. >> and pat lawson muse learning more about what the pilot's motives could have been. >> police aren't confirming his identity but he already said this on his webb. doug hughes said he has been planning it for two years. he was carrying 535 letters addressed to lawmakers, asking for campaign finance reform. he single in an interview with the tampa bay times that he wants a, quote, wall of separation between the government and big money so government will represent the people. the writer who did that feet bur hughes said he doubt that had the plan would be successful. >> i had no idea he would make hit the far. i thought for sure he would be forced down somewhere before this. he left gettysburg, pennsylvania about an hour of flight time. i thought, there's no way he is going to make it all the way here. i saw him come over the top of the buildings and just a speck in the distance. >> you thought what? >> holy heavens, he might make it. >> hughes be e-mailed a number of media across the country including news4 shortly before the flight. he said he carefully planned the flight so the gove

. ♪ >>> i'm pat lawson muse at the live defkt.dreds of people roe marching through downtown new york city in the middle of rush hour traffic to protest deadly police shootings. this is video taken a short while ago from nbc new york's chopper. the group is marching from union square to 1 police plaza. this was organized by the activist group stop mass incarceration to protest the recent killing of walter scott by a white police officer in south carolina. earlier today, about 500 people stopped traffic to cross the brooklyn bridge. some were arrested and commuters have been warned to expect major traffic delays because of this. at the live desk, i'm pat lawson muse. >>> a volunteer sheriff's deputy is now facing manslaughter charges for his role in a deadly shooting in tulsa, oklahoma. robert bates turned himself in today. he was booked and released after posting a $25,000 bond. a video of the april 2nd incident shows deputies chase and tackle 44-year-old eric harris. a gunshot rang out. bates said he mistook his gun for a taser, a

i'm pat lawson muse. stay with us, news4 today is next.usually because you were driving too fast or you didn't look before you turned or you didn't stop for someone in the crosswalk. always be alert. pedestrians don't come with airbags. >>> news4 today starts now. >> right now, news4 today, a toddler is hit and killed this morning learning new details the driver may have been a relative. >> you might see frost walking out the door this morning. starting off cold cold cold, when chuck says things are going to warm up? playing the waiting game. hillary clinton expected to announce she is running for president. what president obama is revealing about his support. >>> and right now, we're working to find out the condition of two people hurt in a wrong way crash on the beltway overnight. take a look live look at outer loop near the exit for landover road. it's clear now, but the scene just a few hours ago was dramatic. you can see it

i'm pat lawson muse. >>> graid great stride since closing. new initiatives making it easier for those with disabilities to be integrated into the community and find work. to talk about initiatives, deputy director for the rehabilitation services of dds, lauren director of dds and ricardo with project action. welcome all of you to "viewpoint." lauren tell us about some of your new initiatives. >> we have several new initiatives. the most important is employment first. many initiatives across government agencies we like to think we're talking the lead on to really make sure that people with disabilities under the mayor's administration really have that pathway to the middle class, like anybody else in the city. so employment first is a big effort to make sure people with disabilities are included in the workforce development system. >> take us back to 1991 when the facility was closed because of conditions there and because of the programs the lack of programs. there. tell us what happened. >> the city was sued in the 1970s, actually on the con

increasing nuclear families. >> the service will deliver goods to households within 500 meters of lawson outlets. the new company says it won't charge for deliveries. it plans to launch the service in tokyo and expand it to 1,000 outlets around the country by 2017. >>> youtube has teamed up with a japanese film company to help aspiring video artists make samurai dramas. executives at youtube operator google and toei announced the new service. toei is well-known for its films on the samurai theme. youtube has built a special set at its tokyo studio for the service. they will start shooting samurai videos this week for about two months. video producers can use the set for free. and toei specialists will be on hand to get advice on costumes and props. toei officials say they will offer a similar service at their studio in kyoto. they say they hope to boost knowledge of japanese historical drama films overseas. especially among young people. youtube officials say the new content will help them increase use percent. >>> nato is a japanese food made from fermented soybeans known for its sticky

