. >> reporter: i'm megan fitzgerald. this is where they'll be remembered.e've started to see hand cyclists coming through here. they flierg flags. next to them the names of soldiers and their names and rank. some from vietnam, persian golf, korean war, iraq, and afghanistan, many of the participants say this is the part of the marathon that they'll be able to reflect and to the american heroes that we've lost. it's also a powerful moment for many volunteers as well. >> this is a chance to give back to the military. it's a living memorial to those who have sacrificed and serviced our country. >> what does it mean. [ inaudible ] >> reporter: now the co-founders of the two mile mark have lost their spouses in iran and afghanistan. they wanted to give people an opportunity to remember the fallen heroes and express their thanks. they say some people don't know how to say thank you. this is their moment. as you see behind me, folks are coming through here. you can see we've got a runner here coming through. so a very emotional part of the race here. and we've alr

megan fitzgerald is heading to the scene right now we'll keep you updated. >> i'm molette greene live in prince william county where two families and two school communities are grieving the loss of high school seniors as police here dig for answers. busloads of students started the day off at osborne park high school with grief counselors ready to help them cope with an unexpected loss. 17-year-old indya davis attended this school. police found her and 17-year-old lyle ferringer dead saturday. he attended garfield high school. prince william county schools said the schools are focused on helping students and staff cope with the difficult news. that's the priority. parents in prince william county are shocked to hear what happened. >> when you have kids, you always worry about them. just don't want to have it happen to any kids. very sad. >> reporter: police say whatever happened was not random and are working with the medical examiner to get an exact cause of death. autopsies set for today will give them some answers. >> that's horrible. do they know whahappened? >> reporter: a park r

news 4's megan fitzgerald shows us how the school handled the incident and the concern fromç parentss well as students. >> reporter: this was not the way students at woodson high school expected to start their day. >> i was in my english class when i heard it. i thought it was a normal fire drill. >> reporter: it was far from a normal fire drill. richard bauer says students evacuated after a fire started inside a first floor chemistry classroom. >> and during that instruction, of demonstrating the different types of colors of fire, several students, unfortunately, were burned. >> reporter: two students were air lifted to burn centers at two different hospitals. three taken to inova fairfax by ambulance. >> the fire sprinkler did activate and did exactly what it was supposed to do, which is hold the fire in check. >> reporter: firefighters extinguished the blaze which was contained to one classroom while parents say they were notified that something happened at school. >> they sent an e-mail to the parents from the school saying that there was an emergency. >> when i first came over h

i have my colleague, megan fitzgerald, just a few feet from me.she's speaking with a student right now. she'll join us within this broadcast to update you from a student's perspective as to what played out here. coming to you live from fairfax, david culver, news 4. >> here at the live desk following bad weather in texas that created some very scary moments. six people are trapped in a flooded bus. four of them special needs students. the other two adults. if you look at this picture you can see how scary this was. this is just in. water filled the highway near san antonio. that's why all of this happened. all of those people now getting medical care. >> severe weather slammed that area throughout morning. strong storms including reports of a tornado. less rain happening now. we're following reports of flooding. aaron? >> thank you. it will be a work weekend for decision 2016. >> republicans want to change how debates work after this week's clash with cnbc moderators. right now the latest on the campaign trail from tracie potts. >> reporter: we ju

megan fitzgerald introduces us to a local couple with a powerful reason to race. >> that's right after i got back from the second deployment. the picture says it all. >> reporter: pictures say so many things. they can capture moments that remind us of our commitment. >> we just passed our eight-year anniversary in september. >> reporter: teresa and dave's love story started in college, never knowing where their journey would lead. >> i knew he was going into the military when we met. i didn't know what that meant but i knew -- >> me either. >> reporter: two years later they found out it meant dave was going to war. he and his platoon deployed to afghanistan in 2009. >> i didn't really know what to think. it was scary. i was home with an 18-month baby. >> reporter: he was in a combat zone while teresa tried to manage things back at home until she found an escape. teresa joined a running group with other women whose spouses were deployed. running became her distraction. it was something she didn't realize how much she needed until she got the call. >> my vehicle was the third one back, r

. >> reporter: reporting in quantico, megan fitzgerald, news 4. >>> and news 4 will be covering every aspect of the race. we set up a specia section on our nbc washington app devoted to the marine corps marathon including the course map, the metro changes and a whole lot more. >>> and you want it to be cool, obviously, when you're running a marathon but they may get a little bit of rain. >> a little sprinkle? >> unfortunately it's going to be a damp morning on sunday for the marathon but they're tough. they can run. they can handle it. >> one guy tells us he's carrying the flag the whole way. >> larry gonzalez, one of our viewers. >> just awesome. they'll be fine, just a little damp. right now we're dry and cool and temperatures right near 50 in washington and our nearby suburbs. low 50s around the bay to southern maryland in the mid-50s now. sunshine breaking there. sunshine breaking out shenandoah valley and into the mountains where it's 50s, too. winchester is at 54. under our low cloud deck in the metro air why and points west and north we're still in the chilly 40s. there's the c

