back to. >> megan mcgrath live in logan circle.ou. >>> i think we're having trouble with justin ice microphone. there was acare at georgetown university overnigh fire and ems were dispatched to the student center just before 1:00. we'll have pictures from the scene. again, this information was from twitter accouats. an evan was called as fire crews responded. ere was a -- drier fire in the laundry room. the sprinklers wereed activ no reports of injuries. there you . all right. >>> so it's now 5:47. more bad news for skins safety montae nicholson. take a look here. nicholson is the man in the red sweatshirt apparently. the video shows him pushing and punching, knocking a man outsidr of a in loudoun county earlier this week. nicholson and a woman he was with were both arrested and charged with assault and battery. skins coach jay gruden said he's says he this video and will take a look at it. nicholson will not take the field with thehe team when play the tennessee titans on is at 4:30 right here on nbc our coverage begins at 3:00 wi

back to you. >> megan mcgrath, thank you. >>> it's 5:48. this morng, shortchanged in the classroom. it's happening to hundreds of local students when ito comes learning science and social studies. scott macfarlane and tam news 4 i-ook a closer look. >> reporter: we found d.c. public schools violating own requirements, not giving enough class time in science and social studies to students in at least four middl schools. d.c. officials familiar with the issue tl thei-team the school district made the changes because of problems with budgets, resources, and pressure to boost math and english scores. the impactedchools include kelly miller, brookland, eliot-hine, and cardoza. the kids aren't getting the expected class time. the time is instead used for other core subjects. a school district memo about eliot-hine acknowledges the school schedule this year is not adequate. experts and parentsay this must be fixed. 20 middle schools, dozens of schools in the district, and the ones where they seem to have trouble giving the curriculum the right way

back to you. >> megan mcgrath for us in logan circle. . >>> now to two major developments regarding facebook and your privacy. one involves a lawsuit filed by d.c. attorney general karl racine against the social media giant. he says facebook failed to protect the data of millions of uss. he focused specifically on the cambridge analytica scandal. that's where third-party personality quizzes took user data before the 2016 election. >> almost half, or 340,000 d.c. residents, had their user information compromised. >> the lawsuit came after "the new york times" explosive report. the newspaperays facebook gave partners such as microsoft and yahoo! more access to your data than previously thought. facebook denies the report. >>> more bad news for redskins safety montae nicholson. tmz has released video of the confrontation that cost him the rest of the season. take a look. nicholson is apparently the man in the red sweatshirt here. the video shows him pushing, punching, knocking a man out. this is outside a bar in loudoun county earl whiier th

back to you. >> megan mcgrath live for us in prince george's county.nk you. >>> this morning, a montgomery county tamily isnkful their child is back home and safe. a school bus picked up the child, who's on the autism spectrum and possibl nonverbal, at rockville high school yeerday afternoon. the student was supposed to get off in silver spring. instead, the child was discovered on the bus at the inner harbor in baltimore. school officials are trying to figure out how this happened. they say montgomery cnty schools does bus in students from baltimore city. they suspect when thest rockvil ent did not get off the bus at the right stop, the bus continued on to baltimore. >>> your time is now 6:33. here are the other top stories we're following for you this morning. a big change for commuters in the tysons area. the jones branch road bridge, or scott's crossing road bridge, as it will be known, iill open the next week over the beltway. this will be an important b connectiween two secks of tysons that were previously divided by the beltway. eventually,edest

news 4 megan mcgrath is on camp with more. >> sort of a home coming in a way. >> reporter: absolutely, it is. he's a familiar a familiar face here on campus. so it is kind of a homecoming. the university ofaryland choosing michael locksley as the new head football coach. as you mentioned, he's currently th offensive coordinator at alabama. he needs to finish up there first with the college playoffs before coming tory mand. the name may sound familiar to maryland fans. he was the offensive coordinator from 2012 to 2015. ee was just named the top assistant coach i country. interimserved as the head coach before d.j. durkin took over therogram here. durkin was f ultimatelyed ollowing the death of playe jordan mcnair. a locksley durkin did not work together at maryland. also in e news today, this morning is university president wallace loh. loh, you may recall, fired rkin against the recommendation of the board of regents. he also announced at that time he would be retiring in june. in a new development, some lawmakers on capitol hill say they would be supportive if loh decided not to ret

ne4's megan mcgrath is working.he story for us she'll have much more on this coming up in the next half hour. >>> your time now,4:34. here's a look at this morning.ies today metro leaders are expected to debate an issue affecting thousands of people. how late should the metro system stay open? d.c. leaders want to force the sestem to run until 3:00 a.m. on weekends like it to. right now it closes at 1:00 a.m. on friday and saturday the transit agency says closing earlier leaves more time for track maintenance. >>> also, the jones ranch road bridge will open next week. this wl be an important connection between two sections of tons that was previously divided by the beltway. eventually pedestrians, connectiike lanes, and a transit system are expected as well. >>> accused russian agent maria butina expected to plead guilty in a d.c. federal courtroom. he's accused ofg infiltratin conservative groups like the national rifle association in order to bolster russian in u.s. pollice >>> nancy pelosi appears to b ready to voted in as speaker. she agreed to step down after two teths. was enough

