. >> as scott macfarlane reports it is first responders who found themselves last in line inside the center of the american military. >> we all remember where we were bill toady remembers exactly what he saw. >> all of these images i have. >> reporter: the wreckage of american airlines flight 77 which torpedoed through walls so close to his desk. >> i have friends who died. >> reporter: he keeps a piece of the wall on a plaque. >> i was underneath the rubble. >> reporter: dan remembers seeing the rescuers. the time is of the essence. >> reporter: among the first to respond to the 9/11 disaster was the fire rescue designed to protect the pentagon telepad. their fire station was also destroyed. >> greatly inspiring to see how everybody came together at risk of their own lives. >> reporter: in the years since the pentagon reopened so much of the complex in glimmering memorial. a review found that pentagon fire station itself has yet t fall apart one day. >> reporter: today it is little more than a set of temporary trailers. >> they are subpar. it is a construction trailer god knows how

scott macfarlane news 4 i-team. >>> they have 36 olympic medals between them.m usa swimmers michael phelps and allison schmidt got new hardware to add to their collection for their work changing minds. they were in d.c. to be honored by the substance abuse and mental health services administration as part of national children's mental health awareness day. both have talked their battles with depression. allison shared her story with news 4 last year. she told us the conversation she had with phelps two years ago was a turning point for her. >> mental illness is something we deal with every day. doesn't mean that you are healed. >> a great journey and i found myself in a couple of states of depression. for me it took me a long time to really realize it is okay to ask for help. >> several experts join the discussion tonight moderated by aaron gilchrist. >> making quite a difference. >> good role models. >>> so we are in the rain for quite a while. >> look at that wind. it's nasty out there. we are seeing winds 10 to 15 miles per hour combined with temperatures in

. >> as scott macfarlane and i-team found when they hop on the bus some of the rule breaking is brazenivers at risk. >> reporter: we all know the cost of commuting, time, gas, the fare. some riders aboard d.c. metro bus are cutting the cost. >> how is everything going? nobody has paid. >> reporter: people riding without paying. a r a new spike in fare evasion, nearly 80% jump in citations, arrests and warnings for unpaid fares in just one year. >> it puts the operator in catch 22 situation. >> reporter: carol thomas drove a bus. >> you either can hold the bus up or keep the buse moving. >> reporter: fare evasion is nothing new to transit systems nationwide so why the new spike in violations? we found a crack down and we found brazen riders who don't care about the crack down and skip paying the fare. our cameras followed as police deployed a team of officers in northeast d.c. we quickly saw a string of passengers flowing past the fare. >> still walk past and not pay. >> reporter: we heard bus drivers frustrated by how often it happens. >> she says she is experiencing them. >> reporter:

. >> scott macfarlane at the live desk. international intrigue inside a d.c. courtroom late today. prosecutors have just charged two men with selling u.s. trade secrets to a major chinese military contractor. in all seven men are under arrest, two of them taken down by the feds here in d.c. schenn she and gang loo both now formally charged with conspiracy, both accused of selling to a chinese military contractor. police report showed they were arrested not far from here along connecticut avenue in northwest d.c. sources told the news4 i-team the fbi raided a home in houston yesterday. we obtained video of that raid a short while ago. court filings indicate the secrets involved the foam material frequently used for military frokz, xi and loo each now face ten years in federal prison, each lives in houston. neither has entered a plea in the case yet but both expected back in court for a preliminary hearing june 12th. five others were arrested in this scheme late today. we'll keep watching that and keep you posted. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane. >> thank you. >>> hundreds of

let's get right to scott macfarlane. he broke that story today. >> reporter: that is right. comey isn't the only key figure to. let's begin with that dismissed fbi director in our news4 scoop late this afternoon. james comey is being invite today appear before the senate intelligence committee early next week according to the top democratic on that committee. >> we want to see him next tuesday or as soon as he can. >> reporter: you think he comes before your committee as early as next tuesday. >> that's been our request and i would hope he would want to tell his side of the story. >> reporter: unclear if comey would appear in a formal public session or in a closed session. the intelligence committee operates behind this secure door on the second floor of the heart senate building. they want to meet with the deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. the longtime federal prosecutor for maryland began his new role last month and issued the memo laying out the reasons for firing james comey. >> look this is a shock to the system and it really smells to high heaven. >> reporter: se

