jackie bensen, you be kaucarefu. thanteyou. >> rep we will, we will. >>> a grieving mother gets the chance to confront her teenage daughter's killer. tic moment came today in a fairfax county courtroom. an 18-year-old girl was er sentenced for role in a gruesome gang murder, all of it ptured on cell phone video. >> northern virginia bureau chief julie carey reports. this was the first time the killer expressed any remorse for what she did. >> the teenaged killer in one of her last moments of freedomack 2017. venus iraheta was on the run after the murder and news 4 as therem when a plea fror mom lured her bam home. the teen was arrested soon after confessing to police about how she and other gang members abducted 15-year-old damaris reyes rivas who they believed wa involved in the death of air hay iraheta's boyfriend. >> what did you do? >> i killed her. >> how did you kill her? >> with aknife. >> this photo captured from the cell phone video that documents the murder shows a fearful damaris reyes just moments before

news 4's jackie bensen is at the white house tonight with that story. jackie? >> reporter: well, doreen, these planned protests are a collaborationretween a num of liberal and democratic groups. now, currently, form of protest going on in front of the white house almost every nig s. you can this one from tonight. tomorrow's protests have been long planned, and designed to be very quickly activated through social thdia. will be held at 5:00 p.m. in cities across the u.s. and are being called the nobody is above the law rally. the participating organizations say it is part of their emergency plan designed to protect the muellern investigat and was activated by today's firing of attorney general jeff sessions. >> already activated a networkos of across the country. people already have signs they've been storing in their basement prepared sometimes for months now, and even though the election was only asterday, peop ready to come out into the streets tomorrow, right tehere to the whouse, in idaho, in wisconsin, in cold weather, in hot weather, all over the cntry. r

. >> but first, jackie bensen with reaction on campus. jackie? >> reporter: those we spoke to tonight say they approon of this deci >> it's been - b it'sn interesting. i was planning on going to the protest. >> how quickly things change, li, it was literally not even a whole day later that the students were like, no st of us were like, we don't accept this, we don't think this is okay. >> at first, i doesn't knothat the coach was getting fired, so with the coach bedng f now i'm a little more happy about that. >> reporter: reaction at the university of maryland's college park campus, after a24-hour roller coaster ride of emotion following the results of an investigation that began after the heat stroke death in june of terrapin football player jordan mcnair. in a letter outlining his decision to fire d.j. durkin, university president wallace low, who yesterday announced his own retirement, saidh he met w groups including the student government association leadership, the senate executive commit de, deans,artment chairs and campus leadership. the l

live rockville, jackie bensen, news 4. back to you, jim. >> you can bet that won't happen again. all right, jackie, thank you. doreen? >>> new tonight, the maryland ioard of rents accepts the umd president's dec to sack the football coach. this evening, the board commented for the first time since j. rkin's firing, and since board chair jim brady stepped down. the board says its president's responsibility to run his school and to make personnel decision. prince george's countyf bureau tracy wilkins has reaction to a whirlwind three days. >> we believe that coach durkin has been unfairly blamed for the dysfunction in athletic department and while he shares some responsibiliot, it is n fair to place all of it at his feet. >> reporter: it was after the comments from university of maryland board chair james brady that there were calls for him t step aside. >> he failed the citizens of the state and more importantly, he failed t student body. >> reporter: brady's unwavering support for now former eaumd coach d.j. durkin was seen acetoas tone deaf. wyesterday, durkin fired against the b

news 4's jackie bensen heard from the familytonight. >> you people are the proof that humanity is not dead. >> reporedr: james was m to tears by the candles lining ft. hunt road at the spot where his son was shot and fatally wounded by united states park police officers one year ago. >> our s a did not have gun, did not have a drug, wasn't under the influence. was as innocent as he could be. it could be anybody's son. >> reporter: on november 17th, ntant who r-old acc lived in tyson's corner, was drivingear the national airport when his jeep was rear ended. he drove away from the scene. dash camm video f a fairfax county police officer invved in the effort shows a park police officer approaching the ep, gun drawn. the pursuit continued for miles, to a residential area, where park police officers fired nine shots into the suv. >> it's very frustrating. i know the fairfax county police and the fairfashion commonwealth attorney would love to act on this. >> reporter: the department of justice has releasedrm little infoion. some of the few answers have come not from united states park pol