. >>> i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. a passenger has been taken off a southwest flight in chicago for allegedly stabbing another passenger sitting next to her. the flight was about to take off from midway headed for manchester boston regional airport when southwest says the woman poked a man with a pen to stop him from snoring. nbc news has spoken with several passengers who posted about the incident on twitter. >> they tell us the woman stabbed the man in the arm. southwest says the flight is on its way to boston the woman has been taken off the plane and will be put on a different flight. at the live desk, pat lawson muse. >>> well, it's not the first thing you think a defeated politician might do once he's lost an election. >> former ward 1 d.c. councilmember jim graham is going into the nude dancing nightclub business. tom sherwood got the scoop from graham himself. >> reporter: you know this jim graham on the d.c. council 16 years, defeated for reelection, out of office last january. what does he do next? well cue t

new at 6:00, she sits down with pat lawson muse to talk . >>> we have dozens of new u.s.s today after a special ceremony in baltimore and among them the only surviving son of pakistan's first president. his father became president when the country gained its independence in 1956. but he was later overthrown in a military coup in '58. the man was studying in england at the time and was unable to return. he went to harvard and worked at the world bank. he says now he feels he has a country to call home. big announcement today will give d.c. public school students the chance to take free classes at howard university. this program will start small, but dcfp plans to expand. kristin wright explains how dual enrollment is going to work. >> reporter: scion mcfajen demi stratman and john a. taylor are juniors in high school in northwest d.c., but they may be starting college in a few months. >> i think it's a wonderful opportunity for d.c. public school kids to actually see what howard is. >> reporter: dcps and howard university announced a dual enrollment program. starting this

pat lawson muse at the live desk. >> wendy, this resolution if approved would overturn a d.c. law that prevents discrimination against workers who have abortions and this afternoon a group of activists let congress know how they feel about lawmakers taking aim at a local law. those were members of d.c. vote interrupting an initial vote on the measure. three residents were arrested as part of that demonstration. the law in question takes effect on saturday, but gop lawmakers say it would force some employers to violate their religious beliefs by providing contraceptives to their workers. supporters of the measure say it keeps companies from discriminating against the health positions of their employees. the white house has released a statement saying if the measure passes the president will veto it. jim in wendy? >> pat lausing muse. >> a 68-year-old woman was run over in southwest d.c. >> her family says she was left to die. >> i know you have a mother. i know you would not let your mother just die like that. >> our pat collins talks to the victim's family tonight about the se

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. >>> i'm pat lawson. breaking news out of cleveland where part of a building has collapsed on top of a car. take a look at this van. it got crushed when chunks of the brick fell from the building located in downtown cleveland. a witness tells our affiliate he ran to the van and luckily found that van was empty. police haven't said if anyone was injured in this collapse. we'll continue the follow the story and bring you any developments. at the live desk pat lawson news. back the you,jim. >> thank you. >>> local students are wrapping up the day back at school since the loss of okon nketim coping with the death. the 16-year-old died saturday during a junior rotc field trip. he'd reportedly complained of being in pain while on that bus. and stopped breathing. his cause of death is still under investigation. >>> we've been telling you about the recent spike in heroin abuse in our area. tonight, a community forum in fairfax county is addressing the problem. the health and human services secretary will be there

news4 pat lawson muse reports. >> reporter: backstage at the kennedy center, misty copeland warms upor perhaps the biggest performance of her career. it will be her american debut, as the coveted lead dancer with a imagine company in ballet's classic "swan lake". >> i've been dancing "swan lake" my entire career but never saw the lead as an opportunity. >> reporter: paired with washington ballet theater's brooklyn mack, the two will go where no dancers of color have gone before, becoming the first african-americans to dance the leading roles in a major classic production. >> i think there's a lot of anticipation and, obviously, hopes and, yeah, pressure surrounding it. but more than anything, i'm just excited. >> reporter: the ballet world has changed much since misty donned her first ballet slippers at 13. >> once i started dancing, i was never singled out as being a black dancer. once i became a professional, that's when it all hit me. >> reporter: her 5'2" muscular frame and color made her an unlikely ballerina. by 17, she turned pro. at 24, she had become only the third black sol

