live in rockville, jackie bensen, news4. >> jackie, thank you. >>> tonight a montgomery county man is charged with impersonating a police officer and federal enforcement agents. detectives served a search warrant at his home in gaithersburg last month. they found a fake baltimore county police badge in his car. he's never worked for that department. detectives also found a loaded handgun and tactical gear in the car, and nine dre police believe he may have represented himself as an officer in other cases. if he's ever approached you, they would like to hear from you. >>> turning now to our weather. and some showers still out there on the storm team 4 radar tonight. >> doug, a lot of us are looking ahead to the end of the week. >> i know, i'm looking at some of the latest data coming in right now. i still don't have the weekend, but it's coming in. across our region we have some showers. most of us on the dry side. it's actually a pretty pleasant night, temperatures in the mid- to upper 40s. we're tracking showers back to the west. notice those showers back toward hardy and hampshire c

. >> news4's jackie bensen joins us live in the section of fairfax county with new details. jackie?reporter: jim, we don't have a lot of details about exactly what's going on here. what we do know is alarming. into the evening, fairfax county police officers continued to restrict access to homes run park at crater place in the alexandria section of the county. neighbors watched with great concern. >> this kind of activity you don't see around this neighborhood. it's a lot of family-orientated. >> reporter: detectives, along with the fbi and local law enforcement partners, spent the day on a grim search here. this white tent was set up in the wooded area. it was surrounded by crime scene tape. >> we don't even know if a crime has been committed. we're working off a tip that there may be bodies in the park. we don't know of connections with previous cases we've been investigating, but preliminarily, we believe this may have a gang connection. >> reporter: a was done at lemon park. but nothing was found there. police in several jurisdictions made multiple arrests of suspected ms 13 gan

jackie bensen is along the blustery tidal basin. this is the make or break night for the trees. >> reporter: jim, 24 degrees. that is the make or break temperature. it is so cold, so windy out here that the national parks service spokesman's ranger hat >> these are probably stage three and stage four. you can see they are tightly bundled and still protected in the bud. take a look up here. these are stage five. a couple of these have reached bloom. sorry about that. >> reporter: he says the possibility that washington, d.c.'s famous cherry blossom trees might not reach peak bloom this year for the first time in their century of history is generating world wide interest. >> if it has been unprecedented this year. i did an interview with the national network yesterday. it is all number one in d.c. and seems to be around the world. >> reporter: despite the bitter cold, steady stream of visitors flock. most hoped to be here during peak bloom which has been moved up weather. >> we are from oak ridge, tennessee. all four elementary school

b jackie bensen found out why police say this happened. >> reporter: the baby's little feet looked like they had been cooked. police believe 36-year-old mendoza burned the bottom of a 6-month-old baby's feet because she had grown the little came after being al by doctors at children's hospital. acting police chief says the baby's injuries are horrific. >> everyone who has been in contact with the child or has seen photos are taken aback by the photographs. >> reporter: she is charged with multiple counts of first degree child abuse and first degree assault. investigators believe the incident happened saturday at the home she shares with her husband and two children ages 9 and 2 years old. we spoke to neighbors who were surprised by the arrest. >> we didn't know she was doing that. >> reporter: police believe she has been baby sitting at her home for some time and want to know if any other parents have had concerns. >> there is a possibility there are other children that could have been injured. the injuries might be like a burn or something that may be explained off but now maybe thinki

jackie bensen just got to the scene. what can you tell us sn nchts you can see crime scene investigators here on the scene of where d.c. police confirm for us tonight five people shot about 9:30 tonight. you can see the >> five people shot. one of them was a juvenile. >> one is described as nonlife threatening. that's good news. one of the victims actually collapsed a block away from here. so there are two different crime scenes. as police process this scene here, we can tell you there were two earlier shootings in the city tonight bringing to a total of five people shot thisve remember on a thursday night we had seven people, again, shot in the district including two police officers. so right now on the scene here on brentwood road police investigating what appeared to be someone walking up to people who were standing on the corner here, opening fire. as i said, the good news, if there is any in that is that all their injuries are described right now as non-life threatening. live in northeast, jackie b bensen, news 4. >

live on the national mall, jackie bensen, news 4. >> it's that waiting around for the race to start that will be the worst part for the runners. thank you, jackie. >>> not looking too good for our cherry blossoms, either. the next two days are crucial for the flowers. about 70% of the cherry but once we dip below 24 degrees, the buds could freeze. >> if we were to have a situation where a majority or a significant number of them never reach peak bloom, that would be a first. >> reporter: the national park service said they can't definitively say the cherry blossoms won't reach peak bloom, but we should find out more sunday night when nps releases an update. >>> we were supposed to know by december, then the announcement was pushed back to march. now there are real questions if the fbi headquarters will move at all. new tonight, they talk with news 4 shamari stone about the latest delay. >> reporter: they are unhappy tonight. the federal government is postponing their release of plans to relocate the fbi headquarters to maryland or virginia. congress must secure funding first, and that ha

