that's where jackie benson is tonight. jackie? this isn't the first time a child has fallen from this building,s it? >> reporter: no, doreen. the toddler fell from one of thr uploors of this very tall building, from a spot justelwo stories where a toddler fell to his death last may. >> it was tragic. i don't know what else tbore is to say it. >> reporter: residents of skyline towers on seminary road say they cannot believe it happened again. >> around 4:00 today, officers wered dispatc to the 5600 block of seminary road for a child that had fallen from the 25 th --4th floor of th balcony. >> reporter: a child described as a toddler. the police wouldn't say if it was a little boy or girl. fell from an upper floor, the 24th about 4:00 p.m. one es are department who did not want us to show his face said, after a 3-year-old fell to his death from a wedow on 26th floor of this building just last may, he decided to upgrade the saf of his family's apartment, lining the balcony rails with chicken wire. >> in between them, any 2-year-old c

news 4's jackie benson is live in springfield with the compassionate responsibility from the community. jackie? >> reporter: jim, this was terrifying. ma make no mistake about that. there ispa cion for the man. he has been a member of the mosque since he was a child. he use facebook live to broadcast this disturbing threatening incident. >> these gs are not leaving, now i'm going to kill them myself. i'm going to walk through the. ba >> reporter: a trustee of the mosque in springfield says he has compassion and love for the man who me thisisturbing video. >> he needs some help and we are here to help him. >> reporter: 22-year-old is facing multiple felony charges for threatening everyone he encountered sunday night and refusing to let people into the mosque. >> getfout, all you get out. >> reporter: according to the police report, at one point h began ramming cars in the parking lot, including one that had someone sitting in it. that brought the call to 911.n >> gete car. >> my car is right there. i'm getting in. >> you think i'm stupid? >> reporter: police say when the officer arrived

live in fairfax county, jackie benson, news 4. you. >> all right,ie ja thank you. >>> there's a new exhibit at arngton national cemetery honoring a century of womene in marine corps. 100 years ago the first woman enlisted in the marines. when women first started joining in world war 1 they were limited to desk jobs. a lot has changed since then. >> back when i was in, we certainly at that time, we were not train as they are now to do whatever is needed and be deployed wherever it's neeitd. >> even expanded roles women today only make up about e 8% o marines. >> serving their country. >> all right. let's get the word on the weather, folks. we have a busy weather d there, so what's the worst of it right now, guys? >> right now it's all east of the d.c. metro area from baltimore right on down through southernand and down to fredericksburg forming a bit of a line there. west of d.c. we may be out of the wds for the most part. >> we're still most of us under a flashat flood until sock tonight and we could see additional thunderstorms d

our jackie benson joins us live with the latest. jackie? >> well, we believe that the child fell from the same area that a little boyell from and died in may. take a lock behind me. you can see fairfax county police here on the scene at the spre the child fell. there are a number of women out here in the parking lot talking to police. they have their own children in their arms. it's not clear whether they are residentsr whether they were inside the apartment where this happ ted, buty are obviously very, very as you mentioned, this is the second time in three months that a child hasallen to their death from this building, from seminary -- from skyline towers here on seminary road. since may we've had a number of complaints from residenbout the strength of the locks on those windows. someone who lives there thas i wapeaking to just a short tied ago describt as a flimsy l k. almost like plastic and that he says that there are a number of people in the building who have asked that those window locks be made stronger. again, we don't know whethe

live in norwest, jackie benson. 4. >> thank you, jackie. >> the city ofhaottesville declared of state of emergency as you know ahead of this weekend. no major events are planned, but city officials s after last year's violent clashes that ended with a woman's death,hey do not want to see any repeats. nbc's gabe gutierrez has ourst y. >> reporter: morning one year after charlottesville was under siege by violent protesters, the city isnder a state of emergency as the anniversary nproaches this weekend. >> we willot tolerate any forms of violence in the coteunity. >> r to avoid a repeat of the violent clashes between white supremacists and st counterpros the city is issuing now demonstration permit. officials expect croill gather this weekend toat commemore the tragic death of heather haier, a young woman killed when a man drove his crowd into a car. heather's mothe is still pained. >> i should say i will forgive but i'm not there yet. >> reporter: washington, d.c. officialsre als on high alert this week. they are exp

jackie benson reporting unthere. ames to be in 100 u.s. cities over the next year or so. kind of like a bell hop, if you're traveling. get there early, you want to leave your stuff or extend your day. makes sense. >> could be very handy. >> there you go. all right. amelia, you think this thing is going to stick around for a while. this is a slow mover. >> just imagine a rain sitting over us for days and days and that's why the flooding concerns from lane are the biggest concern for hawaii. take a look. right now it's a categor 2 hurricane. maximum sustained winds at 105 mi and the thing that jim and i were talking about is when you think about a hurricane and you hear officials saying it will pass dangerously close to the island, they're talking about the eye. but with this storm. we're seeing tropical force winds extend outward to 140 miles per hour. haii has been feeli the impact for this for days and continue to feel the impact on into thewe end. very slowly moving and only towards the north at 2 miles hour. as we head into tomorrow morning, it starts to weaken to a ca