andrew roberts members of the jury friends of the guggenheim-lehrman military history prize, peter lawson johnston and i hold fast to the ancient truth that all great nations have honored the science and art of military history. from time immemorial. not least because great nations have been forged in war. peter and i hope to vindicate this reasonable proposition by rewarding the very best military history books in our own era. those written first as general bunting just said, in the english language, but published enough in the world. now, from ancient times until three generations ago, military history was perhaps the queen of the historical sciences. one might mention only a few of the unforget bl war sagas of the ancient past. in modern times sir winston churchill, general grant general de gaulle, only a few of the storied names the mere mention of which makes our proposition a reasonable case. so then why now the prize? why do we do this? we do this not least because the study of military history has, in fact, been purged from many of the faculties and curriculums of the universities

at the live desk, pat lawson muse. >>> the lawyer for a 12-year-old wisconsin girl accused of stabbing classmate is asking a judge to lower her bail. the 12-year-old and a friend are charged with first degree intentional homicide for stabbing another girl. they said it was to please the horror character slenderman. the bail is $500,000 her lawyer want it's reduced and have her treated at a hospital for schizophrenia schizophrenia. the judge considers the request next week. >>> by the end of may, search teams will have combed every inch of the search area in their quest to find malaysian flight 370. if there is still no sign of that missing jet by then, that search area will double in size. malaysia australia and china are leading the search effort in the indian ocean and they say they have covered more than 60% of a 23,000 square mile zone. flight 370 veered far off course in march of last year, and it disappeared with 239 people on board. >>> a tour bus belonging to a popular country music band catches fire. what the lead singer on board and what the star said on insta- instagram inst

. >>> i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. we are just getting details about the arrest of a senate staffer. his name is fred pagan. he works for senator thad cochran of mississippi. according to court documents, d.c. police and homeland security raided his home on colorado avenue in northwest yesterday after a package addressed to the home was intercepted in cincinnati with a controlled substance gdl inside. according to police, inside the house in d.c. they found more than 180 grams of methamphetamine. and according to court documents, pagan allegedly told authorities he had previously gotten gdl from china and he said he intended to distribute the gbl and the methamphetamine in exchange for sexual favors. now, we reached out to thad cochran's office just a few minutes ago. we are now waiting for comment. at the live desk pat lawson muse. >> thank you, pat. >>> tonight, a local teacher is accused of sexually abusing a middle school student. news4's chris gordon tried to speak to the suspect's family at a court hearing this a

our pat lawson muse with more on the story. >> jim the ballet world is buzzing about ballerina mistyd, dancing a role that will not only shatter stereotype stereotypes on a washington stage but around the country. ♪ backstage at the kennedy center, misty copeland warms up for perhaps the biggest performance of her career. it will be her american debut as the coveted lead dancer with a major company in ballet's classic "swan lake". >> i've been dancing in "swan lake" my entire career, but i never saw the lead as an opportunity. >> reporter: paired with washington ballet theater's brooklyn mack, the two will go where no dancers of color have gone before becoming the first african-americans to dance the leading roles in a major classic production. >> i think there's a lot of anticipation and obviously hopes and pressure surrounding it, but, more than anything i'm just excited. >> the ballet world has changed much since misty donned her first ballet slippers at 13. >> once i started dancing, i was never singled out as being a black dancer. once i became a professional, that's when it kin

just ahead pat lawson muse will talk to shomari stone about his experience in the thick of it last nighttell us what it was like to be in the middle covering that violence. >> thank you, wendy. >>> a shocking discovery in fairfax county. a woman is under arrest accused of working as a prostitute with a 3-year-old by her side. northern virginia bureau chief julie carey with a story you'll see only on news4. >> reporter: well when i discovered the search warrant the fairfax county courthouse, what i read in it very disturbing. detectives traced an online ad for prostitution to this hotel. when they got to the woman's room, sure enough there was a child there, too. it was anonymous tip that led detectives to this hotel. someone had seen an ad on the website packpage.com that seemed to be offering juveniles for sex. >> so when we do receive information that a juvenile might be being trafficked we respond to that aggressively and immediately. >> reporter: police started undercover calling the number in the backpage ad posing as a customer. when the woman answered, they heard a child's voice i

