next tonight only on news 4, our jackie bensen explains how that's not the case here in the district.> reporter: they're called washington's other monuments. i'll tell you about a display of the makeshift memorials that spring up around the district after a homicide. we'll talk to the manpiho took thosures. >>> a soap opera legend sharing details of a recen health scare. her warning to all women that could save your life. >>> and do you know where your tips are really going when you have food delivered? the uproar after an nbc news investigation a o how popular app is making > ashington is known for its landmarks, monuments here draw people from across t world. >> tonight, news 4's jackie bensen saw decades of monuments that have been put up all over the district. but these were meant to honor people's lives cut too short. >> we shouldn't become immune to it. >> reporter: a photograph of the homemade memorial to 10-year-d stray bullet in july of 2018 is one of the most recent in professional photographer lloyd wolf's 16 years in documenting what he refers to as street shrines in the d

live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> all right. jackie, thank you. >>> now to two unprecedented moments ing history happen either side of the globe today. >> take a look at this extraordinary split reen. president trump spending today in vietnam withn north kor leader kim jong-un trying to make history by convincing him to givep his nuclear arsenal. >> at the same time, the president's former lawyer andr fi delivering an explosive nablic takedown of his ex-boss to congress and thon. >> my name is michael dean cohen. today i am here to tell the truth about mr. trum >> michael cohen is lying. >> mr. trump is a racist. he is a con man. and he is a cheat. >> the first announced witness for the 116th congress is a guy is going to prison in two months for lying to congress. >> lying for mr. trump was normalized and no one around him questioned it. he asked me to pay off on adult film star with wadm he an affair and to lie about it to his wife, which i did. >> michael cohen is a known liar. >> that was my job. to stay on message. always de

live at reagan national airport, jackie bensen, news 4. >> all right. jackie, thank you for that. news 4 working for you throughouthis winter storm. make sure to turn us on when you wake up in theorning for live weather and traffic alerts. >> and for details on the next snow stick challenge, pat collins will tell you what you eed to do this time to win an official pat collins snow stick. tune in on "news 4 today" starting at 4:00 a.m. >>> now tore someing news this evening. president trump announcing tonight he has nominatedeffrey rosen to be the next deputy attorney general to replace rod rosenstein. rosen and currently deputy secretary at the department of. transportati he'd also been a white house adviser in the office of management and budget and a partner at the same law firm as attorney general william barr. if confirmed, he'd take over where rosenstein left off, overseeing rert mueller's russia probe. since jeff sessions recused himself from the investigation. rosenstein is planning to leave the administration next month. >> tonight, some voters in northern virginia have el

news's jacky bensen has more on this troubling trend and what you need to know to protect your belongings. jackie? >> reporter: jim, the people who are doing this are able to smash a cash's window and grab the valuables inside so quickly, so quietly, that people have beend stan nearby and not even noticed what was going on. >> i opened the door and then there was just glass all down here on this part of the seat. >> reporter: steve howard describes the result of a quick presnowstorm trip to the safeway on connecticut avenue near chevy chase cir on tuesday, about 6:00 p.m. after his daughters, ages 8 and 11 recovered from the shock of seeing the smashed glass, they realized the thieves that taken only two things from the vehicle, their backpacks. these are images of identical models that their parents filed with the police report. >> they have, like, key chains and class work that they have gotten gheded back that were excited about. but my one daughter is in middle school and has a computer part of her program. her computer that she's supposeu to every day from school was stolen. >> repor

ow we want to go to jackie bensen. is live outside 3rd and constitution where there is a growing protest taking place. they had been hoping to catch the president's eye. jackie? orter: well, doreen, the protesters had positioned themselves hereli e in hopes of being seen by the presidential motorcade. dozens of people shouted andwa ed protest signs as motorcades carrying state of the union partici tnts passe u.s. capitol. >> i'm so tired of trump. i think he's going to give a state of disunion and i'm upset about that. i don't want to hear what he has to say. >> reporter: the handmade signs and the russian flags were nod to the responsespecial counsel' investigation into the 2016 presidential election. one protest organizer dressed i a russian military uniform. >> the president's union with russia is clearly very strg. so that's why we're out here, to support the president. >> reporter: and i can tell you on a traffic note tha the streets around the capitol are re-opening. departing from this area. things getting back t

