those numbers are very close. >> jackie bensen in the newsroom for us.thank you. >>> a $15.5 billion budget the council passed today. some of he big takeaways of this bill including keeping the united center opened until 2023. this is some of the most amazing videos i have seen. this is a tornado on the ground this is on morgantown, ennsylvania area, south of rening. look at this. look at this. >> that'smonster. incredible. >> just amazing. what's fahaen there? t's the debris that tornado was able to pick up a couple of mimes away from this guy's house. fortunately he was okay and a lot of houses we damaged because of that tornado right there. >> it seems like it is in slow-mowhen the camera tilts up like that. >> that tornado is weaken right there so it is not as quick when itis on the grou you can see the debris flen from that is phenomenal video. let's show you what's happening ss our area. nothing like that here and we ve don't ha the same tornado threat here tomorrow a we ha good thunderstorm threat. here is one reason why. look at the temperatures,

jackie bensen, news 4. >> lucky folks there. >> ire than 400tning striks.ld have see worn damage than that. stay with us. lots more just ahead as the storm blows through the region weading east.ñr >>> we'll sho you live pictures from chopper 4. the storms are blowi ing out of the area. >> safe now to get the chopper uplohere and around. but the clouds had hundreds and hundreds of lightning strikes. >> yeah, prolific lightning wito this s system. that is the kind of thing that happens when you have a storm moving sost fa into an area of warm weather. you get the nice big updrafts and that helps with the lightningin storms now annapolis through waldorf, down through fredericksburg, lightning through the d.c. area. and you notice d.c., fairfax, machine montgomery county, no longer under the watch. but the rest of the area are. there are num wrerous rports of downed trees and power lines. this is in arlington, 11thst eet and authorinorth barton. it looks like this was a partly cloudied car, so that is good news. icause if you are ever a car and you have power l

live in ite oak, jackie bensen, news 4. >> thank you, jackie. we'lit follow-up wyou later. >>> a homeowner opens fire on a man who he says he thought was an intruder. >> but as it turns out, the pair know each other. tonight after pulling the trigger, the homeowner is back at his town shohouse and the suspected intruder is in the hospital. >> this could have been a case of mistaken identity. >> reporter: fairfax county police investators unraveling more tape. expanding their crime scene. carrying out evidence. snapping photos of clues that might explain what caused the centerville homeowner to open fire. shooting a man inside his town home. >> the victim is a 24-year-old white male, gunshot to the stomach. >> the emergency dispatcher appeared to be on the phone with the homeowner relaying to officers what the homeowner did with the weapon used. >> and he put the gun on the kitchen counter. there's no one else in the house. it's just the two them and he's trying to stop the bleeding. >> let them know the three of us are going to make entry into t

new's jackie bensen is outside of the hotel right now with the new details.ck ?rter: well, doreen, we know inside this man's je police found a handgun and a high capacity magazine with 15 hollow point bullets. we' told the jeep owner's le 49-year-old mccartney of pennsylvania pulled up to the security checkpoint onhis way to some type of event at the trump hotel. secret service asked him if h had any weapons and he told them he did in the jeep. after the gun was found, we're told mccartney was taken into custody and charged with possession of an unregistered firearm and registered ammunition and possession of a high capacity magazine. it is not believed, and it is important, that mccartney represented a security threat but does not recognize the weapons registration from other states except under very, very limited conditions. now, we have not been able to determine at this time exactly what event mccartney was here to attend at the trump hote live in northwest, jackie bensen, news4. >> jackie,thank you. >>> the hoe judiciary committee tomorrow will hold a vote o

police headquarters, jackie bensen, news4. >jackie, thank you. >>> new tonight, we nowe know th name of the man who died when ho uldn't escape from his burning car. michael gerson's kia soul crashed last night inscdama. he ran off laytonsville road north of hawkins creamery road. the car slammed inee a trnd caught fire. investigators are still trying to figure out why the car left the road. >>> and new tonight, investigators want to find the person who torched this minivan. montgomery county fire and rescue sent us pictures of what's left of this vehicle. flames shot out from the minivan today inurgaithersbg. nyll fire rescue if you have information on this arson. >>> ag test of patience tomorrow in the offing if you're taking metro. this is going to be the first time commuters will experience the metro summer shutdown. the blue and yellow lines in all six stations now, the reagan natiol airport are now closed. news4's shomari stone has a look at the remairs being e, and when the lines are going to be reopening. >> yeah, i'm a