at the live deck, i'm scott macfarlane. >> thank you. police say this is surveillance video of the person who sexually assaulted a woman in arlington. chris gordon is live in that community. still scared weeks later. what are the authorities telling people about that attack? >> reporter: wendy, the people who live here arlington are still afraid and on edge more than three weeks after the attack. the police say despite their efforts, investigators have not been able to identify the man captured on that surveillance video. the man they say committed this crime. annie duffy thinks about the unsolved sex assault as she takes her daily walk past the atrium. being a neighbor what's your reaction. >> it was very scary to hear this news. it's not something that you think happens ever especially right across the street from you in this neighborhood. >> reporter: he used to live in the atrium now he lives across the street. his four scrut cameras were checked by police who were trying to confirm a report that the suspect was watching the atrium b

scott macfarlane, news4. >> scott, thank you. sporting some short sleeves.t's warm enough to do that. i feel like i need to lose my jacket in here. >> temperatures on the warm side. 84 degrees, the warmest so far this memorial day. we saw some shower activity yesterday. i was at the beach yesterday. pretty much a wash-out from 2:00 on, but today, just a couple of showers. you can see those on storm team4 radar, around fredericksburg. but most of the region dry and i think we'll stay that way. this is down towards culpeper, just to the west of fredericksburg, into spotsylvania county, moving east, but very slowly. as we widen out, take a look atd -- at a couple of things, storms to the south around the cleveland area. the frontal boundary will make things a little more unsettled for your tuesday. tuesday, chance for afternoon showers and thunderstorms. but look at the numbers, 83 in d.c., 86 richmond. 82 in hagerstown. look how much cooler we are towards ocean city. yesterday was a very cool day down at the beaches. right now, 65 degrees there, the easterly f

for now, scott macfarlane, news4 i-team. >>> a former gang member opens up about his dangerous past, what he says parents can do to ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ when you have doctors working as a team for your health, you get the care you need to help you thrive. ♪ visit kp.org to learn more. kaiser permanente. thrive. ♪ me to listen carefully. i'm ralph northam,aught and when survivors of the virginia tech shooting asked me to support an assault weapons ban and close the gun show loophole, i took on the fight. i saw what those weapons can do as an army doctor during the gulf war. now, i'm listening carefully to donald trump, and i think he's a narcissistic maniac. whatever you call him, we're not letting him bring his hate into virginia. >>> the disturbing rise in gang violence is becoming an almost weekly part of our reporting. tonight northern virginia bureau reporter david culver looks at what police want from you to stop children from being recruited. >> reporter: as we dug into the many recent gang cases, we've been hearing from many of you. a lot of you reaching out through social media,

scott macfarlane is in potomac.w you've been digging into this and been told that distractions and drinking both playing into this. >> reporter: yeah, two huge factors. we're along i-270. after dark, it will be a very busy highway, always a dangerous one for police to patrol, especially when they go on the shoulder on foot. >> reporter: it was his first day on the job. >> it was a crazy feeling, being my first day by myself. not knowing exactly how to handle every situation. >> reporter: inside his cruiser, making one of his first traffic stops near route 32, thatcher heard the chaos. >> louder than you expect. you hear the brakes first. and then you hear the screeching and you know something's about to happen. >> reporter: a seven-car pileup, driver distraction. he's back at his job. the crashes and the injuries are far worse for a rising number of his colleagues. state police records obtained by news4 show a spike in drivers crashing into maryland troopers along state highways. we found at least 38 troopers hit la