. >> news 4's jackie bensen spotted people runng into traffic even after this crash. she's live for us in bethesda. jackie? orter: well, jim, we have some new information for you. first, we've just learned that the woman who was killed was 74 years old. her name is donna and she lived in rockville. look behind me here. this is wheresi the col occurr occurred. and there's not a power outage here or anything like that. this is how dark this road is, and neighbors tell us theyear that that played a role in this crash. the collision betwe the jeep grand cherokee and a woman crossing old georgetown drive about 5:30 p.m.ce was forful enough to cause significant damage to the front of the suv. the investigation required month gomry county police to shut down thhb nond lanes of old georgetown road, diverting motorists onto residential streets. it is not clear why the woman was crossing the busy six-lane state road. but the spot where she was struck is close to a metro bus stop. we watched people getting off bungs and darti across six lanes of very dark road, a good half mile f

jackie bensen is there and continues our coverage on the shopping frenzy. what's sheuation look like? >> reporter: leon, there are still people arriving at this hour, there are aot of people here and they appear to be f buying a lot ostuff. 40% oor entire just one of the sales advertised at the tanger outlets at national harbor it opened at 6:00 p.m. the discounts drew crowds. dozens were lined up, a couple of hours before the nike store >> we're here because we like to get the good deals and shop. it's fun. we aeady went and had our dinner and so we came from t maryla come down here. >> reporter: as brick and mortar stores face ever increasing competition from online shopping, kicking ohe holiday shopping season on thanksgiving day, as opposed to the day after, is becoming more common. came here around 4:00, so, we had to wait two hours in the parking lot, we were just there and then we got out around 5:30 and lookinground and we're all bundleup, three jackets. he's in two and my mom is in two, too. >> reporter: m t of the stores if the outlet complex w re

airport where metro's closures are causing tremendous traffic gridlock. >> it's a mess, folk, jackie bensen is trying t get to the scene there, but she is stuck in traffic as you might imagine. she joins us live on the phone. jackie, just how bad i is where you are? >> reporter: it's bad, and it got very bad very quickly. we are hearing reports that people are grabbing their wheely bags and running across gw parkway to make their flwehts. e heard of things like that before, but in the rain and in the dark that is something that is dangerous. the biggest delay that we're hearing getting into the ort, and of course it's because metro is -- the stations are going to be closed, you know, this weeken so the only way in there is by the -- you know, in a vehicle. its backed up. metro transit, excuse me, i'm po sorry, a police we're told are trying to sort of like time the vehicles com tg in there cut down the gridlock on the airport proper, but the biggest delays we're told at this point are coming in from d.c., so going south on the gw parkway to the airport. you know, people are being advised to

. >> we start with jackie bensen. ,hat have you learned? >> reporter: we first i'm going to show you what it looked like. you can see things getting back to normal. you can see people leaving the gates of the medical center. and to explain a little bit about the confusion of this. the video that we have to sw yourom chopper 4, showing people coming out of there their hands in the air, a large police presence by montgomery county police who tell us they were not informed in advance of this drill. i'm going to read a statement from the united states navy provided tus this afternoo that this is two lines. no active shooter at naval support activity bhesda was ad hoc drill by command. ad hoc is one of the phres to plain an action that is spontaneous but often prompted by something that is seen at the scene. they say this was an ad hoc or a spontaneous drill. weo not at this point know what prompted that. the second is that term i told you, tenet command. there are 13 tenet commands at this facility ranging from the bethesda naval research cente

his godmother told our jackie bensen she wants his death to lead to change.t >> l year, we gave him this elmo, and, you know, heal , really loved that elmo. >> reporter: she wants to t tickle me elmo doll given to her godson, ace, last christmas. it is now on this tree, part of a memorial to the 2-year-old, who was murdered last april. his mother's then-boyfriend, james embry, 24, is accused of repeatedly, forcefully punched the tchubby-cheekr will in the head and chest inside the family's apartment. >> he was really loved. we loved him and cared about him. he loved us so much.so we wanted folks to know how special he was. >> reporter: she says she helpe out with ace as smuch as she could and found that doing so lled her heart with joy. >> i was known as momma tish. i was his godmother since he was 2 months old. and we just shared a special bo . >> reporter: she says ace's mother has since moved away from the terrible memory the apartment holds. her grief process sn to be effected by the upcoming murder trial. >> you'd think it's aat problem e can one day solve, but yet, it continues, an

jackie bensen has more onhe story. if this was an uber or ft, it seems police should be able to identify the driver. what do you make of? th >> reporter: well, doreen, it's possible that the victim got into a car that h she not requested. ride share vehicles fill the streets in busy night life areas like adams morgan, especially as the evening draws to an end. police say that about 2:45 saturday morning, a woman gots into ted car, bearing emblems from at least two ride share companies. according to the police report, the driver stopped the car in 22 2200 block o champlain street and sexually assaulted her. ride share use we spokeo expressed concern that the suspt appeared to be able to circumvent the electronic traceability of a using ride share app. >> you check the make and model of the car and the license number. but that's not blaming anybody for having a terrible experience by any means. >> i usuly ask them their name. i guess that's not probably such a goo idea, either, though. >> reporter: now, that grainy image

