sdwl >>> i'm pat lawson muse.s just in, the baltimore city council has confirmed kevin davis as police commissioner. he was confirmed in a 12-1 vote and the only council member to oppose is moseby and he said the city should wait until another mayor is elected. >> dozens packed a hear to become the permanent commissioner. several protesters were arrested after a sit-in. they were at city hall again tonight, but most stayed outside because the balcony used last week was closed for safety reasons. i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. back to you. >> thank you, pat. a texas teenager suspended when his teacher mistook a homemade clock for a possible bomb will be at the white house tonight. you may recall president obama invited ahmed mohammed to come visit after a homemade clock made international headlines and mohamed will be on the white house lawn for a special astronomy night. the white house says it will bring scientists, students and educators to talk about space and do star gazing. clear skies, we hope. >> it'

at the live deck, i'm pat lawson muse. >> thank you, pat. >>> the guy in charge of the montgomery countytoys for tots program says it may not happen this season if he can't get space donated. paul gunther is currently renting a couple of storage bins in gaithersburg, but he needs 5,000 or 6,000 square feet of space in order to sort toy done eggs. he says they usually have a spot by now and can't afford rent and need one in a week or so. >> if we do not get a site then we don't have a toys for tots program in montgomery county. i have no place to store the toys. >> reporter: what will that mean to the kids? >> no toys. >> reporter: last year toys for tots and montgomery county collected 60,000 toys providing gifts for kids through 150 different agencies. >>> top golf says it may move from its kingstown location in the coming years, but has no plans to leave alexandria. a spokesperson told us there say mutual agreement between the company and the landlord and we are told that top golf wants to expand and the landlord wants to rezone. if that happens, top golf would have a year to relocate

pat lawson muse joins us now with what was said between firefighters and medics today. pat?> jim, the first dispatch calls report only a fire alarm, but after just a few minutes it becomes clear that this is a true emergency. here's some of what first responders in fairfax reported from the scene. >> 9525 main street at woodson high school. 15-year-old female burns to her upper body. use entrance 7 and they are en route to a fire alarm at this location. we have a 404 advising there is a fire in the classroom. >> room kilo 105, result is an ethanol fire. we do have fire in the room. we have sprinkler activation. >> emergency officials have not yet released the 911 calls made by those who were inside the school. wendy? >> pat muse, thank you, pat. >>> i spoke with the executive director of the national science teachers association, dr. david evans. he said protective gear during experiments hasn't changed much over the years, but there is more training for teachers with a greater focus safety. he also says there is no substitute for actual science. >> learning science is about

. >> reporter: pat lawson muse, news 4. >>> 8:41. let's take you outside for a live look.that beautiful shot there of union station. dry and chilly to start you off on this saturday. tom kierein timing out when temperatures will get a little more comfortable and when we might see that rain ag >>> you're watching news 4 today. >>> take a look at this video right here. the fire chief says that the tree that blocks this flaming school bus, that's what you see in the distance, you'll hear screams as well, it actually stopped a situation from getting any worse. you can see it rolling through an elementary school parking lot. this was on wednesday. fortunately no one was hurt. it's not clear what caused the bus to catch fire. firefighters believe the brake lines were ruptured during the fire and that caused it to start rolling. >> wow. >>> the montgomery county council will discuss school staffing concerns next week. they were asked to look into whether the school needs more staffing and resources to help narrow the achievement gap. that meeting will take place around 9:00 a.m.

