he always called me pat collins, not pat, not collins, always pat collins. >> pat, this is tom sherwoodie barry much this morning. you had your own run-ins with his previous wife. >> she stood by him throughout that whole trial and everything else. i did a story about effie's mother. she got arrested and charged with arson a long time ago. effie came up to me to bail her mother out and had angry words for me. i went down to the district building about two days later, i saw marion barry there. he looked at me and said now you know what happens to me when i get home. he had a great sense of humor. he was a very smart guy. he was flawed, no doubt about it. but he was the city of washington's guy. again, he's a comeback king. i have never seen anybody get knocked down so many times and come back, come back and get some measured success. >> all right, pat. thanks very much. >> for most of you who probably don't know, pat grew up on h street in northeast over by the hopscotch bridge, so certainly in d.c. his entire life. we are following the death of fo >>> continuing to follow the breaking n

p pat collins will have more on the victims and investigation in our next hour. back to you. >> weapon de, thank you. >>> first at 4:00, the video that has everybody talking. we just learned a close connection to our area a day after this video of a scary abduction went public. coming up in about 15 minutes, we'll show you the investigation of an abduction in philadelphia just spread much closer to the washington area. >>> voters still have time to get to polls across the area with some big decisions at stake today. d.c. voters will choose a new mayor. there are six candidates including d.c. council members, muriel bowser and david catania. schwartz is making her fifth run. three council seats are up for grabs and for the first time ever, d.c. voters will select an attorney general. >>> in maryland, the race for the state's next governor. voters at the polls deciding there who they want to replace outgoing governor martin o'mall o'malley. lieutenant governor anthony brown or republican larry hogan. >> and there are two big races to watch in virginia in the u.s. s

news 4 pat collins is live covering the case since the start, outside the courthouse in rockville. pat? >> reporter: jim, a bold move today by prosecutor john mccarthy. get a judge to sign and order to have katherine hoggle go out with police to help them find her missing children. 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah. katherine hoggle's children have been missing now nearly two months. police believe she's responsible for their disappearance. today prosecutor john mccarthy asked a judge to sign an order to allow katherine hoggle to go out with sheriffs to show them where she put her children. katherine hoggle's family members says she told them last week she wanted to help police find her kids. >> she said she wanted to show the police where the kids were. i asked her how come she doesn't show me, i'm their father, i can pick them up. she said it wouldn't do anything for her to show me. that she immediated eneeded to police hert. >> reporter: in court kath rain hoggle didn't want to do that. she suffered from paranoid schizophrenia and is undergoing a psychiatric evaluation. now,

in arlington, pat collins, news4. >>> a search tonight in d.c. driver who hit a person and took off. a cab driver. the victim was hit trying to cross new york avenue at bladensburg in northeast. it happened this afternoon. he has serious injuries, but is expected to recover. >>> and in montgomery county tonight, we know the name of the 77-year-old man who was hit and killed crossing the street in silver spring. police say he was hit before 5:00 a.m. while crossing new hampshire avenue at randolph road. the driver stayed at the scene. it's not clear if he was in a crosswalk. >>> montgomery county school officials will hold a meeting tomorrow. they want to talk about an alleged sex assault on campus. the police arrested a contractor after that contractor was accused of inappropriately touching a student at baker middle school in damascus. the incident happened on october 6th, but a letter wasn't sent home until yesterday. the principal says parents were not notified right away in order to protect the privacy of the student involved. >>> a plea deal

live in damascus, pat collins, news4. >> thank you, pat. >>> we're trying to find out how many prince george's county students were forced to stay home from school today because they weren't up to date on their immunizations. as of last friday about 400 students missed the deadline to get vaccinated. kids will not be allowed back in school and they'll be given five excused absences. after that, truancy proceedings will begin and their parents could be penalized. >>> doug with a check on our weather forecast. a little gray and drizzly. tomorrow is the day we're worried about, right? >> tomorrow is the day, for your. even though we had clouds, temperatures were on the mild side, about 5 degrees above average. doesn't make you think about christmas, does it? >> not at all. >> does this? the rockefeller spruce, one they had looked at for years, this is in pennsylvania that made the 155 mile journey up to "30 rock." that's what it's going to be looking like on dez 3rd. they will do that december 3rd. i still am waiting for my invitation to host something up there december 3rd. wouldn't tha