i'm pat lawson muse. the d.c. campaign for teen pregnancy with a move to cut teen pregnancy in half. this morning we talk about the problem and progress. my guest, chair of the d.c. chapter of adolescent working group for american academy of pediatrics. brenda rhodes miller is executive director of the d.c. campaign to prevent teen pregnancy. aurora munoz is with the young women's project here in washington. thank you, all of you, for being with us. >> thank you. >> brenda let's start with you. in recent decades teen pregnancy rate has fallen dramatically here and across the country. what is the situation here in washington and how close are you to reaching the goal? >> we're delighted the teen preg nanny rate is at the lowest level in years, 49.4 pregnancies per 1,000 girls 15 to 19 well on the way to reaching the captain. double dinl pregnancy rate isn't good enough for the capital and we would like to reduce teen pregnancy even more. >> what do you think has been the key in getting the numbers down as far as th

the report says an mri showed the man actually ruptured a tendon tendon. >>> i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk with breaking news. the search is over now for a homicide suspect in fredericksburg. police say steven vander briel was taken into custody about 5:30 this afternoon. he was wanted in connection with the death of a young woman found unconscious at a home earlier today. there was an urgent search that prompted a lockdown at james monroe high school. now the search is ended. steven vander briel is now in police custody. we'll continue to follow this story and have updates for you on the nbc washington app. wendy? >> thanks, pat. >>> they went out for burgers, came home with a baby. >> new tonight, a little girl makes quite the entrance into the world. and how her parents thanked the strangers who helped deliver her. you know, we're going to find out the jeshdgender after the break. >>> she told a lie and ran with it. new at 6, the marathoner who faked her way to the winner's circle and posed for pictures with an olympian. >>> well she has a story unlike many others, and she is

pat lawson muse sat down with her about shattering stereotypes. >> reporter: backstage at the kennedy centering, misty copeland warms up for perhaps the biggest performance of her career. it will be her american debut, as the coveted lead dancer with a major company in ballet's classic "swan lake." >> i've been dancing in "swan lake" my entire career but never saw the lead as an opportunity. >> reporter: paired with washington ballet theater's brooklyn mack, the two will go where no dancers of color have gone before becoming the first african-americans to dance the leading roles in a major classic production. >> i think there's a lot of anticipation and obviously hopes and pressure surrounding it but more than anything i'm just excited. >> reporter: the ballet world has changed much since misty donned her first ballet slippers at 13. >> once i started dancing, i was never singled out as being a black dancer. once i became a professional that's when it kind of all hit me. >> reporter: her 5'2" inch muscular frame and her color made her an unlikely ballerina. but by 17 she had turned pr

. >> former fbi hostage negotiator christopher lawson thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> bernie sanders an independent and a self described democratic socialist announced his candidacy tonight. he says he wants to focus on tackling widespread economic disparity in what he called a disgraceful campaign finance system. so far secretary of state hillary clinton is the only democratic contender. >>> we'll go back to baltimore next for a look at the city's troubled schools why a senator says the schools are broken. broken. >> the powerful at times disturbing pictures coming out of baltimore this week showed teens even children rioting and throwing bricks at police. now, is the city's struggling school system partly to blame? del walters has more. >> in baltimore it came down to the a battle between brooks books and bricks. a long standing problem in baltimore: is the educational system broken? >> i think it is. i think it's broken definitely. >> she should know. before a corruption conviction forced her out sheila dixon was the mayor of baltimore. before that she was the president of

be rescued the first when two kayakers were in the island and the second in the sand bar west of lawson's lander where two adults and a four-year-old became stranded. deputies used the department helicopter to airlift one of the kayakers to paddle back. in the second rescue they touched down to landings and brought them to safety. no one required medical care. >>> the weekend of skwau valley closes it receives a foot of snow. >> we were so over it. it was nice and spring and everything in the garden and all the flowers were coming up and we get this. >> some people living in the sierra weren't happy but for the tourist, it was a welcome site. >> who knows when we'll see this again. we don't see this at all. >> ski lifts were relying on machines. skwau valley spent $2,000 on artificial snow. >> this is what it looked like in the north bay this morning. in one accident a car spun out and crashed into a utility pole in marin county and that driver fled the scene and another driver was hurt. you saw the rain falling in the pictures. how much rain actually did come down. >> we have those final