news 4's jackie bensen is live with that piece of the story for us. jackie? >> reporter: well, take a look behind me. this fence, part of the land that is available for this soon to be renamed crystal city area that's goingo amazon. a relatively minor story about an environmental award helped a local online news organization become the first to report arlington wason in very s consideration. >> this is going to keep us really busy. >> reporter: aington now publisher scott notes that in november 2017, his online news organization reported that an arlingn/al sand dree ya combination appeared to be in strong consideration for a.m.son hq-2. staffers puzzling over why a four-month old story why arlington winning the award became the website's most popular story. >> hundreds of people were clicking on a link on an internal amazon site. reporter: with the official announcement finally confirming arlington, broadbeck is looking to beef ust his f, and he's not the only one. when virginia-bas coffee rosters chose the area as the site of their first coffee shop, the own

live outside union station, jackie bensen, news ll4. >> a right, jackie, thank you. >>> we have more details now on the breaking news from the top of this broadcast, amazon g reportedly mov into crystal city. >> yeah, "the wall street journal" broke the news an hour ago. tomorrow morning, amazon will announce it is splitting its seco headquarters between queens, new york, and northern virginia. >> butwhy, out of all the proposals in the dmv, is crystal ty the winner? news 4's adam tuff has the report. >> reporter: ah, good old crystal city. when i say say -- l city, you >> i'm not -- underground, i don't -- isn't that awful? i think of it underground. >> reporter: let's try it when i say crystal city, you say -- >> the airport? what are you looking f amazon ter: well, what is looking for isn't a secret. lots of buildin spac good access to public transit and the potential to grow.y crystal c checks those boxes. >> i think it makes sense. it's close to d.c. >> reporter: strictly from a transportation perspective, some say crystal city is perfectly suited. >> we he the infrastructure, w

news 4's jackie bensen spoke to police and shoppers. she's live now with the latest. jackie?ll >> reporter: jim, there were shoppers everywhere here. some of them with little kids in hand. it is amazing that more people were not hurt. this cell phone video shows first responders rush s into the area in front of the parking lot trenansof dick's sporting goods. they quickly determined that the man in the front seat of the car that crashed had been shot. the driver and another passenger, both women, were injured in the crash. it may have been preceded by some type of argument by two groups inside the mall. >> that's what detectives are looking into right now. they are attempting to review surveillance video from the various stores and talking with mall security to see what have transpired inside the mall and also in the parking garage. >> reporter: the shooting and crashpe hapd about 7:00 p.m. a busy time on a busy night, as people pickedp last minute items before the thanksgiving holiday. part of the covered parking groj was blocked off by ylow police tape. police and mall secu

live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> wow, ae i guess careful at restaurants, as well. thank you, jackie. >>> a high speed chase during the very peak of thanksgiving traffic.ri i'm leon h at the live desk. you've got to take a look at this video here. chopper showing virginia stace police officers trying to navigate tough the trafficut there to catch this driver. they're going after a man who was found weaving in beten rs on i-66, and he refused to pull over. evtually, he slams into a car, spins around and then he runs off the road and into a sign near manassas. chopper 4's brad frthas was e in the sky, watching it go down. >> the vehicle up there on the pun out into th median there and was taken into custody. you can see him, centerf the screen, being escorted to one of the police vehicles. >> state police say this driver hree other t vehicles during this chase. and it's lucky that no one else s hurt when you consider this was the busiest day on the road this year. e roads were absolutely packed. all of this happening around 6:30, right in the middle of the evening rush

in laurel, jackie bensen, new 4. >>> a health alert tonight when it comes to breast implants annbc news investigation has deadlyed a link to a form of cancer. the investigation found more than 400 patients developed a rare blood cancer called alcl. nine women have died. the food and drug administration says t main concern is with textured breast implants. righre now, t no organized effort to collect data from patients who have implants and from those who are developed alcl. the investigation found similar cases in other countries. >>> now, some solutions for your congested commute. tomorrow, regional leaders will meet to talk about today's proposal from group called the greater washington partnership. the group sugrgstions cg commuters a congestion tax for parts of downtown d.c. other ideas include more toll lanes and increased mark and vra train service to crisscross the regi. aders want to treat the greater washington area as one region. the hope is, that thinking will push faster.ments through >>> hey, are you shopping online while you're watching thi newscast right now? well, if the

in bethesda, jackie bensen, news >> now, we know this mistake happened on the walter reed campus itself. we are working now to learn exactly who is responsible and what consequences that person or people might face. m this kind of incident has happened beforeay remember the scare in hawaii back in january, people ran for cer after a text message went out saying a ballistic missile w about to hit. an employee had accidentally triggered the alarm. that employee was fired. another employee was suspended d a third resigned. >>> a repeat domestic violence suspect is joining the redskins ster. and it is sending shockwaves through our cy tonight. at player, reuben foster, his most recent arrest, just saturday. news 4's shomari stone is live for us with split reaction from fans tonight. shomari?te >> rep good evening. well, fans have mixed reactions. i'm outside proper 21 bar here, a sports bar in northwest d.c. now, some fans don't understand why the redskins would acquire linebacker reuben foster that say that he has a string of legal issues. however, some other fans say that it's a smart bus