. >> i shared scott macfarlane's reporting on my facebook page. now he's joining us live with some new details. >> reporter: the top democrat on the intelligence senate committee told news4 he and his committee chairman have formally invited comey to appear there early next week. >> we want to see him as soon as we can. >> reporter: you think it's possible he comes before your committee before next tuesday. >> that's our request. i would hope he would want to tell his side of the story. >> reporter: it would be a closed public session. he works behind that secure door there in the senate building on capitol hill. senator warner says comey has not yet resed invitation. news4 canvassed the capitol today and found another key figure in the finding of james comey. he's also under scrutiny with them. a long time well-known top cop in our area. that part of our story will break at 5. for now back to you. >> thanks. >>> we're calling today winsday one of the biggest d.c. sports day in recent history. >> you're going to need all your screens and devices u

i'm scott macfarlane at the live desk. >> new d.c.ayor bowser wants to change the way the public is thinking about missing teenagers. there have been a number of false reports on social media claiming there's a spike in the missing children. there is no spike and the majority of those missing are runway teenagers who return home within days. the mayor plans to open a drop-in center to help runways this summer. 885 teenagers have been reported missing. 28 of those remain missing. >> the travel industry group is now asking the federal trade commission to investigate antiairbnb ad. they want it investigated for deception. you might remember this commercial which the news4 i-team revealed last month. it featured an actress portraying a resident. jodi flesher is here with a new letter demanding action on this. >> reporter: this letter asks the federal trade commission to examine the degree to which the ad's content is deceptive to consumers of violating ftc guidelines of endorsements and testimonial. >> i'm tired of feeling like an outside

our scott macfarlane broke this story last month. christopher dame will be sentenced in september.itted, pardon me, to regularly stealing medical research equipment, photography supplies and printing supplies. dame acknowledged storing those supplies in montgomery county, then he posted them for sale on ebay. in a statement to news4, his lawyer says dame is remorseful and he will make full restitution. >>> and in virginia, a family of seven left homeless after flames gutted their house. it happened last night on nash drive in manassas. one firefighter suffered minor injuries. still no word on what started that fire. >>> corporal stephen ballard grew up in buoy, but his final resting place is in delaware, the state he swore to serve and protect. leon harris joins us with a look at how the trooper is being remembered. >> corporal stephen ballard's family from friends fromur today for its funeral. the 32-year-old delaware state trooper was shot and killed last week in the line of duty. the weather seemed to fit the mood today. a long line of police cars coming under a huge american fl

at the pentagon, scott macfarlane, news4 i-team. >> to hear more from the 9/11 survivors about why the fire station should be rebuilt now, visit our nbc washington app and look under investigations. >>> maryland blue crabs are a staple around here and thanks to a warm winter and spring, this season's off to an early start. that's good news for some but early doesn't necessarily translate to a strong season. our megan mcgrath got up bright and early to get a first hand look out on the river. >> dawn on the chesapeake bay. a waterman's day starts early. but this year the boats aren't just out early in the morning, waterman working in southern anne arundel county are out earlier i and their catching crabs. >> this time last year we caught seven crabs and this first time we checked the pot we had 20 bushel. >> reporter: bob joebz moves his boat to maryland because the crabbing is better here right now. >> there's a big boy in there. >> reporter: while recent cold temperatures have slowed things down, he says the season is still off to a strong start. >> that's a big crab right there. >> re

for now, scott macfarlane, news4, i-team. >>> team 26 makes an killed at sandy hook elementary school. the volunteer cyclist ride hundreds of miles to lobby congress for tougher gun laws. the ride begins in newtown, connecticut, and ends in d.c. but there's a change of course this year. >> so we're going to leave here today. we're going to turn our backs on congress and ride away. and ride to the states that are actually working hard for gun violence prevention. to maryland, to delaware, to pennsylvania, new jersey, new york, and connecticut. and arrive home in newtown. >> in 2012, a gunman killed 26 people inside sandy hook, six teachers and 20 students. >>> and tomorrow, two parents who posted controversial videos with their kids on youtube will be appearing in a frederick courtroom. mike and heather martin are accused of abusing their kids with those so-called pranks that they shared with viewers on their youtube channel and made a lot of the kids were removed from the home, placed in the custody of their biological mother and tomorrow the judge will rule whether the children can r