and jackie bensen joins us live from the clarendon neighborhood tonight of arlingtn. jackie, what's this all about? >> reporter: it sounds kind of unusual, right, buthere is already a similar program in place in portland, oregon. basically, it aims at addressing the issues that can arise when you have a large number of aople drinking, sometimes excessively invery concentrated area. the sticker of the arlington restaurant initiative is a sign that you're in a bar or restaurant where the staff have been trained to deal with things like preventing sex assaults, spotting fake id asnd underaged drinkers. crowd control, emergencies, and other safety matters. >> we want people to think about where they're going for a es rtaurant, out the eat, for a date, for ing to meet up with some friends, and knowing thate theying to be safe. >> reporter: 30 of arlington county's 400 bars and restaurants take part in the program. people we talked to said knowing a bar is taking part might make them feel safer. >> it would be very ressuring to know that, yeah. >> reporter: some arlington's

. >> only on news4, jackie bensen spoke to the friends of the five cyclists killed in d.c.r the past year. >> they rolled down pennsylvania avenue northwest after riding ten miles through city streets. ending with a bike down moment of silence in front of the wilson building, solemn faces. the ride of silence takes place every year on the third wednesday in may. it is always a grassroots effort. >> aemonstration that cyclists have a right to the roadway. and we are here and this is our road too. >> this ride capped a deadly 12 mons for bicyclists in the district. five pple were killed in collisions withh motor veicles, among them 19-year-old malik habib. last june h was hit by a tour bus on h street northeast after his bike tire got caught in the streetcar track. then just last month, long-time d.c. bike advocate dave salibush, 54, was struck and killed by a speeding stolen van as he rode his bike. >> the community has beenh throug much this year. we've lost friends. people have lost loved ones. i was telling you earlier i keep thinking o ct of thener of my eye, i keep thin

jackie bensen, news 4. >>> looks like a completely different day out there compared to this afternoon. >>ke looked li midnight for a moment. let's get to doug and amelia. it was hard to believe looking out our winwindow.y >> and look at where we were yesterday, 72 degree, plenty of sunshine. you noticed the change today. you walked outside around 2:00, 85 and 88 manassas, 19 in leesburg. that was the all you needed was the storms to come through and they fired up. >> and now the threat for severe thundstorms is out of the area, but we could still see a few isolated showers out there g overnight to. most of us likely stay dry. >> and take a look at the radar rkt this is the last four hours. it took four hours tom go winchester all the way down toward ocean city.this is the l. it took four hours tcgo from winster all the way down toward ocean city. normally about three, four hours from d.c. on a night like tonight. that rain moving south and east. so no severe weather in our area. however new one back to the west in garrett county, that is what we use see later tonight, but we're not ex

news 4 jackie bensen picks up the story from there. >> reporter: it was 5:00.tting time when the victim started walking out of the front door of this building into the parking lot. people were all around. police say the victim was walking out of the office s building a01 ivy lane in greenbelt when a man approached and point add gun at her. >> to which time the victim mgan running. the suspect firedtiple shots towards the victim. >> reporter: rather than running a few feet back into the busy lobby or to her office just off the lobbwhere people were w stillking for help, the victim took off running towards her car. she ran nearly the length of the parkinlot, bullets flying past her, until one struck her. the injury was fatal. the gunman jumped in r and drove away. police say they are working quickly to develop a detailed description of the shooter.pp >> this haed in front of multiple witnesses. so they are the process of interviewing the witnesses, trying to get as much helpful information as possible. >> reporter: we're told the victim worked at a temporary eloy