jackie bensen, news 4. >> meanwhile, we learned the father of one of the rockville high school suspects is in jail. ice tells us, unlawfully. originally from guatemala. his son its henry sanchez million, a rockville high school student charged with first degree rape and two counts of sexual offense. >> police found the car belonging to an artist who was murdered in december deele d.c.. corinna mehl was found dead tuesday. she had been stabbed to death. police released surveillance video of her car hoping it would lead to her killer. investigators also released surveillance video and photos of a person of interest, again, police have not said he is a suspect. but they do went to talk to this person. >> he melt wit with a secret so on white house grounds. then told president trump fears of wiretapping may be true. now, top leaders on the house intelligence committee want congressman nunes to recuse himself from investigation into potential ties between the trump campaign and russia. think nunes can conduct an impartial investigation. nunes said intelligence reports he viewed at the white

jackie bensen live at the scene where officers found the suspect. >> reporter: he was standing right here at rhode island thinking he was getting away with the murder that happened 40 miles but not while sharon jones is taking 911 calls. >> the person stated he sees a person who killed the security guard at potomac mills mall. >> reporter: the call came in around 9:30 this morning. sharon jones had seen news reports about the tragic murder of the 44-year-old security guard at burlington coat factory stabbed to death saturday after confronting a shop lifter. jones had seen a picture of the suspect, 35-year-old jamel kingsbury. he assured me that is him. he said i just saw it. >> reporter: jones juggled computer and phone sending police while >> when i heard an officer in the background he said to me he is running. i said if he is running then that is him. >> reporter: her reaction to learning kingsbury is in custody. >> i have family. i would want somebody to do the same. >> reporter: jones also had praise for the 911 caller. >> he said they stopped him. i said good job. i said good j

anyone who mha in waldorf, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> a local mother is hoping for the best and trying not to fear the worst, after fairfax county police found two bodies in a park near her home. her 14-year-old son has been missing since september, and tonight she spoke to shomari stone about the agonizing wait for information. >> reporter: imagine how this mother must feel. you haven't received any text messages, phone calls, knocks on the door at your apartment from your son. she's been waiting to figure out what has happened to him. she's been missing for six months. and police found the bodies of -- the remains of two bodies here in this park and she's concerned that one of them could possibly belong to her son. >> this has been a very much sadness. waiting to know something about my son. >> reporter: carla tremino's eyes worry, wishing she could wipe away the pain. she's waiting to see if her son serg sergio's remains have been found in holmes run park. >> translator: i think that anyone like this will be worried and as a mother, i want to believe that my son will be fine. >> rep

jackie bensen, news4. >>> new tonight, hours after the president of howard university met with president trump yesterday, graffiti appeared on campus. someone wrote welcome to trump's plantation. frederick is howard university's president. mr. trump signed an executive order moving the federal initiative on hbcus from the education department to the white house. it's intended to strengthen the finances of historically black colleges and universities, but it doesn't specify any new federal funding. >>> just a day after several jewish schools received bomb threats, two islamic sites in montgomery county are on high alert. both received threatening letters. one of those sites is a mosque. the other a community center. news4's shomari stone is live in silver spring with that story. shomar shomari. >> reporter: good evening. police confirmed the center and the mosque received hateful notes. some muslim americans we talked to, tell me they're concerned for their safety. >> i personally feel really disappointed. >> reporter: tonight, he's upset at the islamic education society of maryland. they

. >>> this is jackie bensen live at the tenially town metro station. d.c. police still here after an incident that happened on the tracks a short time ago. we are told that someone attempted to evade the fair by going around the fare gate. they were confronted by either d.c. police or officers or both. and some type of physical confrontation began. we are told that one of those officers used pepper spray. now, we have seen a woman who was in handcuffs and seated in an ambulance outside here having her eyes treated for what appeared to be the pepper spray. again, it is not clear at this point how many people were involved in this. again, an incident down in the platform area of the tenially town metro station where pepper spray was used by officers on someone who was attempting to evade the fare. >>> you're not the only one shivering from this mablast of cold weather. the cherry blossoms are feeling it as well. many of them are now at risk. news4's megagan fitzgerald live along the tidal basin in southwest. >> reporter: yeah, a lot of disappointmentor us tha