. >> news 4's jackie bensen is live on the scene f us. jackie, what can you tell us? > reporter: wel a very close call for a d.c. police officer here just a short time ago. we're going to show you what the scene looks like here on o monte avenue in northeast washington. we're told there was a carjacking in the area earlier tonight. the officers stopped whatthey believed to be the car jveked hicle and during that traffic stop, the car jacked vehicle took off, striking the officer. we're told hell was act bundled into a police cruiser and taken to a local hospita t id by an official here on the scene that he is going to be okay. which is very good news. in addition to that, police were able tostop that car jacked vehicle a short time away. as you can see, it is a very active scene h and it's unclear at this point if anyone has been arrested, but they do have that vehic that was car jacked earlier tonight in custody. a d.c. police officer going to be okay aftering hit by it. live in northeast washington, jace bensen, news 4. >> that's good to hear. jackie, thanks so much

news 4's jackie bensen is outside dominion high school in sterling, virginia. jackie, what are police telling you about what we see on the video? >> reporter: well, doreen, wed are t that this video shows some but nothall of what ened here this afternoon. itet was somhing no parent, teher or student wants to see, a violenten struggle bet student and a school resource officer. it happened in the cafeteria at luhtime atominion high school in sterling. officials say the resource officer, a sheriff'spu de, intervened after a student refused to come to the school office then pushed the administrator who made the request. >> the deputy at that int, our school resource officer, had seen this and walked over to try to calm down the situation. and as he did and, you ow, obviously to take this individual into custody because of the assault on the school oministrator, the subject then started strikin deputy. >> reporter: sheriff chapman says the video does not show both t school administrator and resource officers repeated efforts toalm the student down prior to the incide

in prince george's county, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> this afternoon, paul dnafort walked into court facingens of years behind bars. instead, with time served he'th spend aboue years in prison. reaction to hisel relat short sentence for president trump's former campaign chair. nbc's blayne alexander with what say in court.nd what he didn't >> reporter: paul manafort, t former campaign chairman who helped then candidate trump clinch the republica nomination, today sentenced to 47 months, almost four years in prison, for bank and tax fraud. a sentence significantly lighter than the maximum 24 years. >> this is a thug, and he needs to be put under the jail and j thisudge did exactly the opposite. >> reporter: manafort's charges, which are not related two his rk on the campaign, stem from special counsel robert mueller's russia investigation. >> there is absolutely no evidence tha paul manafort was involved with any collusion with any government official from russia. >> reporter: before receiving his m sentenceafort addressed the court, saying be has felt punishment during these proceedi

news 4's jackie bensen explains the outcry for more transparency. >> justice for robt white! >> justice for robert white! >> reporter: the law enf acement trust transparency act could alsoe called the robert white>> law. montgomery county can bett er than this. hi hey, big man -- >> reporter:s is police body camera video of the june 2018 incident in whi robert white, 41, was shot in the parking lot of a silr springs parking lot complex. he was unarmed. the officer said he thought white was reaching for his gun. >> sir, i do not want to shoot you. >> reporter: per company policy, they turned over -- the nsulting report in which the officer was fou to be at fault caused outrage among white's frien and many others in the community. it has led county council members to propose a law to require that police shootings not oy be turned overo unaffected prosecutors but that the entire investigation be carried out by another law enforcement agency. at a public hearing on the bill, council members heard from resincntsding 16-year-old nick asante. >> this bill would set the notion that m

live in falls church, jackie bensen, news 4. >> all right. jackie, thank you. >>> threeayakers had to be rescued from potoc river tonight. montgomery county fire helped pull them out of the water after they got stuck in a strongcu ent. u.s. park police aided in the rescue mission.e' told those kayakers weren't hurt just suffering from exhaustion after getting stuck in that strong current. >>> tonight millions on alert from a massive storm system stretching across the country. that same system that prompted a blizzardings now spawning tornadoes and triggering major floods tonight. we get details on the triple f threatom nbc's dan sheneman. >> reporter: acro heartland, sirens warning of dangers. >> thin is a tornado wa here. >> reporter: a funnel cloud swirled through kentucky. the first responder couldn't escape. >> spun my car to the side and just kind of put my head down and covered my head and just kind of prayed for the best. >> it's on the ground right now. look at all the debris that's cominteup. >> repor: just one of several tornadoes to