live in damascus, jackie bensen, news4. >> jackie, thank you, and right now on the nbc washington app, ou can read the full letter sent today by that school super inte intendsuperintendent. just search damascus. >>> a student was hit by a car. >>> tonight that firefight was released from intensive care. he is still in critical but stable condition. meanwhile d.c. police are searching for the driver that away.im and got they respond to an emergency n without oe ofir the stars. a fellow firefighter. they all work out of fire house mber 18 on 8th street outheast. they tell me the firefighter, who is a rookie, was off duty when he got a flat ti here on 295 just before south capital street this past friday night. a police officer stops to help. the officer and the firefighter start to push the car off the roadway. suddenly a driver hits them, stops his car and takes off running. d.c. fire union president gabby hudson hopes police catch the hit and run driver. >> the person lefthe scene. it's unfortunate. i would absolutely urge anybody that saw anything to pease report it to authorities. >

jackie bensen is live on the scene.oming up in about ten minutes. you see what's happening out there now. storms moving on through. those making their way off to the east. re weather moving in. we still have a severe thunderstorm warning. this is for rockingham county. this storm will move into parts of our area, in towards culpeper county, in towards spotsylvania. right now a few showers around the winchester region as well. most of them on the light side. the wider view showing a lot more rain. this is just plain rain, so invented thunder, no severe ather. you don't see any yellow boxes here. that means this will just be rain as we move on through the night. we'll continue to see that. this is a game changer. not just for us, but for the cosetry. we have so much in the way of severe weather, this was the end of a vy long stretch of severe weather. >> this is our 15th consecutive day nationally with severe thunderstorms. thankfully that threat diminishes as a cold front clears the area and a nice day tomorrow. the humi

in georgetown, jackie bensen, news 4. >> jackie, thank you. >>> candles flickered in southeast d.c. tonight as people remembered a man killed in a deadly hit and run last weekend. ha driverit joshua williams as he walked across southern avenue. that driver ditched the suv and ran off. toght, people told stories of williams' life, hugging one another in comfort. police tell us williams was trying to cross the street near ford circle park. investigators have still not located that driver. >>> we're working for you tonight, helping you plan for a critical road closure. a h, first 4 traffic's break malay is here down the closure that begins tomorrow on rockreek parkway. >> reporter: a big warning for you, a total closure of rock creek parkway at potomac parkway is on the way, right there in front of thece kennedy ter. all lanes shut down thursday,th may , starting at 8:00 p.m., that runs until tuesday, may 14th at 5:30 in the morning. let's zoom in and see what we're talking about here. no vehicles, nois bicycl, no pedestrians will be allowed through. if you are a kennedy center r, tick

live if northwest, jackie bensen. >> an awful way to start a holiday weekend but we're glad it wasn't worse. >> tonight, a man killed inside a prince george's county. officers doing a welfare check found him shot several times. take look at the sceneear powder mill road. this is not too far from the boys and girls club. we're tola there re no suspects at this time. police are speaking with neighbors to learnouore ab what happened. two men, now facing murder charges. accused of killing a teen who was walking home in waldorfd 18-year-ol walter thomas was found dead on a bikeiath. ths was back in march. the documents show the crime was cnected to a shooting the day before. police charged michael moore with both crimes. the second suspect, darren miller, was onlye charged in th thomas murder. police stay two men killed thomas in an attempt to thr off investigators. >> we don't see this in charles county. the victim and his friend were walking down the street. they were leaving the house, walking, the suspects just approached. and it appears the randomly fired. >> both men are being held a

in southwest washington, jackie bensen, news4. >> quite a story. that aby's parents told news4 they had already cosen the name zion. that means monumental or highest point. they had no idea the baby would be born in the shadow of the washington monument. >> well done by all. >> and good timing for everybody. cell ming up, is your phone watching or listening to you? >> some users fear that their privacy may be at risk from their cell phones. all new tonightdowhat you can right now to make sure the most intimate details in your life stay safe. >>> and surprise guests help a special virginia child turning why the police officers were almost excidte >>> it feels like we're all on our cell phones constantly these days, doesn't it? but have you ever wondered if those devices can spy on you?it >> oes make you wonder. tonight we're taking a closer look at protecting your privacy. andrew siff frc our nb station up in new york with someke wayso ep companies from tracking you. >> reporter: a chilling thought. yoor phone may be watching listening to you. what'

