i'm scott macfarlane. news 4 at 6 starts now. > chaos inside an office building in maryland. five people are dead. several othe greatly injured and the gunman is in custody. all of this unfolded at the offices of "the capital gazette" newspaper in annapolis. the moti still a mystery. as police questioned the suspect and sweeped the buiing, we're getting some firsthand accounts i what happened from a journalist who waide hiding under a desk as those shots rang out. these dramatic images were captured from the air. it's still unfolding as we come on the air. >> a reporter for "the capital gazette" newspaper says it was like a war zone. haring that on twitter all afternoon. he says the gunman opened fire through the glass door of th newsroom striking several employees, then reloading that shotgun or long gun. we have a team of reporters on the scene as we work the to give

i'm scott macfarlane. back to you. >> you can read more ofhat laura bush had to say about this current crisis along with reaction from two other former first ladies, michelle obama and hillary clinton in our nbc washington app. just search border. >>> well, voters head to the polls iic the distr tomorrow, but it's not just politicians on the ballot. when we come back, the measure that could impact restaurant owrkers and h you dine out in d.c. >>> plus the world healthon organiza decides to classify video game addiction as a disease. doreen ge doreen gentzler joins us to explainan what that >>> and what can cause third degree burns and blindss. ne >>> tomorrow voters in the district will decide whether to raise the minimum wage for tipped workers in the district. it's a measuou that impact restaurant workers and many others. not all tipped workers want this me measure to pass. derrick ward is live for us where some workers are getting ready to protest the initiative. >> reporter: indeed they are. ae federal

our team coverage continues with scott macfarlane wor fng the storm the live desk. an ongoing fight on the hill pting compromise immigration measure very much in limbo tonight. house republicans who have postponed voting will vote instead tomorrow. a more conservative measure was rejected earlier today. democrats are opposed to both bills, but house speaker paul ryan says he sees progress. >> it is a sin and a sham >> i think we're making advancements. we're putting ideas on the >> president trump didn't just call out democrats. he's inviting them to the white house to try and find common ground on the border laws, but even if a bill makes it out o the house a past the senate, he will need quite a bitmo of atic support. at the live desk, i'm scott macfarlane.ji back to you. >> scott, thank you. >>> it was first on 4 last month. ullets went flying into a loudon county subdivision hitting at least three home zbls they came from a legal shooting zones. it's time to change the rules about where gun ordinary perso k s can shoot. >> behind that is a 40 foot hill. >> showin

scott macfarlane i at the live desk with what we know about this. scott. >>ter: pat, most of the white house conflict is now open after a man jumped a barricade earlier today. secret service says it happened on the south side of the complee between ellipse and "e" street. officials say the person climbed over the barrier, then dropped a ba. that backpack has now been deemed safe. officers immediately took the custody. we're told he's now in d.c. police custody. and has been charged with unlawful entry. th fifth white hou fence jumper to have occurred since early 2017. back to you. >> thank you, scott. >>> this is how many unaccompanied microchildren are in the u.s. care today. the departmentf homeland security says it is dealing now with more than 11,000 who have been separated from their parents as a result of a i controversial house policy. now, despite this growing number, president trump continues to defend the policy. meanwhile, we're getting our heret look inside a build many of the child separations . happ nbc was given rare access to the cility in

authorities are now trying to use some facial recognition. >> let's go to scott macfarlane. he's at our live desk with more from lawnforcement sources. >> now we have two senior law enforcement officials telling nbc news the suspect has attempted to or maged to obscure his fingerprints making it more difficult to identify who he is. the other rout they're taking using facial recognition software or checking some of erat are likely many surveillance ca in the area, 888 bestgate, sohey're ying these fingerprints may be obscured. not exactly detailing how. they're trying lt nalternate ro. he's not talking. they don't have an identification nor whs he said e he's from. multiple senior law enforcement officials brieesd on the inigation speaking to nbc news help the wait goes on. 90 minutes until the next brief. >> let's recap what we do know about the guy. he's a young white male. that's pretty much all we have, right? >> clothing, black t-shirt, olive pants, possibly a long pony taylor long hair. they're estimating the age as 20s or 30s. a white male. we know the interrogation i