. >> news 4's jackie bensen is live in silver spring tonight with more onhis alarming arrest. jackie? >> reporter: well, doreen, court documents describe this man, a lieutenant in the u.s. coast guard, e as haviremist views. prosecutors allege coast guard lieutenant christopher paul hasson had a hit list of media personalities and liberal politicians. they submitted this photo of items seized from his basement apartment to show that he also had a lot of guns. court documents claim hasson is a self-identified white nationalist who called for focused violence and dreamed of ways to kill almost every last person on earth. prosecutors submitted a box of vials of human growth hormone, inspired by the far-right terrorist who murdered 77 people in norway in 2011. hasson is charged with illegal drug charges and weapons, butpr ecutors say that is the proverbial tip of the iceberg, adding the defendant is a domestic terasrist. hasson been assigned to u.s. coast guard headquarters in d.c1 since but previously served in the u.s. marine corps and army national guard. s internet searches inc

news 4's jackie bensen has our story tonight. >> reporter: the alerts spread instantly through the sea pleasant police department. a dark gray che traverse with a baby inside was stolen from the valero gas station on martin luther king jr. highway. minutes later in the 5,600 block, brianna dunn and grace murray came running out of their office at dunn and sons funal service. w to looked out of the win see the vehicle speed off and leave behind a baby in a car nseat. >> wer run. >> yeah, we never run. >> we jumped over everything. >> yeah. >> flew down the steps. i probably missed five or six steps. >> she did i thought she was superwoman. >> reporter: they were so worried someone harmed the little girl. >> her eyes were we were like, what's going on. once she got into the funeral home, okay, she was warming up. >> reporter: neither of the ntmen have children but they immediately went protective mode. >> the baby just loved on grace. >> reporter: unaware of the carjacking that hasust taken place, they were a little surprised by the response to their 911 call. >>othat's when we news that

news' 4 jackie bensen is at the scene with what hppened. >> reporter: thipened at the height of rush hour. police say there was a crowd of people waiting right here for the bus when the shooting started. ambulances began rushing four shooting victims to local hospitals just after 5:00 p.m. police say a command level officer from the 6th distrast station near the intersection of pennsylvania and minnesota avenues southeast when he heard four to six gunshots near the bus stop. he found people trying to help a little girl who w injured, officials say not by gunfire but possibly by broken glass. >> we do believe that the shooting happened here at pennsylvania and minnesota avenue, and as a result the victims fled to sheety and ty were able toocate -- or the locations in the 6th district. it was very unfortunate someone would do such a horrific act with these many people out at the location. at nearby liquor store has least two cameras mounted outside. police are trying to determine if they captured images of the suspects. the bus stop is one of the busiest in the city. even r ih hour its

live in sterling, jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thankov you. thenor is accepting responsibility but will his new apology be enough to hold on to his job? as you can imagine reaction is pouring in tonight. virginia democratic senators mark warner and tim kaine calling the photo shocking and offensive and that northam should listen to the people that he has hurt but they stop short of calling for his resignation. california democratic senator kamala harris running for the whe house tweeted that "leaders are called to a higher standard andthe, quote, stain of racism has no place in government. she urged the governor to step aside. and the virginia legislative black caucus really afterr. northam, accusing him of a betrayal and saying the photo rips off the skabs of a painful history and are a, qu piercing reminder of america's since. >> i'm in the newsroom wnoh hern virginia reporter david culver. david, this news came as a shock to everybody in virginia pretty much, and you've been talking to your sources. what are you hearing? >> i've been making

live in gmantown, jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank y. wake up with "news 4 today" and remember you can get the forecast in your neighborhood any time in our nbc washington >>> new at 11:00, an educator in the district under arrest. police say the elementary school teach choked a fourth grade student. news 4's shomari stone has details on what the police say happened. >> tonightol 50-yea jarvis bernard mastenberg is behind bars charged with second-degree child cruelty. captured him choking a student earlier this month. he is a fourth grade english language arts teacher here. officers arrested him today. the news 4 i-team found he has been employed with d.c. public schools since 2004 and was a licensed teacher. in a letter to parents, bernard elementary's principal dr. grace would id mastenber remain on leave during the investigation adding, "i want to assure you that therafety of students is our number one priority, and we hold our educators to the highest standards. should it b deemed necessary, a long-term substitute will be identified.

the story you'll only see here 4 on news jackie bensen spoke to a now retired d.c.after his third day at the police academy, went undercover with one of the biggest and most dangerous drug gangs in u.s. history. >> you would have told me back then we would still be talking about this now, i would have told you, you got to be kidding or. >> >> reporter:safety, we're not showing the face of thean who was known as jimmy. >> i was in there for three days and got asked, did i want to d undercover work. >> he was 26 when he began living undercover as a cocaine dealer. unarmed and using only his wits, he worked closeo e top of the cocaine wholesale operation that is estimated to have netted edmo a million dollars a day in the mid to late 1980s. 30 murders were tied to the operation. >> reporter: you knew it was an organization that enforced discipline withurder. >> yes. >> he remembers shipments of cocaine delivered by the trucklitd. >> a guyng on the back with an uzi. >>> then the thompson's face to face with edmond. the basketball loving kingpin who ordered $50,000 to so

