live in laurel, jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank you.ake up first thing tomorrow with news 4 today and get the very latt on the timing of the storm and the traffic situation outthere. erin and the whole team are here for you starting at 4:00 a.m. >>> new at 11:00 -- >>> we've got some breaking news tonight. you're looking here at live pictures from capitol hie, whn the last hour, the senate has approved a temporary short-term spendingbill. now, this is the first step to avert aer partial f shutdown. it now moves to the house for a vote. senate republica drafted the stop-gap funding bill this week and senate democrats agreed to it. this measure would keep the government running until early february. the government, by the way, has already shut down twice this year, so, we've been here before. the senate's bill version does not give president trump the $5 billion he d wasemanding to build a wall along the southern mexico border.>> oing to make sure we don't end this year the way we began it, with another government shoutdown, because of de

. >> jackie bensen joins us live from police headquarters. jackie? >> reporter: well, jim, people ask, why is this important? this department has just ten officers. the issueaddressed in this report are at the very heart of the trust relationship between police and the public. >> the report came back and it wasn't a good report. >> rorter: the district heights mayor talked about maryland's police and cessional training commission's report on the small police department ten officers and a chief, that provides safety and security to es5,800ents and those who work in and travel through the community. >> they found a lot of irregularities in the police department, hiring practices and just things in general. >> reporter: mayor martin says an ongoin investigation prohibits him from elaborating. but the report makes some disturbing allegations, among them, of theolice department's ten officers, six are mentioned by name as having deficiencies in their training records or background process. the report claimsff oneer admitted during a polygraph he had been

. >> news 4's jackie bensen is live tonight to talk to the people who are doing just that jackie? >> reporter: well, jim, a scene that you don't often see here in the nation's capital, take a look downhere, in between all the media folks, everything that's going on here, the fire epartment, police, there are hundreds of people lined up at this hour to pay their respects, personal respects to the late president george h.w. bush. the line is moving quickly, and believe me, evenhough the temperatures have dropped, people are anxious to be here. i'm downed now by mr. john cheeks. you are from washington, d.c., correct? >> yes. >> reporter: why did you come here this evening? >> i came here to pay respects to a very decent president, and it was during a time and eraf where, you were a republican, it was okay, he didn' divide people, he didn't divide parties, but he looked out forn the ameripeople, a protector, a statesman, intelligence officer. you name and patriot, most of all. >> reporter: people say we don't have long memories in this nation, but look how many people are out here to

news4's jackie bensen is live on the national mall to explain w potentiakers effects. >> reporter: many many federal workers spent the day worried about what tonight would bring. the session light at the very top of the u.s.apol is dark tonight, an indication that senators and a representatives no longer deliberating. it was a tens day for the hundreds of thousands of federal employees who live in the d.c. area. my kids are a little older. i can tell them the truth. listen, this is what's going on, there's a ndshutdown. deg how long it is, we may e certain e to h things during the holidays. my kids are a little oldernd understand but still tough to hear. it's christmas and people wanting to travel will add to their worries. >> reporter: democrat congressman, dan buyer andre blican congressman, rob whitman, both of virginia are -s nsors of a federal employee retroactive pay fairness act. would guarantee back pay to furloughed workers in the event of government shutdown.pl many p have questions. you can find answers by downloading our nbc washington app and searching "shutdown," jackie be

tonight news 4 jackie bensen spoke with the couple to make sure she's. sa >> reporter: this young woman was terrorizedhrndn naked out in the cold. some people helped her. tonight we talk to one of them. >> terrified -- you know. she's terrified. >> reporter: a fleetingf image a young woman trying to find help moments after she was abducted and terrorized and sexually assaulted by two men and shoved out of a car in alley of an unfamiliar neighborhood. thankfully, frank spears was awakehe and hd the democraknock the door. >> he took everything from he i had to get her shoes and clothes and jacket or anything. >> i didn't think anything of it. you see anybody needing helpo yu just it. you help that person especially a female knocking on your door. spears and his girlfriend tried to comfort the young woman said while bout 20 years old waiting for police to arrive. she was walking home from the metro station at prince george county when a dark colored car pulled up alongside her on curtis drive. a man got out and pulled a gun and forced her into the car while