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i'm pat lawson muse. she is d.c.'s new council member from ward 8, having won a tight contest to replace the late marion barry. a lawyer by trade, she was the youngest african-american in the country to lead a large housing authority. she has been a passionate advocate for families in ward 8 and she serves on the council of the health and human services and the housing and community development committees. welcome laruby may to "viewpoint." >> thank you. >> after five months on the job how is it going? >> it's great. the greatest privilege that anyone can have is to serve. i'm grateful to serve the residents of ward 8 and have great days and it's an exciting time for me. >> your run to fill marion barry's seat was a tough cont t contest. you won -- you beat white by just 80 votes. what was it like being in such a close and high profile contest? >> you know, it was nervous -- you know, nerve-racking but we set out to finish the line first. and we're grateful for that to happen. mr. white and the other 11 or 12 candidat

pat lawson muse. pat? >> throughout the hearing we've seen a clear, partisan divide among committee members and republicans demanding the truth and they're accusing them of trying to derail clirpt's 2016 campaign and for most of it, hillary clinton has remained calm as she's answered questions about the attack and the aftermath. here is some of the exchange. >> if the democrats on this committee had their way, dozens of witnesses never would have been you introoed. your public record would still be private. >> it's time now for the republicans to end this taxpayer-funded fishing expedition. >> there's not a single email in your records about that explosive device. >> yept you to have a mistaken impression about what i did and how i did it. most of my work was not done on email. i would imagine i've thought more about what happened than all of you put together. i've lost more sleep than all of you put together. >> there is no doubt in my mind that we did the best we could with the information that we had at

. >>> i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk where we are watching a battle of a wildfire in texas an hourth of houston. so far four homes have been destroyed and this is burning two hours east of another massive blaze that firefighters have just gotten under control in baxter county. more than 50 homes have been destroyed there. investigators are trying to figure out how the walker county >>> now at 6:30, a drug bust inside two homes at a local county was helping to pay for. >> her car plunged over the bay bridge and now she's using her near-death experience to keep you safe on the roads. >> plus a local mural featuring bill cosby defaced. >>> self-driving cars are being tested on local highways this week. >> on the highway you'll be hands off the wheel and feet off the pedal. who likely to get the technology first? and how local doctors are leading the way on what could be the medical breakthrough millions of patients have been waiting for. >> we've had wheelchair and bed-bound patients that began to move again and began to speak again. >> first tonight, a drug bust at two subsidized hom

. >> spencer stone is recovering from multiple stab wounds and news 4's pat lawson muse is tracking developments and joins us with the latest on his development. >> the hospital describes his condition as serious. stone's family appreciates the outpouring of support, but is asking for privacy. >> according to police stone was with a group of friends in sacramento. that's his hometown just before 1:00 a.m. there was a confrontation between his group and another group of people. stone was stabbed several times in the chest. police aren't saying what started the fight, just that it was related to an incident at a nightclub. over the summer you may recall stone and two of his buddies stopped a gunman during a terror attack on a train bound for paris. police in sacramento stressed that last night is in no way related to terrorism. >> he's currently being treated for what appears to be non-life-threatening, but very significant injuries. we haven't had a chance to talk to mr. stone. we don't know if he was drinking or not, we do know that folks in his party were drinking that evening. >> stone is expe

i'm pat lawson muse. >> i'm chris lawrence. news 4 will be with you for the next three hours and we'll pushing out alerts on the nbc washington app all weekend long. >> we'll have team coverage from ocean city to northern virginia. we start in the storm center with chief meteorologist doug kammerer and meteorologist amelia segal. >> hey, guys. we're watching the rain continuing to come through the area. today is just a nasty, nasty day, but right now we're pretty much just dealing with the run of the milnor easter and we're not dealing with winds that are too high and we're not seeing the extremely heavy rain that we saw come out of the storm earlier in the week and things started to come down even though we still had the flash flood watch out. >> right. we're not as concerned about flash flooding and talking about everything else and the rain and the temperatures about 20 degrees below where they should be and then you factor in breezy to windy conditions, too. >> we'll continue to see the windy conditions right on through the