. >> that's where news 4's jackie bensen is live. she's got the very latest. what a horrific scene. do we know who is at fault here? >> reporter:leon, what we know tonight is that it is not believed that the deval hgh school student driver caused this crash. that said, and as you said, there were five students in this car, none of themere wearing seat belts and that is the reason police believ that three of them remain in critical condition tonight. >> you're not going to see it coming. you're not going to swerve and avoid that collision and you don't have to b traveling 100 miles an hour. >> reporter: the crash happened on good luck road, very close to noon.chool, around police say a vehicle exited from a driveway and clipped a issan sedan containing five duval high school. studen it started a chain reaction that sent the nissan spinning head-on into the path of an coming vehicle. prince george's officialu gatheredide the school with somber faces to implore parents and others urge the use of seat belts 100% of the time. >> seat belts save lives. it's just that simple. so please don

news4 jackie bensen i there at the news conference and she'll have a live report here up. g >>> police say a juvenile has been hit by a vehicle in ckville, chopper 4 over the scene on rockville pike. police say there are serious injuries. we'll keep you updated as we learn more about that. >>> the federal trade commission cracking down on robo calls. today they announced settl cents with foupanies for sending outll cas, they tried to sell services misrepresenting their motives. they agreed to stop sending the calls and pay millions in fines. >>> from living out of his car to winning national championships.t' >> one stud inspiring journey from homelessness to success is ale exa to his classmates. >> david culver shows us how the student is now hoping to pay it forward. >> reporter: he invisions his success. >> at my desk i hav a picture of university of virginia sitting up there. so that's my goal. >> reporter: he started at northern virginia community college in 2017 after gduating high school. photos show a happy teen with plenty of friend photos do not always reveal the

in rockville, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> let's turn to the weather now. all that snow gone. that's the good news. we're looking ahead now, though, to potential rain. >> and that's not all. as storm team 4 meteorologist amelia draper shows us now, the temperature -- before this weekend's over. elia? >> yeah, we're looking at a big temperature warm up, especially compared t the work week for our weekend, but before that we have some more rain and some f ou there to deal with. now, right now, no rain tonightt m team 4 radar completely dry. here is some of the falling i was talking about. sibilities at or under a mile in areas like baltimore, gaithersburg,ulpeper and back near stanton. patchy fog out there tonight into tomorrow morni. theemperature right now, though, 36 degrees. we start off 7:00 a.m. right around 33 on your saturday morning. it's cloudy and it's dry. not only throughout the morning hours tomorrow but throughout the entire day. tomorrow enight, though, s rain moves in. i'm going to be timing that out with futureweather, when it exits on your sunday and just how

jackie bensen joins us. some of the injuries couldave been avoided, right? >> reporter: well, to show you the importance of this, how seriously the community is taking this, the topti exes of prince george's county were here just a short time ago, all them with somber faces when they told us that all five duval high school students in that vehicle were not wearing seat belts. now the csh happened here very close to the school around noon today. police say aicle exited from a driveway and clipped the nissan sedan that contained the students. that staed a chain reaction that sent the nissan head on into the path of another oncoming vehicle. the head of prince george county public schools grew emotional as she talked about the importance of which could havelessened the terrible damage from the crash. >> a a parent, immediately as i heard about the accident and after my child was dismissed from school today. i reiterated with him the seat ance of wearing his belt. so i ask parents to take this time to do that wit their students tonight. >> reporter: we have thre

news 4's jackie bensen has their story. >> s i meetmany people that are in a position to even help me succeed in life becse they already met my father prior to that, so they know the blood linend they know the dedication that we have to helping the community. >> reporter: this is not how it was supposed t end. on father's day last year, news 4 viewers heard the inspiring story of eric weaver and his son eric jr mirror images of each other, yet it was their first's fathay together. eric jr. was born after his father, then 18 years old, went to prison. tw decades behindars for his involvement in a dispute over street drug turf in southeastha washington resulted in a homicide. by the time ericle sr. prison, his son was behind bars. ut i waited so many years to actually be here with him. >> reporter: less than a year after that interview, eric jr. is gone. just after midnight he was dropped off at prince george's hospital center, dying from a gun shot wound. the person who brought him there fled. police don't even know where the shooting happened. >> it's a total shock. >> reporter: tina

jackie bensen joins us from d.c. police's seventh district station. jackie, what are you learning? >> reporter: this murder is still underga active inveson and we do not yet know the reon why thisonfrontation turned deadly. it was 11:00 this morning, we have some video to show you, when gun shots wered heard in the 2600 block of wade road. video from the scene shows a bullet hole through thewi shield of at least one car. now the shooting leaves a man dead. he is said to be an adult, but his name and exactlyhere he lives has not yet been released. >> so we have a neighborhood dispute. somebody decides to introduce a firearm into that dispute. and now we have a family who's lost somebody. >> it's unfort sate but itms to be pretty much the norm. >> reporter: now the shooting happened not far from a.c. charter school, just about a block or two away. it is not clear at this point whether or not that school was placed on lockdown while police were on the scene this morning. live in southeast washington, jaie bensen, news4. >>> an environment group says the trump national golf course in v