. >>> this is jackie bensen in leesburg, virginia. drop eurhie mitten in stuff, and it's game over for warm hands. after the sun set on a d where snow had a significant impact on loudon incounty, uding a scramble to change a tw hour school delay to a full closing. parking lots, streets and sidewalks becam a sea of cold, gloppy slush. >> i saw at least three accidents on route seven today. >> reporter: omarou fnd his car covered in a blanket of wet snow. >> i'm hoping that, you know, within the next few days, you know, it looks better. this is pretty dangerous stuff. >> reporter: and you are taking aiveook at that refreezing doug talked about. you can see the way the branches of that tree are shining with the ice that is forming on them as temperatures get colder here in leesburg. back to you. >> it's a mess. beareful getting back tonight, jackie. >>> well, as soon as you wake up tomorrow, be sure to turn on news 4. we'll have more school and delays for you. you'll also get the latest on road conditions and when those temperatures will

leon harris is keeping tabs on those last-minute >> but we begin with jackie bensen. she's live outside waltwhitman high school inethesda with at you can expect at your polling place. >> reporter: well, take a look, you can already see the campaign sign in the ground behind me, and if that person who hands y the "i just voted" sticker tomorrow looks like they' e younugh to be a middle school student -- they probably are. >> so, the assignment for tonight.r: >> reportet takes a small army of people to transform the public meeting room of the chevy chase library into a montgomery county polling place. >> you future voters can leave this room, go to the bathroom or the break room, that's it. >> reporter: as the clock ticks down to election day, a good deal of the muscle work, setting up the voting booths and other things was being done by members of the future vote program. >> so, he was recruited with our future vote program at dcc. >> reporter: montgomery county students grades six and up can earn some of the student service learning hours needed to graduate from high

. >> we begin with jackie bensen to tell us how thelert beg in the first place. what have you learned? >> reporter: i wanto tell you, witht got off the phone dutch runnersberger. he was inside one of those buildings. he said that he and the other people in that room absolutely thought this was real. they had non to believe that it was a drill. we'll hear from him, that he is concerd about that. there's video of people leaving, guns drawn, montgomery county lice did not know that this was essentially a planning for a drill that turned into a false alarm. they arrived and told us that they believed they were being called to check out and asst with reports of an active shooter. our friends at n news tell us this began as planning by one of the many agencies here.e they werlanning an ad hoc drill when someone mistakenly activated that drill that you heard at the top of th newscast. a short time ago, .by phone congressman rupsberger. >> i was getting ready to leave. the individuals walking in the 4ll ways, in the back room, there were about of us in there. all we hear

in adams morgan, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> a dire warning for our country from a new climate change report the white house report projects the u.s. economy shrking by hundreds of billions of dollars by the end of the century. more people will be killed byen wog air pollution, diseases, heat waves and allergies. t scientl us global warming is making disasters like the california wildfires and hurricanes more destructive. the administration says the report is largelyased on the most extreme scenarios. the white house quietly released it the day after thanksgiving. the report contradicts with president trump has said in the past. >> this is a strange scam. it's happening now during the holidays. >>> it's promising a lot of presents but it could land y in hot water. it's called the secret sister gift anexch. this is on facebook. the scam promises you're going to get 36 gifts in return for buying one. sounds too good to be true.t becauseis. by recruiting others to participate, that's how they claim you'll get the gifts. n, requires people to disclose personal inform and the u.s. postal s

. >> we begin with jackie bensen to tell us how thelert beg in the first place.ve you learned? >> reporter: i wanto tell you, witht got off the phone dutch runnersberger. he was inside one of those

that's where which find jackie bensen. i guess the turkey hasn't had the affect yet. >> there are plenty of people lined up. these folks are waiting for the nike store which i can tell you looking through the window is offering 4 off in addition to other discounts. so you can see why people would be interested. you are second in line. tell me why did you come -- leave the house and after thanksgivie and ct here. >> i just wanted to come for my son so he just like very good deal. i always every othere came here and by some shoes >> 40% off is good. >> right. that's going to be a very good deal. >> tnk you so much. hopefully they open up soon. people- supposed to open at 6:00 people in line saying it's cold out here we'd like to -- excuse me like you to open up the doors. obviously these are getting a mp on black friday. i understand from the folks at tanker that this shopping center is open overnight all the way into tomorrow. that's certainly something quite impressive. and fully staled. i can tou the starbucks is just get