live on the american university campus in northwest washington, jackie b jackie bensen news 4. >>> breakingwhere there is a deadly crash in prince george's county. chopper 4 over the scene here at marlboro pike and dower house. one person died. the victim was the only one in the vehicle. you can see the smashed up car that appears to be partially wrapped around the tree. marlboro pike is shut down in both o directions to marlboro pike. we're working to find out more. >>> next, a new fda alert. the toughest so far having to do with popular sleep meds, federal health officials issuing their strongest warning possible, what everybody who takes them eds to know. > the end of an era, providence hospital is closing itss. door news 4 pat collins takes a unique look back what it meant to our city. >>> nats back is getting huge a >>> the nationals aren't saying just yet leon the venue will include sports betting. a sports bet space is being added to the capital. >> it was said that the team is exploring options for betting. learner says quoteen a lot w into the building with money and architects and

. >> news4's jackie bensen joins us now with what police uncovered as they went inside the home. >> reporter: news4 has learned that the dog mauling incident where a woman was severely injured to her face and hands was not the first today. the earlier one was caught on videotape. this home security camera video shows the pit bulls ambushing a teenager.ng we're concealhis identity, who was walking the 6-month-old family dog. he injured his hand in the struggle to save his pet. not long afterward, aki woman ta the trash out at a home a couple of doors down was attacked by the dogs. she tried to protect herself with a trash can as a shield. >> i was in the house.he and w i came out, it was the end of the dogs mauling her and the police had pulled up. and when i was walking out to talk to the police, the dogs came towards the officers, and that's when the officers shot them. ll>> reporter: sources te news4 police called to investigate at the home the dogs escaped from obtained a search warrant after they found evidence of a significant commercial marijuana operation inside.c. a d fire department

. >> reporter: my colleague, jackie bensen confirming with ewing this e re incident yesterday at the officers learned of a rumor it might t be connect last week's shooting of a 17-year-old in dale city and the 17-year-old survived and they're looking into it for a possible connection. >>> a lab experiment exploded in a classroom at the university of maryland today. 17 people had to go to the hospital to get checked out. officials say a chemical reaction of some kind caught fir notxactly sure why. the chemical and engineering building had to be evacuated. parts of that building have been le-opened but some rooms there are closed unti cleanup is completed. >>> a controversial decision by virginia's governor bringsld i toou sos by state republicans. he vetoed two bills requiring mandatory sentences and a bipartisan bill for domestic abuse. he said it follows community leaders. republicans say he's trying to repair his image after the black face scandal, something they warned would happen when they called on him to resign earlier this year. >>> a new venue for events may be in the works

live in ijieesville, jack bensen, news 4. >> jackie, once again, what road is that? >> reporter: mussetter road. >> gotcha. >> all right. that's jack keen bensen. thank you,ackie. doug and amelia were first on the air when this tornado warning first came out warning you about the dange storm as it happened. >> what's the latest? how are things looking right now? >> well, i'm just looking at some ne video. i just found this on twitter that somebody put out there. in howard county, ellicott city, right around route 32 and i was on the air talking about if you're around 32, this is the ornado warned storm. the same storm that came through the ijamesville area. i think this was a rnado, especially into howard county. more ke to see a little damage to confirm a tornado, but i have seen someone that will confirm a tornado around the ijamesville area. the new video i'm looking at would be a definite tornado. trees are just everywhere in all differentct direns. right over 32. we were on the air live saying if you're along 32, there may be a tornado on the ground right ow. it

reporting live in southwest, jackie bensen, news 4. >> thank u, jackie. good hustle getting down there.k get to us if you hear something. >>> now let's turn to a parking lot fight that ended in murder. >> gunfire erupting in the middle of a busy shopping center in chantilly overnight and now we have learned a street sweeper is under arrest. >> news 4's cory smith is live along route 50 with more o this deadly confrontation. cory. >> reporter: well, leon, we havt been oere most of the day and i can tell you after about 12 hours of investigation by fairfax county policetill a lot of unanswered questions. one man is dead. another man is behind bars. a lot of business owners around here are wondering exactly what happened and whether they should be worried. fairfax county pole spend much of the afternoon collecting evidence not far from where the shooting took place. investigators bag two leave blowers, a hat, glasses and keys. they also went door-tooor looking for any surveillance footage that may shed light on the momentse leading up to shooting. witnesses