megan mcgrath is live with the search f second man. >> reporter: a young man was forced into a car by two strangers, she wasul sexual asd before ultimately being shoved out of the car about 45 minutes later.f one the people believed to be responsible, one suspect, has turned himself in but theecond man is still on the loose. take a good look at this photo of 29-year-old mark blue of northwest. dolice say he's the sec suspect in the kidnapping and rape of a young woman december the 3. blue's alleged accomplice, nick savoy, turned himself into police i roanoke, virginia on tuesday but blue is still on the loose. this were caught on surveillance tape after they kidnapped the woman. she was sexual assaulted and held against her will for 45 minutes before she was released without her clothes in southeast washington. the woman told a good samaritan who helped her that the men raped her after learning she didn't have much money in her bank account. >> they took everything from her, shoes,ot s, jacket, everything. i didn't think nothing of it. you see somebody who needs help, you just do it.

back t yo >> megan mcgrath, thank you. we go to a develming story f the city of frederick, maryland. a woman is recoverheg after was robbed and shot while working at an exxon station late last night. it's right across from prospect plaza shopping center. police are looking for two suspects in the case. the woman called from help from nearby cvs. she's expected to be okay. >>> aip fire thatd through a building in prince george's county has been ruled arson. officials say damage is estimated to be about a qrter of amillion. we're told the flames broke out just before 2:00 in the morning on rhode island avenu and college park. officials say the fire was put out qukly and no one was injured. one person is in custody. nearly a dozen bomb threats in our area believed t be part of a nationwide hoax. one threat was sent university of maryland yesterday along with schools and government buildings and businesses have been targeted from coast to coast. most locations received an e-mail saying a bomb was in the building. they warned t

. >> megan mcgrath is there with the impacts on the closure. >> reporter: this is going to have an impact on the people traveling between d.c. and virginia. as you look behind me here, you can see that traffic is moving in both directions at this point over the memorial bridge. but in a m of hours, all of that is going to change. this is part of the ongoing construction work, the overhaul of then bridge that's been ppening for some time. and what they're going to do is the work that they're doing over ndthe wee requires them to shut down all lanes onhe memorial bridge as well as the sidewalks. so that is going to be happening tonight at 9:00. and the bridge will remain closed throughout the entire weekend. the hope herha is they can reopen things by 5:00 a.m. on monday in time for monday's rus hour. they're doing a variety of work. they're concentrating on the o cent the bridge. they're going to be putting up a temporary s they're going to be removing steel from the center span. again, all ofshat requi them to shut down all the lanes. it's not a situation where they can just take some lan

news 4's megan mcgrath is in maryfield with how things are looking. >> reporter: right now it looks good but all of that will change. 112 million peoplid natio expected to travel this holiday on, most of them by car. that's a record. if you look behind me, this is the beltway in maryfield, virgicia. the tras quite light. as we get into the afternoon that is expected to change a we expecting to see the affic congestion start to build. now, the worst traffic in d.c., that is projected to take place today between 1:15 and 2:15. a record number of travelers are getting out of dodge for the holiday. >> i'm expecting a horrible drive from 95 all the way down toms willrg. >> reporter: aaa projecting that one-third of americans will leave home. at's up nearly 4.5% from last year and the highestumber sinc aaa started tracking holiday travel plans. >> i am leaving today at 1:30 and i will get in the express lane and pay i whatevert takes. >> reporter: the worst travel day is today. drive times at p thek could be four times longer than usual. compcating things, mother nature, heavy rain in the fore

megan mcgrath is on campus ahead of that press conference. we know they're going to announce the new coach today, but is h completely done with his old job?r: >> repor not quite yet, but he's going to be coming after he aps things up with his current team. the university of maryland has chosen michael locksley as the new head football coach. he's currently the offensive coordinator with alabama. he's going tohe finish up, finish up the playoffs before o coming here t maryland. the name mayo sound familiar maryland fans. he was the offensiveoo cinator from 2012 to 2015 here at maryland. he was also just named top assistant coach in the country. he served as interim head coach before d.j. durkinook over here. at maryland now, durkin, of course, was ultimately fired following the death of player jordan mcnair. locksley and durkin did not work pgether here at maryland. the universitysident fired coach durkin, going against the recommendation of the board of . regent lowe at that time announced he wo id retiren june, but in a new development, seve