in alexandria, jackie bensen, news 4. >> news 4 working for you with this traffic alert. if your weekends involve traveling over the memorial bridge, make other plans. it is closed this weekend. eclosure began at 9:00 last night. the bridge is going to remain shut do to all cars, cyclists, even pedestrians. it's not going to reopen until 5:00 in the morning on monday. crews are installing a temporary support structure under the middle arc of the bridge as part of the year's long repair project. >>> all the redskins want for christmas is a new stadium. actually, they probably ant more than that. >> they would like a championship that would be nice. so the new stadium thingay happen if team management and lawmakers have their way. yo'll walk hey, batter, batter, batter, batter. [ crowd cheers ] like everyone, i lead a busy life. but i know the importance of having time to do what you love. at comcast we know our customers' time is valuable. that's why we have 2-hour appointment windows, including nights and weekends. so you can do more of what you love. my name is tito, and

live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank you.nd burned out street lights are something people should call 311 about. >>> all new tonight, questions surrounding and jack evans. reports say he received about $100,000 in stock from a company he later tried to help. >>> and in a verdict that shocked the courtroom, a man was acquitted of setting his pregnant girlfriend on fire. tonight, she responds to the jury's decision. ♪ there's no place like home for the holidays ♪ ♪ 'cause no matter how far away you roam ♪ ♪ if you want to be happy in a million ways ♪ ♪ for the holidays you can't beat home sweet home ♪ >>> right now, a prince george's county mother says she is in shock. >> she says her boyfriend set her on fire while she was pregnant with their child, but today, a jury acquitted that man on all the charges. >> prince george's county bureau chieracy wilkins has new reaction tonight. >> it's still har to believe that they found him not guilty on all counts. >> reporter: andrea in shock after a jury finds the man not guilty of all

jackie bensen, news 4. >> very strange.hank you, jackie. >>> you're looking now live, coming up, from houston tex, te as former president george h.w. bush lies in repose at st. rtin's e mip episcopal chur. >> his funeral will be held there after the emotional good-bye t 41 at the washington national cathedral. we were p there asple lined wisconsin avenue, because they himply wanted to show their support to the b family. >> that presidential process paed closely by today. for those invited inside the national cathedral, it was a who's who in washington. >> the national will praise him and miss him at the same ti. >> incredible ceremony for a wonderful man. true patriot. >> nbc's dan shennaman has more on the services tomorrow and more on the touching farewell from friends and family today. >> reporter: special air mission 41 flew low over the bush presidential a library today it carried president george h.w. bush back to texas. and tonight, mourners filed past the late president's casket as st. martin's episcopal church in u

tonight, news 4's jackie bensen spoke to the man about thele sent and his key piece of evidence. >> it wan anything to happen to me again, whether it was to me or somebody else. >> reporter: the cell phone video shows d.c. police officer patting down the man in the groin and buttocks area after officers stopped him and his friends. it was september 17th, 2017, codingham's 39th biehday. humiliation he was subjected to that day led him to the d.c. chapter ofhe american civil liberties union. ou i knew they help me, simply because if i felt it was wrong, they should feel it was wrong, too. >> reporter: the lawsuit acknowledges the group had a bottle of alcohol kep out of sight of the officers, who askth if they hate any weapons. they did they did not. cottingham confirmed a bulge in his sock contained a legal amount of mari he asked if the officers wanted him to lift his shirt up to show he was not armed. that's when he was searchednd cottingham can be heard commenting on the invasive tss. >> witho video, definitely no one would have believed me. but i'm so glad i did have the video. >>

only on news 4, jackie bensen spoke to some of e roommates who came face to face with the suspect as>> this security camera video shows a man who police say is 33-year-old dante watson, after he jumped over the locked gate behind the house and entered through an unlocked sliding glass door sunday night. rd somebody open the door and turned around and there was. kind of walked up slowly, didn't really say anything. >> this man says he and his roommate kept calm and focused soning and doing what it took to et get the man to leave. >> they stood up and took out $5 from his wallet, handed it to him and was like please leave. you're on camera. >> police believe watson is t same man seen in security camera video leave iing leading two of their neighbs around at knife point. he made them withdraw cash at a nearby circle 7 convenience store. police say he had climbed through a window of the home around 3:00 a.m. lt thursday, ransacking and waking them in their bedrooms. when they said they had no cash, t forced them to drive iir car to get cash from an atm. he ran out of the store. theay roo