scott macfarlane explains. >> reporter: it was a bomb shell that captured the nation's attention. two teen boys arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl in a school bathroom. that case collapsed, prosecutors said they reviewed surveillance video that there was wasn't evidence and they released the boys. news4 has just obtained footage from inside rockville hard. holding hands with a boy. walking through the hallway then walking into the boys room. a second male teenager is following in this footage nearby. the footage does not show what happened inside the bathroom but parents c where were the security guards or teachers when these students disappeared for several minutes into the bathroom. >> it's all playing defense, defense, defense. it's never being proactive. they're not monitored. >> reporter: tonight on news4 at 6:00, the new questions our investigators is raising about the effectiveness of the school district. 5,000 security cameras and the security upgrade the county's considering for all schools. major changes, the kids, even the parents would lik

scott macfarlane and the news 4 i-team have four red flags that you need to be careful about. >> reporter: whether you are buying or renting house hunting doesn't require much of a hunt these days. >> i wanted to get closer to the district to make it easier. >> reporter: she is like 95% of the other people looking for homes scrolling ads on their phones or tablets. crooks are trying to cash in skprmpt twh it looks like a nice prty the rent was very low. >> reporter: things didn't add up for this $1,900 a month home in arlington. >> they wanted a security deposit as well as a first month's rent up front. i haven't seen the property. >> reporter: she drove by the house only to find a for sale sign out front so she called the number. >> it is a scam. it's not for rent. >> reporter: realtor says she wasn't the only person to reach out. that is how he discovered a scammer copied the details and changed the contact information and posted it on another site as a rental. >> the fact that they went through the trouble to use the actual last name of the previous owner with deceased mother as suppos

scott macfarlane is here with more on what's happening in montgomery county. >> news4 has learned montgomery county officials will discuss this week allowing hotel pools to get rid of reels rne d be. carfrety good chance of a few showers and storms, not a wash-out of a day, but typical afternoon thunderstorms there. 72 on saturday, 75 on sunday. we do drop behind the cold front. next week looking pretty good. coming up at 6:45, i'll take you ho forecast. >> we'll see you then, thank you, doug. >>> celebrations end in tragedy as a young mother of two is killed leaving a graduation party. new clues about the confrontation before that shooting as police try to zero in on the gunman and a motive. >>> a tribute to officers killed in the line of duty. and the significance for one family that spans three generations. >>> young barron trump is moving into the white house soon, but he won't be going to school in d.c. in the fall. more on the first fami's decisilyon >>> i'm chris lawrence at the live desk where we are tracking new reaction to a report accusing president trump of leaking highly classif

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scott macfarlane uncovers a disturbing trend. >> reporter: an investigation by the iteam find as surge in the number of cases who cheat paying their fare on metrobuses. and our investigation shows an increase in those cases leading to a tax against the bus operatt the bus operators. video obtained shows some of the assaults. bus drivers being spit upon, being punched and in one case that went to court, a passenger actually stabs the bus driver after cheating. bus operators tell us this is an ongoing concern. >> was is t. something you were worried about when you were driving? >> all day long. my main goal is to get home to my family. >> reporter: coming up in our investigation, what metro is doing to help protect you when you ride the bus and keep these bus operators safer from fare cheats and from attacks. scott the mcfarland, news 4 iteam. >>> this week in prince george's county, public defenders will be available in an expunge mgt there. they will be helping people get a second chance helping their clir their recoclear their reco of criminal charges. this is other jurisdictions we m

. >>> scott macfarlane at the live desk. the security incident outside the white house, the u.s.service has responded to an incident to the north side of the white house. the pennsylvania avenue side, where there are tourists and protesters. a person was arrested after jumping the bike rack nearest the white house security fence. this person is in custody, according to secret service. we're seeing reports people in that area were moved away on an emergency basis by secret service. this is the latest in a series of incidents. secret service people are trespassing onto secure areas just outside the white house. there were two people scheduled to be in federal court today for fence jumping at the white house. more as it comes in. back to you. >>> glad it was nothing more serious than that. >>> delta is hoping new technology will speed you through airport check-in. they're testing a new facial recognition system. the machine can identify your itinerary by taking a picture of your face and matching that with your passport photo. and then you check your own bag and head to security. ri