s jackie benson reporting. owners she's going back and forth and this is an insurance company ting to make it understand that the whole car wasn't stolen. just one car. >> a consumer ale i. pfiz recalling some of its children's advil bubble gum flaved medicine. the company is concerned about accidental overdoses due to confusion would be dosage cut. it's marked in teaspoons, but the instructions arel in m liters. you can find the details that you see right theren your sreen and our nbc washington app andrch advil recall. you and i both know when you wake up in the middle of the night and looking at the dosage, it's toanh. >> neverind it anyway. >> right. >> and then i've got to convert some to millimeters. >> we rejected that thing. >> that's not happening. >> 108 degrees feels like in quantico. >> yeah, along the river, the potomac and chesapeake bay. these areas with higher dew points near the water, feeling 105, 110, hazy, hot and humid and that's what we expect across the area. current temperatures sitting

jackie benson right now, and this is an area where we've seen a lot of water rescues in a couple of weeks you remember that postal truck that got washed away and same locatio i doug. with ythe newsroom and looked out that window and saw the rain pounding, pounding, pounding and the water came up very, very quickly in the creek that runs along broad branch road. we have some video for you. they got down there and they thought they wouldave to put an inflatable boat into the water but instead they actually -- firefighters just endedowp walking to the man who was wamped in his silver gray dodge aveng right here at broad branch road and 27th ablet and then they were to walk him out to safety. but i can tell you, i'm joined veto maggiolo fromms i'm amaze at how much water that you don't imagine seeing it from acro the area with the deluge we got. >> flash flooding is a serious sue and it takes just a few inches of water to start moving a vehicle. turn around. don't nrown. it worth it. we keep having people put him selves in harm's way b attempting to drive through this type of water. >> we saw

live inorwest, jackie benson, news 4. >> all right. thank you jackie. >>> d.c. mayor muriel bowsler not be here for this weekend'sr y and counterprotest. she's going on her long planned trip to el svador. she's leading a delegation on what's described as a cultural exchange. e our news partners at telemundo 44 are the only news 1 organization going with her. alberto pimiena will be traveling with her and will have daily updates from el salvador. >> an uber driver found guilty of raping a woman he was supposed to take home. buau chief tracee wilkins has the message from prosecutors after this disturbing crime conviction. ? she she's dangerous xualredator that should be in jail. reporter: this is westagne pierre throwing her over his shoulder and taking to a hotel room where he raped her. >> he felt somehow he had gotten a cue that it was consensual whiching in could be further from the truth. >> t 32-year-old victim was placed in the uber by a friend. the driver was supposed to take her home in fairfax county, virginia. he ended ther fat in fairfax but then drove

live in fredericksburg, jackie benson, news 4. >>> we're following another princng story in george'sy tonight. one person dead on greek street at th avenue and sea pleasant. investigators there are calling this a homicide. the police chief is about to ve as update. as soon as we get new details, we'll bring you them on news 4. >>> new at 6:00, metro is making some big changes in its stations to stop people from cheating their on fares. passengers are certainly going to notice it. >> metro rords obtained by news 4 24 stations have already been updated. replacing the old swing gates, the emergency exits, the ones that open in both directions. the ones you see next to the traditional pay gates. supposed to be used only for emergencies or people to enter if they don't have a far dard. showed a rising number of fare cheaters, people who slipped or raced through the swing gates to avoid paying. metro's internal list show they secureed those gates at two dozen stationsetro center, union station and gallery place and along the orange and blue lines. capitol south and smithsonian. 24 addition

at the montgomery county courthouse jackie benson, news 4. >>> out west firefighters have be workingk to battle the wildfires across ia califo they're getting some help this morning from satellite analysts in our area. that includes the massive carr fire in redding. that scorched an area threee times the s of d.c. we get a behind the scenes look. experts in an office use the satellite photos to measure smoke density and they canmo tor how fires are spreading. here's what's really cool. this is not just helpful for current fires. >> in some of the remote areas that are not being monitored o perhaps there aren't residences or people nearby, we could be one of the first one to sta mapping and following these fires before they have an impact on lives and property. >>> how about that? forecasting fires. we're told satellites refresh automatically providing new information every five minutes. >>> a a little more intrigue and mystery to one of d.c.'s highest profile murder cases. attorneys for the man accused in the manchin murders someone else killed the family. a judge ruled not only is t

. >> jackie benson just arrived on the scene. what can you tell u now? >> reporter: well, we want to show you what's going on. you can see metro transit pndice officers d.c. police officers here on the scene, where you can see that e-6 bus is stopped. they're actually talking to some witnessesnse. now, in regard to this collision, i have some good news. we understand that the 18-year-old woman who was struck, whoas with a 4-year-old child, botgoof them are ing to be okay. the child, i d't know whether it's a little boy or a little girl, described as just having abrasions, scrapes from hitting the ground. the woman's condition, she'ss8 yeold, i understand. g.little more serious but nonlife-threaten what happens in a situation like this is obviously they have to document this scene very, very closely, figure out exactly what happened. we all know metro busses have cameras. hopefully that will, you know, help them understand exact what's going on. if you take a live look now at what i'm showing you here, we're going to show youhe bus and our photographer is