ve at police headquarters, jackie bensen, news 4. >> thank you. >>> now to ag sting lawsuit filed today against the prince georges county police department. 13 officers have come forward accusing department leadership of discrimination and retaliatio the minority officers say they were punished for reporting otherce of' bad behavior. the bureau chief has a closer look at what's in this lawsuit and what tsefficers are claiming. >> the police department is not ngmmenting tonight saying that buzz of this penegislation they cannot. these officers had that suit filed today. they are working with the naacp and the aclu, organizations that normally dl with thepublic's civil liberty's issues. . and it's also very important to note here that while they filed that lawsuit, we had a sit-down conversation with these officers yesterday and explainee while they have to file suit. >> we have so much racial divide within the police department that we can't be effective and efficient. >> these former prince georges county policofficers claim their white counterparts received preferential treatment. they

arlington county officials and news 4's jackie bensen heard tonight from some of the people who will be most impacted. jackie? jim, the er: well, board members told people, tell us what you're worriedabout. the overwhelming number one response? traffic. >> and i think it will help mitigate the traffic that we're all concerned about. >> our concern is the capacity of our existing roadways. >> arlington ridge road is already over capacity. and i think this is just going to be a problem. >> transit wason >> reporter: transportation was at the top of the list of concerns among the arlington residents who packed the cafeteria at the middle school. they wanted to know how much of an impact the estimated 25,000 additional jobs headed to crystal city, pentagon city and potomacard in the next few years will have in an area that already struggles with traic. this was the scene just last month after metro closed two stations, national airport and rystal city, for yellow line repairs and improvements. >> route one is so backed up, everybodtis c down on e-street and fern street and it's getting wo

pole headquarters, jackie bensen, news 4. >> thanks, jackie. >>> a big legal defeat to supporters of a increase of tipped minimum wage. the city's board of elections could not accept any signatures collected over the past week in favor of the proposed referendum. council members rejected the j propost months after voters approved it. supporters of the pay hike move ed some 35,000 cigna childrens to repeal the council's move, bull tt the jio said ele officials did not follow proper procedures.f >> the people d.c. are being punished again, and the voters of d.c. are having their voices and their signatures is s supp again, because of an error tst ut of our control. >> ramirez says the fight's not over. sh, and othee says, will continue to push for ineasing the tip minimum wage in t.c. >>>ning to our weather now, and the latest on another storm system coming our wa >> still have a couple of days before the rain. another dreaded wet friday coming our way. >> yeah. >> doug has us looking in between now and then. > the amazing about tonight, temperatures are well above what we've hen. some

live in rockville, jacki. bensen, news l >>>n harris here with breaking news outside of seattle in port inorchard, waon. a rare tornado touched down there today, ripping off rooftops and tearing down trees. so far, no reports of any injuries. people got an up close look at this twister, as, check this out, video here, you can see in video, this thing is spinning behind a walmart. witnesses tell us the high winds shook entire buildings. now, you can see it really did some damage to homes out there the area. again, ripping off roofs and uprootsrees all over the national weather service will conduct a tornado survey tomorrow, but they're saying right now this looks like it was an e ff-2, making it the strongt tornad in washington staten 32 years. jim, doreen, back tow. . >> thankllyou. >>> a much calmer night back at home. a little chilly out there, but r great night doug's holly lights, earlieronht in spri springfield. there they are from chopper 4. >> you had some fun with the ramirez family out there. they have quite

jackie bensen will have a live aport coming up. >>> and arrest was made after a high profile murder.fficers charged barry marable with the murder of an aspciing worker. a stray bullet him a man as he was goingom from work. >>> and president trump will stay in washington to work through new years. with neither the whitessouse nor cong budging it looks like it will go to a divided government to solve. >>> a big and bright mystery in new york sent people into panic mode. take look at this. the ening sky turning blue after an electrical fire in queens. with you this caused major outages on the ground and travel chaos at laguardia airport after the faa issued a ground stoppage. the governor toured the area. the substation where it all under folded. >> we did find one piece of evidence that is a little peculiar. this was on the site which raised some questions. i'm told it is a piece of safety equipment for workers. >> a spokesman for the county saysn a electrical issue sparked the flickering blue light that people witnessed the sight from miles away. we're told flights are back to normal