we just started but when they had the program before heather fong was a cadet and chief ruse and lawson was a cadet and many went from the program into the police department and we are hopeful it repeats itself. >> okay thanks. >> supervisor wiener. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and thank you for calling this hearing. i think it's important as we talk about this issue to talk not just about the numbers but about the actual real life impacts, and just like in the last item with our non-profits it's not just about the numbers or percentages. it's about the real life impacts that our non-profits partners have positively in the community and the impacts that we see when they're under funded and similarly here when the police department is under funded and i think -- or under staffed i should say in particular and under staffed it is an under estimate. when you look at what the impacts are to the point if there's a major event whether a protest or other major event in the city which happened and is part of what san francisco is there's time when is it's hard even to get police service

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alex and corrine lawson's beautiful baby girl. oh my is she pretty.nds. we wish them all well. beautiful family. congratulations. >> that is alex's best production. see you soon. >> take care, guys jenna: say congratulations. we should start there. we should show a baby picture to start off. great way to end the show. great way to begin one as well. we'll start with politics. new signs that hillary clinton could soon run for president. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. we know that might surprise you but according to "the los angeles times" the mrs. clinton's campaign in wait something operating out of a cramped manhattan office as staffers map out return to politics in the office she used since she left the state department. let's bring in

he did not discard the lawson dollars this year.ething the market will likely here, too. mark: what is the company's next focus? >> from now on, the next month he said he will spend the time reviewing the company's five-year business plan. that is a document the company set up for current production targets. there is still in the market. yesterday it was the first signs the new management met. today they had a call with analysts after several months and no answers. so they said they will meet with the press again in 30 days and have more clarity on specific strategies to overcome. mark: joining me on the phone from rio de janeiro talking to us about petrobras and the earnings report spurring a rally. coming up, scarlet fu is on the markets. she will be joined by al spellman. later today, an exclusive interview with this because the u.s. house of representatives, john boehner. -- mark spellman. time now for the commodities outlook. what is the watchword for today frack log? >> it is. it basically means you have producers drilling wel

hospital managed to overpower private guard still her gun and set off a nine hour manhunt. 42 year-old lawsonom a hospital in virginia yesterday. officials are wondering why two guards were not enough to prevent him from escaping. he was charged earlier this month with robbing a dozen banks in the northern virginia and sometimes leak fleeing on a bicycle. he was in the hospital after attempting suicide. >> reporter: these bay mud says the unusual taste and odor that causes all calls to customers reported in their water over the weekend was caused by a greater presence of algae blooms. the district said the algae was filtered out before it reached customers and the water was safe to drink. most of the water comes from the party red the war. the water district is required to preserve cold water deep in the reservoir to release later in the year for returning salmon. because of that the district started pulling warmer water from a pot higher up in the reservoir of saturday that water has more algae in it. the district switched back to taking water from the deeper part of the reservoir on monday

i'm pat lawson muse. we begin in virginia where a special grand jury will decide whether a fairfax county police officer should face criminal charges for killing an unarmed man. john gear was shot by officer adam torres who was checking out a domestic dispute in august 2013. earlier this week the county agreed to pay nearly $3 million to the family of gear to selling a wrongful death suit. the civil settlement creates an unusual situation, joe madison, where you have a civil case settled before prosecutors even decide whether to file criminal charges in this case. typically it's the other way around. >> i'm not a lawyer and i've never heard it done that way. i don't know why. the real question here that we obviously have to discuss is does it have any impact on the criminal charges. will the civil charges and what is allowed to be brought into the criminal charges. i really don't know. and it will be interesting to see what happens with that. >> what about the pr nightmare that has created for fairfax pol

