julie carey takes a look. >> reporter: they call themselves the young conservatives.o commemorate 9/11, they got permission to plant hundreds of flags on the loudoun county high school lawn, b they learned the proposed america day wouldot the spirit week festivities, they got upset, took to social media and penned a letter to the editor to express frustration and make this accusation. >> i think the administration was afraid they would offend somebody with america day. >> i love this country and it's truly shameful. >> reporter: they decided to put up flirds, declaring monday red, white and blue day. one other high school jumped on board. only the administration says they got it wrong. >> this is something where the students if they had talked to mr. principals and advisers, they might have gotten perspective for what they were saying. >> reporter: feeling the heat, the student government members, who showed me their original calendar which included a freedom day, but the principal encouraged them to find more creative ideas. they settled on mythology monday. but the

. >> i'm julie carey in manassas. the murder weapon, a hammer. the victim, a 14-year-old boy. now the older teen who pleaded guilty to the crime makes an unusual request of the judge at sentenci stronand restoringding a a father's faith.. it's standing tall after one surgery... not six. stronger is being a typical kid... despite a rare disorder. stronger is finding it earlier... and coming home sooner. stronger is seeking answers... and not giving up, until you find them. because we don't just want your kids to grow up. we want them to grow up stronger. >>> what a day we've had so far. started out with a bunch of rain and then bright sunshine. and now -- >> now it's going the other way again. >> now we got the showers and the thunderstorms. some of us seeing heavy rain right now. the d.c. metro area and along i-95, we've been on the dry side. just west, though, and it's moving east. let's show you, storm team 4 radar, right now a line has formed

i'm julie carey, news4. >> we can all learnom with jim and pat. >>> right now at 5:00, three storieson news4. a paycheck problem, affecting dozens of city employees. hear about the mistake that all d.c. taxpayers will now be charged for. >>> plus, breaking the rules, a former school leader accused of giving special treatment to some parents, responds to the allegations. >> and a twist tonight in the battle over airbnb, why this company says this ad is raising some serious questions. >>> news4 at 5:00 starts now. >>> and first at 5:00, heavily armed police still on the hunt for an escaped prisoner. i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm jim handly. this intense search has been going on now for about seven hours in and around howard county. they are looking for this

. >>> and i'm julie carey where this athlete's done it all on one leg. coming up, . >>> this is probably all over your facebook feed at some point, but the chaos of the fyre festival in the bahamas. some people are just getting home after the music festival was canceled last minute. this was supposed to be a luxury event with tickets costing thousands of dollars. but some said when they got there there was hardly any food and no security. we are told they will all get to go for free next year. >> i don't think they will go back. >>> edge charand charges are pe against a mom who may have ud her toddler to help shoplift. i went through the video myself. two women go into the freery religion store at tyson's center. what you just saw there appears to be one of the women stuffing clothes right into the baby stroller. it happens really quickly. if that happened back in february according to police, now investigators believe deandra smith may be one of the two women they arrested this week for allegedly trying to steal from the apple store at tyson's. no kids

in alexandria, i'm julie carey, news4. >>> in just a few minutes, a new type of pta is kicking off forf children with special needs. there are 25,000 children with special needs. tonight's meeting at circle church in fairfax. >>> one high school in our area is ranking among the best in the country, no surprise, it's the thomas jefferson high school for science and technology in alexandria, ranking sixth in the nation. the top three schools in virginia, are in our state. thomas jefferson, then mclean high and langley high. the top four schools in all of maryland are also in our area. winston churchill, thomas wootoon, poolsville and walter johnson all taking top honors. >>> doug, we were talking earlier about all the rain and all the green around us. i feel like the first -- soon as we get a little bit of sunshine, the vines are going to take over my whole house. >> the weeds will be attacking us. >> that's what happened last time when we saw these conditions and then the sun came out, pollen went sky high. >> we remember. >> that won't be quite as high. but i think we'll get more polle

julie carey introduces us to two of them. >> reporter: trevor la master has been an amputee since agehat didn't stop hip from becoming a news4 athlete. and this girl lost her dad to brain cancer before junior year but pushed on to be elected student school president. both will share their stories at a virginia high school conference. the fda president will say she faced a heartbreaking moment in her first run for office sophomore year at her father's bedside making campaign posters as he struggled to even sit up. >> i looked at the pictures and thought, should i rip these up and let go of my campaign? should i keep going to try to win this election? >> reporter: but she was also struck with what her parents, iraqi immigrants, instilled in her. >> him and my mother have always and be yourself. >> reporter: her message? >> i want to show people that they don't have to succumb to the hardships that they have or the hardships that come to find them. >> reporter: forever lamaster, he, too, refuses to be defined by his disability. here's what we told us about motivation three years ago when