pat collins outside baker middle school in damascus. >> reporter: a sex assault inside a baker middle school. it was caught on tape by school security cameras. the suspect in the case, a private contractor. he was in the school to work on security cameras. the crime scene, baker middle school in damascus. the victim, a 12-year-old girl. they say she was walking down the hallway when she was touched inappropriately. charged in the case, 44-year-old john edward epps. epps is described as a contractor who was doing work in the school. >> it's conceivable the cameras he was working on were the same cameras that took the picture of this alleged assault? >> that possible. >> reporter: according to court documents the school security footage clearly shows epps reaching beyond his normal arm motion to couch -- touch the juvenile. in a sent out by the school they say there's allegati allegations epps may have inappropriately touched a 17-year-old high school student when she was here for a school activity. no charges yet but police are investigating. parents of students of baker middle, they'r

pat collins explains why. >> reporter: to prosecutor john mccarthy indicated he may seek murder charges against catherine hoggle. currently, hoggle is charged with parental abduction and child neglect. but mccarthy says more serious charges may be on the way. could there possibly be a murder indictment? >> in light of the fact we have not seen these children, that is something we are pursuing and investigating with the police. that is something that is actively being investigated. whether that's the appropriate charge, final decision will come in the next several weeks. >> reporter: this comes after an attempt to get catherine hoggle to go out and show police what she did with her children. 2-year-old jacob and 3-year-old sarah. catherine hoggle's children have been missing now for nearly two months. police believe she's responsible for their disappearance. today prosecutor john mccarthy asked a judge to sign an order to allow catherine hoggle to go out with sheriffs to show them where she put her children. catherine hoggle's family members said she told them last week she wanted to hel

coming up at the top of the hour, pat collins has the latest on this murder mystery.to you. >> thank you, wendy. >>> turning to the weather, we're going to be on a little bit of a roller coaster and have been. >> and a lot of us had to break out that hearty winter coat this weekend. didn't need it today but just make sure it's not too far away because you'll be grabbing it again before long as we take a look in this weather cast at the trends you can experience. the walking forecast for tomorrow morning, sunshine. yes, it's going to be chilly. and, yes, i do think it's, you know, a little heavier jacket weather for tomorrow. 45 degrees is how we s your tuesday. 72. nice conditions by afternoon. only a few high clouds coming through the area. good walk to work kind of day tomorrow or if you are going to be taking metro. 68 degrees up north. 66 around frederick, maryland. hagerstown 66. 65 in cumberland. 68 in winchester. 72 in d.c. of course, it's also a day when the kids will be off tomorrow. if they are lucky enough, 2:00 p.m. super nice with a temperature of 71 degr

our pat collins joins us now with the latest on this. pat? >> reporter: jim, a murder victim with a masters. he lived in a condo here in murdered in anne arundel about 45 miles away from his home. today i talked to one of his roommates. she asked not to be identifie >> he's very kind. he's strong. he's caring. he's a clean guy. and he's very helpful. he'll help anybody. >> rep she's the roommate of the m. she asked we not use her name or show her face, but she is most upset by what happened. >> it's very hurtful to me. >> reporter: the victim, sadell alex ba, 46 years old. his sister said he was educated at the moscow institute of mining. she says he has a masters in computer science from george washington university. now this is an aerial view of the millersville neighborhood in anne arundel cy w it happened. alex ba, found dead monday morning in his blue nissan versa car. a car similar to the one pictured h they say his car was parked in an awkward way along an anne arundel co road. bob was behind the wheel. the motor was still running. at

children are right now, but catherine hoggle won't be allowed to help prosecutors find them and news 4 pat collins joins us in rockville where hoggle went before a judge today. pat? >> reporter: jim, they tried and tried to get a judge to have catherine hoggle go out and show the cops what she did with her missing children. they tried -- but a judge said, no. the last time we saw pictures of catherine hoggle it came from security cameras as she was on the run hanging out in germantown. today she was at a montgomery county courtroom wearing a blue cardigan sweater, long brown hair, she looked straight ahead. no eye contact with her family members sitting in the same room. catherine hoggle was brought to court from a mental institution where she's being held. in the courtroom, the judge asked her, how are you? she said, okay. i've been better. the judge says, are you taking drugs? she said, yes. she says, what do they do? she said, they knock me out. now, in that courtroom today, a bombshell proposal from prosecutor john mccarthy. have a judge sign an order to have catherine hoggle go out with the s