megan fitzgerald knows a thing or two about this and is live to help you protect yourself. >> reporter uber says they know about the issue. i myself was the victim of hacker and got a message saying my account was associated with a different account that had an unresolved balance. uber has advice for all of us to help even more people from falling victims to hackers. there are plenty of ways to get around town, from buses to taxis and metro. >> i am requesting and uber to go home. >> reporter: then there are those who prefer car service at their fingertips. >> they pick me up wherever i am and take me wherever i want to go all done via my app. >> reporter: with the conve convenience of that app comes along with po tensionality risk. >> any time we do anything digitally can be hacked. >> reporter: apps like uber are well aware, the company saying they are seeing cyber criminals gaining access to uber accounts from our online apps. hackers are getting access to user names and pass words and trying them out on different accounts like this one. that means someone could be taking a ride on

police aren't naming the cop but megan fitzgerald talked to her competition. >> reporter: if you asked her, she believes she won that dance off but will let the viewers decide. what she knows for sure is her encounter with a d.c. police officer changed her perspective on law enforcement. dancing is what aliya taylor y says she was born to do. >> it makes me smile. >> reporter: it's where she feels free and can escape from fears in her life. >> i thought there were only bad cops. >> reporter: she said she feared cops until tuesday afternoon when a police officer showed up to break up a verbal fight. >> i was stepping from the sedan and the cop said, i can do you one better. i said, okay. >> reporter: then this happened. >> i was in shock and like, wow. >> reporter: she still can't believe a police officer challenged her to a dance off. but she's chargeful. aliya says it's the moment she and her friends needed to believe that officers really are there to help. >> she was like, what's your name? she smiled, i was like, oh, yeah, we need more cops like you. meaghan fitzgerald, news4. >>> i

. >> megan fitzgerald with that report right there. fairfax county superintendent dr.karen garza put out a statement last night, saying in part, quote, fcps is truly like a family and as such we are all deeply concerned about what happened. i know this incident has affected the woodson community and as a district, we will provide as much support and assistance for students, staff members and families as needed. >> developing right now in romania, at least 27 people are dead after a nightclub fire there. and another 88 recovering in the hospital. many of the survivors must now have plastic surgery. a heavy metal band' pyrotechnics show sparked that deadly fire. officials initially said it was an explosion. dozens of people rushed to donate blood. ç >>> montgomery county police say they caught the guys breaking into homes in chevy chase. and in many cases, officers say those suspected burglars broke a sliding glass door or a basement window. during the day. the crooks left their fingerprints according to police and investigators say they matched it to 25-year-old eric o

. >>> i'm megan fitzgerald at reagan national airport where just yesterday southwest says it was a technical glitch which caused hundreds of flights to be delayed across the country and long lines at airports around the country as well. if you look behind me, you can see that's not the case today. line seems to be moving along regularly here. people are able to access these kiosks here to get their tickets. southwest officials say this is something they've been working on throughout the night. many travelers would agree there are times when flying can be a bit stressful. >> i do. i worry. and i like to get here early. >> on sunday, that was the case for thousands of southwest customers, some 450 flights were delayed and long lines were seen here at l.a.x. and other major airports around the country. southwest said a technical glitch in their system affected the website, mobile app and phone centers forcing employees to check customers in manually. but on monday morning -- it was a different story. lines moved quickly and passengers didn't seem to have many issues. >> we haven't had any probl

. >>> i'm megan fitzgerald in reston where fire broke out at about 6:40 this morning at this townhouse behind me on purple sage court. in fairfax county firefighters arrived on scene and say they saw flames shooting out of the first floor window that is boarded up. they had to rescue a couple that were upstairs. we're told who dogs and two cats lived inside, unfortunately they did not make it out alive. investigators tell us this all happened at around 6:40 this morning. they say that this home video was shot by a neighbor, his name is james moran. he said he woke up to sirens, came outside and saw several fire engines on scene battling the blaze. fairfax county fire official says it took about 40 firefighters nearly an hour to extinguish the flames. moran says he didn't realize anyone was inside until he saw crews walking up the ladder to the second floor of the home. >> down the ladder, got him on a stretcher, they put him in an ambulance, took him over to reston hospital. >> now, fire officials tell us that the couple was rushed to a local hospital here. one of them went into cardia

megan fitzgerald live at the scene of the latest incident here this morning. >> what have you learned so far, megan. >> the latest incident happened on sunday afternoon at the potomac mills mall just behind us. police say that the victim told them that she was in i abathroom stall with her 5-year-old child when she sees a mirror coming underneath her stall. she confronts the suspect. he hasn't been seen since. for the most part, many shoppers feel secure when heading to the store. >> just shopping for clothes, shoes, accessories. >> reporter: the focus seems to be on getting what you need. >> hopefully, they have what i'm looking for. >> reporter: sunday afternoon gave shoppers more to look about. this man dressed as a woman entered the woman's bathroom at the potomac mills mall and used a mirror to see the woman in the stall next to him. after she confronts the man, he takes off. investigators obtained these images of the suspect in may from a walmart. police believe the same man did the same thing there. >> that never would have crossed my mind, it would be a peeping tom. >> reporte