julie carey just watched that video and joins us now. she's along route 28. julie?eporter: yeah, it's tough to see this play out. now, a little earlier this evening, i talked to manassas police, they tell me they have identified a person of interest, and they areue right now. they aren't able yet to tell us the victim's name, because they're still in the process of notifying next of kin. but we know he was young, just 25 years old. he was enjoying a night out at that bar and restaurant back there with the awning when it appears a group of men pulled up behind this diner and waited for him to come out. security video shows it was just before 1:00 a.m. when an suv pulled up and parked. one man lays the vehicle to lay in wait, smoking. until the victim leaves a nearby restaurant. these are the final seconds of his life. he seems unaware of the danger, possibly looking at his phone. he rounds the corner of the building, the two men follow. it's there he's attacked, shot, and slashed. this man, who asked not to be identified, was next door in the mcdonald's parking lot.

bureau chief julie carey takes us inside bethany house. >> this is typically what a family sees when. >> reporter: this room all set up for a mom and kids may look crowded with beds, but to a family fleeing domestic violence, this room at bethany house is a sanctuary. there's a welcome basket full of toiletries, games and toys for the kids. >> we provide them with brand-new towels, brand-new bedding, brand-new pillows. >> reporter: a room like this became an oasis for this woman and her two children. we'll call her mary. she asked her identity be concealed. for years, she and the kids endured frequent verbal abuse from her husband. >> the table not being set the way he liked it, or a question, or a tone of always on the edge of blowing up, when things were at their worst. >> reporter: for her, the abuse also became physical. >> in general, i just stopped wearing sleeveless shirt. i'd always cover the bruises. >> reporter: at one point, she moved away with the kids, but a strong desire to keep her family together brought an attempt to reconcile. until one day she heard her son musing

julie carey is working that story for you. >>> also ahead, we're there at a local middle school as they day. it's used to focus on the consequences of under-age drinking. the sheriff's office wants to stop a growing new trend. and the important lessons those students learned and how it's having a pretty fast impact on them. so we'll see you with those stories. chris is going to stick around and join . >> thanks, wendy. >>> turning to the weather, are we going to get any more rain tonight? >> it looks like most of this rain is outta here. but everything a little bit more green, less yellow. >> more sneezey too. >> this weekend was brutal for allergy sufferers. tree pollen running high. and hopefully some of this rain by the time we get our reports tomorrow, will have wiped away some tree pollen. so any relief is good relief. we are drying out as we continue into the evening. it is going to be a little cooler as we get into wednesday. maybe a few more clouds, we'll talk about that. we still have rain chances. hot and humid conditions, a little something for everybody on the ten-day foreca

. >> i'm julie carey at loudoun county freedom high school, where trevor la master's picture is on this wall of fame. he wrestles and plays la crosse and he's done it all on one leg. coming up, the story he'll be sharing with students from across the state. >>> the temperatures we've been waiting for. 84, 85, those are the highs across the area today. tomorrow, though, we get a lot warmer. we're breaking records, baby. it's a friday. se >>> a tv commercial slamming the popular airbnb has d.c. neighbors angry tonight. after we confirmed the neighbor in the ad is really an actress. >> i'm tired of feeling like an outsider in my own neighborhood. >> the tag line claims the woman feels like an outsider and maybe that's because she really lives in new york city. the ad presents her as a long-time resident of historic anacostia. saying that airb gretta fuller, a real resident, says airbnb has not changed the feel of her neighborhood. as a host, she said short-term rentals are a plus. >> first of all, d.c. is a tourist city and every washingtonian is an ambassador to the city. and for you to s

bureau chief julie carey broke the news of the evacuation that's home to a clinic that performs abortions. >> reporter: the all-clear came after two frightening incidents at this office building today. the second one, sending employees out of the office for hours, as the building was investigation gets under way to determine who did this. workers first fled the building on south washington street around 9:00 a.m. this morning, after a fire work exploded on the elevator, sending smoke into the hallway. no one was injured, and employees were let back inside. around 12:30, two pieces of paper were discovered taped to the floor, that read "bomb." the building was searches, eventually finding nothing. the clinic's employees and other tenants believe the threats were aimed at the clinic. this woman who works at an engineering firm on the second floor is fearful. how concerned has this made you? >> this place is not safe. >> are you truly worried? >> yeah. >> reporter: now this building is the scene of daily on news4 at 5:00, what protesters have to say about what happened here today. in falls c