news4's pat collins is live at d.c. superior court where he talked to the suspect on her way out. er: doreen, it was a closing time street fight. it sent three people to the hospital. police say a taser was involved. charged in the case, a 19-year-old teenager. i ran into her today as she left the courthouse in a paper jail jumpsuit. this is alicia mccoy. she is 19 years old. she is charged in connection with a rolling street fight early this morning involving a taser. according to court documents, during the incident, mccoy was seen passing the taser around. i tried to talk to alicia mccoy after she was released on bond in the case. alicia. >> oh, my god! >> reporter: alicia, did you have a taser? >> no! oh, my god. >> reporter: who started the fight? >> you. >> reporter: now the fight happened around closing time the 1200 block of connecticut avenue. bri jordan was out celebrating her birthday when she encountered the melee. >> some of the aggressors were women. a woman had a taser, tasing women, tasing men. there were other women, punching each other. they were punching men. pun

news4's pat collins joins us live with the story now. pat?rte jim, he was a murder victim with a masters degree. liv over here in mat . he murdered 45 miles from his home. why did he go there? who wanted him dead? there's something strange about this s. the victim, sadu alex ba. he appears to be somewhat of an enigma. has papers indicating that he was educated at the moscow institute of mining. papers indicating that he has a masters degree in computer science from george washington university. friends say he made his living driving people around in his blue nissan versa car. similar to the one pictured here. and indeed, it was inside that blue nissan car that his body was found. early monday morn the scene, a residential section of anne arundel county. this is a airi aerial view whee it happened. some 45 miles away from ba's condo home here in gaithersburg. they say his car was parked in an awkward way along an anne arundel road. ba was behind the wheel. the motor was still running. at first they thought it was a medical emer but then when t

and they did just that today with our pat collins. >> i almost didn't make it out of the house. if he didn't get me out and said jump, i would have been dead. >> reporter: from her hospital bed, 11-year-old sarah barks talks about how her father saved her from a blistering fire that raced through the family's arlington home one week ago. billy barks was asleep on the downstairs couch when the fire broke out. all i saw is the fire growing, going up the wall real fast. the whole time i'm screaming, get out, get out, get out. >> reporter: billy barks went outside, grabbed an extension ladder and climbed to a second floor window to get sarah. >> i latched on to her and i just hit the ground. i didn't hold on to the ladder and her at the same time. i just held her and took the fall. >> reporter: killed in the fire, billy barks' wife mary, and 7-year-old daughter emily. he went back on that ladder to save them, but the fire was too hot. the smoke too intense. he had to back off. >> it was the most difficult decision i ever made in my life when i walked down that ladder. i felt helples

news4's pat collins joins us live at the scene with the latest. >> reporte indeed, wendy. hey, welcome to winter. this is the 60th water main break the wssc has been working on since just last monday. now take a look around down the stre. you see those pipes on that trailer? are what the replacement pipes look like for this project. w let's go up. this is where the action is. take a look at the hole in that street. this is where a 71-year-old pipe, a 14-inch, 71-year-old water pipe, burst open last night 8:00. it split like a half smoke. it sent water gushing all over the place. dirt and gravel pushed up from beneath the pavement. all of this pavement is going to have to be replaced once they fix the pipe. now, silver hill road is detoured here. that is likely to continue on for some time. there are abo a half dozen businesses a couple homes that don't have wa but let's find out what's really going on right up to the minute. we bring in now jerry irvine with the wssc. first of all, when will people get their water back, jerry. >> we put the replacement pipe in. within the

pat collins just spoke to billy and sarah at the hospital today.ly tried to go back into the house to save the rest of the family, but the smoke and fire were too intense. >> i almost didn't make it out of the house. if he didn't get me out and said jump, i would have been dead. >> it's the most difficult decision i ever made in my life when i walked down that ladder. i felt helpless. i wanted to jump in, but i figured if i did, and i didn't get out, she would be alone. >> much more of that emotional interview coming up on news4 at 6:00. investigators still don't know what started the fire. if you would like to help the family, we have created a link to their go fund me site. log on to our website nbcwashington.com. >>> right now authorities in loudoun county are asking for help to track down a man released by mistake just a few hours early. christian galdomez was freed 38 hours short of completing his sentence. he was serving 92 days for assaulting a family member and violating a protective order. the loudoun county sheriff's office tells news4, i

live at superior court, pat collins, news4. >> thanks, pat. >>> a son accused of shooting his own mother. news4 was there as police arrested the man near the craim college students. it unfolded at prince place and largo road in maryland. new reaction a that attack, darcy. >> reporter: this arrest happened right across the street from prince george's community college. we had a number of students asking us what was going on. they said they did not receive a text alert on their phone letting them know there was police activity so close to campus. tonight, community college officials tell us that's going to change. a man suspected of shooting and wounding his own mother arrested right across the street from prince george's community college in largo. >> it happened right in front of the bus stop and it's cold out here. it's crazy. >>> just arrived here and saw the police cars and i didn't know what was going on. >> reporter: stude say they are concerned because they did not receive a text message alerting them there was police activity next to campus. the gunman was taken down not far from