scott macfarlane back alithe ve desk. scott, what are you hearing?rump just announcing he plans to give us his announcement for the supreme court july 9th. he's considering two women help coming with the retirement this we of justice anthony kennedy. the supre i court back session the first monday of october. there's your window of time for nomination and confirmation, jim. >>> the tsa says today it may be the busiest d ever f air travel. ahead at 5:00, what you need to know about traveli this holiday weekend and next week too. and in just a couple of weeks, major league baseball, that all-star weekend at nats park, but one of the key queions out there, how will everybody get around? we've got some answers on the other side of this short break. >>> i'm tracking tse temperatures. right now 92, believe it or not that's not bad. wait until you >>> are you ready in in two weeks the mlb all-star game gets under way aats park and other places in d.c. if you plan to go, it looks like you can ditch the car. metro will suspend all maintenance and run special

when we come back, city leaders react scott macfarlane's report and what they want to see happen next. > plus a story we broke on the nbc washington app. iolent gang f a indicted for the murders twof t teens. >>> and we have details about a deadly crash during the test of a self-driving car. wait until you hear what the person behind the vo: "ludicrous." that's what the washington post calls the attacks on david blair. it's dirty politics. the washington post endorses blr for montgomery county executive. "an energy and passion for innovation." a dose of vitalitya county of injectthati badly needs it." david: we can invest more in our schools, expand pre-k and improve transportation and can do it without morexes when we create jobs. c that's tnge we need. vo: david blair. democrat for montgomery county executive. endorsed by the washington post. >>> reaction tonig from leaders throughout the district to a news 4 i-team last night scott macfarlane's first reported how 1,000 d.c. public school teach s are unlicens. by employithem, the school district is violating d.c. school regulations.

let's go to scott macfarlane on our live desk. he hasomething new. >> these newspapers tend to be in busy areas. if you're on a newspaper,o ou want near things. this is very much near things. it's across the street from the westfield annapolis mall and lord & taylor thetaging area for friends and families. there are medical offices, othea shops in tha. it's a busy space. there are also kids programs. rks and rec tells us they have canceled some of thosera pr. we're told a briefing will happen on the ground in about 15 minutes. we'll get the latest update a about infoon of a possible arrest, the details of which you just alluded to. fbi baltimore and fbi anne arundel county have crisis response teams th but here's help coming from the cetside as well in addition to the county poli department, the prince georges county fire department sent an ambulance bus to support in case there are some number of victims. anne arundecounty's sheriff and fire are on the scene. the feds are there. you can look at your scene and see the number of po

we'lleep you posted. >> scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >> doug joins us once again and y. the sun peek out late in the >> too late to get storms firing in the afternoon. that is finema by . we are tracking a lot of strong storms to the north and west ong with the cold fron that is coming down that will change our weather tomorrow. today veryum hot and conditions out there. current temperatures 84 degrees. heat index 89 right now. side. n the warm many of you in the low 90s for the heat index. thmperatures dropping by about 9:00. is when we could see storms in the d.c. metro area around the 11:00 ho 8. leesburg a as well asthma nas s. -- asasmana we don't have storms at all. no showers, either. tonight is a warm and humid night. other than at that is about it. look to the west. we have a severe thunderstorm watch for o much new york. there is actually a watch here, too i towards pennsylvania which includes fulton county. if you are wching us there you are under severe thunderstorm watch. it is because of this line of storm and this line is a strong line of storms making its

. >>> new reaction tonight to a gation.i-team inves >> last night scott macfarlane broke the story nearly,000 d.c. public school teachers who were unlicensed by employing them thect school dists violating the rules. >> scott joins us with the reactions to his investigations from the people in charge. >> we found one of every four teachers is currently unlicensed. district officials a employing those teachers is a violation of d.c. regulations and we found there's no dametable for the problem to be solved. d grosso issued a statement saying i am againwi frustrated d.c. public schools over this mostecent failure to properly fall laws and regulation i they were p place to ensure or students are safe and we have quality educators in our schools. mayor bowser told news 4 the problem is primarily new teacheawaiting licenses. not veterans who licenses have lapsed. e>> i'm not s that anybody has lapsed, but i know there's a period of time wherehey allow new hires to be certified. >> the investigation did find hundreds of the unlicensed or newly hired teachers, but we pulled the records and also f