megan fitzgerald with what's being done to make the base more secure. meagan? >> we had a chance to speak to the base commander and he admits security is a problem and there is a plan to fix it. >> it took more than 13 hours to find 41-year-old dante small. anne arundel police chased small. that pursuit ended here on the campus of fort meade. colonel brian foley is the insulation commander here. he says small managed to bypass security guards before crashing the vehicle more than a mile inside the base and running off, but how did small manage to make it past armed guards in the first place? it's a question the colonel says they're looking into. >> we will investigate fully this incident, how it occurred to determine if we can make any procedural changes. >> reporter: in the meantime, small was finally captured in a storm drain at around 10:15 thursday morning. colonel foley says it wasn't far from where 400 soldiers live. >> the proximity of the storm drain was near several buildings where we do have service members. >> this incident is one base official say h

megan fitzgerald, news 4. >>> montgomery county public schools are so overcrowded that the school system is considering a new plan that would shift some students out of their neighborhood schools and we'll tell you how it could help wooten, mcgreweder high schools. >> given the capacity issues that we have and given the future capacity that we expect, we're studying the possibility of space availability not only in the gaithersburg area and also in the mcgreweder cluster and the wooten clufter. >> reaction to the now montgomery county public school plan and how parents can have input into how the decision is made and which students will be required to switch schools. back to you. >>> vice president joe biden says attacks against women are some of the most heinous forms of violence. mr. biden delivered ret marksth marking domestic awareness month. senator biden introduced the violence against women act and incidents have dropped dramatically, but the vice president says it is still a very serious problem in our society. >>> eyes are also on the vice president for another reason, looking f

police ended up catching the suspected thief miles away from home in new york, but as news 4's megan fitzgerald discovered investigators still have a warning for you tonight. rockville police say erika ufie or psychic gina was a professional con artist and she operated on the 200 block of twinbrook parkway. the detective with the rockville police department said ufie preyed on a vulnerable victim. >> she was going through a difficult time in her life and sought out spiritual work and this woman was very good at what she did. >> so good that police said she managed to steal $77,000 from a highly educated and successful 53-year-old victim, but when the victim caught on she called police and rife at investigator bob nygaard to track the woman down. >> i was able to pinpoint her location to a location in queens and she was operating a psychic shop. >> nygaard followed ufie to this 99-cent store where she was met by nypd officers. >> he had his camera rolling when police made the arrest, but both nygaard and salic say these kinds of scams are targeting people from all walks of life. >> the victim in

. >> i'm megan fitzgerald. a high-speed chase ends with a dramatic crash on fort meade. we're getting answers as to how that suspect maininged to make it past security in the first place. >> i'm mark segraves where there is a warning about a new measles case and the contagious patient who visited this costco. >>> i'm erika gonzalez, disgraced and under investigation, volkswagen's american boss comes to washington and says top management is not to blame in the emissions cheating scandal. >> first at 5:00 tonight, we begin with a murder mystery. in fact, there are two murder mysteries in alexandria. the first deadly shooting happened during the summer and this is only the second murder of the year in this area. police didn't have to go far to find a very similar scene. wendy? >> that's right. just 100 yards from the first murder. this community is not used to seeing this kind of violent crime. news 4's pat collins is live in alexandria with the latest on this. pat? >> reporter: wendy, the victim leon williams. a short time ago a friend came to the scene and put down this b

news 4's megan fitzgerald talk to people on both sides of this heated debate. >> once again, anothers shooting topping headlines and covering newspapers all across the country, but are we getting any closer to answering the question of how we stop the violence? >> reporter: today the dialogue around what should be done going forward is ramping up again. news 4 caught up with virginia governor forry mcauliffe after ask the govern our on our radio partner wtop. >> at some point we have got to do something about the number of guns in our country and the number of gun violence. >> mcauliffe believes stronger gun laws could help decrease some of these mass murders. >> if you've been convicted of a violent misdemeanor, domestic abuse, stalking, you should not have the right to have a handgun. >> reporter: over at nova firearms in mclane, store manager rachel dresser says there's one for sure effect of some politicians demanding tighter restrictions around guns. her sales will likely surge. whenever these things happen we do tend to see an increase. >> reporter: whenever her customers say t

"news4's" meagan fitzgerald is live this morning with what travelers need to expect this morning. megan goorksd morning to you. >> good morning. now, in a southeast of twigs today they're apologizing to passengers. they're encouraging them to arrive at the airport at least two hours before their flight. we want to show you some video. this is yesterday, sunday, at los angeles international airport. because 450 flights were delayed around the country. take look at the effects. long lines. officials there with southwest passing out pizza to try and appease customers. the problem starting sometime sunday morning but southwest isn't saying what caused it and when it's expected to be resolved. many passengers have described the delay as you can imagine the nightmare. the problem has affected the airlines' website, mobile apps, phone centers, and airport check-in systems as well. southwest is asking customers to print their boarding passes out before they arrive to the airport. again, this is a condition they're continuing work on and they're asking passengers to arrive to the airport at leas