pat collins is live outside d.c. superior court. pat. >> reporter: take a look at the affidavit in this case. it's 13 pages long. the charge is sex abuse. the victim's patients, the suspect, their nurse. >> reporter: jason klein, he's 37 years old. he's a traveling emergency room nurse. we caught up with him today leaving superior court after he was formally charged with sexually abusing female patients under his care at three district hospitals. did you abuse your ? did you sexually abuse those patients? >> sir, we said no comments. >> reporter: according to documents and sources, it happened at george washington hospital at foggy bottom may 14th, and washington hospital center december 29th, 2013, and at the united medical center southeast on august 23rd this year. according to court documents he inappropriy touched patients with the intent to abuse, humiliate, harass, degrade or a ro the sexual desire of jared kline. one victim said she was scared so she pretended to be asleep. jared kline lives here. and it upset his neighbors. >

t collins is at the scene with reaction from people who live nearby. hi, pat. >> r hi, doreen. take a look at this. they're wor lights here on silver hill road. they have been at it now for about 23 hours. they still have hours and hours to go before they get everything fixed here. how bad was this break? i've got pictures. take a look at exhibit a. this is the culprit. a 71-year-old water pipe. split open like a half smoke. it happened in the 5100 block of silver hill road. it happened in the dark hours of the night. and it sent water gushing all over the place. now they have been working on this thing all day long. but there was some gas lines down under, so they had to neutralize them before they could go after the pipes. this is not without conseque. eastbound lane of silver hill road blocked off at brooks drive. look at the traffic backed up on the eastbound lanes of silver hill road, waiting to make a detour down th it doesn't make for a happy comme home. >> if i had known, i wouldn't have come this way. it's terrible, it's ridiculous. need to fix it. >> reporte but they'

klein was in court this afternoon and so was pat collins. more coming up in our next hour. >>> there were tears in court today from the family of a murdered official from the district relatives of carolyn cross got so upset when the judge delay add pretrial hearing information the man accused of killing her. the former corrections official was found in alexandra. the suspect's attorney told the judge an autopsy races questions about the case and autopsy set for september 1st. >>> everyone awaits the ferguson decision. country singer hayes just canceled a concert citing possible concerns of unrest. nbc jay gray is in ferguson. >>> unacceptable, inexcusable and devastating, those are some of the words the acting director of the secret service uses to describe the string of secret service lapses that led to his return to washington. clancy came back after julia pearson resigned, who is the former headf president obama's security detail. he said the string of secur incidences starting with the jumping fence is devastating. they have three key ar

live in northwest, pat collins, news 4. >>> one of the men wanted for a liquor store robbery in which a baby is present is now in custody. an twan green is the man in the green vest in this video. he pulled a gun on a man filling an atm at a store in southeas r man with a baby strapped to his chest waited outside. green had several thousand dollars in new $20 bills when officers caught up with him. the man with the baby is a person of interest in the case. >>> some peoe who live in maryland will not be able to go home tonight. that's because we're still waiting to learn exactly how ten town homes caught fire. those flames broke out early this morning along south market street. one of the residents says he barely escaped. >> i'm really lucky to be alive. another five minutes sleep and i would have been in it. >> those were civil war era homes that did not have sprinklers or fire walls. >>> a final push for the candidates before voters cast their ballots tomorrow. and a new poll suggests some very tight races. voters are evenly divide over which party they independent power. 46% want a

live in superior court, pat collins, news4. >> thank you, pat. >>> now to the big event. already impacting the commute ahead of veterans day, tomorrow's concert for valor celebration. we'll bring the big stars out and big crowds to our national mall. our team coverage is tracking everything you need to know about this concert, beginning with news4 transportation reporter, adam tuss. he's live near the stage tonight. adam? >> reporter: jim, a lot is going on right now. you can hear it behind me. the kids tell me this is jesse jay, and she rocks. we're going to listen for a second here as the sound checks continue on the national mall. ♪ setting up for the big show and the transportation picture could be a rough one. >> tough getting in, tough getting out. i don't do that anymore. >> reporter: ben joyce is from falls church, he works here along the national mall and says tomorrow, well, he's not even thinking of coming here. >> i'll be watching hbo on tv. >> reporter: good to remember this concert is free on hbo, even if you don't have hbo, your cable provider will turn it