scott macfarlane, news 4 i-team. >>> new developments just in from capitol hill on two crucial immigration votes today. the house has rejected a conservative immigration bill that offered no pass to citizenship for dreamers and moments ago house leaders delayed a vote on a more moderate version of the bill. that vote is now scheduled for tomorrow. congress is struggling to pass the meares just a day after the president ended a controversial practice of separating children from theire parents at border. and today first lady melania trump went to t to visit a facility that houses dozens of unacompanied migrant children. jay gray has the latest on the debate from the mexico bord. >> reporter: a surprise visit first lady melania trumpn south texas. touring a shelter near the border talking about agents, counselors and kids and asking the same questns as manyf the critics of her husband's immigration policy. >> i'd like to ask you how can help to these children to t reunite withir family. >> reporter: more than 2,000 children scattered in shelters across the country. these new images taking us

. >> let's get right to scott macfarlane with the breaking news at our livees scott. >> doreen, thrill seekers got more than they bargained for this afternoon at six flags. a group riding the super mf ride steel had to be rescued right at the peak of the hill. park goers sent us a few photos from the ground. the fire department received several calls from people who were at the park at the time. by the time prince george's county fire arrived, the staff at six flags had safely helped d every down safely. no reports of injuries as you see from this video of choer 4. it was certainly a stomachen churning m for the riders on board. you might remember last year 24 people riding t jokers jinx at six flags were stuck in aid air r more than three hours. in 2014 the same thing happened. again, on the jokers jinx ride. no word yet on what caused today's malfunction or for how long the riders were stuck. we'll keep working thestory. i have updates for y as soon as we get them. doreen and jim, back to you. >> hot day to have that happen. scott, thank you. >>> our other big story, the father. no r

. >> the news 4 i-team is covering that angle for u investigative report scott macfarlane joins us withe haven't heard so much about this. >> even if you don't have a criminal record, it is liky ur picture exists in some government database that could incle ones accessible to the fbi. the companies that build facial recognition technology have also produced videos showing how the works.ogy those videos are like something out of a sci-fi movies. federal records show the fbi is also rapid increased its usage of facial recognition technology since 2010. as of last year, the feds had tens of millions of images accessible to them. the fbi signed this agreent in september, 2016, to get accessry to maland's database of images, including the photos from the state motor vehicle agency. it has similar arrangements with about a dozen other states, though not d.c. or virginia. >> law enforcement authorities have the ability to search me an 400 million photos. it does not have to be aan wa it does not even have to be probable cause. >> reporte earlier this ssion in congress the fbi told the u.s. hou

. >> scott macfarlane brokeorhat he joins us now with his update. what have you learned? here are the numbers. 4,000 teachers in d.c. public schools, nearly 1,000 are unlicensed. some are new. somere veterans, but they're violating d. regulations by employing them. the d.c. council says they will have issues whehey return from its recess including whether the district has the property requirements. the u.s. education department today confirms to news 4 it too has oversight of the licensng. the spo person has not yet spoken to the school district but says the agency doesn expec an date this year as it does every year, but d.c. regulatory officials about what they're doing to ensu teachers are licensed and that local rulesbe arg followed. d.c. education officials tell us they've already made plans to tighten requirements. >> we're going to be making sure that all of ourch ts within the next two years, those who have been in the stem, are in compliance with those licensure requirements >> and a third government agency is now monitoring this problem. the d.c. office of state

here's investigative reporter scott macfarlane. >> what happenedn late the morning in a hallway of clevelandorthwest d.c. cost lacy thornton her job. one of thornton's fourth day studts was disrupting math class. when they went out in the hall, surveillance footage shows the teacher strike the girl in the head. a juryonvicted thornton of assault last week. her attorney declined our request for an interview. when we checked to see if lacy thornton's teaching license had been we found she hadn't had a teaching license in the first place. when i comes to d.c. public schools, she's far fm the only one. >> every parent wants a highly qualified teacher in the classroom. >> every d.c. teacher should be licensednd if that teacher' license is revoked for misconduct to flag other school districts through a national database which alerts every state in the nation about the licensed teachers in the u.s. who have been stripped of their licenses. anunlicensed teacher could be able to avoid detection. is there a safety risk to the >> absolutely. it may not be to the students here in d.c., but it would be s

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