. >> we know there was no threat to public, but news 4's jackie bensen joins us live from outside the inside the hotel, was it, jack? >>t,eporter: that is correc and actually i know a little bit more about what i think happene. here we can show the video of this vehicle jeep with pennsylvania license player, the silver one that secret service actually rdrove out of drove across the street and parked it while we were here. we understand that a -- a man who was checking into the hotel this afternoon, when you check in, i believe that they ask you do you have any firearms, any weapons obviously uncertain wihigh-profile hotel th presidential connections. the man said he did not have him on his person, we understand, but there's one in the volk. at that point secret service and d.c. policeer intvened. he is, we understand, being held on for carrying an unregistered weapon and am nation charges by conducting who are the information. it appears from wha we're hearing this may be a situation where the gentleman was from another state and did not realize that d.c. law does not hall lou under m

thanks to our colleague, jackie bensen working on this story as well. she completed the investigation o hilylton high school, investigators learned it may be connected to an incident a week o, a shooting of a 17-year-old wounded in dale city and survived that shooting and police are iestigating a possible link.ou saw the anxiety in the parking lot. lot of parents crowding in wanting to know what exactly was going on. the building was locked down. students inside forseveral hours as police investigated. that investigation started ound 2:00 p.m. yesterday, two hours after the gunshots went off. the 16-year-old student believed to be respoible for bringing the gun to school was eventually taken into custody and hours later, the gun was finally found inside a classroom. tonight, parents questioning whether new security measures should be put in place. >> ho do we prevent this? do the kids need to be -- do they have to have backpacks in the hool? viously, it was concealed in a backpack. >> obviously, we don't have metal detectors. i'm an advocate for them pe

in greenbelt, jackie bensen, news 4. >>> a mother accused of shooting and killing her daughters is preparingal. yes a fairfax county judge ruled there w enough evidence against veronica youngblood to move her hearing forward. at the hearing an investigator told the court she admitted to killing the daughters in the family apartment. admitted to giving the two girls sleepingheills before s shot them. also revealed youngblood was planning to kill herself and the kids for a while after yearsf an intense custody battle with her ex-husband.bl youngd's defense attorneys argued she is mentally ill. >>> learning abou a deadly gas explosion in virginia. two people are dead and multiple injuries after all of this played out. this was yesterday morning in rockbridge county near the west virginia state line. you can see here, there's still a little left of the gas aation. right now police searching for others who may have been inside. they still do not know what caused the explosion, but do no think it is anything suspicious. >>> at 6:37 in arlington is man there charged with sexually assaulting a woman

our jackie bensen is in the room.n update from her at 6tonight. >>> tonight, support is growing for a family of a prince william county teenager who was critically injured in a car crash. >> christina is a junior at brintsville district high school. she was driving in fauquier county when that crash occurred and our northern virginia bureau chief,po s to them about what's keeping them going. >> friends and family describe cistina as a determined achiever: a straight a student with dreams of ivy league schools. on may 2nd, asshe was crossing route 29 in fauquier county, het car wasck by a pickup. her noticed in a phone app her car had come to a standstill s he went to investigate. >> you see your own vehicle completely destroyed and your daughter is nowhere to be foid. >> b learned his daughter was air he picked up his wife and rushed to the hospital. christina's condition, grave. a coma at the time. bad shape, >> there were broken bones, internal injuries. this is the picture of christina on the go fund me page. the f