live in northwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> all right, jackie, thank you. >>> maryland students are planning a second walk out tosh or more stringent gun control laws. last yearal you'll r students around the country walked out of class to protest the schooloo shng in parkland, florida. a student group is organizing a similar protest now for march th. ey're encouraging students to leave class at 10:00 in the morning. the group willarch from the white house up to capitol hill and mark a moment of silence for eachf the 17 parkland victims. >>> all this b week we han looking at the popularity of those home dna test kits and their growing databases. >> yeah, tonight we turn our attention to the help aspects and why they may not be a good fit for everyone. >> what these tests can and cannot reveal. >> think about this, if you were at risk for developing a lifein threat disease or condition, would you want to know about it? genetic testing put that important medical information right at your fingertips, but there are some drawbacks, to >> it's critically important to understand what those

in arlington, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> chuck's back with us. just get tdaough the we. >> sure. >> focus on the positive. >> tomorrow, nothing to worry >> yeah. >> you're planning something over the weekend, you can still plan it. >> all making plans. >> nothing wrong with making a good plan anyway. just looking back on theecord books. our warmest valentine's day on record. 1990, with a record high of 73 degree the coldest low was 4, vtin valentine's morning in 1905. and the snowiest,ay back, 1885. hard to believe that that hasn't been broken in many, many years. b today wiright in the midd middle. temperatures running about five or six degrees warmer thisn. aftern off to a february start this 36 in frederick, maryland. 33 in charlestown, west virginia. 24, now, inopel, west virginia. afternoon planner, look at this. how about ghthat? sunshine in the first half of the day to get mperatures in the 50s. afternoon high around 55 in town. lo 50s elsewhere. and an active jet stream promises to deliver severalpu hes of winter weather chances. the best

tonight news 4's jackie bensen tagged along with police as they conducted dui patrols on this dangerous stretch of roadway. jackie? >> reporte well, jim, we are wearing our safety vests because we are standing out here next to one of the most dangerous highways in prince george's county. >> good evening, ma'am, i'mri wh thee george's county police. just letting you know we're doing a sobrietyhaheckpoint. you been drinking tonight? >> no. >> reporter: prince george's county police officers with the help of maryland state police set up a controlled lane on route 210 -- they were looking for impaired drivers. >> trying to prevent these incidents happening earlier thi year, a family of five injured, three children un trtunately lostir lives and their parents were critically injured. this is very important to our adnistration, our chiefnd county executive. r >>eporter: 5-year-old twins and their brother were killed in truck,man in a pickup police suspected he had been drinking, rear ended the family's car on route 210 in oxon hill. the officers working out here tonight have alrdy made one ar

. >> news 4's jackie bensen joinsi us tonight the studio. jackie, you covered this story back in the'80s. >> jim, i have a long history with this story. to hear it coming up again is amazing. i was a news producer just out of graduate school. i watched firsthand the violent rise of the edmond organization. that included the rise of crack cocaine on the streets of the district. >> he tore c they up. >> reporter: retired d.c. mhomicide detectich cradle is working on a documentary called "12 years in hell." he was a uniformed officer during edmond's violent rise to power as d.c. drug kingpin. >> whe the guys here in d.c. learned how to cook and makac cocaine, everything justpl oded. >> reporter: after the 1989 arrest that broke up his organization, prosecutors allege that edmo, working directly with south american drug cartels, had been flooding the district with 2,000 pounds of cocaine a month, making abo m $1lion a month, maybe more. the organization was tied toha more 30 murders. the violence continued and grew worse. the battle for edmond's

live in rockville, jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank you. >>> tonight, t president has set an official date and place for his second w summith north korean dictator kim jong-un. >>e hys u.s. representatives have agreed on february 27th and 28th i hanoi, vietnam. this will be the second meeting between mr. trump and kim. f thest was last june in singapore when the two shook hands and agreed t work toward the denuclearization of the korean peninsula. so far that haspet hd. on twitter tonight, the president also appeared to encourage kim saying, quote,ha gotten to know him and fully understand how capable he is.l north korea w become a different kind of rocket, an economic one. >>> thisnd we could hear from two more democrats ready to throw their hats into the 2020 race for the white house. massachusetts senator elizabeth rren is expected to announce her candidacy during an event tomorrow morning in suburban boston. then onsunday, minnesota senator amy klobuchar is expected to announce her campaign. she has an event selinear minnea >>> one of president trump's closest allies in the white

news jackie bensen is live in front of wasn't of the buildings amazon plans t transform. , jackie. >> reporter: well, doreen, as you can s behind me, this section of crystal drive is dark and kind ofeserted at night. tonight we learned that amazon's plans call for this area to be busy and bustling 18 hours a day. p>> we areme for amazon. >> reporter: a small group of supporters holding signs greeted the rsvp attendees at the ouncil of governments eve billed as a regional conversation with amazon. inside founders hall at george mason 'suniversi arlington campus, people were given a look at what the most high-profile business location in recent memory, 25,000 jobs over about a like., will look three properties in arlington. 241 t18th str and 1770 crystal drive will be the fir50 000 square feet of what amazon prefers to call not a campus but a neighborhood toe known as national landing. >> we are a biking company so we design our parking garages so the autosnd the bikes have different entrances in them. we have a greatat dedn to green space and sustainability. wer priority fo