elliot taylor lawson was born tuesday morning. weighed 7 pounds. we wish them all well. beautiful family. congratulations. >> that is alex's best production. see you soon. >> take care, guys jenna: say congratulations. we should start there. we should show a baby picture to start off. great way to end the show. great way to begin one as well. we'll start with politics. new signs that hillary clinton could soon run for president. i'm jenna lee. jon: i'm jon scott. we know that might surprise you but according to "the los angeles times" the mrs. clinton's campaign in wait something operating out of a cramped manhattan office as staffers map out return to politics in the office she used since she left the state department. let's bring in nina easton "fortune" magazine. jonah fold berg, senior editor "national review." both are fox news contributors. she has not nina, gone the traditional path of forming a exploratory committee before you announce you're running. why not? >> jon there is not much to explore. she is running. you've seen in the piece that she is in a cramped m

that was pat lawson muse reporting. today's last performance of that show.out. >>> coming up calling for change. how students are proposing to literally change the face of the campus at the university of virginia. >> after an african-american student's controversial arrest by police. >>> a plan with no arms and no legs abandoned in the woods in philadelphia. why police are looking for his mother in our area. a new form of innovation is taking shape, bringing media and technology together for more people. together is more wi-fi access in more places. it's a home you control with the touch of a finger. it's reimaging tv to give more people more choices. it's bringing technology and people together in ways you never thought possible. comcast and time warner cable. together is better for more people. >>> following breaking news. the cherry blossom ten-miler is under way, following a pedestrian accident. the accident happened about an hour ago on 1600 independence avenue in southwest. that's on the race route. organizers rerouted the race to avoid the accident sc

pat lawson on that. we'll start with chris lawrence who has been there all afternoon. back to normal after an exciting afternoon. >> reporter: yes, some scary moments for the people here. the capitol police have hauled that gyrocopter off the lawn and federal law enforcement sources tell me they didn't find any explosives or womens on board. let's get you straight there. the pilot coming in. witnesses say he was flying from the west. coming in about 30 feet over the national mall. the faa has restricted that air space for anyone flying under 18,000 feet. the faa said they were not alerted to this flight. the witnesses say they could see the insignia of the u.s. postal service on the side of it. some of them thought this was an official flight. the plane, gyro copter plomd down on that front lawn of the capitol. witnesses say that the man did not come out immediately. the comment police were right there to arrest him. he did not come out until ordered to do so. some of the reasons why perhaps they did not

pat lawson muse with developments of a case leading to anger and frustration. pat? >> jim, the police commissioner and mayor trying to calm tensions but unable the provide many answers about this case. police did release a detailed time line of gray's arrest all the way up until the time ambulances were called to transport him to shock trauma. we did learn that after the initial arrest he was taken out of the van and placed in leg irons and learned that gray asked for an inhaler several times and at this point no explanation for how his spinal cord wound up severed. >> what we don't know and need to get to is how that injury occurred. >> baltimore's made progress before and we've overcome difficult challenges in our city. and i know that we will do it again. i'm angry that we are here again. that we have had to tell another mother that their child is dead. >> now, baltimore police say their investigation will be complete in a week and then an independent review board will launch its own investigation. back to you in the studio. >> thank you, pat. >>> the man accused

news4's pat lawson muse with the recognition of his heroics. >> his name is dorian desont is the d.c. police officer who fired the shot that took down the navy yard gunman in 2013. earlier today, he received the congressional badge of bravery. congress congressman' elijah cummings says it could have been much worse without people like this. before firing the final shot, desont is took a bullet to the vest. >> we train to do this. you don't really think about it like that. you think about people needing your help. i've been on both sides of the door. trust me, it's much more rewarding to help people than to be on the other side of the door and not be be able to do something about it. >> officer desontis said today he's merely the keeper of this award for all of his fellow service members who step into the line of fire every day. building 197 reopened in february. back to you. >> thank you, pat. >>> we have developing news right now. a family of six will have to find a new place to live after a fire ripped through their home in clinton. this started around 1:00 p.m. on leunen road. fire