scott macfarlane has learned u.s. use officials plan to spend millions protecting their members when they're back home. scott joins us to explain. >> that's right. at least $2 million in district office enhancements are being planned, to better secure members of congress when they're in their home state offices and away from the protective shield of the u.s. capital. the sergeant-at-arms who helps oversee the safety of congress, says there's been a spike in request for security upgrades from members. he didn't specify the nature of the threats, but i'm told distressed or panic buttons and requests are being made. >> another item i would like to implement if possible, standardized access control system to each reception area, so that doors with be locked. >> the sergeant-at-arms speaking at a congressional hearing yesterday. here in d.c., members of congress are protected by hundreds of armed u.s. capital police who respond to threats. but back home, the offices are often in public places, including strip malls, without

scott macfarlane has the security video showing the moments in the hallway where this 14-year-old wasage boys and went toot boy's room and later came out and she had she had been raped. >> we'll have more on how this issue has raised questions about who if anyone is monitoring the school's camera in realtime. tracee wilkins is looking at the retail shopping in prince george's county and what's being done to make that experience county with our backyard weather. leon and doug are both there sweat tg out. >> but it's a good day for that. it's a good day for that. see you in a minute. >> thank you both. we've been watching, you know, doug and leon out there. i mean boy oh, boy you couldn't have picked a better day for that block party. >> in the middle of may and marlow heights and that's going to stick around for a while. let's start with you, doug. >> reporter: a beautiful day it's a little bit on the warm side. temperatures today, take a look at the storm team 4 by 4 says 91.7 degrees. humidity not a big factor. we're in marlow heights. take a look at the crowd. we got a great crowd.

i shared some of scott macfarlane's reporting. he canvassed the capitol today that comey could come to the hill as early as next week. >> the two top leaders on the senate intelligence committee which includes virginia democrat mark warner have now invited james comey to appear in front of their panel within the week. >> we definitely want to see him next tuesday or as soon as we can. >> reporter: you think it's possible he comes before your committee as early as next tuesday. >> that's been our request and i tell his side of the story. >> reporter: senator warner says comey has not yet formally accepted. the committee is housed behind this secure door. meanwhile maryland senator says he wants to meet with rod rosenstein, the deputy attorney general who authored the memo detailing why comey was fired. he was maryland's top cop, the state federal's prosecutor. >> have you reached out to or spoken to mr. rosenstein about this. >> i plan to. >> reporter: senators ben cardin and ben hollen both testified in support of rosenstein, urgi

federal officials tell scott macfarlane that lafayette park has an outdated irrigation system, there are broken pipes and sprinkler heads and they all need to be replaced. that project will be divided into thirds so the entire park doesn't have to shut down all at once. but this work is expected to take months. crews will also renovate the park's historic fountain. >>> another member of the trump family is moving to washington. tiffany trum student at georgetown law school in the fall. she was also spotted visiting law schools at harvard and columbia. she's president trump's daughter from his second marriage. she graduated from the university of pennsylvania last year. that's her father's alma mater. her half sister ivanka attended georgetown for two years before transferring to penn. her half brother eric trump graduated from georgetown in 2006. >>> today law enforcement officers from across the area came together to pay tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice in some of the fallen officers' family members joined them. officials are adding five more names to the list o

because all of this is developing by the minute, scott macfarlane joining me here on how this is going to impact train service. >> dramatically so. penn line the one that's paralyzed right now. we know the person hit by the train is dead. it happened just north of the new carolton station about a mile north in what is buoy in prince george's county. the silver star which goes from new york to miami after a stop in new carolton. we're told by amtrak the person was trespassing on the tracks when this happened. right now because of it all amtrak, all service suspended north of new carolton. metro is now taking marked passengers free of charge to help them get closer to their destination. right now it's far from clear when service is going to resume. >> we're heading right into the evening rush. >> pat. >> all right. police are person caught on camera the night someone strung bananas as american university. a meeting to address the hate crime has been cancelled. students walked out of yesterday's town hall chanting their demands. frustration began to boil over today after a meeting was cal