beginning with news 4's jackie bensen live for us tonight on the dangerous in icy damascus. jackie? >> reporter: well, it is just the strangest situation here. the trmometer on the news van says 33egrees. it's raining. but take a look at this. and i'm going to have photographer beth brown zoom in really, really close. take a look at this tree. it looks like it's some type of tulip tree. you can actually see every single branch on this tre is encased in a thick coating of ice, even the little, un unfoely, the little buds that are ready to come out. i hope the tree's going to be okay. this is the type of situation that has caused a lot of problems in the damasca tonight.e this hecurity video shows the homeowner who had gone outside to move a vehicle in his driveway just narrowingly missing being struck by big ice-laden tree limbs as they came crashing down. he did not want to talk t about but told news 4 he knows being hit by that much tree has the potential for serious and even life-threatening injury. damascus residents find a crunchy coating of ice on almost every surface. the weig

let me take y backo the scene of january 6, 2017, at the time neighbors telling my colleague, jackie bensen, that the couple's 13-year-old daughter is the one who arrived home, found both her parents shot, her mother dead. and this afternoon s.w.a.t. returned to that sameome to take her father into custody. >> today, shortly after 1:00 p.m. mr. pentek was arrested for the murder of hiswife, 51-year-old donna pentek. today i announce that justice id se in an activemi 2017 de investigation here in eairfax county. >> reporter: polell us they had multiple. s.w.a team tackty cal members at the home. and they describe a close call of sorts that was caused by social media. i'll bring you more on that at 5:00. >>> the lawsuits in response to president trump's national emergency declaration already coming, folks. they're being filed i'm leon harris. >> i'm pat lawson muse. president trump is usi his executive powers to unlock funds for the wall. the announcement coming in a free ndwheeling, unscripted sometimes contentious press c conference today. >> i think what will happen iss y we'll be sued and

at the time of the killers neighbors telling jackie bensen, they suspect he might have played ae roleto play with a friend, the others would tell onem it was controlling. >> reporter: he was in the hospital in critical evidence and the police were gathering keidence. >> we l at all the forensic evidence, and it did take two s. ye >> reporter: from the time of the murder to today police telling us this investigation never stopped. during today's press c police here made mention of a close call that was sparked by social media. they say a neighbor was out there taking picture and sharing it immediately on social media of the s.w.a.t. team surrounding pentek's home. they had to move in quickly. it's a rinder in this age, when we can push it out,t show live, they're asking hold off doing it. you can record it just don't put it out right away. >> you can put everyone in danger that way. good advice. thank you david. >>> we have newly released records that show d.c. council member trayon white collected a 5,000 settlement from the d.c. police just after he took office. he sued police in 201

our jackie bensen is headed to the scene. will aring us live update shortly. >>> montgomery county is to make drinking water safer in the schools. the county council will consider a measure t will limit the amount of lead hay lowedn i drinking water. it costs half a million dollars to inspect buildings for lead c andt a quarter million to make fixes. 97% of the fixes have been made. schools would be required to fix all water fixtures that fai to follow the strircter limits i it passes. >>> she went to apply for a passport and got the shock of her life. >> who ami? gone ntire identity i when yo >>> it's been nearly six months since11 aear-old girl's story touched the country as she successfully underwent heart transplant surgery. you remember this videof rapper drake visiting sofia sanchez in the hospital. lys later sherned she'd get the new heart she needed to survived. she recently spoke about how she's feeling since the surgery. >> now it's beang really nicely and smooth and fast like it's suppose to be. like boom, boom. it

news 4's jackie bensen at the scene gathering more information.in the next hour. >> reporter: live pictures coming in from dulles international airport. we're told a delta plane had some sor of engine failure after taking off for atlanta. it turned around, landedsafely. no reports of any issues onboard. pat and leon, back to you inside the studio. >> thank, erika. >>> well we can't live without these but before you reach for your smart phone or tablet consider this. >> blue light from the screen here and other digital deves asell may not only be keeping you from getting a good night's sleep but it may also be damaging your skin. >> the average american is actually usi a screen for ten hours a day. >> reporter: it's the light you see but probably never think about. in front u're sitting of a computer screen for hours at work or scrolling through your instagram on your smart phone or watching a movie on your flat screen tv, blue light is everywhere. and new research suggests it could be bad for your scen. >> our traditional sunscreens have uva, uvb,