live in mclean jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank you. >>> meanwhile, a barber shop owner and alleged serial rapist will stale in jail until his trial andolice say more potential victims are coming forward. today a judge ordered juliant evereld without bond. he is accused of raping at least three women over 14 years. police say he posed as a younger man on social media to lure his victims. in court today prosecutors revealed everett was convicted twic before in connection to sex assaults. >> we believe based on the information we received from the police department that it was important for thibe person t held without bond, and we are very satisfied that the judge did sotoday. >> everett owns the signature barber shop on u street in d.c. police say more alleged victi haveontacted detectives since everett's arrest wst announced ight. >>> next on news 4, her message on gun violence grabbed the nation's attention. >> tonight, how local 12-year-old naoer wa is sharing even more inspiring stories. ♪ >>> there is ♪ i'm bier side ef. > in remembrance of jalen willie. i'm shomari so with xfin

at the addison road metro station, jackie bensen, news 4. >> hopefully we'll have an update on the gle's condition some time tomorrow. >> we still don't know if it's liberty or justice. now, that would be a cool twist. >> that bird interloper guy. >> right. >> well, right now police are gulooking for a group of who are smashing into stores and stealing atms. we show you video of their failed attempts earlier this month, including when an tm fell on the suspects, but police think they've gotten the smash and grab down now and that these same guys crashed a truck through a 7-eleven today, making off with an atm. they're also suspected of stealing machines in baltimore and d.c.w n they've taken the cash, police say they're dumping the tms in desolate places like the old landover mall. that's where police recently found three atms on fire and a stolen t >> they've had a lot of practice. >>> a strange yoga studio bbery caught on tape. the robber walked into the studio without using force, took off their shoes and coat before rummaging around the place. take a look. the robbery happened last m

. >> this evening, news 4's jackie bensen was there as the mayor of alexandria presented corporal hill's familyit a proclamation ning charlie hill day. >> reporter: when alexandria mayor justin wilson asked corporal charlie hi's family, his widow jenny and his grown children, one now himself an alexandria officer, to come forwar in the city council chambers to be presented with a proclation, his other family also spontaneously moved forward as if to flank themafny. one on side, current members of the alexandria special operations team in their olive green uniforms. >> retired officer doug powell. >> reporter: on the other, the now retired officers who were there on mar 22nd, 1989, a day of unimaginable who on hopkins court less than a mile from city hall. >> do here by annually recognize march 22nd, 2019 as charlie hill day. >> even after0 years, still stands as one of the saddest times in my life. and charlie hill, and hasky were true law enforcement heros. >> it changed a lot of things thn we do as agency and as a team, and now we need to make sure that we keeps charli legacy alive. >>

news 4's jackie bensen now with what you need to know. >> reporter: tyre road doctors treating a very sick patient. baltimore washington parkway, the company calls these trucks pothole killers. the national parks service, which maintains the road, says this is more than jt patching. >> each of the trucks that you're going to see carries 6 tons of aggregate and 400 gallons of the emulsion, and what they're going to to is put tat down on problem spots on the road to to improve conditions for drivers. >> reporter: drivers we spoke to said it's about time. >> i drive and it's horrific.e it can causeit accidents. really bad. it's not potholes, it's more like craters. >> they really need to get it fixed. >> reporter: the national parks service says laster year's wea played a significant role in the parkway's current bad condition. >> all of the water that we had last year, the record rainfall, combined with the freeze/thaw cycle that we've seen over this winter, combined to make the condition of the road. it contributed to the condition of the road that you see today. >> reporter: news 4 tr

jackie bensen is headedthere, >>e'll update us as we learn more. tracking two storms on this friday night. >> one of them is already ure. an see the rain and mix moving in right now. doug said this is going to be a wi wicked ght, nasty too, battling the elements on the drive home oni-66. >> a bigger problem for some of us over the weekend. we'r tracking the chances for heavier snow but it depends on where you live.le s get right to doug kammerer for what to expect on this friday night. hi, doug. >> hi, guys. all inll a simple mess on your friday night and another mess on sunday night. squeeze in the middle an okay day on saturday. we have rain moving in had, look at the heavier rain around the culpper county area. to the north though seeing a little bit of snow breaking out on the northern side, even some sleet around the hearnden area. partow of montgomery county watching this whole area of moisture move on in acrs our region. look, this is going to continue throughohe night tonight. if you have plans to go out tonight, take the coat and umbrella.