. >> scott macfarlane tells us the videos raising questions about whether schools are doing enough tosafe, scott. >> reporter: as we mentioned earlier montgomery county schools has 5,000 security cameras. and according to multiple sources the footage inside rockville high says there's no way for rockville security to school in march shows a nearly empty hallway which makes it easier to see the young girl hand in hand with a taller boy first in the hall and then entering the boy's bathroom where they disappear for minutes. no security staff is seen. no one trying to intervene or check on them. the two teen boys believed to be seen in this video were charged with rape. montgomery county parents say it's troubling students could so easily vanish into a boys room. >> it's a huge problem. it's a huge problem. >> reporter: jennifer alvarious roe says security staffers should be seen. >> it's all playing defense, defense, defense. it's never being proactive. they're not monitored. >> reporter: a review by the i-team reveals possible weaknesses in the security camera system. in the hub staff

only on 4 tonight, our scott macfarlane has learned there could be big changes to the test next year. >> those park standardized tests take hours to complete. they can consume most of an entire school day or school week for some kids, and not all students or teachers are happy about it. news4 has learned maryland education officials are considering shrinking the in the school calendar come 2018. >> we worked to get them shorter. we're looking at having them more integrated into the school schedule, rather than be day-long events. that's a goal of the governing board that i serve on. we talk about it all the time. >> maryland state superintendent of schools says the agency has received, quote, very little feedback about the tests. but at a public meeting in baltimore, a group of prince george's county high school students asked them to scrap the test or at least shrink it. >> when you have a school that has a lot of lower socio-economic students, there is a lot of other concerns like maybe problems at home. so testing is not their main priority as it is getting good grades and trying t

a news4 i-team scott macfarlane says house officials are planning to spend millions to protect those member when is they're at home. that will include security enhancements to members' state offices when they're away from the protection of capital police. among the upgrades, distress or panic buttons, as well as surveillance video. after he was shot by police officers in manassas, after he led them on a wild car chase. and now we are learning he had a runaway teenager in the car with him. this began in manassas city and the chase went into prince william county, ending at a park in manassas. chris gordon reports on the unusual twist in this case. >> reporter: two manassas police cruisers were damaged. they were rammed by the fleeing suspect in this suv. the chase started after a 911 caller said two gun shots had been fired from a vehicle in manassas after midnight. >> officers were given a description of a black suv, possibly a ford explorer what was involved, with shots fired and displaying a weapon at the window. >> reporter: police gave chase, the suspect would not stop, driving h

scott macfarlane joins us to explain. >> this was a crime partly captured on video by the news4 steven chen of fredericksburg admitted buying bulk churches of tobacco at big box warehouse stores throughout northern virginia and then reselling them illegally for profit. those cigarettes were trafficked to pennsylvania and new jersey to be illegally sold again, according to federal prosecutors. in those purchases at the big box stores, tens of thousands of dollars of cigarettes at a time. prosecutors cited the news4 i-team investigation in federal court to put him in prison, and that's where he is, in morgantown, west virginia, until mid 2018. wendy? >> thank you, scott. >>> the parents of an infant found dead last christmas in the district are facing felony murder charges. police arrested them earlier today after officers found 7-week-old tiffany in the medical examiner ruled the case a homicide last month, saying the baby died from mal nutrition. >>> we're just getting started here on news4 at 5:00, a debate over transgender rights in fairfax county finds itself right in the center. st

scott macfarlane has the story. >> reporter: parking is difficult to come back at some schools. limited to only seniors in some cases. to those with high gpas and those willing to spend $75 a year for the parking passes. a semester long investigation by the news 4 i-team found the end result is creative parking in some of the closest neighborhoods. including students violating no parking signs on the nearby streets. some parking in ret stricted permit parking only spaces which are meant for nearby homeowners. and near churchill high, we found this, private driveways looking more like parking lots. no comment from the home owners, but county investigators told the i-team it found some renting the spaces to students which the county says is a violation. >> it's a neighborhood. and to violate that brings in additional cars, and it's impactful. if pedestrian safety, children's safety, pet safety. >> reporter: coming up tonight our i-team investigation, what's being done to solve this parking crunch. and what happens to the students d for now, scott mcfarlan, news 4 i-team. >>> melan