julie carey reports now from leesburg. >> reporter: come monday morning, most of these students willd, white, and blue. but the decision to hold an american monday comes after days of pressure and controversy. after a young group of students accused of principal and student council of refusing to have an america day because it would be too political. >> being american, it's not a political thing. it should not be seen as political. >> i believe the administration was a little bit too afraid they might have offended somebody with american day. >> reporter: only the administration says that's not what was behind the decision. >> this is something where the students had talked to their administrators, their advisers, they might have gotten some perspective and context. >> reporter: feeling the heat the most, the sca, the student government member who is create the spirit week ideas. they say their original calendar included a freedom day, but the principal encouraged them to find more creative ideas. but the backlash, tough to take, and in their view, unfounded and unfair. >> the potent

northern virginia bureau chief julie carey is headed down to blacksburg to join us live at 9:00 tomorrow for a wreath-laying ceremony and a moment of silence on campus. >>> and switching gears, we'll get to the weather forecast. heating things up, summer-like tomorrow. >> yeah, indeed. but this morning you need a jacket and it is cool and cloudy. but tomorrow, shorts and flip-flops, you'll feel like a saturday morning, gray sky and we are going green. all the trees you see there near the capital and everything around the region going green quickly on this april morning, mid-april. there's the gray skies over this with our tower camera from upper northwest. temperatures right now are climbing, into the upper 50s to near 60 degrees in parts of the region. leesburg, 59. so is frederick. and sunshine in the mountains, but still a lot of clouds east of the blue ridge and east of the mountains to the bay. but they should be breaking up in another few hours. scanning the clouds, no rain here locally, just a few sprinkles south of cambridge and then as of 3:00 p.m., we have a few isolated shower

northern virginia bureau chief julie carey has their story. >> reporter: joseph and wife mona, hand in at a recent crime victims' walk, one of the portraits, that of their daughter, rima, one of 32 killed at a gunman's rampage at virginia tech. >> mona and i had a journey over the last ten years. i took the political path. i had to do something a >> reporter: joe became one of the first parents to speak out after the tragedy. first on behalf of the heart-broken families. soon, though, joe's cause shifted. he poured himself into efforts to tighten virginia's gun laws. >> the tragedy at virginia tech -- >> reporter: but after two years, he became frustrated with the political treadmill and focused instead on this school. >> what can we do today that we can implement to create safer schools and safer campuses? >> reporter: the independent vtv family outreach foundation was formed, he is first chairman. the group created a gold standard model for school safety. among the initiatives, requiring threat assessment teams for all public education institutions. now they're pushing to get all sta

julie carey joins us from the murder scene where a memorial is taking shape now. julie?eporter: you can see behind me, the flowers and cross mark the spot where a 25-year-old was killed. yesterday, we showed you security camera video that captured the final seconds of his life. after he left a nearby restaurant and walked through this parking lot. today we can show you the security camera video from inside that restaurant staking him out, and it's the same video police used to arrest that man today. tearful friends asked their faces not be shown as they create a growing memorial for 25-year-old will guardado. this is the spot where he was slashed and shot just after he left a nearby restaurant. >> it surprises me that someone could hurt another person like that, when he was so good. such a good person. he was just having fun with his friends. >> reporter: the victim's family welcoming word that police have made an arrest. 20-year-old denis alexander sanchez was the driver of the white suv that brought the two attackers to the scene. this security camera video shows sanch

julie carey has been covering this case from the very start and joins us live with the new details. > well, premeditated, cruel, cold-blooded, unprovoked. some of the words the prosecutor used to describe this murder and it's a crime even more unsettling because the victim's family had opened up their home to another family down on their luck and lost their son to vien thistown home that at first detectives couldn't tell how 14-year-old eric had been killed. a chilling confession, 17-year-old collins rodriguez, whose family lived in the basement plotted revenge after the younger boy told on him for smoking marijuana. rodriguez grabbed a hammer and began striking as the younger teen begged for his life. >> why would a human being resort to this particular situation? >> reporter: it was eric's sister on who discovered his body. she said my one and only sibling has been taken away in the worst possible way. as soon as i saw my whole house destroyed, i saw my brother. we did not walk back into that house again. we lost everything. to compound the tragedy, eric's parents got word of the mu