jackie bensen is there. everybody okay? >> reporter: yes, but a frightening sgeshs f ing experience for a teen inside home alone. she said that she was inside, thelights went out, she tried to figure it out and at some point realized that something was very wrong. here is how s describes it. >> i walked downstairs and i saw the window and i thought it was a fire and i looked rto theht and then there is the tree fell. and i just freaked out. i called my dad and i was like whereyo are are you coming? and i realized that he was too far so i called 911. >> reporter: and again, very frightening experience forg tha yo woman. she is safe, her parents are here with. luckily as youcan see from chopper 4 above us, the tree did not cause much harm to that house. the homeowner told h wh and his wife moved here a year ago, there were three large trees on t ir property, she said i'm not moving in until those trees are gone. and luckily today the house spared. also they said it does not appear to be a lot of damage to their vehicles parke

police issued a statement saying they are reviewing all the video footage right now.ew n 4 jackie bensen is working this story and we'll bring you updates. jim and wendy, t bayou. >>> now to a news 4 ivteam exclus a psychiatric patient escapes from a major local medical center right here in d.c. >> and he's been accused ofve traling to virginia where police say he assaulted a woman. scott macfarlane is breaking the story tonight. scott. >> according to internal agency records, the escape happened ni late sunday ht from thehi waton, d.c. v.a. medical center on irving center northeast. the records say the 29-year-old psychiatric patient escapedou thrgh the shower area climbing through the ceiling tiles, removing ceiling ventilation before dropping down into an nd office space heading outside. a relative of the man who did not want to be identified explained how the patient was able to then get a y. >> he went through the emergency room and asked someone in the emergency room to call a taxi cab. >> and they called him a cab? >> they called him acab. >> he was wearing his hospital l hes? >>

jackie bensen reporting live. >>> it's a video used to teach diversity ask inclusion at the departmenthousing and urban development. >> but recently,ome employees have complained that something in the video was offensive and made the video ineffective. >> news4 started making calls about this and hours later, hud said it was making edits to that video. >> it might be interesting to judge people today by theicolor of theyes. >> reporter: for decades, jane elliott's controversial blue but it made a powerful point about how damaging discrimination can be. >> t blue-eyed people ate the betr people in this room. >> elliott conducted the experiment with her third grade class, tellingblue-eyed students that they were better and smarter than kids with brown eyes and she noticed how their learning and behavior changed. it was a lesson that opened their eyes to what discrimination felt like. >> it's hard to watch. >> reporter: this video was also used as part of a training for some of the employees at the department of housing and urban development, or hud. >> this is where i shut off right here

news4's jackby bensen continues our live team coverage. jackie? >> well, there is not one tree on this street that does not have some type of damage and one choppedo ae in half. the clean-up, not far from e intersection of route 29 and 32 in columbia, is going to take a while. the storm that ripped through s hereo quickly, toppled a huge tree that sliced straight through this house from roof to ground floor. thankfully, no one was injured. 12-year-old shawn had rushed into the basement to seek shelter with his family. when he ran back upstairs totr reve something, he glanced out of the window. >> theind was blog parallel. it looked like an actual funnel. it was a wall of rain. >> could you hear anything? >> not really. a slight howling. this shows significant damage caused by what the national weather service says was an ef-1 tornado. to the south in montgomery county, a bethesda teenager escaped her house with two dogs after a tree crashed and caught fire. >> i walked downstairs and i saw the window. i saw there was a fire. and then i looked to t

bensen. news 4. back for you. >> jackie, thank you, and more breaking news coming into news 4 right now. shots fired at a school in suburban denve this is at the school in high land ranch. we know at least two people are rt, and this is an active situation, folks. deputies say they are still trying to identify that shooter. the people are being told to avoid therea. one mother says her son was in the area when the gunfire broke out.he >> i d that -- i got a call from one of my son's teachers. he was with a acher, and he's with her safely, but he was supposedly in the room next to where the shooting happened. i heard rumors that there were three shooters, but i don't know if that's confirmed or not and identify talke to up my friend's moms, and she said that her son was in study haul. they heard sho ings, and ran out, and there was somebody had gotten hit in the shoulder, she saund, and they were rng out, but that's really all i've heard. >> everyone on high alert right now. ofthis is a situation panic. you can see a sharpshooter there on a rooftop takingaim, and nbc affiliate, our statio