pat lawson muse in the newsroom with details. >> reporter: wayne simmons a danger to the community and turned him over to federal marshals to await arraignment on fraud charges. you may have seen simmons on fox news channel, a frequent guest described as a former cia operative. that's what he told the government when he applied for security clearances and defense contracts. he also claimed on national security forums that his previous arrests and convictions were directly related to his intelligence work for the cia. well, none of that was true. according to prosecutors. today, the judge in the case noted that simmons has been arrested 11 times for drunk driving. he's also been arrested for assault and he's been convicted of multiple firearms violations. his arraignment is set for friday. wendy? >> all right. pat muse. >>> and now to gunshots fired just before lunchtime in a residential area near howard university. and a public charter school. police found a man dead in a black suv that was parked on sherman avenue near harvard street. they tell us the victim had been shot multiple tim

i'm pat lawson muse at the live desk. >>> coming up next in sports, desean jackson not get anything bettbetter, but there is good news on the injury front and we'll tell you how a couple of guys are returning this weekend. >> first here is lester holt with a look at what's ahead on nbc "nightly news". >> hi, doreen and jim, coming up on nbc "nightly news" now that joe biden has decided he will not run for president, what does that mean for hillary clinton? >> what an email account is being posted including advice for the president regarding iran. >>> the man pressed to take over one of the most powerful jobs in the country has some conditions that have opened a conversation about men and >>> this is the xfinity sportsdesk brought to you by xfinity. your home for the most live sports. >> all right. who's in, who's out? it's all about desean and doug is not happy. >> not happy with desean. >> that's for a whole other show. >> i'm so angry and the six starters missed the jets games due to injury and it appears that only a few of those players are close to returning to action this weekend an

i'm pat lawson muse. fresh pac is staffed by people from mayor bowser's campaign. her former treasurer wants to raise a million this year. it's smart, but critics say it's bad. does this fly in the face? >> it's not fresh. iflt's not new. it's not innovative. it goes back to tammany hall and those who ever studied civics or government. i agree with one city councilman. it's very bad politics. there's no ifs, ands, butser it even though on paper the mayor says it won't target anybody. once it's established you can do with the pac unless restrictions are written in. >> there are new limits, but this is not illegal. it is unusual, though, to see a pac formed to support a mayor. >> well, and for them to say that, you know, we won't do anything here with this, we already know they have said we want to be behind the mayor to support the initiatives. the counter would be if they don't support the mayor's initiatives, what are you going to do with this. the important thing is in nonelection years. in nonelection years you can give any amount of money you like. it's reporte

i'm pat lawson muse. 15 weeks of time off. you could get fit you need it. a new baby, an adpgs, caring for someone who's ill. what could be the most generous family lead policy. it could lead to most washington workers but not federal. joe, most are coming up with lead policies that work but do you think d.c. could set the pace here? >> d.c. has set the space bier i have by virtue of what you just said. it think it's quite the on sus and very good for business. when you both members of the family working, and that's the model now, you know, this makes good sense. and i think it will make good business. >> bremante bryant, it could help out. >> here in the united states it is a forerunner. as joe mentioned there's three other states, new jersey, you get six weeks. obviously what this boils down to is money. how are they going to pay for it? the plan is if you make over $150,000, the employer has to kick in 1%. if you make $150,000, that's $1,500 the employer will have to put in. we always have the conversation, how will this affect businesses. i think it's g

i'm pat lawson hues.the ntsb's strong classification to reclassify the railroad as a commuter railroad so they can handle safety oversight. the ntsb cites repeated deficiency and lots of problems. they say transit administration is not enough. dave mcconnell, the fre oversees heavy commuter rail lines. would this mean much greater scrutiny of metro, of the metro system? >> undoubtedly it would. but it's interesting the reaction from the delegation as well. we're going to look at that. isn't this a great idea. congressman norton did say this. there are all kinds of rails going through town. we're a railwood city. she seemed to light but she said they never help metro. she seemed based on the information i got that she's waiting and watching too. you have to remember this has been a long running battle with the local delegation. they don't like the way it's run, the way the money's being spent. they don't think there's a culture of productivity. they've got a lot of things they want to see done now and i do