. >> all right, jackie bensen reu,rting. thank ackie. >>> package thieves are a common nuisance this time of year, but it's not often you see someone put a child up to that. check out this home surveillance video from harford coun. it w recorded last friday. you see here,to investi think the child is about 8 years old. he or she seemed to look back for directions before taking that package. >> just atrocus violationf someone's trust, you know, a theft, during this time of year, ut's always bad, this time of year, to commit such an act, but to have a child do it for you, justps it up another notch. >> the harford county sheriff's office is helping the public can use the video to help track down whoever was just offcamera. >>> several departments in d.c.'s providence hospital will be shut down as of friday. the emergency department and services that support it will stay open through the end of april to help the end of flu season, but any department that doesn't eupport thergency care center will be closed by the end of the wee

news4's jackie bensen joins me now with her exclusive sit-down interview with lanier.y candid interview that she sat down with you for. >> it is. i've covered saberc ecathy lanir two decade i've watch herd bring transparency and compassion to her job in's the nati capital. she brought those qualities to the nfl at a time when it wasri reeling fromcism of its handling of domestic violence by players. now we discussed fprward ress and some high profile yardage losses that look all too familiar. tmz obtained hotel surity joyed of then baltimore ravens star running back rayice punching his now wife in a hotel elevator in 2014. and tmz obtained cell phone video of kansas city chiefs running back kareem hunt kicking a woman in a hotel lobby last february are shocking andr. simi in between the rice case, an investigative case by robert mueller and the kareem hunt case comes former d.c. police chief cathy lanier. in 16she was hired at vice president of nfl security. >> theen was eve reforms that we put in place post robert mueller's report from ray rice. and that is detailed i

jackie bensen joins us from 51st street in northeast d.c. >> what do we know about this right now?reporter: well, i have a little updated information for you. and it is very, very bad. i talked to a woman who passed by the scene shortly after this happened. she said the twovictims, the younger one police are referring to as a juvenile, that's generally someone between about 18 and about 13. younger than that, they would sa a child. they said he appeared to have been shot several times in the head. we have some video to show you, the young man, as we'll call him, in an suv. someone opened fire on that vehicle. we're told the juvenile is critical with the gunshot wounds. the adult injuries are said to be nonlife threatening. we spoke to the police chief. he wasasked, do police believe is targthed? yhere's what t sowayed. hiclsorry.ve t you may be able to see it in the video, has very dark windows. so it is unclear whether the person, or people who shot at that vehicle, knewxactly who was inside. m th have known who is likely to be in that vehicle but police are tryg to come up with a

jackie bensen joins us. >> nll, the director of security kathy lanier answereto h questions with theame transparency she displayed as the police chief. we talked about the recent controversial decision to claim rubin foster. critics, and i say this with seriousness from people whose opinions i respect. we asked lanier to talk about how the league is working to earn the trust of a key demographic. >> this body camera video nly released by police in santa clara, california, shows officers questioning and at one point handcuffing reuben foster last october. ultimate floy charges were filed against him or the woman involved. but 72 hours after the police released him, following being accused of hitting the same woman. cathy lanier, the nfl vice president of security, claims why foster is on what they call the commissioner's except list. >> he is not he will zwribl on play until we finishhis case. >> reporter: so how was foster able to be claedy another nfl team and so quickly? >> that'sn owner othe club but he is not eligible. >> reporter: despite a couple high profile cases, they claim

