondering what happened to a neighbor's house in woodbridge. his death is suspicious. >> i'm concerned. i have an 8-month-old and don't want anything to happen to him and wondering what's going on. >> reporter: police put up yellow tape on the house on long view drive and investigators put on plast

jackie bensen, news4. >> thank you. a man is dead tonight after approaching a d.c. police officer with a large hunting knife. this happened on dick street. the officer fired one shot in self-defense hitting that man in the chest. >>> starting in the spring, you could see body cameras on police officer s. the judiciary committee voted to send it to the council. it allows for more than mayor bowser originally proposed. the only time it's not available is in private homes or cases of s assaults or domestic violence. >>> he doesn't officially start is new job until november 30th but metro's new manager is already asking questions about isis and terrorist threats. >> this is not anything new to the agency or law enforcement or security people. this is not something that because of this video all of a sudden they woke up and said, oh, my gosh, we have to start to deal with this. >> paul wiedefeld was officially introduced today and said his top priorities are safety, security and reliability for the rider. as for finance, you should not expect to see fares going up any ti

our news comp continues with jackie bensen live on freedom plaza. >> reporter: jim, the question, the problem is how do you get people to use extra caution in a city that is almost always in some type of heightened state of alert? the report of a suspicious package kept a vre plain held at the plaza station this evening. police responded eventually g e giving all clear. >> we couldn't cancel this one. >> reporter: these visitors from dallas, texas have heard about the isis video threatening washington, d.c. it has not changed their plans. >> you watch the news and you can protect yourself from things you need to watch out. >> no fear whatsoever. no. why not? if they're going to get me they're going to get me, god's will. >> reporter: some school trips have been canceled. an e-mail cancelled today's visit to the holocaust museum. >> you can't take anything for granted. when there are people publishin that type of agenda, after seeing that video we have to take all measures seriously. >> reporter: new security measures for the college georgetown game and scanned using surveillance equip

. >>> back to that breaking news we told you about at the top of the hour tonight, news4 jackie bensenll trying to get access to a double shooting in fairfax county. two people were transported behind the cosco and walmart off route 1. we're still trying to gather details. look for our update on our washington app on news4. >>> the first of many buildings built on the walter reed hospital campus and today, mayor bowser broke ground on georgia avenue. they agreed to pay 22$22.5 milln and mayor bowser has plans to build affordable housing and retail. >>> tonight, we're looking at work being done underneath the scaffolding of the capitol dome. the architect send some pictures. this started two years ago. the dome's iron and glass are being restored or replaced and the whole thing repainted. the project is expected to be finished in january of 2017. >> barring weather. >> and how soon is it going to start raining on that capitol and when will it end? >> we will get light rain first and heavier rain making its way just in time for the morning rush. watch out once again tomorrow, a weather a

live at metro headquarters, jackie bensen, news4. >> it's takoma park's first murder of the year. police are trying to figure out how it happened. somebody found a woman's body behind the dumpsters on new hampshire avenue behind the office plaza. the woman was homeless and did secretary tearial work in the building from time-to-time. police believe someone killed her in the building and brought her outside. >>> those two popular fantasy websites are fight back after the new york general told them to shut down in the state. eric schneiderman called them illegal gambling sites that rely on -- draft king said he didn't take the time to understand how the games work. both sides have large offices in new york city also home to f fanduel's headquarters and the sites are the subject of dozens of lawsuits from consumers. congress will hold a hearing sometime soon. comcast and nbc sports are invested in fanduel. >>> tonight, you will hear from a local veteran awarded the medal of honor from the white house this year. he ran track at the university of maryland and seriously injured in afgha

live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. back to you. >> thanks, jackie. at 4:30, howard university is still on high alert following racist threats made online about harming people on campus. security is stepped up and students are getting together for rallies and demonstrations in a show of solidarity against racism on college campuses. the fbi is also investigating the threats. >>> it started with students ousting the president of missouri through what happened at howard. now the campus has created an entirely new movement on social media. troy johnson is here for our talk around town and troy, what are your listeners saying what's going on at howard and this hash tag, black on campus? >> a lot of people i've talked to have students in school and have been out of college for a while. nothing has changed and these are conversations that have been happening for a ng time, but what's interesting about it is the command of social media that young people have. saluting them because they're keeping this issue on the forefront of today's conversations. a lot of

tonight jackie bensen reports that new court documents are shedding light on the tension that was building in the weeks before that murder. >> reporter: newly unsealed search warrants, nearly a dozen of them indicate the brutal stabbing murder of 42-year-old bonnie black occurred horrific circumstances. the documents state that on the morning of april 17th and the aurora heights neighborhood found two children who appeared to be between 3 and 5 years old who stated their mom is dead. the investigation revealed a bitter divorce proceeding was under way. her estranged husband david told her, quote, you are never going to see the children again. in an interview with a coworker bonnie black revealed she feared her estranged husband who feared she he would break into her home and the situation was like being in a "scream" -- on. >> it looks like we're having a technical problem and we'll get back to the story later. a death investigation leads to a surprising discovery inside a maryland home. a man called 911 last night after finding his brother dead at the house on wynona court in silver sprin

live in northeast washington, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> we have the latest now on the terror attacks in paris and the war on isis. >> there are now questions tonight about how the suspected mastermind with no ties to isis managed to travel throughout europe. >> and authorities confirmed that abdelhamid abaaoud was killed during the raid in paris. >>> we've also seen chilling video acquired by daily mail.com that shows a hail of bullets at this parisian cafe on friday and how some people escaped the gunman. >> also in washington, the house passes a controversial measure to halt the syrian refugee program with support from both sides of the aisle despite a veto threat from the president. >>> d.c. remains on heightened alert since the isis threat targeted the nation's capitol and people here are taking the see something, say something campaign. chris gordon got an answer directly from the fbi's washington field office and he joins us live. chris? >> here's an example of our state of alert. the u.s. park police reacted when they got a report that someone heard an explosion, they thought,