julie carey will have live reports from the campus in blacksburgnd washington.com. >>> this weekend,sident trump is making his seventh trip to mar-a-lago, and government watchdogs are raising alarms about the rising costs. some groups estimate each trip costs $3 million. based on what it cost when president obama made a similar trip to palm beach. others are calling it a bad bench moork. the a.p. interviewed the president of a conservative group that monitors presidential travel. they say mr. obama's trip included a stopover in chicago, which adds a significant amount of money. each stop requires secret service sweeps and the cost can vary tremendously depending on where the vehicles are airlifted from. judicial estimates say trump's visits cost closer to $1 million, and even though he does official business in florida, they're still calling on him to be more efficient when it comes to travel. >>> b surge of shoppers. the major retailer delaying plans to close more than a hundred stores. >> you're looking at students worth nearly $2 million in college art scholarships. i'm tracee wil

. >> julie carey met them and has a chance to learn more about their approach. >> i recently emceed a ceremony in which these women were honored with an waurd, and i was so impressed about what i heard that i wanted to find out more. i learned for eight years now, they've been talking to schoolchildren about autism and other disabilities. and they use their own kids as an example to help promote better understanding. >> a lot of kids with autism are very picky eaters. sometimes it's texture, sometimes it's taste. with that. >> when marcos was little, he did prefer to play alone. he tried to socialize or be friends with someone, but it was very difficult. a lot of times he was misunderstood. >> that's a sampling of their talk to sixth graders at hammond middle school. the women started small in the beginning, speaking only in their children's classrooms, but now do bigger assemblies. their goal, to dispel myths and erase the fear students might have about autism. >> we really want the kids to be accepting and not just tolerating. >> anyone can be talking about autism, but it's that per

. >> all right, julie carey. >>> and we continue to follow more breaking news, this time in montgomery county. a girl is stabbed at a bus stop in front of a school. >> and the attacker is a fellow teenager. jackie bensen has the details. you have an update. >> reporter: we do. preliminarily, police believe the 14-year-old teenager d even though it happened just off school property. luckily, the young woman who was stabbed, 14 also, has injured that are described as non-life-threatening. but still, a very, very serious thing happening just as school is letting out and flowing toward university at the end of the day. right now, police are questioning the young man. they have him, they're talking to him. we understand that the young woman, the 14-year-old, is being treated at a local hospital. live in silver spring, jackie bensen, news4. >> who moves this city! >> we move this city! >> reporter: metro workers turn their backs on the general manager, walk out, and then form a human chain around the headquarters. the rift between paul weed felt and the union appears to be widening. adam tus

police have made their first arrest and julie carey is live near the scene with the latest. jules? >> reporter: well, you can see behind me there where the flowers and cross stand, that is where wilfredo guardado-huezo was killed yesterday morning. now police have arrested the first of several suspects they are seeking, he is charged with first-degree murder. and we have new security camera video to show you that reveals this murder plot as it was unfolding. you'll see the victim completely unaware that one of the suspects is seated just ft him at a nearby restaurant. a growing memorial for 25-year-old wilfredo guardado-huezo. family and friends called him will. this is the spot where he was ambushed early monday morning, slashed and shot just after he left a nearby restaurant. this friend, who asked that we protect our identity, says guardado-huezo's family is stunned. >> it surprises me that someone could hurt another person like that when he was such a good person. he was just having fun with his friends. >> reporter: the victim's family welcoming word that police have made an a

bureau chief julie carey talked with some witnesses and is live at that location. jules? >> reporter: well, just a few with manassas police. while they have no arrests, they have identified a person of interest, and that person is being questioned right now. they still can't tell us the name of the victim, because they haven't finished notifying next of kin. what we be about the victim, he spent some of the final minutes of his life in that restaurant and bar, right before he was attacked in this driveway next to the diner. it was closed at the time early this morning when this happened. and the man who called 911, he tells me, he is certain that whomever killed the man was bent on murder. both the mcdonald's and don julio's restaurant were still open for business when around 1:10 a.m. there was gunfire. this man was in the mcdonald's parking lot and called 911. >> i heard two shots at first and then right after that, it was three more shots. it was a total of about five shots. >> reporter: he says it took him a few minutes to find the victim. he was laying face down on t