pat lawson muse is live with details on this case and what the victim wants out of the lawsuit. pat? >> jim, the suit stems from an incident that happened in 2012. 72-year-old robert jones says a deputy punched kicked and pepper-sprayed him on his own property. jones says the deputy arrived at his home as he was burning leaves after hurricane sandy. the deputy began to question jones about the safety measures he was taking and then asked for jones' i.d. but when jones asked why his white neighbors weren't questioned about burning leaves on their lawn, he says the deputy became irritated punched him and arrested him. a jury found jones not guilty of six charges against him stemming from this incident. i now says he hopes the lawsuit will help him move on. >> i've been downhill ever since that happened. it can't leave my mind, just won't leave. now i feel that i'm going to start to get some justice. >> the charles county sheriff's office just sent us a response that says the incident happened under a different administration and that the deputy involved is no longer with the depar

pat lawson muse has the latest on this story. >> kenyan officials believe the threat is over now after a gunman stormed the campus today killing nearly 150 people. the rampage started early this morning with gunmen bursting into dorms. they targeted christian students and took hostages. all four gunmen are dead and everyone has been accounted for. al shabab is claiming responsibility for today's attack. kenya's president says he has authorized 10,000 new security recruits to protect the public. >> this is a moment for everyone throughout the country to be vigilant as we confront and defeat our enemies. >> the suspected mastermind is believed to be in charge of al shabab's external operations against kenya. he has previously claimed responsibility for a bus attack last year that killed 28. back to you, jim. >>> back here at home two women in federal custody accused in a bombing plot. the fbi arrested the pair in queens. they say the women were trying to learn how to convert propane tanks into bombs. investigators say there is evidence they looked at isis propaganda but they to not belie

pat lawson muse at the live desk for an update on metro. >> the bethesda metro station is still closed the escalators are without power. this is from metro's twitter account. you'll be able to see when we show you this there's no one inside the station, hasn't been anyone in the station for some time now. the bethesda station is one of ten metro stations affected by the power outage this afternoon. but it is the only one still having having issues. the bethesda metro station still closed that the hour. jim, doreen? >> thanks pat. >>> tonight a community in montgomery county is dealing with a hate crime. somebody painted hate symbols on the synagogue. that synagogue also serves as a nursery school. mark segraves is reporting on how the rabbi plans to explain the crime to the congregation's youngest members. mark? >> reporter: jim, earlier today the entire front and in fact every side of this synagogue was covered with swastikas and other hate graffiti. members of the congregation here spent the entire day cleaning it up. the rabbi tells me he's thankful this happened over spring break s

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we have team coverage beginning with scott macfarlane who's been working with pat lawson muse and producers in our newsroom to sort things out best question. scott in. >> jim, good evening. a lot of reports out there today. here's what we have at this hour we're growing certain of. we're told the investigation into the death of freddie gray appears to be focusing on the police transport van and reporter jane miller from wbal in baltimore, sources tell her the report turned over to prosecutors say whatever lapped to freddie gray happened inside the van and not during the arrest. we're just fold a second stop was made about a mile away and police just discovered it on surveillance cameras and say they don't know why the van stopped. from there, the van made a third stop and the driver asked an officer to check on gray. then a final stop was made to pick up dante allen at the same enter section where the cvs was set on fire this week. dante allen spoke today for the first time to jane miller said he was put in the van on the opposite side of gray with a solid divider between them so they could

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chapel incident, gilchrist tries out his line of defense in a progress meeting with officer roger lawsonyesterday, you indicated to me you were being discriminated against. >> yeah. >> what's that all about? >> every time i'm alone with somebody, i have to go through this, and it's not -- this isn't the first time that it's happened. they just -- they watch me and it just gets annoying. >> in cheque yocking your repori noticed you got a report of the same exact thing almost a year ago to the day. >> yeah. >> in the same place with the lights turned down low? >> yes. >> so you're telling us it's just a coincidence? >> it's not. every report i've ever gotten for sexual misconduct has always been the last five days of march. once a year, every year, for three years and it's been like, oh, my god. it's terrible. oh, well. i guess, they say the blue-footed boobie mates in march so, maybe i'm one of those. i'm a hybrid. >> we caught up with gilchrist moments before his disciplinary hearing. >> i'm going to see the administrative law judge today. he's probably going to bang me with 90 days. but