jackie bensen joins us. >> reporter: pole say the woman who shot is just 20 years d. she lives here in alexandria. shefs found just before 1a.00 she died a short time later at the hospital. a popular park with the recreation trail and homes run creek are on the other side. you'll remember it was pretty cold this morning. it is not clear if there are any witnesses. we don't know how long the victim was here before she was located. we don't know who found her. >> we are keeping a close eye on the mid-atlantic as parts of the mid-atlantic brace for a storm. crewsre pre treating the roads. me hoe indications could see a foot of snow. >> tell us what we can expect in the v. >> we may see the storm get a little snow for areas south of washington. for the most part, l itks to stay. i'll have more of our future weatheup coming currently our temperatures are in the mid 30so low 40s. 36 in frederick right now. it was a cold day out ther our official high, 44degrees. we're running 5 to 10 degrees below normal. our average high now at 49 degrees.a similar forecast monday and tues

. >>> only on news4, jackie bensen sat down to talk about forward progress but alsoe s reason loss lossesl running back ray rice punching hisirlfriend in 2014 and tmz obtainedideo of kareem hunt kicking a woman in a hotel last february are shocking and similar. in 2016, kathy lanier was hired as vice president of nfl sturt. >> there were extensive reforms we in place. detail protocol were put in place. the it seems like they learned nothing from r the rice incident. that they are finding out about it from tmz. >> what we don't do is talk about it. i think to some extent, the perception isco ect. it is not getting out there the way it should. >> kareem hunt wasrrested by police. hunt has still not beened questiy league investigators in what lanier describes as an investigation that has been underway sincefe uary. the victim has refused to talk witnesse and gather the evidence before you go speak to the alleged perpetrator. weas knew there video we had to get our hands on. the nfl was not able t obtain the hunt video until it was obtained by tmz. they said the league would likely face such

jackie bensen is will. >> keep us posted. >>> a former current prince georges county police officers are break their silence. >> those officers are suing the department saying leaders retaliated when they reported wrong doing by colleagues. >> when we have spoken out, we have been met with intimidation, retaliation, transfers, and fermetermination. >> 13 officers are part of this lawsuit. but they say more officers have been prince georges county bureau chief has been out ahead of the story. she's here with a closer look at what is in the suit and what the officers are saying tonight. >> we talked with the police department saying they are not z commenting of the the pending litigation. >> we have so much racial divide within the police department that we can't be effective and efficient. >> phe current and formence georges county police officers claim their white counterparts received preferential treatments. >> it alleges discrimihetion from leadership that shows itself in transfers under discipline whebetween white and black officers and say say it'sc so bad some os choose not to

jackie bensen is en route there as we speak.. >>> mor nown this weekend's storm that we could get. >> yeah. let's check in wit amelia with how the different models are sizing this one up. hey, amelia. >> good afternoon, pat and jim. when we talk about the winter storm, we're looking at our computer models and right now we're looking at two main models. the top one is the european model. model.tom is an american this is a snapshot at 8:00 p.m. on sunday. so this is your sundayno night. ce that the european model keeps the snow just to our so it's having a bit of an impact on the mid-atlantic, parts of the mid-atlantic, and the storm system having a big impact onhe southeast, whereas the american model has it closer on your doorstep. monday morning at 8:0a.m., and tice the models here for the most part keeping the storm system sth of shington, maybe a little bit of a wintry mix down in southern maryland. we're still aays out from this storm system. again, the time line sunday into monday. but we're using our computer models to hel

live in northeast, jackie bensen, news 4. >> thank you,jackie. those ring cameras sales are going to go up this year, i'm telling you. >>> let's talk about the weather now. >> doug, we could have a few get throughys to before the rain comes, huh? >> definitely. tonight's night in some of the suburbs. the temperatures i'm about to show you, it reallyoes to show what it's like downtown compared to one of the suburbsike manassas. look at this. 41 right now in d.c. 23, ft.ad 19 in manassas. 25 infr ericksburg. clear skies around the area. notice that 36 at dulles, still windy here that's keeping temperatures up. and the temperare rose three degrees from last hour in d.c. really quitemazing what we're seeing out there with the temperature disparity. staying cold through thursday. rain chanc friday into the weekend. and, of course, likely becoming the wettest year on record. much more on this, i'll see you back h in ten s.minu >> you got it, doug. >>> breaking tonight, hundreds of detectives are hunting for a killer that sprayed gunfire through a famou