greenbelt, jackie benson, news 4. >> no cell phones. refreshing.aring your pictures from your fourth of july celebrations with us all day. if you have more from the fireworks tonight, we invite you to share those too. just tag nbc washington on instagram, twitter, facebook. also find me and doreen and share pics on our pages too. ♪ >> leon harris here at live desk keeping an eye on how president trump plans to respond to north korea. rex tillerson confirmed the rogue nation successfully launched intercontinental ballistic missile potentially capable of reaching alaska. this representatives an incremental improvement in missile capability but is a game changer if they could hit the united states. u.s. and south korean forces deployed rockets from south korea, in joint military exercises. the goal there is to tell north core car core car to knock it off. what else can the white house do? before taking office, you may recall, president trump warned north korea that obtaining an intercontinental ballistic missile won't happen. >> there are not many dip

e jackie benson, news4. >> thank you, jackie. >>> still no signs of a group of african teenagers after a team robotics competition in d.c. two of the teens were spotted crossing the canadian border. the trail is gone cold on the other four. they were last seen tuesday night after the competition rapped up. the team stayed at a residents hall in northeast. they left their room keys behind indicating they planned to leave on their own. they were supposed to be under close supervision. >> they would go to the competition and come back and did that several times until the last day of the competition. >> the teenagers all have one year visas and they may not be doing anything illegal by not returning to row onedy at this point. the state department issued a new warning due to tension there and violence. >>> i'm leon harris. the police chief of minneapolis didn't hold back tonight in her her first appearance since an officer killed a woman. she called out that officer and vowed that justice will be served. >> justine didn't have to die, based on the publicly released information from the vca

in northeast washington, jackie benson, news 4. >>> an alias helped a man slip back into the u.s. after being deported to el salvador five times. marlow mendes also known as marlon reeves mendes faced a federal judge today, he's accused of hitting an immigration officer after being drunk in public. how does this keep happening? we talked to an case is rare and most of his undocumented clients are not a threat. >> they are not criminals, margins of them. they have abided by the laws. they pay their taxes. we shouldn't trivialize illegal immigration in general just because most illegal immigrants are not say violent felons who were priestly deported like this guy. >> reporter: now just last week, the house passed kate's law, a bill that increases prison time for undocumented immigrants who keep entering the country after deportation. president trump supports it, but it has to pass the senate before making it to the white house. it's named after kate steinly, a woman killed in san francisco by a fella who was undocumented and had been deported several times. >>> tonight north korea s

jackie benson explains how neighbors, though, are helping out in a big way. >> imagine trying to livee wiggly little ones in a hotel for an extended period of type, then imagine being incredibly grateful to be able to do children in this city, such an example of what neighborly love should be. >> the fire that started sunday when sarah and michael murphy were out at a wedding spread to three homes on the home including there, before they could even comprehend the scope of the damage, friends and neighbors had raised an astonishingly to assist for go fund me campaign. >> really care about us and give us more than we need. people don't expect that from city life. >> sarah said some question to raise a family in the city. a family that recently grew from big sister derby and baby brother samuel to include the precious gift. many of those working to met them since they worked with a nonprofit 127 to foster and then adopt a visit to check the damage revealed that this survive with fire, chalkboard wall where saw rar had some time ago written this. >> every month comes up with a new phrase,

jackie benson, news 4. >> police are searching for a former uber driver accused of sexual assault. he was working as an uber driver when the assault occurred. it was a week and a half ago last monday night near queens chapel road. they are still looking for him. rav 4 with virginia plates. he is no longer an active uber driver. >> here at the live desk, the eve of the high stakes sit down between donald trump and vladimir putin. they will meet tomorrow morning east coast time in hamburg, germany. in a speech in poland, trump called out russia for aggressive actions and support for hostile regimes like syria and iran. he refused to say if he will raise the issue of the presidential election and went so far to say no one is sure the russians were the only ones who interfered. >> the intelligence community including the leadership under president trump is fairly clear that this attack and the campaign to undermine credibility in the election was senators is concerned about what he is giving away. they sent a letter to trump urging him to not return the russian compound seen last decem

news4's jacky benson is live at bwi thurgood marshall airport with the story. jackie? >> repr: hearts. we have some video to show you that was taken just a short time ago from chopper 4. the images show the medevac flight with mrs. nancy greathouse on board, landing here at bwi airport. there was an ambulance waiting to take her on the next leg of what has been a very long journey. and her family is calling this a miracle. this picture shows 71-year-old nancy greathouse and her husband paul in the anchorage, alaska hospital room where they've been for a month. nancy, diagnosed with cancer two years ago, fell ill while the couple were on a cruise and was unable to afford a private medical flight back home to beltsville, maryland. ♪ praise the lord, praise the lord ♪ >> reporter: at church in greathouse's family described what they call a miracle. and there was an outpouring over just a few days to cover the cost. >> she didn't want to die in alaska. she wanted to come home. >> reporter: pastor bob prescott says he's heartened by the many who donated, many doing so nonet

jackie benson has new reaction from charles county parish tonight. >> this morning my daughter caes cameeaming down the steps, one of my teachers was molesting children. what? >> reporter: shock and frustration at learning of the arrest of a 30-year-old public school aide carlos bell. he is charged with crimes that violated children at an unspeakable level, showing him graphically sexually assaulting them. bell had been a teacher's aid at this middle school in waldorf until he was removed in december after a parent recorded inappropriate texts. a six-month investigation discovered the pornography involving at least 10 taken in a classroom at the middle school. he was indicted last week. >> it's just not safe around here. >> the allegations against bell bear a remarkable similarity of former teacher's aide deonte careaway,. >> this is even worse. i don't know both are worse. he knew he had hiv. and then he was being with these boys. that is just so terrible. >> law enforcement officials say bell told investigators he is hiv positive. so far none of the young victims identified have tested

jackie benson, news 4. >>> i'm leon harris at the live desk. the white house communications chief is slamming a reporter for an r-rated interview he gave and has the political and media world buzzing this evening. anthony tweeted he shouldn't have trusted a reporter and said he wouldn't let it happen again. ryan lizza is the reporter. he published an interview and in it, the communications director profanely went after the chief strategists steve bannon and reince reince pre bias. he was upset over word getting out about a dinner he was having with president trump and some figures from fox news. white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders defended her boss on fox news' "the story" tonight. >> i think sometimes we have a lot of passion. sometimes when you have the best people from around the country coming in with a variety of backgrounds, very different on evening. >> did not exactly apologize but before attacking the reporter he spoke with on the record, by the way, he said he would refrain from using colorful language in the new white