live in northwest, pat collins, news 4. >>> now to a young life cut short during a horrific crash on the beltway. we are learning from friends and the family pastor of 17-year-old dom pettey from gonzaga high school in the district. kristen? >> reporter: dominik pettey's fooneral will be held here at our lady of mercy instead of the family's church because so many people are expected. the family's pastor, listen to what he has to say. >> as the lord reminds us, tragedy happens to both the good and the bad. and dominik was a great kid. >> reporter: father mark nestout watched dominik pettey grow from a toddler to a promising young man he admired. >> words aren't really adequate often for these type of situations for people. but our presence is. >> reporter: the pastor of st. bartholemew catholic church will deliver dominik's funeral mass at our lady of mercy parish saturday. he met with dominik's parents today. he's known them 15 years. >> they are doing well under the circumstances. obviously, emotions are very, very raw. and it's hard for them. >> reporter: dominik was killed saturd

pat collins joins us live with the interview with the person who captured all of this action. pat?wendy, it happened around closing time. it happened in the middle of connecticut avenue. and bri junior candan dan she saw it all. well, most of it. >> some of the aggressors were women. a woman had a taser. she was tasing women. she was tasing men. there were other women punching each other. they were punching men, punching women. everyone was punching each other. gender was irrelevant. >> reporter: that's bri jordan. she was out celebrating her birthday this morning when she ran across a rolling street fight on connecticut avenue. it happened around closing time. bri caught some of the action on her phone. if you listen carefully, you can hear the distinct sound of a taser going off. the way bri jordan described it, it was like the same group of people involved in a three-round fight. the first round, right here in the middle of connecticut avenue. >> the first one over here, maybe five or six people over here fighting or gearing up to fight, you know, putting their arms up, having w

live in gaithersburg, pat collins. > tur to an attack on a synagogue in israel and the impact at home. a gro of worshippers dead in one of the most violent attacks in the city of jerusalem. pat lawson muse is live at the news desk with details. >> reporter: jim, we just learned in the past ten minutes a fifth person has died after that attack. we know the first four men killed were rabbis and three were americans with dual israeli citizenship. they were praying when two palestinian men armed with a meat cleaver and gun burst into the synagogue. police shot and killed the attackers. israel's prime minister said the country would respond with force. police have already raided the men's homes and arrested some family members. the attack is thought to be retaliation for the death of a palestinian man over the weekend. he was found dead and hanging in a bus. while palestinians call it a murder, israelis say it was a suicide. one of the victims graduated from a hebrew academy in kansas city and the nephew in the faculty at the same school. >> all right. >>> president obama says there can be

live in arlington, pat collins, news4. >>> developments in the case of that man who escaped a d.c. psychiatric ward yesterday, and he did so by simply walking out a back door. the news4's i-team scott macfarlane with late-breaking details. >> city correction officials tell the i-team the man who escaped, you said psychiatric evaluation after allegedly attacking a police officer was placed in a private room at a psychiatric facility off wisconsin avenue northwest. a room in which staff are not allowed to enter or even look inside. city officials tell us kenneth clayton got out by using a back door to that room and the i-team is told the back door leads directly to a stairwell, through which he escaped the facility. the city says a police task force is actively searching for clayton right now, and the rules require, they say, those facilities to have private rooms for medical checkups of its patients. kenneth clayton included. we asked if they're going to change some of their security protocols, because of this escape. we'll keep you posted when they answer. back to you. >> i-team al

. >> reporter: pat and her thanksgiving elves in illinois have sent over 3,000 packages since evan's deployment. we found one of the recipients. navy lieutenant cheryl collinssuch a great young man. his mom, pat. if you know someone who deserves a big thank you, submit their story on goodmorningamerica.com on yahoo. this is all leading up to our special one week from tonight, "thank you america," honoring unsung heros on thanksgiving night at 8:00/7:00 central. i sure hope you'll have some leftovers and join us then. >>> coming up, mark ruffalo joins us t a broader mix of energies, world needs needs to move, to keep warm, to make clay piggies. that's why we are supplying natural gas, to generate cleaner electricity, that has around 50% fewer co2 emissions than coal. let's broaden the world's energy mix, let's go. >>> when you hear >>> when you hear it, you can't help but sing along. and now to celebrate the release of "frozen's" new sing along, "gma" and disney want to send you and your family on a vacation to disney world. go to "good morning america" on yahoo! to find out how to enter. ♪ the cold never bothered me anyway ♪ >> "gma's" sing-a-long sweep sta